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Peta Fitz

@pmf24-11.bsky.social
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Interested in ethical politics , critical Thinking and justice for Palestinians

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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genocidal criminal
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The UK’s annual contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine fell from $18m (£13.6m) in 2024 to $9.3m (£7m) last year and just $4m (£3m) this year, The i Paper has learned"
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now it is official. "In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes. Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer" (UN Human Rights Council)
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/09/2026
"I think international law is in a crisis. "And I think when applied with double standards, that's when rightly people question its use & value." @rawanarraf.bsky.social on Australia's failure to defend the International Criminal Court & the 'rules-based' order. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/4hCXbmu
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Marie-Anne @marie-anne1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meanwhile in Australia, Pauline bans the Age, the Guardian, the ABC. Same same
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 15/09/2026
Australians have not given up on government. They want capable institutions, universal services and long-term thinking – and research suggests they will pay more tax if the system is fair and money is well spent, Ian McAuley writes. #auspol #Tax #Democracy
pearlsandirritations.com
Australians want capable government – not simply smaller government
Australians still expect government to solve big problems and provide universal services, and evidence suggests they will pay more tax if it is fair and well spent.
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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Australia must follow international law & the UK lead & ban fund-raising for illegal Israeli settlements here under the duplicitous auspices of "charity". @albomp.bsky.social www.newarab.com/news/charity... #BDS #Israel #IsraelFascism #auspol #Palestine
newarab.com
Charity Commission acts on complaint against Board of Deputies
The Commission issued regulatory guidance to the Board of Deputies after the ICJP complained about statements made concerning an anti-settlement protest.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The best piece of news, after a relentless and brutal attempt to destroy a decent person and make an example of her, to scare others to silence. No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We need more people in Government like Ed…these days languishing on the back bench… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia has recognised the state of Palestine. Now we must act to protect what settler terrorism is tearing to shreds | Ed Husic
Many Australians will question why our government won’t act when it has a chance to do so in concert with many like-minded nations
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shoebridge unloads on Labor for ditching the UK, Canada & France on new settlement sanctions on Israel, despite claiming to work with 'likeminded countries' “Does this govt really think the Aus public is just stupid?” “Trump, Netanyahu, they’re your partners!”💥 #auspol
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Jewish Council supports the decision of the 12 countries who have put trade restrictions on illegal Israeli settlements and urges the Australian government to do the same and then go further, imposing country-level sanctions. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/09/jewi...
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Jewish Council welcomes UK, Canada, France and others banning settlement trade, urges Australia to not be left behind
MEDIA RELEASE 09 September 2026 The Jewish Council of Australia welcomes moves by twelve countries including the UK, Canada, and […]
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 08/09/2026
"Pathetic..." Allan Behm on the Australian government's public response to Trump administration's attacks on the International Criminal Court. "It is a fundamental assault on a really important part of the international rules-based order," he tells @emmashortis.bsky.social. 🎧 theaus.in/4i8e3lP
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Israel can only do what it does in Gaza and the West blank because Western governments like Australia enable it to do so
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Disillusionment with this Labor Gov intensifies daily- this and then fancy today touting the commitment to the 2 State Solution when the state of Palestine hardly exists due to Israeli displacement and illegal settlements. Pathetic
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When is Labor going to follow the British ban on products made in Israeli West Bank illegal settlements in response to increasing targeting by Jewish settlers on Palestinian children? Or does Labor want to continue condoning terrorists? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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UK government expected to announce restrictions on trade with West Bank settlements
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to outline proposals targeting goods from Israeli-occupied areas on Tuesday.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 08/09/2026
Labor may be governing competently behind the scenes, but too often the public is brought in only after insiders have reached agreement. That failure to explain, debate and engage is helping deepen distrust in government, Jack Waterford writes. #auspol #Albanese #Democracy
pearlsandirritations.com
Albanese governs with insiders and leaves voters outside the room
The Albanese government may be adept at negotiating with insiders, but its failure to explain decisions and engage voters is deepening public distrust.
