Hello. We are a community talking about Australian News. While US policy is indirectly related, these outbreaks are part of a global trend rising since 2020.

Good find, I didn’t know either. It also has some older info videos. I found the heatwaves and feels-like temperature videos helpful.

Yes, and abstaining only gives them a larger proportion of the votes.

Find the left wing candidates (the senate has some even if your local ballot doesn’t) and preference them, if you want to help keep out Lib and Lab.

Mate, give it another read. They’re pointing out that foreign state interference in our military and society should be a number 1 priority for ASIO.

Antisemitism should absolutely be combatted, ASIO should be helping more, and I hope they stop wasting resources pretending that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and instead focus more on targeting actual antisemitism and the Zionist agitators encouraging it, along with the niche neo-Nazi scum trying to encourage it.

Is it all really genuine?

The only recent acts of antisemitism (not to be conflated with anti-Zionism) are from fringe neo-nazis (who have always been racist pricks) and a wave of vandalism and arson which, so far, appear to have been done for pay rather than sincere political motivation, with police saying they’re looking into foreign actors funding them.

All that to say, I doubt it’s genuine. The rest of the things I’ve seen called antisemitism in the mass media are simply protesting against the Zionist Regime (‘Israel’), which disingenuously attempts to conflate itself with all Jewish peoples.

The article includes some details which make it clear there’s no room for benefit of doubt, this is an extreme abuser.

A One Nation spokesman said Senator Hanson was “aware of the circumstances around Mr Black’s conviction.”

who have now picked up the Greens as a partner in their coalition

What do you mean? At a glance, I can’t see any information about Greens as a partner to the LNP-Nationals coalition, nor do I see any reason why either side would want to join one.

Why do you want Labor gone?

I know you weren’t asking me, but I want them gone for stabbing the labour movement in the back, repeatedly, including the recent corrupt administration of the CFMEU. There are other reasons, but the Labor party defanging the labour movement says it all for me.

and no one in the rest of the world respects them

That’s a bit near-sighted. Their regional neighbours obviously aren’t happy about them, nor 5EYES states like Australia, but to other regions like Africa and the Middle-East, their long-time bullies are countries such as the US, Britain and France (and in many cases that’s not just pushing boundaries, but a full-on military occupation and colonisation), so China’s relatively-peaceful diplomacy there in contrast to IMF economic strategies has certainly won wide respect there, and I suspect the USA’s recent diplomatic suicide, destruction of USAID and other forms of ‘turning inward’ will make China more appealing to distant countries as a stable and (in their eyes) relatively friendly partner.

About half the world (the Global South) generally sides politically with them more than the West, so this isn’t just nitpicking. The bottom line is that with three main powers to choose from, China (despite their rudeness in our region) is the one which has hurt the least of them.

This quote from a US DARPA medicine worker gives a typical example of how distant countries perceive Western and Eastern powers:

When you were on the ground, how did our engagement in Africa stack up with Chinese and Russian engagement? Did you cross paths?

Yeah. There’s an example of where we were waiting to go in to meet with an African delegation. I won’t name the country, but our team was prepared to speak in French — we had translators. And we got half an hour with the delegation from their Ministry of Health. We walked out, and the Chinese delegation came in, but they went to the effort of not only knowing French, but also knowing a local language that none of us had ever heard, and they spoke in that language to their hosts. We were ushered out. The Chinese stayed for three hours.

They had developed a deeper relationship than we had, mainly because they were outspending us. Obviously, they built the African CDC and have made some major investments in Africa. Now, are we losing that diplomatic battle? It’s hard to say, but I can tell you that they’re putting an enormous amount of funding into Africa to develop as much credibility as they can on the infectious disease and clinical front, furthering the agenda that President Xi has laid out.

Yep.

You should vote, but your vote is statistically near-worthless. You have political power far beyond your vote, especially for people working useful jobs. Unions and their members have the ability to pressure governments into doing the right thing by us rather than the bosses. Weak unions mean weak rights.

It’s aggravating they’re such a danger because they’re all such pathetic losers.

