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More AUKUS chaos. This is the worst decision the Labor govt has made. A conveyor belt of our money to the military industrial establishment. No guarantee of delivery. Weekly horror stories of delays, incompetence and production problems. Marles presiding over a defence disaster.

You’re all fucking incredible, witches. Why? Because here we have (yet more) proof that our method of campaigning and objecting to inexcusable media commentary is way, way better than almost anything other individuals and groups employ. Let us explain. Months ago, Laura Tingle reported on the murder of a Lebanese journalist, including observations about Israel’s involvement in the killing. And in the aftermath of that story, 56 individuals wrote identical complaints to the ABC board and executive. We don’t know who the complaining individuals were, but their method appear similar to those used by individuals who caused the sacking of Antoinette Lattouf from the ABC two years ago: that is, they wrote similar or identical complaints which were sent via rarified channels rather than via the usual ABC complaints systems: “Laura Tingle’s analysis of the killing of journalists by Israel has been found to be ‘duly impartial’ by the ABC ombudsman after a coordinated campaign of 56 identical complaints were emailed to the ABC board and executive.” theguardian.com/media/commenti… Here’s the interesting thing, though: the ABC ombudsman dismissed the complaints as, essentially, being only as powerful as ONE complaint. One. Why? Because the wording of those 56 emails was identical. And this is what that says about we witches: our campaign strategy of, firstly, refusing to publish email/contact templates (despite regular pleading for us to do so) proved to be exactly right in achieving our aims. Not only right, but essential. Because (while we disagree any organisation should treat multiple complaints as just one, for various reasons) the fact those receiving such complaints do this shows that only witches thoughtfully and sincerely explaining their individual POV to a company works in changing their behaviour and decisions. So doing the hard work of compiling and sending individualised communications to each company on our campaign lists really, really mattered. But secondly, it shows that as a witchy coven, our work and our impacts are larger than even we ever believed possible. 56 complaints? Piffle. We had hundreds - if not thousands - of witches furiously contacting companies about Alan and Kyle and others, not just a few dozen people (and even those few apparently too lazy and passionless to even write their own letters, lol). Lastly, not only did us witches write individual letters in huge numbers, but we kept it up for YEARS on end till we got a result. Not just one email, copy-and-pasted from some dickhead trying to go after Tingle. But dozens or hundreds of carefully crafted, passionate missives, all written by people who could have been reading or walking or sleeping or relaxing instead of putting in the effort (week in, week out) to sit down to complain about Kyle’s foulness. Witches are fucking INCREDIBLE. Witches are fucking HEROES. Witches GET RESULTS. And witches will KEEP ON DOING IT while there are depraved, horrific fuck-ups who need our attention. As ARN-designated Brand Safety Consultants, witches do the work. And if you didn’t before know just how fantastic and incredible we - you - all are before … you damn well do now. The article showcased in this post proves it. Congratulations. And once again, to all those who did the work: thank you. From the bottom of all our black witchy hearts. _________ We won’t stop till advertisers stop funding filth. Go to mfw.org.au/our-campaigns/ to learn how to contact advertisers. Or go directly to FOE lists for ongoing campaigns here: campaigndata.mfw.org.au/business-direc… . Send all responses you get to witches@mfw.org.au. Please also support our work to get rid of Vile Kyle: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month: mfw.org.au/support #ToYourBrooms

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area It needs to be banned everywhere Otherwise its only a matter of time before we have a dead ocean devoid of life news.mongabay.com/short-article/…

ALP failure "is existential for this country’s remarkable, unique and increasingly imperilled wildlife and ecosystems." theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Experts in biodiversity and environmental law have found major flaws in the draft national standard for MNES #epbc #naturelaws

Israel is grossly breaching international law and kidnaps 11 Australians. The Labor Government instead of taking actions against Israel, blame the people trying to break Israel’s illegal blockade. That’s Labor and they won’t change.

@MFWitches BHP port kembla used as much water, form the same sources, as rest of wollongong put together. guess who paid to subsidise BHP's water use? and while residents were paying 14c per Kw hour BHP was paying 4 cents per Kw/h for power from the same grid.

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

Congratulations to the ABC and SBS in protecting their newsrooms from the censorship sought by Segal and The Lobby. The IHRA definition of antisemitism conflates criticism of Israel and discrimination against Jews.

Let's not forget this low life is the highest ranking legal officer in Australia - The Attorney General @MRowlandMP - what a shocking example she has set.

Link housing to migration? Sure. “Mass” migration pushed by enraged Porleen, the Beetrooter, Angus Taylor, IPA, Advance, Tony Abbott + Murdoch megaphones is discredited here 👇by the data. One migrant does not equal one house.

"A gas export tax will push gas prices down in Australia . . . and end the farcical situation where Australians were told that they had a ‘gas shortage’ while simultaneously being one of the world's largest gas exporters.” – Richard Denniss Read more ➡️ theaus.in/4uZThYX

If ocean water is too corrosive to cool data centers then we should force the richest people in the world to build desalinization plants. At least it would mean extra drinking water for, you know, actual people.

The Albanese Govt has taken measures in the Budget to reduce spending while it wastes BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on AUKUS and the Nuclear Submarine Deal and allows BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to go in untaxed profits to foreign companies for our Gas. That is Sheer Waste and Incompetence.

“Apocalyptic” decline in insects is already causing malnutrition, pioneering new research concludes. It’s long past time to take this ignored crisis very seriously indeed. livescience.com/animals/insect…

🎉 OCEAN WIN! Papua New Guinea just created its largest ever marine protected area - the size of the UK 🌊 The sanctuary is located in the Coral Triangle, a richly biodiverse area home to coral reefs, spinner dolphins, silky sharks, whales, and more! news.nationalgeographic.org/papua-new-guin…

@ausstoclkchiick Howard broke plenty of promises, lied numerous times and was re-elected time after time. Read Amy Remeikis’ book if you want the full story. A real eye opener! “Where it all went wrong”

@JEChalmers will raise $40 billion from Negative gearing and $40billion from capital gains Your indexation will cost $60billion over 10 years That's a $140billion black hole How will you pay forbit What cuts in health housing education? @AlanKohler Why should investors pay less tax on income than PAYG ?

Farms are not the 'natural state' of the land they are on. Farms are man made. They involve chemicals, pesticides, industrial processes, contamination of water, tons of diesel fuel to maintain. Since when did farms become some precious environmental thing?

The HORROR! Those brave Jewish folk who support the Gaza genocide, the rape and torture of Palestinian hostages, the invasion of Lebanon and the attacks on Iran are battling demons most of us can not comprehend Recently the terror caused by bake sales (to fund Gaza) was discussed at Australia's Zionist Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Royal Commission Most sane people were dismissive of these claims, but some research showed this to be a world-wide phenomenon among Zionist Jews desperate to whine about something The opinions of Muslims who have lost friends and family, seen them murdered, mutilated, imprisoned, raped and tortured by Israelis, have been ignored to place this privileged, overfunded, ultranationalist cult in the spotlight Unsurprisingly, calls for a Royal Commission into the Israel lobby's disproportionate influence on government policy (especially education) and the mainstream media have been ignored Foreign Influence: How the Israel lobby bought Australian democracy by Andrew Brown dingo.news/voice/foreign-… Alt URL Bake sales for Gaza could stoke Jew hatred, EU warns archive.is/20250722050929…