These two articles were published within days of each other, and both show the Albanese Government has been misleading the public about its role in the two-way arms trade with Israel. It is a scandal.

. EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS 🔥🔥🔥 I skim read the Segal report & found myself so agitated I had to put it aside. Ronni has taken a deep dive & done something Segal couldn't manage - a proper analysis. Segal's report is exposed for the farce it is. theshot.net.au/uncategorized…

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Opinion | "The harsh lesson of this term of Parliament is that no major-party government can be trusted to take real climate action," writes @bernardkeane. crikey.com.au/2024/11/28/lab…

RT @WilkieMP: The Government will push three dozen bills through while gagging debate on banning gambling advertising. Shame on them for ab…

This term of parliament began with real hope of climate action. It ends with fossil fuel interests boasting of how they control the federal government. The only thing it has delivered is a lesson in why we badly need a minority government crikey.com.au/2024/11/28/lab…

A powerful, devastating account from Gaza within in an article by Seymour Hersh describing a systematic genocide.. and the refugees in camps are paying with their lives for their resilience: “The conditions in the north of Gaza are holocaust conditions. We don’t use the word because it has a special place in the Western imagination and heart, but this is a holocaust in terms of collective punishment and dehumanization and the technical tools. But is it a holocaust eighty years later being done remotely and on people’s bodies. . . . A missile is dropped in a densely populated civilian area, tents mostly, and then you have drones coming in afterward to pick off people one by one. We didn’t have drones during World War II, but we do now, and the logic is pretty much the same. “What we’re seeing happening in north Gaza is what I told you months ago the Israelis were going to do, and this what they did. They will annex the north and they will annex the West Bank. Soon you will see all in the press turn to the West Bank. The Israeli settlers have been more armed since October 7. The government and the Supreme Court in Israel support the settlers, and there are right-wing organizers and community representatives who themselves live in settlements and they are ready. “They feel there is no leadership in the United States at this moment to stop them. And that is really how the Middle East feels, period. This will be the new phase, and suddenly the world’s attention will go away from Gaza and Lebanon. And everybody will be talking about the annexation of the West Bank in a month or two. “The Israelis have built roads and bypass roads and corridors in the north of Gaza, and they are now starting to nicely connect all with each other as you can see if you look at satellite images. The Israelis always said they were going to do this. . . . And those Palestinians living in north Gaza will either be exterminated en masse, as they are now, or they will be pushed south where they are humiliated and stripped and tortured and have to endure unbearable conditions. Anyone I speak to who recently came from the north to the south describes the horrid condition of having their children taken away from them. . . . Children are being lined up on one side, and the Gazans are told to pick up a random child and go with that child to the south even if it’s not their child . . . and not knowing if your child made it. These kinds of horrific tearing of the social fabric are happening. “Meanwhile in the south, where there once was food but no cleaning materials, there is now no food. The Israelis are likely preparing to gather everybody into specific pockets in the south. So it is not only about annexing the north but it’s also about concentrating the population in specific pockets in the south. This is what they will do. “And I’m not being a pessimist. This is what they will absolutely do: they are budgeting for it and making plans for it now. If you see it, you see it, and if you do not, then you will be surprised in a few months when the Israelis declare it themselves.” “If you are looking for hope, it is in the fact that people in Gaza haven’t become zombies and are not eating each other or ripping each other apart. That is not what’s happening, but the social fabric is being sundered. There are kids coming into hospitals from stab wounds from uncles and fathers because they ate too much. And there are cases of rape coming in. I mean there is a breaking of the social fabric after a year of hellish nightmares . . . after a year of all international order and systems collapsing and failing to treat Palestinians as humans. There is absolutely a breaking, but there is still hope that I see in that people are not ripping each other apart. There is still production of art. And people are still growing foods and crops in the camps. “And this is what Israel is now targeting: the vigor of the refugees and the camps. These are the enemies of Israel. The Israelis thought by turning people into refugees they would break them. But they actually are empowering them. So this is why they are going after the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and targeting the right of return, targeting the refugees. And why the Israelis are constantly bombing, bombing, and smashing things . . . the tents and refugee camps that are built all over Gaza now, in addition to what already existed. Israel is going after the refugees and the camps because they see after eight decades of doing what they did that these are places of memory and history and organizing and identity, and that is what they are trying to smash. Right? When you are trying to smash a population from existence that is what you go after. “So the Israelis are not following the logic of war; they are following the logic of genocide. And when we understand that, we can also understand why their bombing is happening the way it is.” Link below

BREAKING: Alan Jones arrested over allegations he indecently assaulted young men smh.com.au/national/alan-jon…

#AlanJones arrest - about fvcking time! Was arrested in a London public toilet 35 years ago. Let’s see what his #friendsinhighplaces do this time! dailymail.co.uk/news/article…

AFP raided PwC headquarters today.

Here is what Jayson Gillham's said on his Sunday August 11 performance that outraged @MelbSymphony's Zionist donors. Two of the pieces Jayson played were a cry against injustice and oppression. The first was by Hungarian Jewish composer and holocaust survivor Ligeti. Jayson introduced the piece explaining how Ligeti was twice oppressed as a Hungarian in Romania and as a Jew and how he was forced into a labor camp and survived Auschwitz etc... The second piece was a last minute addition to the program, 'Witness' new work by Aust composer Connor D'Netto dedicated to the journalists of Gaza. Jayson introduced this piece by saying in the last 10 months Israel killed over 100 journalists a number were a targeted assassinations. This is a war crime. Journalists were targeted to prevent them from documenting and broadcasting of war crimes. Witness in Arabic means Shahid - from the same root word as Shaheed which means martyr. So there you have it. Two introductions one applauded the other might cost his career. This is what discrimination and privilege look like. #Palestine #MSO #Gaza #Israel #GazaGenocide

A reminder to every journalist reporting on Peter Dutton's comments this morning – Israel seized the Rafah border from the Palestinian side in May. It's closed. People in Gaza can not get out. They can not come to Australia because they can not leave Gaza.

Our documentary film on Gaza “The Night Won’t End” has been age-restricted by @YouTube, which means it will now effectively be buried. It won’t be a suggested video and the view count will stop without people posting and sharing it widely so please do so. aje.io/gazanight

These are not "protests" nor "unrest." They are race riots and lynchings. Time for correct reporting, British journalists.

Can’t share this often enough #Riots

MEMO to politicians and media: People arriving on small boats to claim asylum in the UK are NOT illegal migrants What they are doing is LEGAL and has been for centuries and as set out in The Refugee Convention 1951 STOP calling them “illegal” and thereby fomenting hatred

#WorshippersMassacre #DawnPrayer #AlTabeen August 10, 2024.

BREAKING: spread the word. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra #MSO just canceled a musician because he played a piece dedicated to Palestinian journalists killed in #Gaza in his previous performance. This is the email they sent to those who wished to attend his upcoming concert in two days on why they cancelled him: "During Jayson Gillham's performance yesterday (Sunday 11 August) Mr Gillham made a series of introductory remarks prior to giving the world premiere of the Conor D'Netto piece Witness, a late addition to the advertised programme. Witness was accepted for performance at the request of Mr Gillham on the basis that it was a short meditative piece. Mr Gillham made his personal remarks without seeking the MSO’s approval or sanction. They were an intrusion of personal political views on what should have been a morning focused on a program of works for solo piano. The MSO does not condone the use of our stage as a platform for expressing personal views. Mr Gillham will not be performing in the advertised concert with the MSO this Thursday night at Melbourne Town Hall. Customers will be advised of this change to Thursday's program as soon as possible. The MSO was at no point made aware of the content of the remarks Mr Gillham was intending to make. They were made completely without authority. The MSO understands that his remarks have caused offence and distress and offers a sincere apology. It has been a priority for us to address this difficult situation today. The MSO’s values are Respectful, Collaborative, Innovative and Diverse and they are at the heart of what we do and how we act. They guided why we accepted the work to be performed, and why we’ve acted as a result of the unauthorised statements. Music brings people together and that is why one of our guiding principles is “We unite our individual strengths and celebrate our unifying love of music, fostering understanding and belonging”. In standing for humanity and peace we seek for every one of our performances to be a welcome and safe place for all" Yours in music, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra #Palestine #Israel #Gaza_genocide