Sara Dowse
@saradowse.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, story writer, essayist, editor, reviewer, visual artist and political junkie.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’
Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the department’s response has left him mentally unwell and in financial turmoil.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...
✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register
Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...
What Israel's genocide has laid bare johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
What Israel's genocide has laid bare
Two years into an ongoing genocide — recognised as such by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights, Doc...
johnmenadue.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What Israel's genocide has laid bare johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
How The New York Times Helped Israel Kill Journalists In Gaza.
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How The New York Times Helped Israel Kill Journalists In Gaza.
The New York Times Helped Israel Spread Israeli Smears Used To Justify Killing Heroic Journalists Exposing The Genocide On The Ground In Gaza.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
How The New York Times Helped Israel Kill Journalists In Gaza.
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Whitlam dismissal secrets unearthed from the archives of the Canadian governor-general www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/w...
Whitlam dismissal secrets unearthed from the archives of the Canadian governor-general
This newly uncovered material, exclusively published by Crikey, is the first indication from Sir John Kerr himself that Queen Elizabeth II approved of the position he had taken during his dismissal of...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Whitlam dismissal secrets unearthed from the archives of the Canadian governor-general www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/w...
Superannuation and the Canberra Press Gallery's fantasies johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Superannuation and the Canberra Press Gallery's fantasies
The Canberra Press Gallery was completely absorbed with the supposed politics of last week’s superannuation changes and completely failed to consider their merits and why the changes were therefore ma...
johnmenadue.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Superannuation and the Canberra Press Gallery's fantasies johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Why the media so clearly fails at covering what Trump means for Australia www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/21/d...
Why the media so clearly fails at covering what Trump means for Australia
In its focus on personalities and its inability to see the United States as a threat to Australia, the commercial media is failing Australians.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Why the media so clearly fails at covering what Trump means for Australia www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/21/d...
Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong took a long time just to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. And their belated declaration of Palestinian statehood is an empty gesture when w...
johnmenadue.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics?
Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.
johnmenadue.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Trump’s sham peace plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Trump’s sham peace plan
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.
johnmenadue.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Trump’s sham peace plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Reposted by Sara Dowse
"For me, being part of the Jewish Council enabled some of those voices that have been not so much in the public domain to come out more stridently and hopefully inspire other people – other Jewish people."
Hear why Linda Briskman is proud to be a member of the Jewish Council Advisory Committee!
Hear why Linda Briskman is proud to be a member of the Jewish Council Advisory Committee!
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"For me, being part of the Jewish Council enabled some of those voices that have been not so much in the public domain to come out more stridently and hopefully inspire other people – other Jewish people."
Hear why Linda Briskman is proud to be a member of the Jewish Council Advisory Committee!
Hear why Linda Briskman is proud to be a member of the Jewish Council Advisory Committee!
Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Born in a one-room home on the outskirts of Amman, the son of illiterate Palestinian refugees from Gaza, Professor Omar Yaghi has risen from the hardships of displacement to the highest pinnacle of sc...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan
The Trump Plan is designed to reframe the issues in favour of Israel. Palestinians have been betrayed again.
johnmenadue.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Read the draft of Tony Blair’s plan for Gaza, in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/r...
Read the draft of Tony Blair's plan for Gaza, in full
A draft of the former British prime minister's plan has emerged.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Read the draft of Tony Blair’s plan for Gaza, in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/r...
The poisonous chalice of recognition: A double-edged sword for Palestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
The poisonous chalice of recognition: A double-edged sword for Palestine
While we should not regard it as a “historical moment” or a “game changer”, the recognition does have the potential to help Palestinians lead us into a different future.
johnmenadue.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The poisonous chalice of recognition: A double-edged sword for Palestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting?
Trump’s record suggests that meetings with him frequently fail. Instead, Albanese has an important agenda to pursue at the UN in New York, and when dealing with the US better outcomes are more likely ...
johnmenadue.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history
For many months now, Australians have been calling for our prime minister to accept his responsibility as the nation’s leader to sanction Israel in response to its military atrocities and ethnic clean...
johnmenadue.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too
Almost two years since Israel started its current campaign in the Gaza Strip, many governments are reluctant to call it what it is – genocide – simply because acknowledging it as such would incur lega...
johnmenadue.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians
Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year.
Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
The UN turns 80 johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
The UN turns 80
The most important agenda item for the United Nations General Assembly this month will be the future of Palestine. But Palestinian leaders will be unable to discuss it, because they will be absent.
johnmenadue.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The UN turns 80 johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
The politics of extermination johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
The politics of extermination
In 1895, Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, asserted: “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while...
johnmenadue.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The politics of extermination johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...