If Albanese was serious about antisemitism, he would never have appointed a prominent Israel lobbyist. Following the Bondi massacre, he is now stuck with responding to a 'plan' that draws more on Netanyahu's worldview than evidence of what works. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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REP. @ilhanmn.bsky.social OMAR: “They are racially profiling… ICE went into the mosque while they were praying…”

The take up of rooftop solar alone, Shows us Australians intuitively understand this truth. Renewable energy is cheaper energy. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The ABC in particular seems unable to analyze, let alone challenge, the #ZionistMcCarthyism of Jillian Segal's 'plan'. Hard to judge how much this is lazy journalism, or the Israel lobby's power which was so clear in the Antoinette Latouff case. But Board & management still pretends is not there.

David Pope. #auspol

We won't be lectured on "extremism" by a party who: - can't tell the difference between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel - actively supports a genocide - used racism to defeat The Voice - voted "It's OK to be white", and - is considering a white supremacist migration policy. #auspol

Hanson at the Bondi memorial calling for students to be "rounded up" and cuts to immigration. The crowd muttering in agreement, and giving her a huge round of applause once she finishes. Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia

The idea that massive crackdown on anti-genocide protests in universities, and refusing to support Palestinian statehood would have somehow prevented last Sunday's terror attack in Bondi has already infected Aus media so deep that they're taking it as a truism www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

If you’re having trouble finding an appointment to donate blood, a donation in later weeks still matters. Blood from all over the country has been moved to Sydney to help the victims of Sunday’s horrendous terror attack against Bondi’s Jewish community - anything helps x

Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮

The Hong Kong government has condemned a local press union, claiming it “whitewashed” media mogul Jimmy Lai, who was found guilty in his national security trial on Monday. The Foreign Correspondents' Club has not commented. The lease for its government premises is set to be negotiated this month.

Gun control is not the only way Australia has spared itself from the kind of horror we frequently see in the US. It’s also not the only thing that is alarmingly slipping, writes Charlie Lewis.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to Earth on December 19, giving astronomers a closer look at the mysterious visitor before it leaves our Solar System forever.

An altar in Kam Tin, Hong Kong, has achieved a Guinness World Record for the largest bamboo structure altar (temporary), at 3,897.409 m² (41,957.6 ft²) www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-record...

Many political journalists can only write about vibes & who, despite being completely ensconced in the gallery brain bubble, believe they know what voters care about. They are a big reason why media sites never hold an audience even after big news events - their schtick is transparently pointless.

Bloke did one decent thing in 40 years in public life and comes off the recliner to say it doesn't matter. (He got complete support from all bits of the ALP on guns BTW.) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Takes time to verify these things and find out, which @donnadlu.bsky.social did. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Who the fuck would listen to Howard push back against gun reform in the wake of the biggest tragedy in decades (and no one is saying it’s just gun reform which is needed, ofc hate in all forms, including anti-Semitism is horrendous) and come to the conclusion that THIS is the take?!

3 shots at 40 metres. The officer has a Glock handgun but he's up against 2 shooters with high-powered weapons. He has to get reasonably close to make it count & he doesn't want to get into a shootout, especially in such a populated area as Bondi. au.news.yahoo.com/hero-act-too...

'Authoritarian pressure is designed to be unendurable. That’s its strategic purpose. The task for democracies is not to make that external pressure feel bearable; it is to make it futile,' write Nathan Attrill and Bethany Allen.

The Greens will work with the government to pass reforms through federal and state parliaments to tighten the rules around gun ownership. This is not America and we must  work both to eradicate antisemitism and racism and to reduce unnecessary guns in our community.

There are now more privately-owned guns than there were before the 1996 buy-back. I welcome National Cabinet’s commitment to considering gun law reform.  All parliaments should join together to ensure no-one can walk the streets of an Australian city with a high-powered gun.

In the wake of the Port Arthur tragedy, governments collectively took action. So too should we after Sunday’s horrific antisemitic mass shooting. This is about our common humanity, and it should be above politics.

It's Netanyahu's Zionist actions in Gaza that have fostered such a tragic and appalling mass murder, not anything Albo may have done or not done.

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has respectfully requested that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to please stay out of Australian politics. Comments on the Bondi attack are not helping. www.channel4.com/news/netanya...

Australia’s gun laws urgently need tightening. But the reaction to John Howard’s 1996 laws could be a fraction of the likely backlash now, writes Bernard Keane.

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄 Be fucking serious for a moment.

Security agencies missed a forest of red flags blowing around father and son terrorists, Naveed and Sajid Akram. 🚩 🚩 🚩 #auspol #BondiMassacre www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Will all their big data mining overreaching powers …. Why did ASIO’s machines not pick up a previous POI going to JI training in the Philippines? What is the point of giving up civil liberties if they can’t even stop this? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

I cannot for life of me wrap my head around this. Mike Burgess admits they were known to ASIO and police, yet this trip to the Philippines wasn't flagged.. The whole situation stinks of something most foul...how in the fck will they spin this 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 #auspol

Pat Cummins says Bondi terror attack ‘hit home pretty hard’ as tributes flow before third Ashes Test

Israeli Ambassador claims Australian Jews have to “worship behind closed doors” obviously hasn’t visited St Kilda it’s surrounds. We have public Menorahs next to tinsel & baubles, as many Menorahs in windows as lighted trees. Keep that misinformation for the New York Times. #auspol

These lawmakers are racist, bigoted White Nationalist goons. It was Muslim man, Ahmed Al-Ahmed, from Syria, who foiled the terrorists *with his bare hands*. There were 400* mass shootings in the US *so far this year*. How many were white, American males who identify as Xtian? #auspol #Bondi

Let them eat tariffs

Maybe police and security services should have spent less time harassing peace protesters and more time looking into IS-affiliated guys with multiple weapons who went to the Philippines for terrorist training…?

Yeah, er, maybe don't "hand-pick" someone who is clearly going to make recommendations primarily about silencing criticism of Israel? Or remove her from the role when you find out her husband's company donated $50k to Advance?

Philippine immigration authorities said the father and son accused of killing 15 people in Sydney visited the country last month and traveled on Indian passports. bloom.bg/4aigbDN 📷: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

There’s never 1 reason for events such as last Sundays It’s always a complex mix of reasons such as… - gun ownership laws - emerging failures by our security services - lone actors reacting to the Netanyahu Govt’s genocide #auspol

“To be, or not to be” kicks off one of Shakespeare’s greatest—and most overacted—soliloquies. The writers of the new film “Hamnet” embraced the challenge of reinventing the well-worn speech, writes @shirklesxp.bsky.social:

Hong Kong Watch & 32 other civil society organisations can count on Keir Starmer to do absolutely nothing of the sort. He’s all set on going to Beijing in late January with approval for the super embassy in the vain hope of securing a trade deal with China. This government has sold out Hong Kongers.

Mark Clifford with @thecfhk.bsky.social writes in the NYTimes: "Trump Said Freeing Jimmy Lai Would Be Easy. He Should Prove It." tinyurl.com/2bwfnnxy #JimmyLai #FreeJimmyLai #NSL #HongKong

• You can oppose Zionism AND grieve the murder of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach • You can oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza AND want Jewish people in Australia to feel loved, respected & safe. • You can want a #FreePalestine AND mourn the deaths of innocents. #BondiBeachShooting

Less a landmark conviction of Jimmy Lai on those charges—more a confirmation of Xi Jinping’s and John Lee’s landmark insecurity. @chrdnet.bsky.social

‘Many observers see the official handling of the aftermath as another sign that Hong Kong is becoming more like mainland China. In reality, the situation is more troubling. Hong Kong has weakened its own accountability mechanisms without acquiring the governance tools that operate in the mainland’.

Judges in Hong Kong delivered guilty verdicts in the landmark national security trial of the media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai on Monday, following a five-year-old case that has come to symbolize the sweeping political changes in the city. nyti.ms/4oVYkGa

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