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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 4h

🧵 If this peace deal is successful, we'll be back at the perpetual statemate that characterised the status quo ante. Israel will continue to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, it will continue to control Gaza's borders and we will be no closer to Palestinian statehood.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1h

over nine thousand Palestinian people - around 9,570 people, on these figures - are incarcerated while presumptively innocent and subjected to extraordinary acts of violence by Israelis who literally rioted when there was a suggestion that prison rapists may be held accountable.

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 4h

'There are more than 11,000 Palestinians in Israeli detention, according to data provided by the Israel Prison Service, 87 per cent of whom have never been charged or convicted.'

Sounds legit.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Israel publishes names of 250 Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Israel's Ministry of Justice provides the names of prisoners it will release in exchange for Israeli hostages, but Hamas says no agreement has been reached.

www.abc.net.au

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Alice Lastname @alicelastname.bsky.social · 9h

A load of corporate speak to justify the commission continuing to ignore legitimate complaints by individual consumers because they’re too busy fluffing around in the background, endlessly setting up a system that promises proactive and reactive regulation, but rarely does anything tangible.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 1d

Are you in Australia, aged 20-70, with an increased risk of #BreastCancer via family history, prev ADH or LCIS on biopsy, or other reasons? Hurry to your GP for referral to this FREE, TELEHEALTH service recently started by Prof Kelly Anne Phillips to discuss medical prevention. #ASBD2025

Picture of slide with text:
Preventing Cancer with Medications
(PCMed) Service

Peter Mac

• Frec consultative, telehealth service for healthy women anywhere in Australia at
increased risk of 1" BC

• Primory focus is to initiate BC prevention medication and ensure well-tolerated

•Discharge women to primary care to complete the 5-year treatment course

Support women, referring clinicians and GPs throughout treatment trajectory
(hotline service)

Embedded implementation study to assess feasibility and effectiveness of the
Service (uptake 55%)

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Who is suitable?
Female
Aged 20 to 70years.
No invasive BC or DCIS.
Increased BC risk
LCIS or atypical-hyperlasla
Remaining lifetime BC risk >20% or 10-year risk >5%

And a QR code for referral information

Prof Kelly Anne Phillips appealing at podium

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking at this online event about the Targeted Compliance Framework scandal, & how mutual obligations worsens and commodifies poverty. I'll throw some jokes in as well, dw

Come along if you like - it's free
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unfinished...

Unfinished Business: 50 Years After Henderson

An initiative of the Australian Social Policy Association and the Australian Journal of Social Issues, as part of Anti-Poverty Week.

www.eventbrite.com.au

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 1d

Barely a week after the Queensland government banned drug testing facilities. All public policy has tradeoffs but the hard right consistently choose the ones that lead to bigger body counts

Person dies after deadly opioid detected in yellow teddy bear pill

Queensland Health issues a public health alert warning nitazenes have been detected in tablets.

www.abc.net.au

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Alice Lastname @alicelastname.bsky.social · 1d

“They will fund charities to feed us wilted vegetables and cans of beans that are more expensive than Coles brands”.

🎯🎯🎯

But also, don’t take more than one (small) wilted vegetable per person in your household at the Foodbank truck.

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Animals Australia @animalsaustralia.org · 1d

With the announcement of the first phase of a ceasefire deal being struck, there's hope on the horizon for the people and animals of Gaza.
Significant uncertainty remains around what changes will be made to the aid supply and distribution process. We will keep you updated as the situation unfolds🙏

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Jane Doe, Pretty Hate Machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 2d

100 million meals over 10 years = 10 million meals a year. 3 million below poverty, so its at best 4 meals a year per person.

Woolworths supplier Andrew Forrest wealth over 10 years: 2.83 to 12.68 billion. @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social report = hunger is a political choice. #NobodyDeservesPoverty

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2d

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Action for Happiness @actionhappiness.bsky.social · 3d

There is a past version of you that is so proud of how far you’ve come

Image: www.instagram.com/adoseofremin...

