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[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

In 1998, when Hanson was launching her concentrated campaign of racism, four ex-prime ministers - Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke and Keating - issued an open letter to the nation. They weren’t being dramatic. They were warning us.
#auspol

[stranger @strangerous10]

JCA’s Sarah Schwartz tells the Royal Commission that she’s contacted every day by Jews “terrified of speaking out” to criticise Israel or to support Palestinians, in fear of being abused or vilified.
Says Israel ‘shields itself from a lot of criticism’ by claiming to be victim💥

[David Caldicott @ACTINOSProject]

The chap who thinks that even the children in Gaza are ‘guilty’ of something is being given free rein to make a statement, unquestioned, at the Royal Commission.
More than happy to see where this goes, but it certainly doesn’t ‘feel’ very Royal Commission-y at the moment.

[Sahar A @Sahar_A_Writes]

At her incisive best, Laura Tingle wraps up #insiders reviving Paul Keating's timeless warning on Pauline Hanson's "shamelessly regressive politics – the myth of the monoculture". In fact, multiculturalism has enriched Australia. Defending it is a vital national interest. #auspol

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

It’s not antisemitic to be against genocide. For the millionth fucking time.

[Dr Josie McSkimming @JosieMcskimming]

‘The media has a role in this…They have treated her as entertainment & consistently given her a platform. They have failed to fact-check her in real time, allowing her lies to hang around unchallenged.’ Indeed.

Marcia Langton.
https://t.co/eSUTOYWcXv

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Karl Stefanovic being sacked for platforming Tommy Robinson this week isn’t completely about who he interviewed — it’s about how. Robinson is a former British National Party member turned white supremacist agitator who pushes “Remigration” — the forced removal of non-white people — in coded language. Stefanovic never raised any of it. He told Robinson he admired his “tenacity and courage,” agreed when Robinson talked about whipping up anger to “cause an earthquake” — “why not, this is a great country and it’s so lost” — and asked him how the right could “take power” here within three years. He posted himself with his arm around Robinson, the two laughing together. That’s not investigative journalism. That’s normalising an extremist.

There’s nothing new about journalists interviewing extremists — done properly, it’s some of the most important journalism there is. When BBC’s Question Time put BNP leader Nick Griffin in front of 8 million viewers in 2009, the panel tore into his Holocaust denial and links to extremist groups on live television. When Vice News embedded with white nationalists in Charlottesville in 2017, the resulting documentary won a Peabody and four Emmys — for capturing them in their own words, threats included, with nothing softened. Hard questions, no flattery, the extremist exposed rather than humanised. Stefanovic did the opposite.

This is the same Stefanovic who once praised multiculturalism on air and told his own immigrant grandparents’ story. His podcast now runs on the opposite frame entirely — Hanson as his debut guest in January, back again in May, a Robinson interview landing six days after Hanson told the National Press Club “we must be monocultural.” No explanation was ever given for his complete ideological about-face. The timing lines up with one thing only: his move from network TV, where this would never be allowed to air, to an unaccountable, monetised podcast where it can.

Why? Money. Kyle Sandilands took a $12 million payout from his old network and is now openly “sharpening” Hanson’s messaging on a new show. Multiple high-profile broadcasters landing on the identical politics in the identical commercial window isn’t conviction. It’s a market — and sadly platforming white supremacists and normalising them is what’s currently selling.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.”

Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?”

Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.”

Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This is not a normal statement from a normal cabinet member of a major nation. 

This statement from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir is the statement of a war criminal. 

The racist, extremist Israeli government does not deserve one nickel of U.S. support.

[Daany Saeed @daanysaeed]

This woman has spent the best part of 30 years in public life telling people like me to speak English. She’d do well to give it a crack herself.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Hanson
“We cannot be a multicultural society. We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella.”

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 don’t like that one either.

[- Cass @Cassandrasl99]

I'll take the advice from the most prominent economist in Australia rather than experts on this app.

And there are many, braintrusts

😄😄

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[Patrick McGorry @PatMcGorry]

The Socceroos decisive win today with an inspiring array of our wonderful multicultural talent gives the LIE to One Nation’s betrayal of our unique society. Don’t let them exploit the distress & anger that inequality & neoliberalism has caused.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

"Covid vaccines didn't work"

🤡🤡🤡

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[N Leete @nickkl333]

@AustralianJA This is a blatant, unironic endorsement. Shameful

[Professor Georgina Long AO (Bluesky @gvlongphdmd) @ProfGLongMIA]

Vale Richard.

I am deeply saddened to lose such a cherished colleague. Richard was a truly extraordinary pathologist - the 'pathologists' pathologist' - who also made generous time for clinicians navigating complex diagnostic cases, understanding that an accurate tissue diagnosis was critical to patient care. His knowledge was vast, his skill exceptional, with an unparalleled eye for accurate tissue diagnoses, and the precision to apply decades of experience where it mattered most.

He shared his expertise widely: through consultation on external specimens, through diagnostic and classification frameworks now used worldwide, and as a devoted teacher and mentor. Richard has left an indelible mark on all who had the privilege of working alongside him. 

My thoughts are with Richard's family during this difficult time, particularly his wife Katie and children Emily, Matthew, and Lucy.

See tribute on @MelanomaAus website >  https://t.co/cAYaKPl2oA