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@bugwannostra @PixieOfDeath The worst part is that the knockoffs didn't cause price discounting by the OEM.

Mossad had a factory producing fake Aussie passports in Israel. They should have been sent home 10 years ago and never allowed back. #insiders They have infiltrated everything. abc.net.au/news/2010-02-2… Mossad are terrorists

@AlboMP Fuck your empty words, you shit-eating gutless wonder. Sanctions now, and you and Penny in the Hague later.

@SenatorWong More empty words, from a gutless government that was just caught lying about F-35 component exports and the defence contract with Elbit. Sanctions were needed over a year ago. At this point, nothing short of an international military intervention will halt the holocaust.

Australia and 27 countries have an urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now. The humanitarian situation is catastrophic. Together with partners, we condemn Israel’s denial of aid and the killing of civilians seeking to access water and food. foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny…

@tezzr44 @MikeCarlton01 First the police will have to investigate themselves. IF he's charged, which he won't be, he'll get administrative leave with pay and the police union will fund his defence.

@MikeCarlton01 The policeman who punched her in the face causing serious injury to her eye is going to lose his job and house

Ugly. Very ugly. And the cops trying to hide it. smh.com.au/politics/nsw/s…

@luke_b70 @hughriminton You're only supposed to lick the boot, not deepthroat it.

You may not like the laws but once the police asked the protester to move on and they refused, it was no longer a peaceful protest. If after refusing, being subjected to a lawful arrest and resisting, then the offender risks injury. It looks like a police officer was simply trying to do their job, within the law, and offenders decided to FAFO. If this is the case, no sympathy.

NSW Police Asst. Comm. Brett McFadden says he’s “comfortable” with the information provided to him by police that there was no police misconduct in the injuries suffered by former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas. As a result, he said “I did not declare (it) a critical incident.”

@barriecassidy There's no greater threat to security and peace in the region than the US, and this has been true for a long time.

I’m ok with the reporting of the demand. It’s just the implied benchmark in parts of the media that amuses me. Doesn’t seem to impress the government either, thankfully.

@Sarah_Haar_ @tomorrowsashes Yeah cos that worked so well last time.

@tomorrowsashes Boo, anti war rally now.

Australia better not get dragged into this insane and unnecessary war against Iran.

@SenatorWong Jfc you're like a parody of yourself. SANCTION ISRAEL ALREADY you fucking monster.

In an Australian-first, the Government has imposed sanctions on Russia’s shadow fleet to help starve its war machine of oil revenue. Russia must end its illegal war. Australia stands with Ukraine. Read more here: foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny…

@delhi_dave @PeterCronau @JackieKane Nah there's definitely no honey trap kompromat produced during all those sponsored propaganda junkets.

@PeterCronau @JackieKane Maybe Israel/US has the shit on certain pervy Australian politicians?

China is defending itself against the large US military build-up near its borders — why is Australia supporting the aggressor? “There is nothing surprising about China improving its defence forces. “It is confronted by a large military build-up close to its borders by the US and its allies. “China has not built up its forces around mainland US or anywhere close to them. “China is adopting the same policy that Australia used to have, of defending the approach to its borders.”

