Kate Forster

Advocate for human & environmental wellbeing, community education and protection from the serious cumulative health and environmental impacts of biomass smoke

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

The science:
🆘 #woodsmoke doesn't disappear because you can't see it
🆘 harmful #health impacts at ANY level
🆘spreads to impact widely & accelerate #GlobalWarming

Current regulations:
🆘 simply absurd!

@DEECA_Vic @Steve_Dimo @MaryAnneThomas  @tanya_plibersek @Mark_Butler_MP

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Spending billion more on AUKUS, silence on genocide in Palestine, Palantir contracts and spying on Australians - we have many questions! This week we will demand answers in Senate Estimates again and I'm not holding back.

[Larissa Waters @larissawaters]

The 20 richest Australians have more money than 3 million households.

Why is that a problem?

Because billionaires have more money than ever before, and they’re using it to buy more political influence.

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

@AlboMP will you meet with them or are some Australian more equal than others?

[Free Gaza Australia @GFFAusGroup]

Meet with us Albo!

More info on #freedomflotilla including past missions and ways to help via https://t.co/odXwFTR2oh
@GazaFFlotilla #breakthesiege

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

@AlboMP @SenatorWong end Australia’s shameful support for Israel & complicity in breaking international laws.
Meet with Australian Sumud Flotilla volunteers & hear how our “friend” Israel illegally kidnapped them from international waters & brutally assaulted & tortured them.

[Free Gaza Australia @GFFAusGroup]

Demand governments move beyond words and take concrete measures to end Israel’s impunity, including by imposing sanctions.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition reaffirms that Israeli violence will not deter us.
Together we will #breakthesiege @GazaFFlotilla
https://t.co/jMxv98sOe5

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

THE WORLD MUST HEAR THIS!

Over 20% of Gaza's Population Has Been Wiped Out

Tucker Carlson Interviewed British Surgeon, Dr. Nick Maynard, who worked inside Gaza's LAST remaining hospital and he breaks it ALL DOWN.

76,000 killed by direct trauma alone. The Lancet estimates that figure is undercounted by 50%. Add excess deaths from untreated cancer, destroyed dialysis machines, starvation, and infectious disease, and some estimates put the total ABOVE HALF A MILLION.

Pray for the people.

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

Peace not war.
Life not death.
Stop Victorian Government support for the military industrial complex.
Stop Israeli profiteering from genocide tested war equipment. BDS.
No return of Landforces “Expo” of death & police thuggery to Melbourne. Petition: https://t.co/N5n4TUbMnQ

[Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilAU]

"It's not inherently antisemitic for someone to hold views critical of Israel for their conduct in this war" – yesterday, we continued to cross examine expert witnesses to ensure that antisemitism isn't weaponised to stifle free speech supporting Palestine atthe Royal Commission

[PBD Podcast @PBDsPodcast]

Iran May Have Found the World’s Biggest Weakness

"This is what Iran just figured out. 97% of the internet that we use travels through underwater cables. $10 trillion a day is going through that cable and 2 of them go through the Strait of Hormuz."

"Now they're talking about how they're gonna mess with the cables. If they mess with the cables, guess who's gonna be impacted by this economically? Everybody, the whole world."

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

“You know why the Norwegians charge their kids nothing to go to university?

“Because they tax the gas industry and they fund public services.”

– Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO of The Australia Institute

✍ Sign to support a 25% gas export tax ➡️ https://t.co/TcWADNlw6G

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Choosing Budget day, when almost all federal political journalists are literally locked in rooms without their phones or internet access, to release key reports into gambling & aged care wait times is not the level of transparency our community expects and deserves from government.

This is an age-old political tactic to “take out the trash” - releasing disappointing information under the cover of bigger news when people are distracted - needs to be called out.
https://t.co/3SwwzstMGF

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

@SaraReyi .

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Birds

What do you think about this?

British-owned beef giant CPC has been granted a permit to poison and kill 20,000 native galahs and little corellas at one of their vast cattle stations in the NT, Australia.

In its permit application, CPC admits its practices created the problem: “grain production, on-site storage, and cattle feeding have provided an artificial food source.”

Ornithologist Dr Lilleyman was "shocked" to learn of the NT government's decision to grant the permit.
She said that Birdlife Australia is concerned about the potential for secondary poisoning of non-target species occurring close to "an internationally significant wetland".

CPC has ten cattle stations on about 9 million acres. They supply cattle and beef to Asian markets, domestic feedlots and processors, and export live cattle.

The company is owned by Guy and Julia Hands through the Hands Family Office. They live in Guernsey after leaving England to avoid UK tax.

CPC has also applied for massive water licenses for irrigation projects to grow grain sorghum and other crops which will inevitably attract even more birds.

So what happens then? Even wider-scale poisoning of native wildlife?

[Antony Loewenstein @antloewenstein]

What’s the real difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism?
Australia is currently holding a Royal Commission aka formal independent investigation into anti Semitism in the wake of the Bondi terror attack. The evidence given publicly thus far has been both concerning in parts but also deeply delusional.
An extract from the new episode of The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, out on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. Please consider donating $ to support this independent journalism, details here: https://t.co/JpCylwILpi
Produced by the stellar Lena Helou + @lemzakharia:

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

JobSeeker is nearly $300 a week below the poverty line. Immiserating people on welfare is utterly immoral and makes it even harder for those who can work to find a job.

We're sick of Labor crying poor when the 1% grow their wealth in their sleep. Tax the rich. Raise the rate.

[Larissa Waters @larissawaters]

On Budget night tonight, an exclusive group of Australia’s 1% will pay $110,000 to dine with Labor’s inner circle.

The 1% pay a worker’s annual wage to sip champagne with the PM, while you read the news about NDIS cuts that pay for increased defence spending.

It’s cooked.

[Kate Forster @KateForster20]

@yousef_ki1 @Faeshan2 .

[z @zesqyb]

Yesterday in Jenin (West Bank):

Israeli settlers dug up the grave of a Palestinian hours after he was buried, claiming it was too close to their illegal settlement “Tirsala.”

Israeli troops later showed up and forced the family to finish digging up their son’s body and rebury him elsewhere.

In the video, his family is seen carrying his body away as both settlers and soldiers follow closely behind.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

As the world looks elsewhere, Israel continues to exterminate Palestinians in Gaza. Days in days out. Shame on complicit western media and all complicit governments.