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>>>/qresearch/18928925 Video: Mark McGowan resigns as WA Premier - Western Australia’s Premier Mark McGowan has announced he is stepping down as the state’s leader, admitting his many years serving has left him “exhausted”. “I just don‘t have the energy or drive that is required to continue in the role as Premier. Or to fight that election which would have been my eighth election as a Member of Parliament,” he said. McGowan led Labor back to government with an overwhelming victory over the Liberal government in March 2017, and again at the 2021 election. He enforced some of the toughest Covid-19 restrictions on travel during the pandemic.
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>>>/qresearch/18928944 Video: Mark McGowan stands down as WA premier in shock announcement, citing exhaustion - WA Premier Mark McGowan has announced he is retiring from politics in a bombshell announcement. In a press conference held with just 45 minutes' notice, Mr McGowan said he would step down as premier and member for Rockingham at the end of the week. "The truth is I'm tired, extremely tired. In fact, I'm exhausted," he said. Mr McGowan enjoyed overwhelming popularity in his second term throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, enacting the nation's strictest border policies. The approach came with its critics, with some arguing it was heavy-handed, and prompting then-deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce to describe WA as a "kind of hermit kingdom".
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>>>/qresearch/18928950 WA Premier Mark McGowan’s shock departure puts Labor seats at risk - Mark McGowan’s shock departure from politics inflicts a massive blow to the Labor Party’s prospects at the 2025 state and federal elections. Western Australia’s most popular leader in its history - whose landslide 2021 state election victory left the Liberal and National parties in ruin – played a huge hand in delivering Anthony Albanese majority government. Albanese had to wait for the red wave in Perth - where results rolled in two hours behind those on the east coast – to deliver Labor the Liberal seats of Swan, Hasluck, Tangney and Pearce, before claiming majority government on election night. McGowan’s “X-factor” significantly boosted federal Labor’s stocks in Western Australia, and ALP strategists are concerned that losing his popular appeal in the west will make it tougher to retain seats.
>>>/qresearch/18928954 Exit door: ‘Premier’s legacy a weakened federation’ - Mark McGowan was the first premier to take as strong an alternative approach to a federal government in foreign policy and “revelled” in stepping out from the commonwealth particularly on the relationship with China, foreign policy experts say. The outgoing Western Australian leader frequently called out the former Coalition government and its handling of the relationship with Beijing, which he labelled “insane”, and demanded Scott Morrison end the damaging rhetoric against Australia’s biggest trading partner. During a visit to China last month - the first in four years - Mr McGowan said it was “unfounded” to have a “fearful relationship” with Beijing after 50 years of fostering a close economic relationship.
>>>/qresearch/18934236 https://qalerts.pub/?q=schumer - https://qalerts.pub/?q=[CS]
>>>/qresearch/18940103 Why ‘gender affirming’ care is destroying our most vulnerable kids - ''"For years readers of The Australian have been made aware of the controversies surrounding the medical treatment of children who identify as other than their natal sex. But it is only recently the seriousness of the public health crisis has begun to be apparent. This is a public health crisis caused not by a virus, not by a disease, but by a social contagion. It is time for plain speaking about the issue. The transgender movement has been based on one truth and a thousand lies. The truth is that for a very small number of people, mostly born male, there can be such a disconnect between body and mind that they cannot find peace unless and until they take such steps as they can to pass as the other sex. This can involve taking cross-sex hormones and undergoing major surgeries that are difficult and risky. Those who take this path, usually well into their adult years and after much suffering, are courageous. They deserv
>>>/qresearch/18940139 Donald Trump Jr demands media apologise for airing false claims that his father colluded with Vladimir Putin for 2016 election - Donald Trump Jr has lambasted the media for airing false claims about his father’s alleged collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 presidential election and said outlets who endorsed the claims - including the ABC – should publicly apologise. After the release of the 316-page Durham report earlier this month, which criticised the FBI’s handling of the investigation into the alleged ties between the two leaders and found no evidence of collusion between Mr Trump and Mr Putin, Mr Trump Jr said his father was owed an apology. “The media made millions of dollars, the country was divided and my father’s first term was hamstrung by the whole thing,” the former president’s eldest son told The Australian.
