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āWe cannot be a multicultural society. We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella.ā
And not one journalist asked: whose culture becomes the single culture?
That is the literal ideological DNA of fascism. The chilling part is she said it at the National Press Club and walked out without being challenged on it.
Well Pauline; we did have one culture on this continent. For 65,000 years.
And you donāt like that one either.
Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all just voted against an amendment I put up to call on the Government to get a fair deal on the sale and export of Australian gas by instituting a 25 per cent tax on LNG export revenue, which is estimated to generate $17 billion a year.
They're running a protection racket for the gas industry rather than standing up for Aussies.
*Senators Lambie, Payman and Thorpe were unable to attend the vote for personal reasons.
āFIFA canāt solve geopolitical conflicts, but we are committed to using the power of football and the FIFA World Cup to build bridges and promote peace ā as our thoughts are with those who are suffering as a consequence of the ongoing wars.ā
FIFA is fond of saying that it canāt resolve conflicts, but fails to acknowledge that it is prohibited from promoting, contributing to, or supporting them.
Which it is currently doing.
FIFAās Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee concluded that āthe final legal status of the West Bank remains an unresolved and highly complex matter,ā despite the International Court of Justice ruling that Israelās occupation of the West Bank is unlawful under international law, its settlement regime violates the Fourth Geneva Convention, and its laws and policies constitute racial segregation in breach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ā the very prohibition FIFAās own statutes require it to uphold.
FIFA also formally partnered with Trumpās Board of Peace, the mechanism created to implement a Gaza reconstruction plan that is widely condemned as a blueprint for the forced displacement of Palestinians. Forcible transfer of a civilian population is a war crime under Articles 45 and 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute.
That same partner ā the Trump administration ā launched military strikes on Iran in violation of the UN Charterās prohibition on the use of force. Hundreds of civilians have been killed, including children.
Many of whom, no doubt, played football.
I doubt FIFAās thoughts will be much comfort.
FIFAās own statutes require it to remain free of government interference and to uphold human rights. Infantino wearing a Trump campaign hat at the Board of Peaceās inaugural meeting, while gifting its architect a FIFA Peace Prize, is not neutrality.
It is institutional endorsement of conduct that international law unambiguously prohibits.
FIFA says it canāt solve geopolitical conflicts.
That is correct.
But it is actively promoting them, contributing to them, and lending them its institutional legitimacy.
That is not bridge-building.
Itās blowing them up.
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@F_Edits They keep posting AI graphics because of a deal with alibaba AI , they are so gross and offputting , especially the animations on the home tv screen
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@JoyceCarolOates According to UNHCR the queue of new asylum seekers theyāre joining is 8,4million long, is the expectation they will circumvent it/ pay their way to the front ? https://t.co/b4m0HZlzFH
Today, a 29-day-old baby died at Nasser hospital, southern Gaza, Palestine, just two hours after arriving at the MSF- supported paediatric ward in the early hours of the morning. Despite treatment efforts, he could not be saved. According to the Ministry of Health, he died from hypothermia.
"Children are losing their lives because they lack the most basic items for survival. Babies are arriving to the hospital cold, with near-death vital signs: even our best efforts are not enough. They say the war has ended, but people are still having to fight for their lives," says Bilal Abu Saada-Nursing Team Supervisor at Nasser Hospital.
The harsh winter weather combined with the already dire living conditions is increasing health risks and MSF teams are consistently seeing high rates of respiratory infections - something which will only increase throughout winter and is particularly dangerous for children under five-years old
As Gaza is battered by heavy rains and storms, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to struggle in flooded and broken makeshift tents. MSF calls on Israeli authorities to urgently allow a massive scale up of aid into the Strip.
No one can imagine how hundreds of thousands in Gaza are living the terror of the coming hours as a major storm approaches. The US and international communityāwith all its mediatorsāstill cannot force Israel to allow proper shelters.
It is a disgrace history will never forget.
My goal as a journalist is to report carefully on the best, most practical social policy ideas that can change the world, and this is easily the most exciting one Iāve had the opportunity to cover this year.
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@bartlebytaco There are signifying traits, but the human brain has impossibly complex pattern recognition mechanisms. We can't explain how we know. Some mixture of said signifiers creates that pattern of verbose, robotic and effusive prose, but the ratio between them is completely mysterious
has anyone written a taxonomy or close reading for what makes chat gpt-produced text so easily recognizable? i know the technology will change with time but i think it would be worthwhile, especially for college writing instructors
āAlbanese @Albomp and @Senator Wong have been making excuses for doing nothing, saying that we are so far away and not having much influence, not being a great power. But as Chris Sidoti explained at the National Press Club in Canberra, this is the wrong question. In fact, itās a dereliction of legal and moral responsibility. As Sidoti explained, the primary question is: What are our pressing obligations under international law and the Genocide ConventionĀ which we are not acting on?ā writes Peter Slezak, in an extract from a speech delivered 6 October, 2025 published in Pearls and Irritations.
Great run-down of the mutual obligations system ā both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives ā by @AmyRemeikis here https://t.co/fQDnf0Ddav
I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.
1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion
3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual
4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded
5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.
For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.
6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.
7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.
8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.
I hope you find this helpful.