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Cherie Moselen
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Assistant editor at Independent Australia 👁️ #auspol 🚫DMs🚫
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Looking at Australia through the lens of award-winning photojournalist Bill McAuley.
The boy who went bush
~ Bill McAuley
The boy who went bush
This timeless image of Matthew Naughton (pictured with a rabbit trap around his neck) made 'The Valley Voice' front page in 1978.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Elsewhere, the Epstein-file saga stretches on...
CARTOONS: Australia takes a stand
~ Mark David Cartoons
CARTOONS: Australia takes a stand
Elsewhere, the Epstein-file saga stretches on.
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August 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Wildly unconventional and a passionate conservationist, Neil Douglas was prominent in establishing the Bend of Islands Environmental Living Zone.
Greenie guru: The Bend of Islands' bushie who broke boundaries
~ Bill McAuley
Greenie guru: The Bend of Islands' bushie who broke boundaries
Greenie guru and artist Neil Douglas pictured in his studio at Melbourne's Bend of Islands.
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August 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Yet too many politicians are starved of conscience...
CARTOONS: The world is waking up to Gaza
~ Mark David Cartoons
CARTOONS: The world is waking up to Gaza
Yet, too many politicians are starved of conscience.
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August 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Leadership candidates face bona fide facts — 'humblebrag' diplomacy won't win you an election in Australia.
CARTOONS: Libs left to lick wounds of own making
~ Mark David Cartoons
CARTOONS: Libs left to lick wounds of own making
Leadership candidates face bona fide facts — 'humblebrag' diplomacy won't win you an election in Australia.
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May 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Winners are grinners...
Labor leaders past: Something to smile about
~ Bill McAuley
Labor leaders past: Something to smile about
Between 2007 and 2013, Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard "played musical chairs".
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May 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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The pointy end of Australian politics... time to vote!
CARTOONS: There's something fishy about Mark David
~ Mark David Cartoons
CARTOONS: There's something fishy about Mark David
And when you don't know... vote 'no'.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Today's Friday Funny right on the "Mark"!
CARTOONS: Dutton dogged by dipping polls
~ Mark David Cartoons
CARTOONS: Dutton dogged by dipping polls
The adage about "dogs" and "fleas"? Also on the lips and tips of the nation.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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A young boy, complete with slouch hat, salutes in front of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on Anzac Day.
Anzac Day a family affair
~ Bill McAuley
Anzac Day a family affair
A young boy, complete with slouch hat, salutes in front of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on Anzac Day.
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April 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Australia’s incompetent mainstream newsrooms continue feeding the nation anti-Labor editorials as the Federal Election looms. (See article below.)

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Why Chalmers won't be baited by media misreporting the economy
Australia's incompetent mainstream newsrooms continue feeding the nation anti-Labor editorials as the Federal Election looms. Here's why Jim Chalmers won't take the bait.
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March 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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ACT's desire to “ringfence” Māori influence in the co-governance of NZ is viewed by many as a smear on the country’s largely progressive bi-cultural relationship.

Muzzling Māori voice: NZ responds to attack on Treaty
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Muzzling Māori voice: NZ responds to attack on Treaty
New Zealanders continue gathering to oppose a political threat to the Treaty of Waitangi, which protects Māori rights.
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February 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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'Eye for Australia': Iconic shots from photojournalist Bill McAuley.
Spike Milligan: The 'goon' who loved Australia
~ Bill Mcauley
Spike Milligan: The 'goon' who loved Australia
Former actor and comedian Spike Milligan often visited Australia to spend time at his brother's place in Woy Woy, NSW.
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February 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The Lattouf trial: A question of bias at the ABC
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February 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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There's a fight going on across the Tasman... NZ's Treaty, which protects Māori interests, is under threat. #toitūtetiriti
To read more, click article linked below.

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February 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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There's a fight going on across the Tasman... NZ's Treaty, which protects Māori interests, is under threat.

Devil in the double-bill detail: Attacks on Treaty
~ Cherie Moselen
#toitūtetiriti
Devil in the double-bill detail: Attacks on Treaty
Following Australia's rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, New Zealanders are currently battling threats to the Treaty of Waitangi that exists to protect Māori interests.
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January 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The really fascist stuff on Trump’s inauguration day wasn’t Elon’s right arm — it was the executive orders turning the USA into an ultranationalist garrison state.

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So, Elon Musk did a one-armed salute: Here's what's more important
The really fascist stuff on Trump’s inauguration day wasn’t Elon’s right arm — it was the executive orders turning the United States of America into an ultranationalist garrison state.
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January 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Elon Musk's Nazi-like salutes and Meta's "technical error" usher in Trump's Far-Right "new world order". (Click on article below to read more.)
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January 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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News Corp shapes its content for political advocacy? Let us count the ways (click on linked article below to read more).
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January 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A beautifully written and compelling article on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
IA Writing Competition Most Compelling Article 2024 — The perils of indifference: History repeats itself in Gaza
~ Dr Kim Sawyer
IA Writing Competition Most Compelling Article 2024 — The perils of indifference: History repeats itself in Gaza
This beautifully written and compelling May article on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, by Dr Kim Sawyer, has won first prize in our IA Writing Competition Most Compelling Article 2024.
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December 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Can the veiled power of the Press Council be wielded against Mount Fang? (See article linked below)
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December 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Bias, much, ABC?
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December 12, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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Sneak preview of my latest piece, out tomorrow morning, which looks at the ABC's platforming of Dutton and his brazen band of disinformation dealers' barking lies:
ABC propels Dutton’s disinformation dealers
Another day, another barking lie from Dutton and his brazen band of disinformation dealers, now regularly guest-starring on the ABC.
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December 12, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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Barely concealed racism pedalled by our politicians. Shame.
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November 26, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Filed under “stuff you won’t hear in Australian conservative media”
cmoztrue.bsky.social Cherie Moselen @cmoztrue.bsky.social · Nov 24
Snapshot of IA's report on the frenzied campaign by Murdoch's global media to undermine Australia. (link below)
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November 26, 2024 at 1:22 AM