My latest on the Payman fallout, and the underlying prejudices plaguing our political system:
‘Payman breaks ”the unwritten rules of multiculturalism” (whatever they’re supposed to be)’
#auspol
More bombs on Gaza than in Dresden WWII, more than the bombing of Hanoi in Vietnam war, more journalists killed than any conflict in recorded history, more dead civilians than 20 years in Afghanistan, more dead children than every global conflict since 2019.
Genocide.
I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza:
Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable, and destroy
I have never seen a government in my lifetime, nor heard of one, that has shat on Australia like this. These appointments are atrocious. How can we allow this to happen?
*Australia abstained on UN ceasefire
*Won’t recognise ICJ
*Provides weapon components for IDF
*Won’t condemn Israel’s actions
*Attacks sovereign Yemen rather than condemn Israel’s actions.
He tells us to remember the horrors of genocide while his gov enables one as we speak.
We mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day because we must never forget the Holocaust - not the scale of it, nor the shocking depths of its cruelty.
I’m a dad. I can’t function properly seeing this organised death being perpetuated on children.
I’m struggling to work, to write, to be present in my daily existence while the government I voted for is refusing to condemn this barbarism.
I feel shame.
The ABC has done a more detailed analysis on the ascension of the Danish monarchy than it has on the ICJ submission.
The Australian public is more than informed about the graces of Princess Mary thanks to the ABC, not so much on the horrors in Gaza.
Penny Wong and her government granted an Israeli weapons company a $917 million Australian army contract just the other day.
These empty words are all part of the kabuki play that is the western protection and assistance of Israel’s genocide.
Today a mass grave filled with innocent people who were seeking shelter in a hospital
Imagine if we saw the Russians doing this in Ukraine, would we be so muted?
By allowing this unprecedented slaughter of children, the west has lost the last of its moral entitlement
I paid $6 dollars for two lemons at Woolworths yesterday. As they weighed in at the robocheckouts, alongside my $10 dollar carton of eggs, I saw the same feeling on the faces of others around me and knew I wasn’t alone.
There are some bad governments in the world, but only a select few have pulled humanitarian aid for Palestinians the day after the ICJ saw claims of genocide in a Gaza as ‘plausible’.
Australia, our country, with an Albanese Labor government in 2024, is one of them.
We will all remember Wong withdrawing aid to starving Gazan children to appease the lobbies, rather than calling for a ceasefire to save children
Wong has made a choice outside of the public political interest and it will cost her prestige, her party, her legacy, and Gazan lives
Australia supports more collective punishment for Palestinians.
“I am shocked such decisions [stopping UNRWA aid ] are taken based on alleged behavior of a few individuals and as the war continues, needs are deepening & famine looms.
“Palestinians in Gaza did not need this
I had a bit of Twitter awakening due to my recent interactions with
@vanOnselenP
. He asked me to write an article about journalism, this is it. Follow and share my stuff if you want, I have set up a new home on
@SubstackInc
.
#auspol
My latest article for
@shot_au
about the glaring lack of skill on display from the media over the Gaza crisis:
"Australian media annihilated by someone who knows what they’re talking about"
#auspol
#GazaGenocide
For eight months straight, the people of Australia have protested on the side of humanity.
For eight months straight,
@AlboMP
and his government have ignored these calls from his people.
These calls are real and consequential for the current major party genocide apologists.
Israel cant go to war with someone it occupies
It cant defend itself from people it refuses to afford sovereign rights, who's lands they encroach, hang, draw and quarter, and lives they restrict
The whole political and media classes need a history lesson and a legal dictionary
Does Israel have a "right of self-defence" under international law? No.
As UN Special Rapporteur
@FranceskAlbs
explains: "Israel cannot claim the right of self-defence against a threat that emanates from the territory that it occupies, that is kept under belligerent occupation."
🇵🇸🇮🇱 A trend has swept TikTok where Israeli’s mock the appearance of Palestinians, the fact they have no electricity and some even compare them to dogs.
Many of these videos also show parents making their kids take part in the trend.
