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Drija

@diaja.bsky.social
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Fat, trans, disabled. Does a bit of mental health system advocacy work in Ngunnawal country. Reads a bit of philosophy from time to time. * Views my own ofc.

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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Why is the taxpayer-funded Antisemitism Envoy worried about Australians forming a negative impression of Israel's conduct in Gaza? Why is she floating censorship boards to screen stories about Israel?
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Drija @diaja.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The sooner we can rid our world of authoritarians and fascists, the better. Same goes for their enablers, toadies and apologists. #auspol
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
actual Israelis slaughter Palestinians, target children, torture doctors, assassinated Mohamed Al Wahidi for bringing joy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before Egypt played Argentina in their last 16 match
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
'Accuses.'
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Maureen Chuck @irmagherd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Remember when Israel wouldn't let the aid agencies distribute food and aid to the refugee camps in Gaza and made them come to the trucks and line up? And then they used them for target practice. I guess the balance for that would be footage of them not being shot at. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9XN...
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Dozens killed in Gaza after Israeli forces open fire on crowd seeking food • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 08/07/2026
Report shows ambulance call-outs plummet during initial years of Richmond's medically supervised injecting room
abc.net.au
Melbourne injecting room cut ambulance callouts by 70pc, report reveals
Data from a new paper shows the number of heroin-related ambulance call-outs dropped from 48 a month to 14 a month in the first five years following the Richmond medically supervised injecting room's opening.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Powerful read from Amy McQuire #NAIDOCWeek
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One Nation is not new or unprecedented. It is a product of Queensland's specific brand of anti-Indigenous racism
Even weeds need specific conditions to grow, and it just so happens that One Nation thrives particularly well in the blood-soaked soil of Queensland.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Data centres being built before people even notice a planning permit has led to the creation of MuniWatch, a new app for local government transparency krmg.com/2026/07/07/b...
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Battle against data center leads to new app for government transparency
By Burt Mummolo, FOX23.com News Staff SAND SPRINGS, Okla. — From the get-go, many folks in Sand Springs…
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This
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"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you're operating within a fascist logic," they said. "That means there might be a second one you're willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?"
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Most Australians don’t want AI data centres in their neighbourhood, survey finds www.cyberdaily.au/culture/1386...
cyberdaily.au
Most Australians don’t want AI data centres in their neighbourhood, survey finds
New research suggests community support for AI infrastructure depends on local benefits, with jobs, environmental impacts, and trust emerging as major concerns.
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 08/07/2026
It sickens me to know a prominent disability advocate has been hiding in plain sight amassing child abuse materials. The immense betrayal. region.com.au/renowned-act...
region.com.au
Renowned ACT disability advocate turns himself in for allegedly collecting child abuse material | Region Canberra
CONTENT WARNING: This article refers to alleged child abuse offences. A renowned disability advocate has been accused of possessing child…
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 07/07/2026
She said she started packing when she received the notice but had been unable to secure alternative accommodation "The community have nowhere to go, they have no job, they have no income. It's been very hard. "They have been talking to me for the last two years. So far, it's nothing at all."
abc.net.au
Deadline arrives for homeless to leave campsite
People living at a homeless hotspot in Wagga were given until today to move on, but some say they still have nowhere to go.
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
More of this. Tremendously heartening. Just need to set fire to the Herald Sun and we might have a chance. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Europe’s ‘murder capital’ slashed violent crime with a radical program. Will it work in Victoria?
An early intervention program developed in Scotland is showing promising signs – but in an election year full of punitive rhetoric, its future is uncertain
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NZ is being “economically restructured” like the Pinochet/Reagan/Thatcher/Howard/Milei era. That means screwing over workers, slashing or privatising (=wrecking) public service & goods, and flogging anything they can to corporate vultures. (Proto) Atlas Network partners through all. #NZpol #Auspol
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 03/07/2026
Cool article and supporting blog post from @notrightruth.bsky.social @tiojeda.bsky.social and others describing and defining recognisable patterns in misuse of evidence in Sex and Gender policy.
ruthpearce.net
New article: Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy
The UK is currently sweltering through the hottest June on record. The Met Office has issued a “red warning” for much of England and Wales, highlighting an active danger to life. Trains…
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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is really bloody distressing www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
'Towelling the bloke up in the cells': Shocking police emails revealed
Emails reveal an extraordinary exchange between AFP officers after an Indigenous man was allegedly beaten and illegally strip-searched at a Canberra watchhouse.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 03/07/2026
Albanese government rejects all UN recommendations on improving LGBTQIA+ rights
abc.net.au
Government rejects all UN recommendations on LGBTQIA+ rights
The Albanese government has accepted the lowest number of recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council in 20 years, with none protecting the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Australian parliament are gutless genocidal protectionist fucken cowards. Those who remain silent should all be voted out.
