Announced by us yesterday, and confirmed today thanks to the work of Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social, Monash will end its partnership with #WoodsideEnergy. When they discuss changes in community expectations, we know what they mean; it’s all of you who joined us on this journey. Thanks to all!

Monash Uni ends partnership with Woodside Energy! This is a huge win for staff and students who have been campaigning for years to get this climate-wrecking company off their campus. My heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to those who have fought so hard for this.

In NSW, white supremacist neo-nazis are allowed to run free with their hate, racism and anti-semitism, while those standing up for justice for Palestine are relentlessly attacked, policed and vilified. Shame on the Minns Labor government.

Earlier this week, Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social introduced a bill to the Senate that’d force universities to divest from fossil fuels, weapons, and gambling. This is what some of us who have been campaigning on this issue think at Monash, UQ, and UniMelb. #divestment #climatechange #greens

Today our End Dirty Uni Partnerships Bill will be debated in the Senate. The bill comes at a pertinent time—climate crisis escalates, fossil fuel companies record mammoth profits, and weapons manufacturers pocket billions while people are slaughtered in their thousands by their war machines.

A brown, Muslim man representing working class New Yorkers and fighting unapologetically for housing, healthcare, and justice, just became the mayor of New York. Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and people power!

Things keep going from bad to worse for horses in the racing industry yet the media, politicians and their mates in toxic gambling companies continue to pretend everything is okay. This is a stain on our nation.

We need to talk about Sudan. After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale. There is so much blood it can be seen from space.

The Labor Environmental Playbook: Step 1: Draft new laws at the behest of big business and the billionaires

If you needed more evidence of this country's complicity in Israel's genocide.

Another day, another set of governance failures at our universities. If it wasn't clear already, it should be now: we need an overhaul of university governance, otherwise staff, students and the wider community will keep paying the price.

The latest damning ICJ finding confirms Israel’s deliberate and sustained undermining of UNRWA and finally banning it, as it used starvation as a weapon of war.

Even if the bombing stops, we can't go back to the status quo. There must be accountability for Israel's genocide. War criminals must be jailed, and economic and diplomatic sanctions imposed.

Absolutely floored by the solidarity shown at today's Unite Against Racism Rally. Racism is not destiny—it is a choice. It is a system built by people, and it can be dismantled by people. And we will. This anti-racist movement is growing and here to stay.

Australia has a moral obligation to contribute generously to rebuilding Gaza as part of a self-determined Palestinian state. Aid cannot just be the token amounts announced so far, it must be substantial.

Genocidal war criminal nominates his weapons dealer for the Nobel Peace Prize and our Foreign Minister fawns over it. Embarrassing.

I am so relieved to welcome our heroes back home and I am so proud of them. We have all been worried sick about what the Israeli military would do to them given their horrific track record.

In the last hour, the brave humanitarians aboard the Freedom Flotilla, which includes at least one Australian, Madeleine Habib, have reported being surrounded and intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters. This is direct contravention of international law.

Monash University cosying up to the climate-destroying corporation while at the same time shutting down a well established climate crisis institute is a shameful double whammy.

Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong should hang their heads in shame that they left the safety and fate of heroic Australian humanitarians in the hands of violent war criminals.

All prepped and ready for Senate Estimates! Got quite a few spicy questions in these folders to hold the government to account 🫡 Bring it on.

The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.

Grateful to have been with Abubakir Rafiq’s family this morning to demand the Albanese Labor government to do everything in their power to secure the immediate release of all Australians abducted from the Global Sumud Flotilla and provide them protection and safety.

Trump and Blair's Gaza plan is (unsurprisingly) shaping up to be an oligarchy of billionaires implementing disaster capitalism. This is what PM Albanese is backing.

Palestine’s future cannot be left in the hands of fascist Trump, genocidal Netanyahu and accused war criminal Tony Blair. Palestinians must have the right to determine their own future.

Right now, hundreds of people part of the Global Sumud Flotilla are risking their lives to deliver food, water and medical supplies directly to the people of Gaza, who are being deliberately starved by Israel.

Australia’s recognition of Palestine at the UN shows political pressure works. This only happened because hundreds of thousands of people marched for Palestine for two years, week after week. But recognition will not stop the genocide. Labor must sanction Israel, just as we sanctioned Russia.

