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Janet Rice
@janetrice.bsky.social
She/Her Former Greens Senator for Vic. Wurundjeri Country. Consensus builder. Environmentalist. Campaigner for justice. Scientist. Queer. Gardener. #FreePalestine #FreeTibet #PapuaMerdeka.
I’ve got more things to say at https://substack.com/@janetrice
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This is such great news & so well deserved! What a tome. And, what a massive effort to document these truths.

They were the first traditional documents prepared by Indigenous Australians to be acknowledged by the Parliament in 1963. The Yolgnu have never wavered from these truths.
Historian Clare Wright wins the 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for ‘Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions’! 👏👏👏

#politicalhistory #everythinghasahistory #twitterstorians #archives
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Rachel Donald is the best.
"I am exhausted by "content".... I am exhausted by the sense of keeping up ... [we need to ] ..reach out to one another.. We need to slow down, dig deep and listen. We need to take the time necessary to weave that which can hold us.
www.planetcritical.com/into-the-woo...
Into The Woods
I visited both Crete and Samoa in October. Being on these two islands in such a short space of time, and witnessing what is achingly human, gave words to the desires and distates which have been formi...
www.planetcritical.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Here’s a little something to help you keep your spirits up

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
A worldwide anti-Israel movement
Catherine Connolly’s rise to the Irish presidency marks a progression in global politics we ought not to miss. A critical mass is gathering against the Zionist state.
johnmenadue.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Hope.
Just imagine if Australia was part of this instead of sucking up to Trump.
progressive.international/wire/2025-10...
PI Briefing | No. 38 | Toward a Humane International Order
From Kuala Lumpur, a call to rebuild the world from the ruins of empire.
progressive.international
October 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Gee, I dunno, Albo, I would have thought hanging out with and buttering up a convicted felon, sexual predator, white supremacist and genocide enabler and sociopathic autocrat was kinda not the greatest idea.
I look forward to continuing Australia’s close partnership with the United States.
October 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Just a tad concerning
Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine.

"The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... "

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed
One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.
abcnews.go.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Fabulous rally for Palestine in Naarm/ Melbourne today
October 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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over nine thousand Palestinian people - around 9,570 people, on these figures - are incarcerated while presumptively innocent and subjected to extraordinary acts of violence by Israelis who literally rioted when there was a suggestion that prison rapists may be held accountable.
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I just plucked up the courage to listen to myself on the Better Together podcast.
I did ok I reckon. 😊 Global politics meets queer rights meets love. I’m speaking at the Better Together conference in Adelaide on 31 Oct - would be great to see you there. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...
EP06 What happens when we fail to speak up?
Podcast Episode · Better Together: Brave Conversations · S1 E6 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪

theconversation.com/and-then-the...
And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.
theconversation.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Funny that this didn't get any media coverage that I saw in Austrlaia last week... the Hague Group is growing stronger.
PI Briefing | No. 36 | The World Converges on Gaza
From New York to the Mediterranean, governments and movements join forces to halt Israel’s genocide.
progressive.international
October 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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A pirate by any other name.
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow. Just wow. And faark. Just how complicit in genocide can we be (well there’s pine gap and Australians serving in the IDF and contacts with Elbit systems and more…)

declassifiedaus.org/2025/10/01/s...
SECRET CARGO: INSIDE AUSTRALIA’S COVERT F-35 PARTS PIPELINE TO ISRAEL  - Declassified Australia
At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal.
declassifiedaus.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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My cartoon on Singapore denies entry to exiled HK pro-democracy activist Nathan Law
漫画新加坡拒绝香港民主运动家罗冠聪入境。

bbc report:
t.co/udnqs1e3O7
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
My regular friendly reminder that no matter how awful the US and Israel please remember that China is also not the good guy.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support
Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
People need to know about this. Most of the killings are First Peoples fighting to protect their lands and livelihoods from mining logging and agribusiness
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The political killings you don’t hear about
Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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The poverty machine speaks in slogans. It tells us to “have a go,” that “nobody wants to work,” that being poor is a choice. This is gaslighting on a national scale.

Let’s unpack some of that.
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Please sign and share.

lifelineforpalestine.com/petition
Lifeline for Palestine
lifelineforpalestine.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.
September 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
And Australia is still sucking up to Trump, all the way with Aukus, BAU with Pine Gap, troop deployments on rotation through Darwin…
@albomp.bsky.social you have to understand-Trump’s US is not our friend.
The sooner we break ties (and flip the bird at any resultant tariffs, whatever), the better.
This is fucking horrifying.
A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.
September 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it".

And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.
September 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM