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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 15h

Mosab Abu Toha—

"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.

"You will not see this story on CNN, BBC, NYT, WP, or other MSM outlets."

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 13h

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 17h

"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 · 17h

"... 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"

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17h

#ABC Middle East correspondent Matt Doran says Israel has been throwing tear gas at crowds gathering to greet freed Palestinian hostages in Gaza & demanded “they weren't to congregate, they weren't to celebrate the moment those Palestinians were released from Israeli jails”

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 16h

The lights on the hill.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Parliament House Canberra by night - with bright neon signs saying “AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS CLUB” “PLAY TO WIN - ACCESS” “TRY YOUR LUCK” “PAY TO PLAY” “‘RESPONSIBLE’ LOBBYING AUSTRALIA”

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Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 16h

JQ: 'Australia needs a new strategic vision.' 😂: will never happen as long as duopoly/cartel parties hoodwink the country.

theconversation.com/if-governmen...

If government bailouts of companies are the new normal, we need a better strategic vision

It’s one thing to abandon the dogmas of neoliberalism. It’s quite another to develop a coherent alternative.

theconversation.com

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 17h

Been some damned good women too! How many of the hard-working, tenacious Indies are female, eh?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone was wondering, “Give us your land or we will bomb you and take it” is not a peace deal; it’s extortion by artillery. A peace deal requires consent.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 20h

After two years of seeing children shredded, buried under rubble, and starved, our establishment newspapers' front pages finally have something to care about: Israeli hostages.

If only they had been this worked up about the dead, mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza.

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 17h

And Trump being lauded as a peacemaker? The man who supplied weaponry to the genocidal maniac Netanyahu for years? Who stood by while his sadistic cronies signed those bombs? Who could have withdrawn support at the start? Tell that to the dead kids under the rubble.

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 1d

It was understandable though that he would have assumed Kerr would act with integrity and honesty. I clearly remember the moment I heard the news, was in shock&disbelief for a while, followed by red-hot anger.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

This is a choice we make as a society. What does that say about you and me?

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 1d

The Rich People's Lobby has whacked the govt into a backflip on its superannuation reforms
#whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/wealthy-supe...

The One Percent has a super win as Chalmers caves. What's the scam? - Michael West

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced Labor is backing down on the proposed tightening of the super tax for the very wealthy. What’s the scam? The scam is how the Labor Government is letting hyperbole ...

michaelwest.com.au

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 1d

Israelis turned to Lebanon and the West Bank to keep their killing machine revving once they had to stop killing people in Gaza. Their bloodlust is eternal.

substack.com/@sobiaquazi/...

Sobia Quazi (@sobiaquazi)

Jewish Supremacists are addicted to killing - their fave being killing children of course. Now they have been stopped from their huge killing spree in Gaza they immediately turned their attention to L...

substack.com

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 1d

Drunken John Kerr conspired against Whitlam. His mistake was to trust the GG and the underhand tactics used to unseat him.

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Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 1d

Now! Here's a plan (from FB)

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Brian Hizsoltee @hizsoltee.bsky.social · 1d

Gough had a big agenda, he knew the powers that be would throw everything at him when they could see he was serious about transforming this country and he might only get one term to do it. So he went for it. Carpe Diem!

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps instead of 4Corners exposing Trump's profiteering from his presidency ( as if we didn't know ) they should do an investigation into our own politician's dubious connections.

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ArchedEyebrow @archedeyebrow.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING : The Australian Parliament Sports Club has just DE-REGISTERED itself as a lobby group... despite still being run by the Australian gambling lobby.
The change relieves our PM from having to explain why he's the PRESIDENT of an organisation designed to lobby HIS OWN GOVERNMENT.
#AusPol

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Margaret Rose @margaretrose.bsky.social · 1d

We wouldn’t have been invaded by the US, would not be owned by FF companies, Trump loving Marles would not be Deputy, Morrison & other 5 Robodebt crims would be in gaol. Uni’s would not be a mess. Such a diff country. We need a leader!

country.country

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 1d

Gough was a man of vision, integrity and courage. He had ordinary people at heart. Oh, for another Gough!

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 1d

"And we we will make many more hollow pledges, some carried over from the previous two elections, and all you gullible voters will fall for it again."

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. That'd get rid of Sharma as well.

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Carolyn Gilholme @carogil.bsky.social · 1d

So, how long did the good senator spend " going into it" and why? And was her initial interpretation 'in the eye of the beholder'? And does she not possess buttocks herself?

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