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If you are in Victoria, do NOT vote for the party named "Free Palestine" at the November Elections.
I repeat:
DO NOT VOTE FOR THE PARTY NAMED "FREE PALESTINE" AT THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
This is NOT a legit party.
Avi Yemini, an Australian Isra*li commentator who served in the IOF registered the party name and has stated over the last few months of his intent to use this name to "trick" people into voting for it so he can redirect votes to the far right.
Israel has violated the "ceasefire" countless times since it began, killing more than 1,200 Palestinians since October 10th, 2025. Attacks on medical warehouses near a hospital happened Saturday. Al Jazeera reported on the attacks here.
The vast majority of One Nation MPs quit before the end of their first term. They're either expelled or quit because of internal bickering and dysfunction. Pauline Hanson herself was kicked out of the party and wasn't part of it from 2002 to 2013.
Barnaby Joyce will not be a One Nation MP by the next election. David Farley will likely quit or be expelled by the end of this year.
What's missing from all this media obsession with how much One Nation is rising in the polls because of all the oxygen and hype the media is giving to it is the issue of longevity and stability. One Nation has never been stable. Barely any of its members maintain party allegiance after a year in office. Why aren't journalists bringing that up?
One Nation is not a viable alternative. It's the gutter where those too dysfunctional to be part of real political parties go to see if they can whip up enough racist scaremongering to keep their paycheck at the next election.
It doesn't matter how many seats One Nation wins at the next election. It won't have kept most of them by the time the next election afterwards happens. One Nation is a grift. A con. A trap for the disillusioned and angry who want change but don't realise One Nation is the worst way to make that happen.
as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.
Pauline Hanson is against paid parental leave, but knows people want it so is lying about her voting record to make her seem more compassionate and normal.
She doesn't even show up to vote the vast majority of the time. She's not a reliable person.
Last night, two earthquakes hit the city of Caracas in Venezuela. So far, reports show a death toll of 164 people, with nearly a thousand injured. Multiple hospitals and health centers have begun taking in patients and continue to expand their capacity to serve everyone in the area, and Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has declared a State of Emergency.
If you are able, please consider donating to the Venezuela Humanitarian Fund. They dispense donations out to local organizations on the ground in Venezuela, and you can donate as little as 2 dollars. If you know of any local organizations who are able to take donations online, please share them.
I am lucky in that my friends and their families from and in Venezuela are okay, and my heart is with everyone affected by this disaster.
The death toll has risen to 589 dead and over 3,000 injured with hundreds of people still missing.
There are, of course, tons of local organizations and efforts ongoing. These often involving donating through Zelle or other mobile pay apps and I know that many people are less likely to donate if there are ‘extra steps.’
In light of this, I’ve added a few larger, “easier”organizations providing aid in Venezuela rn that you can donate to.
I Love Venezuela
World Central Kitchen
CORE
Direct Relief
International Rescue Committee
If you’d like links to some local orgs/action feel free to reach out.
The genocide of Gaza is still ongoing.
Please help my friend Ahmed (@ahmedaldani333), a teenager living in a tent with his family in Gaza. He is in pain from anemia after going so long malnourished. Donations help his family to afford food and medicine.
KIA ORA CREW!!!! they're building a five billion dollar AI data centre of absolutely colossal size in waihōpai/invercargill.
if you don't want this to happen, it's VERY QUICK to sign this petition which will eventually be sent to parliament! you don't have to be from aotearoa to sign.
no community should have to face the consequences of an AI data centre of this size. the cost is also heinous. this money could go towards so many causes. it would mean the world if you could give this a quick boost by sharing or taking 15 seconds to sign the petition!
If the radio I heard about this on is correct, this Data centre would take as much energy to run annually as the entirety of Wellington City (the capital city for those unaware) all of this during a fuel crisis. None of us asked for this
great! great! great! wow! great! yay!
Not to mention that the groundwater throughout most of Southland - that the data centre will be drawing on for cooling - has extensive nitrate pollution from decades of intense dairy farming.
The same conditions as in Oregon USA, which is rather in the spotlight right now as the data centres there using nitrate-polluted groundwater for cooling have intensified that pollution so much that it's causing cancer and miscarriages.
There's a good chance that on top of being an immense waste of power and decimating the surrounding environment, it's going to kill people
it's Invasion Day (26/05/26) in so-called australia, so how about sending money and support to Indigenous communities.
Community First Development Indigenous Literacy Foundation NASCA GIVIT First Nations Support Black Rainbow
For international people, it's our 'Australia Day' today also known as Invasion Day, and protestors all over the country are using their protestor power not just to talk about Aboriginal Rights, as we have the last few years, but are marching for Palestine too👏
And are facing a lot of confusion and criticism from the media for 'confusing the issue' but everyone marching Knows that it's the Same issue, our oppressors are their oppressors, it's all the same fight. From the river to the sea, always was always will be
How you can help Minnesota
Call your Senators and pressure them to vote to OPPOSE HR 7147 emergency funding bill which passed the House on Thursday. This bill will give ICE 10 billion to continue and expand their operations. This is the most important thing you can do to support us right now. This is especially true if you have a Democratic senator. They need to get 7 dems to flip to pass. This is being brought upon us because we are unapologetic Blue State. This is politically motivated. Please impress on your senators that they must hold the line.
Support the economic boycotts that Ice Out MN general strike started yesterday. There are a bunch of petitions/letters to various companies that support ICE and allow them to continue to terrorize us. Please sign the petition and demand they stand with Minnesota against ICE. Letter to Hilton Letter to Target Letter to Enterprise Letter to Home Depot Letter to D.R. Horton (construction company)
Donate to food shelves, rent relief organization, bail funds and other community aid groups. There are a lot of them listed here and on the same page there is a list of vetted private donations that is being kept up to date.
We need to abolish negative gearing and we need to push for it NOW.
Housing affordability is unattainable unless we get rid of negative gearing. More supply won't matter if negative gearing continues to drive up prices and encourage investors to snap up all the affordable homes.
Pressure on this issue is building up in the Labor Party. Every three years they have a national conference where members debate and hash out policy. July 2026 is the next one so we won't have another before the next election.
So you need to contact your Labor MP AND your Labor Senators (there will be multiple) and tell them you want them to abolish/phase out negative gearing NOW.
Send multiple emails. Get others to do so too. Send one every month BEFORE July this year!
This is our chance to fight for this issue before they resolve to ignore our pleas for the next 3 years. So let's make noise while we can.
What is negative gearing?
Basically it's a tax break for investors. If you own a house, but the cost of maintaining that house is more than the return on investment then you deduct the difference from your taxable income. (Basically if mortgage is more than the rent then the difference is a tax break). It encourages investors to buy all the cheaper houses because it makes investment really appealing, which then creates a shortage of supply for people who want to own a home and subsequently drives up housing prices.
It benefits the rich who can buy multiple houses. It directly makes your hopes of owning a home less and less possible. It doesn't encourage new homes to be built. It doesn't help anyone but those who own multiple homes. Proponents of keeping it say it keeps rents down but that's not supported by data. In fact, it was temporarily removed in the 80s under Hawke and rents didn't go up except in Perth and Sydney, which had other factors driving those rents up. So it's bullshit to claim that giving billions to rich people will stop them from hiking rents another $250pw at their next opportunity.
So it literally just benefits rich people - not you. Tell Labor to abolish it NOW.
We should also get rid of the capital gains tax discount.
When someone sells a house that's gone up in value they get taxed on that profit (capital gains). However, Howard ALSO introduced a discount of 50% in the 90s so if you sell a house at $200,000 profit, you only get taxed for $100,000 of that.
Once again, this makes buying and selling houses for a profit more appealing to investors who decrease supply for home owners. They can use their investment properties as leverage to borrow more than someone trying to buy their first home so can pay more and drive up prices further.
It means that since the late 90s, housing prices have skyrocketed well ahead of wages:
Wage growth isn't the answer to the housing crisis. It cannot possibly catch up to what negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount continue to do to housing prices.
Combined, these tax breaks for the rich cost us BILLIONS.
These tax breaks encourage investors to buy more properties, which makes housing less affordable.
Those investors then drive up rent on us so we're paying to subsidise their 2nd, 5th, or even 27th mortgage.
If the rent doesn't cover all the costs of their mortage then OUR taxes pay to give THEM a tax break on their income.
