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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 6d

The National Press Club doing its best to destroy trust in legacy media #auspol

Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia

AFOPA is responding to the statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club on 20 October 2025.

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 6h

Joined by terribly #biased pro-Israel accounts of the cease fire @channel9.bsky.social & @abcaustralia.bsky.social . the #legacy media no longer do journalism. Very dangerous. #auspol

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Guild Navigator Ix @guildnavigatorix.bsky.social · 6h

Right on fucking cue - Israel knows it can continue the genocide with the full support of the US and countries like Australia - isn’t that right @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social ? #auspol #israelGenocideContinues

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Israel is using the failure to return the bodies of hostages as a pretext to violate the ceasefire themselves, but as Nour Odeh points out, the ceasefire agreement did not contain a timeline for the handing over of the bodies & Israel already knew it might take weeks or months.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Israel is using the failure to return the bodies of hostages as a pretext to violate the ceasefire themselves, but as Nour Odeh points out, the ceasefire agreement did not contain a timeline for the handing over of the bodies & Israel already knew it might take weeks or months.

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Guild Navigator Ix @guildnavigatorix.bsky.social · 6h

Hey @latingle.bsky.social why when the ABC reports the fact Israel is withholding aid, it fails to mention how it’s a war crime? #auspol #GazaGenocideContinues

Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 7h

The normalization of the collective punishment of an indigenous population (that targets primarily children) continues

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Pepperpots @pepperpots4477.bsky.social · 5h

I would say ‘who could argue’ but just sat through 3 Liberal Party reports on local news & it’s pretty obvious they would. In fact their years in govt are the prime reason for the current lack of support for ppl in need. Get it together Albo - you weren’t elected for ‘more of the same’. #auspol

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 5h

These are just the sort of authoritarian practices and #ZionistMcCarthyism that would be enacted in Australia
if Jillian Segal's 'plan' was ever adopted. #auspol

Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 5h

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Starmer's government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as 'terrorism' to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate

Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted

Starmer's government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as 'terrorism' to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate

open.substack.com

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Djoran Keil @djorankeil.bsky.social · 5h

'Tough on crime' is practically a euphemism for racist.

#AusPol

More Indigenous Australians died in custody in NSW this year than ever before, coroner reveals

State’s tough on crime measures compounding the problem, one expert says, despite pledge to close the gap

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 4h

25-year-old former ADF member, involved with the National Socialist Network (a neo-Nazi group), charged with possessing and distributing child abuse material. Not shocked. #auspol

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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 5h

Today the entire Victorian opposition pulled a ‘Dutton walks out of the apology’ by not turning up to Victorian Treaty debate day 2.

Labor, Green, and Independent MPs remained, contributing meaningful discussion about significant policy.

Respect the Libs as much as they respect Indigenous people.

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 9d

“Rupert Murdoch built more than a media empire. He built a monster.

But the monster he unleashed no longer answers to him.”

theaimn.net/a-cathedral-...

A Cathedral of Grievance: How Murdoch Built The Monster He Can No Longer Control

Rupert Murdoch built more than a media empire. He built a cathedral of grievance where facts die on the altar and paranoia pays the rent. For three decades, this structure stood as the template for [....

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Colleen Strider 📎 @wetdreamteam.bsky.social · 15h

Of course Israel is using food as a weapon, still.
#IsraelIsATerroristState

Europe Politics non-official @eupolitics.bsky.social · 15h

The Latest: Israel to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages

https://www.europesays.com/2493672/

After the release of the last living hostages and Palestinian prisoners and detainees, the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza…

The Latest: Israel to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages - EUROPE SAYS

After the release of the last living hostages and Palestinian prisoners and detainees, the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza was holding Tuesday while questions

www.europesays.com

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 9h

#auspol #gasindustry #gasexports #domesticgasreserves

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11h

Our governments are already caving in to pressure from the gas industry to export our domestic gas reserves.

90% of WA's gas is exported or used for export.

We don't have a gas shortage problem. We have a gas export problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 12h

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Albanese to drive down emissions
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Albanese to drive down emissions | Clear Air

Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry

www.theguardian.com

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Guild Navigator Ix @guildnavigatorix.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting that we get a blow by blow account of the Israeli hostage releases but silence on the Palestinian ones? Nice work ABC Australia #auspol

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 17h

The current ceasefire in #Gaza cannot be misconstrued as a “peace plan”; it is a mere pause from the genocide, as there will certainly be a subsequent round of conflict, which depends heavily on what unfolds in the West Bank, and in the region #auspol #PeacePlan

From Gaza, Palestinians have reasserted their agency on the world stage

If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit and their deeply rooted resistance that transcends faction, ideology and politics.

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💀ℙ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕞 ℝ𝕠𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣🐓🍉 @phantom-rooster.bsky.social · 15h

Chris Minns exaggerated the scale of antisemitism in NSW – and won't apologise
www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...
#auspol

Chris Minns exaggerated the scale of antisemitism in NSW – and won't apologise

The NSW premier had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that to be false.

www.deepcutnews.com

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#auspol

Ben Norton @bennorton.com · 2d

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter funded by the US government.

She supports Israel as it commits genocide and is central in Trump’s regime-change war against President Maduro.

I collected the evidence:
geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/10/13/m...

Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel's genocide & Trump's war on Venezuela - Geopolitical Economy Report

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter funded by the US government. She supports Israel as it commits genocide and is central to Trump's regime-change w...

geopoliticaleconomy.com

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Twitter Exile @twitter-exile.bsky.social · 14h

‪Thanks @albomp.bsky.social
Australia's only native #shrew has been declared #extinct.

This extinction is not just a statistic: it’s the silencing of a species, a permanent erasure of unique evolutionary history.

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

#Extinctions #ChristmasIsland #WildOz #AUSPOL

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 16h

We had a welfare state

But that impeded the upward flow of money so illogical Neoliberalism/Neoclassical Economics had to become orthodoxy

In reality it's a recipe for inequality, obscene wealth and poverty, and what is highlighted above

It's infected nearly everywhere. USA, UK, AUD especially

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 18h

If you want to read a bad joke, try the @australianlabor.bsky.social constitution - a document that generally binds an organisation to a set of values and standards

Here's a link to the 2023 "adopted" version -

www.alp.org.au/media/3572/a...

www.alp.org.au

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Niall Ginsbourg @niallginsbourg.bsky.social · 1d

Your quick cheat sheet for abducted people held for significant amount of time without charges, a trial or due legal process who are now being returned home in the Middle East.
Sad to see that even @australia.theguardian.com is falling in line with this blatantly racist reporting.

#auspol #Gaza

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PEN Sydney @pensydney.bsky.social · 1d

🔗 REGISTER NOW: events.humanitix.com/hedges-pales...

#auspol #australia #gaza #israel #palestine

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 1d

Well as Forrest said "Stupid is as stupid does"

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

Insecure, unaffordable and inaccessible housing is the biggest cause of poverty in Australia.

Labor Government has a lot to answer for.

albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
#auspol

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