You know what is worse than not joining over 100 nations to acknowledge Palestinian statehood and South Africa’s ICJ submission alleging genocide in Gaza?
Giving a white South African a fat check to call anyone antisemitic if they do.
The most Orwellian act yet from Albo.
There is no place for violence, hatred or discrimination of any kind in Australia.
And as part of my Government's work to promote social cohesion, we have appointed Jillian Segal AO as Special Envoy to combat Antisemitism.
You know who doesn't want to go to a rushed illegal war in a foreign sovereign nation in another hemisphere, with the rational of protecting shipping for a nation undertaking a genocide by bombing the poor nation who bravely blockades it for genocidal activity?
All Australians.
The continued Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are unacceptable.
Australia alongside other countries has supported the United States and United Kingdom to conduct strikes to deal with this threat to global rules and commercial shipping.
The journalists are starting to work it out. They start to apply their tradecraft to reveal the sheer disparity between IDF narrative crafters and the facts of the genocide.
Not happening in Australia though, because our journalists are barred from doing their jobs.
I am proud to be from Coburg, it’s people have always stood against injustice and for humanity.
Beware those elected in ‘safe Labor seats’. The time for taking us for granted is over.
18 months of Albo:
*Signs away AUKUS
*Approves B52s in NT
*Embeds US intelligence agents at defence
*Denies APWR
*Prosecutes whistleblowers
*Abstains UN votes for Gaza ceasefire
*Commits military to Red Sea
*Refuses to endorse SA ICJ submission
*Joins illegal war in Yemen
The continued Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are unacceptable.
Australia alongside other countries has supported the United States and United Kingdom to conduct strikes to deal with this threat to global rules and commercial shipping.
This was the moment Albanese could have changed the paradigm on Israel.
The moment he could have frozen weapons sales, suspended the $1bl Elbit contract, sent home the ambassador, boycotted bilateral communications, or even condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza.
We got ‘concern’.
I expressed Australia’s anger and concern at the death of Zomi Frankcom to Prime Minister Netanyahu in a phone call this morning.
We have called for full transparency and accountability, and for aid to reach Gaza unimpeded and in large quantities.
Has gov betrayed us?
The entire Canberra class is implementing a global Zionist agenda at the behest of a foreign power against the national interest?
They want to arrest people for speaking out against a genocide?
Has the Aus political class lost their mandate to govern us?
Three fingers pointing down to a message suggesting Assange should rot in jail from a far-right evangelical who enabled Donald Trump from one of the biggest talking heads at the ABC. What context? Is the RT (and the three fingers) an endorsement?
Tired of nuclear? Well you can thank the Australian media for legitimising this donkey of an idea enough for the coalition to feel it can present it today.
We should congratulate the Aus media for providing the air time and the lack of scrutiny that makes today possible.
This is disingenuous from the top legal mind in the gov.
No other country is committing a genocide, so it’s hard not to single out Zionists.
The genocide is so brutal, that it’s causing people to openly criticise Zionism, not Jews.
The AG knows this.
If we can’t send home the ambassador, or even condemn the Netanyahu gov, can we at least revoke the charity status of these foreign agent miscreants who work for a genocidal nation state?
This is an
@ACNC_gov_au
registered charity racially vilifying a Muslim politician for supporting a Palestinian state.
When will the
@ACNCommissioner
do her job & revoke their charity status?
This "left-wing" government, elected because it was not a Morrison government, is choosing:
Mining over climate action
Business over workers
Landlords over tenants
The rich over the poor
Media over Australians
US over Australia
Religion over secularism
Who are these people?
My latest article on the current state of political journalism through the lens of an election campaign:
"We see it all"
#auspol
#ausvotes
@SubstackInc
How many conservative election victories since Sky got all raunchy and unhinged ‘After Dark’?
How many conservative wins since Credlin, Murray and Kenny started dreaming in the Sky?
How many since Buttrose and Speers joined the ABC?
How many since Bevan Shields got SMH editor?
This is what happens when the Business Council of Australia, the Minerals Council of Australia, the Pharmacy Guild and the Property Council of Australia have priority access to a gov who says it represents Australian workers
They start to say what they think, like feudal lords
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."
