From a former Australian Ambassador to Israel:
"The tragedy of today’s Israel is that some of its leaders could easily be mistaken for Nazis."
Israeli society today is redolent of 1930s Germany.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06/israel-gaza-has-albo-finally-found-his-backbone/
@palestine
The May election confirmed: "…the last thing most Australians want is religious leaders and shadowy think tanks with links to ultra-conservative American institutions telling them how to vote." #auspol
https://bit.ly/202505-ratbaggery
Gaza: The day of reckoning is coming https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05/gaza-the-day-of-reckoning-is-coming #Auspol
#auspol #climatechange #environment #law
"The fact that our environment laws do not address the harms caused by climate change from coal & gas extraction is a really dangerous loophole" a climate trigger concept was actually proposed back in 2005 by Mr Albanese, who, as shadow environment minister, wanted to fix this "glaring gap" in the laws.
#labor
We have campaigned for the EPBC act to include a climate trigger for 15 years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-31/woodside-north-west-shelf-approval-did-not-consider-climate/105347716
"We should have a consistent, values-based approach to how we respond to war and disasters and how we use our humanitarian program."
What is an appropriate response to genocide?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/may/30/gaza-horrors-australian-government-action-ntwnfb
@palestine
So PHON have officially doubled the number of seats in the Senate. #AusPol
Now. Canberra #australia federal Environment department. #auspol #environment #gas #protest
This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.
Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.
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#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2
Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) on the western coast of the Australian continent is home to the world's largest collection of paleolithic petroglyphs (rock carvings), an ancient art gallery containing around one million images carved into the rocks, some dated to at least 45,000 years old. Many of the images depict Australia's distinctive fauna, including extinct creatures like the thylacine, as well as the oldest known representation of a human face. The rocks are themselves noteworthy as coming from some of the oldest igneous bedrock in the world (around 2.7 billion years old). And the region is home to five #Aboriginal nations who are the inheritors of fifty thousand years of continuous human occupation and culture.
The place is an obvious candidate for #UNESCO World Heritage protection.
However...
The Burrup peninsula is also the location of the #NorthWestShelf gas hub, a massive piece of #DirtyEnergy infrastructure that has played a significant role in placing Australia at or near the top globally of liquefied natural gas exporters. #LNG
Over the last forty or fifty years gas industry activity on the peninsula has measurably degraded the artworks, which have survived intact for forty or fifty thousand years.
#Auspol #FossilfFuelIndusrty #CulturalHeritage #Aboriginal
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Reminder: As of a year ago, the Australian government was sitting on at least 1300 pages relating to the estimated 1000 Australians then serving in the Israeli Defence Force, potentially engaging in the Gazan war, and refused to share the information.
We are still being kept from knowledge of how many, if any, are complicit in alleged war crimes in Gaza, however, given the time-frame, it is a reasonable assumption some have returned and are currently loose in the community.
IMO "productivity", at least wrt how 2PP pollies wield it, is utterly bogus meaningless bullshit.
Peter Martin this morn on RN Brekkie unwittingly emphasised its stupidity by pointing out that a great way to "increase productivity" [statistically] was demonstrated during the early Covid years when peeps stayed home & outlets like cafes & restaurants closed... so as he smugly said, if we wanna raise P, get these peeps to stay home again.
Why are we burdened with these arseholes... why do we keep electing these arseholes?
> 125 billion worth of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been shipped out of Gladstone, but 9 out of 10 companies involved in Queensland gas exports have paid zero company tax in this time, according to the latest data from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).
#Australia #climateChange #ausPol
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-companies-in-queensland-still-not-paying-tax
“It’s been a fascinating journey to watch the discussion, particularly among #YoungPeople who have this very ideological, almost zealous view of, you know, #FossilFuels bad, #renewables good, that are happily plugging in their devices, ordering things from [online fast-fashion stores] Shein and Temu – having, you know, one little thing shipped to their house without any sort of recognition of the energy and carbon impact of their actions …
So that human impact and the #consumer’s role in driving energy demand and emissions absolutely is a missing space in the conversation.”
We just had an election, but who makes the decisions and blames #ClimateEmergency on other, younger, powerless individuals?
#Labor / #LaborParty / #WoodSide / #MegONeill / #Oligarch / #AusPol <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/may/28/the-woodside-bosss-attacks-on-my-generation-are-blatant-scapegoating-and-we-see-straight-through-them>
“Conferring on Palestinians the extra legitimacy, leverage and bargaining power inherent in recognised statehood would help ensure for both Palestinians and Israelis a future that is better than the awful status quo,”
https://archive.is/oy4FK
@palestine
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