Hedges SLAMS Hostile Australian Interview, Unpacks Press Club Mess + Western Media Betraying Gaza

Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf to unpack his time in Australia so far, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. We also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about: how western journalists are betraying their colleagues in Gaza. Plus, Chris offers some honest advice for young people who still want to tell stories and speak truth to power.Read what he wrote in response. https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/03...

Chris Hedges: The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists at NSW Teachers Federation auditorium in Sydney on October 20

This is the speech Chris Hedges was supposed to deliver at Australia's National Press Club, live to the nation on ABC, the country's national broadcaster. Despite written confirmation the club cancelled the talk, reportedly citing an interest in “balancing out our program”, after learning more about what he was going to say. Hedges claims he was told by a reliable source that the club had then reached out to Israeli Ambassador.

Read what he wrote in response. https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/03...

The speech was instead delivered to a full house at the Teachers Federation auditorium in Sydney on October 20. The event was chaired by Sara Saleh, a Palestinian writer & race critical human rights lawyer. It was sponsored by the journalists' union MEAA, PEN Sydney and the magazine Pearls and Irritations. It was organised by Stop the War on Palestine and Palestine Justice Movement.

Lobbyland Strikes Again, Reynolds Targets Mean Girls and Scomo Finds a New Lobbying Caper by Michael West.

'Albo’s somehow became Prime Minister and president of a lobby group, Linda Reynolds is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into “Mean Girls,” and Scomo’s scored himself a shiny new caper lobbying for Saudi Aramco. Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws have been curbed by the courts, the Feds have shelved their super tax plan for the rich, and the Zionist lobby’s taking free speech to court. Welcome to Lobbyland where the rich win, politicians lobby, and democracy’s just another side hustle.

Michael West.

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No King: Trump Faces Historic, Peaceful Protests All Over the US-Zeteo

Click on link underline to watch the video. No time to watch all the coverage of the ‘No Kings’ rallies? Zeteo teams have you covered on the ground in Chicago and DC. 

Millions of Americans attended thousands of “No Kings” events across the United States on Saturday to protest Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian presidency. It was one of the largest single-day protests in US history and came amid Trump’s brutal immigration raids and efforts to militarily occupy cities such as Chicago, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles.

Republicans may have inadvertently juiced turnout by constantly complaining and hysterically lying about the anti-Trump protests in recent days. House Speaker Mike Johnson kept calling the events the “Hate America rally.” Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the No Kings events were “part of antifa,” the disparate anti-fascist movement that Trump wants to eliminate. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the events would feature the “the farthest left” and “the most unhinged in the Democratic Party.”

Conservative Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley claimed, with zero basis, that the No Kings rallies would be violent and that its funders should thus be investigated and prosecuted. Senior sources within the Trump administration told Zeteo that federal agencies would be monitoring the No Kings protests throughout the country, including the Hands Off Chicago marches, for any signs of what they called “domestic terrorism” or violent “extremism” that they could use as part of their efforts to clamp down on liberal non-profits and donors.

As you can see in the video above, at the huge Chicago rally that Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng covered, there was no sign of any vast parade of antifa radicals or “terrorist” sympathizers that Republicans claimed would materialize this weekend. The multiple Chicago-area events instead represented the exact type of demonstration of solidarity and outrage that Team Trump wants Americans to believe isn’t possible: massive crowds of diverse and peaceful protesters nonviolently opposing Trump, standing against his federal shows of force against US cities.

An estimated 200,000 people turned out for the No Kings event in DC – where Zeteo’s editor-in-chief, Mehdi Hasan, spoke to the crowd. The event was safe and orderly, and felt like a parade or rally rather than a disruption. Protesters who spoke with Zeteo’s Prem Thakker expressed anger about Trump’s masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs kidnapping immigrants and citizens alike. Attendees were also concerned about Trump’s attacks on free speech as well as Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Watch the video below:

Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the DC event and warned that Trump is putting US democracy in danger with his attacks on immigrants, free speech, and the media. He spoke out against Trump’s efforts to consolidate “more and more power in his own hands and in the hands of his fellow oligarchs.”

Wannabe King?

The first round of No Kings protests took place in June, when Trump hosted his military birthday parade in DC. An estimated five million people attended those No Kings events, in what was one of the largest days of protest in US history. Organizers expected a similar number of people or even more would turn out this weekend. Indivisible, a group involved in the planning, announced that nearly seven million people attended the No Kings events on Saturday, calling it “the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history.”

The point of the No Kings protests, according to its organizers, is to show that “America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.” The name wasn’t plucked from thin air: Trump’s White House previously described the president as “the king” on social media. (Trump also recently claimed that “a lot” of Americans would “like a dictator.

