Meadow Argus
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Anarchist, atheist, artist, antifascist. Combative in person, conciliatory online.
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Sketch of punk girl at the demo.
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The White Rose Society (Australia)
about 13 hours ago
BIG UPDATE! Alex Volvach, a National Socialist Network member who attended the rally at NSW Parliament, has a police-issued license allowing him to install and maintain security devices and has held contracts with the NSW Education Department. Click the link below for the updated story.
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Andy Fleming
about 11 hours ago
oh noes! Feat. Mr Matthew "Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?" Gruter & Mr Dean Alessi-Was-A-Race-Car-Driver. That still leaves dozens of others ...
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Unmasking the men who attended a Neo-Nazi protest at NSW parliament
Around 60 men attended a protest at NSW parliament organised by the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network on Saturday. Without masks, it gave the ABC the opportunity to identify some of them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-13/unmasking-nsw-parliament-house-nsn/106005186
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The White Rose Society (Australia)
about 16 hours ago
Sydney Trains employee Cooper Stephens has been stood down after attending the National Socialist Network's rally at NSW Parliament last weekend
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Sydney Trains employee stood down after attending neo-Nazi rally
In a statement, a spokesman for Sydney Trains said it had stood down an employee while it investigated his potential involvement in the rally and was âvery concerned with the matterâ.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/sydney-trains-employee-stood-down-after-attending-neo-nazi-rally-20251113-p5nf63.html
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Drawing some nice lads photographed outside NSW parl by
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Working Class History
3 days ago
#OtD
11 Nov 1887 4 of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. Learn more in this history of May Day, which commemorates them:
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Andy Fleming
3 days ago
2/ By which I mean, inter alia: Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told [NOV 7, 2025]:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Working Class History
3 days ago
#OtD
10 Nov 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni indigenous author and activist, was hanged by the Nigerian state for resisting Royal Dutch Shell, alongside eight other Ogoni people. They had organised nonviolent resistance to destruction of Indigenous lands
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Nobody Deserves Poverty
4 days ago
Often police visited in the middle of the night, or in the early hours of the morning when the children were asleep. âThey would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,â
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150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ârelentlessâ checks
Exclusive: A family has launched a court case against NSW police alleging racial discrimination is behind excessive bail checks
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/10/indigenous-mother-takes-legal-action-after-150-police-visits-in-20-months-ntwnfb
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Brittany Trang
5 days ago
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. đ§Șđ§Źđ§«
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/
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Andy Fleming
5 days ago
Pro-tip: Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a đ on it. Then sit back and watch the carnage. đ
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW police accused of âsickeningâ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers
Pro-Palestine and climate activists join Jewish voices criticising âentirely inconsistent police responsesâ and âunfathomable approvalâ
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/09/nsw-police-accused-of-sickening-double-standard-over-neo-nazi-rally-as-jewish-groups-demand-answers
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Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat
Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Australian waters in one of the biggest algal blooms ever seen, could harm marine life elsewhere
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2503068-toxic-algae-blighting-south-australia-could-pose-a-global-threat/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762586932
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Possum
5 days ago
The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way
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Police need more powers to stop ânaked racism and hatredâ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says
Dozens of neo-Nazis demonstrated outside NSW parliament on Saturday where they held an antisemitic banner and chanted a Hitler Youth slogan
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/08/nsw-police-powers-sydney-neo-nazi-rally-premier-chris-minnssays
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Simon Rosenberg
7 days ago
âThe rich get breezy upper stories with the view, pool and state-of-the-art amenities, while the poor are hidden away downstairs with a discreet entrance and no access to facilitiesâ What was that about Australia not having a class system?
#inequality
#auspol
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âPoor doorsâ: affordable housing tenants have to use back entrance to access Barangaroo apartments
Those paying discounted rent at Watermans Residences canât use pool or gym, either. Critics say segregation âa dystopian microcosm of housing inequalityâ
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/06/poor-doors-affordable-housing-tenants-have-to-use-back-entrance-to-access-barangaroo-apartments
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talia jane â€ïžâđ„
8 days ago
someone got indicted on the basis of âtransporting antifa materialsâ for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEYâRE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
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ICE must be destroyed đłïžââ§ïžđŽ
9 days ago
1. There are three very important constraints on tonight's Mamdani victory you have to keep in mind when we're looking at what he's going to be able to do in office (taking him in good faith as someone who wants to make life better for people and discounting Trump). Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Fiona Parker
8 days ago
BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured
#Bendigo
Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable. Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uniâs request.
