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Labor rejects Thorpe-Payman genocide bills, but they are unlikely to go away

Recent reports on Australian-made weapons parts and locally produced weapons systems ending up with the Israeli Defense Force during the Gaza...

29.04.2025 6

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Zionist Federation lodges Federal Court complaint against journalist Mary Kostakidis

10.04.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Human Rights Watch slams WA for highest forced Aboriginal child removals

The number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care in Western Australia has risen dramatically over the last two decades. In 2003, 570 children or...

08.04.2025 10

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Australia continues to deny existence of Wunna Nyiyaparli, despite UN order

The Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region are being shafted by the federal government to placate mining interests....

29.03.2025 7

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Despite being backstabbed by the US, Australia may not be permitted to ditch AUKUS

25.03.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

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Orchestra attempts to silence pianist Jayson Gillham on Palestine a second time

International classical pianist Jayson Gillham is one of the brave people who broke the unofficial prohibition on speaking out for Palestinians during...

14.03.2025 10

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Uncle Robbie Thorpe to raise Australian genocide claim to the International Criminal Court

21.02.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

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NSW Police say foreign actors and criminals likely to be behind antisemitic attacks

The Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force, David Hudson, told reporters on January 30 that detectives are considering whether a...

04.02.2025 10

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Human Rights Watch condemns Australia’s treatment of child offenders

In its annual assessment of human rights practices in more than 100 countries last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) drew attention to Australia's...

01.02.2025 10

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Despite no crime wave, federal National MP calls for 'tougher' youth laws in NSW

“Some of these older kids, they really need to be locked up, whether in juvenile detention centres or whatever,” said federal Nationals MP Kevin...

21.01.2025 10

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Labor condemns perceived antisemitism, ignores Islamophobia

Sydney woman Kelly Farrugia was arrested by NSW Police on Dharug Country in Parramatta on December 22 for allegedly threatening behaviour towards a...

29.12.2024 4

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Thorpe to take Australia’s genocide regime to the ICC, as Regev case struck down

The private prosecution that Krautungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe launched against Mark Regev, a former senior advisor to Israeli PM Benjamin...

16.12.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

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Labor’s hollow promises to support whistleblowers

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie put it to Attorney General Mark Dreyfus on the final sitting day for the year that Labor “has undeniably declared war...

09.12.2024 3

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Thorpe’s Genocide Case Against Netanyahu’s Australian Advisor Is Back in Court

Mark Regev is “an Australian citizen and he’s advocating for genocide,” Uncle Robbie Thorpe explained last week. “It is really offensive and...

08.12.2024 3

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Is JAUKUS next? Japan joins US ‘force posture’ in Northern Australia

The 17th Trilateral Defence Ministers’ meeting of Australia, United States and Japan took place for the first the first time in Darwin on November...

25.11.2024 8

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NSW inquiry recommends steps to decriminalise cannabis

A NSW parliamentary committee inquiry into the impact of rules governing cannabis has recommended Labor takes immediate steps to decriminalise it,...

14.11.2024 40

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Wunna Nyiyaparli resists Australia’s effort to impose cultural genocide

Australia has refused the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s (CCPR) order to provide “an effective and enforceable remedy” to the Wunna...

11.11.2024 5

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Francesca Albanese’s second report on Gaza: ‘Genocide as colonial erasure’

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese suggested in her new report on October 31, Genocide as Colonial Erasure, that Israel’s...

11.11.2024 3

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Mark Dreyfus talks about protection but allows whistleblowers to be prosecuted

The South Australian District Court last year found that Richard Boyle was correct to blow the whistle on the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) for...

03.09.2024 3

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Labor abandons religious discrimination reforms, blames Coalition

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in response to a question on August 9 on Labor’s religious discrimination bill pointed the finger at the...

21.08.2024 3

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Uncle Robbie Thorpe progresses Aboriginal genocide case in Victorian Supreme court

Krauatungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe stood at the bar in the Victorian Supreme Court self-represented last Friday to challenge the Magistrates’...

22.07.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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What will NSW Labor’s drug summit discuss?

Chris Minns’ Labor government has finally announced it will hold its promised NSW Drug Summit, comprising a four-day forum with two regional dates...

20.07.2024 2

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Genocide complicity claim against PM Albanese accepted by ICC

Sydney law firm Birchgrove Legal sent a 92-page communiqué to International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan in early March, comprising...

20.07.2024 10

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