Louise Wilson_Author

Once wrote Country Risk reports. Now writes #nonfiction history & #womensfiction. Economics/maths background. Gran to 4 teenagers. Hates unfairness. #Macnamara

[Bob Carr @bobjcarr]

It’s now conventional wisdom in Washington as well as in Canberra that we’re not going to get the subs, and we’ll be assembling some alternative. That leaves us looking at what we’re going to get in their place. https://t.co/s2GAzwDkMM

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

Dear AUS PM @AlboMP
So, everyone in the know agrees: Australia will NEVER receive the subs. But the USA will STILL receive $368 BILLION from us?! AND we PAY for them to install US bases here that we have no authority over? WTAF! #auspol #USA

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Drivers pay nearly 15 times more tax per litre on fuel for the family car than billionaires pay on their private jet fuel.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The US has denied an entry visa for Father Issa Thaljieh, the Palestinian parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Thaljieh was due to speak alongside American clergy at an event organised by Orthodox Christians for Palestine near the US Capitol on Monday, calling on Congress to hold accountable both settlers and the Israeli military, and also curb US weapons transfers to Israel

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"I try not to be too alarmist but the latest defence bill they are going to ram through the senate is fkn alarming. Public servants will be given powers to override state, territory and some commonwealth laws."
— Amy Remeikis
#auspol #BeAlarmed
https://t.co/Z7XSpd0hkL

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

A second child has frozen to death in Gaza and the media is staying silent about it.

The people of Gaza have the right to aid even under occupation—it is an obligation under international law.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

Qantas blames AI for 850 job cuts. AI may be driving change, but in 2025 this company was fined $90 million for illegally sacking 1,800 workers, and it paid its CEO $6.3 million.

Qantas told the union it had no plans to offshore jobs in August, a month before it gave the Aviation Minister lifetime platinum status as a ‘gift’.
https://t.co/MQNkbbQ0ce

[The Cockatoo @DarcyAmaroo]

David Shoebridge is out there questioning the Labor Govt and is coming up with alternative policies and ideas.
He is sitting on Senate Inquiries getting answers.
He has presented a plan of change.
What has Pauline Hanson done?
She has sat in Parliament for 30 yrs doing nothing.

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"Accepting a free speech award on Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s behalf, Louise Adler details a coordinated campaign of intimidation, censorship and vilification aimed at silencing Palestinian voices." #auspol #AllEyesOnPalestine
https://t.co/JpojsMKILv

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I want to past the whole text of what @GretaThunberg said at COP31, because it is so profound and true.

'Greta Thunberg has said that the planet is “not dying, it is being killed and we know by who” in a stark intervention at the Cop31 climate talks in Antalya, Turkey.

“It is being killed by the very same people thought to come to our rescue,” Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, said. “No one is coming to our rescue.

“When our human rights are being threatened by states and other institutions, it’s our duty to stand up and be the adult in the room and fight for everyone’s human rights.”

Thunberg spoke at a packed press gathering in the Cop31 venue alongside other activists from Nepal, Australia, Palestine and Canada. All of them lambasted governments’ inaction on the climate crisis and called for the end of Turkish energy shipments to Israel, which Thunberg said was “directly feeling the genocide in Palestine.”

“We are heading towards a future of more genocides and more ecocides and the complete compromise of our basic rights and where basic necessities become luxuries,” Thunberg said. “It’s more clear than ever in spaces like these that the situation could not be any less under control, the planet is not dying, it is being killed.”'
https://t.co/fSxI07LXK4

Now ask, why so few other if any people with a platform, are speaking the unvarnished truth like this.

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"—years of gutless Australian policies have witnessed hospitality for the president of Israel—manufacture of steel for Israeli tanks, invitations to Israeli soldiers to run in Syd marathon & easy permission for Israeli envoys to live & work in Australia."
https://t.co/HyGOqxhQ6J

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Any observer of politics can see the undermining of @JEChalmers that’s happening. The person who really needs to step aside is Albanese, author of most of Labor’s current woes: AUKUS; The imposition of overreaching Segal; overt support of Trump & silent complicity on Israel Gaza

[Dennis Robinson @victa810]

Our ABC reporting this morning on AM, that an Australian recruited to fight for Russia, has likely been killed. If ABC can openly report this, why can’t it report on the thousands of Australians recruited by Israel, to actively engage with the IDF.

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"The atrocity at Bondi—that resulted in the murders of 15 people—was not the largest racist massacre in Australian history. The last officially sanctioned massacre was the Coniston massacre in the NT in 1928 when up to 200 Aboriginal people were murdered."
https://t.co/meaK2Lukvl

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

One million women and girls are starving in flooded tents.

It is strange how the world can cooperate to get oil through the Iranian blockade at the Strait of Hormuz but still aren't able to get aid through the Israeli blockade at the borders of Gaza.

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

"AUKUS is not just about nuclear-powered submarines," writes Peter Garrett. "Crucially. AUKUS has reversed the bipartisan consensus on what should constitute the basis of Australia’s defence policy – namely, the actual defence of the Australian continent." https://t.co/i34aFHCw7I

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

Australia is the world’s biggest seaborne importer of diesel. Data centres using diesel generators for back-up power put more pressure on our fuel supply, increase our emissions and our power bills, and take advantage of the government’s diesel fuel tax rebate - a fossil fuel subsidy for large multinationals. In the last sitting week, I asked the government to stop approving new data centres with back-up diesel generation.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israel must immediately open all Gaza crossings and let humanitarian aid in, starting with new tents and modular housing, clean water, nutrient-rich food, medicines. If by 9am tomorrow Israel still refuses, any principled leader would send humanitarian vessels to break the siege.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Australia’s largest racist massacre was in 1928 — it saw more than ten times the number murdered in Bondi.

“The last officially sanctioned massacre was the Coniston massacre in the NT in 1928 when up to 200 Aboriginal people were murdered.”

Sidoti says Royal Commission must confront racism, not just antisemitism https://t.co/DBT80g4vZC

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

#breaking Newcastle has just banned protesting for the climate.

At the same time, Prime Minister Albanese is in Turkiye for climate negotiations; Labor backed banning climate protests at home, at the world’s largest coal port.