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So pleased no IDF war criminals have placed in Sydeny marathon. Never again permir this. Utter disgrace.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a gigantic policy boil that at some point is going to explode. A lot of Labor people are affected & talking about it. 👇 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @juliannes.bsky.social
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A $1.95m deposit and $10k a month: welcome to the for-profit world of Australian aged care where no one is a winner | Julianne Schultz
Like all the privatised care services, the business of aged care is about property, cheap labour and public money
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com In the 18th century the East India Company was the most powerful and dangerous corporation the world had ever seen — that is, until the A.I. giants turned up, William Dalrymple writes.
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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
While desperate Gazans requiring heath care to continue living are no longer considered
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Choices. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Paragraphs of text with small vignettes. First column: “HAPPY NEW YEAR” sign with balloons. “I sometimes think about a time when I was 16 at a New Year’s Eve party. 
Teens drank at parties then, and a log of pashing went on. It was all pretty tame.”(Image of awkward young couple pashing.)
“I liked boys a lot and at this party I got flirting with a guy…” (image of girl and guy facing each other at nigh under party lights.) “He told me he was 22, and I felt very grown up to have attracted his attention. He was surprised to discover my age.” Next column: (image of champagne bottle popping cork) “when midnight came, I hoped to have a New Year’s kiss with him. He gently declined, saying I was too young. I didn’t know what I didn’t know, and he knew better.” (Image of the same two people under fireworks, with man smiling holding hand up as “no”.)
“When I think about young men and schoolboys “getting themselves into situations”, I think about him. And all the choices we make.” (Image two guys laughing walking away from a girl crying, sitting on the ground.) (image of a speaker with “NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS” blaring.)
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No. No. Just NO
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Certainly in the curtailment of free speech BSW are well ahead of the pack. God help us !
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 24/08/2026
Anthony Albanese has crowded the Coalition out of the political middle, while Pauline Hanson applies pressure from the right. But if Labor wants to become the natural party of government, caution cannot become an excuse for inaction, Jack Waterford writes. #Auspol #Albanese #PaulineHanson #ALP
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Labor - the middle ground is not enough!
If Anthony Albanese wants Labor to remain in power for the long haul, it will need to offer more than competent management, says Jack Waterford.
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Any other reason to now buy or read SMH?
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
One Nation described as ‘all over the shop’ with migration targets as Joyce says MP made rookie mistake
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One Nation described as ‘all over the shop’ with migration targets as Joyce says MP made rookie mistake
Liberal senator says rightwing party ‘falls down on the details’ after David Farley claimed it wanted additional 100,000 migrant workers * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Barnaby Joyce says his One Nation colleague David Farley misspoke when he said the party’s net migration target was “not too different” from Labor’s, describing it as a rookie mistake. Farley, who won the seat of Farrer for Pauline Hanson’s rightwing party in May, ruffled feathers when he told ABC’s Insiders that while One Nation’s net overseas migration (Nom) target was 130,000, it would allow an additional 100,000 migrant workers at a minimum. They would include skilled workers, backpackers, and Pacific and Timor-Leste labour through the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (Palm) scheme. Continue reading...
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 22/08/2026
Pat Conroy says an LEU submarine would have to return to France every decade for reactor support. French naval experience tells a very different story – one of short overhauls, high availability and refuelling that could be done in Australia, Peter Briggs writes. #AUKUS #auspol #Defence
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The French lesson: why Australia should take another look at LEU
France’s experience with low-enriched uranium submarines challenges claims that Australia would have to send vessels overseas for reactor support, while offering lessons in fleet availability, sovereign maintenance and crewing.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"A definition that tars four in five Australians is not detecting hatred. It is outlawing majority opinion." Andrew Brown - arrested for Israel t-shirt - on the J Fagan decision on #antisemitism #auspol michaelwest.com.au/segal-ihra-a...
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Segal's speech code meets the law: Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra's Israel exception - Michael West
The Israel lobby wrote itself a dictionary - the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Justice Desmond Fagan, NSW Supreme Court, collapsed it.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 21/08/2026
Got yourself into a pesky situation, like killing aid workers in Gaza? No fear, Fiona Katauskas introduces Bibi's new solution. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/21/z...