In the lead-up to the No Kings rallies, Trump tried to downplay the idea he sees himself as a king. “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” he said in a Fox News interview clip released on Friday.

During the No Kings rallies on Saturday, however, Trump’s political team repeatedly posted images on X showing the president wearing a crown, and also posted an AI-generated video with Trump dressed in a monarch’s robes while standing at the White House.

Vice President J.D. Vance and Trump’s “crypto czar” David Sacks both shared an AI video showing Trump putting on a crown and robes and wielding a sword, and Democratic lawmakers bowing to him. Around 9:30 p.m. ET, Trump shared the video on Truth Social. It seems he is now openly fantasizing about being a king.

Team Trump may want Trump to be a king. The president may think his supporters want him to be a dictator. On Saturday, millions of Americans stood together to say: No Kings.

As Prem noted at the DC rally, if the sprawling crowd was filled with Marxists and antifa, as Speaker Johnson claimed, that means “the Republican Party is in a bit of hot water.”

Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela, as US military kills innocent people by Geopolitical Economy Report (Ben Norton)

‘The United States is waging a war on Venezuela. Donald Trump authorized the CIA to carry out "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, the US military has killed innocent people in boats in the Caribbean, including citizens of Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago. Ben Norton reports.’

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Ceasefire Is OVER: Israel Killing, Bombing And Starving Gaza by Owen Jones

A ‘Ceasefire’ where the shooting of the Palestinians does not make a ‘media story’. Israel’s Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing continues with the support of the Western Mainstream Media.

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Trump-backed Venezuelan coup leader promises to give oil to US corporations by Geopolitical Economy Report (Ben Norton)

'2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, a US government-funded far-right coup leader, vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations. "We are going to privatize all our industry", she told Donald Trump Jr. "American companies ... are going to make a lot of money", she promised. Ben Norton exposes the neocolonial US war on Venezuela.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump's war on Venezuela, pushing for regime change against President Nicolás Maduro. Ben Norton exposes the ugly truth.'

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BREAKING: Tens of Thousands Join Pro-Palestinian Rally in Sydney | Ceasefire Faces Doubts | AH1Z

It was a great demo today in Gadigal/Sydney for Gaza,against Israel's Genocide. It was fantastic to be at the largest Palestine demo since we marched on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. A Ceasefire is not justice for the Palestinians who have been the victims of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. Every man, woman and child in Gaza are Holocaust Survivors.

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The REAL Truth Behind Gaza Ceasefire-Lowkey

Kareem Dennis, better known by his stage name Lowkey, is a British rapper and activist from London. Here he gives a detailed analysis on the so-called ‘Peace Plan for Gaza for Double Down News.

This ceasefire was a break from Israel’s Genocide the Palestinians. This has not been a war but a one-sided Genocide by Israel. This is a Colonial Ultimation from Trump. We still need be on the streets demanding justice for the Palestinians.

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Is Gaza Genocide FINALLY OVER? - A Masterclass From Palestinian Analyst with Owen Jones

Owen Jones has a detailed interview here with Palestinian Analyst Muhammad Shehada. This ceasefire was a break from Israel’s Genocide the Palestinians. This has not been a war but a one-sided Genocide by Israel. This is a Colonial Ultimation from Trump. We still need be on the streets demanding justice for the Palestinians.

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Anyone That Isn’t MAGA Is Now A Terrorist by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

'The Trump regime has officially labeled any dissent against them as supporting Antifa, which they now consider a domestic terrorist group. His FBI under Crazy Eyes Patel is now investigating foundations and nonprofit funding sources, hoping to cut the legs out from any movement that could mount any amount of resistance to his darkest plans. The “War on Terror” is now coming for all of us… Trump officially signed NSPM-7, which effectively labels anyone who is “anti-American” or “anti-captialist” or “anti-fascist” or “anti-Christianity” as a potential terrorist. Effectively anyone who is critical of MAGA’s agenda and their Christian Nationalist agenda. All of that is perfectly vague enough to allow them to label any non-MAGA person as a potential terrorist. Including of course the Democratic party. All that is bad enough, but NSPM-7 also gives the joint terrorism task force the power to, “disrupt any individuals or groups that foment political violence, including before they result in political, violent political acts before.” So basically pre-crime. This is 1984 and Minority Report having a very ugly baby. See you all down in Guantanamo Bay, I guess…for the crime of thought.'

Francesca Fiorentini

It’s time to break Australia’s links to Trump’s Fascist USA.

