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Alex Ehlert's avatar

So glad that the people have finally been heard. I take it Jillian Segal did not march. Or is she viewing the CCTV footage......?

Great job Joel.....Penny and Albo have definitely dropped the ball on this one.

The only Albanese to listen to is Francesca!!!

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Malcolm Robbins's avatar

Bloody inspirational to this Kiwi observer. Good on you mate!

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Michele Sheldon's avatar

Joel’s words are so powerful. Like a gut punch.

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Malcolm Robbins's avatar

I'm also immensely proud of all my Australian brothers and sisters who attended that event. Easily the biggest protest in the world on this issue to date!

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Michele Sheldon's avatar

Extraordinary. And still our government resists any real form of action. I’m proud too, of the ordinary people who care.

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Velociraver's avatar

Yemenis regularly march in far greater numbers,..it's truly awesome.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkVY6g0bkKo

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Lorraine's avatar

The solidarity of the people who marched was inspiring.

From all walks of life, all kinds of backgrounds & beliefs, in peace, in the pouring rain.

People came from many places outside metro Sydney.

I know of many from the Coffs Harbour & Port Macquarie areas.

People travelled up from the south coast too.

That's social cohesion you witless politicians.

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Michele Sheldon's avatar

The Government is not going to do anything I fear. And I’m terrified. Just prevaricate until all Palestinians are dead. What the f**ck can we do?

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jennifer harding's avatar

WHY Anthony A /Labor Party/Australian Parliament?

Oh look ... It's the same ...

'Great Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming it's blood funnel into anything that smells like money'

(Matt Taibbi describing Goldman Sachs in 2003).

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Davina's avatar

Imagine having to stand at the front end of 300,000 protesters and tell them “That's as far as you can go, you have to turn back.“ on a huge bridge filled to capacity, and more who had not yet managed to reach the bridge coming along behind. 🫣😵‍💫🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Raj's avatar

When we have so called leaders with zero ability to think beyond their own self interest, particularly focused on securing a job when they become ex politicians, we end up with appalling mediocrity such as we see with both major parties.

Fear of offending or alienating the Zionists who might give them their next job renders all of them corrupt and complicit in the savage slaughter of women and children.

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Bruce Keogh's avatar

I have never seen the Sydney Harbour Bridge look so beautiful.

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Niemoller's Ghost's avatar

I don't want repudiation of Israel's actions, it is way too late for mere words like that, after 2 years of Australia's LabLib duopoly illegally authorizing supplying arms (components) to genocide, freezing UNWRA funding (allowing current genocide starvation), and generally failing to aid Palestine (apartheid, ICC warrants, anti-palestinianism, genocide condemnation) as they legally and morally should. I demand a boycott and formal sanction of Genocide Israel from these genocide-abetting LabLibs, as international law requires. They must support the good Greens policy, not continue with their spite, racism, and gutless US obedience. Until enough MPs and/or Senators deliver what's legal and moral, I urge protest and divestment of the genocide-participant companies and State. I urge the recording (as evidence) of all Australian zionist activities, and the active refusal (mesharvot) to aid Israel's genocidal State. I urge all this, while still acknowledging that a minority of Israel's residents have no culpability for their state's recidivist crimes against humanity, and that the religion of Judaism and its believers are not culpable as a group.

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