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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's always good to know who you're really voting for. #auspol #Labor #Liberals #OneNation #Greens Image credit: @milesrandjack.bsky.social
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 30/09/2026
Australia wants a UN Security Council seat and promises to uphold international law. But from Gaza to Indigenous rights and Diego Garcia, its own record shows how selectively those rules can be applied, John Menadue writes. #auspol #UNSC
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Australia preaches the rules-based order. Its record tells another story
Australia is campaigning for a UN Security Council seat on a promise to uphold international law and defend middle powers. Its record on Gaza, Indigenous rights, military alliances and international rulings tells a far less consistent story.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lone voice pleads for action in unfolding catastrophe - how are we so good at delivering missiles, but not climate action asks Nepal’s PM at UN www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
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A lone voice pleads for help addressing this global catastrophe
As the world wrings it's hands over AI, which it seems to be enabling, a lone voice called for help fighting a true global catastrophe.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A gentle reminder that more than 30x the number killed on 9/11 have been massacred in just the last 3 years in Palestine... By US weapons, support and funding. Most were women and children and were incinerated by US bombs.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy Beetaloo Day!!!
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Premier Minns, PM Albanese, Labor and the other war parties, created the circumstances where Eyad: “was assaulted, battered, falsely imprisoned, subjected to a misfeasance in public office, and maliciously prosecuted.” There must be accountability.
Picture of a Palestinian man sitting on steps with a kuffiyeh draped across his shoulders his expression is serious 

Article headline Palestinian Australian sues NSW police, claiming he was punched at Herzog rally when helping prayer group
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's @boganintel.bsky.social "The IDF ran in the Sydney Marathon the same week they spat on Zomi Frankcom’s grave"
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The IDF ran in the Sydney Marathon the same week they spat on Zomi Frankcom’s grave - The Shot
The iconic Sydney Marathon hosted more than 40 current and former IDF personnel on the weekend. In the same week,...
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ABC reporting Marles has said Australia wants to integrate more quickly with the US. On what authority does Marles commit our nation to integration with the most dangerous and aggressive nation on earth? What does this mean for our economy and trade with China? Madness!
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Massive wealth inequality, automation, AI, state and corporate surveillance, what could go wrong? Add an AI killer robot in (oh yes we have them too) and the corporate fascist state architecture is ready and waiting. Politics is getting very real.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Israel pours cement into wells and springs vital to Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank to make farming and even living impossible. Zionism is an evil as great as any in human history.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 20/08/2026
Remember that, while it was waiting for Israel to exonerate itself for killing an Australian aid worker, our government invited Israel’s head of state here for a propaganda tour.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social cc @senatorwong.bsky.social "deeply concerned"?! "outraged"?! And STILL your Govt will take absolutely NO action against the terrorist state of Israel. STILL no expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador! STILL no sanctions! And you're STILL selling arms to Israel! 🤬 #auspol
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨This is happening right now 🚨 Labor + Coalition + One Nation just cut a secret deal to pass laws on ASIO's power to detain and interrogate you without charge with a warrant issued by a politician. They're trying to do this while media is distracted.
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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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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/08/2026
This data centre features a 9.2 gigawatt fossil fuel power station Annually it'll pump out around 30 MTCO2-e. Same as - 8 coal plants - 9.2 million cars - Destroying 20 million hectares of forest - Half a percent of America's total national emissions drawdown.org/carbon-in-co...