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Drija @diaja.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Many days are exhausting, but today was quietly joyful. A room full of amazing queer folk working together on a project that's mapping out all the different community orgs that are in Australia doing the hard work to help our communities survive. A day of discovering hope, big and small. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Australian Centre for International Justice are an incredible organisation and the AFP has now said it will look at the ACIJ brief of evidence on war crimes committed by an Australian who joined the Israeli military. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
AFP assessing allegation of Gaza war crimes committed by Australian citizen serving in IDF
Exclusive: Claims against Israel Defense Forces battalion include deliberate targeting and destruction of residential buildings in 2023 and 2024 without military justification
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 01/07/2026
A UN report on the children of Gaza records their suffering and will raise questions about what we did to prevent it, Meg Schwarz writes. #UNHumanRightsCouncil #auspol
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History will read this report and ask what we did
An International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory report says the essence of childhood has been destroyed in Gaza.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Human Rights Commissioner calls on Government to publicly address human rights concerns over NDIS changes humanrights.gov.au/about-us/med...
humanrights.gov.au
Commissioner calls on Government to publicly address human rights concerns over NDIS changes
The Australian Government must provide clarity on how proposed changes to the NDIS Act will uphold human rights.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Apparently there are SEVEN historical legal issues in the welfare system that are about to be made public:
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
There are questions about Australian involvement in a massive sugar development in West Papua where the Indonesian military is alleged to have forced Indigenous people from their homes. I wrote about them here:
deepcutnews.com
Taxpayer-funded Australian sugar institute linked to abuses in West Papua
Sugar Research Australia developed a sugarcane variety to grow in West Papua – months later, the UN accused Indonesian companies of displacing Indigenous peoples to make way for sugarcane production.
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Tom Swann @tomswann.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Except for most GPs not bulk billing, large out of pockets for mental at the best of times and dental for all adults, paying for ambulances, timely and competent care often being only available through private channels...
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The level of cowardice and colonial blindness by too many modern politicians shows this nation has never attempted to grow up and accept its Indigenous origins or multicultural diversity and allows its open celebratory opportunities. #AusPol #QLDPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Here we Joh again? The spectre of Bjelke-Petersen still looms large over Queensland
The LNP’s unapologetic moves on Indigenous issues, crime, transgender healthcare and police-led suppression of protests are a throwback to days many thought had come and gone
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Children should never be the cost of conflict. Justice and accountability now.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
On 5/12/2024 Amnesty released a report determining Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The genocide continues today. We demonstrated Israel carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza including children.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A United Nations’ independent commission has found that Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. Commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar described the “systematic killing and harming of children” including since the so-called ceasefire was declared in October 2025.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
it commodifies the underclass as a vehicle for transferring public resources to the propertied class. You know, like paying police and prison guards to criminalise and incarcerate people born into poverty. Paying social workers to steal children. Same model. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au
What are Australia's jobs programs really for? The answer may be that employment was never the point.
This month it was Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth announcing changes to the compulsory activities people on JobSeeker can be forced to undertake. The debate always focuses on the details. Wh...
