Jen W

When will this govt #SanctionIsrael and #ExpelTheAmbassador

#IsraelIsCommittingGenocide
#auspol

We haven’t seen atmospheric CO2 levels consistently this high in 14 MILLION years.

We’re in so so SO much trouble, & pretty much every politician & journalist has just decided to ignore it.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy

(graph by Dr Thomas Ronge)

This innovative Dutch farm grows food with minimal water, no soil and zero pesticides.

This is where I find hope. In solutions being implemented all over the world. Let's speed it up. #ActOnClimate

#climatesolutions #climate #energy #farming #GreenNewDeal #nature #hope

Newly discovered docs dating back to the 1970's reveal that Shell has known about the harm caused by oil & gas for decades.These files aid the massive climate lawsuits targeting Shell: buff.ly/3SmYwRV

Hold the companies causing this crisis responsible. #ActOnClimate

Great Barrier Reef coral cover decline shows 'ecosystem under stress' The Australian Institute of Marine Science says coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined after mass bleaching events, with experts warning it faces a future of "increased volatility".

The Reef just recorded its worst coral loss on record.

We're losing a natural wonder due to climate inaction.

🇦🇺 is 2nd biggest fossil fuel exporter & one of ⬆️ per capita emitters in the 🌏

We need bold leadership to protect the people & places we love
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

It’s relentless. Why would they stop if they aren’t being held to account? World leaders have made this easy as they keep looking the other way. There are sanctions against Russia why not Israel?

How can we be allies with a country that consistently commits war crimes like this?

Surely this is an attack on the UN and, as such, gives the UN the right to send troops in? Let's face it, if Iran had bombed a UN run clinic the UK/USA would already have troops on the ground

Australian weapon trialled by Israel's military ahead of potential sale The Defence Department told the ABC that “Australia has not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel” since the Gaza war began in 2023.

Meanwhile...

They really are going to “finish the job”, aren’t they.

Agriculture and food research cuts despite records floods, droughts and climate change bearing down on us

Who needs food and clean water right?!

This has to be one of the most stupidest ideas ever conceived #auspol
The gov needs to support the CSIRO, not defund it

Single frame. Left to right: Skip containing statue, paintings, books visible on left. Man in white coat at top of ladder feeding book into open mouth of a huge robotic dog with studded collar and dog-tag “AI”. Red bucket on floor below dog’s lowered rear. Second white-coated man says to onlooking woman: “It’s marvellous really. You just feed in all the intellectual property you can get your hands on without paying for it, then sell whatever comes out this end…”

Too easy!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Welfare groups join union push for housing tax shake-up The Australian Council of Social Services has thrown its weight behind calls to wind back property investor tax breaks, setting up a potential housing flashpoint ahead of the government's economic rou...

Sensible limits on generous tax concessions for property investors would help first home buyers & the $$ could help fund more desperately needed social and affordable housing.

This has to be part of the conversation.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

THREAD: 🚨 Leaked Israeli government documents just dropped. Here’s what they reveal:

Israeli media outlet Channel 13 published internal war cabinet transcripts from March 2025.
They confirm that the Israeli government knowingly pursued a strategy of starvation in Gaza.

Open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese MP from Australian former diplomats As pressure mounts on the Australian Government over Palestine, a group of highly respected Australians, who have represented our nation overseas, have gone straight to the top with a letter to the prime minister.

It is urgently imperative that Australia join 147 other countries in recognising a Palestinian state. To call repeatedly for a two-state solution makes no sense when only one state exists and that state is Israel.. #auspol #Openletter #ambassadors

Where's Magnitsky? Heat rises on Albo to match words with actions, sanction Israel - Michael West Public pressure is rising to sanction Israel over war crimes in Gaza in the wake of the March for Humanity over the Bridge.

“In the 1980s, Bob Hawke took a lead with the Commonwealth Heads of Government, even against Margaret Thatcher, who was not comfortable with imposing these sanctions against apartheid South Africa. And he won. Nelson Mandela later attributed those sanctions as a key factor in ending apartheid.”

US integration of Pacific allies into war plans must be opposed The United States is increasing its military footprint on Australia and Pacific and Pacific Rim countries as it prepares for war against China.

This is a good piece for a rainy afternoon, dissecting how deep is our interaction with US war plans in the Pacific johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

Powerful piece by David Leser.
#MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza
www.smh.com.au/national/i-s...

Minns government’s environmental integrity condemned as ‘nonexistent’ amid 40% surge in land clearing Independent MP Jacqui Scruby says she saw ‘fresh koala scratchings on trees just metres from clear-felling’ in parts of proposed Great Koala national park

The Minns government has lost its way on environmental policy, according to the New South Wales opposition, the Greens and a member of the crossbench, after government data revealed a 40% surge in land clearing across the state.

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

Arizona Town Fears Becoming a Clean Energy Sacrifice Zone A planned mining project in the Patagonia Mountains is already impacting downstream water supplies, and harming the fragile mountain ecosystem, critics say.

Australian mining company South32 is currently developing a zinc and manganese mine in Arizona's Patagonia Mountains. Locals worry the industrial operation will ruin their water supply, starve native flora and fauna, and kill the fragile mountain ecology. @islandpress.bsky.social

Israeli organisations say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza Israeli human rights group B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel have issued new reports stating that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Israeli organisations say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/israeli-organisations-say-israel-committing-genocide-gaza #Auspol

#StopGazaGenocide

from AJ+ （@ajplus　X/Twitter）
"Never again” is ringing hollow as Israel continues to forcibly starve thousands of trapped Palestinians in Gaza with impunity. AJ+ Editorial Lead Tony Karon breaks down the West's racist double standards.

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Listen: Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future Read by Matthew Alford

In a world of shrinking resources and growing climate chaos, Israel’s new technologies of subjugation have domestic, as well as overseas, applications. Gaza is the corporate world’s laboratory – a window into our own future.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-isr...

Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians

US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians.

My latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israels-ge...

The tax change that could allow thousands of new homes, ease rental pressure Labor went to the 2019 election promising to halve the capital gains tax concession. Now a Labor-aligned think tank says it should increase the concession.

We should be using tax reform to tackle housing affordability, not just CGT discount to ⬆️ supply but also reforming negative gearing + stamp duty, one of our most regressive taxes.

Sen Lambie and I had the PBO cost options - just need political will...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 85 reported killed while waiting for food Pontiff also speaks of anguish over Israeli strike on territory’s only Catholic church, which killed three people

Another day, another #genocide. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

#Auspol 😩

With our largest ally, the US, arming and fuelling the killing, Australia has an even larger responsibility to help build an alternate international movement for peace. Silence, as always, places us on the side of power.

Australia was invited to this Hague group meeting of 30 nations seeking to end the genocide in Gaza, but has chosen not to attend. The Foreign Minister Penny Wong needs to explain to the Australian public why Australia rejected the invitation.

Two excellent podcasts out today by gutsy indi journalists
1) Truth, Lies & Media - Nicole and Denis dissect the envoy debacle and the rebirth of Sussan ‘Annie Oakley’ Ley

@nicolechvastek.bsky.social

And 2) We Used To Be Journo’s (see next post 🙂)