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Donna Mulhearn

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Activist, writer, speaker, Author of 'Ordinary Courage, My Journey to Baghdad as a Human Shield' & 'Sacking of Fallujah: A People's History'

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@donnamulhearn
Donna Mulhearn
11 months
I'm proud to join with other rank and file members and unionists as part of Labor Against War's campaign - there are many of us out there!
@LabAgainstWar
Labor Against War
11 months
‘Branch by branch anti-war activists are passing resolutions. We now go into National Conference. We’re not expecting to win at the first hurdle. This is a long campaign to win the Labor Party from being a war party to being a peace party’: @strom_m
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3 years
I've had the honour of sitting at the feet of Miriam Rose on her country to learn about Dadirri - a gift to the nation. Listen.
@ausoftheyear
AusoftheYearAwards
3 years
Congratulations to your Senior Australian of the Year for 2021, Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann AM! #ausoftheyear Thanks to our Senior Australian of the Year category partner, @healthgovau @MiriamRoseFound
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Donna Mulhearn
10 months
The majority of ALP members would disagree! #auspol
@WarPowersReform
AWPR
10 months
Kim Beazley claims the AUKUS debate within the ALP is resolved. "There was no rebellion. In the end, support for AUKUS was resoundingly endorsed by delegates." I wonder how many ALP members would disagree? #auspol @LabAgainstWar
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Donna Mulhearn
8 months
Pine Gap is supporting Israel's attacks on Gaza Where is the public debate on this? Do Australian's get to voice an opinion on whether to support this assault from Australian soil? No! #Gaza #WarPowersReform
@DeclassifiedAus
Declassified Australia
8 months
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza is through Pine Gap. TARGETING PALESTINE
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
Dusk on Darug and Gundungurra land, Blue Mountains #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe @NITV
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Donna Mulhearn
11 months
"Make me a channel of your peace..." The Peace Prayer of St Francis for Assisi, sung "for Ireland and for myself..." #Sinead
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Donna Mulhearn
7 years
@jaraparilla @neighbour_s @JulianAssange @4corners After the broadcast is too late - basic journalism practice includes a response to allegations DURING a program, not AFTER it. #4corners
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Donna Mulhearn
11 months
@jaraparilla Good question and one I've asked myself as I've been involved in both parties over the years...the answer is a long story, but things might change soon as AUKUS will likely be a deal-breaker for me
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Dear Aust media - pls ask John Howard @TonyAbbottMHR Alexander Downer Andrew Bolt @rupertmurdoch etc what they think of #Chilcot
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
'Everyone has the right to protest' says magistrate In dismissing Morrison trespass charges 'this was other end of scale to cronulla riot'
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Donna Mulhearn
1 year
As millions marched in protest across the world in 2003, I walked the streets of Baghdad trying to convince ordinary Iraqis that Australians did not want to kill them. One person can decide if Australia goes to war. Here’s why that needs to change
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Donna Mulhearn
8 months
Dear @ABCaustralia I don't appreciate having my excellent ABC Sydney radio programming interrupted for the broadcast of a cruel and archaic horse race. The race may have once stopped a nation, now it disgusts a nation Please don't make the same mistake next year #NupToTheCup
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
@Studio10au @yumichild Thank you @yumichild for speaking the truth! Thank God you were there to do so...statements like that from KAK cannot be left unchallenged
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
@bencubby @KellieTranter They are morally obliged to respond to #Chilcot start with former PM John Howard, Downer, @TonyAbbottMHR etc
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Around 2000 Blue Mountains folk gather in Katoomba for #MarchInMarch Great speeches by local people, great vibe! http://t.co/O6uBnNm5UR
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Donna Mulhearn
7 years
@neighbour_s @JulianAssange @4corners .Dear @4corners - why did you not ask @JulianAssange for a response to the Clinton allegations so it could be incorporated into the program?
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Donna Mulhearn
12 years
YES! RT @philhenley don’t you all #boycott2GB anyway?
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
NSW Riot squad members protect road for Whitehaven coal trucks to pass - your tax dollars at work #LeardBlockade
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Steve Price showing us clearly live on #qanda we have a serious problem of misogny & violence against women in Australia...
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Donna Mulhearn
3 months
Legitimate and important question #PineGap
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Glen
3 months
That would be targeting information based on signals intelligence collected by a US spy satellite, processed by our 'Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap', and forwarded to the Israel Defence Force. Did we just target our own aid worker, @AlboMP , @SenatorWong ?
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Gomeroi woman mourning on road ahead of police block to Santos CSG facility #pilligapush
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Donna Mulhearn
6 years
I'm with the kids and all those occupying Parliament House today - go kids! #StopAdani #fight4future
@StrikeClimate
School Strike 4 Climate Australia
6 years
Holding space in Parliament House to stand up for our future and climate justice. We are calling on all politicians to #StopAdani , end all new coal and gas and get us to 100% RE. This is what democracy looks like. #FightForOurFuture #ClimateStrike
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Dear ALP caucus, pls vote to adopt ALP national platform on asylum seekers & end offshore processing & honour international conventions, thx
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
One of several Blue Mountains #LightTheDark vigils, holding the silence for #reza and hopes for more merciful policy http://t.co/0Sf2v9nz2w
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Donna Mulhearn
6 years
Family jails - Just like Australia except ours are on islands in the middle of nowhere...
@HarshaWalia
Harsha Walia
6 years
Comrades in US - be cautious that #FamiliesBelongTogether is consistent w/ ending detention & prisons and doesnt end up being families incarcerated together. In Canada, current overhaul of detention practices is leading towards new family jails with extended capacity (eg Surrey)
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Donna Mulhearn
3 years
👇 We need this to change asap 👇
The ability to send troops overseas is referred to as war powers. If Australia had to decide on going to war today, it would be Scott Morrison and the Executive making the decision. #auspol #BeSureOnWar
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Donna Mulhearn
4 months
Tremor/Earthquake felt in the Blue Mountains - whole house shook!! #earthquake
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Donna Mulhearn
6 years
After many years of work with @caputi_ross & Richard Hil our book "The Sacking of Fallujah A People's History" will be published by @umasspress in April to mark 15 years since the first US-led attacks on Fallujah. And the best part is we got an endorsement from Noam Chomsky!
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Donna Mulhearn
7 years
@jaraparilla @neighbour_s @JulianAssange @4corners #4corners should have made the offer for a response when the show was in production and included it. That's journalism 101.
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
Dropping an airport into the hottest place in Sydney - not a good idea!
@takvera
John Englart EAM 🌏 on Mastodon as @[email protected]
4 years
@Ben_Domensino At Badgers Creek, site of Western Sydney Airport, temperature reached 47.2C at 12:26pm in the #Heatwave . Longer runways or fewer passengers or cargo will be needed during extreme heat for takeoff @Rawsa7 #TooDarnHot
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
John Howard chose to take Aust to war despite official advice - why we need an inquiry into Aust involvement in #Iraq http://t.co/EeBUCk3A4g
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
Church backs climate strike for its 10,000 students - well done Uniting Church!! via @smh
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
New York Times: Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
Yes, so moving, thank you kids....🙏
@Scottludlam
Scott Ludlam
5 years
this is incredibly moving. can feel the world turning. so sorry you kids have to do this #ClimateStrike but thank god you are ✊🏼
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
In scott morrisons office waiting to be arrested #nvda #asylumseekers 8 of us on vigil refusing to leave
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Donna Mulhearn
6 years
The 1% who rule the state... #OperaHouse
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Hot day,remote place over 300 gather to oppose CSG, trad owners, farmers& visitors tell Santos NO #pilligapush
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
No, I'm not!
Are you comfortable with our PM or Executive alone making a decision to follow Trump into international conflict? We need War Powers Reform. We need parliamentary oversight over these decisions. #auspol #BeSureOnWar pls RT
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Charges dismissed! No conviction recorded 'if ever there was a peaceful protest, this was it' says magistrate, #asylumseekers
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Donna Mulhearn
1 year
Tune in to RN Drive today to hear a chat about #Iraq20YearsOn
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
We Broke Fallujah In Irreversible Ways: interview Ross Caputi about our new book The Sacking of Fallujah - A People's History
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Donna Mulhearn
6 years
The greatest leader in Australia today (Yes, I have a girl crush on @sallymcmanus ) Is Sally McManus the woman the Coalition fears most? via @smh
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
#sbsinsight on IS in Iraq VERY disappointing, dominated by white, western male General who bombed the place & helped create problem. Really?
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Donna Mulhearn
4 months
@FlickRubicon @KieranFinnane Yes, spoke of the many other protests in detailed 3 hour interview, but did not make final cut I see - the history of protests at Pine Gap deserves a doco of it's own to accompany Kieran's fine book!
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Donna Mulhearn
9 years
Breaking:Angry locals on #Manus have broken into camp,destroyed a kitchen,security watching on,70 more outside ready to attack with machetes
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Donna Mulhearn
9 years
This discussion highlights why an Iraq war Inquiry is desperately needed in Aust. Why did we go? #qanda
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
A recipe for disaster on so many levels...
