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Retired in Australia- my beautiful wife and I have lived, travelling Australia for past 12 months in caravan with our dog ! I hold the record for number of hip replacements-4!!- but trying to get fit again to surf in Mentawais- follow history, politics!

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05.08.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Double standards': Confidential DFAT documents warn inaction on Gaza will cost Australia credibility 'Allowing the crisis in Gaza to deepen with apparent impunity undermines our messaging about the rule of law β€” our adversaries use this to accuse us of double standards.'

www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/06/d...

Allowing the crisis in Gaza to deepen with apparent impunity undermines our messaging about the rule of law β€” our adversaries use this to accuse us of double standards.”

We opened ourselves up for this criticism.
The Bridge March was truly necessary.
#Auspol
#Gaza

06.08.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Social media not just outflanking legacy media, send out the crack snipers now. #auspol Very fun analysis of corporate media coverage over da' big win on Sunday.

06.08.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive

Everyone needs to see this.

The home of 2 million people turned to dust.

While the world looks away. Or cheers on.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

06.08.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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Israel activists infiltrate Labor Party in 'grassroots' putsch to hit Greens - Michael West Israel campaigners Ofir Birenbaum and Sophie Calland have infiltrated the Labor Party backed by far-right money

Small world isn't it, the same names keep popping up and always for the same cause, Israel.

michaelwest.com.au/israel-activ...

06.08.2025 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Andrew Hastie lashes out against the hundreds of thousands of Aussies marching against Israel’s genocide on Sunday & demanded they fly over & protest β€œin the Middle East…not here on our iconic Harbour Bridge”

This is how you remain unelectable. Racist & stupid at the same time.

05.08.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 260    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 7

#HastieTheHater thinks protesting #GazaGenocide is "importing ancient hatreds" #OutOfTouch #NOalition
#auspol @strangerous.bsky.social

06.08.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Andrew- It wasn’t hatred demonstrated on the bridge- it was love for our fellow humans!!

06.08.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The ACTU will taking to the economic roundtable these tax proposals:
- limit neg gearing & cap gains discount to 1 property and grandfather existing for 5 years
- 25% min family trusts
- 25% min for all ppl with income over $1mil/pa
- 25% on gas export revenue
- limit fuel rebate to $20mil

05.08.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 5
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And the MSM are trying hard to make the paint run on a beautiful demonstration of love and support!

05.08.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s an ongoing issue. While civil society groups and progressive academics in Japan continue to fight for truth and reconciliation, they do so against a tide of state-sanctioned denialism.

05.08.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social

03.08.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This conflates the Japanese imperial leadership with the general population, many of whom were victims of authoritarian rule, conscription, and propaganda.

05.08.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Just as you’re losing all faith in your country the people march and make you proud

04.08.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The US is a very foreign country The Albanese Government has recently handed over a second tranche of some $800 million Australian tax-payers’ dollars to the United States, with the total now more than a billion dollars. This is part...

"Leaders like Richard Marles, who seek to tie their country to Uncle Sam’s coattails, are endangering an Australia that should be standing tall, an independent country"

Time to #DitchAUKUS. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

04.08.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Netanyahu regime ministers have been expressing genocidal intent since 7 Oct 2023 [and some before that].

But still most western 'leaders' are refusing to recognize it.
And even fewer are taking any real action to #StopIsrael.
#SanctionIsraelNow

03.08.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

@abcnewsbot.bsky.social why are the hostages released from #Gaza and their stories being amplified by MSM, yourself included here, remitting the obvious fact that if the hostages are malnourished, then what conditions are the Palestinians that held him in?

FFS. Get woke.

#Auspol

04.08.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cathy Wilcox cartoon. 

Shows newspaper sign saying 100,000 people attended the march for peace. 

Grumpy man walking by sez β€œIt was a hateful, dangerous demonstration of extremists & terrorist sympathisers, and I should know because I wasn’t there.”

Cathy Wilcox cartoon. Shows newspaper sign saying 100,000 people attended the march for peace. Grumpy man walking by sez β€œIt was a hateful, dangerous demonstration of extremists & terrorist sympathisers, and I should know because I wasn’t there.”

Cathy Wilcox cartoon.

04.08.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Hundreds of Israeli ex-officials appeal to Trump to help end Gaza war "End the war", said the letter to Trump by a former prime minister as well as former heads of Israeli intelligence agencies.

It’s not a war.

It’s a property deal.

A genocidal property deal.

04.08.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cashed up private schools buying up public roads from cash strapped local councils - that’s where we’re at in Australia with school funding.
And those wealthy schools each take millions (yes millions) of public funding

04.08.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

Tony β€œsquirrel grip” Liberatore’s son?

04.08.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dare To Hope Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Dare To Hope

It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let alone in Sydney, let alone heading up what had to be one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies ever held in Australia.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dare-to-hope

04.08.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 349    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6
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The moment you realise that a lobby for a foreign power, whose leader has been indicted for crimes against humanity, has pressured your police force into pretending they can’t count.
#auspol

04.08.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

… Former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev: β€œTrump should not think that the video archive of his past immoralities is only in the hands of Mossad.”

04.08.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Brunno Wallace (@brunnowallace) The Beginning of the End: The Fall of Israel At first glance, one might believe that Israel is growing stronger, militarily, technologically, and diplomatically. It is hailed in Western media as a mo...

"Its bombing of civilians in Lebanon, its illegal occupation of the Golan Heights in Syria, irs covert & overt operations in Yemen, its dangerous provocation of war with Iran: Israel is not a stabilizing force, it is the primary source of instability in the region."

substack.com/@brunnowalla...

04.08.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Minns’ stance on protests has drawn sharp criticism from members of his own right faction as well as from the soft left, who are increasingly dismayed that Minns appears to be more attuned to the News Corp media and talkback radio than his own party.

04.08.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Utterly horrifying

03.08.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

If ABC was worth a damn, they wouldn’t be repeating NSW police wowser nothing-burger β€œprotest came perilously close to catastrophe,” BS - and instead focus on the police shock at 100K people turning out to oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza. @albomp.bsky.social should pay attention. #NSWpol #AusPol

03.08.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Young Liberals urge Coalition to distance itself from Sky News and blame Maga β€˜mirage’ for Dutton loss Exclusive: submission to election postmortem says β€˜fringe right’ of the Liberal membership had too much influence over policy

The Liberals’ existential crisis continues. I would ask Young Libs who wrote this submission to ask themselves what is left of the Liberal Party if they stop being MAGA, stop being divisive, stop culture warring. What does a β€œprogressive” Liberal Party look like?

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

03.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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If genocide isn't your redline, then you have no redlines.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed temporarily as tens of thousands of Australians made their voices heard against Israel's genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine #3E

03.08.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5467    πŸ” 1719    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 134

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