Almost nobody ever talks about the 2007 NT Intervention because the entire parliament and media class supported it, but it laid bare the settler-colonial reality that Aboriginal people are not allowed to have self determination in Australia. The legacy is one of intense surveillance and policing.

Have you all not been paying attention to the way gender and anti-trans panic is the central fixation of modern reaction politics? Trans people are a synecdoche for a kind of 'decadence' and erosion of their most fundamental beliefs in order, hierarchy, and who is considered worthy of humanity.

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

If you're in QLD, please join Justice for Palestine in the streets to take action against those repressive laws and stand for Palestine ❣️ Not Our Law Weekend of Action King George Square 10am Saturday 18 April to 6pm Sunday 19 April www.facebook.com/events/41824... greenleft.org.au/.../not-our-...

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

“police allege the women had changed into Difficult Women t-shirts to hide their identities” ah yes that well publicised and serious charge of wearing a t-shirt to “hide your identity” from people with guns and coercive powers of the state. www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/escalat...

@sheepdaily.bsky.social posts daily pics of adorable sheep with alt text ❤️

“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.” Sex testing in sport harms women.

Albanese's address to the nation. "Australia is not an active participant in the war" ... just a passive participant folks

The Australian way? Does he mean generally selfish and racist or does he mean specifically whatever Israel tells us to do? #auspol

I’m not crying. You’re crying. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

There’s not just re-routing of meds, there’s also supply chain shortages of chemicals used to make the meds offshore www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

people simply love it when you storm out of the gates to support an illegal war, then lecture them about personal responsibility after it makes their lives worse

On this Trans Day of Visibility, please enjoy & learn something from this fascinating & clarifying read from @madeline-eppley.bsky.social, @andylee.bsky.social, Robert Dellinger & @allydefduf.bsky.social Read👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (🙏 for this excellent work & actionable recs!)

People on welfare must be free to make decisions about how to allocate fuel money between the things we need and the things we find useful. We must be supported with payments that enable us to live a decent life – during times of global turmoil, and always - @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org

Iran Men's National Football team holding children's backpacks during their national anthem. 😢

The Press Club cancelled Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges after he submitted a speech on the killing of Palestinian journalists, then booked Israel's ambassador instead. If you wonder why media reporting on Gaza genocide has been so disappointing this is what they think is normal.

National Press Club platforming Israeli ambassador - knowing IDF killed 250+ journalists - for lunch chat. In the same week Israel admits doctoring Lebanese journalist image after murder. Disgraceful & dystopian yet somehow still shamelessly in full view, to be broadcast on ABC

We have often remarked that the mismanagement of COVID-19 messaging and the disinformation networks have left us in a weaker position to tackle novel disease outbreaks in the future… what I hadn’t anticipated was how this would be leveraged against countries in a war effort.

More mass murder by Israel.

It's sickening that people can tolerate 70K civilians murdered in Gaza but not $6 a gallon.

I like how we have no plans for running out of what was always a finite resource. Like, this is geopolitically but not logistically unexpected, on a long enough timescale we were always going to hit the point of "oops! No more oil!", but the people put in charge of that planned to be retired by then

All that remains 😞

It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes. How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims? The ALP in your head is long dead.

Do we really want a world where the strong can do as they please and the weak suffer as they must? I wrote for The Guardian today about why Australia shouldn’t stand for this, and why international law matters for a middle power like Australia #auspol #politas www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"US military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group."

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

A core tenet of our justice system is the presumption of innocence. But for two years, police have been undermining this fundamental principle, inflicting lasting damage on innocent people whose only 'crime' is disagreeing with government policy. www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

Wow! Looking it up the second strike was on a nearby clinic treating the injured schoolgirls from the first strike. Either that's some wicked planning or it's a very calculated response to not killing all the kids. This event is SO much worse than I thought! kashmirobserver.net/2026/03/01/i...

All civilian deaths are tragic, but we're getting a real sense of whose lives are valued more. If The Australian had run this story for Gaza it would have had to do it more than 8,000 times. Never mind one for the around 150 children killed in a Tehran school just this week...

An observation for Australian security folk to ponder! Or the government, I don’t know

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

saw this corgi driving a bus today

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Imagine that overnight your ability to drive was taken away, and it would take who knows how long to get it back. How much would that fuck with your ability to do basic things like earn money, not get fired from your job, feed yourself, get medical care, see family.

They can’t even legally drive to the DMV to get the license that will misgender them by law because the statute invalidating their licenses went into immediate effect.

Has anyone dealt with dog depression? We got Bonnie at 3 months old & she has only ever known life with Bella. Now Bella is gone, Bonnie is not eating properly, often refusing to drink, and to go to the toilet. She rarely leaves my side. The Vet thinks it is depression and has no real answers.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Grace Tame suggests Anthony Albanese labelling her ‘difficult’ is ‘misogynist’s code for a woman who won’t comply’

If Albo is right that children are obliged to lie in the bed that their mother made, why is he sleeping at the Lodge and not a public housing flat, while the children of the "ISIS brides" must remain in a refugee camp in Syria? Seems a little inconsistent, logically, just saying.

Australians are being marketed property inside Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Despite international law deeming these settlements invalid, events in Sydney and Melbourne promoted projects linked to dispossession and expansion. Full story: Michael West Media.

It is an event where queer rights are still being fought for, Greenwich says. “The reality is, in NSW, a teacher or a student can still be kicked out of a private school because of their sexuality. #auslaw #nswpol www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The NW Tasmanian Advocate continues to highlight discrimination in the state’s Catholic schools, this time looking at the politics and legalities. More in the comments.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... That’s the party surging in the polls. Thats who they are.

I seriously thought it would be a piece in The Australian about ‘another essentially good man brought down by woke culture’ but blaming the mother exceeds that

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

PM: “I have nothing but contempt for these people… “ ABC: What about the children? PM: “That is the responsibility of their parents and their mothers in particular… their mothers made this decision to travel overseas against the national interest…”

It's a scandal the way children in desperate need of medical treatment are being abandoned by clinic after clinic. It is no less of a scandal than diabetic patients cut off from insulin or poor people turned away from ERs if they can't pay.

Study: SARS-CoV-2 RNA found in 39% of hospital air samples during outbreaks, despite good ventilation. Kirby Institute researchers sampled air and surfaces in a Sydney hospital ED and ICU during two COVID-19 waves (Nov 2023–Jul 2024), detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA in 39% of aerosol samples collected.