Tens of billions a YEAR are spent subsidising investors who are profiting off your inability to EVER own a home.
Labor needs to care more about regular people than millionaires and the only way they demonstrate that is by getting rid of negative gearing/the capital gains tax discount.
What can we do about it? CONTACT LABOR AND DEMAND ACTION NOW.
Contact Labor Senators and members. DEMAND that they abolish negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount. Get others to demand the same as well.
Their national conference is THIS July. If we can pressure enough Labor MPs before July they can change the party's policy.
But we need to push hard NOW.
IMPORTANT ADDITION! Housing is actually mostly a state responsibility, not federal.
Rental regulations are a state responsibility so if your landlord jacks your rent up by $150pw then blame your state government for not imposing a limit on rental increases (the ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia with caps on rent increases).
Minimum standards for rental properties is a state responsibility so if your landlord never fixes anything and there's black mould everywhere then blame your state government for not creating and enforcing minimum standards for rentals.
Can no one afford a home in regional areas because investors have bought up properties to turn them into AirBnbs? Blame the state government for not regulating short term accommodation.
How much public housing is being built? That's a state government responsibility.
So you absolutely should contact your state MPs about housing problems too. Find your state/territory parliament website and find your state MPs' emails.
BUT the federal government has power over most taxation, which means things like negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount. Taxes can create pulls and pushes on markets and in this case it's pulling in investors and pushing our homeowners and driving up costs. Sure, a state government can announce another billion or two into building affordable housing, that's constantly being undone by the upward pressure on prices that's generated by federal tax breaks to the rich.
Making housing more affordable is a joint effort between federal AND state - but it won't work unless federal abolishes these tax breaks. It just won't work.
That's why you need to contact federal Labor MPs TODAY to tell them to abolish them.
for those wanting to help venezuelans affected by the bombings through donations, these are currently the best ways to go. will add more links as more is set up
cruz roja (red cross)
doctors without borders
AFSC has launched a call to action! Stop illegal attacks to prevent another endless war
also adding Save The Children. whilst they haven't specifically put out a donation page, they do have a donation page for Venezuela in general!
world central kitchen
for those wanting to help venezuelans affected by the bombings through donations, these are currently the best ways to go. will add more links as more is set up
cruz roja (red cross)
doctors without borders
The Merciful, may God have mercy on him. Watch the video. Despite the cold weather and the low-pressure system in Gaza, I showed kindness to the cats and brought them food because cats in Gaza are dying of hunger in the streets. This act of kindness comes from someone in a very pitiful state. I am suffering from depression, and the doctor told me that my right eye needs surgery.
I have been unable to take the medication prescribed by my doctor for someone suffering from severe depression, and I appeal to every free and honorable person to stand with me in my crisis.
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anyways, Merry Christmas from your favourite non-practising Lebanese Orthodox Christian. A reminder that Palestinian Christians and Lebanese Christians are some of the oldest Christian communities in the world, and they live under constant threat of invasion, violence, and annihilation from Israel. A reminder that Jesus was Palestinian (and Jewish!), and that Nazareth and Bethlehem are not mythical places of the past, but communities full of life in Palestine right now. Do not forget Palestine or Palestinians this Christmas. Donate to a Palestinian family's GoFundMe, plan to attend a protest, and above all else help fight Israel's normalisation of genocide in every way you can. Happy holidays, and free Palestine 🇵🇸
Absolutely devastating news from Australia that at least 11 people were killed in an antisemitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. One of those who was murdered, Alex Kleytman z”l, was a Holocaust survivor. His wife, also a Holocaust survivor, saw as he was shot. I cannot imagine the grief and pain she and many others are feeling.
My heart is with all the victims and their loved ones, as well as the broader Jewish community in Australia. May the memories of the victims be a blessing.
We deserve to be able to congregate and observe Jewish holidays without fear of violence, in Australia and globally.
I also want to commend the courage of Ahmed al Ahmed, a man who happened to be walking by when the shooting began and rushed to disarm one of the shooters, despite being unarmed himself. Ahmed is the owner of a fruit shop and a father of two. He was shot twice during his brave intervention and is now in the hospital. I am praying for his swift recovery and the recovery of all the others who were injured in this attack.
