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Watership down
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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50 years since the Dismissal.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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"Bipartisanship and political ease are not things that occur when you are trying to change the country to help those without power."

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Gough dreamed of a country that never was, and asked why not?
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Ever since Gough Whitlam was dismissed 50 years ago, an idea has hampered Labor governments that Whitlam's had been unreasonably progressive, trying to do too much too quickly. But is that accurate?
Was Whitlam dismissed for being too radical?
www.crikey.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Exactly
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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A lot of people when talking about Gough's economic record seriously underplay how beyond comprehension the 1973 Oil Crisis was.

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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About 200 Hamas fighters remain trapped in Rafah tunnels as Israel refuses to grant them passage, threatening the truce.
US mediator Kushner meets Netanyahu for talks on Trump’s Gaza plan
About 200 Hamas fighters remain trapped in Rafah tunnels as Israel refuses to grant them passage, threatening the truce.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.

Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.

Reverse Robin Hood.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and the rest of us have to be awake for it
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social
Israel has murdered:
• 69,169 people (incl. 18,500 children)
• 217 journalists
• 224 aid workers
• 120 academics
• 165,000 injured
Yet STILL your Govt refuses to #SanctionIsrael or expel the Israeli Ambassador. Shame 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Russell Crowe has torn into Sussan Ley for trying to smear PM Albo after he wore a Joy Division Band T-Shirt.
“What’s the point of that? We all know it’s a band name. What are you f**king talking about?”🔥 #auspol #AlboPM
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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The Israel lobby has been losing its mind after the Federal Govt failed to act as expected and rush through a bunch of anti-free speech laws over Jillian Segal’s shoddy “Antisemitism” report. (Hit a bit of a speed bump, ICYMI…👇)

theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Police authorisation of Sydney neo-Nazi demonstration sparks calls for protest law review
A neo-Nazi protest received NSW Police authorisation to go ahead outside NSW parliament on Saturday morning.
www.sbs.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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In Gaza, we all want this ceasefire to hold, to save what remains of our home. Still, it does not take a genius to see that the ceasefire plan is nothing but a grotesque charade. #eiGazaDispatches
No end to genocide
The ceasefire agreement simply means that Israel is able to do whatever it wants.
electronicintifada.net
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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After the Dismissal, Gough Whitlam agreed to an interview with Paul Bongiorno and began by declaring: “There has been a coup d’etat. You know, in Italian: a colpo di Stato.” He went on to speak of an illegitimate seizure of power. satpa.pe/oPUrIFf
An Australian coup: Reflecting on Whitlam’s dismissal
satpa.pe
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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There were ample laws to prevent this or shut it down. The NSW Police just didn’t want to.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I hate the fact that Australia is a cowed vassal state of the failing US Empire. I find it deeply disturbing that the USA is a vassal state of Zionist Israel. #auspol #USPolitics #IsraeliTerrorism
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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"The outrage of the Dismissal established dangerous precedents,” writes Paul Bongiorno. “In the intervening years we have failed to put in place safeguards that would prevent it happening again.” satpa.pe/YGaDANy
An Australian coup: Reflecting on Whitlam’s dismissal
satpa.pe
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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From today's Sunday Age and SMH #COP30
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Amy Remeikis on Gough:
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.

Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Australian politics 101: Getting the lessons wrong every time
If one thing is true for all mainstream political parties, it’s that they will always learn the wrong lessons.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says
Dozens of neo-Nazis demonstrated outside NSW parliament on Saturday where they held an antisemitic banner and chanted a Hitler Youth slogan
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM