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Nada Vlatko
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Born on Korcula, a little island in the Adriatic. Now settled gratefully and respectfully on Cameraygal land on the world's biggest island, Australia.
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries - including Australia.
Highly recommended interview #LateNightLive #ABC

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries - ABC listen
'The genocide in Gaza was not committed in isolation, but as part of a system of global complicity.' That's the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, ...
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Can he believe this?
"We have done everything we can to prevent this war before this war, even to our detriment, and we have done everything we can during this war to make sure that we are allowing civilians to get out of harm's way."
- IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
The ABC entered Gaza for the first time since the ceasefire. This is what we saw
For the first time since the ceasefire started, the ABC has gained access to an area in northern Gaza under Israeli military control. This is what we could see from behind the Yellow Line.
www.abc.net.au
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Dr. Tania Hassan on Gaza:

The endless flow of wounded children, lack of medical supplies, the feeling of helplessness as bombs fell nearby.

"I held a child with no pulse, only to realize we had no equipment to revive him. This is not war; it's a massacre of innocents."
October 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com

"...We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I'm totally distraught. The injustice. No, Palestinians can't have any weapons, but Israel can have all the weapons, continue to steal from the west Bank, kill, plunder with impunity, threaten & still have control in Gaza. Their inhumanity to medics & journos is beyond outrageous. I just can't...
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation."

Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth
YouTube video by Katie Couric
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists
Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.
johnmenadue.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"We don’t need a cure for autism, we need better education, understanding, inclusion and support. What we need a cure for is the state-sanctioned cancer of corporate greed that’s killing us all."
- Grace Tame
Reporters and healthcare professionals worldwide are scrambling to repair the damage wrought by Trump and his band of bad faith businessmen, writes Grace Tame.
Grace Tame on the grifters swarming around Trump's autism announcement
www.crikey.com.au
September 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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My god, what fresh hell ...

The last bastion of hope for imperilled civilians everywhere in the world, whatever risk to themselves, Médecins Sans Frontières have been forced to suspend activities amid the Israeli offensive in Gaza City

@msf.org #Gaza

www.msf.org/msf-forced-s...
MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF
The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.
www.msf.org
September 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Exclusive | A subsidiary of Elbit Systems, an Israeli company bathed in the blood of Palestinians, has once again won a contract with the department of defence, writes Bernard Keane.
Australia handed $10m to Israeli arms firm as Albanese recognised Palestine
www.crikey.com.au
September 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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It's clear that Elbit Systems has history as part of Israel's genocide-industrial complex.

Australia's continued dealings with them are probably illegal, and certainly immoral. #GazaGenocide #auspol

[Thanks @pj54321.bsky.social for this link]
michaelwest.com.au/elbit-how-au...
September 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Sanctions now #auspol
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...?
Petition EN7675 - Justice for Gaza: Protect Palestinians and Prevent Regional War
e-petitions
e-petitions
www.aph.gov.au
September 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Let this sink in: A president can apparently now order lethal force outside of congressionally declared wars, in international waters, without oversight, and face no personal criminal or civil liability—even if the action was blatantly illegal.

trib.al/0GD9wIS
How the Supreme Court Turned Trump Into a Danger to Everyone
The administration’s decision to launch an attack against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is a lawless act—or at least it used to be.
trib.al
September 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄
September 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The next urgent step must be sanctions against Israel @albomp.bsky.social
My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.
September 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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“It is truly extraordinary that of the three countries that are party to the deal, Australia – which bears the brunt of both the cost and the risk – is the only one not to have put AUKUS to a genuine review."

Petition for an inquiry into AUKUS > theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
Two-thirds of Australians want a review of AUKUS, while less than half think it will make us safer: poll
66 per cent of Australians support a Parliamentary Inquiry into the AUKUS security agreement, according to new polling commissioned by The Australia Institute.
australiainstitute.org.au
September 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Israel is committing genocide. The UN knows it, you know it, and @albomp.bsky.social knows it. When our governments fail to act we are all made complicit. Time for sanctions and an end to weapons trade. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major UN report finds
Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date.
www.abc.net.au
September 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Miriam Margoyles talking about how she’s lost friends and family members since making her statements about Israel’s Nazi-like behaviour. She’s not sure that her words have changed any minds but she felt she had to speak honestly. Much respect to her.
youtube.com/shorts/Dh7tj...
Actress Miriam Margolyes denounces Israel’s actions in Gaza
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WTF. Do you really want me to stop voting Labor @albomp.bsky.social ?
"It tells you a lot about who wields power in Australia that Woodside is being allowed to haggle in secret over the conditions of the North West Shelf expansion," writes @stephenlongaus.bsky.social.

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/yes-min... #auspol
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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A masterclass in how to use your platform and privilege, from Hugh Bonneville at the Downton movie premiere.
👏👏👏
September 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Imagine if our authorities showed such tenacity pursuing the ones who DID the corruption.

Lol hello NACC u still there?
Hope the ATO and government are proud of themselves.
Pursued this poor guy for 7 years, wrecked his life for the crime of exposing serious wrongdoing - costing millions - all for a final result of no recorded conviction and a 12-mth good behaviour bond.
ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle spared convictions, jail sentence
Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle has avoided convictions and a jail sentence, seven years after publicly exposing aggressive debt collection practices at the tax office.
www.abc.net.au
August 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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#TheGuardian publishes a cartoon on the Zionist Nazi Bolshevik militant occupation aka #Israeli killing of journalists in #Gaza. #OccupiedPalestine #UnderstandZionism #ZionismIsTerrorism #ZionismIsNotLegit #FreePalestine
August 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM