🏏 Sam Pang's deleted scene from "The Idea of Australia"

The prime minister is the president of a lobby group? So much like a tin-pot dictatorship. But it happened here, in Canberra… Sportswashing and corruption in politics, the latest analysis from New Politics. READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE. @dlew919.bsky.social #AUSPOL open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

What a deal. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Luckily Marr was no match for Hedges who showed him up repeatedly. But Marr's pedantic nitpicking over the disgraceful #NPC cancellation & his combative, over-excited tone throughout was just bizarre. He treated Hedges as a hostile & did his damndest to lay a knockout blow. He failed ignominiously.

For Australians like Mike, the end of the Coronavirus Supplement in 2021 and the return to "regular" social support payments like JobSeeker, Austudy and Youth Allowance after lockdown meant a return to poverty. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

It’s a great shame our National Press Club didn’t proceed with address by Pulitzer winning war correspondent Chris Hedges. His insights into IDF manipulation of media messaging are instructive. Western media is easily played. And the IDF murders non-compliant in situ journalists.

Hey Albo has the light dawned yet? TRUMP is the pariah in his own country a dictator and your Labor government have signed away billions of taxpayers money to this incompetent volatile Trump government that incites wars, funds genocides and hunts down its own citizens. bsky.app/profile/anti...

What could possibly go wrong? Crawling Albo gifting our critical minerals to Trump. Since when did Albo own them, in order to give away control of them to the US? Handing Trump a stake in Australian mining companies would be a disaster — and may be illegal as well www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/d...

Wow. David Marr's interview with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Chris Hedges is extraordinary. And not in a good way. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

😳 DM: 'Now whether we like it or not, as journalists we have to report the excuses made by outlets like the IDF, don't we. We have to report their explanations. That's our job.' CH: 'No, our job is to report the truth.'

I am a regular listener of LNL ABC with David Marr but was absolutely appalled at his interview with Chris Hedges. David was combative and downright rude imo. David Milner of ‘The Shot’ gave a respectful and insightful interview with Chris. Difference between independent and msm?

Weird interview by David Marr of Chris Hedges. Marr seems to think his job is to stand up for the Press Club (and media like the NY Times) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

It was obvious from the moment Trump opened his mouth that what Palestinians were getting was a "Clayton's Peace Plan." The "Peace Plan" you get when you're not getting a peace plan. The "Peace Plan" you get that only protects the perpetrators of a genocide. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

While civilians in Gaza were suffering severe malnutrition & lacked medical supplies, clean water, shelter, and food, Abu Shabab’s men were hoarding aid & living under 24-hour Israeli military protection in eastern Rafah. They stockpiled stolen aid & drip-fed it onto the black market at high prices.

Earlier this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to admit his backing of these ISIS-linked gangs after Israeli Knesset Member Avigdor Lieberman criticized the strategy publicly.

Not only do the people of Gaza despise criminal gangs for committing armed robbery, extortion, drug-dealing, aid theft, the murder of civilians, and collaborating with the military that is committing a genocide, but these groups are led by people who have some of the worst reputations imaginable.

As Israel breaks the ceasefire with air strikes on Gaza, its F35 fighter jets are being kept in the air through parts shipped from Williamtown NSW, and made in Bendigo Vic and numerous other locations. We say it again, there must be a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

Us writing in Crikey, Friday: "First, maybe let's wait a hot minute before building the victory arch"

Albanese continues to push this line - without any agreement from the Australian people. Cancel AUKUS!

UPDATE: Israel is striking all over Gaza, claiming Hamas violated the ceasefire. Hamas says they didn’t, and it was settlers running over an explosive device. Bottom line: people are still dying, including children.

