Michael Pemberton
@pembo.net
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No Adelaide Writers Week for me. I can’t in any good conscience now appear at a festival seeking to mute a very necessary public conversation … Randa Abdel-Fattah is an important voice. Here’s something I published from her on, guess what, Palestinian marginalisation. meanjin.com.au/latest/the-g...
The Great Palestinian Silence
It seems everyone is tweeting about freedom of speech. So let me tell you a story about freedom of speech and the exceptional case of Palestine. In the days leading up to Israel’s proposed annexati…
meanjin.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 AM
No Adelaide Writers Week for me. I can’t in any good conscience now appear at a festival seeking to mute a very necessary public conversation … Randa Abdel-Fattah is an important voice. Here’s something I published from her on, guess what, Palestinian marginalisation. meanjin.com.au/latest/the-g...
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I would seriously like to know what the thinking was when they put together the “Stand Up To Hate” ad campaign and someone suggested Kyle Sandilands. WT actual F? Isn’t contempt and ridicule basically his entire brand??!! 🤪🙄
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 AM
I would seriously like to know what the thinking was when they put together the “Stand Up To Hate” ad campaign and someone suggested Kyle Sandilands. WT actual F? Isn’t contempt and ridicule basically his entire brand??!! 🤪🙄
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While standing on the top bed of a set of bunk beds, I rested my hand on the top corner of an open door. When someone started to close the door, I opted to swing on the door, hitting the thin edge of the door with enough force to have the latch pierce the skin on my belly.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:19 AM
While standing on the top bed of a set of bunk beds, I rested my hand on the top corner of an open door. When someone started to close the door, I opted to swing on the door, hitting the thin edge of the door with enough force to have the latch pierce the skin on my belly.
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Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.
January 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.
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“In effect, the McGrath Foundation is an outsourced government service provider, linked to an expensive charity arm with large overheads.”
Gov’t grants to the Foundation pay for more nurses than donations to it do. Grrr.
Gov’t grants to the Foundation pay for more nurses than donations to it do. Grrr.
Ahead of tomorrow’s test a good reminder from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-pin...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-pin...
The Pink Test is a feel-good story, but does it help where it’s really needed?
With the federal government announcing a desire to double charitable donations by 2030, Stephen Long examines the potential inefficiency & inequity of relying on charities, rather than governments, to...
australiainstitute.org.au
January 3, 2026 at 3:03 AM
“In effect, the McGrath Foundation is an outsourced government service provider, linked to an expensive charity arm with large overheads.”
Gov’t grants to the Foundation pay for more nurses than donations to it do. Grrr.
Gov’t grants to the Foundation pay for more nurses than donations to it do. Grrr.
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Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
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And yet Netanyahu is jumping up and down about #BondiMassacre . Funny that 🤷♂️
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 AM
And yet Netanyahu is jumping up and down about #BondiMassacre . Funny that 🤷♂️
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Ahead of tomorrow’s test a good reminder from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-pin...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-pin...
The Pink Test is a feel-good story, but does it help where it’s really needed?
With the federal government announcing a desire to double charitable donations by 2030, Stephen Long examines the potential inefficiency & inequity of relying on charities, rather than governments, to...
australiainstitute.org.au
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Ahead of tomorrow’s test a good reminder from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-pin...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-pin...
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The fix is in, folks.
Maybe they could teach us how to murder 380,000 children under the age of five in a two year period as well?
Maybe they could teach us how to murder 380,000 children under the age of five in a two year period as well?
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
The fix is in, folks.
Maybe they could teach us how to murder 380,000 children under the age of five in a two year period as well?
Maybe they could teach us how to murder 380,000 children under the age of five in a two year period as well?
Are we meant to be surprised that this guy wants a Royal Commission to investigate the people the Israeli PM doesn't like?
thenightly.com.au/australia/ja...
thenightly.com.au/australia/ja...
James Packer rekindles friendship with ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu
In exclusive comments to The Nightly, the Australian billionaire has revealed he shared an intimate dinner to rekindle his estranged friendship with the Israeli leader.
thenightly.com.au
January 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Are we meant to be surprised that this guy wants a Royal Commission to investigate the people the Israeli PM doesn't like?
thenightly.com.au/australia/ja...
thenightly.com.au/australia/ja...
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The same Israeli govt ministry that came up with its hit list, also decided these hashtags are antisemitic
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
December 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The same Israeli govt ministry that came up with its hit list, also decided these hashtags are antisemitic
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
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Chris Minns wants to give a private Zionist security group who run overseas military training camps with links to Mossad, and who have previously demonstrated greater loyalty to Israel than Australia, the right to bear arms at all times. And the Zio govt has a hit list of Australians it doesn’t like
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Chris Minns wants to give a private Zionist security group who run overseas military training camps with links to Mossad, and who have previously demonstrated greater loyalty to Israel than Australia, the right to bear arms at all times. And the Zio govt has a hit list of Australians it doesn’t like
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BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
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How and when did it become unacceptable to be anti- Zionist?
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
December 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
How and when did it become unacceptable to be anti- Zionist?
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
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Sometimes I’ll catch myself lazily musing about how weird it is that the UK is going through the same shit that the US is going through, then my brain wakes up and I go, “Oh yeah, fucking Murdoch…”
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Sometimes I’ll catch myself lazily musing about how weird it is that the UK is going through the same shit that the US is going through, then my brain wakes up and I go, “Oh yeah, fucking Murdoch…”
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Just try to contemplate that those who marched in protest of such murders occurring (in much greater numbers) are now being blamed by the Liberal Party for the Bondi Massacre.
“Israeli troops kill six Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Israeli troops kill six Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Attack brings total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire took effect
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Just try to contemplate that those who marched in protest of such murders occurring (in much greater numbers) are now being blamed by the Liberal Party for the Bondi Massacre.
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Apparently- under the post-Bondi media landscape- if you don’t like this you support terrorism.
Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
www.bbc.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Apparently- under the post-Bondi media landscape- if you don’t like this you support terrorism.
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Muslim leaders begging NSW Police for years to shut down the hate preacher that radicalised the Bondi shooters, NSW Police refusing as keeping the centre open was "a good source of information," and then ASIO/AFP bungling the surveillance, only for everyone to blame Muslims. What a world!
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Muslim leaders begging NSW Police for years to shut down the hate preacher that radicalised the Bondi shooters, NSW Police refusing as keeping the centre open was "a good source of information," and then ASIO/AFP bungling the surveillance, only for everyone to blame Muslims. What a world!
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All you dorks in the press pack that are allowed near the man, ask the Prime Minister if reporting truthfully on the Gaza genocide will be illegal under Jillian Segal's recommendations.
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
All you dorks in the press pack that are allowed near the man, ask the Prime Minister if reporting truthfully on the Gaza genocide will be illegal under Jillian Segal's recommendations.