>>>/qresearch/18940223 Video: Memorial Day | The Last Full Measure of Devotion - May 29, 2023 - This #MemorialDay, we pay tribute to the brave men and women of the Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice defending the nation’s freedom. Let us remember the greatness of past generations and find inspiration from their courage, devotion, and selfless determination. Semper Fidelis. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Staff Sgt. John A. Martinez) - United States Marine Corps
VIDEO https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=ejPIgRnHh04 - Memorial Day [Channel: Marines]
>>>/qresearch/18940278 Q Post #2309 - WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL! WE, THE PEOPLE! FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA. LET FREEDOM RING, PATRIOTS. IT IS YOUR TIME. IF AMERICA FALLS, THE WORLD FALLS. UNITED WE STAND! GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Q+ - https://qanon.pub/#2039
>>>/qresearch/18945832 Health leaders reject the need for oversight of transgender medicine - Australia’s most senior health leaders have dismissed suggestions the commonwealth should take a greater oversight and regulatory role in the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children as the federal government admits it has no idea how widely the drugs are being prescribed off-label for gender dysphoria.
>>>/qresearch/18946058 Talisman Sabre - MAGIC SWORD - https://qalerts.pub/?q=Operation+Specialists - https://qalerts.pub/?q=magic
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>>>/qresearch/18949906 Kyiv ‘needs to wait’ for fresh support, says Anthony Albanese - Anthony Albanese has pushed back at Ukraine’s suggestion his government is preparing to unveil fresh support for Ukraine next month, saying announcements would be made “when they’re ready to be made”. “My governments is a considered, adult government,” the Prime Minister told reporters on Saturday during a visit to Vietnam. “I can confirm that we make the announcements when they are ready, when they’ve been considered by all of our processes, including our cabinet.”
>>>/qresearch/18955343 Karina Samperi Truth: Thank you @DevinNunes for finally letting #Australia join #TruthSocial. We have been waiting patiently to be let in support of the #Patriot movement that will affect #Australia
>>>/qresearch/18960235 US Marines to join allied troops in Australia for combined force exercise - U.S. Marines in Australia will kick off a month of field training alongside Australian and Japanese troops next week, a precursor to one of the largest military exercises in the Pacific the following month. The exercise, Southern Jackaroo, is taking place between June 15 and mid-July, Maj. Matthew Wolf, a spokesman for Marine Rotational Force - Darwin, said. Next month, all three nations will participate in Talisman Sabre, a biennial exercise in Australia that’s scheduled to draw approximately 30,000 personnel.
>>>/qresearch/18960257 Hawkei armoured cars bound for Ukraine war in Australian support deal - Australia is set to give Ukraine the missile-capable, four-wheel-drive armoured cars that it has been requesting for months - the Hawkei - as the centrepiece of a forthcoming support package. Although a formal commitment has yet to be sealed, there has been serious progress informally and Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov told the Herald and The Age the vehicles were number one on his list of “demands” from Australia. He described the Australian-made vehicles as “very, very famous armed vehicles with air defence systems” in an interview in Singapore after meeting his Australian counterpart, Richard Marles, at the weekend. The Hawkei is a seven-tonne armoured car designed to be fitted with the same Norwegian-American air defence system that protects the White House.
>>>/qresearch/18965978 Video: Nigel Farage said he decided to join Donald Trump Jr.'s Australian speaking tour because the former president's son is 'blooming-good fun' - Former Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has announced he is joining Donald Trump Jr.’s speaking tour of Australia. The eldest son of the former US president is set to appear in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne between 9 and 11 July, this year. Speaking to Sky News Australia’s Paul Murray, the former UK politician-turned GB News host said he had decided to join the tour - which will also include South Australian senator Alex Antic – at the last minute. “I’m coming, well for a couple of reasons really: One, I don’t think you get quite enough real, proper conservative conversation down in Australia these days; number two, I want you all to realise that whatever madnesses you're facing, we're facing them in America and in Britain; and number three, I really like Donald Trump Jr., he’s blooming-good fun, and it’s going to be a great time,” Mr Farage
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>>>/qresearch/18971108 Australia to ban swastika, SS sign citing rise of far-right - Video: Australia said on Thursday it would introduce laws to the parliament next week banning public displays and sales of Nazi hate symbols, citing a rise in far-right activities at home. The swastika, one of the most recognisable symbols of Nazi propaganda, and the insignia of Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party, will be outlawed to be used as flags and armbands or printed on clothes. "We've seen, very sadly, a rise in people displaying these vile symbols, which are symbols that have no place in Australia, they should be repugnant," Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus told Channel Seven television.
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>>>/qresearch/18971120 ‘Not pulling our weight’: Bipartisanship collapses over Ukraine support - A fight has erupted between the major parties over Australian support for Ukraine’s war against Russia, with the federal opposition declaring it embarrassing that Ukrainian officials have been forced to resort to social media posts to plead for more military assistance from the Albanese government. In the Coalition’s strongest criticism yet of the government’s Ukraine policy, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham and defence spokesman Andrew Hastie said they were concerned that Australia was no longer pulling its weight when it came to supporting Ukraine’s military efforts.
