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Michelle Suiter 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ @michellesuiter.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not sure what to be more angry/disappointed about;
-ongoing #robotdebt
-$7.9m for 1 refugee on Nauru
-promising accountability & then 2nd to Morrison in secrecy in FOI, w/ new laws to make it harder
-1 to 7 ppl now living in poverty
-NDIS cuts
-AUKUS
-CGT & Neg Gear still ongoing
-Fkn Palestine!

Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 8h

Australian Parliament Sports Club de-registered as lobby group amid MP outrage www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/13/a...

Australian Parliament Sports Club de-registered as lobby group amid MP outrage

Exclusive: The Australian Parliament Sports Club has de-registered as a lobby group, as its CEO claims politicians were fully aware of lobby groups' involvement in the club.

www.crikey.com.au

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Palestinian prisoners released from Israel have been greeted by huge crowds in the occupied West Bank, as a prisoner and captive exchange took place on Monday as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 5h

Gotta pay for that stadium. pulsetasmania.com.au/news/staff-r...

Staff rally over Royal Hobart Hospital clinical trial cuts

The state government says nobody will lose their jobs as a result…

pulsetasmania.com.au

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Witness Docs @ajwitness.bsky.social · 6h

As Israel ramped up its bombardment of Lebanon in late 2024, journalist Hussein Bassal and his family quickly fled from their homes.

Follow their journey as they narrowly avoid missile strikes. Watch the full film: aje.io/Forced

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 5h

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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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Michelle Suiter 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ @michellesuiter.bsky.social · 6h

Labor is utterly useless

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h

Didn't even have the bottle to stick with changes to super that affected only the wealthiest 0.5%.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8h

Hind Khoudary reporting from Khan Younis as people wait for the release of hundreds of Palestinian hostages held by Israel

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Sue @hulatt47.bsky.social · 8h

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israeli-of...

Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 8h

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 8h

So is ABC or any media going to show us or spk to any Palestinians who are miraculously still alive after 2yrs of daily bombings by Israel? Seems pretty one sided at the moment. Palestinians wrongly held captive by Israel are also being released today, barely a mention.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 8h

So, in Victoria, Centrelink sends you off to sweep railway carparks and pick up rubbish to "improve employment prospects."

Yet, the Victorian Magistrates' Court sentences offenders to do the same work as a Community Work Order (a sentence), same time, same place, as punishment for breaking the law?

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 8h

"If someone has a payment suspension & they want to challenge it & they believe it's either unfair or unlawful, do you hold all the information that you need in the system?"

DEWR: "In some cases the notes aren't detailed enough for us to make a full assessment"

extraordinary misadministration

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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... A total of 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli prisons are expected to be released &1,716 Palestinians from Gaza detained by Israel to be released at Gaza’s Nasser hospital.

Israeli hostage release: first seven hostages handed to Red Cross in Gaza, says IDF – live updates

Israeli military says it is preparing to receive remaining hostages; Donald Trump set to arrive in Israel

www.theguardian.com

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 9h

$700 a week for a room in a rooming house in Upper Mount Gravatt is where we’re at I guess

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10h

While the media and political class fixate on tinkering with superannuation, a new report finds that 1 in 7 Australians are living in #poverty.

And it's 1 in 6 children.

In such a wealthy nation, this is an obscene policy choice. #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

One in seven Australians living in poverty: report

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

www.abc.net.au

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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... He spent the day sifting through shattered concrete and twisted metal for any sign of them. All he managed to find were some shards of their skulls and parts of their hands.

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains

www.theguardian.com

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 8h

barnaby joyce talked about using "bullets" to "say goodbye" to the prime minister

and he faced no consequences

i wonder why Lydia Thorpe gets treated differently... cant qwhite work that out

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Dominic Waghorn reports that Israel refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, "who is arguably the Nelson Mandela of Palestinians".

The release of Mandela heralded the end of apartheid South Africa. Its not hard to see why the Israeli apartheid regime wants to keep him locked up.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Israel has banned Palestinians from celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners [hostages] & banned their families from giving interviews

Contrast that with the celebrations around the release of Israeli hostages & the many interviews being broadcast around the world.

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Michelle Fahy @michellefahy.bsky.social · 7h

If you were hoping to hear Chris Hedges speak at the National Press Club and were stymied by the NPC's cancellation of him...

There is this instead (in Adelaide):
events.humanitix.com/edward-said-...

Edward Said Memorial Lecture 'Chris Hedges'

Join the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA) in 2025 as we host Chris Hedges at UniSA for the Edward Said Memorial Lecture.

events.humanitix.com

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 7h

Israel has committed genocide. There is no more serious crime under international law. Culpability does not fade simply because there is now a ceasefire agreement, in the same way that a serial killer wouldn't be pardoned if they simply stop killing. There must be consequences.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Adam Parsons tells us Palestinians "feel" that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are hostages too

Feel?

People are seized from their homes & locked up indefinitely without trial or charge, with no evidence against them & not even told why they've been locked up!

"Feel".

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 7h

Only UNRWA can deliver lifesaving aid at the scale #Gaza needs. We have the network, the experience, and the trust of the community.

The State of Israel must let UNRWA bring in the huge amount of aid that has been blocked in our warehouses in Jordan and Egypt since 2nd March.
Let UNRWA do its work.

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