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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 26

What’s happening there is not a conflict or a war, it’s not a crisis and it’s way more than a war crime. It’s the systematic extermination of a people through indiscriminate killing and starvation - it’s GENOCIDE or HOLOCAUST committed by the monstrous zionist government of Israel. /2 #genocide

DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 26

I am utterly sick of the deliberate semantic misrepresentation by our Parlamentarians of the ever worsening horrors in Gaza. This includes all members of the two major parties as well as most Independents. /1

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 13

Jillian Segal’s position has become untenable. @albomp.bsky.social needs to remove her from the position she should never have been appointed to in the first place as soon as possible.

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 11

Brilliant article by Louise Adler, systematically dismantling the rationale behind Jillian Segal’s appointment and the ludicrous and dangerous demands in her report.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism, as a relentless campaign pays off | Louise Adler

The omissions are as important as the inclusions in Jillian Segal’s plan, which is guilty of overreach

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · Jul 10

Jillian Segal’s husband is John Roth, whose company Henroth Investments Pty Ltd donated $50,000 in 2023-24 to Advance Australia, one of the most inflammatory and divisive special interest groups in Australian politics

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 10

Israel kills starving children and people seeking medical treatment every day. With impunity. Every fn day. If speaking out against this genocide and any enablers of it makes me an antisemite, then I will wear this badge with pride. Jillian Segal should be sacked and ASECA shut down. #auspol #Gaza

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 10

Many of the AS Commissioner’s current recommendations are completely over the top and yet, they have been elevated above genuinely urgent issues such as domestic violence, rising inequality, justice for first Australians and species extinction.

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 10

#Antisemitism (AS) is the most overused and abused term in Australia right now. It is routinely deployed to threaten free speech and legitimate protest against the genocidal actions of the Netanyahu regime. /1
#auspol #democracy #freespeech

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 10

I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...

✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register

Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...

nb.australiainstitute.org.au

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 10

No words. The Labor Party is sinking lower and lower into the moral abyss.

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 10

Both major parties are almost indistinguishable in Tassie. No appetite for fiscal reform, improving the revenue base (Saul Eslake’s recommendations would be an excellent start) or dropping unaffordable spending proposals. A sad state of affairs indeed.

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 9

Investigating and calling out #genocide gets you sanctioned by the #US today, whereas a convicted felon hosting an indicted war criminal in the White House results in a Nobel Peace Prize recommendation for the former by the latter. We live in a wonderful world. I stand with Francesca Albanese 🇵🇸

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 8

Dump AUKUS, seek new economic and political alliances, review our defence strategic posture etc. The fascist regime in DC is not a trusted ally anymore, if it has ever been.

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 8

Jim Chalmers says Trump's threats of 200% pharmaceutical tariffs are 'very concerning'.

What will it take for our government to finally take concrete steps that reflect the fundamentally changed international economic and security landscape? The US is not our friend anymore. /1

#auspol #tariffs

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 7

Good morning from Tasmania!
#Australia #sunrise #winter

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’m sure every precaution has been taken that this can’t go horribly wrong 😳 🪰 🦠

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot

Program mirrors earlier successful mission to fight new world screwworm fly, whose larvae can infest living tissue

www.theguardian.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Jul 2

Israel assassinated the director of the Indonesian Hospital, Dr. Marwan Sultan, and killed his wife and five children in a targeted strike on the family’s apartment in Gaza earlier today.

There is now reportedly only one cardiologist left alive in northern Gaza.

Photo of a cleanly shaved man wearing glasses and dark blue scrubs sitting behind a desk

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 1

The sane washing of kooks, crooks and fascists and constant false equivalence have been the media’s biggest failures as it has accelerated the rise of conspiracy theories, the dismantling of rational decision making and the demise of democracy.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 30

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jul 1

Disagree, the ALP is just as happy with the “Border Force” as the jackboot Liberals who brought it into existence. Rudd and Gillard happily continued offshore incarceration of refugees.

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hey @albomp.bsky.social - when are you going to list the IDF as a terrorist organisation and impose sanctions on its leader Benjamin Satanyahu?

#auspol #Gaza #Israel #genocide #warcrimes

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jun 27

The truth is a bitter pill to swallow for Albo tragics

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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · Jun 27

Israel’s genocide of Palestinians continues unabated.

#genocide #Gaza #Palestine #crimeofthecentury

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israel closes the most direct route for aid to Palestinians in Gaza

Blockade will increase diplomatic pressure on Israel as Spain PM Pedro Sánchez describes situation as ‘genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · Jun 26

"the US, Europe and Australia are in violation of international laws that prohibit the supply of arms and intelligence to countries carrying out or likely to be carrying out genocide."

They could #StopIsrael. But all we get is meaningless gestures. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

Beyond complicity: Western accomplices to genocide in Gaza

After decades of unwavering support for Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, it seems Western leaders can no longer avert their gaze from the horrific televised images of mass carnage and starvat...

johnmenadue.com

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