Peter McGregor
@PeterMcGSyd
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architecture, art and the city. Swimmer
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined December 2010
French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.
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Such a consistent critique of the perverse values of Trump and his supporters
I attended Trump’s inauguration yesterday. Here are my thoughts:
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Credit to the @smh for calling the bluff on the #Nimby though they did not mention the local MP LNP Mark Coure, who supports them. The Sydney street that prefers to keep homeless women sleeping in cars
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Opposition to a planned social housing project that would help the needy is misplaced.
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Scots College’s obscene $39mill conversion of their pre-existing library into a Baronial pile. The built reality of Aust ongoing failings to support public education while grossly over-funding the whims of bloated private schools. Blame Howard/Costello, but never fixed since
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this is the depraved tactic always deployed to destroy workers' solidarity: Try to pit us against one another. Divide and conquer. Eddie Dempsey brilliantly destroys this propaganda by repeatedly emphasizing that the union workers on strike have the same interests as all workers:
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The lopsided outrage over the Melbourne synagogue fire is highlighted by the ABC’s Laura Tingle. “It is worth noting the very different treatment by our politicians of Muslim communities subject to similar attacks over the past 10 years. “A 2021 study of 75 mosques across
The Opposition and sections of the press are using a criminal act against a synagogue in Australia for political purposes, urging @AlboMP to crack down on antisemitism. He has made unequivocal statements there is no place for it in Australia. The rest is a matter for police. But
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In January, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124 page report with 1,400 footnotes detailing evidence of Israel’s genocide. How many of you heard about it? Did any Western papers cover it?
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Response of a Jewish PhD student, Eva Shteinman, to claims USYD is a toxic, unsafe place for Jewish students: ‘Throughout all of my roles at the university, staff and students have been nothing but welcoming and accepting, and in my decade here I can firmly say I have never
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Just unbelievable
A powerful, devastating account from Gaza within in an article by Seymour Hersh describing a systematic genocide.. and the refugees in camps are paying with their lives for their resilience: “The conditions in the north of Gaza are holocaust conditions. We don’t use the word
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Mining industry tax is just 3c in every dollar of gov revenue in Australia. Check out our 2-page explainer on just how small Australia's mining industry is. @TheAusInstitute
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Whistleblowers deserve protection, not prosecution. @WilkieMP, @helenhainesindi, Sen. Lambie & I announced we’ll introduce a bill to establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority. It would be a vital pillar in our integrity system. Time for the major parties to get on board.
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The entire Gaza Strip is facing horrific conditions due to cold weather and heavy rainfall. Two million people are experiencing bombardment, starvation, and displacement as the Israeli government uses collective punishment as a tool against the entire population.
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This looks refreshing
El Salvador 🇸🇻 In 2019, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, launched the Zero Leisure Plan, so that all prisoners have to tend to animals, grow and harvest crops, cook their own food in prisons, clean up streets & renovate schools/hospitals. https://t.co/tUJHSObmqc
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"Sneaky, excessive and unjustified" No wonder the major parties don't want any parliamentary scrutiny of their Financing Elections Bill. What Emeritus Professor Anne Twomey said👇 https://t.co/5y3jDuJfyg
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A political donor will be able to donate up to $640,000 in a year. How is this taking the money out of politics?
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if you’re a #labor or #coalition supporter, i’ll understand if you want to avoid eye contact today… the 2 major parties are ramming through a set of anti-democratic changes to the fundamental settings of our democracy… entrenching incumbency, undermining fair elections.
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The wages data released this week shows there is no wage-price spiral. But today the RBA is warning the unemployment rate of 4.1% is too low and must rise before it considers cutting interest rates. This is crazy. No wage-price spiral but let’s increase unemployment anyway 🙄
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I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.
Is this self-defense too? Acclaimed British surgeon Nizam Mamode breaks down briefly while testifying to the UK Parliament about Israel’s quadcopters picking off kids who had just been bombed.
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