>>>/qresearch/18971125 Retired Australian F/A-18 Hornet jets a step closer to joining Ukraine's war effort - Kyiv has assured the White House that it would not deploy second-hand Australian warplanes into Russian airspace if dozens of the retired F/A-18s are transferred to Ukraine. High-level international negotiations are continuing between Australia, Ukraine, and the United States over the fate of the decommissioned fighter aircraft, in what could become this country's largest-ever single transfer of military equipment to a foreign power.
>>>/qresearch/18977940 Q Post #4349 - Nobody escapes this. Q
>>>/qresearch/18983042 White House asked to approve Australian F/A-18 Hornets for Ukraine - Kyiv has formally asked the White House to green light the transfer of the RAAF’s fleet of retired F/A-18 Hornets to Ukraine under a commercial deal with a US aerospace company that has the rights to buy the aircraft. If the US approves the deal, Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles will be urged to make the sale happen, according to an Australian adviser to the Ukraine government who has been helping to broker the sale. Australian, American and Ukrainian officials are understood to have had initial discussions on the potential agreement in which Texas company RAVN Aerospace - which has paid a deposit for 41 of the jets - would on-sell its stake to Kyiv.
>>>/qresearch/18983065 ‘Mystery man’ Robert Potter leads fighter jet talks in Ukraine - An Adelaide-born cyber security entrepreneur has emerged as a central figure in a proposed international arms deal to sell retired Australian fighter jets to Ukraine. Internet 2.0 co-founder Robert Potter has an agreement with Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry to provide cyber security tools and training to support the country’s war against Russia. But Mr Potter’s role in the potential sale of up to 41 former RAAF F/A-18 Hornets to the country has raised eyebrows in Ukraine and Australia, with the Kyiv Post newspaper this week describing his involvement as “unconventional”.
>>>/qresearch/18983102 Aussie Fighter Jets for Ukraine? More Questions Than Answers - "The mandate for such a deal or for the Australian cyber-security consultant who appears associated with it remains unclear after Kyiv Post investigated. Following the international spread of a media report that Australia and the US were negotiating with Ukraine about providing retired Australian F/A-18 aircraft, doubts about the alleged deal have emerged. Yesterday, the Australian Financial Review (AFR), a highly respected newspaper, published a report by two very well-regarded journalists that Australia, the US and Ukraine “are discussing sending 41 Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornets to Kyiv.” Given the Ukrainian government has repeatedly said that fighter aircraft are critical to their country’s defense, Kyiv Post sought to establish the bona fides of developments reported by AFR." - Pete Shmigel - kyivpost.com
>>>/qresearch/18987818 Australian deaths from ‘suicide kits’ linked to global investigation - The deaths of several Australians by suicide have been linked to a now global investigation into a Canadian chef who has been charged in his homeland with selling a lethal substance online to vulnerable people all over the world. Australian law enforcement agencies have joined investigators in Britain, the United States, Italy, New Zealand and Canada to investigate alleged suicide kits sent by Kenneth Law who, for almost two years, used a website to sell a poison that at-risk people could use to end their lives.
>>>/qresearch/18987863 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Video: Always Ready - Check out U.S. Marines with MRF-D as they conduct an embassy reinforcement scenario at Mount Bundey Training Area! - #AlliesandPartners #FreeandOpenIndoPacific #MRFD #embassy - (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Cpl. Brayden Daniel)
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>>>/qresearch/18992075 A QUESTION OF TRANSITION - Youth gender treatment under scrutiny - JULIE SZEGO - 4 JUN 2023 - "This is a piece The Age refused to publish. It is the first in a series I’ll be posting here." - https://szegounplugged.substack.com/p/a-question-of-transition
>>>/qresearch/18992091 Senior child psychiatrist stood down after questioning gender medicine - The suspension of a senior staff psychiatrist over her approach to transgender patients has thrown the Queensland Children’s Hospital into turmoil, casting a spotlight on widespread concerns among doctors at the treatment of children with gender dysphoria. The case of Jillian Spencer - stood down from clinical duties apparently accused of transphobia – has exposed a culture in which clinicians are unable to employ medical discretion or a neutral therapeutic stance and are bound by their employment to affirm children’s gender transition. Dr Spencer, a senior staff specialist in the QCH’s consultation liaison psychiatry team, was removed from clinical duties in mid-April following a patient complaint in an unusual response from a public hospital that followed months of conflict over affirmative gender medicine and trans identity politics within the hospital.
