Sanctions now.

#Lebanon #WeSeeYou 🙏❤️🇱🇧💔

It's always tricky, when talking about these conflicts, to determine who are the bad guys. Well let me tell you, Israel are fucking evil www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔

C’mon Penny - a condition of the ceasefire included Lebanon! You know this. Yet in the last few hours 100s of people have been murdered in Lebanon by Israel’s indiscriminate bombing. If there ever was a potential semblance of a ceasefire: Israel is hell bent on undermining it. #auspol

imagine raising your babies to believe in doing this, to justify this, to complain about feeling isolated for supporting this.

A 1.4% levy on the gambling industry could compensate the media for ALL revenue lost from a potential gambling advertising ban. Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. It's time for our government to act. @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

🌈 Announcing the Magabala Pride Fellowship 🌈 In partnership with Pride Foundation Australia, the Fellowship will award $10,000 to a First Nations storyteller to dedicate time to developing or completing a manuscript. 📅 Applications close 24 April 2026 👉 Apply now: bit.ly/4tjK50s

@laboraus.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social no doubt we’ll be doing the same soon #auspol

Australia’s arts and culture cannot be produced overseas, and cannot be moved offshore. It can only be made here. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4s0JjV2

Spanish prime minister says Israel wants to inflict on Lebanon 'same destruction' as in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spanish-prime-minister-says-israel-wants-inflict-lebanon-same

Just as with the last federal election, more people voted against conservative candidates in South Australia, than for them. And yet policy and media is still dictated by conservative politics and whether or not there is ‘political space’ to enact them 🫠🫠🫠🫠

“The arts sector is in crisis, still recovering from COVID and the cost-of-living crisis. It needs support to survive," said Skye Predavec, Researcher at The Australia Institute. Read more: https://theaus.in/4taHypy

"Al-Saawi gazes at the empty space where the shelves once stood and reflects on the magnitude of the loss." "It once held more than 1.5 million books." "[M]ore than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Genocide

Vale Rhoda Roberts - a cultural warrior indeed. Her legacy will live on in the way she contributed to building the arts and cultural fabric of this country, for the benefit everyone. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Widen your gaze and look upon Lebanon. Nearly a million people have been displaced by Israel in the past 3 weeks. They've been told not to return. That's ethnic cleansing. The last time Israel occupied Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah was born. What horrors will be unleashed now?

ABC News reporting that farmers are running out of diesel. There are no reports of coal mines running out of diesel, despite that the mining industry uses 3 times as much as agriculture does.

The gas cartel has swiftly rolled out a campaign to preserve their wartime profits from OUR gas. The PM has the numbers in the House and the support of Greens in the Senate to ensure struggling Aussies benefit from high international gas prices. #auspol

Today we're celebrating all the deadly Blak poets out there for #WorldPoetryDay 🙌🏽 Each Magabala poetry collection offers a distinct voice, but together this list reflects the strength, diversity, and ongoing presence of First Nations peoples. Check them out here: bit.ly/4sZrrej

Nearly everyone I loved now lies beneath the earth. -Refaat Ibrahim

Israel is bombing Syria's new regime's forces while the United States demands that Syria's new regime invades Lebanon to fight Hezbollah together with Israel.

Switzerland halts arms exports to the US due to Iran war, citing neutrality - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/switzerland-halts-arms-exports-us-due-iran-war-citing-neutrality

The war in the Middle East could cost Australia $16.5 billion in growth by 2027. A 25% tax on gas exporters (making massive profits on the war making gas prices rise) could raise $17 billion for Australia. @grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

Read the research ⤵️⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/free-ch...

“A Queensland government minister intervened to ensure that a new theatre would not be named after the Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, overriding the theatre’s board, according to documents obtained under right to information laws” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Each person shot in the head in the village of Tammun, while two other children of the deceased couple sustain injuries.

Appeals to social cohesion now routinely ignore the violence of contemporary racism directed at indigenous Australians. By @thomasmayo.bsky.social

And now Israel is using the war with Iran to accelerate their #EthnicCleansing of both #Gaza and the #WestBank. And Lebanon.

Got to be in it to win it! What a beautiful stack of books 🤩 #booksky

The IOF have executed Palestinian parents and two children in occupied West Bank near Tubas— 1. Father: Ali Bani Oudeh, 37yo 2. Mother: Waad Bani Oudeh, 35yo 3. Mohammad Ali Bani Oudeh, 5yo 4. Othman Ali Bani Oudeh, 7yo. All were shot in the head and face. Two other children were wounded.

This violence is not normal. It is not justifiable. Refuse to normalise this violence. Refuse the attempt to further shift the Overton window of dehumanisation of Black and Brown bodies. Refuse the Australian government’s normalisation of US and Israeli violence #auspol #aukus

This gorgeous child’s name is Muhammad Ali Khaled Bani Ouda. Today he was killed by an Israeli soldier who shot him in the head. He was 5 years old. He lived in the West Bank. They killed his mother, father and 7 year old brother in the same way. If it’s not the IDF it’s settler violence #auspol

This is routine. Israel issues warnings for some areas, and bombs other areas anyway. They get their sense of domination by being the ones who decide who lives and who dies.

Beirut could be another Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Excellent reporting from Beirut by @justinsalhani.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Israel continues to commit horrifying war crimes. The silence is astounding. The apathy (or cowardice?) of our elected leaders in the face of these crimes is one of the most frustrating and maddening things I’ve ever experienced #auspol

Highlighting Husic pointed to research from The Australia Institute, Ed Husic showed Parliament that roughly 30% of Australia’s gas exports are not required to meet existing contracts. “These facts will stun Australians,” Husic said. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4blZWUO

Still astounded at the lack of humanity while being reminded that settler colonisation requires this level of dehumanisation to be what it is.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Unsure how to report on this fresh absurdity? Translation: the U.S. and Israel, both nuclear powers who have already flattened Gaza, now claim a moral duty to 'preemptively' bomb Iran. Why? A sudden concern for international law and paranoia Iran might develop the very weapons they already have.

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

#SavioursOfWomen #Afghanistan #Iraq #Libya #Iran

Come join me and the talented Ellen Van Neerven on Thursday 5th of March for this virtual in-conversation

How beautiful is 'Muttonfish Magic'? 😍 Join Aunty Ruth Simms, Lucy Robertson and Jasmine Seymour in celebrating this deadly kids book 📚 📅 Saturday 21 February 🕰️ 12pm 🏠 Better Read Than Dead, NSW 🎟️ FREE Enjoy listening as Aunty Ruth read, followed by a language activity that speaks to the book!