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Bruce's father left him with a substantial trust fund. Enough for he and his sister to attend private school. His mother's family in Australia is also well-off. Whether the funds are shielded from consequences of his misdeeds, only time will tell.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/crime-n...
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Bruce Lehrmann avoids conviction on car charge
A day after Bruce Lehrmann's failed bid to overturn a defamation hearing, charges of car theft against him have been downgraded in a Hobart court.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Justice Wigney said the full court also found that, based on the unchallenged findings by Justice Lee, Lehrmann “did turn his mind to whether Higgins was consenting to sex, was aware she was not consenting, but proceeded nonetheless”.

That's going to complicate any appeal.

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Lehrmann loses bid to overturn rape findings
The Federal Court has upheld a finding that Bruce Lehrmann, on a civil standard of proof, raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.
www.lawyersweekly.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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How many hats does this bloke have?
"[Lehrmann] will be seeking advice on applying for special leave to contest the ruling in the High Court."
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/2025/12...
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#AusPol
Lehrmann flags High Court fight to clear name
Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer says his fight isn’t over after he lost a bid to overturn a court finding that he probably raped Brittany Higgins.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Tentacles of the Zionist lobby run deep.
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The Age, SMH and Crikey are behind paywalls. The Walkley's account of the speech is here:
www.walkleys.com/dont-kid-you...
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#censorship
#Gaza
#Palestine
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#media
“Don’t kid yourself that it can’t happen here,” warns Kerry O'Brien - The Walkley Foundation
“Don’t kid yourself that it can’t happen here,” distinguished journalist Kerry O’Brien has warned in a powerful speech on press freedom at the 70th Walkley Awards in Sydney. “The message is becoming s...
www.walkleys.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Israel is a crime against humanity, committed by the West.
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara
I can’t talk to you. You’re not capable of listening. The only ones who listen are those who have already gotten out of the pit, either by chance access to knowledge and openness of mind, or literally people who left the country. When I meet people who left, you immediately see how leaving our toxic space allowed them to be human again. It’s obvious in their speech itself. There are still lots of family, friends, and people I love here. But it’s become impossible to talk. I hope it will be easier there, even though I don’t have many illusions. I don’t know how I’ll ever lower the mark of Cain of being Israeli at all. I’m ashamed of us, all of us. But at least maybe it will be a bit easier to breathe. And maybe also to truly fight effectively. We’ll see. That’s my late-night rambling because I’m not really sleeping and apparently need to vent.
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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We have a million such verbal barriers. Sentences, words, expressions, ways of talking that shape how we speak about reality and channel us not to listen, to be numb, and to be part of the evil machine we built. And to see that slowly all around you, to see how far you are from everyone, unable to talk at all. And every conversation is full of them. It’s not just one barrier once in a while, no. They get unleashed one by one. I can start analyzing people’s tweets here and show you how one tweet contains like 4-5 such barriers that shut down the brain. You respond to one? They reply with 5 new ones. You can’t keep up, just dismantling one requires a whole focused conversation.
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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There isn’t even the ability to recognize that the problem itself is the idea that violence is the only way. Which is, by itself, completely insane. There’s no such thing as living forever by the sword. There isn’t. You don’t live forever by the sword, you die by it. But this framing locks us out of having this conversation under the disguise of “okay, I’m open but what do you propose.” It sounds so innocent and natural and “reasonable.” But it’s like a trap. It’s a word minefield, fake politeness, a pit that pulls you down and basically neutralizes the conversation. Instead of talking about how to solve a problem, we have violence taken for granted, and we’ll doubt it only if there’s some perfect magical proof beyond all reasonable doubt. (And while we’re demanding from you a perfect magical solution, we’ll tell you that you’re the one living in La La Land and we’re the “realistic” violent ones “who understand reality.”)
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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#Zionism
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Anyone who’s been on that side of the conversation knows the pattern. Everything we say they reply “pfft” or “you’re naïve.” It’s not a dialogue, it’s a test, a critique. We, the ones opposing violence, have to prove ourselves. We can’t have a single flaw; we have to provide a full operational plan and prove every detail and flaw. But them? They don’t have to. For Israelis, violence doesn’t need proof, explanation, justification, or evidence. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it’s the foundation. It’s the way. “What do you propose” is also recognition and acceptance of violence as normative, it also shifts the responsibility to the side of non-violence. In a normal world, it would be the opposite.
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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“What do you propose” is a good example. It’s something people say every time someone tries to offer any alternative to violence. In every situation, scenario, violence is the only solution, the only way. Iran wants nukes? Fine, we have to bomb, no choice. Hamas has hostages? Bomb, no choice. Yemen is shooting at us? Bomb, no choice. And if you just say “maybe it’s bad,” people ask “what do you propose instead.” That question is amazing. It contains so much. Mainly, it hides agreement. “What do you propose” means “violence is the only solution and for me to abandon it, I need an alternative solution.” And now the burden of proof lies on me, the one opposing violence.
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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#Israel
#Zionism
#hasbara
For two years I’ve watched my country commit one atrocity after another, and I’ve seen how everyone around me disappoints, stays silent, takes part, buys the lies. They refuse to oppose in any real way. It’s not the right-wing that broke me, not the Bibi supporters or the settler Judeo-Nazis. They’re monsters, but I already knew that. It’s all the people I thought were on my side who have shown me that actually we live on a completely different planet of values, faith, and perception of reality. The macho-ism, militarism, and Jewish supremacy run so deep. Collective psychosis, it’s impossible to really talk to anyone, we have barriers. In language, in the way people speak, there are obstacles.
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Almost four decades ago, a traditional owner in the Hunter said to me: "mining breaks country". He was talking about coal, but the same is true of all mining. It breaks country and people both. Government can mitigate the harms, but they rarely do.

Australia has been a quarry for a long, long time.
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Four decades ago, a Jewish historian put it thus:
web.archive.org/web/20171228...
By Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht I am the unknown Jew. Just as there are monuments to the unknown soldier and the unknown political prisoner, there should be a monument to the unknown Jew. We are Jews who oppose Zionism, who deplore Israeli oppression and aggression, who fear that Judaism may not survive Israel. We are probably a majority of Jews, but no one knows this because we have been effectively intimidated and suppressed by the Zionist minority.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Four decades ago, a Jewish historian put it thus:
web.archive.org/web/20171228...
By Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht I am the unknown Jew. Just as there are monuments to the unknown soldier and the unknown political prisoner, there should be a monument to the unknown Jew. We are Jews who oppose Zionism, who deplore Israeli oppression and aggression, who fear that Judaism may not survive Israel. We are probably a majority of Jews, but no one knows this because we have been effectively intimidated and suppressed by the Zionist minority.
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM