Paula
@squibs59.bsky.social
Retired, grew up in Ireland and have lived in Melbourne for many years.
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You might well need something sweet and sustaining for the weekend: Baklava is, therefore, #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/bakl...
Baklava
This is so temple-achingly sweet that one small marked-out diamond, or maybe two, is enough. But even so, I love its perfumed sugariness — as much as I love the tender, rose-shot green of its equally ...
www.nigella.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM
You might well need something sweet and sustaining for the weekend: Baklava is, therefore, #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/bakl...
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How is this not terrorism?
January 28, 2026 at 4:59 AM
How is this not terrorism?
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to be clear, police actively target Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The passive voice framing of “disproportionate” impacts on Blak children implies happenstance. Kids in wealthy white areas shoplift, and steal cars, and smoke pot and damage property. They are not policed.
A review of Australia's human rights record by the United Nations has heard "serious concerns" about its low age of criminal responsibility and rising incarceration rates.
Three key takeaways from the UN's latest review of Australia's rights record
A review of Australia's human rights record by the United Nations has heard "serious concerns" about its low age of criminal responsibility and rising incarceration rates.
www.abc.net.au
January 27, 2026 at 9:24 AM
to be clear, police actively target Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The passive voice framing of “disproportionate” impacts on Blak children implies happenstance. Kids in wealthy white areas shoplift, and steal cars, and smoke pot and damage property. They are not policed.
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Death toll from a massive Indonesian landslide reached 17 on Monday as rescuers use heavy equipment to hunt for dozens still missing days after heavy rains unleashed a torrent of mud
u.afp.com/SBba
u.afp.com/SBba
January 26, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Death toll from a massive Indonesian landslide reached 17 on Monday as rescuers use heavy equipment to hunt for dozens still missing days after heavy rains unleashed a torrent of mud
u.afp.com/SBba
u.afp.com/SBba
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Journalist and femicide researcher @sherelemoody.bsky.social reports that Australian men have killed 5 women in 13 days. #DV #VAW #sexism #misogyny australianfemicidewatch.org
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Journalist and femicide researcher @sherelemoody.bsky.social reports that Australian men have killed 5 women in 13 days. #DV #VAW #sexism #misogyny australianfemicidewatch.org
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The only people the IDF enjoys murdering more than children are journalists.
Israel killed three Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, including a freelance cameraman who contributed to CBS News. The network's president, Tom Cibrowski, let staff know at a meeting this morning, noting that Abdul Raouf Shaat had just been married. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Israel kills 3 journalists in Gaza, including CBS News contributor
The journalists were killed Wednesday in a strike on their car in central Gaza. Israel’s military said it struck “several suspects” who were operating a drone.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The only people the IDF enjoys murdering more than children are journalists.
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how anyone can put “more than 100 children killed” and ceasefire into the same headline has me fucking enraged. Use your senses. Christ.
January 18, 2026 at 6:25 AM
how anyone can put “more than 100 children killed” and ceasefire into the same headline has me fucking enraged. Use your senses. Christ.
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Gaza is facing one of the worst economic collapses ever documented – 90 per cent displaced, 70 years of development wiped out, and famine conditions spreading. #Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #MiddleEast #UNCTAD #InternationalLaw #GazaEconomy
Best of 2025 - Gaza’s economy has collapsed beyond recognition
Gaza’s economy, society and basic infrastructure have been almost entirely wiped out. With 90 per cent of people displaced, food systems destroyed and schools and hospitals in ruins, reconstruction is becoming harder by the day.
johnmenadue.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Gaza is facing one of the worst economic collapses ever documented – 90 per cent displaced, 70 years of development wiped out, and famine conditions spreading. #Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #MiddleEast #UNCTAD #InternationalLaw #GazaEconomy
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... This is how the Coalition got the surplus they bragged about. Costello screwed our Grandkids by selling our Gold. Never vote Liberal #Auspol #News #Aus
In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it | Greg Jericho
A decision to sell two-thirds of Australia’s gold reserves in the 1990s is starting to look like a bad one as global uncertainty reigns
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:25 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... This is how the Coalition got the surplus they bragged about. Costello screwed our Grandkids by selling our Gold. Never vote Liberal #Auspol #News #Aus
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/QreJWf5CW5Jtj
ABC: Stand with your journalists
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
getup.to
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 AM
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/QreJWf5CW5Jtj
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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
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- no unelected special envoy censoring media, education, culture
- no multi week media performing grief about an attack on Our-Womens-Community
- no shutting mens spaces in the name of social cohesion
- no foreign womens security groups patroling the streets with semi automatic weapons
- no speeches
- no multi week media performing grief about an attack on Our-Womens-Community
- no shutting mens spaces in the name of social cohesion
- no foreign womens security groups patroling the streets with semi automatic weapons
- no speeches
December 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
- no unelected special envoy censoring media, education, culture
- no multi week media performing grief about an attack on Our-Womens-Community
- no shutting mens spaces in the name of social cohesion
- no foreign womens security groups patroling the streets with semi automatic weapons
- no speeches
- no multi week media performing grief about an attack on Our-Womens-Community
- no shutting mens spaces in the name of social cohesion
- no foreign womens security groups patroling the streets with semi automatic weapons
- no speeches
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Everyone has their favourite writers and commentators on particular topics. And when it comes to Australian politics, mine are very easy to nominate; Amy Remeikis, Dave Milner and Ronni Salt. If you're not familiar with their work, do yourself a favour, they're all outstanding.
