For the first time in decades, more children are projected to die this year than last www.wsj.com/health/for-f... via @WSJ

Shame Riverina council. What ignorant racists. #boycottfederationcouncil www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

police took out a five year intervention order after Lynne used a sledgehammer to break into Lisa’s house. After she was found dead, police accepted Lynn’s claim that his death threats were “not serious” and decided they found no “suspicious circumstances”. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

New COVID vax formula produces antibodies nearly 3X longer. “SARS-CoV-2 has a continual transmission cycle and emergence of new variants that can jeopardise vaccine effectiveness,” but data shows updated COVID shots boost cross-reactive antibodies, offering stronger protection. archive.md/u3IqG

Updated Covid vaccine available in all good pharmacies next week. Get in early to avoid the Christmas wave. Also remember to mask.

The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.

“pushups won’t save you from ebola.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Age editing out Kerry O'Brien's references to Palestinian journalists. substack.com/@antounissa/...

Morning. ☕️

Always was 🖤💛❤️ www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Victorian Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 28 Nov 2025 From 16 Nov – 22 Nov 2025 🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.2% (+0.8%) 🔹COVID: 515 (+9%) 🔹Influenza A: 2,283 (+26%) 🔹Influenza B: 41 (+24%) 🔹RSV: 171 (-11%) Source: health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 28 November 2025 VIC: Up (+9.0%) NSW: Up (+5.3%) WA: Down (-34.0%) Avg 17/day in hospital QLD: Down (-11.3%) 34 in hospital (+17.2%) SA: Down (-5.5%) TAS: Next update: 12 Dec ACT: Paused reporting for 2025 Aged-care: Down (-20.9%) No deaths reported

As Australia heads into Christmas, people in Gaza face another winter of displacement and bombardment — and the federal government remains silent. Recognition of Palestine means little without action grounded in international law. #AusPol #Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #MiddleEast

So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed

Australia’s longest and deadliest conflict is no longer deniable. The Australian Wars gathers generations of research and testimony into one defining volume — and makes clear that the truth is here. Time to reckon with it. #FrontierWars #TruthTelling #TheAustralianWars #PearlsandIrritations

116 legal and policy experts have now opposed Labor’s new powers for police to recommend cutting payments from people without them even having been convicted of a crime. Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...

So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.

'Isolation and shame': Australians are avoiding perinatal mental health support, new research reveals

The confronting data exposing the patterns behind gendered violence deaths last year. Thus year isn’t looking any better 🤬 #TooManyMen www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

I remember a time, a long, long time ago now, when I used to go entire seconds without hearing something about the President of the United States of America.

Save the CSIRO Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro

As a handful of us have been screaming for a long time now: there is no "ceasefire". The UN security council has approved the further colonisation of Gaza, and Israel is being rewarded for its genocide. It's still the 1700s in the West, we just have phones and cheap dopamine addictions now.

The ban is bad policy and it's clear not enough has been done to prepare young people and their families about what is about to happen. Where are the education packages and support that were promised? Just telling kids to log off and go touch grass is not going to cut it!

Gazans loaded onto trucks shirtless in cold weather

This is obscene. The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds. While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.

Pressed to outline how the LNP will reduce emissions with their new energy plan, Sussan Ley says they’ll rely on “breakthrough technologies” in about “25 years time”😳 - ones not invented yet & “we’re not talking about today”🤔 There you have it. As bonkers as it gets. #auspol

One of the worst nights; tents were blown away, children were terrified, and tents were flooded.

This is the correct question

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

Taiwan is rolling out Novavax JN.1 for ages 12+ from Nov 12. Australia needs options too. Hey @markbutlermp.bsky.social — when will Australians be able to access Novavax?

“The rich get breezy upper stories with the view, pool and state-of-the-art amenities, while the poor are hidden away downstairs with a discreet entrance and no access to facilities” What was that about Australia not having a class system? #inequality #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"So there was our PM - a man who talks and lives in all lower-case letters - sitting up at the table with the man who lives permanently in an all-caps world." My latest article in The Shot: Mr Albanese Goes To Washington. 😎 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

It is deeply distressing to see that Israel has resumed aerial bombing of Palestinians in Gaza despite a supposed ceasefire. The world must not turn its gaze away.

Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?

How to justify genocide. Excellent scoop from @deepcutnews.bsky.social. And more evidence of the moral bankruptcy of the Albanese govt, who "tries to treat genocide as a messaging problem rather than a fundamental matter of human decency and international law.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

Sshh- Still no definitive answer to the question: would Australia’s AUKUS N subs be deployed operationally in any US war with China? MKoziol SMH/Age reports “yes” assurances may have been given by @almp.bsky.social to Trump .. but our PM won’t confirm.

“Can you make these changes according to your own personal tastes and desires?” “Well, no I have a committee which has museum experts government people and private citizens on it and every thing we do is subject to approval by the fine arts committee.” youtu.be/pjlu-4VZZkc?...

At anti-immigration marches, Peter Drew spreads his renowned ‘Aussie’ posters – and waits

Nebulised heparin reduces COVID deaths and intubation according to a meta-analysis

“Elbit is a key supplier of the Israeli military, a key enabler of the IDF in its commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza over the last two years” - Chris Sidoti The Albanese govt is complicit in the #GazaGenocide. #auspol

The Australian Government continues to desecrate Indigenous Libraries. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

reminder that continental critical minerals are not ours to give away - not for imaginary submarines, not for contemptible attempts at appeasing fascism - and Forrest is a top ten multi-generational coloniser. overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...

Israeli soldiers were filmed assaulting a Palestinian woman as she tried to stop them from seizing her husband’s body after he was shot during a military raid in the city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

Shocked that Australia is once again relying on digging stuff out of the ground to make other people rich to supposedly secure our future

Israeli soldiers were filmed dragging and forcing two young Palestinian children to the ground, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Really strong story from @newcastleherald.bsky.social about the Hunter Region’s role sending F35 jet fighter weapons parts to Israel for its genocide in Gaza. The F35 regional hub in Williamtown isn’t for Australia’s defence, it’s a US controlled global weapons hub run by the US, for the US

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 17 October 2025 TAS up (+12.5%) and WA up (+4.4%; Avg 25/day in hospital) Others states down — SA (-30.6%), NSW (-21.8%), ACT (-21.7%), QLD (-10%; 27 in hospital) and VIC (-3%) Aged care cases up (+32.8%) and 4 deaths reported

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

Shameful. 12 First Nations people have died in NSW custody this year - the highest annual total ever. These are not just ‘profoundly distressing’ statistics. This devastating loss of life continues Australia’s history of colonial violence through the ‘justice’ system.