In absolutely no way, shape or form should anything resembling or approaching a private militia be allowed to operate in Australia with any government imprimatur. This is kicked in the head by a donkey stuff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Minns government ‘actively’ considering if Jewish security group should be armed after Bondi attack
NSW premier also announces police will carry long-arm rifles at major New Year’s Eve event in Sydney
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News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies? But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs… thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Australia’s sales of big cars are out of control
Australia has a big “big car” problem; we have too many SUVs and utes, and we keep getting lots more of them.
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Wafaa Hamad’s life and her entire family were taken by the Netanyahu government, not lost- taken - killed.
Peter Murphy@peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 9mo agoWafaa Hamad, a Palestinian girl who lost her entire family in an Israeli air strike on their home in Gaza on 03Sept2024, has died after a year of suffering due to the lack of medicine and care under Israel's blockade. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
Melia azedarach (aka white cedar) is in flower around Canberra. Find some time to stand under a tree and enjoy its beautiful scent.
The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record. Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.
"The situation for mums, for newborns, is absolutely the worst it's ever been after two years of this." James Elder, from Unicef, tells @krishgm.bsky.social that the conditions in hospitals in Gaza are "horrific". Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/she-die...
‘She died in front of us’ – Unicef on suffering in Gaza hospital
We spoke to Unicef global spokesperson James Elder, who's in Gaza, and began by asking him what the conditions were currently like there.
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It’s time we had a national conversation about the US-Australia alliance, and where it goes from here.
The United States has changed. Australia hasn’t. It’s time to talk about where the relationship goes from here
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Photo of the Day. Credit to Palestinian photographer, Saeed Jaras. Posting this here because hardly any mainstream media outlets will publish it. An ongoing genocide silenced. #Gaza
The boys are back in town… 11 Gang Gangs this morning only 2 females. And a bold crimson rosella.
If you're unclear on what's going on with gas, here's our 2-page explainer on Australia's gas policy mess. @australiainstitute.org.au
"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.
lbbonline.com/news/Warwick... everyone should watch this…..👇
Warwick Thornton and Dr. Tracy Westerman Launch Film Tackling Indigenous Suicide Crisis | LBBOnline
Little Black Book, Backed by the Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, ‘Change Direction’ – with Apparent and Photoplay – aims to transform Aboriginal mental health, LBB’s Tom Loudon...
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Very odd to me the ABC has an entire podcast devoted to foreign affairs, hosted by two of its most prominent staff, that has not done a single episode on Gaza this year. Only reference was on the most recent episode, in the context of Trump visiting Saudi Arabia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald - ABC listen
Two award-winning journalists with decades of experience reporting on major world events, Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald join forces for a fresh conversation about global news and how to make s...
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Historian of South Africa here. What Ray says is the simple truth. 👇🏽
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · last yr.this is the president of the united states repeating unhinged racist propaganda ginned up by the worst white supremacist ideologues on earth
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Australian Governments should be doing more to hold the Netanyahu government to account for genocide instead of trying to censor artists and writers.
First Nations writer stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet
Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld
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We are to blame… How much blood is enough to satisfy the regime? A very powerful call
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die. “This is an abomination.” (🎥 Middle East Eye)
Read this and get angry: australiainstitute.org.au/report/elect...
Elective spending at Australian universities - The Australia Institute
Universities spend vast sums on consultants, advertising, and travel. Reducing these expenses could have prevented the deep cuts that some of these same universities have made to their staff and cours...
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Today drilling for gas under the Barossa project off the coast of Darwin was approved. That's 274mil tones of emissions from one of the dirtiest gas projects in the 🌏 More than 100x emissions from the 🇦🇺 electricity system. Our approvals system is broken. We need urgent reform.
PBO modelling Sen Pocock & I commissioned in April '24 shows that reforms to neg gearing could boost housing affordability rates of home ownership & deliver $16B savings to the Budget over a decade. Fixing negative gearing won't fix the housing problem but it would be a bloody good start! #auspol
Australians for Natural Gas revealed as a front for Tamboran - a foreign fracking company harming the NT water table & planning emissions equivalent to putting 30 million extra cars on the road. This is astroturfing 101: fake community, real pollution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
'Textbook astroturfing': Coalition pollster working with gas campaign
The Coalition's internal pollster is helping orchestrate a campaign to boost public support for the gas industry ahead of the federal election in what has been described as "textbook astroturfing".
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The photos coming out of Gaza are a terrifying echo of all-too-familiar images of European ghettos and Nazi concentration camps in WWII. This level of dehumanization is yet another appalling warning of how far the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians has been permitted to escalate.
