The Coalition has mistaken the unity it has found as a party and like minded political bedfellows over its response for actual unity. Its feverish rhetoric comes from the brief cohesiveness it’s discovered after so many fractures, rather than an organic groundswell. It also will not hold.

ICYMI, interview with drafter of IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern. Says the Segal plan for a 'university report card' on antisemitism is "a horrible place to go"; worries that the definition would be "used to try and stigmatize pro-Palestinian speech". #nswpol #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A white-plumed honeyeater on an old farm gate.

“If there is more intifada against genocide, there will be less genocide". #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The choice for the Federal Liberals: 1. Stick with a cynically opportunistic leader who once was a convenor of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, but now channels Netanyahu to suck up to the Murdoch media, or 2. Change to a Christian nationalist who will take the party to the #FarRight. #auspol

If press gallery journos were honest: "We love to be players, and pretend we are not" "Many of us have had our views shaped by junkets to Israel" "When I write shit like 'The Jewish Australian community feels...', I am quoting self-appointed representatives, who really represent a foreign power."

Police "didn’t know what law they were planning to make any arrests under, so that helped. When the police finally got into the room, 'one officer started reading a section of the Town and Country Planning Act, which another officer asked him to stop reading because it wasn’t right'.” 😂

Narrator: His critics can't be satisfied. The criticism is the ends, not the means, where ghouls compete to see who can climb atop a pile of dead bodies to shout the loudest.

1/2 "The pro-Israel right has moved quickly & effectively to set the parameters of the political response to this tragedy. But the divisive measures proposed by Segal & Hanson make no-one safer. They will only hinder the real fight against antisemitism and put our community at risk" - Sarah Schwartz

A gentle reminder that the genocide and illegal activity by Israel in Palestine continues barely untroubled by a "ceasefire" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scratch an Oz opinion writer and you’ll find a wannabe white nationalist authoritarian. Do they think one should fight antisemitism with even more indiscriminate racism? Yes they do. It’s obvious why none of them have a problem with Advance’s race-baiting.

Which was more likely to incite antisemitic violence: weekly pro-Palestinian marches attended by hundreds of thousands of citizens, or the televised devastation of Gaza? It's a fair question, but even asking it may soon be illegal.

A rabid Zionist is calling me sick and deranged for journaling truth. My entire year has been getting yelled at by these guys because I dont like kids being bombed. Sure, the ratio is satisfying, but it means nothing if our PM rolls over for their fascistic demands on our democracy, anyway.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Rabbi Eli Schlanger is STILL being praised on the ABC News website. This Zionist hate preacher openly celebrated Israel's #GazaGenocide, raised funds for illegal Israeli settlements in the #WestBank AND called for the ethnic cleansing of "Arabs" from Palestine bc "it's our land, it belongs to us." 😲

Dr Naama Blatman of @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social "called Minns' proposed reforms 'anti-protest laws' and said they would not make the community safer. 'These laws are borne of political pressure, not genuine consideration for safety'." There is no evidence to back Minns' repressive move. #nswpol

Denied bail for minor criminal damage (spraying paint on aircraft used in a genocide), 8 courageous prisoners are on hunger strike & close to death. Is the UK gvt willing to sacrifice Britain's reputation for liberalism to aid and abet Israel's genocide? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Anthony Albanese needs to tell Australians whether we still have "shared values" with the US. And if not, why TF are we going "full steam ahead" with #AUKUS and the 'alliance' with the fascist regime in Washington? Denmark now sees the US as a security threat. So should we. #auspol

My son’s new favourite game is playing doctor, or playing hospital. In it, he is in control and he performs, exactly, what was said and done to him, but on me. Kids are so vulnerable, and so much more perceptive than we like to imagine.

ICYMI: 1/2 "What we need is greater, more nuanced understanding of an age-old European prejudice culminating in the Holocaust, itself giving rise to a militarised Zionist state as refuge for Jews in what had been British Mandate Palestine, but a subsequent hell for its Palestinian inhabitants."

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Even though he promised it in 2024, seems that the reality of Trump summarily rounding up, detaining and deporting brown people is not going down well.

Starmer's govt has weaponsed anti-terror law in the form of the proscription of Palestine Action "The hunger strikers’ demands are for a fair trial, the shuttering of all Elbit sites in the UK, and immediate bail – all have already been held in excess of the custody time limit of 182 days."