Israel has voted against ever recognising the state of Palestine.
A move that breaches UN requirements for the existence of a Israel.
Your move
@AlboMP
. What say the envoy?
Make no mistake, the PM was booed for a lot of things last night
Murdoch rags will tell us it’s about wokeism gone mad
Most of us know that the PM was booed for enabling a genocide, bombing those who resist it, and for going to the tennis and hoping for something different
McBride wasn’t leaking secrets to the Chinese.
He didn’t give up vital secrets about our military hardware
He didn’t expose top secret locations
He did his job.
But when he saw Australians killing unarmed people in cold blood, that’s when he spoke up. Because it was wrong.
Shocking.
Informing the public of wrongdoing in our name is a duty.
‘Justice Mossop said deterrence was important..The offender has shown no contrition for his offending," he said.’
Where is the deterrence or contrition for the actual war crimes?
“With teeth”, they said. “Vote for us and you’ll see it’s big shiny teeth”, they reassured us, as they promised us they would stand against political corruption and implement a toothy ICAC.
Toothless. Muzzled. Not much of a guard dog, but that’s
@AlboMP
’s anti-corruption commission. Covering up for
@ScoMo30
's
#robodebt
bureaucrats. 🤦♂️
#auspol
"The US Air Force pays $90,000 for a package of bushings that typically costs well under $100"
The type of shenanigans we can look forward to as we blindly throw half a trillion dollars at AUKUS.
So Lattouf gets turfed by the ABC for sharing a HRW post and Karvelas can finger point share a post from a former far-right evangelical Vice President calling Assange's release a 'miscarriage of justice'? On the morning of his release?
Three fingers pointing down to a message suggesting Assange should rot in jail from a far-right evangelical who enabled Donald Trump from one of the biggest talking heads at the ABC. What context? Is the RT (and the three fingers) an endorsement?
Imagine giving half trillion dollars to a ‘friend’ and not being able to put pressure on them to release Julian Assange? Imagine not having any political capital after giving billions to prop up UK nuclear industry? Imagine having nothing to show for it?
And they lie, and they lie, and they lie…
AUS suspending UNRWA funding based on the observation of the same country that says stuff like this everyday.
If Julian Assange dies in custody it will define the legacy of the PM, as will his uninspiring approach to other vital matters, in ways that are becoming obvious he doesn’t quite understand
This is my first article published in The Shot, its like being called up to play a gig with my fave band!
Thanks to
@DaveMilbo
and
@shot_au
for giving me the honour to write for
@MehdiAli98
on this great platform
Mehdi Ali: "A sort of illusion"
The pro-Israel lobby twisted the arm of ABC management and had they sack an employee they should have protected instead.
The ABC is a vital public institution, David Anderson has turned it into an ideological sinkhole that runs against the charter.
The Zionists are stopping humanitarian aid entering Gaza at the borders, so the Netherlands & Jordan are dropping their humanitarian aid with planes…🇯🇴🇳🇱
Albo was elected to run a domestic facing government (he campaigned on that) that rolled up its sleeves on climate and cost of living
He wasn't elected to trade away our sovereignty in a reactive hyper-extension , nigh over a year in office
A lot of people are gutted about this
So, the extent of
@AlboMP
’s influence on the US is to be able to say, “yes, we’ll send billions upon billions to your defense industry” and “yes, you can rotate your forces through Australia” and “yes, we’ll follow you to war”. That’s it?
#auspol
#assange
This isn’t Chat GTP.
There is no way to spin this, no way to pretend anymore
@AlboMP
.
You can accuse Australians of being indoctrinated by the Greens, because you are indoctrinated by Zionist lobby groups.
MA-R is the newest Labor parliamentarian, representing the new modern Labor rep:
Owns seven houses and talks about inequality
A doctor who doesn't oppose actions against civilians in Gaza
Supports Israel and doesn't mind standing next to Birmingham on the wrong side of history
Anthony Albanese sells weapons parts to Israel. His government grants them $917mil weapons contracts while they are committing a genocide.
Anthony Albanese, in many ways, is more culturally tone deaf than his predecessor.
