alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Someone explain why the US keeps someone in jail for 30 YEARS before murdering them? And the guy who also committed the crime gets life and possibility of parole? This is a parallel universe which makes me despair. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTennessee execution of Christa Pike can go ahead, US supreme court rulesPike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, set to be executed Wednesday night after justices lift lower-court ruling 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral failure but a civilisational one | Noel PearsonAfter the rejection of the voice, the conversation about structural reform of the federal arrangements governing Aboriginal affairs must resume 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 28/05/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on Lebanon’s suffering: the ‘ceasefire’ didn’t stop Israeli attacks. Now they’re intensifying again | EditorialEditorial: Civilians including children are among the thousands to have died in this war, yet the world is paying remarkably little attention 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 05/05/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.comIsraeli army chief says West Bank troops ‘killing like we haven’t killed since 1967’Leaked remarks by Maj Gen Avi Bluth describe fatal shootings of stone-throwers and different treatment for Jewish settlers 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 19/04/2026www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...theguardian.com‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravelAustralia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 05/04/2026johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03... %26 Irritationsjohnmenadue.comMickey J: an Australian always, quietly, making a big differenceAt a time of diminished political leadership, the legacy of Fred Hollows and Michael Johnson shows what practical, principled internationalism can achieve. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 21/01/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.com‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jailSami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 12/01/2026www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comLouise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ weekExclusive: Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to appear 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 20/12/2025A better symbol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...johnmenadue.comA better symbolAfter the Bondi massacre, grief was swiftly overtaken by politics. Public mourning and the misuse of symbols raise hard questions about solidarity, power and what genuinely brings light. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 04/08/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.com‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuityJoe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 10/07/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comSeeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa MahdawiThe systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the strip 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 02/07/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWelcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen JonesThe issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 19/06/2025www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.comRevealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf projectThe annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Brilliant!! open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...open.substack.comThe World and other Places.My potassium iodate is stuck in Customs somewhere. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 12/06/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comIsraeli army officers refuse to serve in ‘unnecessary, eternal war’ in GazaIn letter to Netanyahu, 41 signatories say government’s orders are ‘clearly illegal’ and hostages have been given ‘death sentence’ 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 29/05/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ2j...youtube.com2025 Stella Prize Winner Michelle de Kretser - Acceptance SpeechYouTube video by Stella 010
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 28/05/2025www.theguardian.com/business/gro...theguardian.comThe super tax debate is divorced from reality – and more proof that Australia’s tax system is built for the rich | Greg JerichoThe proposal will affect only 0.5% of people with superannuation and yet you would think the government is about to seize the means of production 010
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 24/05/2025johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...johnmenadue.comWeaponisation of ‘antisemitism’ hides primitive savagery of Palestinian genocideAs expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank. 033
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 23/05/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comMilitary intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed IbsaisIn Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren’t Gazans being protected in the same way? 000
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alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 09/05/2025www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/09/m...crikey.com.auSacking Dreyfus and Husic to appease Marles proves Labor 2.0 will be just more of the sameThe sacking of Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic sends a signal that performance and party loyalty are far less important than what the factions want. 010
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Look who features? Tim ‘proud zionist’ Wilson… 221
Reposted by @alisonpeta.bsky.socialAustralian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 06/05/2025youtu.be/f0NNOjjKGnk?...youtu.beAtlas Network? Undermining Our Democracy? #auspolYouTube video by Australian Politics 01910
Reposted by @alisonpeta.bsky.socialPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Genuinely horrified by the result in Goldstein. Independent MP Zoe Daniel is an informed, intelligent, principled individual who has served both the electorate and the nation well. Tim Wilson is a lazy, deceitful, smug narcissist who has only ever served himself. #auspol #AusVotes25 #GoldsteinVotes 63727156
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Israel is starving us in Gaza. This is what that feels like Zero humanity from the Zionist government 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 04/05/2025johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...johnmenadue.com'Never again' not only for Jews, but for Palestinians and all humanityIsrael has no right of self-defence against resistance in lands that are illegally occupied. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 04/05/2025johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...johnmenadue.comMessage from the editor-in-chief: Genocide is not newsworthy in The AustralianOur mainstream media have manufactured public consent to the genocide.The Australian has become a parody of a newspaper. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Valerie is saved! The recalcitrant houndlet gave up her freedom for a rotisserie chicken and so would I 000
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Reposted by @alisonpeta.bsky.socialPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Reminder: In May 2021 then Liberal MP Tim Wilson joined a run in support of Indigenous Australians, leading the pack ... for the first 100m as it left Parliament House. Then, when the tv cameras stopped filming, he turned and went back to his office.🙄 #auspol #AusVotes25 #GoldsteinVotes 2025993
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 19/04/2025‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist and 10 members of her family killed by Israeli airstrike When do these murderers get bought to justice? 000
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alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I knew some of the paramedics killed in Gaza. As humanitarian workers, we are drowning in grief When does Israel pay the price for this atrocity? 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Beyond shameful 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 30/03/2025‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian civilians coming home to catastrophe 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 29/03/2025johnmenadue.com/more-than-a-...johnmenadue.com 000
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alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader 000
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alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Australians have lost hope in the fair go, with profound implications for the election This explains a lot!! 010
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 19/03/2025What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America’s unbeautiful suburban sprawl 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The far-right’s pretend fight against antisemitism is a perfect political strategy 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 16/03/2025The cars eating Australia: should we be trying to reverse our attraction to SUVs and utes? 000
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alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 11/03/2025www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/11/m...crikey.com.auMalcolm Turnbull is right. Silence won't protect us from TrumpTurnbull is willing to do what our political leaders won't: pursue a clear-eyed reassessment of what Trump's assault on the global order means for Australia. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 09/03/2025johnmenadue.com/dutton-unplu...johnmenadue.comDutton unplugged? Bolt for the long grass... More Dutton stuff-ups! - Pearls and IrritationsWhen the metal hits the meat and we have to make hard decisions or become just the burnt bits on the edge of the Democracy Sausage Sizzle. 000
alisonpeta.bsky.social @alisonpeta.bsky.social · 09/03/2025johnmenadue.com/the-aukus-ch...johnmenadue.comThe AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already - Pearls and IrritationsIn response to AUKUS we should not be surprised Chinese naval vessels are sailing around Australia showing us their growing naval power. 000
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