'This was a targeted assassination': Colleague of slain journalist Amal Khalil <article data-history-node-id="438831" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/was-targeted-assassination-colleague-slain-journalist-amal-khalil" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/was-targeted-assassination-colleague-slain-journalist-amal-khalil" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">'This was a targeted assassination': Colleague of slain journalist Amal Khalil</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Journalist Courtney Bonneau described Israel's killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil&nbsp;as "a blatant murder", adding that she "executed in a targeted air strike".</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">"This was a targeted assassination.”<br> <br> Israeli strikes killed journalist Amal Khalil in the southern Lebanese town of at-Tiri on Wednesday after she reportedly took shelter inside a house from an earlier drone strike.<br> <br> Khalil, a correspondent for Al-Akhbar, had reportedly shared… <a href="https://t.co/2GHAWT8omg">pic.twitter.com/2GHAWT8omg</a></p> — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2047171184106909976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> </div> </article>

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AI errors reveal fake 'vox pop' interviews Clips of supposed street interviews with Australians sharing their political opinions have been created using AI.

Clips of supposed street interviews with Australians sharing their political opinions have been created using AI.

www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ai-errors-reve...

Are our politicians focused on the issues that matter?

In the first 6 months of this term, less than 40% of time in Parliament was spent debating policy affecting our communities.

See how the member for Cook is spending their time. Analysis in the images!
www.voicesofcook.org/survey

I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about James Valentine. Everyone seemed to love him. This is extremely sad.

I love that he had a living wake - on Valentine's Day, that Sam Mostyn went and awarded him an AO, also that he chose VAD.

Go well young man.

Woah. Meanwhile aus gov signs MoU with Microsoft?

Let them eat nuclear submarines

We have heard nothing from Pam Bondi or her legal team. She didn't show up for her scheduled deposition, and half of the Epstein files are still unreleased.

We are left with no choice. Contempt charges are coming.

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert containing a 3-panel comic strip. Panel 1: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson approaches a wall with a map of Victoria painted on it that is the border to a little double-shuttered window. She knocks on it, saying "Knock! Knock!". Panel 2: The window opens revealing Liberal leader Jess Wilson and Labor leader, Premier Jacinta Allan. Allan says, "Who's there?" and Hanson replies, "Orange!" (with jazz hands). Panel 3: Wilson, with a disdainful look, says, "Orange who?", to which a gleeful Allan replies, "Orange you worried she's going to split the conservative vote?"

Last laugh.
My cartoon for today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

🚨 Indonesia is greenlighting one of the largest deforestation projects on Earth: 5 MILLION acres of Papua’s pristine forest cleared for sugarcane. That’s an area bigger than Wales, gone for bioethanol and crops.

As the AFR reported years ago, gas companies are 'systemic non-payers of tax'.

Now they're stumbling over themselves at a Senate inquiry looking into a 25% tax on gas exports.

Read more about the case for getting a fair return on our gas here > https://theaus.in/4txNn0I

Keep Android Open Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

I know many were drawn to Android because it sold itself on being an open platform. Google has quietly decided they no longer need that promise. We'll be watching this closely and pushing for answers. If you share these concerns join the Keep Android Open campaign keepandroidopen.org/cta/

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vaerdera-mug-white-10277366/

Those cup designers should have their cup designer license revoked immediately.
Cups and bowls need a drainage slot so the icky dishwasher water does not collect and splash when you pick it up.
The Vaerdera mug has 4 🤩
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“Just do it”: Ken Henry to Senate on gas export tax Former Treasury secretary Dr Ken Henry has delivered blunt advice to a Senate inquiry examining the taxation of gas exports. He urged Canberra to overhaul its tax regime, criticising decades of policy...

Ken Henry: “There is no reason that I can understand as to why Australians should not receive 100 per cent of the windfall gains"
thepoint.com.au/news/260422-...

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

Every major war of the last 100 years had fossil fuels in the background.
Coups for oil. Occupations for gas. Blood for barrels.
Solar flips the script: energy independence lives on your roof. No army required. #EnergySecurity #Renewables

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil killed by Israeli strike amid ceasefire Rescuers said they had recovered the body of Amal Khalil after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

“When rescuers returned to help Khalil, the Israeli military dropped a sound grenade, blocking their access to the damaged building, Moufarrej and the senior military official said.” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Single frame containing two panels. Title: “INVISIBLE THINGS” First panel. Empty frame, captioned “Australian gas, extracted and exported by large multinational companies.” Second panel. Identical empty frame, captioned “The benefit to Australia from the export of our gas.”

Invisible things.
My @smh @ theage cartoon.

When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days Exclusive: The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

No one should have to suffer the indignity & injustice of neglect. Direct government funding in public housing and robust, wrap around, homeless support services stops people falling through the cracks.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

PwC partner income rises to $814,000 due to AI adoption, fewer staff Average partner income climbed 6 per cent last year despite a decline in profits, as artificial intelligence tools squeezed margins higher.

PwC partner income has risen to $814,000 thanks to AI but team sizes are shrinking in relation. Throwing workers under the bus to grow CEO pay can't be the future of AI in workplaces. Productivity gains must be shared & worker's rights must be protected.

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

The disgraced Envoy is one of the largest donors to the far-right racist group Advance.

How does that knit the country together again?

Fin Review whitewashing more fascist bullshit

Her plan to 'knit the country back together' is banning peacful slogans, silencing anti-genocide sentiment, and overhauling our education system with *somehow* even more ahistorical genocide justification.

Tl;dr = Thought control and fascism

Diabetes study reveals previously overlooked genes tied to disease, pointing to new therapies Dozens of unexpected genes are strongly linked to type 2 diabetes, new research from The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) shows.

Dozens of unexpected genes may play a key role in type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to new research from The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) published in @embojournal.org. 🧬 🧪

www.jax.org/news-and-insights/2026/a...

Embattled salmon industry launches advertising blitz amid calls to shut down A new advertising campaign featuring the stories of workers adjacent to Tasmania's fish farming industry is launched amid calls for the sector to be shut down.

9,000 tonnes of farmed salmon died of bacterial disease in TAS across the first three months of this year.
Delicious!
You know what I wash it all down with? Big dollops of advertising.

The fucking contempt of these people.

Yeah here in Georgia we have two Democratic senators but our House delegation is 9R-5D. That ain't an accident.

Breaking: James Valentine, beloved ABC talkback radio star, dies aged 64 The presenter and professional saxophone player is being remembered for his ability to explore the humour and oddities of daily life on the airwaves.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

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.

Great to see Nicole Wallace speak with excellent guests, not interrupted by that annoying Joe guy