Grid Investment
High Voltage Transmission
76SkV Transmission Lines
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Grid Investment
New Power
10 OW capacity
Including 9.2 OW of
Natural Gas Generation
as part of the U.S.-Japan Strategk: Trade aru3
Investrnent Agrement
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Gas Generation Invesmenta graphic showing the equivaelent emissions for various compariosn
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I find Israel's appalling atrocities against the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria & Iran genuinely terrifying. I find my Australian Govt's complicity in Israel's crimes, its profiteering from arms sales and its active support for the Zionist agenda here in Australia deeply disturbing. 😢 #auspol
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Israel. Murders. Journalists. The Australian news media ignores this. On 10Aug2025, Israel murdered 6 journalists in Gaza. Since 7Oct2023, Israel has murdered 366 journalists across the region. Stats: Stopmurderingjournalists.com #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #JournalismIsNotACrime
On August 10th 2025, The Israeli occupation murdered Anas al-Sharif, correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameraman Ibrahim Zaher, cameraman Mohammed Nofal, cameraman Mohamed Al-Khalidi, and media staffer Moamen Aliwa. Since October 7th 2023, Israel has murdered 366 journalists across Gaza, Lebanon, The West Bank, Yemen, Iran, & Syria. They were murdered for exposing the truth.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 31/07/2026
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the military to take control of another West Bank refugee camp, saying the operation should follow the “Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Jenin model.” These words indicate more expulsion of Palestinians and more potential ethnic cleansing and war crimes.
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Israeli Defense Ministry Plan Suggests Potential War Crimes
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israeli military on July 28 to take control of another Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank without identifying which one. He has said the oper...
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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
'Social cohesion' is a fantasy when the Government imposes hierarchies of racism. This so-called Social Cohesion Education Hub includes 24 resources on Antisemitism but just two on Islamophobia and one on First Nations hate.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Israel is a terrorist state. It's engaged in an illegal occupation and land theft of Palestinian lands for decades. It's committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Plus it's invaded Syria's Golan Heights and southern Lebanon. Australia is complicit in Israel's crimes. #auspol #FreePalestine
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
By June 2027, Australia will have spent approximately $11 billion AUD on the #AUKUS agreement. This is what compliant vassal states do: they pay tribute to the suzerain ruling state. 😠 #auspol
Text: A suzerain is a dominant state, ruler, or lord that holds political and economic control over a subordinate nation (a vassal). The suzerain dictates the subordinate's foreign policy and external relations, but allows it a degree of internal self-rule and autonomy.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I've been calling it genocide for over two years and calling Netanasshole and the vermin in its government genocidists that must be arrested, tried for all the war crimes and executed.
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Sheeds @sheeds.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Expel their fucking ambassador. Get their cabinet to the Hague and the ICC. #FuckIsrael #Auspol
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today is Nakba Day. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine began 78 years ago today and it has never stopped.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
PALESTINIAN children shot, stabbed and pepper-sprayed BY ISRAELIS in the occupied West Bank. Headlines rptedly fail to name ISRAEL as the perpetrator. #IsraeliTerrorism #WestBank #FreePalestine
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Children shot, stabbed and pepper-sprayed in occupied West Bank.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Could we talk about the deeply troubling rise in anti-Palestinian hate that the Israeli Govt seems to be exhibiting, introducing a death penalty that only applies to Palestinians. 🤔 #IsraeliTerrorism #FreePalestine www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Independent headline:
Israel’s government votes 93-0 to back death penalty law for alleged Gaza terrorists
Israel extends new death penalty laws to Gaza in legislation that only targets Palestinians for allegations of murder
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Absolutely ridiculous. Social cohesion in Australia means attacking people who oppose genocide, accusing them of antisemitism, then silencing them.
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Palestinian peak body refused leave to appear at royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion
Australia Palestine Advocacy Network says criticism of Israel is routinely misrepresented as antisemitic – and that Palestinian voices are being excluded from debate
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Today marks 500 days of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya’s cruel arbitrary detention by Israeli authorities. He was arrested after approaching an Israeli tank that was storming Kamal Adwan Hospital - which at the time was the last functioning hospital in North Gaza & the hospital Dr Safiya is the director of.
