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[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Segal admits she has a lobbyist adviser working “for mutual benefit” in her office of Antisemitism Commissioner - that is, working for the benefit of the lobby group, and for Segal.

▪️How did the lobby group benefit exactly… ?

▪️Is committing Commonwealth resources to benefit a lobby group lawful?

▪️Did the lobby group declare the benefit, free resources, office, etc as a ‘gift in kind’ to the ATO?

[locutus @SirMoronEngadne]

@Jilliantweeting @DrJenIzaakson @HannahBerrelli Hi Gillian, and congratulations are in order.
I’ve come to this issue of yours quite late in the peace, but have been struggling in the middle of exactly this issue for the past 7 mnths here in QLD.
I’d love to be able to have a chat. How?
In good faith

[Anne Okeefe#freePalestine,votedYES @Anneeokeefe]

Private school parents are targetting Labor seats because they are demanding more funding, despite the fact that 98% of private schools are overfunded and 98% of public schools are underfunded. They have got to be joking. @JaneCaro

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Who the fuck died and left Neil Mitchell in charge, witches?

Because he certainly THINKS he’s in charge, and thinks he has the right to call us witches bullies and unhealthy and ugly and god knows what else he spewed in his diatribe of sad-man-feels we can’t even be bothered to read in full since it’s so unbelievably juvenile. In addition, just the fact this word salad of nonsense was even published by a masthead which calls itself fair and mature shows his employers and almost all the mainstream media are no better than him, and all of them have officially lost the fucking plot.

Wanna tissue for your issue, Neil?

Here’s just a small part of this bloke’s longing for a world where HE and a few of his numpty mates had the only deserving microphones in the land:
“In a democracy, the witches (as they call themselves) are entitled to do this, but it’s an ugly power game, working under the principle that you must believe what we believe or we come after you. In a democracy, the witches (as they call themselves) are entitled to do this, but it’s an ugly power game, working under the principle that you must believe what we believe or we come after you.”
https://t.co/hvAmcpXmYg

These fuckers have lost the plot. There’s so much wrong with Mitchell’s whinge-fest it’s laughable, but (once again) his diatribe of hate boils down to his belief that only THEY (the straight white wealthy old men, that is) are entitled to say what the plebs they’ve decided to rule over are allowed to think and feel. Only THEY are allowed to control the predominant narrative. Only THEY get power over column inches and airwaves. Only THEY get to earn a living by influencing advertisers, politicians and the public discourse. Only THEY ever have grievances and reasons to be outraged and horrified. Not those they as a collective of billionaires and those licking the billionaires arses steadfastly ignored, demeaned and held power over for centuries.

Oh no, never anyone else but them. And as soon as an organisation with just a sliver of new power to subvert their narrative appears, they have to use the media they still control to attempt to discredit and destroy us and call us names.

There’s SO MUCH MORE WE COULD SAY about the piece and its accompanying deeply misogynistic pic (we can just imagine all the boys sniggering over their bro-code cleverness in coming up with that witchy Dahl concept), but TBH we can’t be bothered. Anyone can see the glaring hypocrisy and stupidity in the words below without us needing to say it.

The piece is so execrable we’ve now decided to bring forward the launch of our new campaign to later this week, even though we’re going to be scrambling to get ourselves organised in time. This is because the fucker we’re going to highlight next is employed by one of the same companies which employs Neil Mitchell, and we’ve fucking-well had enough of the DARVO attacks from this same ugly cohort of dreary toe-rags. So thanks, Mitchell, for the inspiration. And if any witches can please fund this new campaign so we can move forward on it, please read the last para of this post and get on board.

These fuckers can all get comprehensively fucked. And if this response to us is all they’ve got, we’re proud to inspire their ridiculous bleatings of old-white-man rage.

Bring it the fuck on.
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[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

"The US bill is about to pass Congress in the US to join the military industrial bases of Israel and the US, which is also focused on AI, quantum electronic warfare, data fusion etc, so fusing Israeli and US data.

So essentially right now we have a US industry which is building in Australia. Our Defence Industry Minister, Pat Conroy, says that the sector has grown 35% since the Albanese government came to power in 2022.

They're building a workforce around this, which of course makes it politically much more difficult to change and this is just the beginning.

The goal stated openly in our Defence Strategy was to make Australia a top 10 weapons exporter in the world, to be the largest offshore manufacturer of US weapons and what we are now facing is that this is going to grow at a much faster pace because of that US bill because Israel will have access to a lot more US money than it did before.

Before it was military aid that was given through specific bills, we knew that figure, now Israel will have access to discretionary US budget money which is about $1.5 trillion, so that sector is likely to grow.

That means that our US industry here in Australia on Australian soil is about to become the US/Israeli industry on Australian soil and that sector is going to grow and be employing many, many Australians..." ~ Rita Jabri Markwell at the Close Pine Gap Sacred Land Back Convergence in Pine Gap

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"Labor changed the definition of what a sovereign defence industry is about 3 or 4 years ago. Previously it used to be a defence industry that was owned and controlled by Australians....but that gets in the way of us giving money away to Rafael Australia, or Lockheed Martin Australia or British Aerospace Australia, all the overseas owned subsidiaries...so they've changed the definition of a sovereign defence industry and asset to something that has an Australian ABN!..."
~@DavidShoebridge at the Close Pine Gap Sacred Land Back Convergence in Pine Gap

#auspol #PineGap

[Geoff Kitney @4mambo]

Gay, you are being welcomed to land to which aboriginal people have a deep cultural connection. I first experienced this 50 years ago from traditional owners in central Australia. It was a ceremony of respect. It has nothing to do with being welcomed to Australia. She knows that!

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

Australians voting with their feet. Our future is not as a junior sidekick to America. Our future is in SE Asia and Pacific. Australians understand this even if most of our politicians don’t seem to

[FreeDanDuggan @FreeDanDuggan]

Dan’s youngest kids head back to school next week. Another school term without their Dad to send them off and pick them up.

A family torn apart and financially crippled by unsubstantiated and politically motivated 14-year-old allegations.

The Australian government could intervene and reject the US extradition request at any time. Instead, the Duggans have been forced to fight their own government in court.

Enough is enough. Dan should be home with his family.
Please help if you can: https://t.co/qyogQjnOR8

[Peter Lyndon-James @PeterPerthWA]

Accenture paid him $35 million. Now he sits at Labor’s Cabinet table.

And it’s all legal.

$35 million. That’s what Accenture reportedly paid Andrew Charlton for his consulting firm in 2020. He stayed on as one of their managing directors.

Two years later, Labor parachuted him into Parramatta. Today he’s Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister for the Digital Economy, sitting at the centre of the same government handing Accenture roughly $300 million a year in contracts.

The same Accenture behind the BOM website disaster. $31 million contract, extended nine times, finished at $78 million. Same Accenture that got rewarded after the stuff-up with new deals from Defence, the AEC, and yes, another government website.

Now, let’s be fair. I checked Charlton’s register of interests myself. No Accenture shares. No Accenture directorship. He exited clean.

But here’s what I found instead. His entire $40 million fortune sits in three boxes on the public record: a family trust, a private investment company, and a unit trust. Each one described with a single word, “Investment.”

That’s it. That’s all the law requires him to tell you.

So ask the obvious question: can anyone check whether any minister still has money riding on companies winning contracts from their own government? No. The register names the boxes. It can’t open them.

And the bloke across the chamber? Angus Taylor. Seven years at McKinsey. Both sides of the dispatch box, one consulting industry, and a disclosure system built not to look too hard.

He’s followed every rule. That’s exactly the problem.

What’s your Thoughts…?

Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺

Sources:
- Register of Members’ Interests, 47th & 48th Parliament (APH); Accenture Newsroom (AlphaBeta acquisition, Feb 2020); https://t.co/mekc4nIJzn (Charlton Accenture role; Taylor McKinsey); Canberra Times/AusTender (~$300m contracts); Australia Institute via The New Daily ($31m→$78m); Senate Estimates Dec 2025.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

Canada is on fire.
Europe is on fire.
The Amazon is on fire.
Cities are breaking heat records.
Rivers are drying up.
Other countries are drowning in floods.
Storms are getting stronger.
Seasons don’t feel like seasons anymore.

