Michael Flaherty

Israel is a nuclear armed genocidal rogue state. It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West. Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV. Here's what I said this morning.

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If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

Another dumb headline from the pathetic fence-sitters that pretend to be journalists. Trump doesn't want to restrain Netanyahu. He has given him the green light to do whatever he wants.

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

The North West Shelf extension is a disaster. It will release more pollution each year than all of Australia’s coal stations combined, threaten ancient Murujuga rock art, and deliver $0 to the public purse. Yet Labor approved it anyway.

Sanctions are a start but we need action to stop the genocide - that means ending the two-way arms trade and cancelling the $2 billion of weapons contracts the Australian Government has with Israeli companies

Israel guilty of ‘extermination’ in school, mosque attacks, amid campaign to wipe out Palestinian life, says the UN aje.io/i1opth

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

The Israeli military attacking a boat full of unarmed activists bringing food and medicine to Gaza is a clear breach of International Law that should be strongly condemned and have consequences #Madleen

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Palestinian photojournalist Abdel Rahim Khudr breaks down after discovering the loss of 48 family members in an Israeli air attack that hit his home in northern Gaza on the first day of Eid al-Adha.

Less than six months into Trump 2.0 and the army is already being used as a political tool to suppress dissent. We need to structurally distance ourselves from the US military.

Unprecedented bleaching at Ningaloo. Heartbreaking. On our watch. We cannot keep expanding coal and gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Paris Saint-Germain supporters displayed a giant banner saying 'Stop genocide in Gaza' during the UEFA Champions League final on Saturday.

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens. He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions. Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

“The business model of coal and gas companies is based on demand assumptions that are wholly inconsistent with preventing catastrophic levels of global warming. By giving these companies approval to expand their operations, the Australian govt is telling all of us it expects this outcome too.”

Israel is a rogue apartheid state committing the genocide of a civilian population and led by a fugitive war criminal. #auspol #Gaza #Genocide

According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%. At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year.  This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

10 years after gas exports from Queensland began, all of the gas companies involved, bar one, have not paid a cent in company tax. This is despite them selling $125 billion worth of LNG out of Queensland, and reporting $330 billion in total Australian revenue. #auspol

Billions in foreign real estate deals. $320M in crypto trading fees — and a private dinner with top buyers of his meme coin. $28M from Amazon for a Melania documentary. The list goes on... We're so numb to Trump profiting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices. Hello?

Still not going to impose sanctions on Israel, @albomp.bsky.social & @senatorwong.bsky.social? "I will never ever go to these distributions again. I'd rather starve to death. "...I have no food, nothing, no formula for my son — yet I will not go anymore." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

House prices are up, again. The housing crisis is putting home ownership further out of reach for millions of renters and first home buyers. To fix this, Labor must end the $176b in tax handouts to wealthy property investors. Housing should be for people, not profit.

The ongoing loss of life, starvation and human suffering in Gaza is unconscionable and I do not accept that Australia's influence is limited. I have written to the Prime Minister asking him to use the authority of his office in a stand against the actions of Israel. #gaza #auspol bit.ly/4mz81ut

Labor and the Coalition are on a unity ticket to screw the planet and the Australian public all at once - North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

** Evidence You Might Be In A Cult ** You follow one charismatic Leader. In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong. In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong. Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders. Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion. You don't know you're in a Cult

🔴 NEW: Pregnant Palestinian Doctor, Husband, and Unborn Child Killed in Israeli Strike Near Al-Aqsa Hospital A medical source in Gaza told Drop Site that Dr. Aya Al-Madhoon, a recent medical school graduate, was killed today along with her husband and their 9-month-old unborn child.

"These are not aid workers ..... they are 'camp guards'" via Anthony Corella

New emissions data is out - and it’s not good news. Carbon pollution is going up, and it’s higher than under Morrison’s Libs. Labor’s approval of new coal and gas like the North West Shelf has consequences for the planet. Two climate tests so far - and Labor’s failed both.

For 13 years UNESCO has warned the Great Barrier Reef could be listed ‘In Danger’. After multiple bleaching events and 50% coral loss, our Reef faces its final warning while the major parties stall on meaningful action toward net zero.

The Govt has approved one of the biggest fossil fuel projects in our history The NW Shelf Extension threatens to destroy 47,000 yr old petroglyphs & will drive more extreme bushfires, droughts & floods. This isn’t leadership- it’s a betrayal of our future www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8979259/

The final act of the last parliament was to gut Australia’s environment laws. The first act from the new government is to trash climate credibility, with Woodside’s huge pollution bomb. The Enviro minister has failed at the first hurdle. Trashing the environment, not protecting it.

Labor have just approved a 45 year extension to our most polluting gas project faster than Peter Dutton said he would if he won office. They sold out to their fossil fuel donors a long ago, and it's never been clearer.

The NACC has now been in operation for almost two years and it has made headlines, not by tackling corruption, but from repeatedly stumbling over conflicts of interest. That cannot be allowed to continue.

My column today's @themercurycomau - Australia's failure to impose sanctions on Israel is reprehensible

It’s official. I will be introducing a Bill for an independent public inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza. The government must decide: will it support this inquiry, or will it block our efforts to establish the truth?

Israel’s breaches of international law in Gaza risk setting ‘anarchy’ loose upon the world, a signatory says.

“Palestinians are facing a death sentence”. Aid workers in Gaza speak to #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann.

If starving and bombing children to death doesn’t warrant sanctions what will? For 19 months children have born the brunt of the war in Gaza. It is a war on children. There is no excuse for the brutality being inflicted on the innocent lives of Palestinian children & families. It must end 💔

Oh look: Yet another clear statement of Israel's genocidal intent for Albanese and Wong to ignore. While Marles continues to ship weapons components to the war criminals. #hypocrisy #StopIsrael #auspol

APAN President Nasser Mashni says he welcomes today’s strong language by the PM on Israel but says it’s come too late, says Israel is “not a democracy, it’s a rogue apartheid genocidal state, headed up by a war criminal. It’s time for Australia to do more than just talk…” #Abc

It is encouraging to see the PM and his government take a more principled stance toward condemning Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Actions speak louder than words. We urge the Australian government to recognise the State of Palestine at the UN conference in NYC next month.

And the lines all our nations have allowed Israel to wilfully stomp over will come back on all of us. There is no international law now. No one is safe. Nothing they do matters. You could see 40,000 babies burned in a room and it would barely make a ripple in the mainstream. I’m so, so broken

I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide

Palestinians searched for bodies after an Israeli air attack leveled a building in Jabalia, as Israel ramped up its Gaza offensive. At least 16 people were killed on Friday as aid trickled in for the first time in two months.