Eighty students joined a Students Against War rally at Unimelb on 10 September demanding the university cut its ties with Israel.
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More than 500 students showed up to join a Student General Meeting for Palestine at UNSW on 25 September.
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The recent brutal suppression of protests against the Land Forces Expo in Melbourne shows Albanese’s Labor government is deadly serious about preparing for war on China and ramping up arms manufacturing in Australia.
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The Albanese government has continued to prioritise profit over the environment, signalling their intention to make a deal with the Liberals to water down the powers of their proposed environment regulator, Environment Protection Australia.
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Almost three years after Anthony Albanese promised to build a new hydrogen-powered generator in Kurri Kurri in NSW using public funds, the plant is now likely to run entirely on diesel fuel for its first year.
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Despite persistent harassment from local councils and police, after more than 80 days the refugee encampments demanding permanent visas are still standing strong in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
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He won’t debate and now he won’t do the traditional 60 Minutes interview: Former President Donald Trump has backed out of a previously scheduled interview with “60 Minutes,” the most-watched newsmagazine in the United States, CBS News said Tuesday evening.[…] “For over half a century, 60 Minutes has invited the Democratic and Republican tickets to appear on our broadcast as Americans head to the polls,” the network said in a statement. “This year, both the Harris and Trump campaigns agreed to sit down with 60 Minutes.” Trump had committed to the interview first, followed by Harris, through campaign spokespeople, CBS said. Veteran CBS anchor and correspondent Scott Pelley was lined up to interview Trump. “After initially accepting 60 Minutes’ request for an interview with Scott Pelley, former President Trump’s campaign has decided not to participate,” CBS said. Why? Here’s Trump’s spokesman: I don’t understand this.
I suspect a lot of the cult members think they will be contributing to his campaign. But no. He’s running a scam while running for president. Never say he didn’t warn people: Trump had inked a deal with Tony Robbins, the frighteningly upbeat motivational speaker, by which Robbins would pay Trump $1 million to give ten speeches at his seminars around the country. Crucially, Trump had timed his political stops to coincide with Robbins’ seminars, so that he was “making a lot of money” on those campaign stops. “It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,” Trump said. … He wasn’t lying for once.
Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, fresh off verbally abusing an ABC reporter after they dared ask him a question, has demanded that all ABC staff hand over their lunch money to their peers (sic) at Sky News Australia. ”These ABC journalists... Read More ›
Iran fired rockets into Tel Aviv in response to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. What comes next?
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This award-winning shot offers a candid look at the cagey turkey vulture.
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Just eyeballing it, but it seems that more missiles are getting thru than are intercepted.
Videos show dozens of missiles flying over Tel Aviv, with some of them landing. The Israeli military says the missiles were fired by Iran and that a “large number” had been intercepted. pic.twitter.com/NUYX5bOa29
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 1, 2024
Iran has said this is punishment for the Israeli assassinations. It has also said that it will defend Lebanon. And, as Nate pointed out, the missile attack is widespread:
Tom Nichols has a typically tart piece in the Atlantic today about the state of the election. This part of it is one of the most depressing aspects of this whole thing. Harris will win the popular vote by millions of votes, you can bet money on that, but once again the electoral college could favor Trump. What kind of a democracy is this? I think it’s important to ask why this election, despite everything we now know, could tip to Trump. Perhaps the most surprising but disconcerting reality is that the election, as a national matter, isn’t really that close. If the United States took a poll and used that to select a president, Trump would lose by millions of votes—just as he would have lost in 2016. Federalism is a wonderful system of government but a lousy way of electing national leaders: The Electoral College system (which I long defended as a way to balance the interests of 50 very different states) is now lopsidedly tilted in favor of real estate over people.
As you wait for the debate tonight, watch this if you missed it: Rachel Maddow shows JD Vance explaining his lack of faith that democracy can deliver on his conservative ideals, and shows the influences behind Vance’s preference that the United States government be gutted and instead run by a dictator. This guy is so deeply creepy that I honestly don’t think I can live in a country led by him.
Innocent citizens in Gaza (80 % of whom are refugees), the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen are being blown to bits in horrific numbers. But it is Palestinian refugees across the region who have been the principal target of this horrific war machine for over 76 years. Continue reading »
It surely behoves our government to stand up to the Israel lobby and the Christian Zionists. The big war that Netanyahu wants would be catastrophic for the peoples of the world. It would cost the lives of ADF personnel and have a serious detrimental impact on our economy... Continue reading »
The context to my article below is today’s extreme media, and Dutton’s and the Albanese government’s hysteria regarding the appearance of the Hezbollah flag at this week’s protest against the Gazan genocide and bombing of Beirut in Melbourne. Unbelievable. The Albanese government is engaging in totalitarian newspeak and doubly so, has the hysterical Victorian Premier Continue reading »