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Traffic crawling on #Westconnex #Transurban. The cost $15. Those who have no choice not impressed. Were the critics right all along? #nswpol

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

'Wickedness thrives in darkness': Former Adelaide Festival leaders pen scathing letter on Writers' Week - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia Eleven SA art directors pen a scathing letter criticising Adelaide Festival Board's decision to drop a Palestinian author from Writers’ Week.

InDaily have done a great job of keeping on top of their local story - demonstrating importance of good independent local journalism www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

I’ve seen no statement from esteemed #AWW director Louise Adler that she’s resigned. However
@yanisvaroufakis
posted a video on X reporting that she has resigned He tore up invite. Would love to think that Board are considering backdown in face a such solid support for freedom of expression.

STATEMENT FROM THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE 8 January 2026 Following a statement from the board responsible for the Adelaide Festival organisation and all Adelaide Writers’ Week events, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support and sponsored events from this year’s literary festival. The Australia Institute has valued being part of discussions at the event, which in the past have promoted bravery, freedom of expression and the exchange of ideas. Censoring or cancelling authors is not in the spirit of an open and free exchange of ideas.

Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

Instead of highlighting "a" single voice, a more illuminating headline might focus on why 55 literary and journalistic luminaries felt it necessary to withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week and how Mali's mini-Minns antics trashed the reputation of one of his state's best assets.

Minns’ protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian, and must be resisted - Michael West Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.

NSW Premier Minns has always been anti protest. His latest ban on peaceful assemblies & protests is racist & divisive. We will resist - silence on #genocide is unethical. Read this piece by Nick Riemer
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Nauru truth bomb, Government lies. Playing with money, power and refugee lives - Michael West Amidst the row over the accuracy of a translation, the Governor-General weighs in on the importance of transparency.

Inquiry into the sketchy asylum business likely to unveil uncomfortable truths for govt
Janet Pelly reports #auspol
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Please join us & stand alongside the Wiradjuri at the appeal by gold mine owners against the s.10 protection that Tanya Plibersek placed over the headwaters of the Belubula River near Blayney.

Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.

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Rising Tide, rising backlog. Coal protests too big for Zero Tolerance, police & courts - Michael West 156 people arrested during the Rising Tide protests, which closed the world's biggest coal port at Newcastle. Wendy Bacon was one of them.

Hundreds took to the water intending to be arrested at #RisingTide but police used discretion to arrest or not, and to cherry-pick which charges to lay. Investigative journalist and Knitting Nanna Wendy Bacon with her wrap of @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade.
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Rising Tide, rising backlog. Coal protests too big for Zero Tolerance, police & courts - Michael West 156 people arrested during the Rising Tide protests, which closed the world's biggest coal port at Newcastle. Wendy Bacon was one of them.

When governments watch thousands die in floods but continue to approve #FossilFuel projects, citizens @risingtideaus.bsky.social #KnittingNannas take peaceful protest action. Many more than 155 prepared to be arrested. My report @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...

Rising Tide, rising backlog. Coal protests too big for Zero Tolerance, police & courts - Michael West 156 people arrested during the Rising Tide protests, which closed the world's biggest coal port at Newcastle. Wendy Bacon was one of them.

Protestors 'arrestable', police affable @risingtideaus.bsky.social coal protests. 156 arrested incl MWM journalist Wendy Bacon - backlog is 120 so too big for Zero Tolerance
#auspol
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Whistleblower: years of financial irregularities beset Anglican Diocese of Melbourne - Michael West Melbourne's Anglican archbishop leaves as whistleblower says “Bishopscourt” renovations a conflict, and a host of financial irregularities

Anglican archbishop's renovations to Bishopscourt mansion in spotlight amid whistleblower revelations of myriad trusts trusts irregularities.
Investigation.
@sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol
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#KnittingNannas prepare to join @risingtideaus.bsky.social flotilla at #Newcastle

Philanthropy at war. Raising money for weapons ... and medical research too - Michael West Hearts & Minds Investments (HMI), which tips profits into medical research, also invests in Israel’s human rights violations in Gaza.

Australian investment managers support medical research by investing in weapons companies contributing to #genocide in Gaza - Victor Chang is main one but there are others including Westmead & Randwick Children’s hospitals & Florey Institute List linked in story michaelwest.com.au/hmi-raising-...

