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>>17453586 Q Research AUSTRALIA #26

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Wednesday 11.20.2019

>>7358352 ————————————–——– These people are stupid.

>>7358338 ————————————–——– All assets [F + D] being deployed.

>>7358318 ————————————–——– What happens when the PUBLIC discovers the TRUTH [magnitude] re: [D] party corruption?

Tuesday 11.19.2019

>>7357790 ————————————–——– FISA goes both ways.

Saturday 11.16.2019

>>7356270 ————————————–——– There is no escaping God.

>>7356265 ————————————–——– The Harvest [crop] has been prepared and soon will be delivered to the public for consumption.

Friday 11.15.2019

>>7356017 ————————————–——– "Whistle Blower Traps" [Mar 4 2018] 'Trap' keyword select provided…..

Thursday 03.28.2019

>>5945210 ————————————–——– Sometimes our 'sniffer' picks and pulls w/o applying credit file

>>5945074 ————————————–——– We LOVE you!

>>5944970 ————————————–——– USA v. LifeLog?

>>5944908 ————————————–——– It is an embarrassment to our Nation!

>>5944859 ————————————–——– 'Knowingly'

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#26 - Part 1

Australian Politics and Society - Part 1

>>17453756 More firepower on Australian Defence Force shopping list - Australia is looking to push ahead with the expansion of its F-35 stealth fighter fleet and is considering buying US B-21 bombers to give the nation a new long-range strike capability

>>17458422 Australia's defence minister Richard Marles aims to deepen defence ties with France, Germany and Britain during visits to the European partners, saying war in Ukraine has increased the importance of cooperation with likeminded nations

>>17458426 Lieutenant General Stephen Sklenka, Deputy Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), and Brigadier General Joseph Clearfield, Deputy Commander of Marine Corps Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC) visited the Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) and the Australian 1st Brigade on August 25 to reinforce the strength and importance of the U.S.-Australian alliance

>>17458432 Exercise Predators Run 2022: Finding common ground - 102 Battery, 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery participating in 1st Brigade’s annual warfighter exercise, Predators Run, along with gunners from the Malaysian Armed Forces’ (MAF) 3rd Artillery Division, soldiers from the Philippine Army and the US Marine Corps (Marine Rotational Force – Darwin)

>>17461804 Millionaire agribusiness leader Tom Strachan among three dead in horror Queensland light plane crash

>>17463297 United States Strategic Command Tweet: #ICYMI: This year over 100 aircraft from and 2500 personnel from (Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. and the U.K.) will take part in the @AusAirForce hosted multilateral exercise #PitchBlack22.

>>17463297 Royal Australian Air Force Tweet: Video: All the flying nations have now arrived & an extra warm welcome goes to our Pitch Black 1st-timers from Germany, Japan & the Republic of Korea. Can't wait to fly with old friends & new on #PitchBlack22!

>>17463412 Video: MRF-D 22 and 1st MAW Participates in the Pitch Black Open Day - Marines with MRF-D 22 and 1st MAW participated in the Pitch Black 22 public static display that showcased aircraft to the local Darwin community and allowed the public to engage with the rotational force.

>>17463696 Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass set to be asked to formally consider reopening an investigation into the Andrews government’s infamous red shirts elections rort - A police whistleblower involved in the initial investigation has made a formal statement claiming police command purposely thwarted the probe

>>17463842 Inquiry into far-right extremism in Victoria makes 12 recommendations to counter spread - The findings of a six-month inquiry into the re-emergence of far-right extremism in Victoria have been released, highlighting issues such as decreasing public trust in mainstream media and government and young people engaging with extremism

#26 - Part 2

Australian Politics and Society - Part 2

>>17463856 Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin opens gates for a closer look at Pitch Black military hardware - A display of military hardware from the multinational force taking part in the biennial Pitch Black exercise in northern Australia drew scores of locals and troops for a closer look

>>17463891 Video: Exercise Pitch Black 2022 | Mindil Beach flypast - A great display of what Pitch Black is all about - multinational partner forces working together to strengthen our relationships, interoperability and understanding. Thank you so much to all the international exercise participants who helped make the flypast such a success - Royal Australian Air Force

>>17463892 Exercise Pitch Black 2022 | RAAF Base Darwin open day - The local community turned up in their thousands to the #PitchBlack22 open day at RAAF Base Darwin to see the participating forces on display - Royal Australian Air Force

>>17469881 Defence Minister Richard Marles has refused to say if the federal government will appoint a High Commissioner to the UK by the end of the year, even though the countries are in critical negotiations over the acquisition of nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement

>>17469889 Australians to train on UK nuclear submarines under landmark pact - Australian naval officers will be allowed to train inside Britain’s nuclear-powered submarines for the first time to ensure they are prepared for the eventual arrival of the highly prized technology under the AUKUS pact

>>17475424 Malcolm Turnbull almost sacked Alexander Downer for sparking FBI inquiry - Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was so incensed that Alexander Downer, Australia’s top diplomat in London, had “blundered” into the US embassy, “blurting out political gossip of the most intense political sensitivity”, and sparking the FBI inquiry into Russian meddling in the US ­election, that he considered sacking him - Revealed in a new book by investigative journalist Richard Kerbaj, The Secret History of The Five Eyes

>>17475475 AUKUS allies sign off on nuclear subs training for Australians - In a deepening of Australian-British military ties under the AUKUS arrangement, Royal Australian Navy submariners will begin training on the nuclear propelled British submarine, the Astute class HMS Anson, having been cleared to access some of Britain’s top secret nuclear military secrets

>>17475487 Video: Rear Admiral Scott Pappano warns helping Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines could be too big a burden for America's already overstretched shipyards

>>17481803 UK tried to use our ban on Huawei as leverage - Britain tried to use Australia’s unilateral decision to exclude Huawei from its next generation 5G network as a prime reason for why it should be able to make up its own mind about security risks and use the Chinese company - Revealed in a new book by investigative journalist Richard Kerbaj, The Secret History of The Five Eyes

>>17481833 Nuclear-powered submarines are set to be built in Australia as the AUKUS alliance demands we pull our weight in military manufacturing

#26 - Part 3

Australian Politics and Society - Part 3

>>17481876 Australia training preps F-35 pilots for long-range battles that could end in dogfight - During Pitch Black drills in Australia’s Northern Territory, U.S. and Australian pilots are honing the skills they need to carry out long-range missile strikes

>>17481941 Video: Darwin nightclub bouncer Hayden Summers found guilty of causing serious harm to US marine

>>17487810 MRF-D 22 Ground Combat Element Integrates into 1st Brigade to Enhance Combined Littoral Lethality

>>17487954 Chris Bowen Tweet: The Biden Administration and Albanese Government are working closely together on climate policy. Always great to compare notes with the President’s Special Envoy on Climate, @JohnKerry @ClimateEnvoy

>>17487954 Q Post #4196 - THE SHADOW PRESIDENCY. THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT. Why did [Hussein] shadow POTUS re: [F] trips? Why did [Kerry] shadow POTUS re: Iran? Why did [Kerry] shadow POTUS re: [CLAS 1-99]?…..INSURGENCY. IRREGULAR WARFARE. THE GREATEST POLITICAL SCANDAL IN HISTORY. What are they trying to prevent? Who are they trying to protect? Q

>>17499234 Ukraine’s pitch to Australia: Use our army as your guinea pig - Ukraine has launched a bold bid for its army to be used as a “guinea pig” for cutting-edge Australian military technology as it seeks to gain a crucial battlefield advantage over Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces.

>>17499314 Speaker rules against referring Scott Morrison to privileges committee over claims he misled parliament on his secret self-appointment to jointly administer several portfolios

>>17499342 Real-life Squid Game horror spills over into Australia - The wealthy family of the sadistic overlord behind South Korea’s real-life Squid Game – now living in Australia – is expected to face legal action from survivors after an official inquiry revealed that 657 inmates were killed in the "Brothers Home" house of horrors

>>17504306 East Timorese leader flies to Australia for critical talks - East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta is scheduled to arrive in Australia for a state visit as negotiations over lucrative gas resources reach a critical stage for his impoverished nation

>>17504317 Tributes flow for Queensland medic Jed Danahay killed in Ukraine, hailed a hero by ambassador to Australia

>>17504368 US Coast Guard: Cairns visit a success with Australia’s important allies - Officers have given a rare behind-the-scenes look onboard the first US Coast Guard vessel of its kind to dock at Cairns. Why it’s here and the intriguing thing crew love most about the city

>>17508757 Operation Ironside: Alleged drug kingpin Mostafa Baluch joins legal challenge which could result in evidence gathered during ANOM police operation being ruled inadmissible

>>17508776 Mostafa Baluch joins AN0M challenge as lawyers consider fighting search warrants - More than 50 alleged AN0M criminals are pushing toward a landmark legal challenge they hope could derail the police case against them

>>17513286 Mark Latham accuses NSW Labor MP Anna Watson of getting drunk at parliament bar and trying to drive home

>>17515448 Q Post #100 - Who is the Queen of England? How long in power? With power comes corruption. What happened to Diana? What did she find out? Why was she running? Who did she entrust to help her flee? What was the cover? Why is this relevant? Why now?

>>17517472 Video: Public holiday announced for September 22 to honour Queen - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced there will be a one-off public holiday to honour the Queen’s death on Thursday September 22 - Sky News Australia

>>17519348 Video: Americans mark 21st anniversary of September 11, 2001 terror attacks - For the 21st time, Americans have marked the anniversary of their country's deadliest terror attacks - September 11, 2001 - 7NEWS Australia

>>17526513 MRF-D Trains in Every Clime and Place - Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) 22 participated in Australian led courses that will enhance their ability to conduct operations in every clime and place

>>17526520 King Charles proclaimed monarch of Australia, New Zealand - King Charles was officially proclaimed head of state of both Australia and New Zealand at ceremonies on Sunday, September 11 2022 in the nations' capitals

>>17526532 U.S. Embassy Australia Tweet: Our Embassy fence is lined with hundreds of flags to mark the 21st anniversary of the attacks on 9/11. Placing these flags each year is one way our community comes together to commemorate this solemn day and remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost, including those of 10 Australians.

#26 - Part 4

Australian Politics and Society - Part 4

>>17531107 Australian leaders remember 9/11 terror attacks - Twenty-one years after the September 11 terror attacks, Australia's leaders have remembered those who were killed

>>17531279 Australian economist Sean Turnell set to learn fate in secret junta trial - Australian economist Sean Turnell is expected to be told the outcome of his secret trial in Myanmar within the next month

>>17531366 Mike Pompeo Tweet: We understood that the Chinese Communist Party was a threat to America, and for four years we treated them as a threat. It's time for the Biden team to recognize reality: China still wants to undermine us. They have not changed.

>>17531591 Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Tweet: Video: Bushmaster, (genus Lachesis), an Amazonian venomous snake subdued by our soldiers that stings the enemy unexpectedly, painfully, and fatally. Thanks to our Australian wizards for the instruction manual. @RichardMarlesMP @AmbVasyl

>>17531597 Australia will decide on whether to order up to four more Northrop Grumman Corp MQ-4C Triton maritime surveillance drones after a defence review next year

>>17531702 Space Force coming to rely on Australian firm for space situational awareness - Software from Sydney-based Saber Astronautics, which describes itself as a “Global space operations provider,” is rapidly spreading throughout the US military. It’s just won an extra $540,000 to meet the growing list of information the new Space Force operations command keeps discovering it needs in its ‘Space Cockpit’

>>17531725 ABF and US Coast Guard train in Far North Queensland - The first ever US Coast Guard Sentinel Class Cutter port visit to Cairns took place this week, with a joint activity also occurring between the US Coast Guard (USCG), the Australian Defence Force (ADF), a Republic of Fiji Navy Ship (RFNS) and the Australian Border Force (ABF) near Port Douglas

>>17531939 Japanese Ambassador YAMAGAMI Shingo Tweet: What a great honour and pleasure to receive three (Australian) intelligence chiefs at my residence! As a humble former spy chief and catcher myself, I enjoyed my engaging talks with Andrew, Paul and Mike. Many thanks for your solid friendship with (Japan)!

>>17537067 Video: Anthony Albanese meets King Charles at Buckingham Palace while in London to honour the Queen

>>17537087 Government insists nuclear submarine program 'taking shape' one year into controversial AUKUS partnership

>>17537112 Scientology leader evades legal service in Australian trafficking case - Scientology leader David Miscavige has avoided being served with a summons on at least 14 occasions, a US court has been told, as part of a human-trafficking case brought by three Australian residents.

>>17537126 Ukraine calls on Australia to ban Russian tourists - Australia should ban Russian tourists from visiting the country and reopen its embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia has declared

>>17537134 Australia has no plan to ban Russian tourists, Marles says - A call to ban Russian tourists from Australia has been swiftly rejected by deputy prime minister Richard Marles

>>17537150 A Ruck to Remember: MRF-D 22 Remembers 9/11 with Commemorative Rugby Match

>>17542667 MRF-D 22 Tests Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations Concepts on South Goulburn Island in the Arafura Sea

>>17560194 ‘One of the most serious cyberattacks’: Customer data exposed in Optus hack - Hackers have breached Optus’ systems in one of the largest cyberattacks in Australian history, accessing names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and driver’s license numbers of millions of the telecommunications giant’s customers

>>17560467 Australia, New Zealand condemn Putin threats as "unthinkable" - Australia and New Zealand condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's escalation of the war in Ukraine, saying his threats to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia were "unthinkable" and exposed his justification for the war as untrue

>>17560478 ‘This is how a bully behaves’: Ukraine pleads for Australian help as Putin orders military call-up - Ukraine is ramping up calls for Australia to send more weapons and military equipment to fight back against the invading Russian forces, describing Vladimir Putin’s partial military mobilisation and threats of nuclear war as bullying and a sign of desperation

>>17565171 Australia's Central Bank Says It Is Bust - realmoney.thestreet.com

>>17565895 ‘Sophisticated attack’: Optus hackers used European addresses, could be state linked - Optus has confirmed up to 9.8 million customers’ personal details dating as far back as 2017 may have been accessed in a sophisticated cyberattack on the company that could have been executed by a crime gang or even a foreign state

#26 - Part 5

Australian Politics and Society - Part 5

>>17566047 MRF-D Demonstrates Range and Reaction Capability with Trans-Pacific Tactical Redeployment

>>17566408 EnergyAtState Tweet: Today at @GCEAF_USA in Pittsburgh @ClimateEnvoy joined @Bowenchris as Australia signed on to the Clean Energy Demand Initiative. Australia’s leadership will be critical to CEDI’s efforts - sending a signal of major market demand for clean energy and supportive policies.

