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New: A leaked email has revealed the head of the United Workers Union's WA branch personally urged union employees not to attend a pro-Palestine rally because it was outside the office of Labor MP Patrick Gorman. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/bullying-a...

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New: A leaked email has revealed the head of the United Workers Union's WA branch personally urged union employees not to attend a pro-Palestine rally because it was outside the office of Labor MP Patrick Gorman. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/bullying-a...

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New: The head of Royal Melbourne Hospital's Melbourne Brain Centre has accused human rights activists of being "friends of Hamas" for urging a boycott of an Israeli-run health conference in Melbourne

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New: A trans University of Sydney student seeking asylum in Australia is facing the prospect of refoulement to Malaysia for allegedly writing pro-Palestine slogans on university whiteboards. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/trans-usyd...

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The story about Tony Burke refusing to say "Palestine" at a citizenship ceremony has been picked up by News Corp as "evidence" that Labor is busing Hamas fighters to vote for them. Ironically, that means we now know more about what happened. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/the-tony-b...

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"There is no end point at which Israel can arrive and be at peace with itself.. People are being criminalised. Laws are being rewritten. Cell doors are swinging open. All in the name of something that was doomed to failure before it was born."

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I've updated this story to reflect clarifying statements made by Cairo Takeaway staff yesterday everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/get-out-of...

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New: I spoke to Talaat Yehia, the chef who confronted Ofir Birenbaum, Danielle Gusmaroli and the Daily Telegraph's film crew after they tried to provoke a confrontation inside Cairo Takeaway. His retelling is both infuriating and extremely funny. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/get-out-of...

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New: A former federal Parliamentary staffer claims they were denied entry to Parliament's public gallery because they were wearing a keffiyeh.

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New: A Sydney high school teacher has spoken out about enduring months of discrimination and harassment, including from the NSW Department of Education, for wearing a keffiyeh to work everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/sydney-hig...

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New: After the IDF killed Zomi Frankcom in April, @SenatorPayman told Penny Wong she was willing to be "the bad guy" and call for sanctions on Israel. Wong turned her down, saying "it’ll just corner the government and make life difficult for us". everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/fatima-pay...

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If you in any way consider yourself a supporter of the Palestinian people, the imminent prospect of a ceasefire means your responsibility today and in coming days is greater than ever. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/the-opport...

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My newsletter now has a gift subscription option! Consider giving someone the gift of journalism about Australia and Palestine that isn't spiritually written by patricia karvelas everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/upgrade

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New: A former Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council employee claims they were disciplined after a Zionist coworker objected to their using the word 'Palestine' in an email. More here.

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Netanyahu painting himself as the big defender of the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne is wildly cynical, given how he's treated it in the past everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/the-grim-h...

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New: for more than a year, the NSW Department of Education has been instructing principals to suppress discussion of Palestine in public schools everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/the-anti-p...

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kinda wild how Rose Jackson went from being the target of a News Corp smear campaign for opposing Zionism to telling a Tele reporter over a steak lunch about how campus Palestine protesters have lost perspective everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/how-rose-j...

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These are some of the internal docs showing how the AHRC responded to a complaint from ECAJ and a hit piece in the Oz about one of their contractors. They include Attorney-General's Department officials seeking "urgent advice," and a text sent by AHRC president Rosalind Croucher to Mark Dreyfus

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The cofounders of anti-racism org Hue have released 200 pages of internal Human Rights Commission emails showing how the Commission prematurely ended a contract with them after being pressured by ECAJ, The Australian and the Attorney-General's Department

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'climate scientist starter pack' this, 'election expert starter pack' that. where's the list of the shitposting elite. i don't want sober analysis i want 80-post threads about how oxygen is problematic

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Vaguely stunned that there's a chance this absolute goblin of a human might be about to experience A Consequence www.smh.com.au/national/ala...

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nsw nurses get pretty creative when they're pissed off

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the global hysteria over a bunch of racist soccer hooligans getting their asses beat wasn't just a distraction from the Gaza genocide - it was an example of the ritual humiliation Zionism demands of its liberal defenders in the west

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sincerely hoping this website grows enough that it loses the earnest yank energy that currently powers it

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the AFP is going to rendition this person

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this is like 80% as bad as the stuff that all australia's big political parties support

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are people on here yet

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From @alexmckinnon.bsky.social Betw July 2018 & June 2023, the NSW govt paid out $161,942,963 in civil claims against NSW Police [..]NSW taxpayers paid >$620,000 a week for 5 years to settle cases of police brutality, harassment & humiliation Let's keep people-bashing cops away fr universities

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wrote about how "social cohesion" has become the new "national security" - a free pass to justify the brutalisation of people who oppose genocide everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/kill-socia...

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i don't know why ruinous do-nothing liberal politics goes hand in hand with grown adults embarrassing themselves but it just does everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/liberal-cr...

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having worked for Schwartz Media before, i get how superficially 'progressive' people wind up staying silent about a genocide and getting insanely mad when they're questioned about it

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"The element of white saviourism is quite obvious to me. The idea of ‘climate justice’ has only recently become a buzzword that people are jumping onto, but their idea of ‘justice’ is entrenched in that colonial white-saviour mindset" @alexmckinnon.bsky.social's new post on the Aus climate movement

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on the shocking* revelation that the UNRWA allegations were bullshit and we cut aid supplies to a city of starving people for nothing

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This is a good heads-up from @belalugosisdad.bsky.social

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i trawled through the leaked melbourne/aus zio groupchat and found a fair bit i know i only post links to my own stuff on here but this one's a doozy

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turns out that big climate orgs that deny agency to First Nations activists and people of colour are basically just Tesla fanspaces

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for someone engaged in shady shit netanyahu really knows how to set up a 'dirty laundry' metaphor everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-unr...

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When I spoke to the victims of the Botany car bomb on Tuesday they hadn't heard from the cops in nearly two weeks

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my first poast on the bug app is about penny wong's moral contortions on Gaza and how we're finally seeing the "real her"

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