Inner West Ranter

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age

The extraordinary courage of Francesca Albanese and the terrible price of speaking truth to Israeli genocide.

A study in contrast with our 'Albo' Albanese.

#auspol #gaza #genocide #albo

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Albo’s Waterloo: The Clayton’s PM and the Farrellisation of Labor “Leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.” (Paul Keating). Bernard Keane is half right. In today’s Crikey, he despairs of our PM as “a political manager, a risk-averse ...

Albo is scamming Grayndler too. Time for one of Australia's most progressive seats to find someone to represent our values.
Another great piece of independent journalism here.
#auspol #albo

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A Sky News / One Nation takeover of tory politics (and the rebirth of the unflushable Tony Abbott).

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) Herzog visit sets back fight against antisemitism: Josh Bornstein | ABC NEWS

The ABC has belatedly discovered that the Jewish community is diverse. Well put @joshbornstein.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=kAsx...

#auspol

Read executive officer, Sarah Schwartz's opinion piece in the Financial Review today about why Herzog doesn't represent Australian Jewry and shouldn't have been invited in the first place: www.afr.com/policy/forei...

So Minns reckons peaceful protest against genocide incites terrorism? How about this footage of his boys at work currently bouncing around the Islamic world? Indonesia? Malaysia? Thanks but no thanks for making us safe Chris....
#auspol #minns #genocide

Minns must explain the bashing of Muslim men in prayer to Indonesia - our near neighbour, the world's biggest Islamic nation and a country yet to recognise the existence of Israel. He and Albo have done terrible harm to our national security in the service of sugar-coating #genocide.
#auspol #gaza

Why One Nation is surging in the polls - ABC listen Pauline Hanson's One Nation is enjoying the kind of public support it hasn't seen since its formation in the 1990s. Is this a blip or a more permanent shift in Australian politics?

Pathetic low in #ABC "fake balance" journalism. The vaunted Nick Bryant platforms admirer of Abbott history, the vanilla Frank Bongiorno, with rabid islamophobe John Anderson. Vacuous convo ensues. Not a word on inequality, tech, misinformation etc..
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#auspol #abc

Don't mention the war Australia is struggling to respond proportionately to violence, fear and political pressure in the wake of the Bondi attacks, October 7 and Israel’s war in Gaza. The result has been a contraction of d...

The simple act of truth telling - no mainstream Australian media organisation is capable of publishing such clarity and conviction.
#auspol #gaza #media

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Summer Friday sky in Stanmore.
#innerwest #sydney #stanmore #friday #summer

Ranter’s independent guide to what’s happening at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in early 2026 A look at what's happening in early 2026 at Sydney's largest gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Loved recent visits to Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales. And the wonderful Dangerously Modern exhibition featuring Australian women modernists in Europe 1890 - 1940 ends soon. Swing by!
#sydney #art #galleries

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Ancient Feelings sculpture MCA Sydney

Ranter reckons this spectacular piece of sculpture outside the MCA should be permanent. Current plans will see it removed in April. It's dramatic, speaks to the current crazy moment and perfectly complements the MCA architecture. I love it and don't want to see it go.
#sydney #art #mca #sculpture

The Jewish Council unequivocally condemns the racist act of violence and terror against First Peoples and their allies at the Boorloo/Perth Invasion Day rally on January 26.

Full statement available on Instagram. Sign Common Threads’ open letter below.

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YouTube video by The Making of Midnight Oil Midnight Oil - No Time for Games (Wanda Beach / 1982)

Some kids got no time for games..... 1982.... These old Midnight Oil clips.....
RIP the wonderful Rob Hirst.....
#music #sydney #oils

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The muted response to the Perth bombing exposes a pattern of national indifference A failed bomb attack in Perth on Invasion Day drew little attention from the media and public. It shows Australia has long been selective in its sense of danger.

Crikey.. we sure need Crikey right now.
#auspol #socialcohesion

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Has Albo issued a statement on the attempted slaughter of Australians on Australia Day in Perth yet? Tony Burke?
#auspol #albo

You reckon anyone in Oz media will ever notice that the sugar coating of the #Trump murderous #ICE gestapo is quietly directed by Lachlan and Abbott from our sunny safe #Sydney? #SMH and #ABC don't think that hard.
#auspol #fox #smh #media

Was also stunned by how unshocked ABC editorial fathers (my assumption) were by this shocking story.
#auspol #media #abc

Social cohesion and the sacred teachings of Netanyahuism's Australian disciples requires ABC i) accords an airtime value of 1000 Palestinian = 1 Israeli life lost. ii) Always mentions HAMAS Oct 7 atrocity. iii) Never mentions history, dispossession, genocide.
#auspol #media #netanyhauism #abc

I might have to report him to Jillian for propagating the anti-Semitic trope of Zionist omnipotence.

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled amid controversy | 7.30

Have any Australian politicians been able to make this case for speech and democracy so perfectly? It's their job FFS....

#auspol #aww #adelaide #speech

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YouTube video by The West Report The Biggest Propaganda Campaign in Australian History? | The West Report

Michael West continues to do the essential work that should be the staple of all journalism.....
#auspol #media
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I demand my favourite Australian authors and thinkers, Josh Frydenberg, Jillian Segal (+hubby), Lachlan Murdoch, Abbott, Howard, Rinehart and Hansen be the only Australians platformed at any cultural event until we achieve social cohesion milestones (est. 2096).
#auspol #awf #socialcohesion

It's possible that UK artist Thomas J Price might even approve these temporary NYE adjustments to his stunning 'ancient feelings' piece on the lawn outside the MCA. Happy New Year Sydney and best wishes for all things in 2026!

#sydney #art #mca #nye #ancientfeelings

Can't help noticing Matt Golding's latest cartoon (below) was published on The Age's letters page, but not in its Sydney Morning Herald counterpart.

Given the latter's 'coverage' (for want of a better word) of #bondibeach, I'm not surprised.
#auspol

Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...

Netanyahuist overreach might have to face a reckoning with truth? Let's hope!
#netanyahuism #auspol #bondi #media

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Giving Jillian Segal even more influence over Australian policy when she still hasn't denounced far-right group "Advance" (which she bankrolls) is extremely poor governing.

Australia deserves far better.

Anti-protest laws contain ‘extraordinary powers’, NSW premier says when linking Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’

Chris Minns can always be depended on to punch down for the big end of town - even against his colleagues. Planning a big post-politics career perhaps? Real estate perhaps?

#minns #nswpol #auspol #alp

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You forgot Abbott and John Anderson (now YouTube influencer with huge reach).

Jewish Coalition Opposes Anti-Democratic Antisemitism Plan, Calls for United, Whole-of Society Approach November 14, 2025 The Jewish Council of Australia joins a coalition of nine Jewish organisations in releasing an open letter […]

This from the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social is excellent
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