If four million pigs or chooks died on farms in a year, questions would be asked. Last year's death toll of Tas #salmon sparks calls for companies to be fined under animal welfare law, to avoid 2025 mortality rates becoming the "new normal". #politas #auspol tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/more-th...

More than four million salmon died at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, government data reveals @bobburtonoz.bsky.social for @tasinquirer.bsky.social tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/more-th...

Interesting stats from OECD report on Israel. Exports falling. Economy being held up by big increase in govt spending which can’t be sustained. Not only can ordinary folk supporting the boycott help stop the genocide. Based on the international political reality, right now its probably all that can

“in light of serious and credible criminal allegations of incitement to genocide and advocating genocide” by President Isaac Herzog during Israel’s “military onslaught” in Gaza

The Lib/Lab/gambling barons partnership will soon celebrate its 60th birthday in Tasmania . Australia’s first legal casino in Hobart began the rot that turned Australians into the biggest losers in the world. Poorest state in nation, massive state debt, but Lib/Lab looks after the gangsters still

Come on @albomp.bsky.social . Old mate is mad. It’s time. Break up now

One murdered boy was out collecting firewood for his mother so she was able to cook for her homeless family. When I pause to remember the victims of hate on our shores, I will also light a candle for this family today X

Am I missing something? Surely what the Israeli President has said about the Palestinians is the very definition of ‘hate speech’ and violent extremism under the legislation going through parliament today?

“There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago”. The President of the United States challenges the legitimacy of the European colonial project since Columbus

There is so much ignorance on Zionism after decades of well funded propaganda that I suspect the Premier really didn’t now that many Jewish people are not Zionists and the majority of Zionists are not Jews.

Morrison believes the restoration of biblical Israel, ie including the West Bank, is foretold in the Book of Revelation and will prefigure the return of Christ when almost all Jews, like the rest of us, will die. To give such offensive nonsense special protection in Australian law is totally bizarre

McKenzie is not an unusual Zionist but a typical one. Many Jewish people are not Zionists. Some Israelis are not either. The most influential global supporters of this political movement are actually right wing evangelical Christians who bizarrely associate Zionism with the imminent return of Christ

It is extraordinary how similar the arguments used to defend the slave trade in the British Parliament in 1800 were to those who are defending the coal trade in the Australian parliament now. If not us, others will fill the void & be worse; need a gradual transition, regulation best option etc etc

Ever since I learnt Clara Ford, Henry’s wife, preferred electric cars because they were quieter & cleaner, the current EV ‘revolution’ has looked less revolutionary. The model T didn’t triumph because it was a better car but because of the power of the petrol lobby. Whats changed?

We've just lived through the three hottest years ever recorded. The climate emergency has arrived. It’s coming for everything we hold dear.

If the pro Israel lobby in Australia could at least condemn the criminal and accelerating state supported ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, it might become possible to take seriously their claim that Zionism does not necessarily mean support for genocide and apartheid.

Until very recently, it was unimaginable that American evangelicals would not oppose the porn industry. Their abandonment of a centuries long social agenda, which for all its many limitations, confronted big money running the alcohol, gambling & sex industries, is now complete

One of the many problems of having marketing men and corporate executives run arts festivals is they assume human beings are always motivated by self interest. It’s unimaginable to them that writers could sacrifice their own interests for the common good.

Meanwhile ….

The media focus must be on the best known names but please support also lesser known & unwaged writers who have often laboured years on a book for little financial reward and for whom, festivals are a rare opportunity for promotion. In a boycott, these authors make the biggest sacrifice.

Apartheid in the Holy Land. If the late great Desmond Tutu was alive today, his support for non violent direct action to end apartheid in Israel would likely see him barred from the US and being labelled a terrorist under UK law. And there would certainly be no more truth telling trips to Palestine

A must read on the Palestine Action hunger strikers. How can this be happening in the UK? Under a Labour Government . Given the UN findings, surely past time for the few remaining countries in the world with respect for international law to speak up

6 January. Insurrection Day AND Epiphany which marks the end of Christmas. On this day Christians remember three wise leaders paying homage to a vulnerable baby who a narcissistic King wanted dead.

