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Backyard revolution is my thing🌺
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Asher Wolf
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Australia’s National Press Club is spineless
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
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Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/hedges-report-npc-australia-caves-to-israel-lobby-cancels-talk/
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Sontology
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National Press Club sponsors here
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They all must be very pleased with the cancellation of Chris Hedges' talk.
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Patrons and Benefactors - National Press Club of Australia
Honouring the memory of Australian war correspondents Facebook Twitter Instagram C.E.W. Bean Menu Patrons The Hon. Kim Beazley AC Professor Geoffrey
https://npc.org.au/cew-bean-foundation/patrons-and-benefactors
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Rheum Cat
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Long live the PDX frog
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Calgary_Buffalo
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Fucking Goons!
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bill doyle
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free palestine rally, naarm / Melbourne, victoria, australia
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Mehdi Hasan
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Rob Arnol
1 day ago
🖤💛❤️✊🏾
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Mickey Blue
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@senatorwong.bsky.social
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Marciano Brito
1 day ago
From Gaza, A message for the global Sumud Flotilla and the world 🎥 juwayriya208 🧵237...⤵️
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Plainly the executive is compromised when is enough Zionism enough? This not only effects journalism it effects us all. Shame NPC🤬
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RTÉ News
4 days ago
Irish academic and university staff across the island of Ireland have appealed to President Michael D Higgins to nominate Dr Francesca Albanese for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
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Higgins urged to nominate Albanese for Nobel Peace Prize
Irish academic and university staff across the island of Ireland have appealed to President Michael D Higgins to nominate Dr Francesca Albanese for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1001/1536356-nobel-peace-prize/
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Robyn D
3 days ago
Unmasked: Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of misogyny and racism inside Met Police
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Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police
Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that "toxic behaviours", far from being driven out of the Met, have been driven underground.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq06d44jyo
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Matt Novak
2 days ago
Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:
gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...
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Green Left
3 days ago
Labor’s 2035 greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 62–70% below 2025 levels, is not only inadequate, but part of a cruel deception that it accepts that climate change is real.
www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1439/an...
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Labor’s 2035 emission target a cruel deception
Labor’s 2035 greenhouse gas emission reduction target is not only inadequate, Peter Boyle argues it forms part of the deception that Australia accepts that climate change is real.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1439/analysis/labors-2035-emission-target-cruel-deception
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Nick Feik
3 days ago
Federal governments have known about the gross mismanagement and corruption in their offshore detention operations for years. Neither the NACC nor the AFP nor Home Affairs nor DFAT - who all know about it - have shown any desire to stop it. Serves their political purposes.
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Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/03/refugees-and-asylum-seekers-on-nauru-going-hungry-despite-government-spending-15m-a-year-for-each-person
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Peggy Sanders
4 days ago
“Though this was utterly unthinkable even five years ago, it’s now reflected in poll after poll, and is so entrenched it’s hard to imagine it can be reversed.” The assault that has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians has driven US support for Israel “off a cliff”
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‘Stunning reversal’: New York Times poll finds US support for Israel has plummeted
“Though this was utterly unthinkable even five years ago,” said one journalist, “it’s now reflected in poll after poll, and is so entrenched it’s hard to imagine it can be reversed.”
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/stunning-reversal-new-york-times-poll-finds-us-support-for-israel-has-plummeted/
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FreePalestine
4 days ago
#GazaGenocide
, 01 Oct 2025. Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday expelled all remaining Israeli diplomats in the country over the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla by Israeli forces. Petro severed relations with Israel last year but four diplomats remained posted in the country.
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Glen Le Lievre
11 days ago
The bombing kangaroo
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Ron Filipkowski
4 days ago
He can’t take tariff money and give it to anyone, so that is bs. Congress has to pass another farm bailout bill just like they had to the last time Trump wrecked their businesses. So farmers will have to embrace socialism again since they can’t compete in market capitalism.
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May Janes legacy fill the hearts of young ppl everywhere♥️ Today we have lost a giant of the humanities Vale Jane Goodall
janegoodall.org
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Remembering Jane - Jane Goodall Institute USA
1934-2025 Remembering Dr. Jane Scientist. Conservationist. Humanitarian. Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, was a remarkable example of courage and conv...
https://janegoodall.org/
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4 days ago
Hastie a white Christian Nationalist, who thinks the world is 6000 yrs old and that women are second class citizens and Tehan running around wanting Nuclear plants back on the Coalition agenda! Hopefully this will be the death nell for them
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Acyn
4 days ago
Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.
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Agnes Mack
5 days ago
John Lyons: Trump's peace plan shows Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president
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Benjamin Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president
For all US President Donald Trump's boasts about ending wars and being a worthy candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize, he has failed to end the war in Gaza and build a sustainable future for both Israelis...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-30/netanyahu-has-outmanoeuvred-yet-another-american-president/105833774?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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Senator David Shoebridge
5 days ago
Australia is literally keeping Israel’s F35 fighter jets flying and bombing by sending dozens and dozens of parts directly to Israel since the genocide began. This is actively supporting a genocide. It is criminal.
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The Australia Institute
5 days ago
We've launched a new documentary highlighting the devastating impact of climate change on the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu. Save Tuvalu, Save the World is presented by Walkley Award-winning journalist and former ABC Four Corners reporter
@stephenlongaus.bsky.social
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Watch ⤵️
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New Video: Save Tuvalu, Save the World
This original documentary from The Australia Institute takes viewers to the front line of the destruction that climate change is causing.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-video-save-tuvalu-save-the-world/
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Bridie (EBK)❤️💛🖤🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏽👊
5 days ago
Posted on I/G 1.30pm AET from vessel Wahoo 6 Australians on board.
