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We can stop AUKUS! getup.to/k14dcdCdQ7um

Yep I mentioned that in a second post. I loved that film (based on a true story, as they say) but details are on the nasa web site.

BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website. Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.

While it’s so very frustrating to see the Govt resisting transparency on where they intend to process then bury #AUKUS radioactive waste, at least I get to fight their secrecy from a serene location. Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales. #WorkFromRoam

Dr Gary Foley, Melbourne/Naarm, Jan 11 "A small group of Zionists demanding a royal commission are the same people cheering on the genocide of Palestine." "Aboriginal people had our own royal commission 30 years ago. Nothing was done. 600 of us have died in prison since"

#BREAKING 🚨 A total fire ban for Victoria will remain in place tomorrow, with firefighters continuing to battle multiple blazes across the state CFA Chief Officer Jason Heffernan says it will ensure mitigation against new fires, as thousands of firefighters remain on the ground

Australia doesn't do fascism or apartheid. Zionism does both. Zionism does not belong in Australia. c.org/KQ62Xnq28f

A message from Sikh Volunteers Australia (based in S/E Melbourne) if you’re able to help them with some small ‘goodie bags’ to be handed out to firefighters in Victoria. They’ll need to dropped off to their base In Langwarrin #auspol #VictorianBushfires

"Rob Brookman AM alongside 10 other former Adelaide Festival leaders have urged the board to reinstate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, slamming its decision for being influenced by “thought-police, media moguls or brilliantly co-ordinated lobbies”." www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Dr Assal Rad— “Nothing says “peace” like killing people with bombs.”

Reminder that even if you can’t see or smell smoke, Melbourne & Victoria is being covered in a fine layer of bushfire ash. Wear a P2 or N95 mask when you’re outside, as you’ll be breathing it in. Even more important if you’re pregnant, have asthma, or otherwise medically vulnerable. #VicFires

The thing is nearly all women have a story of being with or near a man they knew badly wanted to maim or kill them and that’s why women deeply recognise that Jonathon Ross (like so many MAGA cunts before him) desperately hated women and was looking for an excuse to kill one. #ReneeGood

Eleven former Adelaide Festival leaders have urged the board to reinstate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, slamming its decision for being influenced by “thought-police, media moguls or brilliantly co-ordinated lobbies”. Good. And to be accurate, it wasn't "or" but "and". www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

so just checked the weather see if I can turn off A/C anytime soon .nope , 30c at 11pm tonight 🥵🥵🥵

Thank you Laura Tingle, Peter Greste, Helen Garner and Yanis Varoufakis — along with the rapidly growing list of writers who have shown moral conviction by withdrawing from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Their courage will not be forgotten.

Today's shift on the Fogarty's Gap fire was emotionally hard. We spent time going down streets to assess houses for damage. Walking around the ruins of someone's home, their loved gardens, their fruit trees, now all a tangled heap of metal & beams, is heartbreaking. Feeling sad for so much loss.

We've gotten our emergency SMS from the council to shelter in place. It's fairly quiet here so far, on the western side of town. Not sure how the coastal side is fairing. Things are supposed to get hairy soon. I suspect most of the storm will hit further south, though. Take care everyone. 🌀

Copper thieves cut and steal cables affecting phone and internet services in Townsville suburbs - as a cyclone approaches and residents told to take shelter This is more than just theft - domestic terrorism putting communications and potentially thousands at risk www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Affected (or know someone who is) by Jan 2026 Victorian Bushfires? Click➡️ emergency.vic.gov.au/relief/#janu... Info. /Links to 🔸Relief Centres (images below) 🔸Help with pets, livestock etc 🔸Emergency Relief Payments 🔸Travel/Road Closures 🔸Power Outages & more... #Vicfires

Albo and his government are still merrily posting on X, the Nazi/porn site

"Australia is told [of] an unprecedented wave of antisemitism, a crisis requiring extraordinary measures, including a Royal Commission. But police data, court findings, and parliamentary evidence tell a very different story" #auspol michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism...

So many women did incredible work in computing and were virtually ignored for decades. A good number have now been celebrated but I’m sure there are way too many still in the shadows.

#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Instead of highlighting "a" single voice, a more illuminating headline might focus on why 55 literary and journalistic luminaries felt it necessary to withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week and how Mali's mini-Minns antics trashed the reputation of one of his state's best assets.

the boys are victims, not offenders. They are incarcerated, not being cared for. Establishing institutions where adult abusers are paid public money and given access to child victims plus impunity is core to colonial white patriarchy. All prisons look like this to some degree.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

There is more sorrow than anger inside Labor over Albanese's wrong-footedness on Bondi, writes Chris Wallace. The common view is that he is “just a very poor advocate for his position”. satpa.pe/DFFFXIL

What strikes me..is how fast polarization happened. Within 24 hours, there was no room left for “this looks bad, but let’s wait for investigation.” Derry, it took weeks for positions to harden. Argentina, state control..allowed denial to persist for years" theplanet.substack.com/p/from-blood...

‘Bookshops are my natural habitat.’ — Kathy Lette writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #books #reading

Kathy Lette the Australian author wrote it best…”the English let their dogs on the sofa and send their children off to posh kennels” 🤦‍♀️

Louise Mulligan is out so is Kathy Lette. We need an up to the minute tally board right about now, it's getting crazy we need Anthony Green on the job🤣🤣 #auspol #sapol

The brilliant Kathy Lette "Putting the dick into dictator. Looking pretty slick - oil slick. No need to drill down on Trump’s illegal land grab motivation. That’d be just too crude".

with a classic Letteism (“the pen is mightier than the Board”) Kathy Lette withdraws from AWW unless Randa Abdel Fattah is reinstated. She is “heartened that so many writers are taking a stand for free speech together”.

Looks like Kathy Lette is out too

Kathy Lette has pulled out of the Adelaide Festival now too 👏👏👏