Philanthropy at war. Raising money for weapons ... and medical research too - Michael West Hearts & Minds Investments (HMI), which tips profits into medical research, also invests in Israel’s human rights violations in Gaza.

Medical research is good PR. But an investigation by @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters shows Australia's philanthropic hedge fund royalty profiteering from war crimes too
#HMI #auspol
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Libs to subsidise coal, now South Korea wants out. What's the scam? - Michael West While the LNP decides that subsidising coal mining is a good idea, our third-largest coal customer decides to stop burning coal altogether.

This is so Libs #solibs - a couple of days after they abandon net zero and declare they are subsidising coal, our 3rd largest mega-customer declares they are phasing the stuff out
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Chris Minns - pepper spray for peace protestors one day, lunch at war-crimes-lobby the next - Michael West Premier Chris Minns' police unleashed pepper spray on hundreds of peace protestors yesterday. Today he addresses the AICC Israel lobby

Premier Minns off to secret $3,500 a table Israel lobby lunch after his NSW pepper spray peace protestors at Indo Pacific weapons expo
@wendybacon1.bsky.social attended one - not allowed into the other
#auspol #nswpol
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Lost hearts, closed minds. Medical research show ignores plight of Gaza, amplifies Israel - Michael West The medical research industry was captured by the pro-Israel lobby at the Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference last week.

Persecuted cardiologist back at work. Victor Chang & St Vincent's defamatory press releases vanish.

@wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters investigate Israel lobby money trail (reason for attack on Macdonald) & tainted Sohn Med Research Conf
#auspol
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Lost hearts, closed minds. Medical research show ignores plight of Gaza, amplifies Israel - Michael West The medical research industry was captured by the pro-Israel lobby at the Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference last week.

Dr Peter MacDonald is finally back researching at Victor Chang but Qs about why he was so mistreated remain unanswered. Meanwhile pro Israeli billionaire is fêted at Opera House michaelwest.com.au/lost-hearts-...

Heartless. Victor Chang Cardiac Institute and the Israel lobby - Michael West Professor Peter Macdonald returned to St Vincent’s Hospital, but the Victor Chang Laboratory is still excluding him from doing his research.

Cardiologist Peter Macdonald is back at work at St Vincent's Hospital but the Victor Chang Institute is yet to recant its antisemitism allegations
@wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters investigate #auspol
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Can you believe it ?- Victor Chang management have the front to be out using Peter Macdonald’s face & reputation to raise funds while they won’t let him into his own lab -anyone who cares about free speech in Australia should act on this issue

Zionist lobby class action over vexatious complaints after years of vexatious complaints - Michael West A new Zionist healthcare lobby has a class action against Australian health regulators over “vexatious antisemitic/antizionist complaints”

Que? New Zio doctors lobby formed - launches class action over 'antisemitic antizionist' vexatious doctor complaints
Investigation @sstephaniepoet.bsky.social @wendybacon1.bsky.social
#auspol
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Shadow War: Zionist doctors keep relentless pursuit of Israel "dissenters" - Michael West Zionist doctors continue their public campaign against healthcare workers they perceive critical of Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians.

Renowned cardiologist #PeterMacdonald has been on forced leave for 6 weeks meanwhile St Vincent’s Zionist doctors #genocidedeniers openly campaign against him michaelwest.com.au/zionist-doct... - here’s the latest

Yes in exclusive interview with Jerusalem Post

"A threat to civilisation" says doctor against hospital's Children and War event - Michael West Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.

Meet Dr Samuell, the #Zionist who attacked #RCH forum. As
@sstephanietrann
& I report, he has record of attacking ethical health professionals . While Prof MacDonald was saving lives at #StVincents, he was busy astroturfing to destroy #Greens michaelwest.com.au/a-threat-to-...

"A threat to civilisation" says doctor against hospital's Children and War event - Michael West Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.

"He recommends depoliticising hospitals and mandating civility training.

“This is not just a threat against Jews, this is a threat to civilisation”.

Gaza censorship in medical field @wendybacon1.bsky.social @sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol #antisemitism
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"In the mid-2000s, Samuell attracted significant public scrutiny for his role in challenging academic research on the psychological harm of detention for children and refugees."

& so much more in this excellent piece by @wendybacon1.bsky.social & @sstephanietrann.bsky.social

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...