We've got to do something to stop this.
UN emergency protection force in Gaza could help.

https://www.change.org/p/un-general-assembly-deploy-an-emergency-armed-multinational-protection-force-to-gaza/exp/cl_/cl_sharecopy_490639977_en-US/9/31952811?recruiter=31952811&recruited_by_id=bb9ee300-fdec-012f-1cd1-404046835f95&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490639977_en-US%3A9

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Never thought #Albo would be such a "pick me" but here we are

I don't think it'll be long until we resurrect the #NoWar Marches of 2003. I hoped we'd never have to do that again.

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Trump wants an "America First" agenda for AUKUS and AUSTRALIAN defence. Trump is telling Albanese to increase our spending from 2% to 3.5% of our GDP.

HE doesn't tell Australia what to do.
Australians don't want this.
We need to get out of AUKUS now.

We should never have exited the French deal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/11/pentagon-review-aukus-security-alliance

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I see the #Crumbmaiden has defeated #SideshowBob for the #Liberal leadership.

I wonder how long that lasts before the constant undermining and backstabbing leads to a #Libspill. The conservatives have form when a centrist leader tries to plot a middle/right road - cf Turnbull circa 2015-2018.

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For those #auspol tragics that may be interested, the latest in Bean (southern ACT) is that David Smith jumped to a 1,000 vote lead around mid-morning and Jessie Price has again pulled back in front. At COB yesterday, Jessie had a 200 vote lead and that has increased today to 906 votes.

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I see the #auspol Liberals are casting around for a new leader, one of which has already ruled himself out - perhaps just as well as nobody on the east coast knows who he is.

That leaves:
* Sideshow Bob
* A Crumb Maiden
* Yet another old white man

I can’t see a bunch of old white men voting in a crumb maiden as leader … unless the are deliberately going to use her as a punching bag for two years before letting Sideshow Bob step up to lose the next election.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/05/liberal-insiders-warn-coalition-about-opposition-leadership-after-federal-election

I voted before lunch today at the local primary school.

I had forgotten the Federal election allows people to hand out how-to-vote pamphlets up to the entrance (for those overseas, these are party material that tells uninformed voters where to put their preferences - we have preferential voting in Australia and not ‘first past the post’). Local ACT elections have a 50 metre exclusion zone so you never have to deal with these people.

Once I got in the gate, there was a queue that took about 15 minutes to navigate. Four candidates on the ballot for the House and about 16 for the senate. It was easy - the independents got my first preference and the parties got the last preference (well almost, the anti-vaxers on the senate ballot got my absolute last preference).

I then enjoyed my #DemocracySausage (the local primary school would have made a lot of money today) and was on my way.

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