"We’re being told the protests need to stop, the anti-genocide chants need to be criminalized, and everyone needs to shut up and obey — all justified by the completely baseless narrative that the words and actions of pro-Palestinian activists were somehow responsible" for the Bondi massacre. #auspol

Sound familiar #auspol ? This is the same #WhiteSupremacist crap behind Pauline Hanson's "It's OK to be white" Senate motion in 2018, that the Coalition initially voted for. And explicitly or not, this #racism will drive what mainstream media laughingly calls a 'debate' on migration next year.

“Declarative statements have abounded in media analysis without the need for evidence, a liberty rarely afforded to those outside the accepted opinion”. @amyremeikis.bsky.social 🎯 , but too kind. So much mainstream media ‘analysis’ is Israel lobby talking points. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...

Fifteen Jewish people getting killed on Bondi Beach doesn’t magically make genocide and apartheid okay, and it doesn’t magically make it okay to support those things. Supporting Israel was evil the day before the shooting, and it remained evil the day after. None of that changed.

"The Trump administration knows it cannot eliminate people whose genders do not match their birth certificates. So instead, it will use any means it finds necessary to do what it does best: make them suffer." The Qld and NT govts are following the cruel Trumpist playbook. #TransRights #auspol

The MAGA woman is a third gender. The gender affirming care they adopt, which is heavily surgical, doesn’t look like anything recognisably human.

The ACLU's Lee Gelernt has been at the front lines of immigration horrors for longer than most anyone. Here he's giving a map not only of what it means to fly hundreds of Venezuelans to a lawless prison, but more pointedly what it means to defy judicial commands. swap.fm/l/AmicusWith...

In a moment defined by noise and certainty, this piece chooses vulnerability instead. Jacinta Parsons on loss, disorientation, and staying human.

But not so bad if all those signs were "Trump Memorial...."

On American #PublicHealth, the Trump regime is pursuing the worst outcomes it can manage to achieve in the shortest amount of time.

ICYMI, indeed an excellent article. Including some important points for those of us resisting the rush to impose a pro-Israel world view on us all.

Under Chris Minns' proposed ban on protests, I assume these people would be arrested. #nswpol #auspol

1/2 ABC news again demonstrates why it is losing trust with its audience. Uncritical quoting of the President and PM of a genocidal, apartheid rogue state as arbiters of Australian political performance is something we've seen from NewsCorp. From ABC, it is deeply embarrassing. #nswpol #auspol

"If Israel is trying to subvert & undermine our civil liberties in order to force our society to support genocide and apartheid, then we have every right to do everything we can to subvert & undermine the interests of Israel. ...The west's support for Israel needs to be brought crashing down." 🎯

The war on children continues in the Deep North. Now in both NT and Queensland, if you are a First Nations or a trans kid, your human rights are close to zero. With 'policy' driven by two toxic entities: the Murdoch media and the Australian Christian Lobby. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

"Not only was Australia’s shaky sense of safety irrevocably shattered, the social contract Australians relied on their politicians to uphold, to place the nation’s needs above politics, has been destroyed by the Coalition." @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

But ignore the data, say the Murdoch media, One Nation, and the radical right of the Liberal party. We are going to scare you shitless using racist #FarRight tropes centered on alleged "mass migration". #auspol

Poetry of Henry Normal

This #EpsteinFiles cover-up is not just obvious; it is remarkably inept. If the question was: "How can we drag this out to provide maximum negative attention and political damage for the president and his regime?", the Trump-appointed geniuses in DoJ are providing the answer.

"Those who whisper that safety requires less democracy peddle a lazy bargain: trade your real freedom for the appearance of order." "whisper"? If only. Israel lobby, RW media and pollies now shouting down anyone who dares criticize the genocidal rogue state. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Rob Harris - the Latika Bourke of Phil Cooreys

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

"Policies that strengthen independent news organizations, bolster local journalism, fund public media, and prohibit the concentration of media power in too few hands are not only possible – they are necessary for a functioning democracy." @sulliview.bsky.social on US media has universal relevance.

ICYMI... #auspol

Now I can post this one. The evidence/not evidence.

Can't help noticing Matt Golding's latest cartoon (below) was published on The Age's letters page, but not in its Sydney Morning Herald counterpart. Given the latter's 'coverage' (for want of a better word) of #bondibeach, I'm not surprised. #auspol

A warning for Australia, if Albanese caves in on the equivalent bit of #ZionistMcCarthyism in Jillian Segal's 'plan'. #auspol