Refresher on the rules for discussing Israeli wars: Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor. If Israel attacks someone it's either a response to an aggression that happened in the past, or a preemptive attack to thwart an imminent aggression in the future. Rule 2: History automatically restarts at the date of the last act of aggression against Israel. If someone attacks Israel it was completely unprovoked, because nothing happened before the attack on Israel. Rule 3: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 2. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or China. Rule 4: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does. Rule 5: Israel never bombs civilians, it bombs Bad Guys. If shocking numbers of civilians die it's because they were actually Bad Guys, or because Bad Guys killed them, or because a Bad Guy stood too close to them. If none of those reasons apply then it's for some other mysterious reason we are still waiting for the IDF to investigate. Rule 6: Criticizing anything Israel does means you hate Jewish people. There is no other possible reason for anyone to oppose acts of mass military slaughter besides a seething, obsessive hatred for a small Abrahamic faith. Rule 7: Nothing Israel does is ever as bad as the hateful criticisms described in Rule 6. Criticisms of Israel's actions are always worse than Israel's actions themselves, because those critics hate Jews and wish to commit another Holocaust. Preventing this must consume 100 percent of our political energy and attention. Rule 8: Israelis are only ever the victims and never the victimizers. If Israelis kill Iranians, it's because the Iranians hate Jews. If Iranians kill Israelis, it's because the Iranians hate Jews. Israel is an innocent little lamb that just wants to mind its own business in peace. Rule 9: The fact that Israel is literally always in a state of war with its neighbors and with displaced indigenous populations must be interpreted as proof that Rule 8 is true instead of proof that Rule 8 is ridiculous nonsense. Rule 10: Muslim lives are much, much less important to us than western lives or Israeli lives. Nobody is allowed to think too hard about why this might be. Rule 11: The media always tell the truth about Israel and its various conflicts. If you doubt this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6. Rule 12: Unsubstantiated claims which portray Israel's enemies in a negative light may be reported as factual news stories without any fact checking or qualifications, while extensively evidenced records of Israeli criminality must be reported on with extreme skepticism and doubtful qualifiers like "Hezbollah says" or "according to the Hamas-run health ministry". This is important to do because otherwise you might get accused of being a propagandist. Rule 13: Israel must continue to exist in its current iteration no matter what it costs or how many people need to die. There is no need to present any logically or morally grounded reasons why this is the case. If you dispute this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6. Rule 14: The US government has never lied about anything ever, and is always on the right side of every conflict. Rule 15: Israel is the last bastion of freedom and democracy in the middle east and therefore must be defended, no matter how many journalists it has to assassinate, no matter how many press institutions it needs to shut down, no matter how many protests its supporters need to dismantle, no matter how much free speech it needs to eliminate, no matter how many civil rights its western backers need to erase, and no matter how many elections its lobbyists need to buy.

@Jameso2468 @abcnews Reliance on minimum wage labour isn't very innovative.

@abcnews If anyone ever wonders why innovation and private sector jobs are stagnant. Look no further.

#BREAKING: Millions of Australian workers will get a 3.5 per cent pay rise from July 1, following the Fair Work Commission's annual review of the minimum wage and award agreements. Inflation is currently at 2.4 per cent annually. ab.co/4jv6bHW

I no longer go to the Indonesian hospital. What foolishness it is, to speak of hospitals in a place where life is no longer preserved but merely postponed. Once, I believed, oh, how bitterly I believed, that the presence of a doctor among the dying was a sacred thing, a last stand against the void. But here, where the void has taken residence in the very walls, what can sanctity do? The hospital is surrounded now. Not by men, not by soldiers even, but by machines. Drones, humming above like metallic locusts, devoid of soul or pity. They know neither suffering nor mercy, they are the purest expression of obedience without conscience. They circle the building like vultures circling a carcass not yet dead enough. Two days ago, the ceiling collapsed. A nurse had just spoken the word “hope.” Then came the blast, and the word hung in the air a moment too long before crumbling with the plaster. ICU monitors, those fragile gods of modern faith, shattered on the floor. One machine let out a long, wheezing beep as it died. It was the sound of resignation. I think I wept, but I cannot recall if it was with my eyes or only in my mind. And this morning, yes, this morning, as if dawn itself had become ashamed, a drone struck the intensive care unit. It came like a decision already made. There was no warning, no negotiation, no fate to plead with. Just fire. Patients ran. Doctors ran. The hallway became a river of chaos, but silent, terrifyingly silent. One man dragged his son by the shoulders, blood smearing behind them like a signature of some unseen pact. Another woman collapsed, not from injury but from the sheer weight of choosing which of her children to carry. Two patients were taken away in an ambulance, if that word still means anything. The rest had already passed into that cold stillness we now mistake for peace. We still work at the clinic, though I no longer know if it's from duty or habit, or some grotesque need to perform life while surrounded by death. We whisper. We disinfect. We bind wounds that will open again. The scalpel, once a tool of healing, now feels like an accomplice. At home, the walls speak in cracks. The roof sags under the pressure of memory. The air smells like dust and grief. My mother tapes the broken windows each day with the care of a priest dressing a corpse. My father rations rice with the reverence of a man offering communion. But outside, outside, it never stops. The bombing continues with the faithfulness of a priest at prayer. It does not pause. It does not tire. It beats like a heart possessed by something inhuman. And now, the streets. No, not streets, corridors of exile. Rows of tents like gravestones made of fabric. Children play in the ashes, unaware that they are survivors of a war not yet finished. The army says, Evacuate. To where? They do not say. Only: Leave. Disappear. Unbecome. Famine grows near. But even hunger, with its gnawing cruelty, is familiar. Hunger is intimate. It is ours. What is worse, what is unbearable, is the silence that follows the blast. The silence in which you call a name and no one answers. The silence where meaning once lived. This is not a war. It is annihilation dressed in the costume of procedure. It is a logic without soul, a godless arithmetic of bodies and coordinates. And still, still, some whisper that God watches. I do not know. Sometimes I think He has turned His face away, not out of indifference, but out of shame. But if you are reading this, if your eyes have reached these words like a boat reaching a shore you thought unreachable, then for the love of all things holy and damned: Do not look away. To look away is to become part of it. To forget is to bury us before we are dead. To remain silent is to drive the final nail. #GazaGenocide‌

