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Kyle Harvey

@kyle-harvey.bsky.social
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Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Here's me. "Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities"
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Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities - The Shot
Australia’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities has many ugly layers. It’s worse than the bomb release mechanism on the F-35 death...
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It’s been put to me by people that know that Homes Victoria is a rogue agency, every bit as unethical in its own way as the DHS or some of the state forestry agencies
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
It should never have got to this. Independent media and community radio has never been so important. Sign the petition and help save 2ser. c.org/fbr6jKbXHL
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Sign the Petition
Save 2SER-FM
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Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Brilliant review in @theageaustralia.bsky.social on the weekend from author Steven Carroll of 'Migrants, Television & Australian Stories'! @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Her plan to 'knit the country back together' is banning peacful slogans, silencing anti-genocide sentiment, and overhauling our education system with *somehow* even more ahistorical genocide justification. Tl;dr = Thought control and fascism
Fin Review whitewashing more fascist bullshit
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Nathan Hobby @nathanhobby.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In time for Anzac Day: a new book, Challenging Anzac: Stories That Don't Fit the Legend (NewSouth) edited by @miamh.bsky.social, Carolyn Holbrook and Joan Beaumont. My chapter is 'Bolshevik Anzac: the politics, celebrity and mythology of Hugo Throssell VC'. 1/
Cover of book
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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The NDIS is far from perfect. But there's something particularly inhuman about the Labor Party pushing through changes that will see 160,000 people kicked off disability support in the same week they proudly announced an increase in military spending of $53 billion over 10 years.
A graph showing increasing defence spending over the decade from 2026-27. Rising from just over $60 billion to close to $120 billion.
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Robbie Buck @robbieb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The University of Technology in Sydney is poised to close community radio station 2SER-FM. Here's my opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, arguing that it would be pure folly to do so.
Opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald about community radio station 2SER-FM. Titled 'Shutting this priceless cultural asset would hurt.'
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Is there any moral limit to what Israel or the US could do, any war crime that goes too far, for Australia to place conditions on our loyalty? It seems there are no red lines. New:
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How will history regard the Albanese government?
On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This young woman photographed using a transistor radio on a train in Sydney's Redfern on 21 April 1960 (photo by Alec Iverson, State Library of NSW)🗃️
b&w photo of people on a train platform. In the centre, looking towards the photographer, is a young woman wearing tartan skirt and dark sunglasses, holding a radio transistor in her hand. A train carriage is behind her and various passengers on the platform.b&w photo of the inside of a train carriage with a young woman seated holding a radio transistor, another woman passenger is in the row in front wearing a hat.
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Australian screen industry crushed as Universal shutters Matchbox Pictures, with 60 jobs lost Peak screenwriting body says the closure is a reminder industry cannot rely on ‘whims of international studios to keep us afloat’ #AusPol www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Australian screen industry crushed as Universal shutters Matchbox Pictures, with 60 jobs lost
Peak screenwriting body says the closure is a reminder industry cannot rely on ‘whims of international studios to keep us afloat’
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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
As part of our Best Article Prize announcement, we're featuring articles from the Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific. Marco de Jong's open access article, '‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5, is available here>
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Browse all journals
Browse all journals
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
When quizzed about it, the premier flagged that arming CSG NSW would also be considered.
"Clearly from media reports and my own enquiries, that CSG was in contact with NSW Police, and while there were police on site, clearly not enough to deal with the threat as history's tragically shown," he said.
"Now that means a root and branch change to security protocols and provisions in place.
"It also means we need to have a longer, deeper look at arming CSG. Now that is a step that we haven't taken in the past."
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
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Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A petition in support of the State Library of Victoria, currently facing significant cuts: c.org/Ny9tCp8jRM
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save the State Library of Victoria!
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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.
This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
northampton.ac.uk
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
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VHS Revue @vhsrevue.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If Gough Whitlam hadn’t been dismissed 50 years ago today, he may never have gone on to popularise fax machines and the “smart phone” in these 1989 ads for Voca #vhsrevue #dismissal
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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net
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Grandparenting tells us much about our history. It’s important to preserve these stories
Grandparents can play a fundamental role in families, yet they have often been overlooked in Australian history.
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Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thanks to Ien Ang and @insidestory.bsky.social for this very thoughtful review of my new book! inside.org.au/screening-mu...
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Screening multicultural Australia • Ien Ang
How migrants have made their presence felt in an evolving TV landscape
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Congratulations to AHA member David Lowe for the publication of his new book, "The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia"! It's available to purchase here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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History Council of NSW, Inc. @historynsw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We would like to extend our congratulations to all the recipients of The State Library of New South Wales 2026 Fellowships including #hcnswmember Dr Mark Dunn and our 2025 Max Kelly Award winner Ruby Ekkel! Check out the full list of recipients via the link below
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2026 Fellowships announced
The State Library has awarded $314,000 in research funding.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Straya!!! Albanese, Bowen and Watt helping break the world record. Go ALP.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Really strong story from @newcastleherald.bsky.social about the Hunter Region’s role sending F35 jet fighter weapons parts to Israel for its genocide in Gaza. The F35 regional hub in Williamtown isn’t for Australia’s defence, it’s a US controlled global weapons hub run by the US, for the US
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Two History postdocs at UNSW (Sydney) and the net is wide: "open to candidates working on any time period from Ancient History to Contemporary History, any area or region, incl. global and international history, and any methodology, incl. oral history, gender history, history of race and more."