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Everyone has their favourite writers and commentators on particular topics. And when it comes to Australian politics, mine are very easy to nominate; Amy Remeikis, Dave Milner and Ronni Salt. If you're not familiar with their work, do yourself a favour, they're all outstanding.
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I’m glad your son is safe. Unfortunately my kids are coloured, so I know they are not safe in this society. People of colour have suffered for centuries in Australia,but the government only cares about racism that’s directed at people with a white European background.
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I’m glad your son is safe. Unfortunately my kids are coloured, so I know they are not safe in this society. People of colour have suffered for centuries in Australia,but the government only cares about racism that’s directed at people with a white European background.
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In the latest series of Who Do You Think You Are Australia? three prominent Australians discover shocking revelations about their past selves, including that they opposed strengthening measures against racial vilification
#auspol
#auspol
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
In the latest series of Who Do You Think You Are Australia? three prominent Australians discover shocking revelations about their past selves, including that they opposed strengthening measures against racial vilification
#auspol
#auspol
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Sussan Ley says no room for racism in Australia, how about this gem from you during the election #hypocrisy #auspol
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Sussan Ley says no room for racism in Australia, how about this gem from you during the election #hypocrisy #auspol
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‘This country’s divided’: how a Sunderland charity is changing that – one house, park and shop at a time.
Donate to this year's charity appeal at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
Donate to this year's charity appeal at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
‘This country’s divided’: how a Sunderland charity is changing that – one house, park and shop at a time
Far-right rhetoric fuelled rioting here in 2024, but Back on the Map is helping to unite the community, through good accommodation, new shops, and an aim to genuinely uplift and improve people’s lives
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
‘This country’s divided’: how a Sunderland charity is changing that – one house, park and shop at a time.
Donate to this year's charity appeal at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
Donate to this year's charity appeal at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
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Will the Australian mainstream news media (I'm thinking esp. Ch7 and Ch9) do a report on how Pauline Hanson and James Ashby took advice from the NRA on how to water-down Australia's gun laws in exchange for donations from the gun industry? 🤔 #auspol #BondiBeach #GunLaws
December 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Will the Australian mainstream news media (I'm thinking esp. Ch7 and Ch9) do a report on how Pauline Hanson and James Ashby took advice from the NRA on how to water-down Australia's gun laws in exchange for donations from the gun industry? 🤔 #auspol #BondiBeach #GunLaws
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If the last three days demonstrate one thing, it's that the right (via the media) controls the narrative in this country.
Or, as Matt Golding puts it:
#bondibeach #auspol
Or, as Matt Golding puts it:
#bondibeach #auspol
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If the last three days demonstrate one thing, it's that the right (via the media) controls the narrative in this country.
Or, as Matt Golding puts it:
#bondibeach #auspol
Or, as Matt Golding puts it:
#bondibeach #auspol
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Bernie Sanders on FB re what anti-semitism is and is not.
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Bernie Sanders on FB re what anti-semitism is and is not.
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Laura Tingle correctly points out that Netanyahu is in no position to criticise the Australian government while he continues to be unable to defend his complete failure to prevent the massacre of 7 October
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Laura Tingle correctly points out that Netanyahu is in no position to criticise the Australian government while he continues to be unable to defend his complete failure to prevent the massacre of 7 October
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
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Shame on everyone who didn’t even wait a day to use an abhorrent, devastating terrorist attack to create fear and division - exactly what terrorists want. Anyone using a national tragedy for political point scoring should be ashamed of themselves! From all ends of the political spectrum.
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Shame on everyone who didn’t even wait a day to use an abhorrent, devastating terrorist attack to create fear and division - exactly what terrorists want. Anyone using a national tragedy for political point scoring should be ashamed of themselves! From all ends of the political spectrum.