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social QandA - Andy Burnham comms strategy; worsening settler violence in the West Bank aided by Israeli State; an exciting new contest for young people interested in changing the world; and more The Rest Is Jam podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Burnham’s Media Machine and West Bank Settler Impunity
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 19 August · 56min
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It makes no difference whst you say Penny Wong unless you actually do something Labor- tired of all your handwringing over the war crimes
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What a disgrace for Australia to Not to expel this Ambassador… while we know he’ll never show remorse for the 22,000 children killed by Israel over 3 Years in Gaza, Israel can’t even accept culpability of one Australian humanitarian - and still Australia say little despite international law
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The US used to pretend it supported the ‘international rules based order’ and Australia pretended alongside like a well-trained poodle. Now there is no pretending. Lawless bullying is how they operate and the world needs to resist. At least bark.
Headline from the guardian which says US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor 


Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 18/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The Senate has backed a Greens motion demanding that Labor abolish its Integrated Assessment Tool. This is another embarrassing parliamentary defeat for Labor’s unravelling aged care reforms. They need to go back to the drawing board. Lives are at stake here.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“One Nation seems to have more influence over Labor policy than the Labor caucus” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/208...
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 16/08/2026
Opinion | The ABC has promised new guidelines to ensure no-one is ever again the subject of ‘violent’ comedy. It’s clear the broadcaster has no business in comedy altogether, writes Sami Shah. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/14/g...
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If the ABC's limit is Gina's bum, it should quit entertainment altogether
The ABC has promised new guidelines to ensure no-one is ever again the subject of 'violent' comedy. It's clear the broadcaster has no business in comedy altogether.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Israel has unveiled its vision for Palestine, which is none. No Palestine between the river and the sea. The genocide is a state enterprise. The apartheid is a state enterprise. ... The Nakba has never been over." – Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur. #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
"Israel has unveiled its vision for Palestine-which is none. No Palestine between the river and the sea. The genocide is a state enterprise. The apartheid is a state enterprise. There is no good Israel and bad Israel -it's all Israel. Sanction Israel. Isolate Israel. Cut trade. No more arms. The Nakba has never been over." – Francesca Albanese,
UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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Maralyn Parker @maralynparker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13/08/2026
Mental health is treated as a second-tier political issue while millions of Australians experience distress and services fail around them. The political cost will come through growing distrust – especially among younger voters, Kos Samaras writes. #auspol #MentalHealth #HealthPolicy
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Mental health is not a niche issue. It is the electorate
Australians are experiencing extraordinary levels of psychological distress while mental health services remain underfunded and overstretched. The political cost will be measured not just in health outcomes, but in deepening distrust of government.
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Sharon Boyd @sharonmboyd28.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If the media and the federal Opposition spent less time trying to whip up a non-story about the PM's silly comments in a podcast and more time on dealing with substantive issues that really matter to Australians the country might be better off for it.
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yes terrific . A voice not heard on MSM
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Maralyn Parker @maralynparker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I hope you’re watching 7:30 . Sarah Ferguson is interviewing Sussan Ley. Oh what idiots the Liberals are - dumping her as leader
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
👇 @markgkenny.bsky.social CT.
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Lawyer Adam Houda @lawyeradamhouda.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for, by Andrew Brown "Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report & believe. No election gave it to her. No Parliament ratified it." michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
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The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for - Michael West
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. Andrew Brown
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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
For returning IDF soldiers ?
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 08/08/2026
Gaza is not at peace, the West Bank is being carved up, and Australia still speaks of a two-state solution while offering little more than concern, Jeffrey Loewenstein writes. #auspol #Gaza #Palestine
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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We stand with our colleagues across the region in calling for an end to the violence and for human rights to be respected in line with international law.
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Dude, if there’s one thing in the world Australia doesn’t require its advice from an American on how to run a society. #AusPol
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'Get this right': Top US Jewish leader's stark warning for Australia
The leader of one of the world's most high-profile Jewish organisations says Australia faces a crucial test on how it tackles the rise of antisemitism.
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