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Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives The Australian state of Victoria has taken a historic step towards reconciliation, passing the nation’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners. After two days of debate, the upper house of Victoria’s parliament passed the statewide treaty bill without amendment by 21 votes to 16, just before 9pm on Thursday. Continue reading...

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice To those I have lost – the teachers, mentors, loved ones – who once taught me what it was to be Jewish. Those who once shared my table, yet now sit on the other side of a deep chasm. I write with hesitation. My words have been twisted before. But silence has become its own wound. Continue reading...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

It was just as possible then as it is now.

Kumanjayi Walker shooting inquest: coroner finds NT police officer Zachary Rolfe 'was racist' Zachary Rolfe, who shot Walker in Yuendumu in 2019, used unnecessary force during five previous arrests, coroner says

My late partner made, on behalf of her clients, multiple complaints about the behaviour of this cop. They were ignored. Her employer did not support her and she was ultimately fired for urging action.

The northern territory does not deserve to govern itself.

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Thirteen-year-old Abad died weeks after shrapnel ripped through him in Gaza As a child dies from shrapnel wounds to his stomach and Israel denies starvation is occurring in Gaza the UN's aid urgency issues a warning that kids may soon die of thirst.

While the world's eyes look elsewhere, Israel's continues to kill hungry men, women and children with those who survive facing dehydration. Every day of this genocide it feels like Israel's actions cannot get more barbaric -- and then they do.
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The consulting firm allegedly offering private deals and collecting signatures to smooth way for Empire Energy gas sales Exclusive: Leaked documents claim Good Advice promised private deals, gathered signatures and hired land council members to smooth way for Northern Territory gas sales

Extraordinary investigation by @lisacox.bsky.social of how a consulting firm contracted by a Beetaloo fracking company worked behind the scenes to influence high stakes negotiations with Traditional Owners.

There’s even a mysterious letter with a signature literally on the back of an envelope!

Remember these people - already starved and weak- are forced to walk up to 10km to pick up this food and carry it back to wherever they have managed to make a temporary home

X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo & @jnbarot
FB : @France Diplomatie & @Jean-Noël Barot
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SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Pressure their foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!
E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr

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Man dies in custody after altercation with Alice Springs security guard Police say the death of an Aboriginal man who was restrained by two officers in Alice Springs will be investigated as a death in custody.

Days before the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker is due to hand down its findings, another Aboriginal man has died in custody after being restrained by cops at the Alice Springs Coles. May he rest in peace and power. May those responsible be held accountable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Here is a copy of the full ABC interview with APAN President Nasser Mashni (in two parts) which is now missing from the ABC News website.

Israel is “not a democracy—it’s a rogue apartheid genocidal state, headed up by a war criminal. It’s time for Australia to do more than just talk.”

Part 1—

ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview During the interview, Nasser Mashni made a pointed remark that it was time 'for Palestine to be free, from the river to the sea'.

This morning I noticed the interview Nasser Mashni gave to ABC yesterday was quietly pulled from the ABC website without explanation.

As the horror in Gaza escalates, it looks like ABC has chosen to supress a crucial Palestinian voice.

The ABC should explain why.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/27/n...

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My @smh @theage cartoon.

The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon Time is running out * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon

Israeli assaults continue across Gaza, at least 51 people killed today UNICEF chief warns ‘we’re running out of time’ in Gaza as aid runs out and children continue to be killed in bombings.

Israeli assaults continue across Gaza, at least 51 killed today

None of this inevitable, if the world's nations grow a spine and a collective conscience and decide to force Israel to stop murdering families.

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A few Palestinian YouTube channels have stopped because they were killed. These were kids. They sang songs & loved birds, and showed us the ocean. I'll never forget Medo, a young man growing a garden in the midst of a genocide. Israel killed him; he showed the world that Palestinians are human.

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

Australia cannot be a bystander to this and claim a moral compass. Tired old statements about a ceasefire will not be enough. We are all being made complicit by our own government's failure to act.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Now I always copy in Penny Wong and all I get is an auto reply.

Once I left a voicemail on Peter Khalil's machine re Gaza & a staffer called back saying he couldn't do anything to influence Labor's foreign policy because he wasn't Foreign Minister. To which I asked: what is the point of having a Labor MP, if they have no influence on the gov they are part of?

This description falls squarely within the legal definition of genocide as set out in the 1948 Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute of the ICC.

From day one, Israel's leaders and officials loudly broadcast their genocidal intent.

Western leaders and media outlets cannot say they did not know. Instead, they indulged and spread lies about what Israel was doing. And now they must suffer the consequences.

Netanyahu has declared Israel's intent to permanently occupy Gaza and drive its entire population into the south.

This is known as a 'concentration camp'. Gaza's surviving population will be left with a choice: leave, or die.

Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza has been bombed by drones and disabled while in international waters off Malta as it headed towards the Palestinian territory, its have organisers said. “At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship came under direct attack in international waters,” the group said in a statement. Continue reading...

Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta

Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.

“Israel must be stopped, and so [should] the states supplying it with weapons.”

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, has called for an end to arms transfers to Israel.

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Now we know why Storm jumped to cancel the welcome and dancers so quickly.

Excerpt from release published by the NT Environment Centre.

The NT Environment Centre has responded:

"This approval, in the middle of an election campaign, just goes to show the failure of climate policy in Australia to ensure the necessary phase out of fossil fuels. If Barossa was a litmus test for the reformed Safeguard Mechanism, that policy has failed.”

Excerpt from media release published by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

ACF responds: "Barossa is a massive climate bomb that will produce more climate pollution than usable gas"

I haven't crunched the numbers, but I expect based on previous work that this single gas project will likely wipe out the entire 2% reduction in real industrial emissions (so not counting offset 'reductions') that Safeguard Mechanism has delivered so far.