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"The political shift on Israel that Mamdani’s victory represents should be a wake-up call for Netanyahu govt."
And maybe a sign that US will no longer "close its eyes as the Israeli govt attempts to 'solve' the Palestinian conflict through genocide, forced mass deportation, or endless apartheid."
And maybe a sign that US will no longer "close its eyes as the Israeli govt attempts to 'solve' the Palestinian conflict through genocide, forced mass deportation, or endless apartheid."
Zohran Mamdani is re-writing the political rules around support for Israel | Kenneth Roth
Zohran Mamdani is re-writing the political rules around support for Israel | Kenneth Roth
If support for Israel is no longer de rigueur in New York, it may soon not be obligatory in Washington. That is good news for Palestinians
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
"The political shift on Israel that Mamdani’s victory represents should be a wake-up call for Netanyahu govt."
And maybe a sign that US will no longer "close its eyes as the Israeli govt attempts to 'solve' the Palestinian conflict through genocide, forced mass deportation, or endless apartheid."
And maybe a sign that US will no longer "close its eyes as the Israeli govt attempts to 'solve' the Palestinian conflict through genocide, forced mass deportation, or endless apartheid."
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Nannas standing with First Nations Tiwi and Timor Leste in their battle to protect Country (Land and Sea) to stop Gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope at The People’s Blockade #RisingTide #KnittingNannas #SeoofNations
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Nannas standing with First Nations Tiwi and Timor Leste in their battle to protect Country (Land and Sea) to stop Gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope at The People’s Blockade #RisingTide #KnittingNannas #SeoofNations
'Australia has some of the highest consumption rates of ultra-processed foods, which now comprise around half of the average diet. Researchers drew a direct link to Australia’s national food policy falling behind international best practice.' #auspol
Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn
Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn
Exclusive: Many industries on new council are ‘associated with significant health harms’, one academic says
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Cheap and unhealthy foods are set to become further entrenched in the Australian diet, according to health experts, who warn the federal government is developing a national food policy with heavy influence from profit-driven food and agriculture industries.
Dr Matt Fisher from the University of Adelaide’s Stretton Institute’s health equity department said the policy could “compromise crucial public health considerations”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
'Australia has some of the highest consumption rates of ultra-processed foods, which now comprise around half of the average diet. Researchers drew a direct link to Australia’s national food policy falling behind international best practice.' #auspol
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Another “national food policy” built for Big Food, not humans. We should be growing our own food, cooking real meals, feeding communities, not being pushed into ultra-processed crap because it suits corporations. Food sovereignty > corporate diet plans.
#auspol
#auspol
Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn
Many industries on new council are ‘associated with significant health harms’, one academic says
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Another “national food policy” built for Big Food, not humans. We should be growing our own food, cooking real meals, feeding communities, not being pushed into ultra-processed crap because it suits corporations. Food sovereignty > corporate diet plans.
#auspol
#auspol
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‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
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This scenario raises the risk of rapid reinfections, for those relying on immunity from a recent infection.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
This scenario raises the risk of rapid reinfections, for those relying on immunity from a recent infection.
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COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 20 November 2025
🔹Active cases: 230 (+22.9%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 38 (+18.7%)
🔹Resident cases: 179 (+22.6%)
🔹Staff cases: 51 (+24.3%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 403 (+1)
@SamRaeMP
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
🔹Active cases: 230 (+22.9%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 38 (+18.7%)
🔹Resident cases: 179 (+22.6%)
🔹Staff cases: 51 (+24.3%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 403 (+1)
@SamRaeMP
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 20 November 2025
🔹Active cases: 230 (+22.9%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 38 (+18.7%)
🔹Resident cases: 179 (+22.6%)
🔹Staff cases: 51 (+24.3%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 403 (+1)
@SamRaeMP
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
🔹Active cases: 230 (+22.9%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 38 (+18.7%)
🔹Resident cases: 179 (+22.6%)
🔹Staff cases: 51 (+24.3%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 403 (+1)
@SamRaeMP
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
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Deadly H5 bird flu detected on remote Australian island.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
Bird flu confirmed in elephant seal population at Heard Island
The federal government says testing confirms the presence of avian influenza in samples collected from southern elephant seals on Heard Island — a sub-Antarctic Australian external territory.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Deadly H5 bird flu detected on remote Australian island.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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The EPBC Act changes are nowhere near perfect, but there have been some important improvements to the pretty shite original bill.