There will be a few more than usual tuning in tonight to watch such a historic game.
Palestinians have been denied so much by this government, but they won’t be denied the support of the Australian people in Perth tonight.
Can't wait for this. Palestinian flags will be flying everywhere in HBF Park in Perth 🇵🇸. And they can't ban them 🤣. Likewise I'm confused how we are playing a country that our government doesn't even recognise? Is this Socceroos v Nobody? 🤔 It's all very confusing yes.
Australia allows Israeli weapons to come into our country, and denies Palestinian football officials the same right for a World Cup qualifier.
Can it get any lower?
Will go down in history as that one term government who chased a Coalition platform, driving away their base, sacrificing the essence of the party for foreign based private interests that were going to ditch them at the first opportunity anyway.
If Labor are the champions of the ABC (like they sometimes say they are), and the ABC has been caught acting in the interests of a foreign lobby group who can convince exec to act outside the public interest, then doesn’t the gov have an obligation to restore its integrity?
One of the most esteemed journalists in our country
@MaryKostakidis
is being hunted by a federation of trolls that work for a foreign belligerent executing the most destructive human campaign in living memory.
This unprecedented environment has been cultivated by the ALP.
Crazy
“If we can’t have it, no one can”
What an ugly and petty PM, running a spiteful and small minded political party.
Labor would rather work with Dutton than be the progressive party people want.
Ok, some context..
Here is a pic of Jennet wearing nazi paraphernalia while working in UKR for the ABC in Oct 2022.
The shirt features:
“Luftwaffe”
A Nazi styled skull
A slogan: ‘Russian cunts’
@antoinette_news
got fired for a HRW post, should this guy be working at the ABC?
ABC’s
#afternoonbriefing
for days now has been dedicated on inflaming the Labor / Fatima Payman matter, even playing dramatic bground music. Jennett has not talked about anything & is obviously loving it. Payman deserves better & Aussies deserve better than a biased ABC🙄
No quarter from the AJA on the death of an Australian in Gaza, just cold and callousness.
How do they even have the self imposed authority to make such a statement?
The AJA are not Australian, nor do they share our concerns.
When 6 former PMs say that the belligerents are doing everything they can to protect civilian casualties, and the next day the belligerents bomb a packed out refugee camp, the 6 former PMs lose their legacy instantly and Australia further loses its way
One of the most heartfelt things we can do this year is to get behind the good people of Hughes for voting out Craig Kelly in the next election.
#auspol
We are doing so much for these guys
Today we added building them missiles to the list of airstrips, barracks, submarine pens and access to our sovereign, the $400 billion in AUKUS money — they look us in the eye, in our country, and say no to Assange
This is my third Goward/PVO themed article in as many months.
Thankyou
@TamePunk
for being transformative and real, and
@AmyRemeikis
for revealing something so important.
"Stuck in a collapsing idea"
@SubstackInc
#auspol
"Anxious Labor MPs are starting to feel the dissent from Australians who elected them in good faith, and a real threat to their tenure from voters who are enraged by their doubling down on all things AUKUS"
Our ‘friends’ are saying this about our dead aid worker.
Our ‘friends’ are thinking some pretty horrible things about human life and this conflict.
Our friends say ‘It happens in war’.
It doesn’t matter how many times he talks Taylor with Fitzy and Whippa, nor how much he warms up to Kyle Sandilands, Genocide Tony will be remembered for something else.
Is there a more disappointing Labor Prime Minister in modern history?
BREAKING| Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese referred to the International Criminal Court accused of complicity in Genocide, making him the 1st leader of a Western nation referred to the ICC under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.
Killing children is wrong. Continuing to do it unimpeded for over six months straight is an abomination.
The sociopathic nature of western leadership, and those who allow and support this, are a minority.
Because most people are not sociopaths and hate the killing of children.
I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America.
I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist.
I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m not a fucking psychopath.
