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…to our shame and disgrace.

Remember today. Remember that untouchable power Alex Hawke MP used to cancel #Djokovic visa is a power he could have used to free the 70 refugees in 9 years of detention, grant 20,000 humanitarian places for Afghanistan & let Murugappan family go #hometobilo. He blocks all of it.

The Government can't seriously with a straight face deport Novak Djokovic for inciting anti-vax sentiment and refuse to address anti-vaxxers in its own ranks. George Christensen compared vaccine mandates with Apartheid and got the nothing-to-see-here treatment.

Ok Alex Hawke MP now use your powers to let the Muruguppan family stay. #HometoBilo

Imagine an Islamic group running an event that breached Covid rules the way Hillsong did? You reckon Scott and Dom’s reaction would have been slightly different?

Imagine if the federal government called out the very public anti-vax sentiment in their own party with the intensity of the way they are calling out the Djoker.

Nauru offshore regime to cost Australian taxpayers nearly $220m over next six months theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

Which “uncivilised” world and people invented: Surgery Coffee Flying Machine University Algebra Optics Music Toothbrush Hospitals That would be the #Muslim world.

“So there we were, just me and my toy, having a quiet babycino after a nightmare week at daycare and this creepy old dude squats down beside me, grabs my toy and tells me how good coal is. Spare me.”

Chilling testimony. Yes, the policy challenges are complex. But surely we can be better than this shameful policy.

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As Ann Richards said, "Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels." Here's me in Cartagena while I was there for a meeting as Secretary of State. Keep dancing, @marinsanna.

Thank you Hillary Clinton ❤️

Hari ini, Konsulat Jenderal memperingati Bom Bali 2005 dimana 20 orang meninggal, termasuk 4 warga Australia. Setiap tahun kami meletakkan karangan bunga sebagai tanda kenangan di Taman Peringatan kami di Konsulat Jenderal.

Great panel discussion just now at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2025 on Misinformation and Disinformation with Lydia Khalil Thanks

A characteristically Trumpian twist on Eisenhower’s line that “leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”

Children who can’t afford a bed to sleep on in Palestine get their houses bombed so that rich white supremacist Americans can enact their biblical fantasies

Three years on, victims’ families and the Lebanese people have no answers. Read our Op-Ed on the Beirut Port explosion in today.lorientlejour.com/article/134532… Germany in Lebanon 🇩🇪🇱🇧 & Hans Peter vd Woude

BREAKING: Beloved former First Lady Michelle Obama sounds the alarm about the 2024 election, says that she is "terrified" of what might happen if Donald Trump wins again. She hit the nail on the head and this should send a chill down all of our spines.... "I am terrified about