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daydreameraus.bsky.social @daydreameraus.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
They'd rather disabled individuals bear the responsibility of balancing the budget rather than imposing a farer tax on gas companies, or removing systematised rorting of the NDIS. Tells you everything you need to know about Labor.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hey crew. The far right around the 🌎 is bullying trans people. Many of them, like Drew Hutton, are willing to bully cis women verbally if we reject the cruddy “protection”🙄 Other “protectors” are even more dangerous. No thanks. We’re fine.🖕 Sign up for “Not In Our Name” (🇦🇺&🇬🇧 branches) 🏳️‍⚧️💜 #Auspol
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Drija @diaja.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The implementation of the National Action Plan to improve the health & wellbeing of SBLGBTIQA+ Australians is ongoing & the Private Lives 4 survey is vital to this work: tinyurl.com/PrivateLives4 Make your voice heard, please engage & share! @lizduckchong.bsky.social @susiewalsh.bsky.social
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Take the Private Lives 4 survey
Australia's largest survey of LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing in Australia
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Drija @diaja.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I'm a bit late to sharing this, but Women With Disabilities ACT is running a survey on sexual health & disability in the ACT that is still open!: wwdact.org.au/share-your-e... Please engage and promote! It's important work and a great community org! @phonakins.com @blairwilliams26.bsky.social
wwdact.org.au
Share your experience - Disability and Sexual Health - Women with Disabilities ACT
PAID OPPORTUNITY Are you a woman or gender diverse person with disabilities? Do you have ideas and experiences to share about accessing sexual health services, information or education? Expressions of...
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 18/06/2026
"Most of us don’t give a flying fuck which budget or named program our supports come from, as long as we aren’t left to die. But you won’t do any of this. Because ego. You gotta be right, no matter how wrong you are. And the disability community will pay the price."
normalness.com
Actually, you're the failure - Normal Ness
Hi Government,   I’m a bit sick of hearing that the NDIS was only meant to have a certain amount of people on the scheme. It’s often repeated in news and social media posts (for example). Your propoga...
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Drija @diaja.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Why are you here @news.abc.net.au if you're going to turn off comments on your own articles? Is it because you anticipate that people are going to be critical of the stenography you're offering here? I pity the surviving good faith journalists who are suffering the yoke of conservative governance.
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Drija @diaja.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I really do, and perhaps naively hope, that everyone in #auspol understands that the enabling of One Nation is part and parcel of our establishment media's class interests. This is how the US got Trump. This is how Australia will end up with our own fascist government. Engage accordingly.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Press Gallery Analysis: She didn't actually fall over while screaming slurs in a puddle of her own filth, so ready to be PM.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Pauline didn’t shit her pants on live TV so now she’s a serious contender. Sorry I don’t make the rules
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A major new study has looked at the impact of the Australian welfare system on the rates of suicide It concludes that effective suicide prevention would mean raising JobSeeker payments & replacing punitive mutual obligations (such as Work for the Dole) adelaide.edu.au/about/news/2...
adelaide.edu.au
Australia must tackle unemployment to reduce suicide rates
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“Heil Hanson! The great white hope!” The fossil/billionaire 💵 behind the 🇺🇸 #AtlasNetwork using hate to push Trump's anarcho-authoritarianism into #Auspol. Destabilising our democracy to crush the clean energy revolution: our only hope for independence & security from a dying/killing 🇺🇸oil empire.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Ok, but what about every other NDIS participant who needs their own “University of Life” and doesn’t have an unused flat attached to their grandad’s home? Don’t slash NDIS day activity funding! People need organised programs. Cc. @grogsgamut.bsky.social
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When a female First Nations detainee began to self-harm at Canberra’s jail, guards used OC spray on her in an attempt to restrain her region.com.au/prison-guard...
region.com.au
Prison guards use OC spray on female inmate who was 'no threat to others' | Region Canberra
CONTENT WARNING: This article refers to self-harm. When a female First Nations detainee began to self-harm at Canberra's jail, guards…
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Absolutely. Nothing is bending towards justice without us bending it. We have to unite and stand together or we’ll be taken apart. Unity is everything.
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Here's my piece on the misogynistic intent of calling women a witch in @theconversation.com! "Calling a woman a “witch” reinforces the idea that women who seek or have political power are not to be trusted. They are cast as inherently deceitful, dangerous, and diabolical." #AusPol
theconversation.com
Why is it misogynistic to call a woman a ‘witch’?
From the middle ages on, threatening the patriarchy by displaying ambition or failing to conform to societal gender norms was taken as evidence of witchcraft.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/06/2026
being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 09/06/2026
People aren’t literally spending hundreds of dollars more than they receive every week. They’re surviving by skipping meals, going without healthcare, living in unsuitable housing, relying on emergency relief, turning to unaffordable lines of credit and building up debts they can’t afford to repay,”
au.finance.yahoo.com
Calls for Centrelink payment change as Australian economy 'comes under pressure'
The government is being urged to make 'the most important' change as the cost of essential services continues to rise.
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