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Agree - but still sounds like a lovely exhibition! Would love to go!

It’s lovely!

Can I ask a favour of Australian political journalists?
Stop treating Barnaby Joyce as a serious politician.
He is a drunk and a bufoon.
He is at the end of his political career for well documented reasons.
If you have the opportunity, just pass him his hat and coat.

Thanks. #auspol

Surely WE are the principal “stakeholder” in our environment?😡

The western media always refers to “the hostages” as those held by Hamas.

Apparently they are too lazy to access the readily available evidence,
or so imbued with an attitude of dehumanising and ignoring Palestinians (aka racism),
that they rarely mention the hundreds of hostages held by Israel.

We have the same issue in our living room!!

‘Loving this sport’: Snoop Dogg promises to deliver the goods at the AFL grand final The 53-year-old American hip-hop artist has already shown he’s pretty handy with a Sherrin. He’s promising to score on the halftime entertainment stage too.

The AFL bans reporters' questions to Snoop Dog to avoid his long history of nasty views & lyrics about women, gay men, same-sex couples & trans people (adding up to more than 50% of people), & then The Age doesn't bother raising any of it in its PR-faff story. Ick. www.theage.com.au/culture/musi...

Six-year-old twins among Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza Israeli attacks on civilians and infrastructure continue across Gaza as Qatar hosts Muslim, Arab world leaders.

Israeli attacks on civilians and infrastructure continue across Gaza as Qatar hosts Muslim, Arab world leaders.

ImagineThis In Your Country

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

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Letter to Bendigo Writers Festival flagged ‘concern’ over Palestinian writer A letter warning about the appearance of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah at the Bendigo Writers Festival was sent to event organisers by lobby group 5A in July.

Nothing new about letters / phone calls being used to intimidate arts orgs & silence artists.Lobby groups simply ramped up efforts in the last 22 months. hhttps://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/letter-to-bendigo-writers-festival-emerges-flagging-concern-over-palestinian-writer-20250818-p5mnpd.html

Pro-Israel group lobbied La Trobe and Bendigo Writers Festival over Palestinian academic's institution A leaked letter reveals pressure from a pro-Israel group in the lead up to the Festival

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Two scenes. Scene 1: man beside corpse wrapped for burial with PRESS flak jacket on top, Netanyahu on other side. Man says, “Why did you kill him?”.Netanyahu replies, “Because he was Hamas.” Scene 2: same set up, man says, “How do you know he was Hamas?” Netanyahu says, “Because we killed him.”

Killing journalists.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Dystopic wasteland, with a few ghostly figures, smoke rising from rubble. Title: un - recognise - able

What’s left?
My @smh @theage cartoon.

A doofus golden retriever running along a footpath

Out walking and this dog ran past me. So if you’re in the Reservoir/Preston/Coburg area and you’ve lost a golden retriever, he was heading west near St Mark’s Anglican and he wasn’t stopping for anybody.

Lucky you!

We knew this would happen. Get them off our land and away from our resources now.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it."
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It's people like that who make you realise how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. TOM LEHRER (1928 - 2025)

Israeli strikes kill 63 in Gaza despite ‘pauses’, as hunger crisis deepens Israel attacks ‘safe zones’ in Gaza as six more Palestinians, including two children, die from malnutrition.

Israeli strikes, including on declared ‘safe zones,’ kill 63 in Gaza despite announced pauses, as hunger worsens and six more Palestinians, including two children, die from malnutrition aje.io/67etrz

Australian army officer stripped of security clearance over Israel loyalty leaves defence force The man, anonymised in the ruling as HWMW, told Asio interviewers he did not view Israel as a foreign government and that he would share classified information with the IDF if asked

The army officer who lost his security clearance over being more loyal to Israel than Australia has left the ADF.

I am not sure why this case hasn't had more attention...

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Why won’t Australian media and major parties admit it, when Israeli ministers are saying it out loud?
This is deliberate ethnic cleansing.

"The community ought to be concerned as we are now facing the prospect of a national database labelling individuals as antisemitic, not for inciting hatred or violence, but for expressing dissenting political views. But this isn’t policy, it’s a Kafkaesque nightmare."

“It was not possible to independently verify the numbers as Israel does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza. It was the latest mass shooting around a US-backed aid distribution system that the UN says has resulted in 800 people killed in six weeks.”

So extreme is Jillian Segal’s plan, even Amnesty International has condemned it.

Albanese commissioned it, then stood next to Segal as she launch it. How is he going to walk this back?

“forcibly concentrate civilians in unsafe camps…” wait, that sounds like something we’ve heard of before…

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 98 Palestinians since dawn, including 38 aid seekers, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2nui5x

Excellent from the routinely clear and courageous Louise Adler.

Liberal party investment vehicle donated $500,000 to rightwing group Advance Cormack Foundation is a multimillion-dollar investment group for the Liberal party and one of its biggest single donors

Joining the dots is always important : check out the Henroth Fund ( aka John Roth married to the Envoy to foster antisemitism) which donates to Advance Australia. What on earth was the Labor government thinking when it agreed to work with that lot ? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism, as a relentless campaign pays off | Louise Adler The omissions are as important as the inclusions in Jillian Segal’s plan, which is guilty of overreach

This by Louise Adler is quite excellent

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