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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 13h

And a big raspberry to all the right wingers on the ABC board and the over self-inflated Ita Buttrose!
$2.5 million of our money down the drain!

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Lattouf unlawful termination case has cost ABC at least $2.5m, Hugh Marks tells estimates

Public broadcaster failed to follow its own processes, boss says, and it was ‘not a good reflection on the organisation’

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 18h

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 18h

You obviously have not been following Australian politics. Albanese was forced into having a Jewish representative. Pro Palestinian, not anti-Israel, protests have been discouraged. The 70% pro Israeli figure has not been changed.

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 18h

Those rested in the UK are generally extremely old, sometimes incapacitated and in no way dangerous. They are pro Palestinian. They do not say they are anti Israeli.
These can coexist.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Gaza ceasefire talks live: Hamas says hostage and prisoner lists exchanged with Israel

Qatari PM and US’s Witkoff and Kushner join Hamas and Israeli negotiators working on Trump’s Gaza plan

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 21h

Last I heard Australian jewry was 70% Zionist. They have bleated and whined since the appalling Hamas attack!
Well done for moving on Americans .

www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 21h

This is enough to make a horse laugh!
Murdoch and his evil empire and deliberate distortions of the truth have landed us with all the liberal governments. They are a blot on society.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’

Michael Miller also says media must unite against second ‘big steal’ by tech companies seeking changes to copyright law to access content for free

www.theguardian.com

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 1d

Thank goodness extremely obese people will have to buy a second seat from 2026!
I sat beside a very obese woman her arms bulged over the arm rest and her legs took up most of my leg space. I had paid for a full ticket, not a half ticket.

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 1d

Just when you can’t love Canada any more….. they do things like!
Rejecting American stuff ! $3Billion worth of American dairy products!
Just out of the blue like Trump’s tariffs!

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 1d

Verbal crap!

Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 1d

Support Palestine!
Support pro Palestine action.
Freedom and Statehood for Palestine!
The Australian pro Israeli government action does not represent the voice of the Australian people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Pro-Palestine activists ask court to make genocide ruling during battle over Sydney Opera House protest

Palestine Action Group argues ongoing killing in Gaza means Sydney march scheduled for Sunday has prerequisite ‘seriousness and urgency’

www.theguardian.com

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Leo Lassie @hyndland.bsky.social · 1d

The Hamas attack was appalling!
Put in perspective after the years of infringement of human rights, expansion of Israeli borders illegally, imprisonment after show 30 sec trials, huge evidence of torture, etc. Australian jewery has govt, but not popular support.

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