Two kids with cancer died at Westmead Childrenβs Hospital due to mould in the wards. This is unacceptable and unbearable. Sorry is nowhere near enough
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Two kids with cancer died at Westmead Childrenβs Hospital due to mould in the wards. This is unacceptable and unbearable. Sorry is nowhere near enough
You can tell how much Labor and the Coalition care about the poor Iranians by the way they hastily built a series of offshore concentration camps to imprison Iranian refugees *forever* when they tried to escape the regime.
Childrenβs graves dug for Trumpβs and Netanyahuβs war. This image speaks a terrible truth in answer to Laborβs lies about this awful war they support.
the distaste you see among these politicians for genuine activists and advocates is irritation that they're not willing to play the game for power, ignorant that it's the game that's killing us
starting to think the fella who giggled about going to kyle sandilands wedding might be a shit bloke
Excerpt of article. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised if his labelling of 2021 Australian of the Year and child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame as "difficult" was misinterpreted, saying he was referring to her "difficult life". He made the comment when asked to give a one-word response to a rapid-fire list of people and news topics as part of a word association game at the Future Victoria conference, presented by the Herald Sun newspaper and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce. "If there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise," Mr Albanese told reporters. "She has had a difficult life and that was what I was referring to. What Grace Tame has done is turn that difficult experience that she had into being a strong advocate for others."
ughh this lady has the unyielding-moral-compass flavor of autism and is mad at me. I know, I'll tell a transparent lie on the record. that'll smooth things over.
Georgia Tacey makes an incredibly important point here.
Also according to the article "you can keep serial killing for another 18 months while we consider your petition to be allowed to murder people"
I have a pet theory that most MPs conceived of themselves as a kind of landlord or small business owner, but then COVID hit and they had to start making life-or-death decisions in a way that wasn't possible to pretend away, which caused many of them to completely numb out
Israel doesnβt control the US. Itβs the other way around. The US uses Israel as a colonial tool to prevent global liberation movements.
Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"
βFour of my children just evaporated,β Badran said, holding back tears. βI looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?β
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Human Rights lawyer Chris Sidoti condemns the visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia. #auspol #CancelHerzog
someone should probably ask the prime minister whether he supports the upcoming us strikes on iran & whether he considers it to be in the national interest for australia to be implicated in such an action through the use of pine gap
A white guy threw a homemade bomb into a crowd protesting colonialism in Australia and the media have broadly reframed it in more gentle terms, eg this describing it as a "device" that was 'designed to explode'.
did this guy not notice Yahtzee or AVGN or what? the crowds love it when the reviewer pulls out the stops and gets mean! what's he thinking!
Australia has no business being in league with the US. Our alliances with them have cost us more than it couldβve ever yielded.
Same state that tore down 800 year old birthing trees to make a road a couple of minutes quicker
to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal
i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did
I think it's less that Trump doesn't understand the structures of democratic governments, and more that he can't perceive the illusions that keep civil society running smoothly. When people cite a rule as the reason they can't do something, he is left wondering "why don't you just break that rule?"
Trump is correctly aware that the Norwegian PM has the ability to pressure the Nobel committee to influence their decision; the only meaningful obstruction is norms, and the thing Trump can't grasp is some people care about not violating those.
The United States is now punishing close NATO allies because they oppose him invading and stealing Greenland. The response of the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition is silence, pretend itβs normal and build even more US bases here. They are endangering our national safety.
Penny Wong doing her part to destroy international law
Sometimes I feel bad for our leaders - clearly it's really difficult to speak out against the US's interests, even pre Trump. But then I remember how much money and effort they put in to getting into that difficult position; how dirty they're happy to fight in order to stay there. Despicable.
β’ Australia news live Penny Wong says Israeli president Isaac Herzog's visit a good thing' despite backlash from Labor party members Follow updates live
It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.
This comment, in addition to being defamatory and racist in the extreme, incorrectly likens all Muslims to ISIS, and all Jews to Zionists. Itβs racist, Islamophobic, and antisemitic all at once. Truly extraordinary.
I donβt know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific