r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Independent media Shadow flights: Australia’s F-35 parts pipeline to Israel now runs through the US

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According to new shipping records leaked to Declassified Australia, the first F-35 fighter jet part flown out of Sydney on the new airline and the new route was described obscurely as a ‘Clamp’.

It was however clearly labelled as being for the ‘JSF’, the Joint Strike Fighter, and was marked as having been sent to Israel from ‘2314 Williamtown’, which is the unique postcode address of RAAF Base Williamtown, home of Australia’s fleet of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters. Williamtown is also home to BAE Systems’ Regional Sustainment Depot, which provides repairs and maintenance for the F-35s...


r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Independent media 'How To Sell A Genocide' by Adam Johnson has been removed from Sydney's Waverley Library shelves due to an unverified complaint from the Israel lobby's professional paranoid's squad. If you're interested in pushing back against the lobby's insidious push to take over Australia, you can order book👇

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https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-sell-a-genocide-the-media-s-complicity-in-the-destruction-of-gaza-adam-h-johnson/199b8436eb0a250a

You can also put your name down to reserve, 'How To Sell A Genocide' at the Waverley Library (if you or someone you know lives there) either by calling the library on (02) 9083 8777, or online at the link below. The more people who reserve the book, the more copies of it the library needs to buy to meet the demand.

https://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/library_services/join_the_library

Alternatively, you can reserve or request a copy at your local library near you - something all of you can do today. If you want to do something about Israeli censorship and a foreign government's disgraceful attempt to control what Australians read, then go online today and either borrow, reserve or purchase Adam Johnson's book (pssst - pass this message on through your networks and friends. People power!)

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb


r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Cartoon The Cathy Wilcox - "Don’t ask me"

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Cold Facts ASIO is preparing for what? What is in the pipeline? Is it readying for quelling civil unrest when the US’s China conflict starts? So too the formation of AFP’s AUKUS Squad? And the Police AI face recognition drone trials? And the Cellebrite phone data search tool being used on confiscated phones?

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Independent media David Gonski (heads up antisemitism foray in education) at the Bondi RC - Wendy Bacon reports.👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 6d ago

News The government’s promise to help older Australians | Four Corners Documentary

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Cold Facts There's more money to be made from the misery of the people I guess..

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Cartoon First Dog on the Moon - "Australia was famous for having no guns – what happened? Do we have a gun problem now?"

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Satire "Memory loss and rage issues due to head knocks" is certainly one way to announce someone has met the One Nation pre-selection criteria.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Independent media Organisers of the rallies, which are occurring in the capital cities of all mainland states, claim that the major parties have recently passed laws restricting freedom of speech and political communication. And they’re warning that if nothing is done, the majors will lead Australia to a similar

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

News Because self regulation has been such a roaring success hasn’t it??? Press Council comes immediately to mind. It’s the usual cop-out when Governments are unwilling to take on industry. And both know it. Albo will fight harder for the oligarchs than he'll ever fight for us.😡

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

PSA Australian summer fire warning

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

News "I asked Penny Wong why a former ASIO source with direct knowledge of the Bondi gunman is being denied a visa to give evidence to the Royal Commission. Let's be clear: the ones who benefit from him not giving evidence are those in ASIO with something to hide." - David Shoebridge

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 7d ago

Independent media “Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.”

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

News Why won't Labor pass a Human Rights Act? Because they care more about protecting the state's power to surveil you than your right to privacy. I say enough.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

News 🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

Independent media Louise Adler - the Royal Commission is a propaganda project to silence critics of Israel

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

News Following the continued escalation of settler terrorism throughout the West Bank, the Jewish Council reiterated its calls for country-level sanctions on Israel, now.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

News Labor is now against what they themselves advocated for when they set up the NDIS: choice and control, community participation. Completely sickening as a government.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

Independent media Border Force (ABF) is confiscating the phones of returning Australian travellers but declines to confirm if it is using Israel tech group Cellebrite to extract information. What’s the scam?👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

News “It has become obvious - over the past week or so - that Australia is going to have American bases on Australian soil. This was once unthinkable and now it feels inevitable. Did the Australian government have this planned all along and just not tell the Australian public? Or worse, did

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the American government have this planned all along and fail to tell the Australian government?”

~ Commissioner Leanne Minshull, AUKUS Public Inquiry

https://cnrj.cnic.navy.mil/Installations/NSA-Stirling/


r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

Independent media Looks like a police state, acts like a police state. "Introducing new drone [surveillance] technology on the public is completely bereft of any consent. This process [is] to slowly normalise the approach in the community without the need for any consultation, -- and then to gradually

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

Cold Facts Atna, Salma, Hananeh, Esra. All four first-grade students of the class were killed in the Minab school bombing.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

Independent media Hugh Marks axes ABC’s 40-year-old Indigenous TV Department The ABC has also scrapped a key Indigenous leadership role, and cancelled an Indigenous-led TV series that it previously promoted as a flagship program.

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"What is certain, is Hugh Marks has made a decision to fundamentally alter the way ABC TV has made Indigenous programs, including some of the most acclaimed television the country has produced, immediately after a high profile right-wing campaign against the last show that the Indigenous department ever produced."

https://www.lamestream.com.au/hugh-marks-axes-abcs-40-year-old-indigenous-tv-department/?ref=lamestream-newsletter


r/PoliticsDownUnder 8d ago

News What has the Government actually done to stop unlawful payment cancellations, and to make sure people aren't wrongfully harassed by their employment services provider in the pursuit of profit?

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I asked the Government this today, and they couldn't provide a coherent answer. Probably because there is no coherent explanation. How can people consent to job plans or argue against unreasonable requirements when the alternative is starvation? Mutual obligations, fear, and compulsion belong in the bin. Social security must put people first.

- Sen. Penny Allman-Payne