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Intrducing Deepcut Weekly, our new roundup of the latest developments in domestic repression and global mayhem deepcutnews.com/p/welcome-to-d…

Malik took exception to the condemnation of the memorials, emphasising that Shia communities did so out of regard for Khamenei’s status as one of Shia Islam’s foremost scholars, rather than for his political position as Iran’s head of state.

Mainstream media outlets were quick to denounce several Shia community groups that held memorials for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Sydney and Melbourne last week, leading Multiculturalism Minister Anne Aly to cancel the grant to the Taha Humanity Association of Victoria.

The Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, says he was not told of the federal government’s decision to rescind a $670,000 grant to a Shia Muslim community organisation, learning about it for the first time "in the newspaper". deepcutnews.com/p/government-d…

Meanwhile, Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has warned that "the unemployment rate will probably have to rise" if the labour market remains "tight" and inflation keeps rising - despite corporate profits, not wage growth, driving recent inflation.

"When Israel was finally able to find someone dumb enough sitting in the White House to go to war with Iran the impact on oil prices was pretty instant:"

The war in Iran and rising interest rates have something in common: they're increasing corporate profits while ordinary people suffer, writes @GrogsGamut deepcutnews.com/p/from-iran-to…

The group has also organised mass email campaigns against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Palestinian DJ Sama' Abdulhadi and several Australian masjids.

The Pen Power Australia WhatsApp group, in which pro-Israel activists organise mass email campaigns targeting critics of Israel, celebrated Tame's public comments that she “has had all her speaking engagements cancelled for 2026 ... We contributed!”

A pro-Israel WhatsApp group has claimed credit for the public campaign targeting former Australian of the Year Grace Tame. deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-pr…

Many of these laws were enacted in response to protests that targeted the fossil fuel industry. We are witnessing a similar climate now, with state governments moving to criminalise political expression and further tighten protest laws to appease the pro-Israel lobby.

Our analysis found a disturbing pattern: states have rushed through laws targeting protests and free speech at times when powerful interest groups have been challenged.

In part two of our series, The Making of a Police State, we tally up the dozens of state and territory laws that have eroded free speech and democratic rights over the last 40 years. deepcutnews.com/p/a-list-of-st…

Australia sending its Wedgetail to the Gulf comes as signs of US weakness emerge in the war. The Wedgetail is a long-range surveillance aircraft - could the US have requested such assistance because Iran knocked out their expensive radars? deepcutnews.com/p/signs-of-us-…

The Trump/Israeli vision is expansionist, belligerent and nostalgic for a colonial era of imperial domination. It’s a furious rejection of the global shift to multipolarity and its prerequisite condition that all great nations, including the US, share power.

Iran says it has hit 27 US bases in the region. Small powers worldwide readily signed up to a US presence on their soil, Australia included, thinking such bases afforded protection and security guarantees. The Gulf Arab experience shows that such protection is never assured.

Even before the strikes on Iran began, it was clear that Israel had drawn Donald Trump into a war he could not control, against an opponent he did not understand, writes Antoun Issa. deepcutnews.com/p/signs-of-us-…

One of the complainants was Shane Shmuel, a Melbourne finance professional who serves as a committee member of the Australian Jewish Association and was a prominent member of Wilson’s successful campaign to win back the seat of Goldstein last year.

Deepcut has obtained the text of the nine complaints sent to Bayside City Council through FOI, which accuse the teen of “wearing a necklace that explicitly denies Israel’s right to exist" and compared the council's magazine to Nazi-era propaganda outlet Der Stürmer.

A senior campaigner for Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson has been revealed as one of the complainants whose objections to a teenager's Palestine necklace led to a Melbourne council scrubbing her from their website. deepcutnews.com/p/tim-wilson-c…