Ben Moles 🇦🇺
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Joined June 2012
The most dangerous risk of all - The risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. Fear will fade, but regret will remain with you forever. Live while you're alive. Viva la vida.
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#auspol There is a tendency to think that modern slavery and trafficking is a third-world problem, something that happens somewhere else. It's ubiquitous, as I said earlier in the week, it's happening everywhere. Know what to look out for:
abc.net.au
Australia faces a potential escalation in cases of modern slavery, the NSW anti-slavery commissioner warns, as sectors such as aged care become increasingly reliant on temporary migrant workers.
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Only if they like prison food.
The King, Queen, and Crown princess will soon be in Tehran
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Just had cause to remember that time I was thrown off a Russian warship, in 2001. It was this one. Any guesses why?
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RT @AusAmbASEAN: 🌏 On #WorldDayAgainstTrafficking, 🇦🇺 reaffirms over 20 years of shared commitment with @ASEAN to countering trafficking an….
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Trafficking happens in plain sight, it happens the world over- yes even the country you're reading this in. It's an abhorrent crime. Victims are tricked & coerced & detained through fear, for what will happen to them & their families. Educate yourself & know what to look out for.
30 July is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – an opportunity to raise awareness of this deeply damaging transnational crime. Australia works with regional partners to share intelligence, identify and disrupt trafficking, and protect victims. #EndHumanTrafficking
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After or about to announce a job with ASPI?.
Intelligence reveals scale of China's base-building in the South China Sea |. A good piece from @abcnews. While this isn’t new per se, it is a good reminder for 🇦🇺, the actions 🇨🇳 is taking in the South China Sea & its security implications for 🇦🇺 1/.
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RT @pakhead: More excellent analysis of the complex factors behind the Thailand-Cambodia conflict. It is not just a border dispute! https:/….
aspistrategist.org.au
The eruption of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia on 24 July may appear to have been sudden, but it was neither abrupt nor unforeseen. It was the product of a calculated build-up and was shaped...
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Interesting piece, claims "A diplomatic settlement is the only option to guarantee long-term peace" without examining the root causes of this particular flare-up. James Carville would be a good person to ask #Cambodia .
lowyinstitute.org
Border violence between two members undermines the bloc’s credibility and risks drawing in great power competition.
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2 years jail time to be served in the community doesn't really sound like jail time?
abc.net.au
A former Western Sydney Airport executive procurement manager pleaded guilty to soliciting a corrupt commission after he attempted to invite a bribe from a company vying for a $5 million contract.
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Beautiful thread (pun intended) if the silk road, fabrics, & caravanserai tickle your interests.
The Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum in Kargil, Ladakh tells the story of Silk Road trade between Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, & Tibet. The trade goods displayed were found in a caravanserai which closed in 1947! 🧵
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Whereas @GovMikeHuckabee is simply a tool.
Here are photos of UN trucks & enough food to feed all of Gaza but it sits rotting! UN is a tool of Hamas! US based GHF is actually delivering food FOR FREE and SAFELY. UN food is either looted by Hamas or rots in the sun! Photos from yesterday.
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Shit pun from a shit human being. Forget Huckabee, I'd give that Huck a E for that effort.
Macron's unilateral "declaration" of a "Palestinian" state didn't say WHERE it would be. I can now exclusively disclose that France will offer the French Riviera & the new nation will be called "Franc-en-Stine.".
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I'm a historian. I've always understood. But I'll never get those that ask how the holocaust happened in Europe, who see what is happening to the Palestinians & who choose to silently look the other way. That's fucking how. You're as complicit as you think the Europeans were.
Israel controls food supplies, restricting or “drip-feeding”. This is the result, a dying child - a triumph of Israeli policy. Still waiting for explanation of how this picture differs from any photo in Yad Vashem portraying starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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RT @TheLyonsDen: The haunted eyes of a starving child: possibly dead by the time you read this. Powerful page 1 not of an anti-Israel or an….
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