>>17566408 Chris Bowen Tweet: The US and Australia have both passed important climate legislation in recent weeks - We have much more to do, including by working together - Great to see John Kerry & sign our next steps on clean energy including working with business to speed up our clean energy transformation

>>17566408 '''Q Post #3634 - [D]'s (internal) infiltration issue(s) w/ protecting NAT SEC? Deliberate? Do you believe in coincidences?…..[Kerry] direct relay Iran pre/post Iran deal [future marker] - IF KNOWN - WHY IS IT ALLOWED TO HAPPEN? IF KNOWN - WILL THERE BE JUSTICE? It's only a matter of time. Q'''

>>17572425 Australian Federal Police monitoring dark web amid allegations stolen Optus data may be sold online

>>17572684 ‘Significant progress’ made in Australia getting nuclear-powered sub - The leaders of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia said in a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the AUKUS security pact that they have made “significant progress” towards Australia acquiring a nuclear-powered submarine

>>17572684 Joint Leaders Statement to Mark One Year of AUKUS - whitehouse.gov - SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

>>17583221 Australian Federal Police launch Operation Hurricane, a global hunt to identify the hackers behind the massive Optus cyberattack - Albanese government flags large fines for future breaches

>>17583227 Tune into the Aussie Cossack and Guru & Kaz from Colonel Bosi's Australia ONE Party LIVE at 7pm - Live Stream - Bobdan - 26-09-2022

>>17588820 ‘Too many eyes’: Optus hacker deletes data, apologises to customers; FBI joins probe - The hacker purportedly behind the massive Optus data breach has seemingly deleted the stolen data and apologised to Optus customers, declaring “we will not sale data to anyone [sic].”

>>17588834 Anthony Albanese meets Kamala Harris, Fumio Kishida ahead of Shinzo Abe funeral - Former prime ministers John Howard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull have joined Mr Albanese in Tokyo to attend Tuesday afternoon’s state funeral, only the second in Japan’s post-war history

>>17588837 Video: Kamala Harris and Anthony Albanese hold talks - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has met with US Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the funeral of assassinated Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - Sky News Australia

>>17588847 Ex-Trump adviser Jason Miller spruiks ‘the right way’ to counter big tech bias - Former Donald Trump adviser Jason Miller believes many Australians will increasingly gravitate to right wing-leaning social networks as frustration grows with the left-leaning bias of tech giants like Twitter and Facebook

>>17595198 Bernard Collaery says further Timor-Leste affair details will be put before federal ICAC - Celebrated lawyer Bernard Collaery said he would take his claims of wrongdoing to the integrity body in an effort to resolve Australia's reputation in the region, adding there are "a lot more" details yet to surface about the diplomatic saga

>>17601574 Australian economist Sean Turnell sentenced to three years in prison in secret trial in Myanmar for violating the country's official state secrets act

>>17607423 Marles joins US, Japan in Hawaii for AUKUS subs tour - Australian, US and Japanese defence chiefs will meet near Pearl Harbour, Hawaii to advance discussions on AUKUS, before going on to inspect Virginia class submarines

>>17613444 Space Force surveillance telescope now operational in Australia - A U.S.-built space-monitoring telescope that was moved from New Mexico to Western Australia is officially operational, according to Space Operations Command

>>17613467 Space surveillance telescope is declared operational - The Space Surveillance Telescope was relocated to Australia from the US to strengthen the US Space Surveillance Network’s ability to track space assets and debris and provide warnings of possible collisions between space objects - Australian Government Department of Defence - news.defence.gov.au

>>17613477 U.S. Space Surveillance Telescope in Australia achieves initial operational capability - The Australian Department of Defence and the U.S. Space Force declared initial operational capability for the Space Surveillance Telescope at Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, Australia, Sept. 30, 2022

>>17619904 Australian government slams Optus for cybersecurity breach - The Australian government has levelled its harshest criticism yet against Optus for a cybersecurity breach that affected the equivalent of 40% of the country's population

#26 - Part 6

Australian Politics and Society - Part 6

>>17619926 US, UK defence chiefs back AUKUS expansion, more security for nuclear submarines in Australia - Australia‘s ‘unbreakable alliance’ with the United States could be strengthened with the deployment of more US military personnel here in addition to securing a nuclear submarine fleet as part of the AUKUS pact

>>17623791 Islamic State women and children to be returned to Australia from Syrian camps - Australia is preparing to overturn its policy of more than three years and launch a mission to repatriate dozens of women and children, the family members of former Islamic State fighters who have been languishing for years in squalid detention camps in Syria

>>17623808 Submarine commanders to be Australian made - The navy is preparing to train the next generation of submarine commanders at home as Australia seeks to bolster its military prowess ahead of the arrival of the nuclear vessels

>>17629611 Telstra staff suffer data breach as names and email addresses uploaded to dark web forum - Telstra has become the latest telco to be managing a breach of data after thousands of staff members' personal data was uploaded to a forum on the dark web

>>17629614 Police officer son of former senator Kristina Keneally charged with fabricating evidence - Constable Daniel Keneally, 24, investigated by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) over an incident on February 24 2021 - Charged with one offence of fabricating false evidence with the intent to mislead any judicial tribunal after advice was sought from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)

>>17629620 Trial of Brittany Higgins's alleged rapist Bruce Lehrmann begins in ACT Supreme Court - A former Liberal Party staffer told police she cried as she was allegedly raped in Parliament House, and said no at least half a dozen times

>>17629655 Video: Royal Australian Navy - Submariner Command Course - The Royal Australian Navy has conducted its inaugural Submarine Course on 16 April 2022, after decades of reliance on allied navies for training and assessing submarine commanders - Defence Australia

>>17637158 Islamic State brides will be detained on arrival from Syria - Women brought back from Islamic State detention camps in Syria will likely be detained immediately upon arrival in Australia - The Australian understands the 16 women expect to either be charged or face court for the purposes of making a terrorism control order

>>17699234 Caroline Kennedy: We must not shy away from climate challenge

>>17701292 Video: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed Australia is preparing to ramp up support for his nation’s war against Russia by announcing a new tranche of military assistance, including donations of heavy weapons.

>>17701293 Video: A special address by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy - Lowy Institute, Oct 6, 2022

>>17701294 Australia considers sending Defence staff to train Ukrainian troops

>>17701300 Paul Keating trashes Quad ‘nonsense’ and pleads: get us out of AUKUS - Former prime minister Paul Keating says the US is “exceptionally ungrateful” to allies like Australia who have long been loyal, urging Canberra to “walk away” from the AUKUS security agreement scheduled to deliver the nation a nuclear submarine capability

>>17701302 Video: Ideas and Society | Australia and China: A conversation with Paul Keating - La Trobe University, Oct 18, 2022

>>17701303 Paul Keating slammed as out of step on Quad, AUKUS - Defence Minister Richard Marles distanced the government from the comments but stopped short of condemning Mr Keating, whom he said had “every right to articulate those views”

#26 - Part 7

Australian Politics and Society - Part 7

>>17783706 Australian academic Sean Turnell freed by Myanmar junta after more than 20 months in custody

>>17798811 Australia’s Fair Work Commission rules that Svitzer Australia, subsidiary of Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, must scrap plans for lockout of harbor tug workers, threatening to cause widespread disruption at Australian ports

>>17800549 French President Emmanuel Macron launches torpedo at AUKUS pact - French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to undermine the AUKUS pact just five months after he and Anthony Albanese patched up relations between their countries, declaring Australia’s nuclear submarine deal with the US and UK “will not deliver”

>>17801807 Video: Friendly Jordies's House Firebombed

>>17803991 Controversial YouTube comedian Jordan Shanks-Markovina, better known as Friendlyjordies, is taking an “indefinite hiatus” from producing videos after his home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was set on fire in what police believe was a deliberate arson attack this week

>>17804013 ‘Invest for tomorrow’s war,’ says Austin - US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin says Australia and other allies need to reallocate their resources to fight the wars of tomorrow, with investments in advanced technologies a priority for any modern military

>>17807117 Video: US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy says the world’s transition to clean power and technology has the potential to elevate Australia as a global leader in the mining of critical minerals, lithium, rare earths and nickel

>>17807269 Islamic State kingpin Neil Prakash to be returned to Australia to face terrorism charges that could lead to him being jailed for life

>>17827645 ‘Hope always defeats hate’: Labor’s Daniel Andrews returned as premier in 2022 Victoria state election - Despite ‘incredibly challenging’ few years negotiating Covid, Labor cruises to victory, while the Greens and Nationals gain seats

>>17832788 Video: ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess announces Australia's terror threat level being lowered from "probable" to "possible" for first time since 2014

>>17857908 ‘Big deal’: World leaders head to Sydney in bid to push back on China - Three of the world’s most powerful leaders – US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida – will travel to Sydney next year for a historic summit with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

>>17857918 US Rear Admiral Richard Seif raises closer submarine ties under nuclear deal - The man in charge of the US Navy’s submarines in Asia and the Pacific says America is willing and able to substantially expand its ties with its Australian submarine counterparts as the country prepares to enter the world of nuclear-powered subs

>>17857927 US Military Chiefs Say Australia Key to Space Rivalry With China - US Space Force’s Lt. General Nina M. Armagno and US Space Command Deputy Commander Lt. General John E. Shaw say Australia is a critical asset for the US in the growing strategic competition with China over space

>>17858006 Bruce Lehrmann retrial to be dropped over Brittany Higgins health fears - medical evidence a second trial scheduled for February would pose an unacceptable risk to Ms Higgins and her mental wellbeing

>>17862843 Judge orders extradition of alleged Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash from Darwin to Melbourne to face terrorism-related charges

>>17862857 Bruce Lehrmann retrial dropped over Brittany Higgins health fears - Charges against the man accused of raping former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins at Parliament House have been dropped and Bruce Lehrmann’s retrial will no longer proceed - "It is no longer in the public interest to pursue prosecution with the risk to the complainant’s life."

>>17869625 Police doubted Brittany Higgins but case was ‘political’ - The most senior police officer on the Brittany Higgins case believed there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Bruce Lehrmann but could not stop the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions from proceeding because “there is too much political interference”

>>17874286 Australian nuclear subs high priority for US - Delivering Australia nuclear submarines “as early as possible” was high on the US government’s agenda as it braced for an intense period of competition with China, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin vowed after unveiling the next generation of US stealth bombers

>>17879013 Brittany Higgins seeking $3 million in compensation claim - Lawyers for former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins have given notice that they will sue former Liberal ministers Linda Reynolds and Michaelia Cash as well as the Commonwealth for about $3 million

#26 - Part 8

Australian Politics and Society - Part 8

>>17879090 A ruthless Thai vigilante wants to retire in Australia - Victims and activists are petitioning the Australian government to deny Rienthong Nanna the ability to retire in Perth - They say he has engaged in and encouraged hate speech, and supported the pursuit of critics of the monarchy throughout Thailand and internationally “whatever the consequences”

>>17884757 Video: Rupert Murdoch will be deposed as part of election technology company Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News - The Fox Corp chairman is the highest-profile individual to be questioned in the case, which hinges on Fox’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election

>>17884763 Australia and the United States deepen their already “unbreakable” military alliance by announcing plans to accelerate Canberra’s push to secure precision-guided missiles and expand the American military presence in the Top End

>>17884784 Will US supply Australia with AUKUS subs? ‘That’s not going to happen,’ key US lawmaker says - The US should take the "next Virginia class that's built, designate that to the Australian AOR, and [say] we're going to dual-crew it with Australian sailors and US sailors," Rep. Rob Wittman tells Breaking Defense

>>17884800 RAAF Chief Robert Chipman's visit to United States sparks renewed speculation Australia could purchase nuclear-capable B-21 Raiders

>>17884803 Space Force Director of Staff Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno travels to Australia to meet with members of Australia Space Operations

>>17906295 AUKUS members say plans on track for US and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarine fleet - Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says Australia will be able to acquire nuclear-powered submarines by the deadline set out in the AUKUS alliance

>>17922492 Australia's 'indispensable' partnership with Japan could see it join AUKUS pact as strategic links grow - Defence Minister Richard Marles declares security ties between Tokyo and Canberra were becoming "indispensable"

>>17927414 Scathing letter alleging police and political interference in Bruce Lehrmann trial made public - A dispute between the ACT's chief prosecutor and the territory's Police force continuing, with the public release of a letter alleging interference in the now-abandoned rape trial of Bruce Lehrmann

>>17933898 Police shoot three dead after two police murdered in execution-style shooting in Wieambilla, Queensland - Two young police officers who were murdered in an execution-style killing on Monday “didn’t stand a chance,” Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has said as she paid tribute to the fallen officers

>>17933944 Brothers Nathaniel and Gareth Train identified as gunmen in Queensland siege - Two brothers Nathaniel Train and Gareth (Gavin) Train were shot dead by police during a siege at a property in Queensland's Western Downs

>>17933975 Police shooting: Slain NSW teacher Nathaniel Train made complaints about college - A missing NSW primary school teacher involved in the murder of three people, including two Queensland police officers, had made a number of complaints about a troubled majority Aboriginal student college in northern NSW

>>17934061 Queensland shooting: Gunman Gareth Train was a conspiracy theorist - A gunman who killed two police officers in a shootout in western Queensland on Monday had posted conspiracy theories online including that the Port Arthur massacre was faked by government to enable a crackdown on gun ownership

>>17939637 Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins settles personal injury claim against the Commonwealth - Dollar value of the settlement will remain confidential

>>17939657 Ready-made nuclear subs still a stop-gap option for Australia - Senior US Democratic Congressman Joe Courtney, Chair of the House Seapower Subcommittee says Australia should not give up hope of purchasing nuclear-powered submarines off-the-shelf from the United States

>>17939893 ‘Not just at the pointy end’: Calls for renewed focus on conspiracy threats - Experts are calling for renewed national focus on the potential violent threat posed by elements of Australia’s conspiratorial fringe, after the killing of two police and their alleged attackers in regional Queensland - "Elise Thomas, a senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said the uncertainties of the pandemic and frustration at government responses to it had exposed many people to conspiracy theories for the first time."

