Karen Christensen

The Iran War Is a Disaster for Gaza How the crisis leaves Gaza’s 2 million people more friendless, isolated, and vulnerable than ever before.

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Government by Monsters | Common Dreams ​The Trump administration sees the rest of humanity as disposable, as dots in a video game, as objects whose death is entertainment, so long as their own luxury and power are secure.

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oh so David Littleproud joins the conga line of forgettable National Party Leaders returning to obscurity - well comrade, as they say, don't let the door his your arse on the way out...

At the intersection of strategy and productivity, the security hawks fail The people urging an increase in defence spending are pursuing an anti-productivity agenda, in which one of our worst sectors would receive ever more funding. And where will that funding come from?

Opinion | Strange how our productivity debate doesn’t address one of our worst productivity failures of all: defence spending. Bernard Keane writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/10/c...

Muslims traumatised after right-wing attack on community dinner A Muslim community in Ballarat is left traumatised after a man barged into a community dinner allegedly throwing punches and yelling abuse.

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Anti Muslim abuse ? Move on please.
No arrest. Nice.
Can. you. imagine if he’d turned up a synagogue ?

Hope you’re proud @albomp.bsky.social
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Delusional

What a stupid country

Next Cuba

Evil personified

FMD!!! @albomp.bsky.social

Of course, the LNP is out this morning chastising the government for not 'acting sooner' in providing humanitarian assistance for the Iranian footballers. There is no difficult situation that the LNP won't seek to politicise. Truly grubby behaviour 🤬 #auspol

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Russia's economy was failing miserably before this new war.

Although watching Iran take a hit damages Putin in the long run, he does not care.

This war is driving oil prices through the roof exactly when Russia needs the cash.

It is a massive short-term victory for Moscow

Pauline Hanson: Why I Would Never Vote for One Nation I have been voting in Australian elections for decades. Over that time I have supported a range of parties and individuals – Liberal when I thought they had the right approach to the economy, Labor wh...

Pauline Hanson Why I Would Never Vote for One Nation

My opposition to One Nation is rooted in what I have seen it do to public life – the division it encourages, the fear it traffics in, the complete absence of anything constructive underneath the noise.

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Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: ‘No one’s feeling safe’ Australia has announced an inquiry into racism and hate directed at First Nations people, as Lidia Thorpe says racism has ‘never been this bad’

But let’s just look at how racism and hate speech affects one section of the community.

Lying, murder

Related:

SA Liberals back One Nation as leader won't condemn Bernardi comments South Australia's Liberal opposition will preference One Nation over Labor at the upcoming state election, as other parties condemn "outrageous" comments by One Nation's Cory Bernardi.

The SA Liberals will recommend voters preference One Nation ahead of Labor in all seats

"We want to see as many as Liberals elected as possible, and that's the prism in which we look at all our preferences," Ms Hurn said.

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International Women's Day. Never closer to equality, nor closer to losing it. - Michael West Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. IWD

"Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design"

#IWD is tomorrow.

Very good analysis by Aleta Moriarty
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May Reverend Jackson live in eternal peace. This eulogy given by President Obama is pitch perfect in these terrible times. Balm to our souls, and a beautiful call to action. Thank you, Mr. President❣️

Cory Bernardi stands by bestiality claim ahead of SA election One Nation's South Australian lead candidate Cory Bernardi says he "100 per cent" stands by highly controversial comments he made almost 14 years ago linking gay marriage to the social acceptance of b...

I bet this idiot thinks himself a good Christian, wanker!

"If you want to say someone is a good Muslim, then their values are incompatible with Australian values,"

#Racist #RWNJ #FlatEarthers

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Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader at more than double recent market rates.

We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing…

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Perhaps why Francesca Albanese wasn't permitted to speak at Adelaide University? But, definitely, imo, why she should have been.

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"Essential reading" on how greed and policy failure entrenched commercial gambling in Australia

"Essential reading" on how greed and policy failure entrenched commercial gambling in Australia www.croakey.org/essential-re... #publichealth

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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𝐈𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 “𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧”

The message is exactly the same, crafted by Israel charged by Albanese to oversee our thinking, speech and interpret what we see - the ideology that clothes western governments

𝐈𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐨

What scares me most about Paramount buying Warner Bros Discovery From enshrining political favoritism in the process of approving big media deals to the death of incisive journalism at CNN, there's lots to worry about in this $110 billion deal.

Took a minute. But here's my column on Substack on what I fear most about Paramount's successful purchase of Warner Bros Discovery, including enshrining political favoritism in media deals, a repeat of past, failed deals and the domination of media by favor-currying oligarchs. READ: loom.ly/-ACuGpw

EXCLUSIVE: Meta and Murdoch make AI pact and push Pauline's polls Meta and News Corp spread fake news to promote Pauline Hanson and provide an overblown impression of her party's polling. Founder David Donovan exposes a dangerous deception.

Meta and News Corp spread fake news to promote Pauline Hanson and provide an overblown impression of her party's polling.

EXCLUSIVE: Meta and Murdoch make AI pact and push Pauline's polls
~ @davrosz.bsky.social

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