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Ginger the garden witch @mkkraemer.bsky.social · 4d

Gilbert the foster kitty is super tolerant of my bullshit.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 3d

Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send a thousand ships to Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/glob...

Global Sumud Flotilla vows to keep sailing ‘until Gaza is free’ following Israel’s interception of over 40 of its vessels

Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

"Almost eight in 10 people in Northern Ireland believe too much emphasis is put on religion as a source of identity rather than a source of meaning or purpose, a survey has revealed." [Bel Tel]

Poll conducted by Christian advocacy group the Iona Institute and carried out by Amárach Research

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 3d

Wombats’ whiskery noses help them snuffle for food, navigate burrows and sense friend or foe.

Whiskers for warrens: why wombats have such whiskery snouts

theconversation.com

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Alice Lastname @alicelastname.bsky.social · 3d

A colour photo taken in an Australian national park on a sunny day. Green, tan and brown scrub and trees, topped by a bright blue sky with a couple of white clouds. There’s a grey kangaroo lying down hiding amongst the scrub. He’s looking toward the camera.

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Mister Bailey OAM @misterbailey.bsky.social · 3d

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 5d

'Conversion therapy' survivor speaking out against trans health study

A decades-old psychiatric study is influencing current debates over transgender youth health care. But a new analysis led by a survivor says the findings were deeply harmful and dangerously misleading...

www.abc.net.au

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Eli McCann @elimccann.bsky.social · 5d

A quick story on the very important reason we went to Paris.

www.itjustgetsstranger.com/a-photo-shoo...

A Photo Shoot in Paris

Recently Skylar learned he could take half a breath and fourteen seconds off of work for a vacation so we thought, what the hell. Let's fly our child and everything we own to Paris. We've had friends...

www.itjustgetsstranger.com

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Ricki Coughlan @rickicoughlan.bsky.social · 5d

A detailed and damning report by a respected team of clinicians and researchers. It confirms that the Cass Review was little more than a thinly veiled deceitful attack on the rights, humanity and dignity of transgender people in the UK. Shame on them and shame on UK politicians for falling for it.

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 5d

An excellent new article outlining all that is wrong with the Cass Review, condemning its harmful impact on UK policy and practice, and calling it a failure of evidence-based medicine. Written by those involved in trans children's healthcare in Australia.

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.bsky.social · 11d

Australia is still a deeply racist country when it comes to Aboriginal people.

This is some of the oldest written communications on Earth.

This rock art was already ~40,000 years old when the Giza pyramids were being built.

But because Aboriginal and created it, we treat it as worthless. #auspol

Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Minister acknowledged decision not to require immediate cuts in acidic pollution meant there was a higher likelihood of rock art being affected “in the short-term”, but any impact “would be small and therefore outweighed by the social or economic factors”.

Federal government agreed to weaken proposed protections for rock art from Woodside’s North West Shelf project

Document outlines negotiations over contentious extension of gas giant’s development after conditional approval in May

www.theguardian.com

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 7d

"The advice provided also confirms that the federal govt could ensure that prison is a punishment of last resort for kids, that kids can’t be held in adult prisons, they receive prompt legal assistance and that children aren’t tortured in isolation."
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/federal...

Federal Government Has Power to Intervene in State Child Crime Crackdowns, Senior Counsel Advises

The leading barrister’s advice contradicted years of claims by the federal government that it does not have the power to intervene in state and territory matters.

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 7d

There is no good argument for why Izak Rankine remained eligible for the Brownlow. The AFL must do better. #homophobia
qnews.com.au/this-recent-...

This recent AFL homophobia blunder is a bigger scandal than Bailey Smith

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 8d

Dear @sallymcmanus.bsky.social as a retired RN and lifelong union member, I urge you to meet with Fahad Ali as requested. You should understand that the ACTU's feeble stance in the face of the slaughter of Gazan health care workers is deeply disturbing.

Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 8d

A letter to @sallymcmanus.bsky.social

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 8d

The Second Wave is on route, 9 boats including The Conscience which is the largest ship in the history of the Flotilla. Filled with humanitarian aid, medics and journalists.

thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/?fbc...

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