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INTP birdwatcher physicist climate activist. Love planet's Life music art. Married 50 years of loving growth. 9 Grandchildren needing livable equitable planet

[Beautiful Birds @JimRilke]

HELP: On 18 October the Environment Minister's Appeal is heard. The Fed Court Decision in May 2021 requires her to take reasonable care to avoid causing personal injury and death to our children from carbon emissions when approving coal mines. She rejects her duty to our children

[Rosita Díaz @RositaDaz48]

The central question for a Senate probe into a closed-shop grants round is who decided how $560 million of taxpayer money was spent on Labor election promises, including $6 million for a golf club in the Prime Minister’s own electorate.

https://t.co/0YwMvyMtkL

[The Red Piranha @TheRedPiranha]

A “dirt” sheet showing her integrity. ??

Australian’s call bullshit!!

@AlboMP the pathological liar at his best!

Resign you 🤡.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The Bell report on antisemitism in schools is just the latest example of manipulation of statistics to spread alarm and fear. The claim Jewish people are 9x more likely than Muslims to suffer hate crime is also untrue.

My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
https://t.co/4hff9S2OTg

[NoMoreGulags @FreedomAus80100]

Albo will go down as the most destructive, the most sinister and the most inept Prime Minister of modern times.

I’m utterly disgusted.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

It just feels so insane to be in year three of a live streamed genocide and to have the overwhelming focus of our society being on whether people get their feelings hurt by opposing it.

[ScomoCchio 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @ScomoCchio]

Labor on 24%. Albo at net minus 30. One Nation ahead of both majors. And now his office is caught writing up a file on a crossbench MP.

Leaders have been rolled for less. How many of his own backbenchers are counting the numbers this week? #AusPol

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Over half of Andy Burnhams cabinet is made up of members of Labour Friends of Israel.
Something they never mention in the mainstream media.
That's why we are implementing a hierarchy of racism.
Anything else is just noise.
They don't represent us.

[Irlandarra @irlandarra2019]

A study involving 29 people is set to result in 9 million students in the UK receiving an Israeli supremacist education rooted in hatred toward Palestinians

[NoMoreGulags @FreedomAus80100]

The biggest threat to our economy
The biggest threat to our safety
The biggest threat to retaining who we are as Australians

[The Jewish Chronicle @JewishChron]

Britain’s largest teaching union rejects key recommendation of government-backed antisemitism review

https://t.co/kUoD70i5Tp

[💥Dr Robb 🎓Social conscience? Follow me./ 🚫 MAGA @TheRobbieOfOz]

Australia can't afford to fund the NDIS adequately? Read this.
According to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), 28% of large corporate entities (over 1,100 companies with $100 million or more in income) pay zero income tax in Australia.
What's your tax rate?

[Adam Houda @LawyerAdamHouda]

I often think about Australian humanitarian worker ZOMI FRANKCOM, who was murdered in cold blood by the terrorist state of israel as she was selflessly trying to save victims of a genocide. I don't want anyone to forget about her, in the same way our shameful government has #VivaZomiFrankcom #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #GenocideinPalestine #auspol

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.

Here's the rub, though.

The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.

It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.

Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.

But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?

And here's the staggering hypocrisy.

We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.

Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.

And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.

Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.

@NEUnion @educationgovuk

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

29 students.

The TOTAL number of students in the massive UK government report who said they experienced antisemitism.

Israel has murdered 862 TIMES that number of Palestinian kids.

With the support of the UK.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

First hearing into social housing has revealed huge HAFF delays: 1,607 social & affordable homes added against the 640,000 households in need. As Labor’s principal response to the worst housing crisis in living memory, Housing Australia has shown itself to be woefully inadequate.

[Christine Milne AO @ChristineMilne]

Malcolm Turnbull’s vanity project Snowy 2.0. Launched 2017 to cost $2b. Now estimated to cost $25BILLION
Angus Taylor loved it because he wanted to be seen as carrying on his grandfather’s legacy. Extremely environmentally and financially disastrous decision by Libs. #auspol

[🌱 Diana Difficult Ryall AM 🌏🌈🇳🇿🇷🇼💧 @DianaRyall]

Of course it’s a genocide. I haven’t seen Naza yet because I’m not sure that my heart could survive two hours of reinforcement of what I already am appalled by.

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Good on you. We have no say in Australia in our unelected “Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism” imposing training on our schools & universities & with the right to inspect their actions to check for antisemitism. Has also adopted IHRA disqualified definition.

[The Wreck @novoicealbo]

The Minister for Women - Do you have a view about using sneaky dirt file tactics to undermine and discredit your female parliamentary colleagues? What about Albanese’s own mantra “whatever it takes”? Is this how you do politics? @SenKatyG