>>17946322 Prototype for “game-changing” unmanned Australian submarine designed to undertake stealth missions throughout the Indo-Pacific unveiled at top-secret ceremony in Sydney

>>17946412 Child attends neo-Nazi meeting in Melbourne organised by European Australia Movement - Shocking images have revealed a young child posing for photos at a secret, national neo-Nazi meeting in Melbourne.

#26 - Part 9

Australian Politics and Society - Part 9

>>17951181 Australian Super customers who hold a Member Direct account have been locked out of their accounts for over three weeks now as the financial giant struggles with technical issues.

>>17953362 Video: Police chopper audio reveals intense firefight at rural Queensland property - An intense firefight that unfolded on a remote Queensland property, leaving six people dead has been laid bare in dramatic police helicopter audio - A Current Affair

>>17953376 ‘We killed them’: Queensland shooters posted video online after attack - A now-deleted YouTube account shows footage of the Wieambilla shooters foreshadowing violence against police in the lead-up to the attack

>>17953388 Video: ‘Devils and demons’: Wieambilla shooters film video after killing police - The couple at the centre of the Wieambilla shooting had posted videos online in the weeks leading up to, and night of, the fatal confrontation with police on their regional Queensland property, in which they claimed to have killed the “devils” and “demons”

>>17953413 Video: Disturbing footage found from Queensland cop killers’ deleted YouTube account - Disturbing videos from a YouTube account believed to belong to the Queensland cop killers have been published online, one revealing Stacey Train’s “pain”.

>>17953429 Video: Cop killer Stacey Train quoted an obscure Bible verse before being shot dead, American friend claims - An eerie clip from a man who claimed to be close friends with the Queensland cop killers has revealed Stacey apparent last words before being shot dead

>>17953477 US government files formal extradition request against former fighter pilot arrested in Australia accused of helping train Chinese pilots to land on aircraft carriers

>>17953501 Aussies play key role in new space mission - One of Elon Musk's rockets is about to blast off carrying a satellite with extraordinary capabilities - Two experts in Australia will be front and centre, making sure the SWOT satellite, short for surface water and ocean topography, is beaming back accurate data

>>17953753 Tech giants told by Peter Dutton to cut off online evil - Peter Dutton has launched a scathing attack on social media companies, accusing them of abrogating their responsibilities in ­pursuit of profits, after the emergence of a chilling online video posted by the killers of two young constables and a neighbour in Monday’s ambush on a remote Queensland property

>>17960847 Survivor of horror police ambush Constable Keely Brough honours fallen victims - The young police officer who managed to survive a targeted ambush on police has come together with her community to honour her colleagues and a brave civilian who lost their lives in the attack

>>17973909 French border officials working on small boats crisis stopped talking to the UK for three months in 2021 because of a row over the AUKUS submarine deal

>>17980342 ‘We need to be prepared to invest’: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese highlights need for subs, not tanks, challenging previous plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on tanks and armoured vehicles

>>17980363 Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk support national gun register after revelations shooter Nathaniel Train crossed border carrying weapons

>>17980377 Nationals leader David Littleproud backs calls for change to national guns register to allow information to be shared between state and territories on individuals, following the murders of three people in Wieambilla

>>17980398 Network Ten refuses to recognise Australia Day - 'January 26 is not a day of celebration' - Chief Content Officer Beverley McGarvey has told Network Ten staff it will not recognise the Australia Day national holiday as January 26 is “not a day of celebration”

>>17985540 Former prime minister Kevin Rudd will become Australia’s new ambassador to the US - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his predecessor would bring “unmatched experience to the role”

>>17985554 (April 19, 2022) Anthony Albanese rubbishes ‘complete nonsense’ reports Kevin Rudd will be handed plum gig - Anthony Albanese has lashed out at reports he will install Kevin Rudd as Australia’s next ambassador to Washington if Labor wins the May 21 federal election

>>17985575 Video: Former prime minister Kevin Rudd posted to Washington as Australia's new US ambassador - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Mr Rudd had extensive experience and connections in the US - "As someone who has links to the global community in Washington DC, he will be a major asset."

#26 - Part 10

Australian Politics and Society - Part 10

>>17985647 Kevin Rudd Tweet: I am greatly honoured by the Australian Government’s decision to nominate me as our country’s next Ambassador to the United States of America commencing in March.

>>17985647 Malcolm Turnbull Tweet: Congratulations Kevin - great appointment!

>>17985647 Malcolm Turnbull Tweet: I cannot think of any Australian with better connections than Rudd has in the Biden administration or with more influence on geopolitical issues in DC. He is also keenly aware of the external, and internal, threats to US democracy.

>>17985647 Q Post #479 - How much did AUS donate to CF? How much did SA donate to CF? Compare. Why is this relevant? What phone call between POTUS and X/AUS leaked? List the leadership in AUS. IDEN leadership during Hussein term. IDEN leadership during POTUS' term. Who controls AUS? Who really controls AUS? UK? Why is this relevant? Q - https://qanon.pub/#479

>>17985647 Q Post #908 - Which conversation leaked? POTUS & AUS? Why that specific conversation? Signal? We (they) hear what you are saying? Threat to AUS? Why? What do they know? Trapped? Forced? Blood. Q - https://qanon.pub/#908

>>17985647 Q Post #910 - Do not focus on the call details. We knew it would leak. We knew certain areas of the WH were bugged. We knew certain people would leak. Focus - why AUS? Q - https://qanon.pub/#910

>>17985668 Video: The Real Kevin Rudd - The real Kevin Rudd: a man despised by those who know him, who spent three years undermining Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. - Practicalpolitics, Jul 17, 2013

>>17985749 Australia Day work option is gathering steam - Some of the nation’s biggest companies have begun offering their staff the opportunity to skip the Australia Day public holiday, in what advocates see as growing support for changing the date - Major companies including Telstra and Woodside Energy have introduced new policies allowing staff to work on January 26 and take off another day of their choosing instead

>>17985762 Inner-city Melbourne councils of Darebin and Yarra are planning their first Australian citizenship ceremonies in five years after rules relaxed by the Albanese government - It was a requirement under the Turnbull and Morrison governments for councils to hold a citizenship ceremony on Australia Day, or have their right to host any ceremony revoked

>>17985766 Betrayal of our national day a shame on Labor - "The decision effectively to abandon the defence of Australia Day on January 26 is one of the worst and saddest moments in modern Australia. And it’s surely among the worst decisions of the new Labor government." - Greg Sheridan - theaustralian.com.au

>>17985863 Queensland Police Union plan to buy Wieambilla property where two officers were killed in ambush - Union president Ian Leavers said he did not want the land to "fall into the wrong hands" - "The last thing we want to see is the anti-vaxxers, pro-gun, conspiracy theorists to get this land and use it for their own warped and dangerous views" - Sarah Richards - abc.net.au

>>17985903 Video: Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell found guilty of brutal assault on Channel 9 security guard - A court has rejected Thomas Sewell’s claims of self-defence from when he repeatedly belted a Channel 9 security guard outside the network’s Docklands studios

>>17991015 Kevin Rudd’s appointment as next ambassador to Washington broadly welcomed in the US capital on both sides of the political spectrum as an experienced foreign policy and China expert

>>17991052 Albanese’s captain’s pick: An inspired choice or just Ruddy risky? - Kevin Rudd faces a cautious reception from the Biden administration over his criticism of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal and a potential backlash from Republicans for his attacks on Donald Trump when he arrives in Washington

>>17991056 Kevin Rudd Tweet: Donald Trump is a traitor to the West. Murdoch was Trump’s biggest backer. And Murdoch’s Fox Television backs Putin too. What rancid treachery.

>>17991061 Bruce Lehrmann asks Bar Association to investigate alleged misconduct by prosecutor 0 Bruce Lehrmann has personally written to the ACT Bar Association with a letter of complaint outlining several elements of serious misconduct he alleges against ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC

>>17991078 Wieambilla murders: Thousands of police officers form a sombre guard of honour to farewell slain constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, after the pair were remembered as bright, adored and courageous young people who ran towards danger to protect the community

>>17996604 Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers send legal letters to Network Ten and News Corp over their coverage of rape allegations aired by his former colleague, Brittany Higgins

#26 - Part 11

Australian Politics and Society - Part 11

>>17996634 Bruce Lehrmann inquiry: Bring it on in full, and free from politics - "First and foremost, this inquiry must get to bottom of the truly disturbing claims raised by senior AFP officers in charge of the investigation that there was “too much political interference” in DPP Shane Drumgold’s decision to prosecute Lehrmann." - Janet Albrechtsen - theaustralian.com.au

>>17996662 Alleged ‘Mr Big’ drug importer extradited to Australia from the Netherlands to face justice - Tse Chi Lop, "the El Chapo of Asia", alleged crime boss who headed a global enterprise suspected to have imported more drugs into Australia than any other syndicate in history

>>17996676 Queensland Police Officers were following up an outstanding warrant relating to firearms and a border breach by shooter Nathaniel Train, as well as a missing person report, when they attended the Wieambilla property last week, Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford reveals

>>17996696 Train family offered US sanctum before evil Queensland police killing - An American man with links to cop killers Gareth and Stacey Train claims the pair turned down an invitation to relocate in the US before carrying out a deadly ambush on Queensland Police officers

>>18002329 Experts question Qld police reluctance to label last week’s killing of two young constables and a neighbour at Wieambilla a terrorist act

>>18002453 The Nuclear-Powered Submarine Taskforce - Australia’s largest, and ultra-secret, defence project is fast taking shape behind closed doors

>>18007283 Inside Melbourne boxing gym with a neo-Nazi underbelly - Extremism experts have raised concerns about the presence of a child at a neo-Nazi event in Melbourne’s north-west, saying it indicates far-right groups are indoctrinating children with hateful ideology during vulnerable periods in their intellectual development

>>18007288 Coaches at Legacy Boxing Gym in Melbourne’s north-west will have their registrations suspended by the state’s governing body for amateur boxing after the gym was found to have links to some of Victoria’s most dangerous neo-Nazi activists

>>18012370 Space Force Guardians train with service members from Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom for potential conflict in Europe during large-scale 'Space Flag' exercise at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado

>>18022458 New missile system in line for Top End protection - Albanese government is considering purchasing mobile Naval Strike Missile launchers - “StrikeMaster” system can launch ship-killing NSMs over ranges of at least 250km, delivering a potent “area denial” capability protecting most of Australia's Top End

>>18029095 Former prime minister Scott Morrison one of many public figures stung in alleged security breach - A hacker has claimed to have obtained the data of 400 million Twitter users - Mr Morrison’s parliamentary email address, username and phone number linked to his Twitter account were included in the information dump posted on a forum

>>18029276 Australian man killed ‘defending the freedom of the Ukrainian people’ - Australian man Sage O’Donnell has been killed fighting in Ukraine, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed

>>18029276 Q Post #4959 - What groups are financing Ukraine? Why are they financing Ukraine? Why was Hunter in Ukraine? What did 'Pop' threaten to withold from Ukraine? A billion dollars? Who benefits? What did 'Pop' receive in return? Why is Hunter not in jail? Think. Blackmail? Bribes? Extortion? Threats? How do you control a 'leader'? How do you control a country? Are you ready to take back control? Your vote matters. You have all the tools you need. Q - https://qanon.pub/#4959

>>18034687 Daniel Duggan background check may have raised red flags - The former US Marine fighter pilot accused of providing military training to Chinese pilots may have been flagged by Australian authorities after he applied for a job with a defence contractor involved in battle-training F18 pilots and transporting VIP defence personnel

>>18034769 Guardian Australia hacked, offices shut amid ransomware hit - Most of the Guardian Australia’s offices remain closed after the media company‘s global arm was hit with a ransomware attack last week

>>18041006 Australian Federal police are managing at least 16 high-risk terrorist offenders living in the community, including through the use of electronic monitoring and by requiring them to attend rehabilitation programs and psychological counselling

#26 - Part 12

Cardinal George Pell - Sexual Abuse and Vatican Financial Scandal Allegations

>>17463555 Sustaining our liberal ideals the best hope in dark times - "I don’t think Australian life is rotten at the core but times are changing, and not always for the better." - George Pell - theaustralian.com.au

>>17565989 STANDING WITH THE WORD OF GOD - George Cardinal Pell - firstthings.com

>>17613395 Prosecution calls witnesses as Vatican finance trial resumes - After a break of over two months, the Vatican trial on financial corruption in the Secretariat of State continued this week with the interrogation of witnesses for the prosecution

#26 - Part 13

Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry and Ben Roberts-Smith Defamation Trial

>>17531189 Ben Roberts-Smith to attend Queen Elizabeth funeral commemorations - Controversial former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith will travel to London to participate in the official commemorations for the late Queen Elizabeth II, reflecting his status as a recipient of the prestigious Victoria Cross

>>17531176 Defence ducks probe into war crimes accountability - Defence has avoided an inquiry into the accountability of senior commanders for war crimes ­despite the findings of an independent panel, which said it failed to face up to its “corporate responsibility” for the murders of Afghan civilians and prisoners identified in the Brereton report

>>17548305 Video: Videos shot by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan raise questions about conduct of 2nd Commando Regiment

