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Aside from this being incorrect - the underlying rule on sovereignty and statehood is the Montevideo Convention, which doesn’t imply defence capabilities - this is illuminating on what is now pseudo-official U.S. policy: any territory you cannot defend is fair game for someone else
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Aside from this being incorrect - the underlying rule on sovereignty and statehood is the Montevideo Convention, which doesn’t imply defence capabilities - this is illuminating on what is now pseudo-official U.S. policy: any territory you cannot defend is fair game for someone else
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Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it.
We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.
✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.
✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
June 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it.
We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.
✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.
✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
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Today, @wikipedia.org Turns 25!
25 years of making the internet just a little bit better, one edit at a time! Join Australia in celebrating what has become the backbone of the internet. Sign our virtual birthday card 🎂
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25 years of making the internet just a little bit better, one edit at a time! Join Australia in celebrating what has become the backbone of the internet. Sign our virtual birthday card 🎂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:A...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Today, @wikipedia.org Turns 25!
25 years of making the internet just a little bit better, one edit at a time! Join Australia in celebrating what has become the backbone of the internet. Sign our virtual birthday card 🎂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:A...
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25 years of making the internet just a little bit better, one edit at a time! Join Australia in celebrating what has become the backbone of the internet. Sign our virtual birthday card 🎂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:A...
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AUKUS has tied Australia to a sinking nuclear defence enterprise called the United Kingdom. It’s not just a retired UK Admiral, the UK Audit office has tracked the structural failures for years. But don’t worry, Marles and Meade say it’s “on track” - they are dangerously deluded
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
AUKUS has tied Australia to a sinking nuclear defence enterprise called the United Kingdom. It’s not just a retired UK Admiral, the UK Audit office has tracked the structural failures for years. But don’t worry, Marles and Meade say it’s “on track” - they are dangerously deluded
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro:
January 3, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Colombian President Gustavo Petro:
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Australia's racist party doubles its support since the May 2025 election
Centrist Labor government will absolutely see this as a sign that it needs to be more racist (and in doing so, actively feed more support for One Nation and lose support for themselves)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Centrist Labor government will absolutely see this as a sign that it needs to be more racist (and in doing so, actively feed more support for One Nation and lose support for themselves)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Guardian Essential poll: Australians back emissions target while One Nation support doubles
Poll finds One Nation’s primary vote has doubled to 13% since the May federal election
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Australia's racist party doubles its support since the May 2025 election
Centrist Labor government will absolutely see this as a sign that it needs to be more racist (and in doing so, actively feed more support for One Nation and lose support for themselves)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Centrist Labor government will absolutely see this as a sign that it needs to be more racist (and in doing so, actively feed more support for One Nation and lose support for themselves)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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What is the threshold for sanctioning PM Netanyahu and his govt?!
Signatories to the genocide convention like 🇦🇺 must take action in the face of genocide, including taking measures to stop it.
The global community has to do more.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Signatories to the genocide convention like 🇦🇺 must take action in the face of genocide, including taking measures to stop it.
The global community has to do more.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major UN report finds
Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date.
www.abc.net.au
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What is the threshold for sanctioning PM Netanyahu and his govt?!
Signatories to the genocide convention like 🇦🇺 must take action in the face of genocide, including taking measures to stop it.
The global community has to do more.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Signatories to the genocide convention like 🇦🇺 must take action in the face of genocide, including taking measures to stop it.
The global community has to do more.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
The numbers are simply unprecedented - these are their names
Please watch the whole video. @withmeaa.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...
The numbers are simply unprecedented - these are their names
Please watch the whole video. @withmeaa.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...
Stop Killing Journalists
YouTube video by withMEAA
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
The numbers are simply unprecedented - these are their names
Please watch the whole video. @withmeaa.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...
The numbers are simply unprecedented - these are their names
Please watch the whole video. @withmeaa.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...
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At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 61 in Gaza City, as Al Jazeera reports intensified strikes in the north while Israel prepares to seize Gaza City aje.io/io4cij
Israel kills 61 people in Gaza City, at least 100 across enclave
The surge in Israel’s bombardment in the north of the Gaza Strip comes as it plans to seize Gaza City.
aje.io
August 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 61 in Gaza City, as Al Jazeera reports intensified strikes in the north while Israel prepares to seize Gaza City aje.io/io4cij
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Concerning reports the unreleased National Climate Risk Assessment is “dire” and “diabolical”.
It maps what the people & places we love stand to lose from climate change.
We should know this before the govt sets our 2035 emissions target
Release it now.
www.afr.com/policy/energ...
It maps what the people & places we love stand to lose from climate change.
We should know this before the govt sets our 2035 emissions target
Release it now.
www.afr.com/policy/energ...
Labor keeps ‘dire’ climate report under wraps
The government has delayed the release of a “shocking” assessment of global warming’s effect on the economy, just weeks before its 2035 target decision.
www.afr.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Concerning reports the unreleased National Climate Risk Assessment is “dire” and “diabolical”.
It maps what the people & places we love stand to lose from climate change.
We should know this before the govt sets our 2035 emissions target
Release it now.
www.afr.com/policy/energ...
It maps what the people & places we love stand to lose from climate change.
We should know this before the govt sets our 2035 emissions target
Release it now.
www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic
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?