Its Time for the Australian Labor Government to remember that the ‘rules based international order’ to which it says national security and prosperity rely, has, by definition, one set of rules for all. And if America, can’t accept that, end AUKUS now.

A Royal Commission could helpfully confirm what we already know. ALL those who confuse criticism of the state of Israel with criticism of Jewish people, be they Islamic extremists, Zionist lobby groups, Jillian Segal, News Ltd editors or the Israeli PM, are pouring fuel on the fire of antisemitism.

“The response to the Bondi massacre has been seriously strange.” Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:

What incredible fish they are. Locking them up in tiny packed cages in warm southern Tasmanian estuaries is so cruel. Perhaps one cause of the disease so many of the captives suffer from is grief

There's the key sentence: "For brave leaders, there could be real political capital to be gained from reducing this mobility as feelings run high over waste, pollution and emissions." Brave leaders anyone? theconversation.com/the-politics...

Lest we forget …

The past 2 weeks have confirmed what is firming up as the judgement of history: John Howard was the most socially destructive and divisive PM Australia has ever had. He used his undoubted political skills to diminish and divide us as a nation - a work he is carrying on to this day.

Any comment Sussan, Josh, Jillian, any of you?

Proud to stand with the courageous and loving Jewish Council of Australia. Please take a moment to consider signing their petition

Southern Rock Lobsters are sentient beings & extraordinary creatures with critical ecological functions. Yet in Tasmania they are killed for fun and exported live with almost no public debate or concern except for divvying up quotas. As with cruelty to salmon, I hope this changes.

Will Australian defenders of violent acts of terrorism in the West Bank sponsored by the Israeli state be outlawed by Australia’s new hate speech laws? Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank . www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Israeli troops kill six Palestinians, including a baby, sheltering in Gaza school – video

Labor must critically analyse the effect on democracy and the right to protest of adopting the Segal report recommendations. Conflating antisemitism with legitimate opposition to Israeli govt genocide, apartheid and breaches of international law would be a grave mistake.

Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

There is nothing new in blaming extremists act of terror on peaceful citizens protesting extremist acts of terror. It’s part of the history of democratic states in times of crisis. When liberties are lost, all minorities become vulnerable. Democracy itself is threatened. This is a serious moment

Imagine if we accepted that Palestinian mothers, fathers & community members feel the same level of shock, horror & grief as we do when loved ones are massacred. What if their dead were also given a name & their story told. Surely we would then stop supplying weapons & the killing would finally end

Why are Netanyahu, Jillian Segal and other apologists for the far right Israeli government allowed to discuss the context in which the horror of anti semitism is increasing but critics of that government’s brutality are not ?

Jillian Segal linking peaceful & democratic protests against illegal acts of the Israeli state to anti semitic terror is so divisive, extremist and dismissive of the true horror that unfolded at Bondi that she must resign immediately. Using this tragedy to pursue a political agenda was abominable

Gaza is almost exactly the same size as Bruny Island, yet in 2 years it’s received explosives equivalent to what was dropped on all of Britain in WW2. The world has never forgotten the Blitz. But even before the bombs have ceased to fall, it seems we are forgetting Gaza.

Gaza is slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight, yet in 2 years it’s received explosives roughly equivalent to what was dropped on all of Britain in WW2. The world has never forgotten the Blitz. But even before the bombs have ceased to fall, it seems we are forgetting Gaza.

Just arrived in England and BBC news leading with Australia’s social media ban. I feel a moment of pride and gratitude. Go the Government for having a go

Given the Tasmanian Govt superannuation liability is totally unfunded, those pushing hardest against the billion dollar stadium and promoting the need for new taxes should be defined benefit retirees. Your super fund is going broke.

This Palestinian human rights group was sanctioned by Trump. Its chief wishes US allies would take a stand

Patriotically rebuking this threat and promising to fight legal action on behalf of every licence holder and the independence of the BBC, provides such an easy way for Starmer to restore public credibility. Let Farage defend the US president. Trumps attack is not a political problem, it’s a gift