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Labor and Greens to pass environment laws today, Nationals pretend to care about Barnaby Joyce's future
Labor wants a political win and wants its environment legislation pushed through, even if it means sitting on Friday to do it, while the Nationals are pretending to care about Barnaby Joyce's potentia...
live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The EPBC Act changes are nowhere near perfect, but there have been some important improvements to the pretty shite original bill.
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
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Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
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November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
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This from Bob Brown about the changes to national environment laws via the deal struck between The Greens and Labor today.
#auspol #environment
#auspol #environment
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This from Bob Brown about the changes to national environment laws via the deal struck between The Greens and Labor today.
#auspol #environment
#auspol #environment
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Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details | Adam Morton
Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details | Adam Morton
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act changes are an improvement, but the rush to pass them was purely political
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We should start at the beginning in assessing the Labor-Greens deal to revamp Australia’s national environment law. And the beginning is that, ideally, you would not start from here.
Despite its name, the 1999 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act was designed under John Howard to allow developments to go ahead, usually with conditions attached that may limit the damage to nature. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details | Adam Morton
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Seven key takeaways: how Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
Seven key takeaways: how Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes
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Long-awaited changes to Australia’s national environmental laws will pass the Senate on Thursday after a deal between the Albanese government and the Greens.
The hundreds of pages of legislation to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act include commitments to improve scrutiny of native forest logging and new fast-track assessment measures for some developments. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Seven key takeaways: how Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
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Labor and the Coalition voted against me moving a motion to recognise Israel's genocide in Gaza.
After Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza, starved children, blocked aid, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, Labor still refuses.
After Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza, starved children, blocked aid, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, Labor still refuses.
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Labor and the Coalition voted against me moving a motion to recognise Israel's genocide in Gaza.
After Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza, starved children, blocked aid, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, Labor still refuses.
After Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza, starved children, blocked aid, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, Labor still refuses.
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this is unsustainable, the $600M underspend of the #MRFF could be funnelled, or at least partially funnelled, to supporting excellent #NHMRC applications that fall below the funding cut off because there is too little money in the pot #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #SaveOzScience
An abismal 8% success rate for this year’s #NHMRC #IdeasGrant scheme. Must be an all time low. Congratulations to those successful, you really earned it! Commiserations to the NINETY TWO percent of applicants who didn’t get it… #australianresearch #discoveriesneeddollars 🥼🧪🔬🧫 🇦🇺
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
this is unsustainable, the $600M underspend of the #MRFF could be funnelled, or at least partially funnelled, to supporting excellent #NHMRC applications that fall below the funding cut off because there is too little money in the pot #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #SaveOzScience
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When I took this job as the Head of a department, I never thought my job would involve consoling & moving on some of my most talented researchers at the end of each year - just bc their ARC/NHMRC grant didn’t get up. Having worked in multiple countries, I have never seen this normalised like in Aus.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
When I took this job as the Head of a department, I never thought my job would involve consoling & moving on some of my most talented researchers at the end of each year - just bc their ARC/NHMRC grant didn’t get up. Having worked in multiple countries, I have never seen this normalised like in Aus.
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Australian #NHMRC Ideas grants are out. 8.1% success rate. Lowest since the scheme began. Congrats to the successful few, as it looks like less than 200 were funded. 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Australian #NHMRC Ideas grants are out. 8.1% success rate. Lowest since the scheme began. Congrats to the successful few, as it looks like less than 200 were funded. 🧪
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Fair to say the way you vote is not the way your mum and dad voted (or how you voted 30 years ago)
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Fair to say the way you vote is not the way your mum and dad voted (or how you voted 30 years ago)
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Read the full stroy: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Read the full stroy: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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A warrant isn’t a conviction. When family payments aren’t made, it’s children who suffer
Senate passed the Social Security Tech. Changes No. 2 Bill. Provides:
- income apportionment validation + resolution scheme
- debt waiver changes
- HA Minister can cancel payments for subjects of outstanding arrest warrants for serious violent or sexual offences parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...
- income apportionment validation + resolution scheme
- debt waiver changes
- HA Minister can cancel payments for subjects of outstanding arrest warrants for serious violent or sexual offences parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...
parlinfo.aph.gov.au
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A warrant isn’t a conviction. When family payments aren’t made, it’s children who suffer
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So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed