Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.

Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.

The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

Gas companies spending millions on Australian advertising blitz to fight export tax, inquiry told Shell Australia says campaign needed to ‘counterbalance’ claims by levy advocates – but Ed Husic urges industry ‘do not spend millions defending the indefensible’

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Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds NSW and Queensland governments ‘severely underdelivered’ on promised infrastructure to improve water flows, independent review finds

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In Australia, measles cases have continued to grow most strongly in New South Wales. They blew past last year’s tally for the state about a month ago.

Some sign of the pace slowing lately, but with an 18 day incubation period it is too early to relax.
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Energy giants spending millions of dollars on advertising blitz to fight gas export tax, inquiry told Shell Australia says campaign needed to ‘counter-balance’ claims by levy advocates – but Ed Husic urges industry ‘do not spend millions defending the indefensible’ The gas giants are mounting a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to fight against a new export tax, prompting Labor MP Ed Husic to accuse the industry of “defending the indefensible”. Shell Australia is among half-a-dozen oil and gas companies contributing around $1m to an Australian Energy Producers (AEP) campaign that attempts to justify the amount of tax the industry pays, a parliamentary inquiry heard on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Energy giants spending millions of dollars on advertising blitz to fight gas export tax, inquiry told

Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland Stephen Heydt says he spoke in a custom-made T-shirt and was ‘charged with two offences: one for the shirt, one for the chanting’

A Jewish man is among the first charged in Australia's Queensland for wearing a t-shirt with and chanting the prohibited slogan, "from the river to the sea" -- a ridiculous effort to defend Israel's endless occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
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Netanyahu: "Iran planned another Holocaust. It plotted to destroy us with nuclear bombs."

Iran has no nuclear bombs. Israel has 200+.

The only "another Holocaust" happening is in Gaza, with Israeli bombs.

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Australian waste facility proposal in Fiji labelled 'waste colonialism' The controversial project would see waste burned to create energy in Fiji to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels, but locals and environmentalists are not happy.

The controversial project would see waste burned to create energy in Fiji to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels, but locals and environmentalists are not happy.

Reminder this was made possible by The Greens.

Mouse plague hits WA grain farmers as numbers surge in SA: ‘You literally can’t get away from them’ CSIRO researcher says there are reports of up to 4,000 mouse burrows per hectare in parts of Western Australia * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Grain growers are on high alert as mouse numbers in Western Australia reach plague proportions and numbers surge in South Australia. Steve Henry, who researches mice and their impact on the grain industry at CSIRO, says more than 800 mice per hectare is considered a plague. Continue reading...

Mouse plague hits WA grain farmers as numbers surge in SA: ‘You literally can’t get away from them’

Don't let Trump drown our future He’s trying to force governments to reject a key climate proposal. Speak up now!

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Palantir established and expanded by the Anthony Albanese Labor Government to provide surveillance with access to every citizens private information including financial, phone, internet.

Chilling. #auspol @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
@johnmenadue.com #auspol

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"Palantir is known to have provided technology that facilitated the #GazaGenocide [and] mass ICE kidnappings in the US. These actions alone should trigger a review of Australian contracts."

Palantir is indeed a creeping cancer in Australian institutions - enabled by the Albanese govt. #auspol

Groomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns - Michael West Police brutality, intimidation, harassment, free speech attacked. NSW Premier Chris Minns was groomed for Israel, writes Andrew Brown.

Groomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns
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Gas tax fight escalates ahead of budget as inquiry begins Calls are growing for a new 25 per cent tax on gas exports to increase the petroleum resource rent tax on windfall profits, but companies have warned any changes would jeopardise Australia's energy su...

As the govt weighs options to raise revenue, balance the budget & confront the global energy crisis, one solution is staring them in the face: replace the broken PRRT with a fair tax on gas exports. It's long overdue, and has widespread support… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Ain't this the truth, @albomp.bsky.social! #EarthDay

“Australian government data released this week shows emissions from Australian coalmines increased last financial year. About 80% of the coalmines pumped more into the atmosphere than their government-imposed limit.” #auspol

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work? The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse

Just pass it, they said. The perfect is the enemy of the good, they said.

Why did environmental NGOs get behind the safeguard mechanism, and what are they actually good for?

This is how you do it

More #ZionistMcCarthyism.

Important story from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social on the abuse of the IHRA definition of antisemitism - again. #auspol
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2/2 If the first role of government is to keep its citizens safe, the Albanese govt's growing contractual entangling with Palantir will deliver the opposite. #auspol

Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby, drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australia Billionaire mining magnate reveals her defence and economic blueprint for Australia at News Corp’s bush summit in Townsville

A betrayal. Gina Rinehart makes no secret that she wants drones as surveillance of NT and QLD just as Israel used on Gaza citizens. Palantir a threat to Aust citizens. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How should we respond as Moneyland works to screw us ever further into submission? The ultra rich are crushing living standards and protest rights. There is a parallel in the brutality against Palestinians and in America's gulags. We do not have long to challenge the trajectory.

"Our politicians and dominant media class need to decide if they are with us or content to function as puppets cooperating with our extinction." @lucyham.bsky.social

Right now, it's looking like puppets is the preferred option. #auspol
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Groomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns - Michael West Police brutality, intimidation, harassment, free speech attacked. NSW Premier Chris Minns was groomed for Israel, writes Andrew Brown.

"By the time Minns reached the premiership, leading pro-Israel organisations were publicly hailing him as a 'strong friend.' Not a sympathiser. Not a useful contact. A reliable asset"

Following Minns ignoring the court's ruling, worth re-upping this. #nswpol
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So, you've decided to write a terrible EV piece. An early column, because I'm away this Friday.

My head assploded and harsh words came out after reading the ABCs stupidest ever 730 report on EVs

Politics with Michelle Grattan: former minister Ed Husic on why Labor must ‘stare down’ gas companies over tax The former cabinet minister said Australians have been ‘sold short’ by not taxing gas exports enough.

Husic seems to have a good things to say.
Worth the read.
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: former minister Ed Husic on why Labor must ‘stare down’ gas companies over tax
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What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

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Plan B: insulating ourselves from the US P&I today begins a major new series - rethinking Australia's foreign policy. The United States is becoming more erratic and less reliable, and Australia must respond by insulating itself – strengtheni...

AU. Plan B. Insulating ourselves from USA-ZIsrael.
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Kerry Stokes holds business interests in industries including gas, oil, mining and construction equipment. He is most widely known as the chairman of the Seven Network, one of the largest broadcasting corporations in Australia.
Channel 7 demonizing renewables? Gee, fancy that.

2/Trump & Netanyahu are the most dangerous persons on the planet. US policy in the M East is not driven by oil. It is driven by Netanyahu. Allies in the Gulf are paying a very heavy price for allowing US bases on their soil. The same fate might be ours with North AU becoming a US military colony.