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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 15h

Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics?

Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s sham peace plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Trump’s sham peace plan

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

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 2d

"For me, being part of the Jewish Council enabled some of those voices that have been not so much in the public domain to come out more stridently and hopefully inspire other people – other Jewish people."

Hear why Linda Briskman is proud to be a member of the Jewish Council Advisory Committee!

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 2d

Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Born in a one-room home on the outskirts of Amman, the son of illiterate Palestinian refugees from Gaza, Professor Omar Yaghi has risen from the hardships of displacement to the highest pinnacle of sc...

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 11d

No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan

The Trump Plan is designed to reframe the issues in favour of Israel. Palestinians have been betrayed again.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 11d

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The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 14d

Read the draft of Tony Blair’s plan for Gaza, in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/r...

Read the draft of Tony Blair's plan for Gaza, in full

A draft of the former British prime minister's plan has emerged.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 19d

The poisonous chalice of recognition: A double-edged sword for Palestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

The poisonous chalice of recognition: A double-edged sword for Palestine

While we should not regard it as a “historical moment” or a “game changer”, the recognition does have the potential to help Palestinians lead us into a different future.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 21d

How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting?

Trump’s record suggests that meetings with him frequently fail. Instead, Albanese has an important agenda to pursue at the UN in New York, and when dealing with the US better outcomes are more likely ...

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 22d

The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history

For many months now, Australians have been calling for our prime minister to accept his responsibility as the nation’s leader to sanction Israel in response to its military atrocities and ethnic clean...

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 22d

Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too

Almost two years since Israel started its current campaign in the Gaza Strip, many governments are reluctant to call it what it is – genocide – simply because acknowledging it as such would incur lega...

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · 26d

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 14

The UN turns 80 johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

The UN turns 80

The most important agenda item for the United Nations General Assembly this month will be the future of Palestine. But Palestinian leaders will be unable to discuss it, because they will be absent.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 13

The politics of extermination johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

The politics of extermination

In 1895, Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, asserted: “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while...

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 11

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How Hamas hardened • Peter Rodgers

Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 8

Seven hundred days of genocide: Israel attempts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and will fail johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Seven hundred days of genocide: Israel attempts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and will fail

September 4 marked 700 days since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which began on 7 October 2023.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 5

Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit
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Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit

A leaflet shared at Gold Coast summit includes a bizarre list of 'antisemitic' items

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 4

The real death toll in Gaza johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

The real death toll in Gaza

The widely “accepted” figure for Palestinian deaths in Gaza is more than 63,000. That is horrific enough , but the number is more likely nearer 300,000. And our media don’t care.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 2

Leaked Trump plan to turn Gaza into tech cash cow

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Leaked plan to make depopulated Gaza a high-tech cash cow

A leaked plan would transform a substantially depopulated Gaza into Donald Trump's vision of a high-tech "Riviera of the Middle East".

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 2

Israel, hasbara, antisemitism and Iran johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Israel, hasbara, antisemitism and Iran

Not long after the Hamas attack of nearly two years ago, I began perceiving a pattern. With Israel’s reprisal accelerating and Gazan deaths climbing, the near unanimous support for Israel in countries...

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 2

Re-engineering consciousness in Gaza: How the occupation is turning a structured, educated society into a fragmented and dehumanised one johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Re-engineering consciousness in Gaza: How the occupation is turning a structured, educated society into a fragmented and dehumanised one

Before the genocide unfolding in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian society was among the most educated and disciplined in the Arab world.

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Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social · Sep 2

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Apr 7

Australian governments are meant to represent the interests of Australians, not multinational gas corporations.

Australians are tired of rampant gas exports driving up their power bills.

✍️ Add your name to the call to fix Australia's gas export problem!
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