What Israel's genocide has laid bare Two years into an ongoing genocide — recognised as such by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights, Doctors without Borders, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, the University Network for Human Rights and countless scholars of international humanitarian law, genocide and Holocaust studies — we are now to normalise the obscene, and move on.

What Israel's genocide has laid bare

Environment: Six strategies will simultaneously reduce emissions and help communities prepare Six broad strategies will tackle the root causes of climate change and help groups prepare for the consequences of global warming. Environmentally sustainable aircraft are slow to take off. Local governments can take a lead in promoting biodiversity.

just six climate strategies can reduce emissions in high-polluting sectors and help families and communities prepare for, and cope with, the threats of global warming. #auspol #environment

Why does Australia's ABC News rarely report what Israeli politicians themselves say they want to do to Gaza, the West Bank & to the Palestinian people? Why does it rarely report the atrocities committed by Israel? Our ABC is complicit in Israel's genocide. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #journalism

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US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz had his ass handed to him for acting like a rude privileged asshole. 😳👇

Weaponising media. National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors - Michael West More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf.

"More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf"
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
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In theory the press are there to create an informed electorate who can then use their votes to move their government in a healthy direction. In practice the press are there to keep the public too ignorant, propagandized and distracted to meddle in the workings of the imperial machine.

Fortescue: Fuel Tax Credit makes diesel 'artificially cheap', overhaul needed for climate A Fortescue executive has called for a major overhaul of Australia’s $11 billion fuel tax credit scheme, arguing it undermines the nation’s climate goals by making diesel “artificially cheap”.

Our Revenue Summit featured Deidre Willmott from Fortescue explaining the rort that is the fuel tax credit #ThePoint

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They blew up 46,000 years for $135 Million: how mining is devouring itself Australia’s mining sector isn’t collapsing; it’s devouring its own future while the PR machine drowns out the sound of detonators. Here’s what happens when an industry offshores its profits, abandons ...

An archaeologist told Rio Tinto that Juukan 2 was of “the highest archaeological significance in Australia,” saying its significance “could not be overstated.”

Rio Tinto’s response? They blew it up anyway.

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Mr. Albanese goes to Washington - The Shot Albanese’s pilgrimage to pay homage at the feet of our lords and masters, the United States of America, is over...

"So there was our PM - a man who talks and lives in all lower-case letters - sitting up at the table with the man who lives permanently in an all-caps world."

My latest article in The Shot: Mr Albanese Goes To Washington.

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Grattan on Friday: Albanese govt hasn’t walked its talk about accountability - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia Labor came to power in 2022 promising a new form of transparent, accountable politics. As recent incidents have shown, there's little sign of that, writes Michelle Grattan.

“Labor came to power in 2022 promising a new form of transparent, accountable politics. As recent incidents have shown, there’s little sign of that”. #auspol

A photo of unexploded munitions left by Israeli strikes in Gaza seen on Oct. 30, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "We Asked People in Gaza What They Think of the Ceasefire: “Just a Declaration, Not Reality”" and the DEK, "Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagree."

White text on a black background that says, "Is the Ceasefire Still On? We asked 60 residents in Gaza whether the y believed the ceasefire still held." 50 said no, 4 said yes, but at risk, and 6 said yes, hopeful it will remain.

“They keep bombing and killing people and then declare that the so-called ceasefire is still going on.” interc.pt/433UvH1

The biggest political scandal in Australian history: The Whitlam Dismissal, 50 years on Spotify video

An utter privilege to ask Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social the burning Whitlam Dismissal questions of the Crikey team and subscribers.

I was gobsmacked at several points, but I think I hid it ok?

Watch on YouTube.

Listen (or watch) on Spotify, Apple Pods or web player.

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BREAKING: NACC Commissioner finally bows to public pressure and steps aside from all defence-related corruption referrals.

This is a major-general backdown from Commissioner Brereton who, up until now, tried to stare down the growing public revolt over the conflicts of interest.

Australia’s health records at risk: The myth of anonymous data As Oracle and Palantir weave their systems into Australia’s digital health network, the promise of “de-identified” data begins to look more like a dangerous illusion of privacy.

As Oracle and Palantir weave their systems into Australia’s digital health network, the promise of “de-identified” data begins to look more like a dangerous illusion of privacy.

Australia’s health records at risk: The myth of anonymous data
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'Grotesque and delusional': Francesca Albanese hits back at Israeli envoy after he called her a 'witch' In his bizarre tirade, Danny Danon accused the UN special rapporteur of trying to 'curse Israel with lies and hatred'

'Grotesque and delusional': Francesca Albanese hits back at Israeli envoy after he called her a 'witch' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/israeli-un-envoy-calls-francesca-albanese-witch

The independent Centre for Public Integrity handed down its report card into the Albanese Government this week. It doesn’t tell a happy story. #auspol 👉 publicintegrity.org.au/wp-content/u...

Photo of Australian Environment Minister, Senator Murray Watt NEW EPISODE | Mates' rates and why Australia can't have nice things Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

Australia’s environment is in crisis & its wealth is disappearing into the hands of multinational fossil fuel companies.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

@rodcampbell.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss environmental protections & Adani's mates' rates. #auspol

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Spinning genocide: How is Israel using US PR firms to frame its Gaza war? Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds.

Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds.

Leo XIV: 'Apostle of nonviolence' Pope Leo isn't just condemning wars, but also insisting that we must reject the paradigm of war” itself and prepare institutions of peace.

Pope Leo isn't just condemning wars, but also insisting that we "must reject the paradigm of war” itself and "prepare institutions of peace". We have much to learn from him #PopeLeoXIV #auspol

The Great Environmental Backflip and the Joy Division The government gives up on environmental protection; Liberals keeps going back to their failed nuclear power policies; Australia’s slow move towards South East Asia; and not much joy for Sussan Ley.

Preview of latest episode of New Politics – the Labor sell-out of the environment and the Joy Division. Sign up and listen to full early release now… #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

COP30: Amazon rainforest destroyers For 33 years, the world’s leaders have postponed climate action despite incontrovertible scientific evidence and images proving that mankind is rapidly razing and scorching our only home.

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Why the annexation of the West Bank matters to all of us Between 1 January and 30 September 2025, Israeli authorities carried out 1288 demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

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YouTube video by The West Report AI Stocks a bubble waiting to pop? | The West Report

Not a matter of if but when for Wall St's AI bubble
#Crypto #superannuation #AI #auspol @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social

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David Shoebridge “the Albanese Labor govt has just promised Donald Trump another billion$ for the US to build their own nuclear submarines on top of the billion$ Labor’s already given them for that…an $8bill nuclear submarine base in Perth…hundreds & hundreds of homes”
FMD #QT

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants

A ceasefire is not “fragile” when 104 people are murdered. It is over.

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Getting away with murder What happens in Australia if Israel gets away with genocide?

"If there is no consequence for Israel and all the nations that facilitated this genocide, there is every reason to believe that genocide will become the form of war for this century.

This is what happens to us if Israel gets away with murder." #GazaGenocide #auspol
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Australia Institute research shows Australia gives more than half the gas we export away for free!

Former QLD Premier Steven Miles showed what can happen when our governments tax fossil fuels properly.
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Private funding for institutions will become even more the norm.