@abcnews
ABC News
4 years
US Marines will be allowed into Australia's Top End under strict coronavirus rules
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
We've been busy campaigning for Inquiry for years - join us, now is time @IraqWar_Inquiry
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📣Margo Kingston💧🔥
8 years
An indictment of Australian democracy that no inquiry into our invasion of Iraq. Labor, which opposed invasion, culpable for that #Chilcot
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Donna Mulhearn
9 years
Michael Ware is right, I was in Fallujah in 2004 & 10 yrs later & saw deveIopment of IS as inevitable due to US/Iraq Govt policies #qanda
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
. @MrChristianKerr And the worst speaker ever with an inappropriate, inflated and offensive sense of entitlement... #Mackellar
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Donna Mulhearn
11 years
Collateral Murder video to be played in Aust disarmament trial, & I'll be giving evidence re: Iraq violence today #standbyGraham @wikileaks
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
This is an amazing story - Ghanim is the exact kind of person we want in Australia! Please @DavidColemanMP intervene
@AustralianStory
AustralianStory
5 years
Since his accident, Ghanim’s #refugee case has been in limbo. His request for discretionary intervention remains before the Immigration Minister @DavidColemanMP #AustralianStory
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Donna Mulhearn
11 months
Thank you @AnthonyDAdamMLC for giving a voice to Labor rank and file concerns on AUKUS by opening up debate on this awful Scott Morrison policy! The anti-AUKUS rumbling in the branches is growing louder... #auspol
@LabAgainstWar
Labor Against War
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NSW Upper House MP @AnthonyDAdamMLC leads push for @AustralianLabor National Conference to delete any mention of ‘AUKUS’ from Party platform: @PhillipCoorey @FinancialReview #auspol
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Donna Mulhearn
6 years
Loving #theghan on @SBS now - nothing much happening but I can't look away, Contemplative, informative #slowTV More of it please
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
I just joined the @AusRepublic campaign - if you believe Australia should have an Australian Head of State, join us!
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Yes!RT @akaWACA :We hope our action at #ElbitSystems will encourage others to take action against war profiteers #Gaza http://t.co/OeOXB61DXm
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Out of police lockup now, charged with trespass, court date is April 10, for prayer vigil in ScottMorrisons office, in memory of Reza Barati
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
Turn this on if you're not watching - devastating account of the toxic impact of war on humans and land @ForeignOfficial Very Similar to situation in Iraq...
@ForeignOfficial
ForeignCorrespondent
5 years
Did you know that more than a third of Sardinia's land, sea and airspace is off limits? The area is controlled by the Italian military, and rented out for weapons testing and some of the world’s biggest war games. Watch @ForeignOfficial tonight on @ABCTV . @albericie
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Donna Mulhearn
11 years
#Nauru report today: Morale lowest ever among staff, ex-Serco staff taking over Salvo's roles, trauma in detainees reaching crisis point
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Donna Mulhearn
9 years
Another riot on #Manus Island brewing, mob of about 70 locals with machetes outside, some already inside compound & destroyed a kitchen
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
Good Question: Why are Australian forces still in Iraq? via @smh
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
"If your religion requires you to hate someone, you need a new religion" #pakistan #iraq #belgium #palestine #trump etc...
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Donna Mulhearn
3 years
Grant permanent protection now & increase humanitarian intake - it's the least we can do... As the Taliban seize control, here’s what Australia can do to help our people
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
The Iraq war was NOT about Saddam Hussein...why sudden interest by the west 20 years too late? #qanda
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
If you want to see 1st hand result of Govt #asylumseeker policy here is iview link to last night's #4corners http://t.co/3eucRZAQr8
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
Why is Crikey the only outlet reporting on this? Come on Oz media - this trial is a national disgrace! #WitnessK
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Donna Mulhearn
9 years
David Hicks saga should never have happened, a shameful chapter of Aust politics - Govt should apologise to this tortured traumatised man.
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Hamid Khazaei's family say they have no grievance with the 'welcoming people' of Australia but with the Aust Government only #manus
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Donna Mulhearn
12 years
The tragic, heart-breaking story of the mothers in Fallujah Hospital watching their babies die #Iraq #depleted uranium http://t.co/3EgTxOoS
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Donna Mulhearn
11 years
A new article about congenital anomalies in Fallujah published today in an important American medical journal http://t.co/AAFQQ2QA
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
I'm the 13-year-old police threatened to arrest at the Kirribilli House protest. This is why I did it
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Tony Jones hounding former PM John Howard on #lateline with great research & questioning - beautiful to watch him squirm... #Chilcot
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Donna Mulhearn
4 years
Time to stop fighting others’ battles When ordered to jump, our reply was invariably “How high?” All the way with LBJ or GWB in conflicts that were none of our business. Donating Pine Gap to America’s cause; offering the Northern Territory as a US base.
