Luke

Always capturing things that made an impression

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Former ALP Senator Margaret Reynolds in @johnmenadue :
Israel has ignored 229 UN Resolutions.
‘The recent speech given by Prime Minister Netanyahu attacking the United Nations as ‘a swamp of antisemitism’ and his subsequent banning the entry of U.N Secretary General Guterres to Israel, shows us a man out of control and desperate to justify the extremes of his murderous regime…

Rulings of the International Court of Justice have been ignored by both the Australian Prime Minister and our Attorney General. There has been no statement to parliament or even a media release to explain to the public how Australia will respond to the ICJ ruling of July 19 that Israel is violating the rights of Palestinians through prolonged occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Furthermore, the ICJ specifically found that states have an obligation not to render aid or assistance which would maintain Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories..

.. the Australian Government has surrendered to Israel’s rule of terror, and we can only watch from the sidelines for further catastrophe?
In 1949 Australia’s Dr H.V. Evatt was described as:
“The most brilliant and effective voice of Small Powers- a leading statesman for the world’s conscience.”
When will another Australian voice speak up in the name of humanity at the United Nations?’

https://t.co/pGi7glyb6Q

[Tony Windsor @TonyHWindsor]

If you are sick of international gambling companies dominating the Australian political scene whilst brainwashing our children with ads consider voting for an Independent at the next Federal Election…A minority Government will fix the problem.

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

Telling that seeing an Australian Muslim member of government standing up for Palestinian Muslims experiencing genocide is the moment that has inspired our prime minister to take decisive action: to punish that member of the government. Chewy on your boot, @AlboMP. Much chewy.

[ShiannonCorcoran💉x4 @shiannonc.bsky.social @ShiannonC]

Janet Albrechtsen is a cancerous piece of work. If you believe any of her past history she’s always been a bit of a poisonous toad.

Magnanimously, here Albrechtsen is ‘feeling sorry for Laura Tingle for missing the richness of this migrant country.”

Believe it or not, this has nothing to do with Tingle’s statement about Australia being a “racist country”.. but Albrechtsen wants you to believe it does.

Tingle’s statement goes to the core of a considerable problem that Australia has - which has been proven time and time again via our ongoing actions towards Indigenous people for over two centuries - and our past and present documented attitudes towards migrants “of different colour” coming to this country. It is well proven to be a racist country - along with RW media running a racist-enabling rhetoric whenever it suits them.

Tingle is not missing the “richness of this migrant country” at all. She is defending it. She understands how ingrained and insidious racism remains at its core here. She also understands how easily it can become inflamed. The No campaign is a case in point.

Albrechtsen is undermining Tingle’s truth, her credibility and her reputation. That is what she is being paid to do. It wouldn’t matter that Albrechtsen’s words are about as credible as her support for Bruce Lehrmann against Brittany Higgins.

Albrechtsen’s job is to ignore the terrible truth of our entrenched racism and paint a story of racism where it does not exist. Tingle is NOT undermining migrants and their “rich cultural history”. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that.

I’m with Laura Tingle. I understand that we are an ultimately racist country. Not only is this taken from my life experience with my father, who was part Indigenous - it is from my readings and observations over the years of attitudes towards people migrating to this country who are different in culture and different in colour. We are a suspicious and naive nation who have been unnecessarily pushed in the direction of an enabling narrative of distrust and division by those with an ideology or an agenda.

We don’t have to be that way. We see it that way because it has constantly been rammed down our throats. The “Yellow Peril” and “the Reds under the bed”, “the White Australia policy”, the subjugation and incarceration of Indigenous people, the derogatory names we call immigrants and the heinous treatment of asylum seekers. It is everywhere. It is all around us.

Historically, we are not a tolerant nation - but we are a multicultural nation. Instead of rejecting differences, we should be embracing diversity and differences. With that comes tolerance, empathy, respect and understanding.

.. but you won’t hear any of that coming from Dutton, the coalition or the RW media or Albrechtsen if doesn’t suit their agenda. Right now it suits their agenda to wave the “racist” card above Tingle’s head - but never their own.

For many millennia people have been migrating. It is difficult to determine where we actually are truly from. African migration is historically the most likely.

We are in denial of our common history. Our commonality is our DNA, our blood and the fact that we are all Homo sapiens.

Chew on that, Albrechtsen.

[Coalition Tea Lady @ItsBouquet]

Jaysus! ... is there any principle Albanese hasn't tossed aside in his ascendancy to the top job?

[MattGolding Cartoons @GoldingCartoons]

Today’s @theage @smh cartoon

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Laura Tingle saying what many feel. #auspol

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Give us a break…

[Louis Peachey @drlouispeachey]

So if a man spent the previous year trashing everything Auntie Lowitja fought for her entire life, should we believe his condolence message to be genuine?

On the occasion of the passing of a giant like Auntie Lowitja, it would be better for men like this to observe silence.

[amante2 @AmeliaBee7]

Sounds fair to me👍

[Political Tragic @PoliticalTragc]

If the Libs were in power this property would’ve been sold to a developer for overpriced “luxury apartments” at unaffordable costs for working ppl seeking somewhere to live.

Always vote LABOR if you want essential services & affordable housing.

[Tom the whistleblower @blowingtom2]

This is a basic and simple explanation. Share it far and wide. Australians are better off under Albo.

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

If you are happy and glad with what Labor has done with the Tax cuts please repost ..

give the message to Dutton to fuck off! 🤔 #auspol

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

I can't stop staring at this from 2022. I really can't. #FreePalestine #Gaza #CeasefireNOW #EndTheOccupation

[Luke @LukeIsImpressed]

@RichardMarlesMP Are you out of your mind?

[Dr David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACGP-RG DTM+H @YouAreLobbyLud]

As a pilot and doctor, who flies and works all over Australia, I can say that @BOM_au is not 'behind the eight ball' and that this vicious attack, based on one person's local anecdote, is entirely unjustified. The BoM provides an OUTSTANDING service.

https://t.co/wPxTRVhpSn

[James Elder @1james_elder]

Sound & Fury. #Gaza

[Anna 13 Free Palestine. @anna_prole]

@sussanley Enough you say?
You say….

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Rumours that Labor's Don Farrell and Liberal's Jane Hume have been meeting behind close doors to work out how to entrench the 2 party system should alarm us all.

A couple familiar with the tactics have explained it to me. This video outlines it perfectly.

Please watch.🙏

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

If you still have *any* doubts about how awful @AustralianLabor @LiberalAus & @The_Nationals are, aka the duopoly, watch this! 👇

Thanks, @thejuicemedia.