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Recently broken up with my idealism, a stateless former public servant embracing the absurdity, yet always looking for ways to serve, here to escape the other place which shall not be named 🇦🇺🇬🇷✊🏽⚖️
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Ken with the verbal karate left right and centre

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Important research, holding police accountable for misconduct and criminal offending is challenging, it’s even more complicated when they are family violence perpetrators

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“ #GreenpeaceAustraliaPacific has welcomed the #Albanese government’s announcement of a new #GreenIronFund in #Whyalla today, a move it says will support workers as well as national efforts to tackle climate pollution.” #AUSPOL #Greenpeace #SAparli #SouthAustralia #AnthonyAlbanese #Albo #ALP #Labor

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"Natasja Gibbs... with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories... discussed... what the war in Gaza means for international law and vice versa, the complicity of Western governments, and much more." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKqQ...

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Good article, trumps regal delusion is indeed bogus, however in my tiny little household I’m going to be applying the ‘unitary executive’ theory until I’m deposed

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One thread (ever) is my limit and all I can say about below is I agree with Gregg and as for the protagonists I provide my standard reply of these craven MFs

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Never done a thread before so here goes my layperson take. Some of Trump’s narrative may be designed to deflect from the decade plus lead up to this invasion where the US played a provocative role (including Trump 1.0) using Ukraine as its proxy and engaging in its usual playbook of interference. 1/

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I could do with an ice cold beer right now, the whole beer untouched

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Let’s get politically nostalgic and as Dr Walker points out to me maintain the rage ✊🏽

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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda-backed M23 fighters are marching on the eastern city of Uvira near the border with Burundi, triggering panic, with residents reporting widespread looting, bodies lying in the streets www.democracynow.org/2025/2/20/he...

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Europe Must Think Long and Move Fast | "Europe must not be paralyzed by the sheer pace and discomfort of events. There’s time to get a good outcome if it moves swiftly and in unison." @samagreene.bsky.social

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This is a great speech

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Macron to visit Washington next week, says French EU minister

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Interesting, informative re internal dynamics, infuriating, insular & in my humble opinion lacking in insight on many ethical, moral and legal (domestic and international) fronts. I welcome the thoughtful if skewed self reflection, Biden’s failed leadership & lack of moral courage remains stunning

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This is relevant across the world where law enforcement is using this kind of technology, vigilance needed in macro and micro legislative, policy, training and cultural settings, remembering always that most police organisations are paramilitary in nature in some good but mostly problematic ways

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Indeed, as voters we can also rise above individualism and apathy and demand more: “If democracy is to work for future generations, that is, if it is to deliver sustainability, then its custodians in the present must accept responsibility for the wellbeing of those who follow,”

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EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.

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Canadians giving hope to all, boycotting works ✊🏽

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Widening the gap it would seem from the original RC, shameful note it’s a country wide alarm sounding see also NT and QLD incarceration rates (especially young indigenous people) and child protection/criminalisation rates

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