And somehow…
climate change is still a debate.

[Scott Burchill @IRanalyst]

If you took @Dr_M_Davis and his cronies at @ASPI_org seriously you would have no idea whatsoever that the US and Israel launched an unprovoked, illegal war of aggression against Iran in February.

The suggestion that they should be sanctioned for doing so is just too ridiculous to consider.

Nor would you ever think from their propaganda that Iran has the right to self-defence.

Their pro-US-Israel bias is so deeply entrenched, it has become the very precondition for discussion of the conflict.

As analysis which seeks to understand the conflict it is little more than infantile cheerleading, and therefore completely useless.

The US is only criticised if its attempts to destroy Iran or change the government in the country are unsuccessful: that they haven't dropped enough bombs and killed enough people. That Washington and Tel Aviv have no moral or legal right to inflict violence on the country simply a question which never arises.

Even worse, Iran is criticised for taking the only measures it has at its disposal to fight back: closing the Strait of Hormuz and attacking US bases in the Gulf.

Nothing less than surrender on terms acceptable to the right wing governments they support will satisfy these ideologues.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If you keep feeding the public the lie that they need to choose between supporting genocide and hating Jews, people are going pick hate Jews, because they don't want to support genocide. When that happens, the blame will rest on all you pricks who circulated this lie.

[Rupert's Conscience @RupertsConscie1]

Never forget that Western Democratic Governments including Australia were silent about these crimes against humanity. @AlboMP @SenatorWong

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Dear Jewish Israelis,

You are the closest 21st century equivalent to the Germans in 1943. No one else comes anywhere as close as you. 

Your political, military, academic, media, tech, business & finance leaders are all in on the genocide.

To clarify, you are not the German equivalent in 1949 or 1951 — but the equivalent in 1943 or 1944 — as your government is STILL perpetrating a genocide and your society is STILL supporting it. 

You will be treated accordingly. 

Not that that’s fair — as a small number of you are not genocidal — but it’s just the most obvious, natural & normal reaction of normal people around the world who watched your entire society cheer on the industrial scale slaughter of the Palestinians day in and day out for nearly three years…. And counting.

When I encounter Israeli Jews— the only thing that comes to mind is that there is a 95% chance this person is genocidal.

There would be a massive problem in the world if you were treated completely normally.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

No they did not die for their country. The Iranians are dying for their country. The Americans are dying for Israel, for the military-industrial complex, and for imperialist agendas of planetary hegemony. This isn't worthy of praise, it's worthy of anger and outrage.

[Adam Houda @LawyerAdamHouda]

"We have learnt from this inquiry that as Australians who live in a relatively free nation, if we want to criticise any other country in the world or their leader, we may do so. But if we want to criticise Israel or their leader, we have to do so in a “respectful manner”, as Ms Segal and her cohort’s demand. Criticism of Iran or the US or the UK or Libya does not need to be “respectful”, but any critique of Israel absolutely must be. And why is that?" asks @RonniSalt https://t.co/4AoYiRS5pd #FreePalestine #auspol

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

Another "good news story" about Israel for Jillian Segal, @abcnews @SBS.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

In the shadow of Pine Gap, I had a great chat with Senator @DavidShoebridge about Australian involvement in the US-Israeli warmachine. I'll get that out onto YouTube and Instagram next week, so look out for that (because the algorithm ain't gonna help!).

[The Cockatoo @DarcyAmaroo]

We’ve heard Penny Wong and others say when questioned about the Murder and Genocide in Gaza:
“Israel has a right to defend themselves”.
Does that give them the right to shoot unarmed Women and Children in the head and starve them?
Does that give them the right to kill doctors?

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

There is a conga-line of MPs taking payoffs.

Too bad we don’t have a corruption commission.

“No MP left behind!”