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Memo to the legacy and mainstream media, this is what relevant, insightful, and timely political commentary looks like. Join the dots, put hard questions to politicians.
By @jessharwoodart.bsky.social.
By @jessharwoodart.bsky.social.
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Memo to the legacy and mainstream media, this is what relevant, insightful, and timely political commentary looks like. Join the dots, put hard questions to politicians.
By @jessharwoodart.bsky.social.
By @jessharwoodart.bsky.social.
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Australia excludes visitors for poor character and inciting discord. On both grounds, Israel’s president should be barred from visiting Australia, writes John Menadue.
#auspol #Gaza #InternationalLaw #PearlsAndIrritations
#auspol #Gaza #InternationalLaw #PearlsAndIrritations
Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke should reject a visa application for Israeli President Herzog
Australia’s visa laws allow exclusion on grounds of character and incitement of discord. Those tests raise serious questions about whether Israel’s president should be welcomed while the killing in Gaza continues.
johnmenadue.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Australia excludes visitors for poor character and inciting discord. On both grounds, Israel’s president should be barred from visiting Australia, writes John Menadue.
#auspol #Gaza #InternationalLaw #PearlsAndIrritations
#auspol #Gaza #InternationalLaw #PearlsAndIrritations
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Tonight's fire briefing was grim.
'The 2 major fires – at Longwood & Walwa – are spreading uncontrollably & cannot be contained despite the best efforts of hundreds of firefighters.
The fires are demonstrating pyro-convective behaviour, generating their own weather systems'.
'The 2 major fires – at Longwood & Walwa – are spreading uncontrollably & cannot be contained despite the best efforts of hundreds of firefighters.
The fires are demonstrating pyro-convective behaviour, generating their own weather systems'.
January 8, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Tonight's fire briefing was grim.
'The 2 major fires – at Longwood & Walwa – are spreading uncontrollably & cannot be contained despite the best efforts of hundreds of firefighters.
The fires are demonstrating pyro-convective behaviour, generating their own weather systems'.
'The 2 major fires – at Longwood & Walwa – are spreading uncontrollably & cannot be contained despite the best efforts of hundreds of firefighters.
The fires are demonstrating pyro-convective behaviour, generating their own weather systems'.
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Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now | Allan Behm
Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now | Allan Behm
Australia has a long history of diplomacy and peacekeeping when things go pear-shaped. We need to saddle up again
Donald Trump has commanded a precision military operation against a neighbour he didn’t like. Venezuela’s president was abducted and is now in detention from which he is unlikely to emerge.
But Trump’s short-term tactical success has come at the expense of the complete destruction of the rules of international behaviour. Things were already bad. They have now gone pear-shaped. Global lawlessness prevails. That’s a massive price for the international community to pay, since it licenses other powers – Russia and China in particular – to act in the same way. Russia has already. And China may well be tempted to. Trump’s determination to dominate the western hemisphere implicitly invites Xi Jinping to do the same in the eastern hemisphere. And it confirms the licence already extended by the US to Israel. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now | Allan Behm
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Leave Cathy alone - one of this nation's greatest, bravest 'toonists in these difficult times
Or come after me too, you fuckers!
Or come after me too, you fuckers!
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Leave Cathy alone - one of this nation's greatest, bravest 'toonists in these difficult times
Or come after me too, you fuckers!
Or come after me too, you fuckers!
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6 January. Insurrection Day AND Epiphany which marks the end of Christmas. On this day Christians remember three wise leaders paying homage to a vulnerable baby who a narcissistic King wanted dead.
family.room
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
6 January. Insurrection Day AND Epiphany which marks the end of Christmas. On this day Christians remember three wise leaders paying homage to a vulnerable baby who a narcissistic King wanted dead.
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A Royal Commission could helpfully confirm what we already know. ALL those who confuse criticism of the state of Israel with criticism of Jewish people, be they Islamic extremists, Zionist lobby groups, Jillian Segal, News Ltd editors or the Israeli PM, are pouring fuel on the fire of antisemitism.
Business leaders and Catholic bishops join call for royal commission after Bondi attack
Signatories to open letter include former Reserve Bank of Australia governors Philip Lowe and Glenn Stevens and billionaire James Packer
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
A Royal Commission could helpfully confirm what we already know. ALL those who confuse criticism of the state of Israel with criticism of Jewish people, be they Islamic extremists, Zionist lobby groups, Jillian Segal, News Ltd editors or the Israeli PM, are pouring fuel on the fire of antisemitism.