@albomp.bsky.social
@senatorwong.bsky.social
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
#Auspol
Watch Livestream from vessels:
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Rex Patrick
5 days ago
In his
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@albomp.bsky.social
wants to remove anonymity for whistleblowers or retribution fearing individuals/businesses who want to request information, but grant anonymity to ‘no care, no responsibility’ bureaucrats making FOI refusal decisions.
#ForGovtNotForYou
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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉
5 days ago
Dr Assal Rad— "UNICEF Spox James Elder is back in Gaza and says the violence is worse than ever. "A horror show, paid for with US tax dollars."
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Ryan Marino, MD
5 days ago
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Peter Murphy
5 days ago
To be clear: The Australian Albanese Govt's Special Envoy for Antisemitism Jillian Segal is NOT an anti-semitism advocate at all. She's a Zionist Israel Envoy. Australian taxpayers' money is being paid to an an advocate for a foreign power engaged in genocide.
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#Zionism≠Judaism
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Will our Australian Warriors have to kill ppl and break things too🤔
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Defend Our Juries
6 days ago
66 people were arrested outside the Labour Conference yesterday for peacefully holding signs with “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” written on them. Hundreds of police officers were used to try to enforce Labour’s absurd ban. They failed to arrest everyone.
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Ron Filipkowski
5 days ago
Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.
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Christopher Webb
6 days ago
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
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The Australia Institute
5 days ago
"Would any other country knowingly destroy its most precious cultural treasures to save a gas company money?" "And for what? Woodside's North-West shelf project is an export project. It undermines our energy security." Add your name to the petition to
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theaus.in/saveMurujuga...
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Murdoch is a pox on humanity
5 days ago
The apocalypse would be less painful if we didn't have a piece of shit plutocracy pretending to be a real government.
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Labor caved in to Woodside again, allowing Woodside to destroy Murujuga with acid gas emissions for another 45 years.
www.afr.com/companies/en...
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Watt watered down gas project conditions after Woodside warning
Documents shed new light on backroom negotiations between Woodside and the federal government over the future of the huge North West Shelf gas facility.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/watt-watered-down-gas-project-conditions-after-woodside-warning-20250929-p5myno?fbclid=IwY2xjawNIbHRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwUjJFNFN3UG54a1ExcmlTAR67Ha18VKiM_ZViG4PwTHyhMViiKgsnCigcpxIrzWfsOdp98xzHIIn2GAmhVw_aem_Zt0eL7r6yRRWrNY9BKLd2Q
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TheFinnigans
6 days ago
Of course there are many hopes for Obnoxious POS Marles to keep on kissing Mein Trumpf and the Zionists arse
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Asher Wolf
6 days ago
It’s not just that the CDP was in and of itself unlawful. In a 3 month period the scheme issued 55k penalty notices “to 35,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Aboriginal”
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Rob Arnol
6 days ago
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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Asher Wolf
6 days ago
“Morton admits writing it "sent me mad"; he stopped seeing his friends and felt angry all the time.”
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Resist 🕎🍉
6 days ago
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#BREAKING
| In Genoa, the dockers refuse to be complicit. They blocked the loading of the Zim New Zealand ship, filled with weapons for Israel. Supported by their unions, they paralyzed the port, forcing the ship's departure... empty.
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Andrea Devon
7 days ago
Absolutely insane!! Imagine being chased through downtown Chicago for speaking. So glad he got away.
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Tim Stephens
7 days ago
“Of all the billionaires who could have acquired a stake in TikTok, Murdoch has what is probably the least transparent and most extreme political agenda. It’s not hard to guess what kind of political content will be amplified, and what will be censored.”
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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My generation had a chance of escaping the Murdoch grip. Then Rupert bought TikTok
Unlike a newspaper or subscription TV, social media isn’t seen as inherently biased. Now, TikTok could creep to one side of politics without us noticing.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/my-generation-had-a-chance-of-escaping-the-murdoch-grip-then-rupert-bought-tiktok-20250926-p5my8n.html
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Paul Eric Scannell
7 days ago
Italian port workers blocked weapons shipment to 1$rael. The ships left empty! 👏👏👏👏🇮🇹
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Simon Rosenberg
7 days ago
The Australian govt talks about the need to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. But when Australian citizens join a multinational contingent to do so, and bravely face Israeli intimidation, they get zero support. Shameless hypocrisy from Albanese & Wong.
#GazaGenocide
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Paul Eric Scannell
7 days ago
A girl with courage and brave Ahed Tamimi, who was locked up at 16 for slapping an Israeli soldier, was reportedly detained again Nov 2023 . Listen to her speak in 2022 about the 12,000 Palestinian children Israel has imprisoned since 2000.
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Peggy Sanders
7 days ago
“A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’”
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US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract
A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/29/us-private-prisons-operator-paid-790m-to-hold-100-people-on-nauru-in-quiet-expansion-of-contract
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The Tennessee Holler
7 days ago
UN: “Kids dying of starvation… what we give them is a peanut butter paste. We’ve been told we can’t bring that in because it’s a luxury.” AMANPOUR: “Seriously?”
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Bridie (EBK)❤️💛🖤🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏽👊
8 days ago
Thanks to Australian, Hamish Paterson, part of
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@albomp.bsky.social
for sanctions & more on Israel. Keep up the pressure✌🏽🇵🇸
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