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FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival
A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-05/latrobe-bendigo-writers-festival-boycott-council-threat/105964398
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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD
11 months ago
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Royce Kurmelovs
9 days ago
"The breakthrough research, which is undergoing the process of academic peer review, also shows it to have been the dominant species for the majority of the bloom's existence and one of five Karenia species present."
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Scientists hopeful they have found source of SA algal bloom toxins
Scientists believe they have identified the species responsible for the toxins in South Australia's marine algal bloom that has killed millions of aquatic animals.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-05/south-australian-algal-bloom-source-identification/105968904
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Boston Married
10 days ago
Many unemployed people compelled to attend these agencies are disabled, or have parent/carer commitments, and private employers exclude both those groups . Create jobs, not punitive job agencies.
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Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists
Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/10/man-convicted-of-38-paedophile-offences-revealed-as-police-informer-who-spied-on-uk-activists
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Pat Simons
10 days ago
Private job agencies are an absolute rort and only exist to monitor and punish unemployed people. Abolish the lot.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies
Employment departmentâs annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/03/majority-jobseekers-unable-to-get-long-term-work-despite-private-agencies
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hannah gais
11 days ago
I unpacked the implications of Nick Fuentes' collaboration with Tucker Carlson and the former Fox News host's willingness to portray the white nationalist livestreamer as a victim. Someone wants him in the mainstream. Why? And what does it mean?
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on tucker carlson, nick fuentes, the heritage foundation, and all that
If you had asked me in 2016 whether I thought Iâd write a blog about the Heritage Foundation defending a former Fox News host after he hosted a friendly conversation with one of the countryâs leading ...
https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-the-heritage-foundation-and-all-that/
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El Gibbs
12 days ago
'Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute'
@antipovertycentre.org
@caitkelly.bsky.social
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Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests
Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until itâs proven to be lawful
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/02/centrelink-payment-2025-payments-suspended-cancellations-mutual-obligation
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Andy Fleming
13 days ago
'... the passing in the ACT parliament on Thursday of legislation ... will overturn the High Court's decision in Bird v DP, which found that the Catholic Church's Diocese of Ballarat could not be sued for vicarious liability for the actions of one of its priests.'
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ACT becomes the mouse that roared in helping survivors fight for justice
Survivors watched on as the ACT took a historic step on Tuesday in passing a bill to overturn a High Court decision that allowed a church to avoid litigation over the actions of one of its priests.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/act-bird-defence-survivors-canberra-nsw/105939314
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Antipoverty Centre
14 days ago
Anglicare Australia says
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social
's plan to give police powers to have Centrelink payments stopped for people accused of a serious crime is âcompletely at odds with the principles of fairness and justiceâ. Thank you
@caitkelly.bsky.social
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I do not like the new BOM site, so this still works.
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Working Class History
14 days ago
#OtD
30 Oct 1944 the left-wing Greek People's Liberation Army liberated Thessaloniki from Nazi occupation. They stopped the Nazis from blowing up power plants and food factories and attacked retreating German units, then paraded through the streets
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It's money: for-profit childcare is immoral.
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'I don't think that the public has any idea': Paedophiles have infiltrated child care
The true scale of abuse in Australia's childcare centres has been hidden. With 200,000 pages of previously confidential files, police tip-offs, and evidence from whistleblowers, Four Corners exposes t...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/childcare-centres-paedophiles-abuse-four-corners/105926324?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawNtUa9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqM_P6LByMtHTEPrdAt_u-uM3YmLCDRDt9ZB9OEBDt3CDdHlNHhzLukjZZnw_aem_KD3z-rpxGhdbooegevmSTg
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Vaxatious Litigant đ
15 days ago
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Thomas Sewell found not guilty of offensive behaviour by Victorian court
A Victorian Magistrate says he has not been convinced that Thomas Sewell's behaviour during a 2023 Neo-Nazi rally in Ballarat was offensive.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/thomas-sewell-not-guilty-of-offensive-behaviour/105941348
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Guardian Australia
16 days ago
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albaneseâs Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
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Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albaneseâs Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
While the opposition leader criticised the prime ministerâs clothing as a âprofound failure of judgmentâ, Albanese posted he was âgetting things doneâ Sussan Ley, faced with internal turmoil over climate and environment issues while trying to extinguish simmering challenges from a disgruntled backbench who want to philosophically reshape the very party she leads, has elevated a critical new political issue to the top of the national agenda. The prime ministerâs decision to wear a Joy Division T-shirt. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/28/sussan-ley-goes-after-anthony-albaneses-joy-division-t-shirt-as-the-coalition-tears-itself-apart-again?CMP=aus_bsky
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benjamin
17 days ago
We really should be making more of the western suburbs' unique attractions - where else can you find a tip that has been on fire for six years?
