The Israeli hostages will be received into Israel by well-stocked and highly functional hospitals with significant allied health supports. The same cannot be said of the Palestinian hostages when they return to Gaza. Allan Elliott, Northcote The Age, letters

Welcome home. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Indigenous Rangers have been waiting four months for confirmation from the Albanese Government about funding for a seven-year project pulling more than 100 tonnes of waste from the ocean. #auspol #environment #ocean

Dr Assal Rad— "This story is getting barely any media coverage, which is why Israel returned the bodies with signs of torture. "Didn’t even try to cover it up because they knew they didn’t have to."

It is unclear whether Abu Safia will be released as part of the ceasefire deal

Future historians: As their computers ate and destroyed all their languages we can only assume that what happened was magic became real and that's how they defeated global genocidal fascism

Archie Moore’s masterpiece kith and kin – the first Australian work to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale – is now an unmissable display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art. Read the full review by Claire G. Coleman: satpa.pe/TslsmJY

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

The high ground

Not just that you will be punished for standing up for the oppressed, but that you will be ritually humiliated and made an example of. Hello, world?

The word I keep grasping at these days is ‘impunity’

Singtel’s inability to pay income tax despite tens of billions of dollars in revenue over recent years has renewed attention both on the company and the corporate tax system www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Calling all knitters and nature lovers in the Sydney electorate of McMahon. 🧶👵 would ❤️ you to join us 11am-12 pm Tuesday 7th October outside @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social office for a peaceful knit-in to show Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy that we want real #ClimateAction☮️🌏

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

JANE!! Photo by Hugo Van Lawick, Getty Images

These aren’t pro Nazi people. They’re people who just want to “tune out all the noise”

Whistler's Mother, watching Grandpa Simpson on the telly, with my dad's cat on his knee: a painting by my dad. www.tom-cox.com/the-cat-who-...

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

"The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be 'retrained'."

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

Glossy Ibis at The Gearagh, Co. Cork - part of the recent large influx into Britain and Ireland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds @johncreedon.bsky.social

Local councils should require short term stays to be registered, then quadruple the rates for properties that are not occupied full time.

New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA 291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and in this series we are exploring its long history. It was first referred to by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC when it was known as Ghazzati....

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

Good capture isn't it. Wonder where this is going. 😏 Absolutely #NO to #AUKUS Fuck 'em. #auspol

Wow, #TheOnion really knocked this one out of the park. LOL. #EpstienFiles #Trump #auspol

Donate to mutual funds. Take a first aid course. Offer to help others with yard work or errands. Check in on your friends, family & vulnerable community members. Contact your senator. Help out at a food bank. Do not give up. The road is long & small positive actions ripple outward.

David Pope in Canberra Times

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."

If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.

The things he did with Epstein must be horrifying. He’s willing to destroy the world just to keep #TheEpsteinFiles out of our hands.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Breaking | Israeli occupation forces abduct two school principals in the town of Al-Samou, southern occupied West Bank, parading them to the schoolyard in the center of the town.

🚨 IOF plans to bomb the archaeological magasins of @ebafjerusalem.bsky.social! Huge respect for + immense solidarity w all the 🇵🇸 colleagues risking their lives on the daily to save what remains of their archaeological heritage from 🇮🇱 rampage & theft www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital says a symposium on the effect of war on children has been cancelled due to safety fears, but some doctors say pressure from an antisemitism group is to blame.

BREAKING from us at #4Corners: Former Morrison govt Health Minister Greg Hunt working for a Brethren company which received $54 million in COVID-19 contracts from Health Department while he was Minister. Mr Hunt says decisions made by his department, not him. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I didn't see this in person, but it always makes me laugh. It's a pom-pom crab, it holds a sea anemone in each claw, and WAVES them at its enemies to scare them off. The anemones benefit from scraps of food the crab drops - everybody wins!

The Qatari government says it reserves the right to retaliate in response to the Israeli operation. The Prime Minister refers to it as an act of terrorism and says the entire region should retaliate.

A bill is being presented to the Victorian Parliament … an in-principle agreement for a treaty with First Nations peoples here. Is there bigger news in the country today?

Cupid & Psyche, by Benjamin West, 1808, 📸 via @V0LofTheWild