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Greta Thunberg Blasts Israel, 'Complicit' World Leaders After Release From Israeli Jail-DRM News

Greta Thunberg delivered a fiery speech in Athens after her release from Israeli detention, calling Israel’s Gaza actions a “live-streamed genocide” and urging governments to “end complicity and arms transfers.” Speaking to thousands, she condemned global silence and vowed to keep fighting for Palestine through the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Greta Thunberg: “A Live-Streamed Genocide Before Our Eyes” — Powerful Athens Speech “Our Governments Are Complicit!” Greta Thunberg’s Fiery Speech in Athens After Detention Greta Thunberg Returns, Slams Israel Over Gaza: “No One Can Say We Didn’t Know” Emotional Scene in Athens: Greta Thunberg Speaks After Israeli Detention DRM News delivers live coverage as Greta Thunberg and 27 Greek nationals arrive in Athens following their deportation from Israel after the Global Sumud Flotilla's interception en route to Gaza. Hear accounts of detention, aid blockade challenges, and calls for justice. Watch now for exclusive insights and subscribe for breaking international news on humanitarian crises.

Israel KIDNAPS Flotilla: Piracy Denounced As “TERRORISM"

This is piracy. Israel is kidnapping hundreds of people, including politicians and journalists, on a flotilla of boats which has sought to end the illegal starvation of the people of Gaza by Israel. Now there are 44 boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla with around 500 people from up to 50 countries. These boats are bringing humanitarian aid like food and medicine to a people who have been deliberately starved by Israel. But crucially, this flatillo was seeking to open a corridor and proving that Western nations could end the siege of Gaza at any moment if they so chose. The Israeli military have raided these boats. We can see footage of that from cameras on the boats streaming what has been happening....'
Owen Jones

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Trump Gaza "Peace Plan" Is A DYSTOPIAN Lie - w/. Muhammad Shehada & Owen Jones

Owen Jones interviews Muhammad Shehada exposes Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ as an ultimatum to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza. And its no surprise that our Crawling Shit of a prime minister Anthony Albanese supports Trump’s ‘Peace Plan.’

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Trump's UN General Assembly Speech in under 10 minutes-Swollen Pickles

Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a speech that drew widespread global attention. Here is his rambling, hour long address cut down to 10 minutes, covering the main points.

Hastie's Rising, UK's Digital ID and Trump comes after our drugs | Scam of the Week

Scams don’t take a holiday and this week has been overflowing with them. First, Anthony Albanese heads to the UN, and Murdoch’s media machine has a meltdown. If he skips Trump, it’s “disgraceful.” If he takes a photo with Trump, it’s “humiliating.” Damned if you do, damned if you don’t all while Rupert keeps pulling the strings. 

Meanwhile, Susan Ley is busy bootlicking foreign powers, writing apologies to US Congress for Australia recognising Palestine, while her own party tears itself apart at CPAC with Matt Canavan, Jacinta Price, and Tony Abbott sharing the stage with Liz Truss and Rowan Dean. Comedy or politics? Hard to tell. 

Over in the UK, Keir Starmer pushes a mandatory digital ID for anyone to work by 2029, sparking fierce backlash over civil liberties. And in the US, Trump’s chaos only deepens: honoring war criminals at Wounded Knee, joking with Erdogan about rigged elections, and claiming Tylenol in pregnancy causes autism a claim his allies’ supplement companies stand to profit from. But it doesn’t stop there. 

Trump has now slapped a 100% tariff on Australian pharmaceuticals, directly targeting our PBS system to please American drug giants. That means higher costs for taxpayers, less stability in our health system, and more profits for his billionaire backers. 

And through it all, the Liberal Party is auditioning Andrew Hastie as their next leader. With Jacinta Price, Angus Taylor, and Matt Canavan lining up behind him, he’s selling nostalgia about “bringing back Aussie manufacturing” while ignoring the fact his own party killed it in the first place. Add in his contradictions on net zero, and Hastie’s pitch looks less like policy, more like theatre. 

This week’s Scam of the Week award goes to Andrew Hastie the Liberals’ would-be Trump, wrapped in Murdoch’s headlines and serving up old ideas as if they’re new.

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Gas Lobbyist RESPONDS To My Rant In Parliament House | Punters Politics

'I attended a tax roundtable in Parliament House where I gave my first amateur lobbying speech calling out gas companies only to discover that a professional gas industry lobbyist was sitting right behind me ... he responds.'

