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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 3h

Strands #585
“Just in case”
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 3h

Connections
Puzzle #851
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 3h

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 4h

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10... %26 Irritations
A timely reminder that the modern Israeli government is run by the descendants of the Irgun & Stern terrorist gangs. It’s no coincidence that the acts of the IDF in #Gaza expand on those ancient crimes

A century of deceit: Towards a new understanding of the colonisation of Palestine

Political and media commentary on the Hamas killings of October 2023 have been preoccupied with claims that these were not only the worst terrorists but that their actions were without precedent.

johnmenadue.com

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janneia grace she/her @janneiagrace.bsky.social · 20h

WTF?

Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 20h

What??? #auspol > overland.org.au/2025/10/aust...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h

"We were always fractured, questioning, complex – that was our strength. The danger was never difference; the danger was the oppression that demanded silence, that forbade questions, until even love could no longer be spoken."

Must read from @sarahschwartz.bsky.social - for Jews and for all of us.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20h

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 To those I have lost – the teachers, mentors, loved ones – who once taught me what it was to be Jewish. Those who once shared my table, yet now sit on the other side of a deep chasm. I write with hesitation. My words have been twisted before. But silence has become its own wound. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20h

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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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 20h

More messes #NOalition govts have got us in ...
@tasmaniangirl.bsky.social #auspol

Tasmaniangirl @tasmaniangirl.bsky.social · 20h

AFL stadium cost blow outs in Hobart some of the worst in the country says Saul Eslake… but will the Tas Govt care @slowguns.bsky.social

Ship lift project dubbed 'one of the biggest blowouts' in Australia

It’s taken 10 years, blown out by hundreds of millions of dollars, and is still nowhere near becoming operational. Now there are calls for the Darwin ship lift project to be scrapped.

www.abc.net.au

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Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social · 20h

Perhaps you’ve noticed; the more immigrants they detain and deport…the more violent the United States is becoming. I see a clear connection. #auspol #nzpol #USPolitics #UKPolitics

a cartoon of a man wearing a green mask and a woman wearing a blue hat that says police ice patrol

ALT: a cartoon of a man wearing a green mask and a woman wearing a blue hat that says police ice patrol

media.tenor.com

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 20h

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article should show in full

We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)

We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?

www.nytimes.com

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 23h

Labor pledged to save $6.4bn through cutting the government's use of consultants and external labour, and yet here they are forking out more. The government's focus must be on rebuilding the public service for core work functions.

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 23h

I heard on ABC Radio National this morning, a man claim that as Hamas was the government of Gaza when the IDF invaded, the overwhelming majority those killed were Hamas. Then I read this in the @nytimes.com
I know which source is more credible:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them.

We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?

www.nytimes.com

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 1d

Connections
Puzzle #850
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 1d

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 1d

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10... %26 Irritations
“The light on the hill was never meant to be an accountant’s lamp.” Well said by John Frew #Universities

How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education

For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the e...

johnmenadue.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 7d

Int. law expert Chris Sidoti says after ICJ ordered nations to act to prevent Israel’s genocide, govt should’ve conducted review to identify anything that could be aiding Israel
“There should have been a review…If it exists, make it public. If it doesn’t exist, do it!”💥 #NPC

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 1d

#auspol
I very much like this marketing

Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 1d

The Premier & the Opp Leader would build the stadium against the advice of every expert & the will of a majority of the community. And it’s our children & their children who will have to pay for it. Want a corflute? Go here nonewstadium.au/getasign/ #politas #auspol

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 1d

What’s this? Yet more research concluding that robust public investment in the arts yields economic benefits?

A great outcome for Ireland, and a rebuke to all those tired cliches about freeloading artists sapping the resources of the state.

But also, art enriches us all, economic benefits or no.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 1d

#auspol
Ireland can do it. So can Australia

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 2d

I always need more coffee

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 2d

Strands #583
“Unusual companions”
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 2d

Connections
Puzzle #849
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 2d

@ozjuliancox.bsky.social @tvaughanedu.bsky.social
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 2d

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

Screenshot of the book Mean Streak by Rick Morton. The text reads:

for the past decade and half, when conclusive certificates were
discontinued, is counterproductive to the Parliament’s intent.
‘When it comes to deliberative material, FoI does not ensure
transparency (because advice is not being written) and it
undermines integrity (because advice is not being written).’
So officials don’t put things in writing because they might get
released under Freedom of Information laws, therefore the FoI
laws aren’t working?
Grow up.
De Brouwer is not alone in his views. Former secretaries have
been doing the rounds making exactly these kinds of noises, as if
the outcome of poor professional behaviour is the result of some
law and not … poor professional behaviour.

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