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Vikki
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Just finished this, well worth it. AUKUS will inflame regional tensions, undermine Australian sovereignty, tie us to an increasingly unstable US in which key officials now talk about using nuclear weapons and winning a nuclear war. A very bad idea.
www.mup.com.au/books/nuked-...
Nuked, Andrew Fowler
Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of...
www.mup.com.au
November 23, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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My latest. As with East Timor, international law supports the Palestinian cause. As with East Timor, western powers are the obstacle to a just settlement.
declassifiedaus.org/2024/09/12/p...
PALESTINE – THE LESSONS OF EAST TIMOR - Declassified Australia
History teaches us that Palestine, as with East Timor, will be free.
declassifiedaus.org
November 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Friends of the Koala

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November 24, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis

A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country

A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
November 23, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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Every Sunday Melbourne marches for a free Palestine
November 24, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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A commenter on our YouTube channel sums up Trump’s picks
November 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Just a reminder that it was the Howard government that signed Australia up to the International Criminal Court. Alexander Downer was foreign minister. Peter Dutton was a backbencher.
November 24, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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I've been to both Israel and Gaza. I've seen the racism, the most appalling extreme right views, the arrogance and the divisions in the West Bank. The apartheid in Hebron. Decades ago I briefly worked for what was then the Red Cross delivering seed supplies to Gaza only to be destroyed by Israelis.
November 24, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Maga!
November 23, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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This really is quite extraordinary.

Dreyfus should have grabbed him on the way out of the committee room and sacked him on the spot.

But then Dreyfus was the one who thought him a great pick.
November 23, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Australia

H7 high pathogenicity avian influenza www.outbreak.gov.au/current-outb...
www.outbreak.gov.au
November 24, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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Clear statement from the All Blacks
#ToitūTeTiriti
November 23, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Georgia Fires Entire Maternal Mortality Panel After Reporting on Abortion Ban Deaths | Common Dreams

www.commondreams.org/news/georgia...
Georgia Fires Entire Maternal Mortality Panel After Reporting on Abortion Ban Deaths | Common Dreams
Georgia officials fired the Maternal Mortality Review Committee members after ProPublica revealed preventable deaths due to abortion restrictions.
www.commondreams.org
November 23, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Don’t America my Australia” - my warning against the Americanisation of Australian politics and the perils of going further down the path of polarisation at the National Press Club this week.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QASQ...
IN FULL: Dr Nick Bryant's Address to the National Press Club
YouTube video by National Press Club of Australia
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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So much for “rules based order” international law? Former Australian PMs Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison urge withdrawal from the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Murdoch papers concur. “Moral equivalence” v crimes against humanity. This lets Putin off the hook.
November 23, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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ABC/SBS to be censored on Israel/Gaza/Lebanon coverage deemed by Senator Paterson to be biased against Israel:Paul Sakkal SMH/Age. ABC editorial rules require fair and fearless reporting which requires its journalists to strive to tell its audiences what’s really going on.
November 23, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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“Social media start-up Bluesky is exploding as academics, journalist, and left-leaning politicians abandon Elon Musk’s X in search of bluer skies. Now, the platform has surpassed Meta’s Threads in user numbers, yet Threads still leads in app usage.”
Bluesky Overtakes Threads as Liberals Flee MAGA Trolls on X
Prior to Nov. 5, Threads had five times more daily US users than Bluesky.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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All of you #auspol types tainting your day by starting it with #insiders can turn it around by doing something good and donating to ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle.

Every donation helps - big or small.

Help fund this courageous man's ongoing quest for justice!

www.gofundme.com/f/ato-whistl...
Donate to Support ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle, organized by Jo Dyer
When Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle takes the stand in his cri… Jo Dyer needs your support for Support ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle
www.gofundme.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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What they test in apartheid Israel and Gaza, will be used on domestic shores. We are dealing with profoundly evil people.
November 23, 2024 at 8:26 PM