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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · 24d

The Liberals are dead and the rot will kill its moderates. What next? www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/17/l...

The Liberals are dead and the rot will kill its moderates. What next?

With the Liberals facing terminal structural problems, and News Corp sticking the boot in, what are the solutions? A new party is hard work, which leaves only two real options.

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Sep 9

Labor wants fewer FOIs. Crikey wants more — let us file them for you www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/f...

Labor wants fewer FOIs. Crikey wants more — let us file them for you

For the next few weeks, Crikey is running a personal freedom of information concierge service called FOI-4-U where we will turn YOUR idea into a request.

www.crikey.com.au

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Aug 5

Labor’s shifting views on Gaza leave a trail of mixed messages and abandoned tactics www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/05/l...

Labor's shifting views on Gaza leave a trail of mixed messages and abandoned tactics

As the evidence of genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank has grown, Labor has had to adjust its position or risk being left behind by allies and the electorate.

www.crikey.com.au

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 24

Background use only: How Labor justifies its silence on Gaza to the media www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/24/l...

'Background use only': How Labor justifies its silence on Gaza to the media

Labor's response yesterday to mass starvation in Gaza was to condemn a Greens senator for mentioning it. Then it tried to spin itself as the victim.

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 23

Is Australian mainstream media finally ready to use the g word? www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/23/g...

Is Australian mainstream media finally ready to use the g word?

The word 'genocide' has been given a wide berth in legacy media coverage of Gaza. Is that starting to change?

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 19

Thought provoking & confirming. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21140/...

The end of seriousness

Back in February, a meeting that resembled a Real Housewives reunion was being dissected, analysed and broadcast around the world. “This is going to be great television, I will say that,” United State...

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hmmmm

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 18

Indeed.

Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not when it’s clear that sidelining the Greens & any amendments by working with the Opposition is a strategy he prefers!

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 18

None of this passes the pub test theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

None of this passes the pub test - The Shot

Jillian Segal’s report, the entire double-spaced, decorative and glossy 16 pages of it, is largely insulting dross.

theshot.net.au

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 12

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21090/...

Sack the NACC

After years of unfulfilled promises by both sides of politics, the Albanese government passed legislation in its first term to establish the National Anti-Corruption Commission. The NACC began operati...

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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · Jul 10

"What is extraordinary is that the Albanese Government appointed Segal at all. She has form for advocating censorship and suppressing the rights of pro-Palestinian supporters to express their views" - Greg Barnes johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...

Antisemitism envoy's report 'Trumpian'

The report of the Albanese Government’s antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, contains recommendations that will lead to erosion of freedom of expression and the right to protest.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Jul 11

Join Dr Emma Shortis and Dr Richard Denniss in Melbourne to hear how Australia can choose its own path to prosperity and security!

📍 Uni of Melbourne
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Standing Up to Trump's America

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Jul 11

Part of the AUKUS deal involves Australians crewing submarines sailing under a US flag.

If Trump decided to take the US to war, the Australian government would have to actively delay American deployment to get those Australians home.

@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · Jul 10

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social
I am deeply disturbed by the Zionist agenda being pushed by your Govt's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal. The Australian Federal Court has ruled that opposing Zionism and criticising Israel's genocide in Gaza is NOT anti-Semitic. I agree with Dr Max Kaiser. 👇 #auspol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jul 11

"Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza?" Ed Husic

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic

When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle?

www.theguardian.com

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 11

Lived in apartheid South Africa.

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 11

Sadly, I agree- for now.

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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yep! Dissent no longer tolerated & will be worse since 94 seats!

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jul 11

It is not possible to be this ignorant.

Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk’s X for using AI to ‘root out hate’ www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...

Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk's X for using AI to 'root out hate'

Australia's antisemitism envoy has praised how platforms like Elon Musk's X are using AI to fight hate — days after X's AI bot Grok was taken offline for antisemitic posts.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · Jul 10

This example alone tells you all you need to know about the Antisemitism Envoy's recommendations and who wrote them.

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · Jul 10

If you want to know how political realignment is achieved and how the centre-left is moved inexorably to the right, this is it.

Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · Jul 10

Antisemitism envoy calls for powers to strip universities of funding
www.afr.com//politics/fe...

Antisemitism envoy calls for powers to strip universities of funding

Academics and protesters to be targeted by tougher penalties for hate speech in new plan to combat antisemitism.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · Jul 10

*we are NOT going to let them do this.

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Jul 10

Israel is a fascist state committing genocide in broad daylight, and we're going to let their propagandists overhaul our education, media, and immigration policies just to ensure Australia keeps supporting that genocide.

Arts - a recommendation that there be protocols for arts festivals and organisations to respond to antisemitic incidents, with public funding able to be withheld similar to universities.
Policing - a permanent standing arrangement for law enforcement agencies to co-operate on investigating antisemitism, similar to the Avalite taskforce set up after the Adass synagogue attack.
Online hate - stronger regulation of online hate speech and algorithms, and the ability to support "trusted voices" to refute antisemitism on social media, plus a review of hate speech laws.
Migration - screen visa applicants for antisemitism and ensure the Migration Act effectively facilitates visa cancellations for antisemitism.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Jul 10

Among some rather alarming sentences in the special envoy’s plan to combat antisemitism is this on the first page:
“In February 2025, ASIO Director General Mike Burgess declared antisemitism Australia’s leading threat to life.”

To LIFE!?!

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