Worth moving to Newy for this ( if a reason is needed!)

I hope we can assume @albomp.bsky.social that if Israel annexes any part of occupied Palestine , sanctions will finally follow.

Stephen Miller says all opposed to Kirk’s ideology ‘have nothing… ARE nothing.’ Once upon a time, evangelicals emphasised that, without grace, that was true of us all. Miller says his side is ‘good. virtuous.. noble’ Once, only God was so. How far from their founding faith evangelicals have fallen

That Trump thinks Lachlan Murdoch ‘is a very unusual name’ confirms his total lack of curiosity or interest in his mother as a separate human being. Lachlan , from land of lochs, was one of the most common names in Mary Trump’s homeland of the Hebrides. Murdoch not far behind

Here is an analyst who understands how history works

Why is the Australian national broadcaster continually leading its news with the murder of a far right activist in America that few Australians had ever heard of before his death? Given all else that is happening in the world, it is ethically obscene.

This is how broken our lobbying laws are. Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰 It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The poor people of Nauru had 90 per cent of their once fertile Pacific paradise turned into a barren wasteland in order to fertilise Australian farms. Now the little inhabitable land left is being inundated by sea level rise. Surely a warning to the world

Why is it so much harder to simply watch channel 2 with a smart tv than it used to be in the good old dumb old days?

According to the Productivity Commission, writers giving away our property to big corporations will increase productivity. But so would giving away any other input - land, labour etc. Why should writers, artists and musicians alone be denied protection by the state?

I wonder if the Productivity Commission has any idea how personally depressing it is for writers not just to have our work stolen by what are the biggest corporations in world history, but that a major institutional body of our nation has their back not ours

Excellent article in this months Australian Book Review by Clinton Fernandes highlighting strong evidence Japan’s surrender decision was made as soon as USSR declared war, BEFORE destruction of Nagasaki, and how it’s suited US and Japan to always maintain the surrender was because of the bomb

Israeli forces killed 56 aid seekers in Gaza on Sunday as just 36 aid trucks entered the besieged enclave on Saturday.

New faces on Tasmanian cross bench are more progressive but also all white men aged over 65. Join 2 existing white fellas over 55 with just one independent a woman. If this was outcome with Greens or ALP there’d be scrutiny. For those who see indies as answer to democracy woes, worth thinking about

Is information gathered by the US from the spy base at Pine Gap being shared with Israel? Given this base is supposedly a joint defence facility on Australian soil, don’t we have a right to know?

inside.org.au/the-wrong-wa... Truth that cuts between the marrow and the bone

Productivity has hardly shifted in the past 20 years. Proof what a con the so called IT revolution has been. Done nothing for efficiency but a lot for concentrating wealth. More like old fashioned feudalism than real human progress

As one of eight states ensuring the IDF can continue to fly its F-35s, being used for the first time ever, according to the truthful Albanese, in its so called ‘beast mode’, the other Albanese can longer deny Australia is an active partner in genocide.

New #CoalWire: 👉 Russian #coal mine suspends production 👉 Insurance policies hit coal sector 👉 Bangladesh eyes axing capacity payments 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...

A one in ten year chance to elect a chancellor who stands up for nature, peace and justice for Cambridge University. @willdalrymple.bsky.social @polarrobs.bsky.social @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social @peaceandjustice.bsky.social @crispinflintoff.bsky.social

‘They attack us without provocation’: West Bank town mourns its dead after settler raid

Historically the biggest threat to respect for international law come not from criminals like Trump who are open in their contempt but decent leaders like Starmer, Carney and Albanese who claim to be defenders of a rules based order but fail to show up when it counts

Important to keep the slaughter in Gaza in context . Many more people have been killed than died during the Blitz despite Gaza having a small fraction of Britain’s population. Yet the western world remembers what happened in London over 80 years ago better than what happened in Palestine yesterday.

What’s this talk from the US Chief of State about the ‘package’ sent to Iran even mean? War mongers are always coming up with new words for their death and destruction

A beautiful day at the Cam - reading the rights of our chalk rivers to be clean and free to run. Wonderful music, singing, art, and hearing about local campaigns. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @polarrobs.bsky.social @bonkersbusway.bsky.social @lizcotton.bsky.social @jamesboycebooks.bsky.social

For the extreme Christian and Jewish right, Trump is Cyrus, one time Supreme leader of Iran. Who knows, maybe the man himself believes so too and all this madness is just him reclaiming his rightful throne

When the bombs came to this ancient village within Israel, there were no bunkers, little state help and, caught on video, new, so called settlers, cheered.

Is this consistent with the rules based international order you keep saying we stand for Senator Wong ?

Why is breaking the blockade being left to Greta and her friends? Gaza is not Israeli territory. It’s not only up to Israel or the US to decide whether aid enters. European and Arab countries should send in ships and planes today. Don’t ask. Do.

This cause is desperate - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re...

Why do the UK, Canada, France, Germany etc have travel advisory warnings for travel to the US but not Australia? Are politicians stopping DFAT doing its job?

A leader who expresses concern about extreme weather events while approving new fossil fuel projects has as much ethical credibility as one who laments the bombing of civilians in Gaza while selling critical aircraft parts to the bombers

Under the cover of the on-again/off-again Coalition drama, Labor is gearing up to approve an absolutely catastrophic gas project. Woodside’s North West Shelf is an untapped climate bomb. This approval would mean supercharged floods, fires and species extinctions.

The main difference between American evangelicals today and every generation since the Reformation is they never repent. Sin is something others do, except sometimes in bed. Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Edwards etc must be turning in their resurrected graves

55 yrs ago today - May 20, 1970 – NUC Symposium on Environmental Preservation "“If the greenhouse effect manifests itself as a result of continued burning of fossil fuels, there is little doubt that it would be catastrophic.” allouryesterdays.info/2025/05/19/m...

Now time for emergency air drops by Arab and European nations. Don’t ask Israel’s or Trump’s permission. Just do it UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live

Given his recent meetings in Europe, we can assume Albanese was personally given the chance to sign Australia on to this declaration and that as he prayed for peace in the Vatican, our ‘ friend of Palestine’ PM politely declined

Anyone who says they’re tough on crime but have no intention of being tough on poverty doesn’t really care about crime.

Media organisations and governments who still call the genocidal brutality of the Israeli state, ‘the war in Gaza’, are biased, blind and bastardising the English language. This savagery can be called many names, but has long ceased to be ‘war’

Way past time for emergency food drops from the air by Arab and European nations.

Australia now has a PM and Opposition leader who were former leaders in Parliamentary Friends of Palestine. But with friends like these …

The chances of the Australian PM mentioning the human rights abuses and environmental destruction by imperial Indonesia in West Papua are as likely as his predecessors doing so about East Timor in the 80s. Silence didn’t make the suffering, injustice or insurgency go away then and it won’t now

Not even a robot can get a camel thru the eye of a needle Elon. Best repent now

Papal elections sure are good for making an old fella like me feel it ain’t over yet. Almost as good as an American presidential one

How hungry will the children if Gaza have to become before Egypt, Jordan , UAE, Britain, Germany, China and even Russia do something. Neither Israel nor US have the only say over aid being delivered. Send planes to drop essential supplies like Kennedy did in Berlin in 1962 NOW

The now pervasive English phrase ‘moving forward’ says much about where we are going wrong. As a historian and bushwalker, I know that sometimes it’s best to step into the future by going back, shuffling sideways or even stopping altogether until we work out how, when and where we got so damn lost x

Pretty sure this is the first time Australia or any nation has re-elected a leader where there is still no agreement on how to pronounce their name. Do you emphasise or ignore the last e in Albanese? Even Anthony seems to have a bet both ways.