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A graph showing Australian approval for the US falling while rising for China
Pro-Israel lobbyist who said ‘there are no civilians’ in Gaza testified at Royal Commission
What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/25/what-training-my-chaotic-dog-taught-me-about-power-control-and-human-beings
Ending tax concessions for wealthy property investors Homes should be safe places for everyone to live, not just a money-making exercise for wealthy investors. However, enormous tax handouts, such as negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount are turbo-charging the housing crisis. They put billions in the pockets of big property investors, making it easier for investors to outbid first home buyers, and drive up house prices and saddling mortgage holders with more debt. By phasing out the tax handouts for wealthy property investors with more than one investment property, we can make home ownership more accessible to hundreds of thousands more renters, and invest the tax savings into building hundreds of thousands of good-quality public homes
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-11/nsw-police-independent-report-toxic-culture-abc-investigation/106764974
Albanese with Pres Herzog
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/06/white-shirt-guy-assaulted-by-police-claims-sydney-herzog-rally-ntwnfb
President Herzog and Albanese shaking hands and smiling
A tweet showing the UAE is preparing to join the war against Iran
Israeli ambassador Newman says: Israel and Australia stand in the same camp. Of moderates, modern democracies that value human rights and uphold democratic concerns. That has long characterised the relationship between our two countries. Our connection is deeply rooted in history and founded on shared values. It is only natural, for Australia and Israel to be close allies. We share the same values, we share the same threats, we must stand together and defend our values.
Headline: Australia is sending an aircraft and personnel to the Middle East. Does this mean we are entering the war?
https://archive.md/BAxI5 Headline: "U.S. intelligence says Iran’s regime is consolidating power Despite withering airstrikes, officials see a weakened but more hard-line government in Tehran, backed by the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps security forces.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/14/australia-exposed-iranian-asylum-seeker-to-torture-on-manus-un-says Headline " This article is more than 2 months old Australia exposed Iranian asylum seeker to torture on Manus, UN says"
Possible issues that could arise This deployment does not mean Australia is entering a combat role in the war. It will instead have an enabling role – bolstering the UAE’s air defence. Even though the E-7A Wedgetail has a clearly defensive purpose, the deployment could still be seen from the Iranian perspective as support for the US-Israeli air offensive. In an indirect way, it could help the US. The RAAF deployment will reduce the need for the US to help defend the UAE, potentially freeing up US forces to strengthen its attacks on Iran. The Australian government’s messaging appears aimed at trying to avoid people drawing this conclusion.
A map of the confirmed casualties from the current Iran war https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on-iran-death-toll-and-injuries-live-tracker
The Minab school incident is not an exception in the record of civilian facilities being targeted by the US and Israeli militaries; rather, it falls within a documented pattern stretching across decades of military operations and attacks, in which the same scene recurs: Strikes hit schools, hospitals, and civilian shelters, followed by immediate denial or shifting of blame to the other side, before independent investigations later reveal the falsity of official claims.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/06/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-briggs-rapper-viral-video-footage-yes-campaign
Polls showing the Voice's support. https://theconversation.com/why-did-the-voice-referendum-fail-we-crunched-the-data-and-found-6-reasons-228383
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat-camp-sovereignty-follow/105722830
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/nsw-police-protest-laws-israel-president-isaac-herzog-sydney/106298050
Protests against the Iraq war, for example, did not call for the dissolution of the United States, the banning of American leaders or the killing of American soldiers. Calls for Israel’s destruction, for Israelis to be excluded from public life and for engagement with Israel to cease altogether have become commonplace.
The peace plan treats reform as a substitute for a political process in which Palestinians themselves have a say.
A picture of the Values For Australian Schooling poster.
Ita Buttrose is quoted as saying "we've allowed divisive groups into Australia... you try and live our way not the way you did in your country"
Most journalists will adopt the contrarian position not because of principle or evidence, but because it exists.
Describes a Palestinian child trying a banana for the first time
n this basis, the technocratic body to be chaired by Trump, but likely to be dominated by Blair with some figures from the Palestinian diaspora, could derive its legitimacy through its effectiveness. Blair will be working against the destabilising backdrop of imminent elections in both Israel and Palestine. One of the body’s first tasks will be to build a relationship with Palestinian politics. Blair has close relations with the elites of the Middle East but none with the street, and he may leave to others such as Egypt the task of mediating an intra-Palestinian dialogue on Palestinian unity, a dialogue led by China, that the ageing and authoritarian PA president has sought to sabotage.
Tahani Mustafa, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, argues that since the 7 October attack Palestinian politics has shifted to a more transactional outlook. “Palestinians are looking to someone that can make life bearable, keep them on their land and improve their living conditions. The very bare minimum is what people are asking for. Most Palestinians on the ground have resigned themselves to their fate.”
After the plan’s publication, Netanyahu in a video message assured his domestic audience that Israel’s red lines were protected: Gaza separated from the West Bank, no return by the PA to Gaza, no path toward a “two-state solution” and no removal of Israel security forces from the majority of the Gaza Strip. In trying to assuage the extremists in his coalition, Netanyahu was also doing all he could to persuade Hamas to reject the plan, so he could pursue the military offensive into Gaza City.
Barrot said the new UN text went further than ever before. “We got them … to say that they aspire not only to have a normal relationship with Israel, but to enter into a common regional architecture in the model of Asean in Asia or OSCE in Europe,” he said. “We got them to say things they never said.” So, contrary to appearance, the weeks and days leading up to the general assembly was about the Arab states reaching out to Israel. Far from being rewarded, Hamas, an opponent of a two-state solution, was being ostracised from political power in Palestine, a fate its battered leadership has reluctantly accepted.
Of all the patients, there is one group that shocks doctors most: children with gunshot wounds to the head or chest — and bodies otherwise untouched. A single bullet to these areas is a strong indication that the child was deliberately targeted. That constitutes a war crime. In other conflict zones, the doctors rarely encountered such cases.
Penny Wong says Israel was wrong to Bomb Qatar
That includes Fahamiya al-Khalidi, an 82-year-old with Alzheimer’s who was abducted with her female carer in Gaza City in December 2023, and held in Israel for six weeks under the unlawful combatant law, prison documentation shows. She was disoriented, could not remember her age and thought she was still in Gaza, according to a military medic who treated her in Anatot detention centre after she injured herself on a fence. “I remember her limping badly toward the clinic. And she’s classified as an unlawful combatant. The way that label is used is insane,” the medic said. Photographs confirm his presence at Anatot at the time
A Graph showing Australian Home Price growth peaking during covid lock downs.
Note from Table 1 that the 5‐yearly immigrant inflow averaged 6.32% (or around 1.25% per year). Using this figure, we calculate that if there had been no immigration over this period then home prices would have been around 1.1% per year lower. 4While this is clearly a non‐trivial effect on home prices, neither is it the main driver of prices. Table 1 shows that the average home price growth rate was 26% over a 5‐year period or around 5% per annum. If immigration had been eliminated, then it would have led to price growth around one‐fifth lower.