Today will be a hard day for Sydneysider Mirela Muratovic, a survivor of the only recognised genocide in Europe since the end of the second world war: Srebrenica.
During the 1990s Bosnian war Srebrenica was designated a United Nations-protected “safe area” – a label that came to mean nothing. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic
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One of the reasons Twitter became the place for govt feeds was that it used to be possible to view all of (non-private) Twitter without being logged in, hence making it function like a mini blog. That ended under Musk, and really should have been the end of it.
It’s fucking wild to me that Twitter ever became a major go-to medium for government address to constituents
July 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
One of the reasons Twitter became the place for govt feeds was that it used to be possible to view all of (non-private) Twitter without being logged in, hence making it function like a mini blog. That ended under Musk, and really should have been the end of it.
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Imagine this is you.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
July 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Imagine this is you.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
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A very interesting and sharp post by Robert Manne about the pro-Israel lobby and its attacks against other Jews.
Manne is always necessary reading to me. (Obviously I thank him for his kind words.)
Manne is always necessary reading to me. (Obviously I thank him for his kind words.)
The Lattouf Affair and the Jewish Critics of Israel-in-Gaza
Thermidor is a sub-stack seeking to understand the backlash against the great Antinomian Revolution of the 1960s and beyond that overturned conventional values of centuries and is now increasingly und...
robertmanne.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
A very interesting and sharp post by Robert Manne about the pro-Israel lobby and its attacks against other Jews.
Manne is always necessary reading to me. (Obviously I thank him for his kind words.)
Manne is always necessary reading to me. (Obviously I thank him for his kind words.)
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After a secret hearing I wasn’t allowed to attend, the ART has ordered evidence tendered by the Govt is to be kept secret, along with the name and employer of the person giving the evidence. It’s an extraordinary attack on open justice. The ART declined to give reasons. #auspol
They say 1) the document is SECRET; 2) their argument and evidence on why the document is secret is SECRET; 3) their witness’s name is SECRET and 4) their witness’s agency is SECRET.
5) Right now, in Canberra, there’s a SECRET hearing underway on 2 to 4. 🤷♂️ #SecrecyQuintuplet #FOI
5) Right now, in Canberra, there’s a SECRET hearing underway on 2 to 4. 🤷♂️ #SecrecyQuintuplet #FOI
June 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
After a secret hearing I wasn’t allowed to attend, the ART has ordered evidence tendered by the Govt is to be kept secret, along with the name and employer of the person giving the evidence. It’s an extraordinary attack on open justice. The ART declined to give reasons. #auspol
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The @albomp.bsky.social govt is being awfully quiet about Lattouf v ABC
Not even any expressions of "grave concern" about the craven capitulation, unlawful behaviour & derogation of public interest journalism by ABC senior management?
No interest in the integrity of the national broadcaster?
Not even any expressions of "grave concern" about the craven capitulation, unlawful behaviour & derogation of public interest journalism by ABC senior management?
No interest in the integrity of the national broadcaster?
hey quick question: is anyone in the government's leadership going to say anything about the ABC? surely a high profile unfair dismissal linked to managing cowing to a lobby group, and involving board meddling, is worth saying something? maybe even an investigation? some consequences for the board?
June 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The @albomp.bsky.social govt is being awfully quiet about Lattouf v ABC
Not even any expressions of "grave concern" about the craven capitulation, unlawful behaviour & derogation of public interest journalism by ABC senior management?
No interest in the integrity of the national broadcaster?
Not even any expressions of "grave concern" about the craven capitulation, unlawful behaviour & derogation of public interest journalism by ABC senior management?
No interest in the integrity of the national broadcaster?
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Antoinette Lattouf has won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC.
A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette
A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette
June 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Antoinette Lattouf has won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC.
A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette
A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette
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Among the dead are at least 27 people killed in an Israeli strike on civilians waiting for food in central Gaza, an attack that also wounded dozens and turned a relief site into what one Palestinian official called an “open field of death.”
June 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Among the dead are at least 27 people killed in an Israeli strike on civilians waiting for food in central Gaza, an attack that also wounded dozens and turned a relief site into what one Palestinian official called an “open field of death.”
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It is shocking that 22 years after the US, UK and Australia went to war in Iraq based on the WMD lies, we see mainstream media headlines today running Trump's Iran "weeks away" from a nuclear weapon claim without explicitly framing it as directly contradicted by his own intelligence community
June 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It is shocking that 22 years after the US, UK and Australia went to war in Iraq based on the WMD lies, we see mainstream media headlines today running Trump's Iran "weeks away" from a nuclear weapon claim without explicitly framing it as directly contradicted by his own intelligence community
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Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say reut.rs/4kJ6zUF
Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say
One of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.
reut.rs
June 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say reut.rs/4kJ6zUF
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June 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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4June 1989, the massacre of the peaceful demonstration for democracy in Tienanmen Square. Not a mention in any online mainstream media on the anniversary of this terrible event from which democracy in China shows no sign of recovering.
June 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
4June 1989, the massacre of the peaceful demonstration for democracy in Tienanmen Square. Not a mention in any online mainstream media on the anniversary of this terrible event from which democracy in China shows no sign of recovering.