Filanjon (rhipidura_ridge on Threads)

Aussie biologist, mum, Voice to Parliament #VoteYes #ClimateEmergency She/her

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@markburrows74 @MinhKular @oldguynofilter @labor_palestine @GuardianAus @Tony_Burke @AustralianLabor Former rusted-on Labor voter here - voted for Gough in 1972!
Palestine and climate change (among so many other issues), plus a touch of salt, vinegar and water, set me free!

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@YaThinkN @MrSrHoges Love that flag!❤️

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@anneOkeefe7 @RonniSalt @IRanalyst Agree

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

These two articles were published within days of each other, and both show the Albanese Government has been misleading the public about its role in the two-way arms trade with Israel.

It is a scandal.

[Liz 🌵 @mivoicetoo]

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EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS 🔥🔥🔥

I skim read the Segal report & found myself so agitated I had to put it aside.

Ronni has taken a deep dive & done something Segal couldn't manage - a proper analysis.

Segal's report is exposed for the farce it is.

https://t.co/GxJfi6OSeA

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

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@JarniBlakkarly 🎯

[Crikey @crikey_news]

Opinion | "The harsh lesson of this term of Parliament is that no major-party government can be trusted to take real climate action," writes @bernardkeane. https://t.co/Y6Axmb3dBt

[Andrew Wilkie MP @WilkieMP]

The Government will push three dozen bills through while gagging debate on banning gambling advertising. Shame on them for abandoning public interest by choosing to ignore the harm caused by gambling just to pursue their self-serving agenda #auspol #politas

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

This term of parliament began with real hope of climate action. It ends with fossil fuel interests boasting of how they control the federal government.

The only thing it has delivered is a lesson in why we badly need a minority government

https://t.co/QeomxlhmgS

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

A powerful, devastating account from Gaza within in an article by Seymour Hersh describing a systematic genocide.. and the refugees in camps are paying with their lives for their resilience:

“The conditions in the north of Gaza are holocaust conditions. We don’t use the word because it has a special place in the Western imagination and heart, but this is a holocaust in terms of collective punishment and dehumanization and the technical tools. But is it a holocaust eighty years later being done remotely and on people’s bodies. . . . A missile is dropped in a densely populated civilian area, tents mostly, and then you have drones coming in afterward to pick off people one by one. We didn’t have drones during World War II, but we do now, and the logic is pretty much the same.

“What we’re seeing happening in north Gaza is what I told you months ago the Israelis were going to do, and this what they did. They will annex the north and they will annex the West Bank. Soon you will see all in the press turn to the West Bank. The Israeli settlers have been more armed since October 7. The government and the Supreme Court in Israel support the settlers, and there are right-wing organizers and community representatives who themselves live in settlements and they are ready.

“They feel there is no leadership in the United States at this moment to stop them. And that is really how the Middle East feels, period. This will be the new phase, and suddenly the world’s attention will go away from Gaza and Lebanon. And everybody will be talking about the annexation of the West Bank in a month or two.

“The Israelis have built roads and bypass roads and corridors in the north of Gaza, and they are now starting to nicely connect all with each other as you can see if you look at satellite images. The Israelis always said they were going to do this. . . . And those Palestinians living in north Gaza will either be exterminated en masse, as they are now, or they will be pushed south where they are humiliated and stripped and tortured and have to endure unbearable conditions. Anyone I speak to who recently came from the north to the south describes the horrid condition of having their children taken away from them. . . . Children are being lined up on one side, and the Gazans are told to pick up a random child and go with that child to the south even if it’s not their child . . . and not knowing if your child made it. These kinds of horrific tearing of the social fabric are happening.

“Meanwhile in the south, where there once was food but no cleaning materials, there is now no food. The Israelis are likely preparing to gather everybody into specific pockets in the south. So it is not only about annexing the north but it’s also about concentrating the population in specific pockets in the south. This is what they will do.

“And I’m not being a pessimist. This is what they will absolutely do: they are budgeting for it and making plans for it now. If you see it, you see it, and if you do not, then you will be surprised in a few months when the Israelis declare it themselves.”

“If you are looking for hope, it is in the fact that people in Gaza haven’t become zombies and are not eating each other or ripping each other apart. That is not what’s happening, but the social fabric is being sundered. There are kids coming into hospitals from stab wounds from uncles and fathers because they ate too much. And there are cases of rape coming in. I mean there is a breaking of the social fabric after a year of hellish nightmares . . . after a year of all international order and systems collapsing and failing to treat Palestinians as humans. There is absolutely a breaking, but there is still hope that I see in that people are not ripping each other apart. There is still production of art. And people are still growing foods and crops in the camps.

“And this is what Israel is now targeting: the vigor of the refugees and the camps. These are the enemies of Israel. The Israelis thought by turning people into refugees they would break them. But they actually are empowering them. So this is why they are going after the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and targeting the right of return, targeting the refugees. And why the Israelis are constantly bombing, bombing, and smashing things . . . the tents and refugee camps that are built all over Gaza now, in addition to what already existed. Israel is going after the refugees and the camps because they see after eight decades of doing what they did that these are places of memory and history and organizing and identity, and that is what they are trying to smash. Right? When you are trying to smash a population from existence that is what you go after.

“So the Israelis are not following the logic of war; they are following the logic of genocide. And when we understand that, we can also understand why their bombing is happening the way it is.”
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@NathanLee @AlboMP Add gambling reform to the list!

[Kate McClymont @Kate_McClymont]

BREAKING: Alan Jones arrested over allegations he indecently assaulted young men https://t.co/ZuvE010DHl

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@ClumsoDorkus 🎯 - or no longer of use to #friendsinhighplaces

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#AlanJones arrest - about fvcking time! Was arrested in a London public toilet 35 years ago. Let’s see what his #friendsinhighplaces do this time! https://t.co/U8GxUTPMJP

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@grosvenorstreet @joshgnosis 🎯👏👏

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@rynrynrynnyryn @RonniSalt @JasonClareMP With each and every shitty policy decision, Labor’s doing a great job of expanding the ‘absolutely disillusioned ex-Labor voter’ club!

[Dr Andrew Schmulow @DrSchmu]

AFP raided PwC headquarters today.

[Samah Sabawi @gazaheart]

Here is what Jayson Gillham's said on his Sunday August 11 performance that outraged @MelbSymphony's Zionist donors. Two of the pieces Jayson played were a cry against injustice and oppression. The first was by Hungarian Jewish composer and holocaust survivor Ligeti. Jayson introduced the piece explaining how Ligeti was twice oppressed as a Hungarian in Romania and as a Jew and how he was forced into a labor camp and survived Auschwitz etc... The second piece was a last minute addition to the program, 'Witness' new work by Aust composer Connor D'Netto dedicated to the journalists of Gaza. Jayson introduced this piece by saying in the last 10 months Israel killed over 100 journalists a number were a targeted assassinations. This is a war crime. Journalists were targeted to prevent them from documenting and broadcasting of war crimes. Witness in Arabic means Shahid - from the same root word as Shaheed which means martyr. So there you have it. Two introductions one applauded the other might cost his career. This is what discrimination and privilege look like. #Palestine #MSO #Gaza #Israel #GazaGenocide