Bill Maher is telling the Palestinians to "cope" with their lot and disappear into the forgotten peoples of history
If you ever need a snapshot of the callous arrogance of the US imperial mindset, this is it
French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon who is sweeping to a shock victory in the French election has called for the recognition of a “State of Palestine”…
“France must recognize the Palestinian state now…. The balance of power must show that the whole world condemns this
Together the people of Wills gathered in solidarity with Palestine and in opposition to a Labor government who stands with Israel.
I was born and raised in this area, and many of us will not be voting for Peter Khalil like we did in previous elections.
Washington is working with Canberra to host nuclear capable strategic bombers and test experimental hypersonic weapons
China is working with its neighbours to build the pan-Asian railway
“I was the CIA director - we lied, we cheated, we stole."
This is the man who devised AUKUS with Scott Morrison over a series of secret communications.
The fact that a Labor successor doubled down, will tarnish its legacy forever.
Australia was one of only 8 to oppose a UN resolution that looks to restore 1967 borders as per the two-state solution it keeps banging on about
This comes only weeks after it abstained in a vote for a lasting ceasefire
Australia’s prestige abroad is evaporating
🇺🇳 The UN Assembly calls on “israel” to withdraw from all occupied territories in the Golan Heights and return to the borders that existed on June 4, 1967.
The resolution was voted positively by 91 countries, 8 opposed, and 62 abstained (mostly European countries).
She is also the youngest serving Senator, a woman, a Muslim, and a refugee, and Labor will probably end up revoking Payman's party membership because she crossed the floor to support the Greens motion recognising Palestinian statehood.
I’ve lost a few readers that came for my criticism of Morrison and are leaving when I look to analyse the challenges of the new government
Political tribalism interrupts the ability of people to enact real change
A healthy country is one that welcomes robust debate
Coming up on
#QandA
Monday 21 August: A special live performance by Tina, who released a new album last month called 'Love Saves' which reflects on how she's approached her career. |
@TheMusicComAu
Tonight I am free and leaving Australia to start my life in the United States of America. But I won't be happy until all my friends are get released from detention. It's not freedom until we are all free. Thank you all for your support.
How could someone post a Tweet like this?
Many Zionists in Australia have no regard for the country they live in, and are prepared to jam their politics into anything they can, even horrible domestic events like the one still unfolding at Bondi Junction.
Daniel Lewkovitz of the extremist organisation the Australian Jewish Association also posted an uncensored video of one of the victim's bodies as police tried to revive them, before their loved ones have even been notified. No words of empathy for the lives lost. Filth.
Scomo didn’t get the chance to support Israel’s genocide unconditionally. Dutton dreams that he had the chance. But it is Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong, Richard Marles and a Labor gov who got to make the choice to be an accessory to genocide.
The ALP has lost its soul in Gaza.
The FMs government was the first to arrive and last to leave on its withdrawal of UNRWA.
The rushed decision based on bad information, damaged reputation of our country, the morality of the government, and the legacy of Penny Wong.
Bevan Shields was among others who went on an expenses paid junket to Israel
Here he is telling people who signed a letter about biased media coverage that they themselves are biased and can’t write about the war
Leaving his bias to define the bias’ among the biased
Bullshit
Craig Foster, speaking in good faith on ABC radio, host talking disingenuous subjective Zionist talking points. Revealing the stark, disconnect between people who care and people who enable the status quo.
We have not seen a privy council like this in 70 years. It’s weird as shit, and as people put their rods down on the table to sign in a new king, the world gets a window into the absurdity of hereditary monarchy.
I grew up appreciating Penny Wong as a parliamentarian and as a human being
I have grown to see her become a sycophantic and spineless FM in just under 18 months of government, more interested in maintaining the war aims of foreign powers than projecting our national interest
Not difficult to judge from afar:
Collective punishment is a war crime.
‘Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong’
via
@ABCaustralia
This is why Albo is the worst for many of us. The political disconnect, the about faces, the moral rearrangement, the great power sycophant trendsetting, the rewiring of our national resting state with Coalition approval.
The gutlessness and lack of national awareness.
Israel is being transformed: across the country more than 120,000 Israelis have been displaced by this conflict. It's not only the towns close to Gaza that have been emptied - in the north, entire communities been evacuated.
#abc730