>>17554591 Video: Australian Commandos in Afghanistan filmed discussing 'quota' - 7.30 has obtained hours of footage of Australian Commandos in action. The raw footage from the soldiers' own handheld and mounted cameras shows the incredible dangers they faced, but also moments that raise questions about their conduct, including one scene where the men boast about hitting "the quota". Some of these commandos are now under investigation by Australia's war crimes agency. - ABC News (Australia)

>>17554623 Former Australian commando under investigation over 2012 Afghanistan rotation - A former Australian Special Forces commando is a target of a war crimes investigation for the alleged killing of at least one unarmed detainee during a deployment to Afghanistan

>>17560414 Former Australian commando faces Afghanistan war crimes investigation - A former Australian special forces soldier who allegedly confessed to executing an Afghan prisoner in October 2012 is now the target of a major war crimes inquiry, and was stopped at an airport where his phone was seized on return from an overseas trip in April

>>17560432 Australian commando under investigation over 2012 Afghanistan rotation - 7.30 has new accounts of a deadly raid carried out in Helmand province in 2012. Multiple witnesses have told 7.30 that seven Afghans were killed, some allegedly shot after they were detained by a small group of Australian soldiers. We'll hear an account of a commando's remorse at his alleged actions in that operation. - ABC News (Australia)

>>17827648 Australian Defence Force chief gives Afghanistan veterans 28 days to explain why they should keep war honours and medals awarded during the Afghanistan war, as the fallout from the Brereton Inquiry into alleged war crimes continues

#26 - Part 14

Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition

>>17513800 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador invites relatives of Julian Assange and Che Guevara to attend the country's independence day celebrations

>>17531321 Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange awarded keys to Mexico City as family lobbies for his release

>>17531332 Video: Mexico City honours Julian Assange with keys to city - Mexico City has presented Julian Assange’s father John Shipton with the keys to the city on his behalf. The Mayor of Mexico City says the act was in recognition of Assange’s courage and the notion of freedom of expression - Sky News Australia

>>17697679 Julian Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson says his case needs an urgent political fix, not a legal one

>>17701283 Thousands rally in Melbourne to demand Julian Assange be returned to Australia

>>17701284 Julian Assange tests positive for Covid as wife reveals she is ‘worried for his health’ - The worried wife of Julian Assange has revealed the WikiLeaks founder’s diagnosis in prison where he is locked in his cell 24-7

>>17701285 Julian Assange’s supporters call on Australian government to provide update on talks with US - Campaign adviser says public should be told of any progress on securing Assange’s release if he is extradited from UK

>>17853189 Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges US government to end pursuit of Julian Assange - Prime minister says he raised Wikileaks co-founder’s case with US representatives recently and will continue to push for it to be ‘brought to a close’

>>17857905 Anthony Albanese's appeal to end Julian Assange pursuit a test of Australia-US relations, family say - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised the issue of the United States' pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with its officials, arguing "enough is enough"

>>17869613 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, battling extradition from Britain to the United States where he is wanted on criminal charges, has submitted an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights

>>17902505 Julian Assange's family wants supporters of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder to politely advocate for his release, rather than "disparaging" the Australian government

>>17902509 Wikileaks delegation received by Argentine President - Argentine President Alberto Fernández received at the Casa Rosada the Wikileaks delegation composed of Kristinn Hrafnsson and Joseph Farrell

>>17922487 Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters attended a rally calling for freeing Julian Assange in front of the British Consulate in New York

>>18007301 Kevin Rudd’s appointment as US ambassador lifts Assange supporter hopes - Supporters of Julian Assange have welcomed Kevin Rudd’s appointment as Australia’s ambassador to the United States, saying they are hopeful he will use the position to press the Biden administration to drop espionage charges against the Wikileaks founder

#26 - Part 15

Australia / China Tensions - Part 1

>>17453741 John Bolton urges the US and others to 'consider Taiwan an independent country'

>>17458335 US Coast Guard cutter is denied port call in Solomon Islands

>>17458344 Solomon Islands denies port call for Guam-based US Coast Guard cutter

>>17458352 Chinese troops put on high alert as two United States navy cruisers armed with guided missiles sailed through the Taiwan Strait - August 28, 2022

>>17458364 Taiwan welcomes jaw-jaw sparked by John Bolton for strategic clarity to deter Xi Jinping’s China

>>17458377 Mike Pompeo Tweet: The Chinese Communist Party has stolen identities from our kids and trade secrets from our businesses. They are committing genocide against their own people and are arming themselves for war. We need to wake up and take this threat seriously.

>>17458412 Australia seeks the 'closest possible relationship' with Papua New Guinea, Foreign Minister Penny Wong says amid competition with China for influence

>>17458415 Penny Wong needs to deal Beijing out of PNG - China sees Papua New Guinea as more strategically important than Solomon Islands. That’s why it’s good news that on Monday Foreign Minister Penny Wong will make her first official visit to PNG, our closest and most important regional neighbour - Jeffrey Wall and Anthony Bergin - theaustralian.com.au

>>17463963 Chinese hackers pose as Australian News Corp sites in cyber espionage scam - Australian government agencies, news outlets and manufacturing companies have been targeted by a sophisticated year-long espionage campaign in which Chinese government-aligned hackers pose as media employees to implant malicious software on the victims’ computers

>>17465731 US ships ‘not welcome’ as Solomons cosies up to Beijing - Solomon Islands has imposed a temporary ban on naval visits by US ships, amid heightened tensions between the countries over the Pacific Island nation’s security pact with China

>>17465759 Solomon Islands Blocks All Naval Port Visits After U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Denied Entry - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sogavare has announced a temporary moratorium on visits by foreign naval vessels after turning away a U.S Coast Guard Cutter last week

>>17465808 Solomon Islands Government Statement - PM SOGAVARE CLARIFIES MISINFORMATION ON US COAST GUARD VESSEL - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has clarified some misinformation currently carried on international media about the visit by the US Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Henry and HMAS Spey

>>17469909 Australian FM visits PNG nominally for cooperation to conceal veiled aim to sow discord through 'China debt trap' narrative, coercion - Xu Keyue - globaltimes.cn

>>17475500 UN human-rights agency issues report on Xinjiang over China’s protest - The United Nations human-rights agency on Wednesday alleged “serious human-rights violations” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang that often targeted ethnic Uyghurs and other members of Islamic groups, in a report that broadly supports critical findings by Western governments, human-rights groups and media

>>17475525 UN Human Rights Office issues assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang, China - The UN Human Rights Office - 31 August 2022

>>17475542 United Nations report on Xinjiang backs fears felt by Australia's Uyghur community - The report concluded China's arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other minorities, and the deprivation of fundamental human rights might constitute "crimes against humanity"

>>17475558 Video: China slams UN Xinjiang report as 'manufactured' by the US - The report said torture allegations were credible and cited possible crimes against humanity - AFP News Agency

>>17475580 Solomon Islands’ docking rights suspension angers US congress

>>17475586 Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare accepts US medical ship USNS Mercy while banning other vessels

>>17481676 After disappearing Uighurs, Beijing tries to vanish UN report - Beijing has tried to “disappear” a damning United Nations report into human rights abuses in Xinjiang, which has triggered international condemnation of brutal policies overseen by China’s leader Xi Jinping.

#26 - Part 16

Australia / China Tensions - Part 2

>>17481688 Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls for Beijing to address the damning findings in an authoritative UN investigation into China’s widespread human rights atrocities in Xinjiang

>>17481704 Gathering of cardinals ‘silent’ on fate of fellow prelate Joseph Zen - Senior German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller has slammed Pope Francis and this week’s consistory of cardinals at the Vatican for remaining silent about the plight of Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen, facing an “unfair trial’’ in Hong Kong under Chinese law

>>17481719 Papua New Guinea has flagged expansion of the joint Manus Island naval base under a renewed Australia-PNG security partnership, and warned Solomon Islands to “really think carefully” about putting its China relationship ahead of its ties with Australia and the US

>>17481731 Analysis: Unpredictable Solomon Islands fuels U.S. concern as China's influence grows - Kirsty Needham - reuters.com

>>17481753 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare fast-tracks bill to amend constitution and delay elections

>>17481780 U.S. Coast Guard Arrives for Planned Port Visit in Cairns, Australia - The Sentinel-class fast response cutter USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC 1140) crew arrived in Cairns on Aug. 31, for engagements with Australian Defence and Home Affairs partners and local representatives

>>17487755 ‘Severely jeopardises peace’: US angers China with billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan - News of the potential sale came as it was also announced that US President Joe Biden would host leaders of Pacific Island nations at a September 28-29 gathering in Washington in the latest US effort to step up ties with the region increasingly courted by China

>>17487779 Beijing-backed autocracy in our backyard with ‘Cuba in the Pacific - Dave Sharma, former Liberal MP for Wentworth and ambassador to Israel from 2013-2017 - theaustralian.com.au

>>17487831 ‘It’s an honour’: US Coast Guard ship makes historic stopover - Fresh from Torres Strait operations, US Coast Guard cutter Oliver Henry arrived in Cairns after being turned away from the Solomon Islands amid a new ban on warship visits. How Cairns welcomed the ship and crew.

>>17487990 Video: PLA, the People’s Liberation Army of China, Peace-Loving Army. - "PLA, the People’s Liberation Army of China. Peace-Loving Army, for the Chinese people and people of the world." - SpokespersonCHN, Sep 3 2022

>>17488001 Video: 1989: Tiananmen Square protests - Student protests in Tiananmen Square ended when Chinese troops fired on crowds, killing hundreds and wounding thousands. - CNN, Oct 7 2010

>>17488005 Video: Archive: Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square - First broadcast 4 June 1989. Chinese troops opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Saturday evening. The collection of students and labourers had been occupying the site for several weeks. - Despite the outbreak of "unremitting gunfire", the protesters refused to leave. The BBC's Kate Adie reports from the scene. - BBC News, Jun 5 2014

>>17488011 Tiananmen Square: Watch The 1989 Report On The Crackdown - It's 25 years since protests in Tiananmen Square, China, were brought to a bloody end by soldiers who killed hundreds of unarmed civilians. Sky News, Jun 4 2014

>>17494507 Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil orders her department to investigate harvesting of data by social media giant TikTok amid growing concern that staff in China can access the personal information of Australians

>>17499268 Hostage diplomacy in Xi’s China - Two years after she was detained, Australian journalist Cheng Lei is still in prison in Beijing with no family contact.

>>17499288 Solomon Islands says Australia, New Zealand exempt from navy ship moratorium despite China security pact

>>17499296 Tiny Tuvalu to 'stand firm' with Taiwan as Pacific competition hots up - Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano pledged on a trip to Taiwan to "stand firm" on a commitment to lasting ties, drawing Taiwan's thanks at a time of growing competition as China expands its influence in the region

>>17499305 U.S. President Joe Biden will host leaders of Pacific Island nations at a Sept. 28-29 gathering in Washington, the latest U.S. effort to step up ties with the region increasingly courted by China

>>17504291 Honiara reacts angrily after Australia offers to help fund Solomon Islands election amid moves to postpone the poll - The Solomon Islands government has slammed an Australian offer to fund national elections next year, calling it an "assault" on its democracy and an attempt at foreign interference.

>>17504297 Kiribati suspends all Court of Appeal judges after row over attempts to deport High Court justice David Lambourne to Australia

#26 - Part 17

Australia / China Tensions - Part 3

>>17504301 New South Wales MP once raided as part of ASIO investigation defends ‘honorary’ role in China-linked association - Shaoquett Moselmane has defended his position as “honorary chairman” of an association linked with China’s foreign influence arm

>>17508672 Taiwanese independence advocates will be 'punished', says Chinese ambassador - China's ambassador to Australia has warned that Taiwanese people advocating full independence from the mainland will be "punished" according to Chinese law, speaking in an interview with the ABC's 7.30 program

>>17508675 Video: Taiwanese independence advocates will be ‘punished’, says Chinese ambassador Xiao Qian | 7.30 - ABC News (Australia)

>>17508711 mhar4 Tweet: (China's) ambassador to (Australia) Xiao Qian on @abc730 on the "re-education" of the Taiwanese people and "punishment" of Taiwan's political leadership. In the context of the C20th and C21st history of Taiwan, he is describing the complete destruction of Taiwanese society.

>>17508737 President José Ramos-Horta says there will be no Chinese military base in Timor-Leste

>>17508746 Australia hails ‘new chapter’ in Timor-Leste relationship as leaders sign defence pact - Albanese government looks forward to military cooperation as Jose Ramos-Horta calls for help to develop Greater Sunrise gas fields

>>17513783 Coalition accuses government of mishandling Solomon Islands election funding offer - Foreign Minister Penny Wong is trying to douse political controversy over Australia's offer to fund elections in Solomon Islands after its Prime Minister accused the federal government of foreign interference

>>17513790 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has mocked Australia while declaring he will take up the government's offer to help fund the next national election – but only after his country's parliament has voted to delay the national poll until 2024

>>17513866 US military’s footprint is expanding in northern Australia to meet a rising China - Major construction, funded by the U.S. and Australian governments, is underway in the northern port of Darwin, at Larrakeyah Defence Precinct and at Royal Australian Air Force Bases Darwin and Tindal for facilities that will be used by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps

>>17519208 Solomon Islands Exempts Australia, NZ From US Navy Ship Ban

>>17526478 Exercise Kakadu 2022: Royal Australian Navy chief Mark Hammond ‘ready for spy ships’ - Australia’s new Chief of Navy says he is prepared for “uninvited” Chinese spy ships at the country’s flagship naval war games, Exercise Kakadu, as Beijing ramps up its surveillance of Western allies’ capabilities ahead of a potential Taiwan conflict

>>17531373 Australia rejects China’s requests to join trans-Pacific trade partnership - The Albanese government has rebuffed Chinese requests to begin negotiations on its bid to join one of the world’s biggest free-trade agreements, as Beijing suggests bilateral relations would improve if Australia backed its admission to the bloc

>>17531416 China accuses the International Atomic Energy Agency of issuing a 'lopsided' report on AUKUS nuclear submarines plan

>>17531427 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on September 13, 2022

>>17531434 Video: The AUKUS nuclear submarine cooperation spells serious nuclear proliferation risks. - SpokespersonCHN

>>17531453 IAEA chief's AUKUS report lacks legal basis: Chinese UN mission - Xinhua - chinadaily.com.cn

>>17531459 AUKUS deal must be subject to scrutiny: China Daily editorial - chinadaily.com.cn

>>17531465 Nuclear proliferation caused by AUKUS will make the world sweat in the face of teetering security - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17531476 GT Voice: Australia advised to take rational approach to China’s supply chains - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17531948 Japan slams Beijing’s ‘coercion’ - Japan’s top diplomat in Australia has suggested China’s record of “economic coercion” should disqualify it from being admitted to one of the world’s largest free-trade agreements, warning of the “risk of sabotage from within”

#26 - Part 18

Australia / China Tensions - Part 4

>>17531969 Trade pact should be only for those who play by rules - Shingo Yamagami, Japanese ambassador to Australia - theaustralian.com.au

>>17532044 Hudson Institute Tweet: Video: MESSAGE TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE - Watch Hudson’s China Center’s first “Evening Chat with @mikepompeo” about why the #CCP does NOT represent the Chinese people and why the CCP is paranoid by the example of American freedom.

