Paul Bongiorno

The strategy of the middle powers In any other week, the scrapping of Labor’s freedom of information bill might have dominated Canberra. The proposed legislation, which failed to muster support from either the Greens or the Coalition,...

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Exclusive: Joyce on Rinehart’s support for One Nation The former Nationals leader has confirmed Gina Rinehart is among many ‘substantial supporters’ he has brought to the far-right party.

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‘I just want to be free’: Australian children held in Syrian camp reveal their hopes and dreams Exclusive: As debate rages over their return, children of Australian women with Islamic State links dream of ice-cream, Bluey and not living in a tent

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Children, when you hear their voices, are just that, children with hopes, dreams and rights. This is true in Syria or Sydney. We need to bring these Australian children home to let them live lives filled with hope and promise.

Albanese offers right royal distraction “When the dogs are at your throat,” Paul Keating would tell journalists, “you get a chunk of red meat and you throw it as hard as you can in the opposite direction.” It works every time, he would chuc...

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The Liberal Party’s hard-right turn on immigration Who would have thought that the coup that dispatched Sussan Ley in favour of Angus Taylor as Liberal leader may have saved the country from a toxic debate on a return to a version of the White Austral...

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The visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, hitched a ride on the prime minister’s jet as it flew into Canberra on Wednesday morning. The same day, speculation in the national capital was at fever pitch over an...

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I’m Jewish. I live in Bondi. But I take no comfort from Herzog’s visit Not all Jews welcome the arrival of Israel’s president in Australia. I am one who believes he will divide us at a time we need cohesion. It is the type of position that has cost me friends.

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Thank you David. Shalom.

Coalition storm and economic stress lash Canberra

"This week, the credentials of the Albanese government to manage the economy came under their most intense challenge since Labor was first elected almost four years ago."

Paul Bongiorno on what the rise in interest rates means for the taxpayer – and the prime minister: satpa.pe/vkxTect

We must stop peace protesters from terrorising our war criminal guests

Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Herzog is welcome to visit. While he’s here, Israel has questions to answer Israeli President Isaac Herzog is entitled to much more than basic respect. Australia is also entitled to hope his visit will result in the intrusion of a small gleam of light upon a dark landscape.

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Untying antisemitism from anti-Israel sentiment will take political courage Unravelling the threads of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment will require both more political courage and more community tolerance than we have seen to date.

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Laura Tingle encapsulates the issues engulfing the Herzog visit and why it will provoke antisemitism rather than defuse it.
Herzog is quoted in today’s MSM defending Netanyahu’s UN condemned cruelty

Coalition storm and economic stress lash Canberra This week, the credentials of the Albanese government to manage the economy came under their most intense challenge since Labor was first elected almost four years ago. In the space of six months, ass...

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He didn’t hold a hose, but Morrison’s still happy to fan the flames An incendiary speech by former prime minister Scott Morrison has reminded us that when it comes to matters of cultural sensitivity, he’s still a bulldozer.

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Hatred and silence According to police, the bomb was packed with screws and ball bearings. Weapons such as this are called fragmentation devices. They are designed to cause as much damage as possible, the shrapnel ricoc...

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Albanese’s time to reassess ties to the US The world as we know it is changing fast. It is not at all clear what the seating arrangements will be or who will be leading the opposition when parliament resumes next Tuesday. At face value, the di...

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Than you Louise Adler for your clarity and courage.
Book burning and the persecution of writers, artists and performers is a harbinger of WWII fascism that lead to the slaughter of 6 million Jews and the deaths of 80 million people.

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

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I am on holidays.return at the end of the month is the plan.

The Biggest Propaganda Campaign in Australian History? | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

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A royal commission must lead to change The demands for a royal commission to investigate the massacre of Jews at the annual Chabad Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14 are an understandable response to the tragedy that killed...

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They came to celebrate a life and avoid controversy. But this Bondi victim’s family had a message Peter Meagher was a quiet giant among men, a giver, a volunteer, someone who believed in the power of service.

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Former High Court justice in frame to lead Bondi royal commission The potential appointment of Virginia Bell, which has been flagged by senior Labor figures in recent days, drew swift private pushback from some Jewish leaders.

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Is there no end to this brazen entitlement?
Proof no matter what the PM does the Zionist lobby will continue its political attacks.

I am grateful to the Catholic family that invited the PM to attend the St Mary’s Cathedral funeral and who called for a ban on the Adler rifle let into the country by Tony Abbott and used to kill innocent Jews at Bondi.

Maybe , we have to wait to see how Albanese handles any RC announcement and what its terms of reference are.
I suspect it will not satisfy the Zionists or their strident partisan cheer squad.

The hysteria created by the media is pathetic, the opinions of these so called entitled”prominent Australians” have no affect on me.
Many of them have proven over previous media scaremongering campaigns that they do not have all of Australians best interests in mind.

Weaponising Grief The media’s response to the Bondi tragedy

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This analysis from Nick Feik is profound especially as there is talk of the PM caving to a shameless campaign

Why a federal royal commission into Bondi isn’t the right option A federal royal commission running parallel with the Richardson inquiry would create confusion, frustration and inordinate delay.

Federal royal commission into Bondi is wrong option

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Sussan Ley’s comments from earlier today, in which she claimed the prime minister had only called her once since the Bondi attack, has been put to Anthony Albanese. He responds: I called her on a Sunday night. I spoke to her again on the Monday morning. I think people will judge whether Sussan Ley and others been engaging in bipartisanship or not since then. You know, we have engaged constructively. We’ve provided briefings for the leader of the Opposition, we’ve provided appropriate briefings, and we’ll continue to engage constructively and we’ll continue to engage right across the Parliament as well.

Seems Susssan has not been quite truthful...

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