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Israel’s TERRIFYING Threat Against Flotilla by Owen Jones

As the Flotilla heads towards Gaza from Crete, the Israel propaganda machine has cranked up the volume saying that they are Hamas supporters as they continue their Genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza. Israel has said they will impound all the boats and imprison all of the Flotilla crews and members. Here Owen Jones interviews one of the Flotilla’s organisers.

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Leaking War Crimes Got Him 5 Years in Jail | The West Report

 ‘This week we bring you exclusive interview with David McBride, the former Australian Army lawyer now serving a five-year sentence for leaking classified documents that exposed alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

From inside prison, McBride speaks openly about why he risked everything, why he believes his case will shape Australian law, and what it means for whistleblowers, justice, and accountability in this country.

This is more than just a story it’s about the principle at the heart of democracy: that “just following orders” is never an excuse for covering up crimes.

You’ll hear directly from McBride himself, thanks to months of work from our team to get access to him in Canberra. This is the kind of journalism that would never happen without your support.’

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Netanyahu Just BLACKMAILED The West - His INSANE Response To Palestine Recognition by Owen Jones

‘As Palestinians in the West Bank told me that Western countries recognising Palestine is decades too late, and purely symbolic action rather than decisive action to end the genocide.’

Owen Jones

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"THE FALL OF AMERICA" - Ben Lee

I'm glued to my phone, watching the fall of America.

One last call for alcohol.

It's coming to an end.

And to all of my friends, well, I am not forgetting you.

When this whole thing is over, we will dance again.

Disneyland, Spike Lee, Kir Cabain and Lou Reed, Patty Smith, Muhammad Ali.

I still hear them speak to me.

Poets with a conscience.

Insecure and confident.

They had what I wanted.

What would happen if I got it?

Harry Frell, culture breakers, Bosi up the contemplators, freedom fighters, belly acres, all the movers and the shakers circling the wagon, screaming round Manhattan.

Parties in the canyon. It's so strange to watch it happen.

Now I'm glued to my phone, watching the fall of America.

One last call for alcohol.

It's coming to an end.

And to all of my friends, well, I am not forgetting you.

When this whole thing is over, we will dance again.

Amphetamines and Mary Jane, Iggy Pop and John Coltrane. Breaking hearts and bending brains.

Put it straight into my veins. R E M L S D N W A Easy.

Read it all in magazines.

I'm leaving home.

Please pray for me.

Ramblers and drifters, rackers and grifters, depressives and uplifters,shape shifters, shop lifters.

It starts to feel naive. Yeah. That I ever believe.

Yeah. Heart upon my sleeve.

Yeah. But that was just a dream. Yeah.

Teenage lust. Paul Westerberg. Rock and roll will have you heard.

Tina Turner. She survived. She always kept the flame alive.

Anyone I adore you. I've been shaken to my core.

What was all that dreaming for? I loved you more.

I lovedyou more. I'm glued to my phone.

Watching the fall of America.

One last call for alcohol. It's coming to an end.

And do all of my friends.

Well, I am not forgetting you when this whole thing is over.

We will dance. We will dance. We will dance.We will dance.

Trump DECLARES WAR On Democracy - This Is Not A Drill by Owen Jones

‘Donald Trump and his allies are seeking to use the assassination of Charlie Kirk to accelerate their plans to destroy democracy, destroy the opposition, and build an overtly authoritarian state. Now, whether they succeed or not isn't certain, but it is clearly their plan. Going even further than the regime in Hungary, which is a blueprint for the international far right, where Victor Orban has destroyed democracy in a meaningful sense. Remember when the far right claimed to be champions of free speech? Yeah, this was a lie. We said it was a lie and we were right. It is always the case. Has always been the case that it's a lie. It's a nonsense, a ruse to protect hateful incendiary speech against minorities from even being challenged because they would portray even verbal push back against such speech as an attack on free speech….’ Owen Jones

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Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla by The Juice Media

'The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.'

'The Juice Media – 98.9% “genuine satire”: covering Government shitfuckery and the most pressing issues of our time  – written & created by Giordano in a backyard home-studio in suburban Melbourne, Australia – on Wurundjeri lands.'

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Trump Supporters Threaten CIVIL WAR After Charlie Kirk Killed by Owen Jones

As I write this, we don’t know who killed Charlie Kirk,. The Wall Street Journal claim that ammunition found was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology. But The New York Times report:

A senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other sum‘A moment of terrible danger. Before the assassination of Donald Trump ally and far right US commentator Charlie Kirk, there were already big questions about whether an already deeply compromised US democracy will survive Trumpism. The looming possible violence and repression is frightening to contemplate.

