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“The Australia Institute has published our annual tally of subsidies, concessions and tax breaks to major fossil fuel users and producers . . . Our estimate is $16.3 billion in 2025-26,” writes Rod Campbell.
Read the full piece on The Point: theaus.in/4rDmjvo
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Israel’s words in the American president’s mouth.
That’s how the ABC’s @TheLyonsDen described @realDonaldTrump’s speech.
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BREAKING: 🇫🇷 PRESIDENT MACRON CALLS OUT TRUMP-ISRAEL LIES
"Nobody believes Iran has nuclear weapons"
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Wrong. Macron said that a diplomatic way is better, and it should not be solved with strikes.
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Breaking:
Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Spain condemned Israeli and the US airstrike on Iran.
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Spain’s MEP, Irene Montero:
“They say Iran has nuclear weapons — sounds like what they said about Iraq.”
“But it is Israel that has nuclear weapons.”
“The U.S. is the only country to ever drop a nuclear bomb.”
“Today, Israel and the U.S. are the greatest threat to humanity.”
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Demand Grows to Ban the Entry of the President of Israel into Australia for Incitement to Genocide
The demand to ban Israeli President Isaac Herzog from entering Australia has grown significantly in recent weeks, with new legal complaints and an expanded coalition of organizations calling for the denial of his visa and the opening of a criminal investigation (Anadolu Agency, 2026; Middle East Monitor, 2026).
On January 29, 2026, the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), the Jewish Council of Australia, and the Hind Rajab Foundation filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General, the Minister for Home Affairs, and the Australian Federal Police (AFP). They request the revocation of the visa under the Migration Act on character and public interest grounds, and the investigation of Herzog for incitement to genocide, complicity in war crimes, and unlawful hate speech, citing many of his public statements—such as asserting that “an entire nation is responsible” in Gaza—supported by the 2025 UN Commission of Inquiry report (Middle East Monitor, 2026).
This action adds to and escalates the prior petition by the Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ), together with Al-Haq and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (January 23, 2026), which had already urged the AFP to investigate for genocide (ABC News, 2026). The current coalition includes an unusual alliance between Muslim and progressive Jewish Australian communities, deepening internal divisions.
Herzog’s visit, scheduled from February 8 to 12, 2026 and invited by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a gesture of consolation following the Bondi Beach attack, now faces growing calls from Labor progressives, Greens senators, and independent MPs to cancel it. National protests are being announced, including a “national day of action” during his stay (The Guardian, 2026). Herzog rejects the accusations as taken out of context. The Australian government has issued no official response.
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ABC News. (2026, January 23). Lawyers call for Australian investigation into Israeli President Isaac Herzog amid genocide allegations.
Anadolu Agency. (2026, January 29). Demand grows to disallow Israeli president from entering Australia.
Middle East Monitor. (2026, January 29). Demand grows to disallow Israeli president from entering Australia.
The Guardian. (2026, January 29). Albanese defends Isaac Herzog’s Australia visit as federal MP joins calls to rescind invitation.
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“I’m a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.”
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Advance Australia purports to be 'grassroots' but the pro-fossil pro-Israel lobby group is actually funded by millionaires & billionaires such as Packer, Rinehart, Liebler. @sstephanietrann investigates.
#auspol #AEC
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“The Israel-J€wish lobby in Australia is a foreign influence operation. It's designed to put the interests of Israel above the interests of Australia and its foreign policy....”
🇦🇺 ex–Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr exposing the Israeli lobby’s dirty tricks.
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In a democracy you don't pass retrospective laws that can ban groups, and you certainly don't ram them through in 24 hours - this is must-read analysis from barrister Greg Barnes:
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny – and this one ticks every box johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01…
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🚨 BREAKING: Norway announces it will boycott all diplomatic relations with Israel.
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No such announcement has been made by the Norwegian government. Recent official statements show ongoing diplomatic engagement with Israel on the Middle East crisis.
regjeringen.no/en/topics/fore…
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Really important points 👇
Everyone hates Israel now, and what's funny is this wouldn't have happened if our society had been the tiniest bit normal about Gaza.
If everyone wasn't constantly being forcefully told they're not seeing what they're seeing, it wouldn't have become so personal for them.
If western governments had just said "this is bad" when news came out about Israel bombing a hospital instead of "THIS ISN'T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A HAMAS BASE IN EVERY HEALTHCARE FACILITY YOU ARE BEING ANTISEMITIC".
If the news media had just said "this is bad" when Israel systematically exterminated journalists in Gaza instead of reporting "three killed in what IDF describes as strike on terrorist vehicle" over and over again.
If we'd just been allowed to say "this is bad" when we saw raw video footage showing children ripped apart by military explosives without getting fired and de-platformed and told we're evil Nazis who need our free speech rights taken away.
That's all it would've taken to keep Israel from being a front-and-center issue for so many people. There would still have been critics of the Gaza holocaust, of course, but opposing Israel wouldn't have become this massive mainstream cultural phenomenon if our own western leaders and institutions hadn't exposed themselves as lying, propagandizing, murderous sociopaths.
It's not hard to get westerners to ignore the victims of mass military violence, even when it's mass military violence their government is directly orchestrating. Westerners, by and large, are indoctrinated human livestock who think what they've been programmed to think by the imperial propaganda machine. What opened so many eyes to Israel's criminality wasn't the slaughter itself, it was our own government, media and social institutions trying to gaslight us about what we knew we were looking at.
It's one thing to see a cruel government doing bad things on the other side of the world. It's quite another to be shown in vivid detail that your own society is ruled by monsters, and that those monsters have a vested interest in deceiving you and controlling your words and your actions in order to advance the most depraved agendas you could possibly imagine.
That's what made this so personal for so many people. It's not that Israel exposed itself, it's that the whole of western civilization did.
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Hundreds of thousands of toddlers and BABIES. Israel’s government should be dismantled and every single person in power involved with this (including US government officials) should die in prison for war crimes. I’m sick to my stomach.
New data finds the israelis have killed over 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza including 479,000 children; 380,000 under 5 | via @MusafirNafar