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EPA may restore licence for Melbourne west tip burning six years
A company responsible for a tip that has been on fire for nearly six years may be allowed to keep its landfill licence, the ABC can reveal.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/kealba-landfill-fire-charges-dropped/105926760
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Had a 'Ballaarat Breakfast' tea this morning; didn't know this numpty was in court, but I wish him all the worst.
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A remote spy base and a âcriminalâ blockade raise questions about Australiaâs complicity in Gaza war
A protest over Pine Gapâs claimed role in genocide has refocused attention on the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/27/pine-gap-protests-spy-base-gaza-war-australia-complicity
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David Milner
18 days ago
The government sending their "we're not complicit, but..." talking points to APAN is fucking hilarious
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Exclusive: Australian governmentâs full talking points on Gaza accidentally sent to Palestinian advocacy group
Government notes reveal they wonât back Gaza hospital proposed by Dr Mohammed Mustafa
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-australian-governments
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I keep thinking about this poster from world war two, for some reason.
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19 days ago
Disappearing jewels. Todayâs Age cartoon
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Tom Studans
20 days ago
Worthless, chickenshit ANONYMOUS statement from the do-nothing Albanese Government who have done nothing to address these crises OR rebuild trust in the welfare system, have no plans for reform, & watch on uselessly as the collapsing welfare administration blows holes in legislation and the budget.
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Simon Rosenberg
20 days ago
David Pope perfectly sums up Anthony "democratic values" Albanese.
#FOI
#NACC
#auspol
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@jackob1.bsky.social
Melbourne, Australia; 1 scam call p/week.
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Asher Wolf
21 days ago
Approximately 44,000 Australians who have a debt with Centrelink have overpaid it, some by $20,000 or more
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Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000
Exclusive: Services Australia spokesperson says automatic BPay payments and Centrelink being unable to contact customers may be to blame
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/24/revealed-some-australians-have-overpaid-their-centrelink-debt-by-more-than-20000
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Asher Wolf
22 days ago
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found the average age of death for people who've experienced homelessness is 55 - almost three decades younger than the general population
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New data on links between early death and homelessness - ABC listen
The Institute of Health and Welfare has examined the link between death and homelessness.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/worldtoday/new-data-on-links-between-early-death-and-homelessness-/105920898
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mr dog
22 days ago
CLIMATE CHANGE IS COMING FOR YOUR PETS (and everything else)!! Here are some handy pro-pet hints for dealing with climatastrophe.
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ARE YOUR PETS OK?! How to keep them safe from climate-induced record-breaking everything everywhere | First Dog on the Moon
Get out of the Honda Gwyneth!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/22/are-your-pets-ok-how-to-keep-them-safe-from-climate-induced-record-breaking-everything-everywhere
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Late Night Anti-Fascists
23 days ago
Since most media won't talk directly to anti-fascists, we've followed the lead of other comrades and added an FAQ
to the about page
on our blog. We've also included a long list of hoaxes about 'antifa', feel free to take and repurpose any of this information.
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I was already drawing this whilst listening to Posting Through It, so I added text from Kelvin Pierce. Turned out a sad man instead of an angry man.
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Derf Backderf
23 days ago
Explanation of the ongoing crisis at the AngoulĂȘme Fest. Some high-profile authors and Publishers, including mine, ĂĂ et lĂ , are boycotting the upcoming festival. There are many issues in recent years, all thanks to the dysfunctional entrenched bureaucracy that runs the fest.
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AngoulĂȘme Festival's crisis resumes
AngoulĂȘme Festival remains mired in controversy as the deadline for alternative showrunners entered its final days
https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-festivals-crisis-resumes/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNkWvJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFETUpmZVFFR3FqeDdJZEl5AR4SfR5WHbZ-tkS0NKfNXaVIV9EtUC8C8vT9oJA3VelOYrZQNSmcix-_nzfpxw_aem_Z3glnLfKpG5kJK-W3tEubg
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Nobody Deserves Poverty
25 days ago
"He assured me he was going to be okay and made a joke about his cpap machine scaring off any wildlife that posed a risk. He wasn't okay." cw suicide
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The names they will never hear
Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/post/The-names-they-will-never-hear-P5P21N3AWM
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Mark Ogge
25 days ago
There, fixed it
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Spencer Sunshine
26 days ago
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Tim Dunlop
26 days ago
Melbourne: ever helpful
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