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DuchessFrida aka Deb @duchessfrida.bsky.social · 3h

Australia handed $10m to Israeli arms firm as Albanese recognised Palestine.
Yet again, the government is handing taxpayer money to a company steeped in Palestinian blood: Elbit Systems.
It’s quite a contrast to PM Albanese’s posturing on recognising #Palestine

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/25/e...

Australia handed $10m to Israeli arms firm as Albanese recognised Palestine

Yet again, the government is handing taxpayer money to a company steeped in Palestinian blood: Elbit Systems. It's quite a contrast to Anthony Albanese's posturing on recognising Palestine.

www.crikey.com.au

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Jen G Lambie @jenglambie.bsky.social · 4h

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE 🇵🇸

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 10h

Israel intercepts new #flotilla bound for #Gaza, carrying 6 Canadians. via @cbcnews.ca :
"Israel has no legal authority to detain international volunteers aboard these ships. " says @davidheap.bsky.social of @freedomflotilla.bsky.social
youtu.be/12CW3POad3U?...
@freegazaaustralia.bsky.social

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Jan Wild @janwild.bsky.social · 6h

www.amnesty.org.au/toolkit-gaza...
Please sign the petition

Toolkit: Responding to the genocide in Gaza

What can you do to take action for the crisis unfolding in Gaza? Thousands of civilians have been killed in the escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza. As the world watches in horror, Amnesty Inter...

www.amnesty.org.au

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NSJ Updates 🩵🌈☀️🌺☮️ @nikisavvasjumper.bsky.social · 6h

Good!!!

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 6h

BREAKING: Crikey understands both the opposition and the crossbench, including the Greens, are opposed to Labor's bill, meaning it will struggle to get through the Senate.

Barely anyone except Labor supports the government's FOI reforms

Those opposed to the tightening of Australia's freedom of information regime are gathering force, meaning Labor will struggle to drag its bill through the Senate.

www.crikey.com.au

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 7h

#ClimateCriminals created by #Centrism, #Australia - #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social.

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Jan Wild @janwild.bsky.social · 8h

I'm still waiting

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Jan Wild @janwild.bsky.social · 9h

Brave, brave people. Where are you @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social ?

‘The enemy of Israel’: Australian Gaza flotilla activist vows to return despite ‘humiliations’ in detention

Juliet Lamont says she was beaten, groped and verbally abused by Israeli prison guards but will try again to ‘break the siege’ on Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

As Francesca Albanese reminded us; everyone talks about the 50 Israeli hostages held by Palestinian factions, but thousands of Palestinian hostages are held indefinitely in Israeli jails.

Some are children, and most have never been charged with anything.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13h

🇵🇸 Breaking: 22-year-old Palestinian, held without charge or trial since May 2024, dies in Israeli custody — the 78th Palestinian “prisoner” to die since Oct 7.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Ahmad Khdeirat, from Adh-Dhahiriya near Hebron, entered prison with diabetes, contracted scabies...

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Jan Wild @janwild.bsky.social · 9h

Labor seems to be "flooding the zone"

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Jan Wild @janwild.bsky.social · 9h

Brave, brave people. Where are you @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social ?

‘The enemy of Israel’: Australian Gaza flotilla activist vows to return despite ‘humiliations’ in detention

Juliet Lamont says she was beaten, groped and verbally abused by Israeli prison guards but will try again to ‘break the siege’ on Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 10h

‘The enemy of Israel’: Australian Gaza flotilla activist vows to return despite ‘terrifying’ detention

Juliet Lamont says she was beaten, groped and verbally abused by Israeli prison guards but will try again to ‘break the siege’ on Gaza Juliet Lamont was freezing in the back of a prison van that had been driving through the desert for hours – no idea where she was going, listening to the roar of military aircraft – when she saw the sign. The van windows were blacked out and she was afraid she would be struck if she looked around, but, craning her head and peering through a crack, she could read it. Some of the blue and white signs were in Hebrew, others Arabic. This one was in English. Later, as soon as she had access to a pen, the Australian documentary maker would scribble it down, as best as she could recall, upon a serviette. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10h

The plan says those who leave will be free to return. Can we trust them? An emphatic "No". Trump changes his mind between breakfast and afternoon tea. Israel didn't get to expand its 1948 borders to today by keeping its word. #auspol #USIsrael #palestine

A time to redouble our efforts for Palestine

Daniel Levy, who knows a thing or two about peace negotiations, warns us that, The plan is being used to push back against the momentum behind holding Israel accountable, the thing that could actually produce positive change.

johnmenadue.com

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 10h

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has proved himself to be just another consummate lier.

A version of Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott captured by fossil fuel Lobby, Catholic religious lobby, Israel/US Regimes lobby, US War Dept. military-industrial complex.

The people’s interests? Nah.

#auspol

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fairy @feenwald.bsky.social · 10h

direct link:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-tV0d-lqnwc

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 16h

View & share their #SOS videos:
All the #FreedomFlotilla & Thousand Madleen boats were pirated in the early hours of October 8. These messages by participants on board from different countries ask you to call on governments to end complicity in the genocide.
freedomflotilla.org/2025/10/08/b...

Video screenshot of eight US citizens standing on the deck of Madleen, with white writing over the screen: "forces of a country complicit in Israel's genocide of Palestinians."

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 10h

I don't care about the 7th of October 2023, & I don't care about antisemitism

There are 56,348 orphaned children in Gaza who've lost one or both parents

Everyone in Gaza is hungry & traumatised .. and our cretinous arsehole PM? Ignoring genocide & sending F-35 parts to Israel #auspol #cretin

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Jan Wild @janwild.bsky.social · 9h

Except he isn't a firebrand, it's all relative

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 10h

Full interview on @cbcnews.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=12CW...

Israel intercepts new flotilla bound for Gaza, carrying 6 Canadians

YouTube video by CBC News

www.youtube.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 9h

"If Australia raised as much tax as Canada...we would have an extra $133bn a year to spend on government services.

That might help lift some people out of poverty."

Of course, we could lift people out of poverty now.
The failure to do so is not just a failure to tax companies,
but a policy choice.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10h

My column on tax, fairness and companies paying nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we want a better, more equal society, we need more tax. But more tax only works if big business pays their fair share | Grogonomics

Trust in both the tax and political system will falter if people feel they are being punished for not paying tax while large companies legally get away with paying nothing

www.theguardian.com

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Free Gaza Australia @freegazaaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

🆘 The ‘Conscience’ crew have been abducted by IOF.
Demand the Australian government condemn this crime and ensure the immediate release of participants and crew, as well as an end to Israel’s illegal siege and ongoing genocide in Gaza.
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social
www.facebook.com/watch?v=1321...

Redirecting...

www.facebook.com

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Miree @miree.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Sarah. It’s such a relief when we hear a rational Jewish voice

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 1d

Palestine, that beautiful ancient land, had and still has the right to defend itself.

Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...

Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

open.substack.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

When Sir Humphrey Appleby did this, he was much better at it. #auspol #Estimates

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

The Government justified a clamp down on freedom of information requests by claiming an increase in malicious and automated FOI attempts. Only problem is, there's no evidence of such a thing.

Our research showed that the number of FOI requests has not increased, but processing time has. 🔗⤵️ #auspol

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Jan Wild @janwild.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Australian flotilla activist speaks after being detained by Israel

An Australian activist accuses the federal government of not providing enough support after she and other members of a flotilla were detained by Israel.

www.abc.net.au

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