>>17532067 Video: The Chinese Communist Party Does Not Represent the Chinese People - Hudson Institute’s China Center presents a new series entitled, “Evening Chats with Mike Pompeo: A Message to the Chinese People.” In this series, 70th US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo speaks directly to the Chinese people about the Chinese Communist Party and US-China relations - Hudson Institute

>>17537104 Chinese envoy reiterates intl communities’ deep concerns over nuclear-powered submarine cooperation under AUKUS - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17542676 Biden locks in defence of Taiwan, Australia will have to respond - US President Joe Biden once again said that the United States would defend Taiwan if China attacked. The comments overturn decades of strategic ambiguity towards the defence of Taiwan and threaten to draw Australia into another future conflict.

>>17548346 Pacific islands a key U.S. military buffer to China's ambitions - United States Institute for Peace report

>>17548350 Penny Wong likely to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New York this week - 20 September 2022

>>17548361 Chinese envoy recounts fierce exchanges at IAEA over AUKUS deal, calls nuclear submarine plan a blatant violation of non-proliferation - Hu Yuwei - globaltimes.cn

>>17548378 Jennifer Zeng Tweet: I understand that the #CCP needs to maintain the terror inside #China. But I really don’t know how they are going to explain to Chinese people why the CCP guys are the only ones that need a mask to protect themselves from #CCPVIRUS #COVID #COVID19

>>17548378 Alvin Lum Tweet: Try and find VP Wang Qishan in 5 sec

>>17565902 U.S.-led Pacific group to focus on climate, connectivity amid China concerns - Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP) includes the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom

>>17565944 Wong urges China to use its influence to rein in Putin - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has urged China to use its clout as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council to prevail upon Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt his invasion of Ukraine

>>17565947 Foreign Minister Penny Wong hoses down hopes of an end to tariffs on Australia exports to China after a late-night meeting with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in New York City

>>17565954 Senator Penny Wong Tweet: A constructive conversation with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi tonight. The meeting reaffirmed the Australian Government’s view that it is in the interests of both sides to continue on the path of stabilising the relationship.

>>17565957 Ministerial statement - Senator Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs - Meeting With China’s State Councilor And Minister Of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi

>>17572568 Update: Australia urged to take substantive actions in repairing ties with China, after 'constructive' meeting - Wang Qi and Liu Caiyu - globaltimes.cn

>>17572618 China told by Penny Wong to rein in Vladimir Putin, calls his latest threats ‘weak and desperate’ - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has put China on notice in a speech to the UN General Assembly that it must use its “no limits” partnership with Russia to force an end to its war with Ukraine, declaring Vladimir Putin’s unchecked use of military power is a threat to all smaller nations

>>17572639 Solomon Islands tells UN it’s been ‘unfairly targeted’ over relationship with China - The prime minister of the Solomon Islands has complained that his country had been subjected to “a barrage of unwarranted and misplaced criticisms, misinformation and intimidation” since formalising diplomatic relations with China in 2019

>>17572749 U.S. in Talks to Build First Nuclear Subs for Australia - Proposal seeks to expedite capabilities for ally by mid-2030s, until it can build its own, in bid to counter China

>>17577600 West tramples on Solomons’ dignity, sovereignty by intimidating its ties with China - Yang Xiyu - globaltimes.cn

#26 - Part 19

Australia / China Tensions - Part 5

>>17577642 Xi Jinping’s top envoy, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, has said China is ready to meet Australia “halfway” in the most promising change in Beijing’s diplomacy since its relationship with Canberra imploded in 2020

>>17577683 In this old photo, there is the Australian love between Xi Jinping and his father | President Xi's national gift story - Zhong Qi - politics.people.com.cn

>>17583251 AUKUS’ plan to expedite Australia’s nuclear sub construction an act of nuclear proliferation under ‘naval nuclear propulsion’ cover: Chinese mission to UN - Leng Shumei and Hu Yuwei - globaltimes.cn

>>17588911 Video: The CCP Lies About Race In America - Hudson Institute’s China Center presents Episode Two of Evening Chats with Mike Pompeo: A Message to the Chinese People - Pompeo explains how the Chinese Communist Party attempts to divide Americans with lies that distort the issue of race in America and tarnish the US in the eyes of the Chinese people

>>17595154 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris condemns "disturbing" actions by China in the Pacific while pledging to deepen "unofficial ties" with Taiwan, days after the U.S. administration pledged its forces would defend the island

>>17595158 Solomon Islands has told Pacific nations invited to a White House meeting with President Joe Biden it won't sign the summit declaration, prompting concern over the islands' ties to China

>>17595172 US pushes for AUKUS acceleration as China’s fleet looms - Australia will engage with US plans to accelerate the construction of AUKUS nuclear submarines

>>17595220 Hudson Institute Tweet: Video: Hudson's @mikepompeo warns that the most anti-Chinese force in history is the CCP, an undeniable truth they don't want you to know.

>>17595220 Mike Pompeo Tweet: The Chinese Communist Party was founded on the Marxist ideology that killed millions of Chinese people. It's the most anti-Chinese force in history.

>>17601549 IAEA general conference to first review China-proposed agenda on AUKUS nuclear sub deal concerns - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17607347 US, Pacific Island leaders vow to strengthen ties with historic partnership declaration amid growing China risks - The United States and Pacific island nations have unveiled a historic joint partnership declaration, vowing to strengthen ties amid growing concerns of China's role in the region

>>17607375 Is the US sincere in taking Pacific Island countries as ‘partners?’: Global Times editorial - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17607637 How China spies ‘signed up Bob Hawke’ - Bob Hawke was unwittingly used by the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence arm, becoming involved with a spy agency front that used foreign elites to help rehabilitate the country’s image after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, a new book reveals - Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske

>>17613412 China thwarts AUKUS-related amendment attempts on legitimizing nuclear sub marine deal at IAEA conference - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17613419 India's 'deft diplomacy' thwarts Beijing’s plans to pass anti-AUKUS resolution - China withdrew a draft resolution at the IAEA against the AUKUS grouping seeking to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. The sources said India's 'deft diplomacy' played a crucial role in ensuring that many smaller countries took a clear stand against the Chinese proposal - Geeta Mohan - indiatoday.in

>>17613690 How China is winning in the Pacific - Beijing is using subversion and coercion to force small nations to bow to its will - John Lee, non-resident senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington - theaustralian.com.au

>>17637099 New report shows the Chinese Communist Party launched coordinated disinformation campaign after Solomon Islands riots - The Chinese government has been running a coordinated disinformation campaign in Solomon Islands, suggesting that Australia, the United States and Taiwan fomented the riots that rocked the capital Honiara last year, according to new analysis by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

>>17637123 China’s bare-faced Solomon Islands lies - CCP propagandists have blunted anti-Chinese sentiment in Solomon Islands and boosted criticism of Australia and the West by spreading false narratives about last year’s riots in the capital Honiara and the country’s subsequent security pact with China

>>17637124 PDF: How the Chinese Communist Party is spreading lies in Solomon Islands - Blake Johnson, analyst with ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre - aspistrategist.org.au

>>17637128 Solomon Islands leader to travel to Australia on fence-mending visit - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare will visit Australia as both countries look to mend ties which soured after the Pacific nation struck a security pact with China

#26 - Part 20

Australia / China Tensions - Part 6

>>17637130 Keeping our frenemies close: Albanese hosts Solomons leader at the Lodge - Preventing one of Australia’s closest neighbours from forging closer bonds with China will be top of Anthony Albanese’s agenda when the prime minister meets Solomon Islands counterpart Manasseh Sogavare in Canberra

>>17637131 Top Australian defence officials hit by 'sophisticated' Singapore cyber hack - Some of Australia's most senior defence figures have been caught up in a data breach after "sophisticated" cyber hackers targeted a five-star hotel in Singapore - Between May and July this year, customer data was stolen from eight Shangri-La hotels across Asia, including the luxury Singapore venue where Defence Minister Richard Marles held top-level security talks with China shortly after Labor's election win

>>17637138 Mike Pompeo Tweet: The CCP wants me to stop speaking the truth. Ain’t gonna happen

>>17637138 Hudson Institute Tweet: "The genocidal #CPP is the oppressor of the Chinese people & an enemy of free people around the globe. The Chinese people know this & the American people know it. As a wise man once said, 'facts are stubborn things.' No one at Hudson is intimidated by this." - @john_walters_

>>17637212 Chinese Embassy in Solomon Islands urges certain Westerners to stop spreading disinformation, refuting false narratives by Australian think tank - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17700421 The Albanese government will pour an extra $1 billion into aid and security assistance in the Pacific - almost double what Labor promised at the election - as it urgently tries to counter China’s growing influence in the region

>>17701241 Anthony Albanese meets Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in Canberra

>>17701244 Video: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on October 8, 2022

>>17701298 Countries vote down motion to discuss UN report into China's serious human rights violations in Xinjiang

>>17701299 Cold War mentality the biggest threat to world peace and stability: Chinese disarmament ambassador - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17701304 Former senior Australian officials criticize drift on China policy, AUKUS - Xu Keyue - globaltimes.cn

>>17701350 Video: Former Chinese president Hu Jintao unexpectedly removed from party congress

>>17701375 Fergus Ryan Tweet: Video: Hu Jintao gets shuffled off the political stage in a fairly undignified manner. Note how he tries to swipe Xi Jinping's notes. He does not seem well at all.

>>17709421 US to deploy B-52 bombers to Australia to create ‘unified front’ against China - The United States plans to deploy six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers near Darwin as part of a strategy experts say would dissuade China from invading Taiwan but increase the chance of Australia being drawn into a conflict

>>17709661 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on October 31, 2022

#26 - Part 21

Australia / China Tensions - Part 7

>>17800492 Anthony Albanese meets Xi Jinping at G20 summit in Bali, telling the Chinese President Australia wants to work with China in the interests of both countries and regional peace

>>17800511 Open up to Chinese trade, Xi tells Albanese - Beijing has said the “most difficult time for China-Australia relations has passed”, but told Canberra to improve the relationship the Albanese government needs to reduce hurdles on Chinese businesses.

>>17800514 GT Voice: China-Australia summit may herald new turn in relations - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17800515 Australian business leaders welcome talks between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and China’s President Xi Jinping, but cautious about expecting any immediate outcomes

>>17800518 Xi-Albanese meeting at G20 injects thawing potential to frayed ties - Australia still needs to show 'sincerity, diplomatic autonomy free from US' - Deng Xiaoci - globaltimes.cn

>>17800527 Australia reaps reward for standing ground on China - China’s intimidation campaign against Australia has failed, says White House Indo-Pacific Co-ordinator Kurt Campbell, who congratulated the Albanese government on its “strong, purposeful diplomacy”

>>17800537 Albanese says Australia is unlikely to support Taiwan's push to join Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

>>17800544 Anthony Albanese throws Taiwan’s trade pact entry into a diplomatic spin - Australian diplomats scrambling to reassure key partners the nation remained open to Taiwan’s entry into one of the world’s biggest trading blocs

>>17800547 Taiwan seeks answers from Anthony Albanese over CPTPP comments at APEC - Taipei sought an urgent explanation from Anthony Albanese’s office after the prime minister made comments which suggested Australia could reject Taiwan’s bid to join the CPTPP because it was not a “recognised” nation state

>>17803999 China warns AUKUS deal an ongoing ‘threat to peace’ and bilateral relations - AUKUS partnership is “clearly a threat” to regional peace and security, and undermines any improvement to the two countries’ bilateral relationship

>>17804004 Fraught AUKUS impedes momentum of better China-Australia ties - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17804019 Coalition calls for sanctions on Chinese officials over Uyghur human rights abuses in Xinjiang, after foreign minister Penny Wong declined to meet prominent Uyghur advocates in Canberra

>>17804028 Torture survivors’ plea for Australia not to abandon them after China reset - Omar Bekali, who spent seven months in 2017 in internment camps in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, fears that as Australia seeks a closer relationship with China after years of hostility, the plight of persecuted ethnic minorities will fall off the Albanese government’s agenda

>>17827652 Video: Chinese cry for freedom in biggest anti-government protests since Tiananmen - Crowds have chanted “down with the Communist Party” and “Xi Jinping, step down” in an extraordinary wave of protests across China sparked by anger at draconian Covid restrictions

>>17832714 Video: Beijing boils as BBC journalist arrested amid national anti-government protests - BBC journalist Ed Lawrence arrested, beaten and kicked by Chinese police as China’s biggest anti-government protests since Tiananmen in 1989 surged into Beijing

>>17832778 Daniel Duggan, Australian pilot with China links fights extradition to US, slams ‘unprecedented’ treatment

>>17850394 PDF: "The Enemy Is Inside the Gate - The CCP is involved in the QLD elections. Criminal elements within the Australian Government have enabled CCP access to all of Australia’s institutions over decades and communist ideology is being forced on the Living Men-Women-Children of this land without their knowledge or consent."