Exactly. When communities have organised in response, the NSN get chased up the road even when they bring out knives (see: failed attack on Gummo Cafe). But when a community does nothing, they’re left with a group of a couple of dozen interstate tourists trying to seek attention and intimidate people, often with a police line protecting them. Any group of a dozen, no matter how pathetic, will make unorganised individuals less likely to do anything, and the problem only grows if they gain greater numbers to mobilise.

One of them is on record at a UK fascist conference saying that when they’re outnumbered and getting told to leave, they “feel like shit, it’s horrifying”.

Australia? We couldn’t possibly be. imma have to demand evidence.

It’s self-defense, and it’s community defense.

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I didn’t look the first time I read this, but wow that’s bad. I shot better with an automatic SMG the first time I held a gun in my life.

Their are 3 countries with rare earth minerals

There are more, and I don’t know any specific REM primarily in those three countries. But yeah, they’re three of the more important ones, alongside USA, India, Brazil, Russia and Paraguay.

Most of out trade is with China so us cutting us off has very little impact on our trade.

I think ‘very little’ is exaggerating (apparently 11% of imports and 5% of exports), but yep, we have other options if push comes to shove.

+1 for the soft power tools being their benefit rather than ours. +1 for us hosting critical intel bases.

Most of them I want gone. From that list, I only use one or two Google/YouTube products, and am forced on a couple of the social medias only for specific event chatrooms.

You’re right, it’s cultural dominance and propaganda, not reliance. They benefit from it more than we do.

I duno what can be done tbh, I really don’t

Informing voters, for starters. Break free of the two-party false dichotomy if you realise the ALP are a lost cause, don’t believe you are forced to defend them in order to critique the coalition.

I know this is far easier said than done, but there are so many ways to do this which an individual (or better, group of friends/co-workers) like you and me can even casually do this.

Allegedly over 30% of people are voting for these shit stains.

can we cut this rhetoric, please? “both sides as baddd!!!”

Personally, I’d like us to stop false dichotomy rhetoric too. This isn’t a two-party system, less so every election.

As for the two biggest, I agree, they’re not equivalent, I prefer one over the other (both theoretically and on the ballot), but both have stabbed workers in the back consistently. They both serve similar masters (the owning class who fund and promote them). Both are inadequate.

I don’t think the Telegraph understand how codenames work lol

Does OP ever post anything but negative stories about China?

I believe that OP is the fourth of a series of German-manned accounts (the previous accounts being 0x815 then thelucky8, and then randomname) all following the same posting pattern and almost exclusively posting the same kind of news. In short, it’s a propaganda operation (regardless of whether it’s one person acting on their own beliefs, or not).

When you see this pattern, it’s pretty disingenuous that they keep switching accounts and doing the same thing. Assuming they are the same person, their posting has received complaints here before.

I couldn’t see an Australian source saying where in the sea this occured. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims this happened on the Paracel Islands:

“The Australian military airplane deliberately intruded into China’s airspace over Xisha Qundao (Paracel Islands) without China’s permission. Such move violated China’s sovereignty and undermined China’s national security,” said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun, according to a transcript.

“China has lodged serious protests with Australia and urged it to stop infringing on China’s sovereignty and making provocations and stop disrupting peace and stability in the South China Sea.”

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracel_Islands

The ownership of the islands remains hotly contested. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) on mainland China, Vietnam, and the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan all claim de jure sovereignty, although the PRC has had de facto control of the archipelago since the Battle of the Paracel Islands in January 1974. In July 2012, China (PRC) established Sansha, Hainan Province, as administering the area. In February 2017, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative reported 20 outposts of the PRC built on reclaimed land in the Paracels, three of which contain small harbours capable of berthing naval and commercial ships.

Looking at where Australia is on a map, and that we had a surveillance jet flying near their (claimed, and effectively owned for over 50 years) territory, I understand why they’re telling our military to fuck off. Imagine if China started flying jets around the Timor Gap, I reckon we’d tell them the same.