Iain Davidson AU
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Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Happy 94th birthday to Barry Owen Jones AC FAA FAHA FTSE FASSA FACE FRSA (born 11 October 1932). Australian writer, teacher, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion, & former politician in the Australian Labor Party. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures. #auspol
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
Spread this to everyone. The border wall has been part of the pre-and post-4547 agenda, but this level of destruction is unacceptable and unnecessary. Now if only Tribal Casinos had not flourished while the felon went bankrupt with his....
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 3w agoThey knew this 1,000-year-old archaeological site was here. It had been mapped, published, and reported to the agencies responsible for the land. Trump's border-wall contractors bulldozed right through it /1 Link: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM
Not just the economy, stupid – everything else too www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
It’s not just the economy, stupid – it's everything else as well
It’s the economy stupid, but it’s also health. And it’s happened, to borrow from Hemingway, in two ways – gradually and then suddenly.
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"Israel failed to protect its people and demanded the world accept Gaza’s devastation as the price of their deaths." Andrew Brown "October 7 has become Benjamin Netanyahu’s shield." michaelwest.com.au/three-years-...
Three years from October 7. Cover-ups and lies still shielding Netanyahu - Michael West
Israel failed to protect its people and demanded the world accept Gaza's devastation as the price of their deaths.
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Margaret Mead told us that we should “Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”
If you need proof of that, look no further than the absolute legends of the Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group. They’re not great at thinking of catchy names for a climate group - but they’ve inspired the country this week.
Find a special enemy in your life who hates you as much as Chris Minns hates activists
Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 4d agoChris Minns says activists shouldn’t get ‘overexcited’ about ‘technical’ landmark coalmine decision
I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .
