@nicolelister.bsky.social
Ceramic artist & educator. Views own etc.
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What we think of neo-nazis
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
What we think of neo-nazis
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Something from Meanjin a few years back: Randa Abdel Fattah on Palestinian erasure…
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
Lobbied: The Palestinian Erasure
Those who dismiss claims about the influence of pro-Israel lobbyists often demand ‘evidence’ akin to a smoking gun; proof of a chain of causation between ‘lobbying’ and ‘self-censorship’. There are…
meanjin.com.au
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Something from Meanjin a few years back: Randa Abdel Fattah on Palestinian erasure…
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
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MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths
August 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths
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BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
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Words have had no effect.
Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.
Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.
Australia strongly rejects Israel's plan to seize Gaza City
The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom say this decision will "risk violating international humanitarian law".
www.abc.net.au
August 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Words have had no effect.
Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.
Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.
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WOW! - this deserves to be read & circulated.
Thank you so much Richard Flanagan! #politas
August 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
WOW! - this deserves to be read & circulated.
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Buy a virtual ticket providing a beautiful lunch to a Palestinian refugee from Gaza in Melbourne with 100% of ticket $ going to the wonderful charity Palestine Australian Relief & Action (PARA). Tickets here: tinyurl.com/4tuy2ewa
August 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Buy a virtual ticket providing a beautiful lunch to a Palestinian refugee from Gaza in Melbourne with 100% of ticket $ going to the wonderful charity Palestine Australian Relief & Action (PARA). Tickets here: tinyurl.com/4tuy2ewa
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Time for your regular reminder that
A) the Coaltion’s feelings about climate are irrelevant for the next 3-6 yrs
B) how much you worry about the Coalition is up to you
C) the more you worry about the Coaltion’s irrelevant opinions the less pressure is on the ALP to stop approving new gas & coal
A) the Coaltion’s feelings about climate are irrelevant for the next 3-6 yrs
B) how much you worry about the Coalition is up to you
C) the more you worry about the Coaltion’s irrelevant opinions the less pressure is on the ALP to stop approving new gas & coal
July 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Time for your regular reminder that
A) the Coaltion’s feelings about climate are irrelevant for the next 3-6 yrs
B) how much you worry about the Coalition is up to you
C) the more you worry about the Coaltion’s irrelevant opinions the less pressure is on the ALP to stop approving new gas & coal
A) the Coaltion’s feelings about climate are irrelevant for the next 3-6 yrs
B) how much you worry about the Coalition is up to you
C) the more you worry about the Coaltion’s irrelevant opinions the less pressure is on the ALP to stop approving new gas & coal
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Former NSW Liberal Party energy minister Matt Kean slams push to scrap Australia’s net zero target, describing it as a “disgrace” and “an argument to jack up electricity bills.”
Sideshow Barnaby’s anti-net zero crusade labelled a disgrace and “an argument to jack up electricity bills”
Former NSW Liberal Party energy minister Matt Kean slams push to scrap Australia’s net zero target, describing it as a “disgrace” and “an argument to jack up electricity bills.”
reneweconomy.com.au
July 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Former NSW Liberal Party energy minister Matt Kean slams push to scrap Australia’s net zero target, describing it as a “disgrace” and “an argument to jack up electricity bills.”
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Mass Palestinian starvation used as a weapon of war - Bob Carr johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...
Mass Palestinian starvation used as a weapon of war - Bob Carr
Former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr has compared the situation in Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto, and urged the Government to move with the French on Palestinian statehood. He made his comme...
johnmenadue.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Mass Palestinian starvation used as a weapon of war - Bob Carr johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...
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More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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"race discrimination commissioner has warned there is limited detail in #JillianSegal ’s plan
...he would work with her to ensure it does not restrict fundamental rights & freedoms."
Very polite.
But will be tricky; Segal's Trumpist plan targets Israel critics.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
...he would work with her to ensure it does not restrict fundamental rights & freedoms."
Very polite.
But will be tricky; Segal's Trumpist plan targets Israel critics.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Push to end antisemitism is welcome but envoy’s plan raises concerns, Australia’s race commissioner warns
Giridharan Sivaraman says he hopes to meet Jillian Segal to discuss her proposals and their implications for fundamental rights and freedoms
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"race discrimination commissioner has warned there is limited detail in #JillianSegal ’s plan
...he would work with her to ensure it does not restrict fundamental rights & freedoms."
Very polite.
But will be tricky; Segal's Trumpist plan targets Israel critics.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
...he would work with her to ensure it does not restrict fundamental rights & freedoms."