>>17853206 Video: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson's awkward silence to pointed question as Beijing cracks down on COVID protests - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian left dumbfounded when asked about the anti-government protests which have engulfed the country, as the Chinese Communist Party begins a brutal crackdown on those involved

>>17869631 Government and opposition MPs to visit Taiwan as part of Australian parliamentary delegation - Six federal politicians from both Labor and the Coalition will travel to Taiwan next week, in the first visit from an Australian parliamentary delegation in years

>>17869647 MPs fly to Taiwan for secretive bipartisan talks - The first group of sitting Australian parliamentarians to visit Taiwan since 2019 will include former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, two Labor members of the Albanese government, Meryl Swanson and Libby Coker, Liberal National Party members Scott Buchholz and Terry Young, and Liberal Gavin Pearce

#26 - Part 22

Australia / China Tensions - Part 8

>>17879059 Beijing says Australia is ‘playing with fire’ over Taiwan visit - Beijing has warned a bipartisan visit to Taiwan by a group of Australian politicians will undermine efforts to repair Australia-China ties, accusing the delegation of spreading “plague and pestilence” and declaring Australia is “playing with fire”

>>17879065 With lawmakers' Taiwan visit, Australia should stop playing with fire before the fire starts to burn - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17879078 Albanese criticized for insincerity on improving ties with Beijing amid his attempts to distance himself from Taiwan-visiting delegation - Xu Keyue - globaltimes.cn

>>17906062 Japan joins US and Australia to counter China’s ‘dangerous and coercive actions’ - Australia and the United States will integrate Japan into their joint military activities in Australia, a significant deepening of the relationship as the three nations work increasingly closely together to push back on China

>>17906065 Military conflict would lead to an almost total collapse of China: Morrison - Scott Morrison says military conflict between the US and China over Taiwan would deliver “mutually assured destruction” but would devastate the Chinese economy more than the west and lead to an almost total collapse of the country

>>17906070 Video: Australia’s Role in the China Struggle: A Conversation with Scott Morrison - Thirtieth Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison and Hudson Institute China Center Director Miles Yu discuss Australia’s role in combatting the threat to a free and open Indo-Pacific - Hudson Institute

>>17906072 Chinese FM urges Australia to stop official exchanges with Taiwan island; delegation visit ‘doomed to end with nothing substantive’ - Xu Keyue - globaltimes.cn

>>17906072 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on December 6, 2022

>>17906310 Australia warned not to become US’ ‘spearhead’, as ‘2 2’ meeting goes beyond hyping 'China threats' - Wang Qi - globaltimes.cn

>>17922495 Growing uncertainties as Japan, Australia strengthen strategy coordination with US - GT staff reporters - globaltimes.cn

>>17934103 Former US pilot held in Australia accused of breaking US arms controls by training Chinese pilots - Australian pilot Daniel Duggan, a former US Marine Corps aviator, has been accused of breaking American arms control laws by training Chinese fighter pilots to land on aircraft carriers, according to an indictment now unsealed by a US court

>>17934310 As Xi’s sun turns up heat, we’d do well to smarten up - "There can be only one sun in the sky and the new dynastic form of leadership in China under Xi Jinping believes that heavenly body is Beijing." Barnaby Joyce - theaustralian.com.au

>>17939818 U.S. lawmakers unveil bipartisan bid to ban China's TikTok - Republican Senator Marco Rubio announces bipartisan legislation to ban China's popular social media app TikTok, ratcheting up pressure on owner ByteDance Ltd amid U.S. fears the app could be used to spy on Americans and censor content

>>17946334 Vanuatu security treaty leaves China out in cold - Australia has outplayed China to secure a legally binding security treaty with Vanuatu, paving the way for intelligence sharing and faster deployment of defence, ­humanitarian and cyber support to the small Pacific nation in times of crisis

>>17960832 Former fighter pilot’s wife defends ‘angel and patriot’ against charges of training Chinese military - Saffrine Duggan said her husband Dan Duggan was a patriotic Australian who was being used as a “geo­political pawn’’ by the US in an attempt to stop other pilots from working in China

>>17972561 China contact raises hopes for imprisoned Australian citizens, journalist Cheng Lei and writer Yang Hengjun - “The Chinese have that kind of mentality to show their goodwill by releasing political prisoners”

>>17980326 Foreign Minister Penny Wong to make first ministerial visit to Beijing since China froze diplomatic relations with Australia

>>17980334 Penny Wong to visit China for historic meeting with her counterpart Wang Yi on Wednesday 21st December – the 50th anniversary of Australia-China relations

>>17985372 China’s sanctions on Australian exports could be dropped in a month’s time following Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s “significant” visit to the country, according to Allan Behm, head of thr international and security affairs program at The Australia Institute

>>17985452 Talks break the ice but PM won’t bow to China - Anthony Albanese says Australia won’t bow to Beijing and will continue to call for Chinese leaders to respect global rules as Penny Wong prepares to depart for the first official visit to China by an Australian government minister in four years

#26 - Part 23

Australia / China Tensions - Part 9

>>17985462 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on December 19, 2022

>>17985469 Principles behind Whitlam’s China vision still drive us - Gough Whitlam’s act of vision and ambition recognised China’s global significance and it also spoke for a greater sense of maturity and independence in Australia’s foreign policy - Anthony Albanese, 31st Prime Minister of Australia - theaustralian.com.au

>>17985487 Big challenge now will be to manage expectations - "The contradiction between Beijing’s strategic aims for the region and Canberra’s strategic aims is as strong and widespread as ever. Beijing wants the US military gone from the region, opposes AUKUS and the Quad, wants to establish its own military bases in the South Pacific, wants to control our critical infrastructure, and much more." - Greg Sheridan - theaustralian.com.au

>>17985519 Penny Wong’s China visit should become a trip for Australia to find its original aspiration: Global Times editorial - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17985781 China unveils ultra-deepwater drillship - The 42,000-tonne Dayang, which will be able to reach almost all of the world’s seabeds, is part of China’s quest to become a major sea power

>>17985817 Keith Hartley, a second Australian-based former military fighter pilot being investigated for his involvement in the alleged training of Chinese fighter pilots, claims “the whole thing is intensely political” after his home was raided by police

>>17990962 Chinese customs move may signal trade thaw for Australian lobster, pearls, Ugg boots and more - In a further sign of improving ties between Australia and China, Beijing’s powerful Customs Department has officially encouraged the buying of Australian lobsters, health products, Ugg boots and pearls

>>17990975 ‘Ice thaws, but slowly’: inside Penny Wong’s historic China trip - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ming said China expected to take the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Australia as “an opportunity to strengthen dialogue and expand co-operation” while also “managing differences”

>>17990982 Video: Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong will pay a visit to China on December 20 and 21 - SpokespersonCHN

>>17990995 Repairing China-Australia ties helps ‘meet expectation’ of fixing trade ties, ‘pave way’ for easing China-US tension: expert - Yang Sheng and Zhang Changyue - globaltimes.cn

>>17991001 GT Voice: Australia can be East-West bridge, not US pawn to contain China - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>17996539 ‘Very different countries’: Wong bridges great divide in high-stakes Beijing meeting - Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong raised sensitive issues of trade blockages and human rights during her high-stakes meeting with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in a historic dialogue that paves the way for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to consider visiting Beijing next year

>>17996551 Wong visit to China welcome but it is not the start of a reconciliation - "The CCP’s ambition is to rewrite global rules to enable its own domestic and international objectives. High-level meetings between Australian and Chinese leaders cannot change this reality. They are important and welcome, as long as they are accompanied by a long-term strategy of maintaining national security policies and working with partners to build regional resilience and deter Chinese aggression." - Justin Bassi and Fergus Hunter, Australian Strategic Policy Institute - theaustralian.com.au

>>17996561 China-Australia ties ‘on fast track to recovery’ as leaders agree to initiate, restart dialogues in 6 areas - Yang Sheng and Zhang Changyue - globaltimes.cn

#26 - Part 24

Australia / China Tensions - Part 10

>>17996575 Beijing calls for end of ‘anti-China rhetoric’ in Australia after Penny Wong visit - Beijing has warned Canberra to “not be swayed by the US” in its handling of China while signalling it may partially end the black-listing of Australian exports previously worth more than $20 billion a year

>>17996587 Canberra should not be swayed by US in handling its relations with China: China Daily editorial - chinadaily.com.cn - chinadaily.com.cn

>>17996590 Video: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on December 21, 2022

>>18002306 Solomon Islands ambassador John Moffat Fugui has died during Beijing’s Covid wave, stunning diplomats in China’s capital

>>18016738 Activists to revisit controversial ‘Where is Peng Shuai’ protests at January Australian Open - One of the protesters, Drew Pavlou, says they want to ‘make trouble’ for Tennis Australia over its links to China

>>18022397 China mourns passing on of Solomon Islands Ambassador Fugui who ‘had great visions to connect two countries’ - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>18022403 Solomon Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade announces passing on of Ambassador Fugui in Beijing

>>18022442 TikTok Security Dilemma Revives Push for U.S. Control - Some Biden administration officials think TikTok will remain security risk as long as it is owned by Chinese company

>>18029214 Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus clears way for pilot Daniel Duggan’s extradition to the US - The Albanese government has waved through Washington’s request to hand over a former American fighter pilot to US authorities, who accuse him of providing military training to pilots working for the People’s Republic of China

#26 - Part 25

Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide

>>17469878 Video: COVID-19 isolation period shortened to five days - People who test positive for COVID-19 will only be required to isolate for five days except in vulnerable settings following a meeting of national cabinet

>>17531302 Fresh twist in fight against Omicron as new vaccine approved in Australia - A new Covid vaccine designed to fight the Omicron strain was quietly approved this week, in good news for those still eligible for another jab

>>17607406 Video: Mandatory COVID-19 isolation periods scrapped from October 14, emergency response 'finished' says national cabinet

>>17629647 Victoria's purpose-built COVID quarantine hub to be shuttered by government following drop in demand - A half-billion dollar COVID-19 quarantine facility in Melbourne's north will be closed after just eight months in operation

>>17701275 Experts say dropping pandemic declaration is ‘an appropriate step’ - Epidemiologists have backed Premier Daniel Andrews’ decision to end the pandemic declaration, the legal instrument used to enforce rules intended to stop the spread of COVID-19

>>17701278 The Moderna bivalent Covid vaccine introduced in Australia - A new Covid booster has started being rolled out in Australia which is anticipated to give recipients broader immunity to the deadly virus

>>17701284 Julian Assange tests positive for Covid as wife reveals she is ‘worried for his health’ - The worried wife of Julian Assange has revealed the WikiLeaks founder’s diagnosis in prison where he is locked in his cell 24-7

>>17806665 Unbelievable: Researcher Claims Anti-vaxx Groups’ Fear Mongering and Scare Tactics Cause Vaccine-Related Adverse Events Like Blood Clots and Heart Attacks - Raymond D. Palmer, self-identified "mRNA alchemist" from Western Australia, admits there are serious risks associated with Covid-19 vaccinations, but blames anti-vaxxers for it

>>17817311 Hopes high for next virus: one jab is fit for all - Australian scientists have developed a one-stop vaccine for pandemic viruses that promises to be available within weeks of another Covid-style threat erupting

>>17832896 Top Australian Cardiologist, Dr. Ross Walker calls for Ban on mRNA Shots After Rise in Jab-Related Heart Conditions

>>17848766 New South Wales to withdraw or refund tens of thousands of Covid fines issued during the pandemic after government lawyers conceded some fines were invalid in a test case brought by Redfern Legal Centre

>>17906053 Construction begins at the site of Moderna's first Australian mRNA vaccine facility in Melbourne's southeast - The site at Monash University's Clayton campus has a 2024 completion date and will be capable of producing 100 million vaccine doses a year - It will be the first facility of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, providing COVID-19 booster shots as well as mRNA vaccines for other respiratory viruses like influenza

>>17934289 Australia to move away from ‘COVID exceptionalism’ in 2023 plan - Australians will need a doctor’s referral for a PCR test at a private pathology clinic from January 1 next year as Australia moves away from “COVID exceptionalism” even as the nation’s chief medical officer predicted regular waves of the virus for at least two more years

>>17985916 Dr Kerryn Phelps reveals ‘devastating’ Covid vaccine injury, says doctors have been ‘censored’ - Dr Kerryn Phelps has broken her silence about a “devastating” Covid vaccine injury, slamming regulators for “censoring” public discussion with “threats” to doctors - Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has revealed she and her wife both suffered serious and ongoing injures from Covid vaccines, while suggesting the true rate of adverse events is far higher than acknowledged due to underreporting and “threats” from medical regulators

>>17991108 ‘Not anti-vaxxers’: Dr Kerryn Phelps says she suffered COVID vaccine injury, calls for more research - Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps says she and her partner experienced vaccine injury, calling for tests for long COVID and vaccine injuries as well as more research on the long-term harms of the coronavirus and immunisation side effects

>>17991120 Video: Top doctor says she suffered COVID-19 vaccine injury - Dr Kerryn Phelps is calling for more research into COVID-19 vaccines after she says she experienced a vaccine injury - 9 News Australia

#26 - Part 26

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

>>17520790 Video: 'Andrew, you're a sick man': police drag heckler from crowd during Queen's procession - King Charles III and his siblings followed the Queen's coffin through Edinburgh during a procession towards St Giles' Cathedral. A man was heard shouting: 'Andrew, you're a sick old man' at Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, before police detained him - Guardian News

>>17520795 Video: Man in Aussie football shirt dragged to ground after three-word Prince Andrew slur - As the crowd watched on in sombre silence as the Queen’s coffin passed by, one man’s harsh words rang out across the mourning throng - 7NEWS Australia

>>17607547 Video: Prince Andrew: Banished | Official Trailer - Prince Andrew: Banished unpacks the tumultuous story of how Prince Andrew, Duke of York - formerly regarded as the attractive, beloved son of Queen Elizabeth II and decorated naval officer - whose behavior antics throughout his career as a Royal brought scandal and disgrace to the 1200-year legacy of the British Royal Family - Peacock