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Donna Mulhearn
3 years
Follow 👇 for the latest #Assange
@MaryKostakidis
💧Mary Kostakidis
3 years
#Assange Extradition Decision Joined the videolink to London’s Old Bailey. There are 12 of us on this link so far, but journalists can join for another half an hour. Well cross to the court room shortly before 10 London time.
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Convoy of 200 protectors heading to action to protest Santos coal seam gas operations #pilligapush
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Donna Mulhearn
11 years
Largest cemetery in the world Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf,southern Iraq.5 million people buried there, half mill each year http://t.co/LhK4fB39
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Donna Mulhearn
11 years
How could a nation go to war without the assent of the Parliament? This is what happened in Australia in 2003, see: http://t.co/RQnk0crM
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
Love this! - Australia’s most trusted politician is … Jacinda Ardern? via @newscomauHQ
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Abbot said it is "unchristian" to jump the #asylum 'queue' - so what are Iraqi Christians fleeing from slaughter meant to do? Wait 10 years?
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Donna Mulhearn
8 months
Beautiful! #GazaCeasefire
@TomThelonius
Sapere aude
8 months
Workers of the world unite.
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Same goes for Australia...
@GeorgeMonbiot
George Monbiot
8 years
Chilcot: UK chose to join invasion before peaceful options exhausted. Military action not a last resort. ie: this was a crime of aggression
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Donna Mulhearn
11 years
71-year-old Queensland man faces court over damaging military helicopter - Day 2 in full swing #standbyGraemeD http://t.co/56QpoQfgRF
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
Throw in an airport in Badgery's Creek to create a massive heat sink - disaster!
@araluenvalley
keith mundy
5 years
Not a #tree in sight! #westernsydney housing developments are #unliveable @NSWPlanning , #nswpo ! Blocks so small they can't even accommodate a shade tree! Low vegetation doesn't cut it in hot #australian conditions.
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
If you're not watching SBS now (8.30pm Sat) please turn it on and watch John Pilger's film, #utopia - we need to see this...
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Donna Mulhearn
10 months
Good question - that's what we, the rank and file, are asking! #auspol
@PeterCronau
Peter Cronau
10 months
If most Labor Party members don’t support # AUKUS, why it it a policy?
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Army Vet James Brown talking sense on #abc730 about Aust misguided & bizarre obsession with marking Anzac Day - spend funds on PTSD he says
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Former PM John Howard morally obliged to respond to #Chilcot report - hope Aust media are on the phone to him
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Donna Mulhearn
8 years
Having seen first-hand the mess created in Iraq the Coalition of the Willing should apologise, pay reparations & be held accountable #qanda
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Feeling proud & on the right track, why? I've been blocked by @mirandadevine for politely challenging her myths & lies. Life is now complete
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
True and powerful words from the amazing #IraqProtests
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Donna Mulhearn
5 years
This sacred place has played a huge role in my life story, devastated today like so many others. Had plans to pilgrimage to her this year..., can't stop crying #NotreDame
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Donna Mulhearn
9 years
I recognised the voice of that wise heckler immediately - well done @akaWACA ! Let's talk about the #TPP
@akaWACA
WACA
9 years
Are you serious, #qanda ? An hour's program with @AndrewRobbMP an no mention of the #TPP ?
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Everyone deserves a fair trial & human rights.Gitmo legitimises torture & shames us all. #CloseGitmo @thejustcampaign http://t.co/PIlW3WJTIe
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Donna Mulhearn
1 year
VERY wise, powerful and prophetic words from Noel Pearson on Dutton's 'betrayal' left me with tears and goosebumps...
@RNBreakfast
RN Breakfast
1 year
Listen back to Noel Pearson here 👇👇👇: #auspol @RNBreakfast
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Donna Mulhearn
10 years
Msg from #ChristmasIsland detainee:10 ppl have stitched their lips together, 400 ppl are on hunger strike.Last night 4 ppl attempted suicide
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Donna Mulhearn
9 years
Germany - a nation and a people who have learned from history - dankeschon..."Cheering German crowds greet refugees" http://t.co/L0rvU5q2cK
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