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
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Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Thanks @uncommonsenseradio.bsky.social @3rrrfm.bsky.social for a wonderful interview this week about our new book 'Migrants, Television & Australian Stories'. Listen back here from 2hrs19mins: www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
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Programs: Uncommon Sense – 7 October 2025, Uncommon Sense — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
An episode of Uncommon Sense on 7 October 2025
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
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Adopto ND @adoptond.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This woman is amazing, not making her capture & mistreatment the story, keeping all eyes on Gaza and their plight against a genocidal regime. She is the best of us. Our governments around the world must act. Stop the genocide. #FreePalestine
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Congratulations to AHA member Geraldine Fela, who last week won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History for her book "Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis" (UNSW Press)! Read more about the winners here: creative.gov.au/news-events/...
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Prime Minister's Literary Awards
Celebrating outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian writing makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/10/2025
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club: “The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.” #npc
Chris Sidoti
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Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Interview about my new book from co-authors @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social and Kate Darian-Smith on @2ser.bsky.social! www.2ser.com/stories/migr...
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Migrants, Television and Australian Stories - 2SER
When TV was introduced to Australia in the late-1950s, it came alongside the post-war migration boom. And both tv and migration have been inextricably linked to one another ever since, and in some sur...
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I wrote about how I am not buying the narrative that the anthropic AI settlement is good for authors: defector.com/if-the-thiev...
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If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector
There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the ...
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Learned so much from his work. R.I.P.
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Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New from me, @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social, Sue Turnbull and Kate Darian-Smith with some stories from our new book! @theconversation.com
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Melbourne Uni is killing the literary journal Meanjin. It's cultural vandalism. Australian universities are now deeply anti-intellectual places www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
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Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is the big one. Anyone is welcome to sign, you don't have to be at ANU, you just have to care about higher ed. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...
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Petition to ANU Council
In support of our petition, we observe that:  • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇
history.cass.anu.edu.au
Calling for Applicants to the Australian National University-SEARCH Foundation PhD Scholarship | School of History
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Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"A “win-win” between the victims of genocide and the perpetrators? He said that. Why not a win-win between the scorched rubble of Hiroshima and the nuclear bomb?"
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Politicians taking a 'head in the sand' approach to climate change is bad enough. Undertaking a detailed national climate risk assessment and withholding it from the public is malicious on an even higher level. This is a crisis. Not something to be politically managed. www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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Labor keeps ‘dire’ climate report under wraps
The government has delayed the release of a “shocking” assessment of climate change’s effect on the economy, just weeks before its 2035 target decision.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Words have had no effect. Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.
abc.net.au
Australia strongly rejects Israel's plan to seize Gaza City
The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom say this decision will "risk violating international humanitarian law".
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Hey ABC - can we stop calling them "settlers", which sounds like a benign homesteading movement. As Israeli human rights groups themselves say, those Israelis trying to displace Palestinians in the #WestBank are terrorists: state-sanctioned terrorists. #StopIsrael www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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'Now, there's nothing stopping them': Settlers trying new forms of intimidation
In the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, teenage shepherds escorted by armed security guards are trying to push Palestinian villagers from their farms.
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Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Check out recent book launch conversation between myself, co-authors @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social, Sue Turnbull, Kate Darian-Smith and the brilliant Pearl Tan, recorded recently at @gleebooks.bsky.social on ABC Radio National. Thanks @natashamitchell.bsky.social! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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From Con the Fruiterer to East West 101 — the changing face of Australian TV - ABC listen
Australia is a multicultural country, but up until recently, when you turned on the telly, you wouldn't know it. So what role has TV played in Australia's diverse communities, on screen, behind the sc...
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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: "These proposed measures have nothing to do with combating antisemitism, and everything to do with limiting and censoring criticism of Israel and stifling freedom of speech on Palestine."
overland.org.au
Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal
We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: Academics against racism overland.org.au/2025/07/open...
overland.org.au
Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal
We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 18/07/2025
Exclusive | The government claimed it had nothing to do with handing $900 million to an Israeli company steeped in the Palestinian genocide. New documents show that's false, writes Bernard Keane.
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The truth on Elbit: Government signed off $900m deal with Israeli company used in Gaza genocide, after insisting it didn't
New documents contradict the Albanese government's claims about its links to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. It in fact directly signed a $900 million contract with Elbit and closely vetted all stages of its engagement.
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