>>17623816 Two men charged over alleged assault on another man who heckled Prince Andrew as he walked behind the Queen's coffin in Scotland

>>17637148 Kevin Spacey trial begins in New York, five years after sexual abuse accusations - Anthony Rapp alleges Spacey acted to gratify sexual desire during an encounter in 1986, when he was 14 and the Oscar winner was 26 or 27

>>17637151 Q Post #4590 - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kevin-spacey-accuser-dies-by-suicide-day-after-actor-posts-kill-them-with-kindness-video - "This marks the third Spacey accuser to die in 2019." At what point does it become painfully obvious? - Q - https://qanon.pub/#4590

>>17696781 MY DEAR ANDREW - I feel so bad for dear friend Andrew, says Ghislaine Maxwell in first prison interview since sex trafficking conviction

>>17696784 Video: Ghislaine Maxwell: Victims slam 'unrepentant' sex trafficker after new interview - Ghislaine Maxwell's comments show she still believes she's done nothing wrong

>>17696785 Q Post #1001 - Where do roads lead? Each prince is associated with a cardinal direction: north, south, east and west. Sacrifice. Collect. [Classified]-1 - [Classified]-2 - Tunnels. Table 29. D-Room H - D-Room R - D-Room C - Pure EVIL. 'Conspiracy' - Q - https://qanon.pub/#1001

>>17696785 Q Post #4923 - https://twitter.com/VRSVirginia/status/1319071346282778624 - Dearest Virginia - We stand with you. Now and always. Find peace through prayer. Never give up the good fight. God bless you. Q - https://qanon.pub/#4923

>>17807136 PDF: Jeffrey Epstein Accusers Sue Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan - Two women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse are suing Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, saying the banks facilitated Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking operation and ignored red flags about their wealthy client

>>17832909 Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal against 20-year jail sentence for sex trafficking on the brink of collapse after estranged husband Scott Borgerson refused to pay outstanding $900,000 legal bill and a further $1 million to challenge her conviction

>>17857930 Jeffrey Epstein's estate agrees to pay the Virgin Islands more than $105 million to settle civil suit - The lawsuit, filed in January 2020, alleged that Epstein created a network of companies and conspired with others to help him carry out and conceal the alleged sex trafficking scheme

>>17862913 Alan Dershowitz: 'Prince Andrew should not have paid Virginia off' - The retired Harvard law professor speaks out for the first time since Giuffre lawsuit dropped - “A great weight has been lifted off my shoulders”

#26 - Part 27

Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 1

>>17458311 ANONS, REMEMBER: GLOBAL REPORT ALL CHILD ABUSE MATERIAL! ZERO TOLERANCE! https://qanon.pub/?q=child

>>17463649 Student of Sydney swim teacher Kyle Daniels thought alleged touching was normal in breaststroke - A girl who was allegedly sexually touched by her swim coach during a lesson has told a court she thought it was “what a teacher does”

>>17463654 Swim coach Paul Douglas Frost preyed on young students’ ‘trust and vulnerability’, NSW District Court told - A Sydney swimming coach allegedly preyed on the vulnerability of his young students through grooming and indecent sexual acts in the 1990s and 2000s, a jury has heard

>>17463670 Pedophile tradie Bryan Michael Grange appeals 30-year jail sentence over child sexual abuse - A tradie who was jailed after inflicting “depraved” sexual abuse on a newborn and preschool-aged children is appealing his sentence

>>17463684 Haileybury College facing legal action from estate of woman whose son suffered sexual abuse - The elite Melbourne private school faces legal action from the estate of a woman whose son suffered sexual abuse in the 1960s.

>>17463909 Apple, Facebook, Microsoft forced to come clean on child abuse material - Australian authorities have served Apple, Microsoft and the owner of Facebook and Instagram with world-first legal orders to come clean on what - if anything - they are doing to detect and report child sex abuse material or face fines of more than half a million dollars a day

>>17469867 Woman who kept ‘sex slaves’ weeps in court as she appeals conviction - A woman found guilty of forcing two women from Thailand into sex slavery has wept in NSW Supreme Court as she appealed her conviction

>>17494440 Australian Federal Police fear hike in child forced marriage cases as overseas travel restrictions lift

>>17494440 If you, or someone you know, is at risk of a forced marriage please see My Blue Sky - Australia’s dedicated forced marriage portal providing information, support and legal advice to people in or at risk of forced marriages - https://mybluesky.org.au

>>17494440 Contact the Australian Federal Police on 131 237 or email NOSSC-Client-Liaison@afp.gov.au (National Operations State Service Centre)

>>17494440 Australian Federal Police: Human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices (including forced marriage) information report form - https://forms.afp.gov.au/online_forms/human_trafficking_form

>>17494447 Video: Fears of rising cases of forced marriages in Australia with dozens of cases each year - Authorities fear the number of cases of forced marriage will rise in Australia with underage girls as young as eleven being forced into marriage. One organisation plans to educate vulnerable girls in Sydney before they fall victim. - ABC News (Australia)

>>17494489 Primary school children filming and uploading sexualised content in worrying new trend - An increasing number of primary school-aged children are creating and uploading their own sexually explicit material to the internet, prompting fears from child abuse investigators that they are putting themselves at risk of serious harm

>>17499352 Asset-shedding child abuser John Wayne Millwood declares bankruptcy, ‘stacks’ creditors, gets pension, avoids compo to victim-survivor - The 76-year-old Tasmanian former colonial art-collector who in 2016 pleaded guilty to abusing a young boy over five years in the 1980s, causing lifelong harm, declared himself bankrupt in July

#26 - Part 28

Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 2

>>17499393 Video: Three children rescued, 45 people facing child exploitation charges after joint West Australian and Federal Police operations - WA Police Operation Palomar and Australian Federal Police Operation Tamworth - Forty-five people charged in WA with a total of 149 offences - More than 35,000 child exploitation images and videos seized

>>17504328 Kyle Daniels trial: Mum sobs in court over alleged abuse of her daughter during swimming lessons - A mother has broken down in court over a children’s cartoon - 'Pantosaurus' - which helped uncover her daughter’s alleged abuse

>>17504329 Video: Talk PANTS with Pantosaurus and his PANTS song - UK National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

>>17504360 Video: Sextortion: How WA predators are ‘invading kids’ bedrooms’ - Police have described how predators are grooming West Australian children across numerous online platforms following an operation of unprecedented scale in Australia that led to the rescue of three children from ongoing abuse, the identification of 14 more at risk and the arrest of 45 people thus far

>>17508793 Australian Federal Police: New online child safety animations to help educate community - Animations released this week by the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) aim to give the Australian community a better understanding of online child sexual exploitation

>>17513816 Launceston General Hospital manager denies abuse cover-up - Internal reviews by a Tasmanian hospital into pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin were misleading and an allegation of historical abuse known to management was omitted and not escalated, Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has been told

>>17513834 Former Ashley Youth Detention Centre boss Patrick Ryan 'found out about allegations against staff member during hearings'

>>17513847 Video: Claims of abuse exposed at Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre - Former boss Patrick Ryan first became aware of historical allegation against a management team member during commission of inquiry's hearings - abc.net.au

>>17526484 Launceston General Hospital head of medical services, Peter Renshaw accused of 'lack of insight' into pain he was causing in denying 11-year-old Zoe Duncan's alleged rape

>>17526492 Launceston General Hospital head unaware of any 'marked changes' to systems after paedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin's offending

>>17526505 Tasmanian hospital 'omitted' nurse abuse claims - Launceston General Hospital failed to escalate allegations and "rumours" of abuse during investigations into pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin, who had worked on the children's ward for almost two decades

>>17526507 'No change' at Tasmanian hospital since abuse - Peter Renshaw, senior director at Launceston General Hospital where pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin worked for almost two decades has told an inquiry he is not certain systems and processes have markedly changed since the offending came to light

>>17531122 Police arrest 24 registered child sex offenders in South Australia's largest operation in recent years, in a statewide sweep during National Child Protection Week

>>17531125 Video: No change at Launceston hospital since paedophile nurse worked there, inquiry told - A senior director at the Launceston General Hospital has told Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry he's not aware of any marked changes at the hospital since it was revealed that a paedophile nurse worked there for 18 years - ABC News (Australia)

#26 - Part 29

Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 3

>>17531157 Tasmanian abuse failings 'spanned governments' - Tasmanian governments past and present have failed to prioritise the safety of children, a sexual abuse inquiry has been told

>>17531514 Francis William Cable: Marist brother paedophile known as Br Romuald dies in jail - The former teacher and headmaster known as Br Romuald, who systematically abused at least 20 boys while in his position of power, has died aged 90 while facing more charges

>>17531523 Death of paedophile priest Francis Cable, aka Brother Romuald, makes victim's mum glad - Audrey Nash says she is glad her son's abuser died in jail but "it doesn't take anything away"

>>17531530 Church needs process to support survivors after paedophile clergy deaths - The Marist Brothers' Province of Australia has declined to outline what procedure it follows - if any - to support survivors when abusers die

>>17531563 ‘I needed to step up’: Former Surf Coast mayor sues church over alleged abuse - Police officer and former Surf Coast mayor, Brian McKiterick, has launched legal action against the Vincentian order almost 50 years after he was allegedly abused by a priest while boarding at a former Catholic college in Bendigo

>>17588869 Bishop Christopher Saunders ordered to leave the Kimberley as Catholic Church confirms investigation - The Catholic Church has confirmed it is undertaking an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against resigned Broome Bishop Christopher Saunders - It has also ordered that the 72-year-old leave the outback diocese where he has been a priest and bishop for more than 50 years - In a rare statement, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said a "Vos Estis Lux Mundi" investigation was underway

>>17588894 Australian archbishop investigating retired bishop on abuse allegations - Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane will conduct an investigation into retired Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome, using a process established by Pope Francis in 2019 - "Vos Estis Lux Mundi" ("You are the light of the world") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vos_estis_lux_mundi

>>17588902 Every parent’s worst nightmare: How child rapist babysitter Jareth Thomas Harries-Markham used Facebook to find families - A babysitter and live-in au pair who sexually abused 16 children aged between eight months and nine years old in Perth sentenced to 18 years behind bars - Jareth Thomas Harries-Markham’s crimes were so horrific the state prosecutor broke down while reading the facts of the offences during his sentencing in the WA Supreme Court

>>17595187 Lawyers argue for more jail time in sentencing submissions for paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale - Prolific paedophile priest whose offending is "unparalleled in Australia", according to his defence counsel, likely to die in prison

>>17607461 Vatican sanctions Nobel laureate after Timor accusations - The Catholic Church’s decades-long sex abuse scandal has caught up with a Nobel Peace Prize winner, with the Vatican confirming that it had sanctioned the East Timor independence hero, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, following allegations that he sexually abused boys there during the 1990s

>>17607480 Tasmanian government date gaffe prompts abuse apology change - Tasmania's government has shifted the date of a formal apology to survivors of child sexual abuse after realising it coincided with the three-year anniversary of a serial perpetrator's death - pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin

>>17607515 James Geoffrey Griffin: The child abuse scandal that shamed Tasmania - Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News - bbc.com

>>17623836 Cricket Australia issues apology to survivors of child sexual abuse involved with cricket, calling on states and territories to join up to the National Redress Scheme

>>17629627 Rolf Harris has cancer and is ‘gravely sick’ while under 24 hour care - Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris’ health has deteriorated, leaving the Australian entertainer barely able to speak - Disgraced Australian entertainer being fed by a tube and no longer able to speak as he battles neck cancer

>>17629643 'I hope he dies a miserable death in prison': Paedophile teacher James Booth sentenced to seven years prison - James Booth, or Jim as he was known to his students, pleaded guilty to a raft of charges against four young boys who were around the age of 12 at the time the offending occurred in the 1980s and 1990s - "Rot in hell Mr Booth" a woman yelled at the former teacher who abused her brother Charlie

>>17637141 Nobel Peace Prize winner Belo an alleged pedophile - Holy See has prohibited Belo from living in Timor Leste, contacting minors or exercising public priestly ministry

>>17697682 Paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale sentenced for sexual abuse of boys at Mortlake in western Victoria in the 1980s

#26 - Part 30

Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 4

>>17804041 Operation Uniform Kalahari: Queensland Police investigation identifies nearly 50 child exploitation victims - Ten men and one woman charged with a combined 245 offences including rape, sexual assault, grooming, indecent treatment of children and supplying dangerous drugs to minors

>>17807125 PDF: Former high court judge Dyson Heydon resigns as member of the Order of Australia following a 2020 inquiry that found he sexually harassed six junior court staff

>>17853198 Perth father labelled one of Western Australia’s worst paedophiles jailed for 25 years over sexual abuse of 22 children, including his own, between 2015 and 2021

>>17857946 Video: Australian Federal Police Operation Huntsman shuts down organised crime syndicates exploiting children - AFP shuts down more than 500 bank, financial services and digital currency accounts involved in the sexual extortion of Australian teenagers

>>17869695 Virginia Elementary School Will Offer “After School Satan Club” - The Satanic Temple has been approved to host an after-school program for students at at B.M. Williams Primary School in Chesapeake, Virginia - The monthly Satanist meetings will teach children “benevolence and empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving, creative expression, personal sovereignty, and compassion.”