@seveblaenhaugr @Sophiemcneill @freodockers Withdrawn from the illegally occupied territories, lifted the blockade of Gaza, and released all Palestinian hostages in administrative detention.

@Sophiemcneill @freodockers Would should Israel have done after October 7?

The reaction to this has been INSANE Our @freodockers captain Alex Pearce shared two instagram stories by the band Kneecap - the posts he shared simply spoke about the horror in #Gaza & condemned the killing of 20,000 children. That’s it. Yet the Murdoch & Stokes media and Caroline Wilson have shamefully spent 2 weeks attacking Pearce and calling for him to be punished. And now here’s ANOTHER in-depth piece about it. This is what they try & do. Silence & intimidate people from speaking out. Shame. A bigger story - why has only Alex said anything about this unfolding genocide? Does no other AFL player have a conscience?? I’m so proud Alex is my club's captain theage.com.au/sport/afl/alex…

@ronInBendigo @KosSamaras It started with Howard and his ranga stooge from Ipswich, and it never stopped.

I don't think it is right to say that the Coalition built a brand. Labor branded the Coalition as the enemy of Indian and Chinese migrants, in response to which the Coalition did nothing. It's the same with policy. It's not that their policies are necessarily bad, they're missing or meek. The Coalition is weak and lazy. State and Federal.

Indian and Chinese Australians are now a major political force, concentrated in at least a dozen key seats. They’re aspirational, focused on wealth creation, and often socially conservative. Yet they vote Labor in large numbers. Why? Because the Coalition has built a brand in these communities and not in a good way. As one voter put it: ‘They don’t like us. They never have.’ theage.com.au/politics/victo…

@ds_psych @NathanLee Except that's not what happened. The Green vote didn't tank, and increased nationally. Labor got up on the swing away from the Coalition, particularly among moderate urban Liberal voters.

@NathanLee Greens need to take accountability for their approach. It's not enough to lure in university politics, the red on the inside greens went back to ALP.

@NathanLee Greens first preference vote increased nationally.

@danielbudreika @Peter_Fitz K-12 really failed this kid, huh?

@Peter_Fitz So you're saying that any sort of weather event now is because of man made global warming?

Crowe: "In an odd moment, Dutton was unwilling to take a stand on whether climate change was real. His answer might have satisfied his conservative base, but it was out of step with a majority of Australians." #auspol smh.com.au/politics/feder…

@DeborahMea32529 @Billzilla5 @Peter_Fitz If by "conflicting science" you mean "funded by conflicting interests". There's no controversy outside of that manufactured by the extractive resources sector.

@Billzilla5 @Peter_Fitz Well if you say so. I on the other hand note that there is conflicting science on the matter.

@DoggieWowser @PeterCronau The only way we're going to war with China is if (when) the US starts it.

@PeterCronau The irony is that Australia actually needs to defend itself from America, not China. America is making Australia less safe, due to the US warmongering culture. US don't want peace and US allies are coerced to participate in war crimes.

Australia doesn’t need America. “Beijing is closer to Berlin than it is to Sydney — and when it comes to using force against Australia, distance matters a great deal.” “Australia can defend itself with a less reliable American alliance partner — in fact, Australia can defend itself even if there is no alliance at all. “Australia is not that hard to defend — we are not Taiwan, or South Korea, or Israel, or Poland. “We don’t have an enemy on our doorstep. Yes, Australia can defend itself independently | Lowy Institute lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

@TurnbullMalcolm "Both sides" like they're (a) opposing forces and (b) the only animals in the arena.

And yet, despite the fact that the UK has got (by far) the better end of the deal and are holding an inquiry; here in Australia (with the worst end of the deal) both sides of politics are opposed to any review. abc.net.au/news/2025-04-0…