Bob Carr

Q for Royal Commission: do war crimes committed by IDF feed antisemitism? Q for Lobby: might you one day raise at least a private protest w the ethnonationalists in Israel at their war on Palestinian children? Just the kids. That’s all. Lobby- but for humanity, for suffering kids

No wonder Lobby wants to make illegal the use of appropriate comparisons w/ historic war crimes in camps & ghettos for this monstrous cruelty. No wonder they want one of its most hard right members to have power to police newsrooms to block reporting of an unquestioned genocide

ABC report yesterday about chicken pox raging among wretched Palestinian kids living in heat wave, under tents, full of mice and fleas, not enough water for daily baths with IDF blocking imports of chicken pox vaccine abc.net.au/news/2026-07-3…

Productivity improvement starts in this sector with special attention to practices in Victoria and Queensland. Here.

Ben Carroll has started bravely, hitting the system with a royal commission. Flow-on will be huge. The shocks will be like the historic NSW RC into police corruption. Goal must be a corruption resistant construction sector with competitive costs.

A disgrace that Australia has highest infrastructure costs in the world. Why has one union power to pick sub contractors? Govts that conceded that opened the door to corruption.

More Jewish settler violence supported by IDF directed at Palestinians. Question for Royal Commission: does the behaviour of this ethno-nationalist state fuel antisemitism? It must. It’s why 80% of Australians now have negative views of Israel.

This is a brilliant, incisive talk on the war in the gulf by American realist scholar John Mearsheimer. In fact likely to be the best you will find open.substack.com/pub/mearsheime…

Today we are all Belgians.

Congratulate a mob that’s produced this junk heap of policy and principle? Better just look off sideways in disgust and contempt.

Its role in world is now devoid of any pursuit of global goods, simply signed up for great power politics under its most corrupt admin ever. Even lukewarm about helping Ukraine. And ready to relegate NATO when that means handing Eastern Europe on a platter to Putin, Lukashenko.

Can’t wish this America a happy birthday - a nation that in global heat waves has reversed action to ward off climate catastrophe. And renders millions in the Middle East homeless with its vengeful, futile bombing campaigns.

With Laurynas Kasciunas leader of the opposition in Lithuania and former Defence Minister and likely next Prime Minister. Met in the parliament, or Seimas, to discuss attempted undermining by Belarus and Russia of democratic Poland and Lithuania.

Criticism of the state of Israel and its war criminal leaders is not anti-Semitic. Even JD Vance says they’ve lost all their friends and NY Democrats send pro-Palestinians to Congress.

Excellent analysis by Louise Adler of the campaign of The Lobby to use the Royal Commission to conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. deepcutnews.com/p/if-the-royal…

At headquarters of Poland’s 18th Mechanised Brigade outside Warsaw with 174 new Abrams. Brigade comprises 3 battalions 4-5000 men. Good discussion with officers about Ukraine, Russia, NATO.

Status quo could extend indefinitely, says retired Admiral Stavridis, tying down bulk of US military in Middle East. Well, it’s one possibility. Trump has promised an imminent deal every 2nd day of the war. He’s struggling, at last.