>>>/qresearch/18998407 USA puts flying schools on Entity List for training PLA aircrew - The US Department of Commerce has added international flight schools to its Entity List, stating that they have recruited Western pilots to provide training for China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The two companies, the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) and Hong Kong-based Frontier Service Group, were among 43 entities added to the list. Entities on the list are subject to additional licensing requirements and policies beyond the USA’s standard Export Administration Regulations. The Commerce Department says that the various entities added have provided assistance to Beijing in areas such as pilot training, aircraft manoeuvres and tactics, hypersonic weapons development, and weapon lifecycle management using Western software. China’s tapping of former western military pilots has come into the spotlight in the last 12 months. Former US Marine Corps pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan is in Australia fighting extraditio
>>>/qresearch/18998479 Video: Australia's Bushmasters to play 'huge role' in Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia, troops say - In a secret location in eastern Ukraine, frontline troops from the 80th Air Assault Brigade are putting one of their Bushmasters through its paces. "It's fantastic," says driver Oleksandr when asked about the armoured personnel carrier that was built in Bendigo. "Words cannot express it. It's such a powerful vehicle. It is much easier to drive than our equipment," he says. Australia pledged 90 Bushmasters to Ukraine after President Zelenskyy addressed the national parliament last year and asked for the vehicles. They have proved invaluable to Ukraine's armed forces over the past year.
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>>>/qresearch/19005499 Video: Lidia Thorpe accuses fellow senator David Van of ‘sexually assaulting’ her - Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has in parliament accused Victorian Liberal senator David Van of “harassing” and “sexually assaulting” her. The allegation was made by Thorpe soon after Senate question time on Wednesday as Van made a speech accusing the Labor Party of disgraceful behaviour in its handling of the Brittany Higgins sexual assault allegations. “Even yesterday and today the muck that has been thrown from that side [Labor] to this side [Liberal] senators [Michaelia] Cash and [Linda] Reynolds is really just not on and makes a mockery of your words,” he said.” As Van speaks, Thorpe can be heard interjecting and calling out the word “perpetrator” and “You can talk! You can talk! You know what you were doing around this time, you know what you were doing around this time don’t you Van? You got away with a lot.” Senate deputy president Andrew McLachlan repeatedly attempted to stop Thorpe from
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>>>/qresearch/19005586 KanekoaTheGreat Tweet: Australia's Sky News discusses @MarcoPolo501c3 releasing a 630-page report with 2,020 citations that thoroughly documents 459 crimes committed by the Biden family & their business associates. •140 business crimes •191 sex crimes •128 drug crimes - https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1668724106001543168
>>>/qresearch/19005590 Video: 'Out of a novel': Hunter Biden's laptop filled with sex, drugs and shady deals exposed - A former aide to Donald Trump has lifted the lid on Hunter Biden’s laptop which has plagued the Democratic Party since it first surfaced in October 2020. Garrett Ziegler was one of the few people given a copy of the laptop in 2020 by the former president’s ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani. He has been named in Hunter Biden’s attorneys demands for the Delaware attorney general, Department of Justice and IRS to investigate those who published the president’s son's personal material. Within the laptop was a treasure trove of information suggesting the now President’s son had been involved in overseas business deals including lobbying foreign oligarchs, influence peddling. It also includes explicit photos and videos of Hunter engaging in sex acts and taking drugs. Mr Ziegler detailed the contents in an exclusive interview with Sky News Australia in a bid to paint “a true picture”.
VIDEO https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=tf0NwQyiWko - Hunter Biden’s ‘insane’ laptop exposed: Sex, drugs, and shady deals [Channel: Sky News Australia]
>>>/qresearch/19010951 ‘Take it to the police’: David Van responds to Lidia Thorpe claims - Victorian Liberal senator David Van has told Lidia Thorpe to go to the police if she believes, as she has claimed, that he sexually assaulted her. The independent senator on Wednesday performed an extraordinary backdown in parliament, withdrawing her accusation hours earlier that Mr Van had “harassed and sexually assaulted” her when his party was in government. Senator Van said Senator Thorpe’s accusations were “just awful,” telling 2GB the allegations were “Just terrible for me and my family.” “The only time I’ve ever even touched her was shaking her hand after her maiden speech. “Nothing else, that’s for sure,” he said.
