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"They make a desert and call it peace" - Tacitus, AD 85

Let Brad Battin know you support Treaty and so should he.

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

Melbourne: ever helpful

Welcome home. My @smh @theage cartoon.

#OtD 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8730...

Duh.

The peace plan. Today’s Age cartoon.

Sign up to support the call for an Australian Human Rights Act. It's fucking time.

I feel sure that every animal species that becomes extinct under our watch also takes a part of our humanity with it. Heartbreaking. Vale.

Treaty, It's Here. Debate starts in VIC parliament today. Share and show your support for Australia’s first Treaty 🖤💛❤️ #TreatyForVictoria

Write to your Victorian MP to let them know you support Treaty. #vicpol

The password for tomorrow's Antifa meeting is Nobel

'"People get very excited waiting for the day when the first [peregrine falcon chick] flies," says peregrine expert Dr Victor Hurley. "I apologise to business managers the world over, because productivity does collapse."'

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

Australian citizens have the right to return to Australia. Calling them 'Isis brides' does not change the law. They are Australian.

What an incredible act of cowardice by the National Press Club. WTF.

Watchers of US politics

Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club: “The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.” #npc

On this day, Sept 30 2000, Muhammad al-Durra was killed on camera. I was 9 years old. On this day I understood the lives of Palestinian children were considered cheap by many. If only we knew that we would go on to watch thousands of children die on our screens.

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#OtD 26 Sep 1932 Pierre De Geyter, Belgian socialist and composer of the music to the famous revolutionary anthem, L'Internationale, died stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1266...

Today is Nuclear Abolition Day, a global call to end the threat of nuclear weapons. They don’t bring safety, only the risk of annihilation and climate collapse. On September 26, people around the world unite to demand action: dialogue instead of division, disarmament instead of destruction.

All episodes of 'The People vs. Robodebt' are now available to stream via SBS On Demand, ahead of the TV premiere of the first episode at 7:30pm. Please be aware if you've had a Robodebt or know others who have, it is quite intense. #ThePeopleVSRobodebt www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt

Pets! Terrible pests or miraculous joy or both? Australia says yes! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Left did cancel culture and now right is doing it.” No, right framed and named cancel culture (fighting against the monopolisation of speech by the repressively powerful) and have now appropriated it for the purpose of actively repressing the powerless and silencing dissent *against the powerful*.

PTUA is campaigning for better public transport that more people can use, and less time stuck in traffic. Support our work by joining, as a free supporter or a paid member. ptua.org.au/join

So grateful that Simon Copland wrote this excellent takedown. I thought I needed to write one, so was slogging my way through its arrogant, narrow-minded and turgid prose. Enough now. Abundant, one might say.

It’s not society imploding that surprises me, it’s the people still commuting 2hrs a day to a job they hate while it does.

"Kirk represented everything we should be pushing back against. And if you are worried that saying so will trigger more violence, and a further slide into authoritarianism, then you have already ceded the space." @amyremeikis.bsky.social bang on as always: amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Don't kill anyone. Don't spread hate. How about we all agree on that?

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

It’s good news that Robodebt victims will be getting more compensation. But let's be clear: Labor is still administering a welfare compliance regime that is legally dubious, pursues dodgy debts, and punches down on poor people. Today's announcement doesn't change that.

Demographic reality check

Aaaand the Albanese Government has approved its first fossil fuel expansion of the new term. We're all (legitimately) focussed on genocide, while governments like ours are actively pursuing a policy of omnicide. How nice to have a stinking parliamentary majority and use it for ecocide.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

#OtD 2 Sep 2015 the body of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on the Bodrum shore, Turkey. Fleeing war in Syria, he had drowned after the boat he and his family were sailing in capsized. Photos of his body sparked a rare but brief outpouring of sympathy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9240...

Albo: “there are some good Nazis”

Cutting emissions by 81 per cent by 2035 is “technologically and economically feasible” for Australia, a global climate think tank says.

Numbers are needed at Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne overnight, neo-Nazis were spotted lurking around earlier today. Bring your own gear for camping and warm clothes.

'We must use every measure at our disposal. A first obvious step would be for our security agencies to classify Nazis and Sovereign citizens as terrorist movements. The rest is up to the community, holding fast to the truth that violence is never the answer. Courage will be demanded, not requested.'

Nazis on the streets. If only we had an antisemitism envoy.

Re: the “disability hierarchy” bullshit raging on TikTok: Human rights are for everyone. Or to paraphrase Marx: From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs

'[There] are now 4 million licensed firearms in Australia – more than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. We still have no National Firearms Register, over 30 years after the states and territories agreed we need one.'