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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 1d

Dear ABC News,
Why do you refer to Israeli hostages yet Palestinian prisoners? The word prisoner implies they've committed a crime. Yet you know almost all of the Palestinians were held w/o charge, trial or conviction. Words matter. Hostages on both sides. #Israel #Palestine #JournalismMatters

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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 22h

Right to be sceptical, but it seems aid is getting in, UN systems. Netanyahu is a snake and will try to undermine everything he can.

CrankyGrandma55 @crankygrandma55.bsky.social · 22h

So is aid going to be allowed onto Palestine now or is this going to just be a more clandestine starvation and genocide?

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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 2d

And while we’re at doing what’s necessary … let’s stop approving new #coal #gas Australia! #climate #auspol @Murraywatt
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say

Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis to more easily migrate, particularly to New Zealand

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, look.

Racists still gotta racist. #auspol #springst #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 1d

“The number of people living in poverty in Australia has increased to 1 in 7, according to a new ACOSS and UNSW report released today at the start of Anti-Poverty Week.”

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Poverty increases to 1 in 7 people: New report

ACOSS and UNSW Media Release The number of people living in poverty in Australia has increased to 1 in 7, according to a new ACOSS and UNSW report released today at the start of Anti-Poverty [...]

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 19h

Wrong step. What are we doing?

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 20h

“The most dangerous path for any economy is to go down the path of the military industrial complex.”

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The Manufacture of Arms and the Market Place

By Andrew Klein The most dangerous path for any economy is to go down the path of the military industrial complex. It produces nothing of benefit for the society concerned but creates wealth for a [.....

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h

Paul is 🎯: you will not see this story in US or most western mainstream media outlets.
Because even if not pro-Israel, they are fundamentally racist.

Which is why they covered the release of 20 Israeli hostages with so much more detail and compassion than the 2,000 Palestinian hostages released.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 20h

This belongs in every headline!! 💔💔💔💔💔

This is the most heartbreaking video today.
A Palestinian hostage who’s just been released was told his wife and children were slaughtered by Israel while he was held hostage.
His youngest daughter was turning two years old on Oct 18, in five days.

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 20h

They, along with ABC(news), Murdoch and others are hiding the truth about Israel.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 22h

Fairfax posting pics of every Israeli released hostage - while released Palestinians aren’t allowed to speak to the press - is very lopsided coverage

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Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 23h

74 in my case!

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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 22h

Pathetic

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

NAAC defends the decision not to hold robodebt public hearings. Pathetic www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908769...

National watchdog defends no robodebt public hearings

The national anti-corruption commission is investigating six public officials tied to the illegal robodebt scheme that resulted in...

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 1d

We should ask the very same question of the ABC and SBS. Our media utterly fail us.

Chris Hedges was going to say how and why at the National Press Club till it caved to Zionist bullying. #NPCFail

Hear him on next #sundayshot instead.

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Media Lens (@medialens)

Why, for the BBC, are Israelis 'hostages' and Palestinians 'prisoners'? And why are 20 Israeli captives given emotive, humanising, headline coverage, day after day, of the kind below, while 250 Palest...

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 23h

'Blair should be on trial at the Hague, not running #Gaza.'
Take careful note, @albomp.bsky.social , when you lie down with dogs ...

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10... #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #auspol #GazaGenocide #imperialism #Palestine

Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong took a long time just to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. And their belated declaration of Palestinian statehood is an empty gesture when w...

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 1d

Familiar?

l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 1d

Hitler, Reichstag April 26 1942. "I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation . . . . From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The original Antifa was Antifaschistische Aktion, created by Germans to oppose Adolf Hitler.

It existed from 1932-1933, then Hitler banned it and declared all its members terrorists.

History never changes, fat orange fascists just try to repeat it.

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 1d

PEACE ISRAELI STYLE.

Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 1d

DEPRAVED.

11,056 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons, according to Israeli statistics in Oct 2025. At least 3500 of those were held in administrative detention without trial. An Israeli military database has indicated that only a quarter of those detained in Gaza were classified as fighters.

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept. A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere”"

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 1d

DEPRAVED.

11,056 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons, according to Israeli statistics in Oct 2025. At least 3500 of those were held in administrative detention without trial. An Israeli military database has indicated that only a quarter of those detained in Gaza were classified as fighters.

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept. A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere”"

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"... some bearing the marks of recent beatings and a few unable to walk without being propped up by their relatives.

When asked about their treatment in the prisons, a prisoner apologised and said he could not answer, for fear that he would face repercussions from Israeli authorities"

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Assal Rad—

“In other words, they were HOSTAGES. But they’re Palestinian, so @apnews.com calls them 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴.”

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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 1d

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😍👇🏾'✨🦅Happy #Indigenous Peoples Day!🦅✨This Battle Flag represents their disdain 4 us. It’s that flag that was meant destroy Ancestral Families & call it a🚫victory🎖️. To this day we still r under Siege not fr any foreign Govt but “Our” own. This is the reason I never honor or trust their ways...

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 1d

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Justice for Jayson: Stand up for Free Speech & Artistic Freedom

Dear friends and supporters,

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli thug proxies murdering for Israel in Gaza.

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Eman Mohammed (@emangaza)

These are the thugs responsible for Saleh Aljafarawi’s execution. Armed, funded, and backed by Israel.

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 1d

Israel starved this child to death. Sadists inc. Israel enjoys torturing kid by shooting them in the knees to cripple. During last 2 years these kids have often needed amputation due Israel aggression. Israel blocked pain relief to most of wounded.

Melon Head @pj54321.bsky.social · 3d

Died... = Murdered through deliberate Israeli Starvation
ABC still unable to articulate obvious truth
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Matthew Doran @matthewdoran1.bsky.social · 3d

In August we reported on the story of 12 year old Huda, suffering extreme malnutrition. Her hair was falling out, and she didn't have enough energy to get out of bed.

We're hearing reports that Huda died in recent days.

Here's our story from August:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 3d

Written by Chris Hedges

“How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the ICJ’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?

How can it fail to mention Palestinian’s right to self-determination?”
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Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't looked. It will happen. Perhaps after they do some more weeks of starvation?

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