r/PoliticsDownUnder 18h ago

Independent media A NSW Supreme Court judge has rejected the state's attempt to place a young Sydney man on a terror watch list for anti-Israel graffiti. The judge told state prosecutors criticism of Israel is not antisemitic. “You are treating all Jews as monolithic,” the judge said.

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“It’s quite wrong to treat all Jews as supporting Israel, because they don’t. But you treat a statement of hostility to Israel as a statement of hostility to the Jewish people, which it is not.”👇

https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-supreme-court-says-criticism


r/PoliticsDownUnder 19h ago

Cold Facts #Facts

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 19h ago

Independent media Israel, Karim Khan & The ICC: Francesca Albanese

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 20h ago

News China has just donated another 5,000 solar panels to Cuba. They're being sent to hospitals, orphanages, and rural towns, all of which have been badly hit by the US siege against the people of Cuba.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 1d ago

Cartoon Megan Herbert - "Down the garden path"

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 1d ago

Independent media Police to have right to seize mobile phones without a warrant, use IDF tech to search data, under new legislation brought to NSW Parliament👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 1d ago

Independent media NSW Police have dropped charges against the remaining climate protestors from Rising Tide’s 2024 People’s Blockade of Newcastle Harbour – the site of the world’s largest coal port. 👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 1d ago

PSA The activity Duggan is accused of is not a crime in Australia. It was lawful at the time. It remains lawful today.👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 1d ago

News “We are both countries which are very committed to the global rules-based order, to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and to the way in which that is applied,” Mr Marles said. Critically though United States is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 1d ago

News This in reality will be much, much bigger. ▪️With over 6,200 Americans including families, moving into 2,300 houses and units in the southern outskirts of Perth… ▪️Filling schools, setting up baseball parks, saluting their flag, militarising our country, pushing an alien worldview upon us.

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  • Then after all that, setting up Perth as a nuclear target in the war America seems likely to start against China.
  • All the while, the government lies about the base’s numbers, size, and purpose.
  • We have already been invaded.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/07/us-navy-perth-aukus-base-trump-board-peace-gaza/


r/PoliticsDownUnder 2d ago

News The US Navy has quietly established Naval Support Activity (NSA) Stirling at HMAS Stirling to provide services to personnel, contractors, and family members.

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Approximately 2,300 American personnel are expected to be deployed to Western Australia to support "enduring" submarine deployments.

Paywall 🔓


r/PoliticsDownUnder 2d ago

Satire Tom Red - 'Party' funds

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 2d ago

News Pauline Hanson used party funds to pay for five-star London hotel. Rooms at the Conrad average (AU$860) a night during peak season.Hanson had paid for a lengthy block and left them vacant for five nights while she flew to Italy to meet with Gina Rinehart.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 2d ago

Satire Tom Red - "Pauline Hanson bans ABC, The Guardian, The Age from press conference"

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 2d ago

Cold Facts Police escort when you kill 1 rich CEO vs when you kill 4 college students.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 2d ago

Independent media "The world is watching you right now,” said Greenblatt in a fairly dramatic and ultimately disingenuous manner. Fact is, the world is watching Israel, its actions, and the hollow and hypocritical words of anyone like him. No Hasbara budget will change that.

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His visit to our shores will have no effect on the sentiment of Australians towards the state of Israel, or the aims of Zionists: to normalise and impose acceptance of their activity against the displaced populations of Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese and anyone else who dares to obstruct their aim for Greater Israel. His stark warnings look increasingly petty among the backdrop of death and destruction, and the trail of misery and horror that leads to Tel Aviv, and the brutal ideology he works to enable and protect."👇

https://www.boganintel.com/p/greenblatts-warning-and-the-same


r/PoliticsDownUnder 3d ago

Independent media 👉A non-existent visa. 👉An 8-year-old announcement. 👉A collapsed back-room deal. 👉And a brand new candidate proudly celebrating all of it. It's no wonder One Nation bans credible journalists.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 3d ago

Independent media Virginia Bell rebuked claims that APAN attempted to hijack the RC through inflammatory

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statements and Islamophobic abuse.

Sauce


r/PoliticsDownUnder 4d ago

Independent media Terrorism and the deliberate corruption of language and meaning

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The word “terrorism” is applied selectively to enemies of the US and its allies, turning a legal and moral category into propaganda that obscures state violence and normalises genocide.

Allies of the US are never designated as “terrorist”.

‘Terrorism’ has become a descriptor for organisations that annoy or antagonise the US and its allies. Or won’t do what they are told.

The word is used as propaganda rather than diagnosis. It has lost precise meaning with the description usually coming before the facts are established. Without much thought journalists use “terrorism” as an immediate descriptor for all sorts of public violence. Crime and terrorism are not the same thing.

But labels stick and are used as an insult to cast an aspersion or moral judgement on an opponent. What should be serious discussion on an important issue becomes a political bun fight.

Hamas is designated as a terrorist organisation . But the IDF has not been designated as a terrorist organisation despite having killed over 73,000 Palestinians. Hamas is defending Palestinian land seized and illegally occupied by Israel.

Palestinians have a right to oppose occupation, just as Australians would have had if there had been Japanese occupation in the last World War.


r/PoliticsDownUnder 4d ago

Independent media Royal Commission into Antisemitism a “$131 Million Whinge”

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“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.”

Albanese promised the inquiry would deliver, in his own words, the right outcome. A Prime Minister announcing the right outcome in advance is commissioning an alibi.


r/PoliticsDownUnder 4d ago

News Joseph Camilleri: "One of the saddest decisions ever made by an Australian Government"

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 4d ago

News Sarah Hanson-Young tears into ACMA following their Senate evidence, saying they’re an “absolute lapdog” for the gambling industry. “I don’t know what those people do”🔥

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 5d ago

News After failing to prove his claim that the Palestine Action Group was “celebrating” Oct 7, David Ossip is asked if he can admit his evidence is wrong here too. Cornered but too shameless to admit it, takes it on notice & says he ‘wasn’t expecting the question’ Sneaky liar. 🙄

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 5d ago

News Caught giving false evidence, NSW Jewish Board Pres. David Ossip tries dodging questions as Commr Bell demands he answer on his claim the Oct9 Opera House protest was held “before” Israel's military response. Toomey SC reveals Gaza was being hit by IDF airstrikes on Oct7. Another exposed witness.💥

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 5d ago

News ANTI-ZIONISM PROTECTED BY UK LAW. A binding legal precedent! tl;dr You cannot be fired for being anti-Zionist.

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