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The NSW Supreme Court overturned the dismissal of school principal Sheikh Abdulghani Albaf over anti-Israel social media posts. It's the latest legal blow to the NSW government amid growing scrutiny of its handling of anti-Israel speech cases. www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-suprem...
NSW government suffered another legal blow over anti-Israel speechNSW Supreme Court questions minister's interference in school principal dismissal over anti-Israel social media postswww.deepcutnews.comAlbanese's 'discipline' is code for doing nothing while the world implodes, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Albanese's 'discipline' is code for doing nothing while the world implodes – Amy RemeikisThe PM got what he wanted at the Labor National Conference, but at what cost?www.deepcutnews.com🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Queensland’s controversial ban on two pro-Palestine phrases – 'from the river to the sea' and 'globalise the intifada' – will be challenged in the High Court with seven plaintiffs lodging a writ of summons and statement of claim today. www.deepcutnews.com/p/queensland...
Queensland government faces High Court challenge over pro-Palestine speech banA constitutional challenge has been filed to strike down bans on ‘from the river to the sea’ and ‘globalise the intifada’www.deepcutnews.com🧐 ANALYSIS🧐 Labor’s response to Islamophobia was disappointingly predictable, writes former Age and ABC journalist Najma Sambul. The government acknowledged the problem while ignoring key recommendations to address it. www.deepcutnews.com/p/labors-res...
Labor’s response to Islamophobia was disappointingly predictable – Najma SambulThe government acknowledged the problem while ignoring key recommendations to address itwww.deepcutnews.comYou hear it often in progressive circles: where is Australia’s Zohran Mamdani? Or do we actually have a couple? Political writer @rachelwithers.bsky.social compares Mamdani's cost-of-living policies with those offered in Australia. www.deepcutnews.com/p/where-is-a...
Where is Australia’s Zohran Mamdani?Or do we actually already have a couple?www.deepcutnews.comA freelance cameraman who appears to work with Seven's Canberra bureau made an anti-Arab slur on Instagram. www.deepcutnews.com/p/seven-netw...
Seven Network silent over casual staffer's online racial slurA freelance cameraman in Seven's Canberra bureau leaves anti-Arab comment on Instagramwww.deepcutnews.com🚨 Breaking 🚨 Palestinian-Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has lodged a discrimination claim against La Trobe University and Greater Bendigo City Council over the writers festival debacle last year. www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: Randa Abdel-Fattah lodges discrimination claim against La Trobe and Bendigo councilThe battle for free speech enters a new roundwww.deepcutnews.comThe Jayson Gillham ruling has effectively clipped the free speech of workers, and contractors in particular, writes an employment lawyer. An important read. www.deepcutnews.com/p/what-the-j...
What the Jayson Gillham ruling means for free speechWorkers, and contractors in particular, have just had their free speech clippedwww.deepcutnews.comAlbanese's AI investment won't create mass jobs - the 'big AI boost' is essentially imports to plug into data centres, writes @grogsgamut.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Don't be fooled, Albanese's 'AI investment' won't create mass jobs - Greg JerichoThe 'big AI boost' is essentially imports to plug into data centreswww.deepcutnews.comGreens Senator David Shoebridge has demanded Jillian Segal "correct the record" regarding her claim at the Royal Commission last week that the Gaza death toll was "grossly inflated". www.deepcutnews.com/p/shoebridge...
Shoebridge demands Segal correct ‘inflated’ Gaza death toll claimMeanwhile, Anne Aly – multicultural affairs minister and Jillian Segal’s boss – stays silentwww.deepcutnews.comWoodside has been waging a three-year war against a music teacher for a stench gas stunt. Now they're dragging the activists to court with a SLAPP suit. www.deepcutnews.com/p/protesters...
Woodside's three-year-war on a music teacherWoodside Energy spent three years turning a music teacher's canister of stench gas into a "terrorism" case. Now, backed by political might, they're dragging the same activists back to court.www.deepcutnews.comJillian Segal claimed at the Royal Commission the Gaza death toll is "grossly inflated". We decided to fact check her claims. www.deepcutnews.com/p/jillian-se...
Jillian Segal claimed Gaza death toll is 'grossly inflated'. Here are the facts.Legal expert warns Segal could be in breach of Royal Commission Act over 'misleading' claimswww.deepcutnews.comAustralian steel is being used to help the Israeli military. Bisalloy Steel manufactures armour steel out of its Wollongong factory, with Israeli defence firms among its clients. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-wollon...
The Wollongong steel factory supplying Israel's militaryBisalloy Steel has seen 10 pickets attempting to halt its operations and supplies to Israelwww.deepcutnews.comTareq Baconi is a renowned Palestinian-British scholar and author, and was recently interviewed by Deepcut's Antoun Issa at the Melbourne Writers Festival. The fascinating chat explored the queer role in the Palestinian struggle. Listen 👇🏽 www.deepcutnews.com/p/tareq-baco...
Tareq Baconi – the queer role in Palestinian advocacyTareq Baconi is a Palestinian-British scholar and author of a new memoir, Fire in Every Direction. He spoke with Antoun Issa at the Melbourne Writers Festival.www.deepcutnews.comA pro-Israel lobbyist at the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council - who once said "there are no civilians" in Gaza - testified at the antisemitism Royal Commission last week on online hate speech ... www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...
Pro-Israel lobbyist who said ‘there are no civilians’ in Gaza testified at Royal CommissionHere are some past statements made by Arsen Ostrovskywww.deepcutnews.comPalestinian solidarity groups are calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador after he denied the abuse of flotilla activists and said an AFP investigation would be a waste of time. www.deepcutnews.com/p/calls-to-e...
Calls to expel Israeli ambassador after denying flotilla abuseIsraeli envoy said an AFP investigation would be a waste of timewww.deepcutnews.comRe the ABC being summoned to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, it might be worth revisiting this analysis we did a year ago showing ABC bias in favour of Israel throughout the coverage of a 'genocide' it still refuses to name. www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: data reveals pro-Israel bias in ABC coverage since October 7New analysis by Newscord and Deepcut finds ABC reporting repeatedly privileges Israeli perspectives over Palestinian voiceswww.deepcutnews.comSugar Research Australia - which gets taxpayer funding - developed a sugarcane variety to grow in West Papua. Months later, the UN accused Indonesian companies of displacing Indigenous people to make way for sugarcane production. www.deepcutnews.com/p/taxpayer-f...
Taxpayer-funded Australian sugar institute linked to abuses in West PapuaSugar Research Australia developed a sugarcane variety to grow in West Papua – months later, the UN accused Indonesian companies of displacing Indigenous peoples to make way for sugarcane production.www.deepcutnews.comA Macquarie University lecturer in Middle East politics who has been the target of a pro-Israel media campaign claims to have been filmed, followed and threatened on campus. www.deepcutnews.com/p/macquarie-...
Macquarie academic claims she was threatened, followed after criticising IsraelMan filmed lecture and told her 'I can find you', Macquarie University's Dr Jumana Bayeh sayswww.deepcutnews.com