Went out to the PM's house at Kirribilli to protest the rubbish climate "targets" the government announced last week. Great speech from @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social and a lot of amazing climate activists 💚 Protesting is scary, but 50 degree weather, floods and famine are scarier!

A grotesque display of opulence from the world's elite. Billionaires feast on taxpayer funded banquets while they back a genocide and burn the world. But sure, migrants are the problem.

It is a disgrace that UTS management don’t have a problem with forking out millions of dollars on private consultants and hundreds of thousands to attend extravagant alumni events abroad, yet have no qualms about slashing disciplines like education, international relations, and public health.

How many reports and inquiries confirming Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people will it take for Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong to face the evil they have allowed to continue unchecked for the past two years?

I welcome a report that rightly puts Islamophobia on the national agenda.The government now needs to act on the structural and institutionalised nature of Islamophobia and respond to concerns that have been raised by communities for years.

Professor Bell’s resignation is the culmination of months of scandal, plummeting staff and student morale, and a governance system that is completely broken. Let’s not forget that Chancellor Bishop’s leadership has also been fraught, and she too must be held accountable for the crisis at ANU.

Israel has killed over 60,000 Palestinians and has now bombed six countries. This latest strike on Qatar is yet more proof that Israel has no intention of ending its genocidal violence.

While the rest of the world is stepping up against Israel, our Prime Minister sits on his hands. Is leadership defined by inaction? What are you waiting for Albo?

For the first time in decades, thousands of students have spoken with one voice, demanding that their universities stop profiting from war, militarism and the machinery of genocide. University leadership cannot ignore this.

Kicked off the morning at the National Community Legal Centres Conference talking about shaking up the system to achieve climate, racial and social justice 💚 Big thanks to everyone who joined bright and early and thank you for the incredible work you do supporting community.

More than 800 people have died, thousands are missing, and multiple villages have been completely destroyed after the earthquake in Afghanistan.

Organisations, academics and human rights activists around the globe are calling Israel’s barbaric actions for what they are: a genocide. The IAGS is the latest group that joins the UN, Amnesty International, FIDH and the Human Rights Watch on the right side of history.

"Trust has been shattered, and this report cannot distract from the growing chorus of voices calling on Bell and Bishop to resign." - @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social on #ANU. @nteunion.bsky.social calls for an end to Renew ANU, and leadership change to restore trust.

Under pressure from our Senate order for the production of documents, ANU has just published its self-assurance report to TEQSA.

This blood is on the hands of every politician who protected, enabled, made excuses for, or closed their eyes to Israel’s genocidal actions.

The government’s 2035 targets will show whether Labor intends to put climate ahead of profits of coal and gas corporations, and the donations that flow from these.

Melbourne Uni must apologise for surveilling staff and students and end its crackdown on Palestine protestors. Surveillance is the tool of authoritarian states, not places of learning.

Israel is weaponising aid, targeting trusted humanitarian organisations with restrictive tactics that serve political and military agendas—not human lives.

Solidarity with Chlöe Swarbrick for refusing to stay silent on Palestine. Calling for justice isn’t “disorderly”. It’s necessary. We need leaders with the courage to speak uncomfortable truths.

Fair Work Ombudsman tells the Senate that they have engaged with 38 universities so far on wage underpayments, have ongoing engagement with 28 of them - of which 19 are in the public domain. They have clawed back $218 million in wage underpayments affecting more than 110,000 staff

Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social asking critical questions about the appropriateness of the University Chancellors Council handling the secretariat for the Expert Council on University Governance. A decision of Education Ministers which the Dept has confidence in - but I find very surprising

Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: ‘Is ANU being trashed by the Bell and Bishop leadership?’ ACT Division Secretary @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social: ‘Absolutely. We need a new leadership approach or we need a new leadership.’ The Senate Inquiry into university governance continues…

Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: ‘Does it worry you that the staff students and alumni are so dissatisfied and untrusting of governance and the university?’ Kate Witenden, ANU Chief People Officer: ‘I’m not aware of this.’ Senator Faruqi: ‘Why am I aware and you are not?’