A photo of Dr Safiya with the words: Detained by Israeli authorities for 500 days. Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.A photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya walking towards a tank
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Australian news media: "ISIS brides" and "ISIS-linked" to vilify women & children returning home. Yet no "IDF-linked" headlines for Australians who've served with Israel's military in #Gaza returning home?! No reports? No investigation into potential involvement in war crimes? Nothing. 🤔 #auspol
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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It is such a relief to welcome Ethan back home. We are proud of him and other Australians for having the guts and the gumption to step up where our government has failed.
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If American history was taught correctly.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Israel must release Zeteo contributor Alex Colston and the rest of the flotilla activists and crew. This is piracy:
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'Piracy': Israel Kidnaps Nearly 200 Peace Activists Aboard Flotilla 600 Miles Away From Gaza
Zeteo contributor Alex Colston is among those Israel abducted, as activists accuse Greece, a NATO member, of complicity after Israeli forces intercepted 22 boats in international waters near Crete.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“This report was designed to produce conclusions rather than find them.” A response to the Bondi Royal Commission interim report by Andrew Brown. #auspol #antisemitism michaelwest.com.au/bondi-royal-...
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Bondi Royal Commission. What this report refuses to see - Michael West
A response to the interim findings of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion (Bondi) by Andrew Brown.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Hard-right war mongers like Pezzulo and the Australian have been abusing the ANZAC story for decades to encourage weapons build ups and aggression against our neighbours. The ANZACs who came back largely condemned war saying “never again”. Let’s honour that legacy.
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that ongoing and expanding Israeli military attacks and control over the Gaza Strip are causing what it described as a deliberate pattern of destruction and “suffocation of life”. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260413-gaz...
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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ceasefire or no ceasefire. Israel's terror campaign continues. In a half-way sane world, even this one act would be enough to see Netanyahu and co. in The Hague. Yet *at most* our leaders will express their 'deep concern' and continue to act as if the Israeli state is somehow a force for good.
A screenshot of a headline on ABC News. It reads 'Hundreds killed in 'barbaric' wave of Israeli strikes in Lebanon'.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
💔 Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Samir Washah has been killed in Gaza following an Israeli drone strike on his car. Over 262 journalists have been murdered (assasinated) by ‘Israel’ since the start of the genocide in Gaza. You murder journalists when your enemy is the truth.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Killing a civilisation is a war crime. Threatening it is obscene. No country that does this is a worthy ally or friend of Australia. The world needs to respond with action to prevent these crimes.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It was David McBride who blew the whistle, triggering the Brereton report & laying the groundwork for Ben Roberts‑Smith’s charges. The thanks he got was jail, while war criminals roamed free. It’s about time Roberts-Smith is put away for good, but McBride must be released.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Complicity in Gaza. The bill for Australia's silence has arrived. Andrew Brown #Israel #Iran michaelwest.com.au/ignoring-gen...
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Ignoring genocide. The bill for Australia's silence has arrived - Michael West
The truth about what is happening to us now.  Andrew Brown on Australia's quiet complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If there was any doubt that Australia must urgently decouple from the US and its violent global war-making, coercion and domination then surely it is now. End AUKUS, close US bases and chart Australia’s path in the world, not follow Washington’s.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Israel has killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon since it resumed its war with Hezbollah, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. More than a million people have been forced to flee their homes.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/04/2026
Israel's new law mandating death by hanging for Palestinians is apartheid Israel does not hang Israelis who kill Palestinians. It holds more than 10K Palestinians—including 1000 children—without charge or conviction. Any politician or journalist who does not acknowledge this apartheid is complicit
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Israel's Defence Minister "Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure." Israel brag about their War Crimes and no one does anything.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Israeli politicians wore golden NOOSE pins to celebrate the Israeli Govt's new death penalty law to hang any Palestinian convicted of killing an Israeli. The law does NOT apply to Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians. Let me guess: Penny Wong is "deeply concerned." 🙄 #Israel #racism #auspol
Israeli politicians wore golden NOOSE pins to support the passing of the death penalty bill in the Knesset, making it Israeli Govt policy to hang any Palestinian convicted of killing an Israeli. The law does NOT apply to Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians.
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