Fahad Ali

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

what if I hit you with a car but the car is me and the hit is a hug

No defence scholarship for graduate medicine until after you’ve finished your first year 🫠

Remarkable scenes at Wikipedia, where founder Jimmy Wales is resorting to some extraordinary mental gymnastics to argue against the existence of the Gaza genocide article on the basis that partisan opinions should be given the same weight as impartial facts.

There’s nowhere near enough discussion about how 99% of doctors have to be wealthy and privileged enough just to be able to afford med school, even in Australia. It changes the shape of healthcare for the worse and keeps us locked in toxic hierarchies. Needs to change ❤️❤️❤️

Rural bonded places still exist but now now scholarship and you still have to pay HECS, they’re now just additional places on top of regular CSP places.

There are also no scholarships available 😬

Australian docs of Bluesky, how did you manage to afford med school without family/partner support? I have no idea how I'm going to get through the next four years, any tips/advice very greatly appreciated. Austudy + Sydney rent + limited earning capacity is really daunting.

On every single major network or newspaper, such is the depraved state of affairs 🤷‍♂️

Compass: S39 Unsettled Three Palestinian families who've fled the war in Gaza take us inside their lives. As they seek protection in Australia, presenter Patrick Abboud is by their side. A deeply personal film, and a side t...

And you can see the difference PARA and your donations are making in this brilliant documentary
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Good morning beautiful people! If you’re in Sydney or Melbourne, PARA is looking for furniture donations for Palestinian refugees. If you don’t have any furniture to donate, they have options to purchase items for the families directly. See below, poke me if you have questions.

The fact that Ms Rachel had three venues cancel on her because she wanted to hold a birthday party for a THRRE-YEAR-OLD DOUBLE-AMPUTEE GIRL from Gaza... look at yourselves! Look in the mirror! When are people going to find the courage to say enough is enough?

Incredible sculpture this year at Sculptures by the Sea in Bondi. This piece is ‘Palestinian Child’ by Liam Parker. After all the shenanigans in the art world, from STC to MSO to Creative Australia, it’s a relief to finally see an institution allow expression of Palestinian life.

Happy Halloween to all, and especially to the News Corpse journalist who is going to steal this photo for their next racist smear campaign. 🎃🦇

End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.

I still can't get over David Marr claiming that Chris Hedges' evidence that the press is silencing the truth on Palestine was “really, really thin” when LAST MONTH the ABC was found to have unlawfully fired a journalist for sharing a post from Human Rights Watch.

In case you’re wondering how things are going over on the other site, this is a response to me saying you shouldn’t beat your children.

“Macdonald has still not returned to his research position at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute”

Australians need to realise that one of our finest researchers, whose innovations have saved countless lives, has been frozen out for the sake of a foreign power.

They took down the post insinuating he was an antisemite — it doesn’t take a genius to infer that they realised they’d screwed the pooch. Just because the Israel lobby whinges about something, doesn’t make it lawful to treat your employees like crap.

St Vincent's crisis triage: heart doctor Macdonald back on the wards after witchhunt - Michael West After nearly seven weeks, senior cardiologist Professor Macdonald is back working at St Vincent’s Hospital today. Wendy Bacon reports.

Employers beware: when you cave to the Israel lobby, when you violate employment law as a knee-jerk reaction to News Corp propaganda, you will invariably come out looking like dolts. Great to hear Professor Macdonald is back at work.

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I agree that is probably true, but if there was an equivalent situation (eg. a troll account celebrating the death of Kfir Bibas, for instance) the media would seize on it immediately

I wasn’t allowed to express that opinion, but you are allowed to express the opinion that it’s “heroic” to extrajudicially kill an innocent six-year-old girl. This is the modern face of Nazism, there is no debate about it.

Now let’s be clear: I said Ben-Gvir and Smotrich — responsible for the killing of thousands — should face the death penalty in a Nuremberg-like process, I even specified that it needed to follow a legal trial, etc., and the Murdoch papers lost the plot.

This person, in total sincerity, is celebrating the murder of a six-year-old girl, on the basis of her identity as a Palestinian. Will you see any journalist hound them, run a smear campaign as they have done to me and other Palestinians expressing entire tame opinions?

I have a gift for you: reg.bom.gov.au

Back in 2022 I said I wasn't Levantine because I wanted to be able to say [ɡ] when singing to my fave Amr Diab songs without getting into trouble

Then I kept calling everyone a /ʒaħʃ/, so I realised I was Palestinian

what Tom doesn’t tell you is that I let him pick this tie which (as the better dressed one in the relationship) was a gamble on my part

must read by mighty Amy Remeikis💯

No one is above the law — right, @tonyburkemp.bsky.social?