>>>/qresearch/19010988 Liberal Senator David Van was accused by Lidia Thorpe of harassment, here’s what we know about him - A former public affairs consultant from Victoria, ousted Liberal senator David Van was thrown into the spotlight when independent Lidia Thorpe used parliamentary privilege to accuse him of harassment and sexual assault. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on Thursday afternoon said further allegations had emerged about Senator Van and had “advised Senator Van of my decision that he should no longer sit in the Liberal Party party room.” Senator Thorpe on Thursday spoke of how she had faced “sexual comments” and had been “inappropriately propositioned” in corridors and stairwells of parliament house in an emotional speech to the Senate. “One man followed me and cornered me in a stairwell,” she said. “To me, it was sexual assault and the government of the time recognised it as such.”
>>>/qresearch/19011007 Lidia Thorpe says she was propositioned and inappropriately touched in parliament - Independent Lidia Thorpe has doubled down on her allegations that Liberal Senator David Van is a “perpetrator”, telling the Senate on Thursday that he was among a number of men in parliament who had made her feel “unsafe” in the building. In a tearful address to the upper house, the former Greens senator said she had been “propositioned and inappropriately touched” in the hallways and corridors of parliament and called on the government to immediately increase the number of security guards and cameras in the building. “As all women that have walked the corridors of this building know, it is not a safe place. You are often alone in long corridors with no windows and in stairwells hidden from view, where there are no cameras,” she told the senate. “I experienced sexual comments and it was inappropriately propositioned by powerful men. One man followed me and cornered me in a stairwell. “There are different
>>>/qresearch/19011031 Video: David Van moves to the crossbench after Thorpe’s Senate accusations - Liberal senator David Van has been removed from the Liberal party room after a meeting with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton following accusations of harassment made by Lidia Thorpe in the Senate. Dutton said he had met with the Victorian senator on Thursday morning after further allegations had been brought to him overnight. “A short time ago I advised Senator Van of my decision that he should no longer sit in the Liberal party room. At the outset, I want to make clear, very clear that I’m not making any judgement on the veracity of the allegations or any individual’s guilt or innocence. I make that very clear,” Dutton said.
VIDEO https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=czxra2kIv-A - Senator removed from party room amid Thorpe allegations | 9 News Australia [Channel: 9 News Australia]
>>>/qresearch/19011145 Video: ‘Threat to our national security’: Government to terminate lease for new Russian embassy - The Albanese government has introduced emergency legislation to prevent Russia from opening a new embassy less than a kilometre from Parliament House in Canberra, saying the new site poses an unacceptable security risk. The government intervened in the long-running dispute about the embassy site after the Federal Court last week found an eviction order issued by the National Capital Authority (NCA) was invalid. The Russian government was granted the 99-year lease for the plot of land, in the upmarket suburb of Yarralumla, in 2008 but failed to progress plans to develop the site, leading the NCA to claim it should give it up to another country. “The government has received very clear security advice as to the risk presented by a new Russian presence, and so close to Parliament House,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a press conference.
VIDEO https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=RKOqA3m-gNk - Australia to terminate Russian diplomatic lease near Parliament House | 9 News Australia [Channel: 9 News Australia]
>>>/qresearch/19011190 Queensland makes gender optional on birth certificates - Sexual reassignment surgery will no longer be mandatory for adults and teenagers wanting to change sex on their Queensland birth certificates under new laws that were expected to pass state parliament. The transgender reforms, opposed by the Liberal National Party, will also give parents the option not to list any gender on their newborn’s documentation. Children older than 16 will be able to legally self-identify as another sex without parental consent, as long as they have a supporting statement from an adult who has known them for at least a year. Those aged 12 to 15 will require their parents’ permission to change their birth certificate, but can apply to the courts if their parents do not support an application. Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath said the opt-in approach for listing sex on birth certificates was designed to “give people the greatest agency over what information they want recorded. Providing these protectio
>>>/qresearch/19016472 Peter Dutton says senator David Van should quit parliament, after another allegation raised with him - Liberal leader Peter Dutton says senator David Van should quit parliament, after airing that allegations made against the senator by a third person were brought to him, contributing to his rapid expulsion from the party room. Over an explosive 48 hours, independent senator Lidia Thorpe raised allegations under parliamentary privilege that Senator Van had sexually harassed and assaulted her - which he immediately denied, and she later withdrew. Former Liberal senator Amanda Stoker yesterday raised her own claims that Senator Van had inappropriately touched her at a party by squeezing her bottom twice - something she said she dealt with internally at the time, but felt compelled to bring to Mr Dutton's attention after Senator Thorpe spoke in the Senate.