Sanctions on settlers not enough: Target Israeli gov’t, say campaigners

"Campaigners argue that sanctions reflect a need to manage public anger rather than a genuine shift in state policy."

Exactly right, it's nothing but empty words, it has ZERO IMPACT and SOLVES NOTHING, which is the main reason why Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese have GOT TO GO!

"Israeli settlers and far-right ministers have been slapped with new Western sanctions. But human rights groups and Palestinian campaigners say the measures fail to address systemic state complicity in the occupation of Palestinian territories.

While the latest actions have been framed as a decisive stand against settler violence, political analysts and legal experts argue that isolating individual actors serves to deflect from the lack of broader institutional penalties against the Israeli government itself."

If it were any other country committing these atrocities the world would have already sent ground troops in to take the regime down years ago, but because Australia, US, UK and other governments are on the Israeli-Lobby payroll they're complicit and do nothing but sit there allowing crime after crime death after death..

Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese have forced the Iranian Ambassador out of Australia for simply fighting back against the U.S.'s attacks on Iran and the bombing & slaughter of a school full of Iranian schoolgirls, but what did they do while Israel is committing a genocide against Palestine? They invited Herzog into Australia for a wining and dining tour!! and not only this but gave Herzog free high-level access to ASIO!! (Espionage). You cannot get more COMPLICIT and CORRUPT than that.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/10/sanctions-on-settlers-not-enough-target-israeli-govt-say-campaigners

#LaborFail #Corruption #Complicit #News #Gaza #Palestine #Activism #HumanRights

Sanctions on settlers not enough: Target Israeli gov’t, say campaigners

Campaigners argue that sanctions reflect a need to manage public anger rather than a genuine shift in state policy.

Al Jazeera

NSW admits to police ‘battery and false imprisonment’ of pro-Palestine protester

"State admits former Greens candidate entitled to damages and agrees to pay medical costs.."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/10/hannah-thomas-pro-palestine-protester-assaulted-by-police-officers-falsely-imprisoned-ntwnfb

#ChrisMinnsFail #Corruption #PoliceBrutality #LaborFail #News #AUSPol #NSWPol #Activism #HumanRights

NSW admits to police ‘battery and false imprisonment’ of pro-Palestine protester Hannah Thomas

State admits former Greens candidate entitled to damages and agrees to pay medical costs, but denies malicious prosecution and malfeasance in public office

The Guardian

"Australian Zack Schofield watched, powerless, as Israeli soldiers beat his fellow flotilla activist, an Irish woman, to the ground after she was filmed shouting “free Palestine” at Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

“Her hands [and] feet were zip-tied together, and then she was dragged around the rest of the processing centre, before she was taken into a prison bus,” Schofield says from Istanbul, after the activists were deported from Israel.

Schofield says many of the Global Sumud flotilla’s 428 members were treated brutally after the Israel Defense Forces intercepted their boats sailing from Turkey to deliver food and aid to Gaza.

“Many people received similar or worse treatment for much less,” the climate action organiser from Newcastle says. “There’s no consistency to the violence. It was really at the whim of whichever guard was in front of you.”

The detainees allege they endured torture, sexual assault, beatings and non-lethal shooting."

#IsraelIsATerroristState

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/22/australians-detained-gaza-flotilla-activists-allege-idf-abuse-beating-torture-sexual-assault-ntwnfb

#BoycottIsrael #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #News #AUSPol #LaborFail #Activism #Gaza #Palestine

Australians allege they were abused after IDF intercepted Gaza flotilla and Itamar Ben-Gvir taunted them

‘Every activist on the flotilla … has only had their heart more emboldened by witnessing and experiencing the brutality of the Israeli state,’ Zack Schofield says

The Guardian

"NSW police watchdog receives record number of complaints after Herzog protest"

Labor can try to hush it up as much as they like but this is never going away, what Labor did was criminal appeasement of a known genocidist, and it's why so many millions of Australians are now ditching labor and getting onboard One Notion.. Governments need to recognise (quickly) that getting in bed with Israel is an instant political-party killer, once you're tainted your party is done.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/22/australia-news-live-flotilla-sumud-israel-al-roj-camp-isis-budget-capital-gains-negative-gearing-jim-chalmers-anthony-albanese-angus-taylor-ntwnfb

#Corruption #Appeasement #GenocideEnabling #Espionage #Labor #LaborFail #AUSPol #News #Activism #HumanRights

News live: Australian flotilla activists released by Israel arrive in Istanbul and claim they were denied food and water

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the Guardian

Columnist Jennifer Hewett took part in and wrote about conference that she attended courtesy of oil and gas lobby

"The Australian Financial Review’s Jennifer Hewett filed two columns this week from the Australian Energy Producers conference in Adelaide, discussing the government’s plans for a domestic gas reservation policy and a gas tax.

Labor’s plans for a reservation policy were “creating tensions with the industry” and there was “general confusion and alarm on full display at the conference”, she wrote.

But somehow the paper forgot to disclose that Hewett’s trip to the conference – where she moderated sessions with the CEOs of Santos, Shell and Woodside and interviewed Peter Malinauskas and the US shale revolution entrepreneur Bryan Sheffield – was paid for by the gas and oil lobby."

Oopsie-daisy, cough-cough-corruption..

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/22/afr-editor-failure-to-disclose-travel-payment-for-energy-conference-ntwnfb

#LaborFail #CorruptMalinauskas #Corruption #Environment #News #ClimateChange #Activism #HumanRights #Adelaide

AFR editor blames ‘reporter oversight’ for failure to disclose travel payment for energy conference

Columnist Jennifer Hewett took part in and wrote about conference that she attended courtesy of oil and gas lobby. Plus: Kim Williams v Chris Kenny

The Guardian

Penny: "We condemn the actions of Israeli minister Ben-Gvir!"

And what are you going to actually _DO_ about it?

Penny: "Oh nothing, as usual, just meaningless & actionless words.."

🙄 🙄 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/penny-wong-condemns-israeli-minister-over-shocking-and-unacceptable-treatment-of-flotilla-activists-ntwnfb

#LaborFail #PennyFail #EmptyWords #WordSmithing #Corruption #News #Flotilla #Activism #HumanRights #BoycottIsrael #AUSPol

Penny Wong condemns Israeli minister over ‘shocking and unacceptable’ treatment of flotilla activists

Foreign affairs minister joins condemnation of Itamar Ben-Gvir after the Israeli national security minister shared video mocking detainees

The Guardian

Albanese’s department among those blocking 80% of FoI requests

"A scathing audit report has found nearly 80% of freedom of information requests to Anthony Albanese’s department, Treasury and the infrastructure department were rejected, creating a culture of “resistance and delay” in the Australian parliament.

The review of FoI administration found there was no consistent, transparent or accountable decision-making around requests and the pro-disclosure objectives of the law were being flouted."

#JustAnotherDayUnderCorruptLabor

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/australian-government-rejecting-freedom-information-requests-foi-albanese

#LaborFail #Corruption #Fascism #News #AUSPol #Labor #Activism #HumanRights #Accountability #Law #FoI

Albanese’s department among those blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds

Report finds culture of ‘resistance and delay’ in the Australian parliament with more than 60% of requests having longer response times than mandated 30-day deadline

The Guardian

I see Penny Wong isn't even bothering to change her 'cut-n-paste-o-meter' to "concerned" anymore, no care given or press release at all over Israel's latest illegal activities & piracy in illegal detainment of 11 Australians in open waters.. A "foreign affairs minister" who refuses to deal with foreign affairs.. Great job penny, well done... 🙄 Perhaps they'll invite Herzog over for more wine and caviar to discuss how they could "capture them better" next time...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/19/government-urgently-seeking-status-of-11-australian-gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-by-israel-ntwnfb

#LaborFail #BoycottIsrael #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Corruption #News #Activism #HumanRights #Gaza #Palestine #AUSPol

Government ‘urgently seeking’ status of 11 Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel

Global Sumud Flotilla organisers say 38 ships holding 319 activists were about 250 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza when they were intercepted

The Guardian

Disastrous plan to allow fracking on South Australia’s Limestone Coast is a broken promise, one of many from Labor..

On Thursday Labor premier Peter 'Santos' Malinauskas revealed plans to overturn the ban on unconventional gas fracking in SA with laws set to be introduced to the state parliament this week

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/18/fracking-south-australia-limestone-coast-peter-malinauskas-labor-broken-promise

#Corruption #EnvironmentalTerrorism #LaborFail #News #Environment #ClimateChange #Activism #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #HumanRights

‘Disastrous’ plan to allow fracking on South Australia’s Limestone Coast is a broken promise, locals say

Labor moves to overturn moratorium on fracking in groundwater-dependent region two years earlier than planned and just weeks after state election

The Guardian

#AUKUS - People can relax, it wont ever be a target, because we'll literally NEVER receive those fictitious subs.

"A significant proportion of the Port Kembla population have already expressed opposition to the proposed base. In September, more than 40 organisations signed the Port Kembla Declaration, insisting their community should not be the site of a nuclear base, arguing it would endanger their community."

It'll be built, then sit in mothballs for 30-50 years with regular billions poured into its upkeep by labor to 'keep the lights on, the dust at bay, and graffiti off the walls', then be repurposed for something more useful.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/16/secret-documents-reveal-preferred-australian-nuclear-submarine-base-port-kembla

#WasteOfMoney #LaborFail #News #Activism

Secret documents reveal preferred Australian nuclear submarine base – and warn it could be a military target

Port Kembla residents will likely resist base due to risk of nuclear accident and potential as target for ‘military adversaries’, documents state

The Guardian