Essential workers facing a dearth of affordable rentals. An inadequate national patchwork of renters rights. Solutions? Fix the tax system, build affordable & public 🏘️ 🏠 www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Hey @australia.theguardian.com - After two years of the #GazaGenocide and Israeli propaganda, it's way past time to move on from the pathetic "Israel says..." approach to reporting. #ThisIsNotJournalism www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Yes 💯 and ABC News Australia #ThisIsNotJournalism

The 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Keynote Speaker: Chris Hedges Don't miss it. youtu.be/MGqtPIR8rFU

March 2025, Francesca Albanese— "Excuse me but I don't need to hear what 'Israel says'." "We have failed to prevent a genocide." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs BREAKING!!!! Israel is bombing Gaza again! Will anyone stop these maniacs? Where are the ministers and heads of state who were celebrating “peace” just last week? x.com/FranceskAlbs...

#Genocide by #Israel.

I interviewed Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges for an hour about the Western media betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club of Australia, fascism and a violent empire in decline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...

Victoria’s Police Commissioner has made the centre of the city a “designated area” where people can’t wear masks. Say these police. Re hiding identity? So we can’t protect our lungs from pepper spray that they plan to deploy? This is a rotten infringement of our protest rights/health #auspol

Three (3) of these for Japan every week. WE get #SFA.

Detailed investigation from Jommy reveals more lies from the Albanese government. #GazaGenocide #SundayShot #auspol

Labor's #Albo-tross constantly blocks reforms Australians want. He seemingly took fright at Australia's rejection of the #Voice so now risks nothing. Had he actually LED a campaign for the #Voice, it might have been different but he squibbed it. Leaders LEAD. He is no leader. He just wants to be PM.

Defence officials ducked and weaved in Senate estimates last week trying to avoid the dilemma they put themselves in. Williamtown is either a US operation sending weapons wherever the US chooses or Australia has a role, in which case it is complicit in supporting the genocide

Renowned cardiologist #PeterMacdonald has been on forced leave for 6 weeks meanwhile St Vincent’s Zionist doctors #genocidedeniers openly campaign against him michaelwest.com.au/zionist-doct... - here’s the latest

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The Israeli government has listed our rally “against racism and fascism” this coming Sunday as “anti-Israel” on their government website. They’re telling on themselves 🙃 See you on Sunday to oppose the racist March for Australia.

The Wet season in the Kimberley is approaching fast. Huge electrical storms are building everywhere daily now, and the skies are dramatic. 1 am and it rolls across the dry flats, driving dust storms before it, lightning going in every direction, cloud to cloud, and upwards, which I've never seen.🧵

Please read this thread- then consider Anthony Albanese’s dismissive attitude towards admitting all of Israel’s crimes, and a full appreciation of Israel’s barbarity towards Palestinians. There are no two sides. Israel will have to be held accountable. And that - has barely started #auspol

Israel has extended its illegal incarceration, without charge or trial, of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. He was kidnapped while providing medical care at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, and has been subjected to assault, beatings, starvation and abuse in Israel’s torture dungeons.

Yesterday I was on a panel discussing I,Daniel Blake with antipoverty network sa. It was aired for a bunch of social work students. It was confronting but hopefully we helped change any bias they may of had against those in poverty.

“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks” Just contemplate that sentence. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The WWII Jewish Resistance carried out acts of extrajudicial killings of Nazi collaborators. The USA carries out acts of extrajudicial killings on most days of the year. Bin Laden and Venezuelan fishmen are just two examples. ISRAEL since 1948 is a daily extrajudicial killer of Palestinians. So—

"It is also simply undeniable in my view that the scale of Israel’s level of killing in Gaza is now comparable to what Pol Pot did in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979."

Always remember - The ALP do not need a single vote from an LNP Senator to pass laws.

Do you see how the Targeted Compliance Framework is a framework for the government to dispense with social security law, and administrative law, to punish welfare recipients to extract capital? With the proud object of Targeting them with Compliance. As a weapon forged by the state. As in Robodebt.

The obligations were of course never mutual, why else would they need to call them that in the first place, but the Australian Government has totally abandoned the idea of compliant welfare administration on their side of things for too many years now & decided also to videotape their crime spree 👍

Basically, the Australian political class as a whole is aligned on one central belief - that poor people should be subject to worse laws and treatment than rich people. That’s Centrelink, robodebt, mutual obligations, ndis, all of it.