On a moral level, there’s no justification for killing anyone except in cases of unavoidable self defence on an individual or collective level. I don’t support the death penalty in any circumstances, and certainly not for people with extreme views. Individual terrorism with such a motive is morally and rationally bankrupt. That doesn’t mean pretending Kirk was something he was not.

BattleLines maries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information.

Therefore we have to wait until motive is identified.

We know that the two would-be assassins of Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh, were not left-wing in any meaningful way. Crooks was a registered Republican. Routh had voted for Trump in 2016 then ended up backing politicians who belong to both parties.

Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO, wasn’t left-wing either: he seemed to have an eccentric mishmash of “centrist” views.

That hasn’t stopped Trump supporters lying about these acts of violence, however.

If this shooter happens to be someone purporting to have left-wing opinions, then - morality aside - they are completely and utterly insane if they think this would somehow advance the interests of the left. In what scenario can anyone imagine this happening? It simply strengthens the power of the state at the very moment it is under far right control. It has placed left-wing public figures and activists in great danger. That is very obvious…...’

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A timeline of the attack on Camp Sovereignty on 31/8. by Tom Tanuki

Tom Tanuki brilliantly shows the timeline for the Cowardly Nazi Attack on the Aboriginal Camp Sovereignty, and he shows Nazi Hugo Lennon,whose family owns over thirty thousand homes, telling lies about it on TikTok.

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The Albanese Governments FOI Bill: What happened to the promises of Transparency-Swollen Pickles

Anthony Albanese promised integrity and transparency before the 2022 federal election, in fact, he campaigned on it. But now, deep into Labor’s second term, has the Albanese Government delivered — or simply carried on the same culture of secrecy we saw with the Morrison Government?  

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How neo-Nazis captured the March for Australia. Tom Tanuki

'Documenting the crowd manipulation tricks deployed by the National Socialist Network to transform nationalist 'Marches for Australia' into, effectively, national socialist marches.

It's a problem for migrants, it's a problem for the wider community, it's a problem for us on the left, and it's even a problem for the people they're using at those Marches.' Tom Tanuki

 

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I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live On Jools Holland Hootenanny / 2006)

The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop 1977 

Lyrics

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn

Whatever happened to dear old Lenny?
The great Elmyra, and Sancho Panza?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

Whatever happened to all the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more

Whatever happened to all the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: David Greenfield / Jean Jacques Burnel / Brian John Duffy / Hugh A

Jeremy Corbyn: Gaza, Nuclear War & Why Movements Must Rise Now

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Abby Martin sits down with MP Jeremy Corbyn in Bogotá during The Hague Group summit on Gaza. They discuss the limits of electoral politics, the danger of nuclear weapons, the central role of the US and UK in the Gaza genocide, and more.  

26-1-25 Invasion Day by John Tognolini

Gadigal/Sydney Rally Belmore Park Photo by Vlaudin Vega

There is racism and hate in the air since the Fascist Trump was sworn back into the US Whitehouse this week and his boss Elon Musk did the Nazi Salute twice. It’s like Bigots and Hate Merchants have had like an Overdose of Steroids and feel free to speak their hate. I said when Trump was elected last November. What does it mean for us as Australians? Not the Little Imitation Americans of the Worst the US has to offer or the AUKUS Cheer Squad of politicians from both the Australian Labor party and Liberal/National Party. 

I hate Invasion Day and regularly attend the Invasion Day Rally in Gadigal/Sydney Rally and March. It says a lot about history or what passes for history. I saw a media comment. Oh the Aborigines were lucky to colonised by the British and not the Spanish or French. It reminded me of the Bicentenary 1988 and someone saying that on a Triple J talkback, I responded and they played me saying Genocide is Genocide no mater who does it.

I’m not ashamed to be of what Winston Churchill called the ‘Bad Stock’ about Australia’s Convict Ancestry during World War Two. I have two Convicts in my paternal family, my Great-Great Grandfather Thomas Batt, a convict sent to Van Diemans Land for poaching from Kings Somborne, Hampshire, England, who landed in Nipaluna/Hobart/ in 1830. And my Great-Grandfather William Phillips from Norfolk England, for theft who got fifty lashes for trying to escape from Port Arthur. He had arrived in Nipaluna/Hobart/ in 1844.

If we don’t right the wrongs and do the Truth Telling in 2025 about our nation’s history of Aboriginal And Torres Islander Peoples, we will be far worse than anyone who was sent out here as a Convict in chains. Also, by recognising their nationhood we will be entitled to our own nationalism. From what I saw of the march in Gadigal/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne they were both massive in size, all the younger generations attending, people are reaching out for the truth and no force on Earth is going to stop them.

                       John Tognolini Photo by Vlaudin Vega