Very polite.
But will be tricky; Segal's Trumpist plan targets Israel critics.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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When has silence in the face of evil ever turned out well?. To those who say “I can’t believe how they let it happen”, can you see now?.
July 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When has silence in the face of evil ever turned out well?. To those who say “I can’t believe how they let it happen”, can you see now?.
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Never give up! The further destabilisation of earth’s thin biosphere by excessive CO2/CH4(methane) emissions from Woodside’s Scarborough gas project now in Federal Court legal dispute by Doctors for the Environment & EDO. 👇🙏
July 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Never give up! The further destabilisation of earth’s thin biosphere by excessive CO2/CH4(methane) emissions from Woodside’s Scarborough gas project now in Federal Court legal dispute by Doctors for the Environment & EDO. 👇🙏
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We already have a Racial Discrimination Commissioner. He’s Indian and has integrity and a plan. Can’t have him involved or investigating Israel Government and links to Advance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11....
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11....
'Our systems are built to maintain white privilege': Race discrimination commissioner releases plan to end racism
A wide-ranging document on how to tackle racism in Australia has found existing measures are "ad-hoc" and "ineffective".
www.abc.net.au
July 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
We already have a Racial Discrimination Commissioner. He’s Indian and has integrity and a plan. Can’t have him involved or investigating Israel Government and links to Advance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11....
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11....
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The point about the Advance donation issue is the hypocrisy. Jillian Segal wants to police everyone’s speech while defending her husband’s right to fund an organisation that propagates racism. Her position is untenable.
July 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The point about the Advance donation issue is the hypocrisy. Jillian Segal wants to police everyone’s speech while defending her husband’s right to fund an organisation that propagates racism. Her position is untenable.
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There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say
Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
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Appalled by The Age editorial #Melbourne saying continued protests for Palestinian safety and justice are “tone-deaf intransigence.” Excellent rebuttal here. Imagine such protests for Jewish safety in 1940’s Germany described in this way 🤯 There is *never* an excuse for apartheid/ethnic cleansing.
July 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Appalled by The Age editorial #Melbourne saying continued protests for Palestinian safety and justice are “tone-deaf intransigence.” Excellent rebuttal here. Imagine such protests for Jewish safety in 1940’s Germany described in this way 🤯 There is *never* an excuse for apartheid/ethnic cleansing.
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🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
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This by @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social's Max Kaiser is absolutely on point.
July 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This by @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social's Max Kaiser is absolutely on point.
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Dutton and his party relegated to the dustbin but you Jerome and @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social
Need to watch this and meet the moment with conviction or the Australian Labor Party who claim to represent the working class will end up in the bin too.
youtu.be/4RTr4kzWYZw
Need to watch this and meet the moment with conviction or the Australian Labor Party who claim to represent the working class will end up in the bin too.
youtu.be/4RTr4kzWYZw
Truth to Power - June 29 - Josh Bornstein and Doug Cameron
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
youtu.be
June 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Dutton and his party relegated to the dustbin but you Jerome and @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social
Need to watch this and meet the moment with conviction or the Australian Labor Party who claim to represent the working class will end up in the bin too.
youtu.be/4RTr4kzWYZw
Need to watch this and meet the moment with conviction or the Australian Labor Party who claim to represent the working class will end up in the bin too.
youtu.be/4RTr4kzWYZw
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"The broader threat to the US...comes not from its bombastic figurehead Trump, but from the fascist-style forces he has unleashed on the institutional structures of the US political system."
Precisely why Australia needs to move from US dependency long-term. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
Precisely why Australia needs to move from US dependency long-term. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
What Trump is building is the problem, not the man himself
We treat Donald Trump as the primary obstacle to a smooth trade order but he is not the problem. What he is building is the problem because it replicates the rising mechanisms of democratically electe...
johnmenadue.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"The broader threat to the US...comes not from its bombastic figurehead Trump, but from the fascist-style forces he has unleashed on the institutional structures of the US political system."
Precisely why Australia needs to move from US dependency long-term. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
Precisely why Australia needs to move from US dependency long-term. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
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Fossil fuel harm and Israel's genocide are linked in literal ways, but one of the more indirect links is how media outlets actively and consciously set out to defend, minimise and reframe the violence of the aggressors
Eg:
Eg:
BREAKING: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, Israel's Foreign Ministry says.
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Fossil fuel harm and Israel's genocide are linked in literal ways, but one of the more indirect links is how media outlets actively and consciously set out to defend, minimise and reframe the violence of the aggressors
Eg:
Eg: