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Just finished this, well worth it. AUKUS will inflame regional tensions, undermine Australian sovereignty, tie us to an increasingly unstable US in which key officials now talk about using nuclear weapons and winning a nuclear war. A very bad idea. www.mup.com.au/books/nuked-...

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My latest. As with East Timor, international law supports the Palestinian cause. As with East Timor, western powers are the obstacle to a just settlement. declassifiedaus.org/2024/09/12/p...

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Friends of the Koala x.com/friends_koal...

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On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

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Every Sunday Melbourne marches for a free Palestine

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A commenter on our YouTube channel sums up Trump’s picks

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Just a reminder that it was the Howard government that signed Australia up to the International Criminal Court. Alexander Downer was foreign minister. Peter Dutton was a backbencher.

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Maga!

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This really is quite extraordinary. Dreyfus should have grabbed him on the way out of the committee room and sacked him on the spot. But then Dreyfus was the one who thought him a great pick.

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Australia H7 high pathogenicity avian influenza www.outbreak.gov.au/current-outb...

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Chris Hedges Report: Surveillance Education consortiumnews.com/2024/11/23/c...

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It can’t happen here - johnmenadue.com/it-cant-happ...

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ICC arrest warrants: Moral Equivalence? - johnmenadue.com/a-reflection...

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Clear statement from the All Blacks #ToitūTeTiriti

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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of them are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

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Georgia Fires Entire Maternal Mortality Panel After Reporting on Abortion Ban Deaths | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/georgia...

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Don’t America my Australia” - my warning against the Americanisation of Australian politics and the perils of going further down the path of polarisation at the National Press Club this week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QASQ...

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Spiky blue devils and chocolate lilies: Victorian grassland bursts with wildflowers after ecological ‘reset’

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So much for “rules based order” international law? Former Australian PMs Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison urge withdrawal from the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Murdoch papers concur. “Moral equivalence” v crimes against humanity. This lets Putin off the hook.

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ABC/SBS to be censored on Israel/Gaza/Lebanon coverage deemed by Senator Paterson to be biased against Israel:Paul Sakkal SMH/Age. ABC editorial rules require fair and fearless reporting which requires its journalists to strive to tell its audiences what’s really going on.

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“Social media start-up Bluesky is exploding as academics, journalist, and left-leaning politicians abandon Elon Musk’s X in search of bluer skies. Now, the platform has surpassed Meta’s Threads in user numbers, yet Threads still leads in app usage.”

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All of you #auspol types tainting your day by starting it with #insiders can turn it around by doing something good and donating to ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle. Every donation helps - big or small. Help fund this courageous man's ongoing quest for justice! www.gofundme.com/f/ato-whistl...

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What they test in apartheid Israel and Gaza, will be used on domestic shores. We are dealing with profoundly evil people.

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Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years alone. Someone tell RFK Jr.

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"The most radical dimension of the plan is to use the city’s utility franchise rights to build wires between properties, so that they can share excess solar power locally." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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We keep saying this was going to happen. I feel like I’m going insane

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Under the guise of defending free speech, Musk has turned X into one of the most restrictive, deceptive and manipulative platforms on the internet. He promised to make X a source of truth. He was called out by his own AI for being one of the most prolific amplifiers of misinformation. ...🧵

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PLEASE REMEMBER: trump's win percentage is shaping up to be the third SMALLEST in history. He does NOT have a mandate, no matter what he says. That means we push back against every single batshit crazy policy he tries to pass. EVERYTHING. Mandate my ass.

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#BREAKING 🚨 Labor has DUMPED the misinformation bill after it was guaranteed it could not pass the Senate “There is no pathway to legislate…the govt will not proceed with the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill”, communications minister Michelle Rowland says

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ICYMI the Exonerated Central Park 5 recently sued the felon for defamation, due to lies the felon made about the Exonerated 5 to 67 million debate viewers. The Exonerated 5 may have to wait 4 years but they haven’t let waiting deter them from getting justice yet www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

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Disinformation laws are the new ‘Operation Mockingbird’. x.com/petercronau/...

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Inside Project Esther, the right wing action plan to take down the Palestine movement – Mondoweiss mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...

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Inside Project Esther, the right wing action plan to take down the Palestine movement – Mondoweiss mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...

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Her past is dark, and the future is even bleaker! www.nea.org/nea-today/al...

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"This is a war on civilians. On doctors trying to save lives. On aid workers trying to feed Palestinians. On teachers trying to put a smile on the faces of children. This is a war on humanity — and our government should never be forgiven for its contemptible complicity." Jeremy Corbyn.

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Inside Project Esther, the right wing action plan to take down the Palestine movement – Mondoweiss mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...

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Musk describing Ashley Thomas, the director of climate diversification for the U.S. International Finance Corporation as occupying a 'fake job' to his millions of followers is an example of the type of uninformed witch hunt that will become commonplace under Trump. newrepublic.com/post/188773/...

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This thread was originally posted on X by Sam Connor. This is the full thread on thread reader. We need to make a hell of a noise about this toxic Age Ban bill. It's much more than a Trojan Horse. It's a Stalking Horse. Make a noise with your MP's & Senators threadreaderapp.com/thread/18594...

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NEW: Trump selects Russ Vought, architect of Project 2025, to lead White House budget office Vought helped Trump craft plans to purge the Justice Department, deploy the military to quash civilian unrest, & massively expand presidential power over spending www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Arrest this war criminal

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Apparently the “absolute embarrassment,” “completely inadequate,” “incredibly weak” climate finance target from rich countries of $250 billion/year by 2035 I wrote about yesterday has been raised to… $300 billion. The actual number should be above one trillion.

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Zionists were partners with the Nazis in the 1930s, they undermined the global goods embargo on Nazi Germany that was showing success, and they gave the Jewish people in Germany a choice - convert to Zionism and immigrate to Palestine and if they did not they left them to face the Holocaust.

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This is a very important and interesting read about Australian climate change policy: “The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive” drilled.media/news/Ipieca3

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Qantas - we do the check in online and we do the bag tags and check the bags through - prices go up. Coles & Woolies - we self serve, pack our own bags - prices go up. Capitalism is such a scam. The less they do the more we pay.

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Well this seems bad.

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