Alex McKinnon
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Independent journalist in western Sydney reporting what others won't about Australia's silence on Palestine. Got a tip? Email [email protected].
Sydney
Joined September 2011
every Labor politician 'condemning' the nazis yesterday while they're rolling out shit like this
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investing in the future babey.
NEW: Australia's Future Fund increased its holdings in Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems by 469% in 2024, deepening Australia's financial ties with companies profiting from the Gaza genocide.
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this is how i found out.
يا رب تبقي الاشاعة صح.
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RT @deepcutnews: New from @AmyRemeikis: Allegations that Iran is behind antisemitic attacks in Australia demand further scrutiny – but our….
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Allegations that Iran is behind antisemitic attacks in Australia demand further scrutiny – but our media is already treating them as gospel
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classic 'antisemitism summit' bit: invite the former head of a US neo-Nazi organisation.
NEW: Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay is facing a chorus of criticism over her decision to participate in an upcoming 'antisemitism summit' organised by pro-Israel groups.
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Little something happened last night 👀.
EXCLUSIVE: A Sydney factory manufacturing parts of Israeli war planes has been damaged by pro-Palestine activists, potentially putting the facility out of commission.
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RT @deepcutnews: NEW: The newly formed Australian Arab Institute for Culture and Ideas says Australia is "witnessing the quiet erasure of a….
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The Australian Arab Institute for Culture and Ideas declares ‘the time for symbolic inclusion is over’.
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For obvious reasons we've had to keep the author's identity a secret.
NEW: A Palestinian journalist weighs up her two duties – a mother striving to keep her children alive, and a journalist determined to tell the truth.
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CEPU @CWU members in Melbourne are picketing the head office of Service Stream, an NBN infrastructure provider, over claims of low pay
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when fucking peter malinauskas is better on this stuff than the board of every arts institution. the state of it
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can't fund the NDIS but we can do this shit.
NEW: The federal government has refused to release details of billions in payments it is sending to the Trump administration to help the US boost its own naval shipyards.
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RT @AmyRemeikis: Randa Abdel-Fattah details life as a target of the pro-Israel lobby and those who capitulate to it, in an op-ed commission….
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Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby
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RT @deepcutnews: On Sunday The Age @theage commissioned an opinion piece from Palestinian author and academic @RandaAFattah, only to declin….
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Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby
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In its letter, the Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism described Abdel-Fattah as "a known racist person" and claimed her Festival event would "propagate an antisemitic agenda and hatred toward Jewish people".
EXCLUSIVE: A pro-Israel lobby group pressured La Trobe University and the Bendigo Writers Festival to drop Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the festival's lineup.
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A second day of boycotts has hit the writers festival.
Things have gone from bad to worse for the Bendigo Writers Festival, with more than a third of the lineup pulling out over concerns the event is restricting criticism of Israel.
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RIP king.
RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here:
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> writers festival invites authors with long track records of talking about Palestine.>writers festival tries to stop authors talking about Palestine.> authors pull out of writers festival the day before it starts.
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Festival organisers sought compliance with controversial definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel
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the Palantir shill thinks Palestinian recognition is bad does he.
Mike Kelly says recognition of Palestine betrays Labor principles on unionism and gay rights. Justifying genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and starvation of innocent civilians would be the real betrayal. Don’t remember Mike as a parliamentary guardian of union or gay rights!
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