>>17869702 Video: ‘After School Satan Club’ sparks religious freedom debate in Chesapeake - Club set to launch at B.M. Williams Primary School on Dec. 15 - “I understand the apprehension behind the satanic name, but he is just an imaginary figure that we look to because he is the eternal rebel that fought for justice and humanity.” - Rose Bastet, a volunteer organizing the new club

>>17879103 The number of people with knowledge of child sexual abuse committed in the 1970s by Pentecostal pastor Frank Houston, the father of Hillsong founder Brian Houston, was in the “tens of thousands” before Frank’s death in 2004, a Sydney court has been told

>>17879120 Video: ‘I was paid for my silence’: Brian Houston’s father’s victim speaks out - A man who was sexually assaulted by Brian Houston’s father claims he was told by the Hillsong founder that he was responsible for the abuse because he “tempted” the late preacher Frank Houston

>>17884719 Hillsong founder Brian Houston standing trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court where he is defending allegations that he failed to go to police with details of his father Frank’s sexual assault of a young boy over 40 years ago - Brett Sengstock was sexually assaulted by disgraced preacher Frank Houston at his family’s Sydney eastern suburbs home in January 1970

>>17906059 Inside church’s investigation of paedophile preacher Frank Houston - Brian Houston’s right hand man, George Aghajanian, says church elders didn’t feel obligated to report Frank Houston’s sexual abuse of a young boy to police because it happened decades earlier when Hillsong church didn’t exist

>>17906265 Hillsong Church general manager George Aghajanian tells court he believed it was "entirely appropriate" for self-confessed paedophile Frank Houston to receive a financial retirement package when he was removed from the church's ministry

>>17906281 Brian Houston’s right-hand man defends golden handshake given to paedophile preacher Frank Houston and denies Frank Houston’s sexual abuse of boy was swept under the rug

>>17911800 Prosecutors drop all outstanding child abuse charges against former Sydney swimming instructor Kyle Daniels - The 24-year-old was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with nine young female students while working as a part-time swim instructor at a Mosman pool in 2018 and 2019

>>17917739 Church leaders defend not reporting pedophile preacher Frank Houston to police - Pentecostal church leaders did not report pedophile preacher Frank Houston to police in the late 1990s because they obtained legal advice telling them the victim was old enough to make his own complaint

>>17917750 Secretive inquiry into the potential defrocking of Peter Hollingworth faces yet another extraordinary delay, sparking concerns elderly participants will die before proper scrutiny over the former governor-general’s handling of the child sex abuse issue

>>17917825 Parents swept up into controversy over After School Satan Club speak out: 'At their wits' end' - City of Chesapeake at the center of a firestorm sweeping the southeastern Virginia community after The Satanic Temple has attempted to establish an After School Satan Club (ASSC) for kids at the local B.M. Williams Primary School - ''"Satanism truly has made me a better person, a better friend, a better parent and a much better contributing member of society."'' - June Everett, ordained minister in The Satanic Temple and campaign director of ASSC

#26 - Part 31

Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 5

>>17917917 What is Satanism? And where does social justice fit into this controversial religion? - "What do Satanists believe? It's a timely question, given that accusations of Satanism and reports of Satanic activity have become worryingly mainstream in recent years, particularly in the USA. We're all familiar with the feverish imaginings of QAnon adherents and their belief in the existence of a global network of Satanist paedophiles. But even among seemingly rational people on the American political right, the name of Satan is dropped with increasing frequency, and unwelcome cultural phenomena routinely denounced as "Satanic". Are Satanists really out there? And do they pose some sort of demonic threat to decent society? The short answers are (1) yes, and (2) no — and beyond the scare stories lie some fascinating complexities." - David Rutledge - abc.net.au

>>17917927 Q Post #133 - Does Satan exist? Does the ‘thought’ of Satan exist? Who worships Satan? What is a cult? Epstein island. What is a temple? What occurs in a temple? Worship? Why is the temple on top of a mountain? How many levels might exist below? What is the significance of the colors, design and symbol above the dome? Why is this relevant? Who are the puppet masters? Have the puppet masters traveled to this island? When? How often? Why? “Vladimir Putin: The New World Order Worships Satan” Q - https://qanon.pub/#133

>>17927384 Central Coast convicted pedophile Mark Ginn jailed after using Roblox currency for online abuse - Convicted pedophile given 10 year jail sentence after using currency from the online game Roblox to coerce young girls into sexually abusing themselves

>>17927394 Hazel Houston, wife of pedophile preacher Frank Houston, made complaints to Pentecostal church leaders claiming they were treating him poorly after it was revealed he sexually abused a young boy

>>17934262 Parliamentary inquiry recommends Australia sign up to the Cloud Act agreement, allowing Australian agencies to access electronic data hosted in the US related to serious offences - The agreement will reduce delays obtaining evidence in relation to offences such as terrorism, child exploitation and human trafficking

>>17934328 Pentecostal church leaders did not speak to paedophile preacher Frank Houston’s victim about whether he wanted to come forward - Pastor Keith Ainge, a high-ranking member of Pentecostal church’s leadership has admitted it should have been confirmed with paedophile preacher Frank Houston’s victim that he did not want to make a complaint to police

>>17934333 Hobart man who orally raped his baby son to make video for internet predators, and got caught with scores of horrific child abuse images and videos far too disturbing for publication, jailed for seven years

>>17939675 Launceston General Hospital sex-abuse report rebukes leaders - Senior management at Tasmanian hospital where male pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin worked for almost two decades showed "inertia" to implementing child safety reforms after his death, a review has found

>>17939693 Launceston General Hospital report: 92 recommendations to be adopted - Embattled hospital’s “senior executive management team” showed a “level of inertia” in engaging with the review and a “lack of the responsive leadership” needed to fix the woes

>>17939744 Launceston General Hospital report makes 92 recommendations after abuse scandal - Premier Jeremy Rockliff said he would work to ensure all recommendations from the review were implemented in full

>>17939750 PDF: Independent Report from the Co-Chairs for the Child Safe Governance Review of the Launceston General Hospital and Human Resources

>>17939800 Disgraced pastor Frank Houston continued preaching after ban for child sex abuse - Despite being banned by the church for raping a child, disgraced pastor Frank Houston continued preaching up until months before his death

>>17939800 Brian Houston addresses Hillsong Conference at Sydney’s SuperDome in 2002 - Talks to the 18,000-strong crowd about his father Frank Houston’s sexual abuse of a boy

>>17939832 ‘Hail Satan’: a Virginia town at war over After School Satan Club - Christians and Satanists clash at the Chesapeake School Board meeting - ''"The most bombastic Satanist speakers stormed out of the meeting after they finished. One member named Lacy emphatically said to a group of Christians on her way out, “You don’t have to like it, but you have to respect it!” A woman replied simply, “No, we don’t.”"''

#26 - Part 32

Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 6

>>17946343 Microsoft and Apple among the global companies accused of 'turning a blind eye' to child sexual exploitation - Some of the world's biggest technology companies aren't doing enough to prevent the spread of child sexual exploitation on their platforms, according Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant

>>17946371 How social media giants created a ‘paedophile paradise’ - A world-first insight into how social media giants are responding to online child sexual abuse has exposed what Australia’s eSafety boss condemned as a culture of wilful blindness in which companies ignore or make token attempts to monitor serious criminal activity on their sites

>>17946374 PDF: Basic Online Safety Expectations - Summary of industry responses to the first mandatory transparency notices - eSafety Commissioner, December 2022

>>17946383 Paedophile preacher Frank Houston claimed he’d been banned from preaching because his son, Hillsong founder Brian Houston, wanted to “steal his church”

>>17946396 Defrocked Frank Houston gave sermons, court told - Stripped of his credentials to minister after his son learned he sexually abused children, pedophile pastor Frank Houston continued leading church sermons until weeks before his death

>>17953481 ‘One strike, you’re out’: Brian Houston confronted his father over child abuse, court told - "We have a ‘one strike and you’re out, no tolerance policy’ towards paedophiles, and it can’t be any different for you than it is for anyone else"

>>17953494 John Rolleston: Paedophile GP avoids more jail time for more historical abuse of young boys - Given 84-year-old Rolleston suffered from melanoma, lung disease, heart disease, gastrointestinal bleeding and recurrent kidney stones, Judge Flannery said it would “be cruel and unusual punishment to return him to jail for such a short period in his state of health”

>>17961000 Danny Radojcin, former caretaker from Caulfield Hebrew Congregation synagogue being investigated by police after sexual assault allegations were made against him

>>17961025 Students expelled from small Jewish ultra-Orthodox private school Cheder Levi Yitzchok in St Kilda, because their parents refused to sign a memorandum of understanding that limited who they could talk to about the alleged sexual abuse of their children

>>17980354 Hillsong founder Brian Houston tells Sydney court he believes his father was a "serial paedophile", and responses to abuse allegations when they first came to light were not "all they should have been"

>>17985875 Hillsong founder Brian Houston tells Sydney court it is "absurd" to suggest he would claim a man had "tempted" his paedophile father into abusing him as a child

>>17991094 Video: SA court jails Instagram child-sex predator Cameron Robert Bowen for more than 15 years for stalking, grooming and abuse - A pedophile who preyed upon vulnerable LGBT children through the internet will serve one of the longest sex abuse sentences in state history

>>17991102 Video: Brian Houston denies downplaying father's abuse in Hillsong sermon - Hillsong founder Brian Houston has told a court he was not trying to "fool" the congregation by referring to his father's sexual abuse of a child as only a "very serious moral accusation"

>>17996641 Hillsong founder Brian Houston believes he did the “right thing” not going to police after his father told him he had molested an underage boy three decades earlier

>>18002294 Cody Michael Reynolds, former NSW Moriah College teacher pleads guilty to possessing and transmitting child exploitation material

#26 - Part 33

Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide - Part 1

>>17532471 How Queen’s death followed disinformation playbook - "The death of Queen Elizabeth II has laid bare a blueprint for how disinformation flourishes around major news events, with bad actors taking advantage to grab attention and sow confusion" - AFP - theaustralian.com.au

>>17583291 Gloss goes off Donald Trump for even rusted on supporters - "Mounting legal troubles, lacklustre polling and growing frustration among Republicans that the former president has done little to help his hand-picked, and struggling, Republican candidates get across the line in forthcoming congressional elections have diminished the former president’s political future" - Adam Creighton - theaustralian.com.au

>>17804046 Trump, Who Wants to Be President, Can’t Stop Promoting QAnon Memes - "A man asking for control of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is sharing posts about a global cabal of pedophiles that he alone can bring down" - Nikki McCann Ramirez, Associate Research Director at Media Matters - rollingstone.com

>>17879042 Donald Trump calls for end of US Constitution due to 'massive fraud' in 'false and fraudulent' 2020 presidential election - ""Donald Trump has suggested a "termination" of the US Constitution, earning a sharp rebuke from the White House as the former president revisits debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that he lost."'' - Jason Dasey - abc.net.au

>>17906076 Donald Trump’s planned White House return could put AUKUS submarine program at risk - "Trump’s recent track record makes it unlikely he will succeed in returning to the presidency. What is left unsaid is that Australia can really only cross its fingers to avoid such a scenario, given the uncertainty – if not unmitigated chaos – it would bring." Tom Minear, News Corp Australia's US correspondent - heraldsun.com.au

>>17934061 Queensland shooting: Gunman Gareth Train was a conspiracy theorist - A gunman who killed two police officers in a shootout in western Queensland on Monday had posted conspiracy theories online including that the Port Arthur massacre was faked by government to enable a crackdown on gun ownership - Internet searches show that Gareth Train was a prolific author of bizarre conspiracy theories about Port Arthur, the Catholic Church and against police

>>17934342 REPORT EXPOSES QANON’S EXPLOITATION OF U.S. MILITARY’S REPUTATION - Human Rights First (HRF) releases “Digital Soldiers:” QAnon Extremists Exploit U.S. Military, Threaten Democracy, a report that examines how the extremist QAnon movement is working to exploit the United States military to undermine American democracy - “With its masquerade of a partnership with the military, QAnon and its adherents encourage public acceptance of military intervention in domestic politics and other authoritarian actions” - Elizabeth Yates, Senior Researcher on Antisemitism at Human Rights First

#26 - Part 34

Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide - Part 2

>>17939893 ‘Not just at the pointy end’: Calls for renewed focus on conspiracy threats - Experts are calling for renewed national focus on the potential violent threat posed by elements of Australia’s conspiratorial fringe, after the killing of two police and their alleged attackers in regional Queensland - "Elise Thomas, a senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said the uncertainties of the pandemic and frustration at government responses to it had exposed many people to conspiracy theories for the first time."

>>17946304 Wieambilla murders a wake-up call on the dangers of sovereign citizen cults - "The term that hasn’t been used by police or media to date is domestic terrorism but that is surely what led to the deaths of three innocent people." - Jack The Insider (Peter Hoysted) - theaustralian.com.au

>>17953468 Police shooting sparks sov-cit expert to warn of rising ‘cult’ danger - "I started bringing the potential dangers of this movement in Australia to the attention of authorities in 2014…I feel almost nothing has been done to prepare for the inevitable explosion that I warned a single crisis would spawn." - Jack The Insider (Peter Hoysted) - theaustralian.com.au

>>17953519 Beware toxic extremism lurking on the fringes - "Anti-vaccination beliefs, traditionally associated with the far left, have proliferated on the right in response to Covid and now appear to be a core plank of the Reichsburger, QAnon and sovereign citizen movements." - Claire Lehmann, founding editor of Quillette - theaustralian.com.au

>>17953724 Police murders show disturbing rise of the conspiracy mindset - "Take QAnon. It’s a vile, hateful, anti-Semitic, far right movement that embodies a crazy set of conspiracy theories, including some from the political left. QAnon believes, among other things, that the US government is run by a network of secret pedophiles…The most senior figure to give occasional nods to QAnon is Donald Trump. Although QAnon is extreme and hateful, it also engages its followers in a kind of game, with the challenge of endlessly deciphering the clues of Trump and the like." - Greg Sheridan, The Australian's foreign editor - theaustralian.com.au

>>17985863 Queensland Police Union plan to buy Wieambilla property where two officers were killed in ambush - Union president Ian Leavers said he did not want the land to "fall into the wrong hands" - "The last thing we want to see is the anti-vaxxers, pro-gun, conspiracy theorists to get this land and use it for their own warped and dangerous views" - Sarah Richards - abc.net.au

>>18012378 Pressure builds to keep Donald Trump off Facebook ahead of his possible reinstatement - "Nearly half of Trump's posts and reposts on Truth Social in the week after the 2022 midterm elections pushed claims of election fraud and amplified QAnon accounts or content" - Nicole Gaudiano - businessinsider.com

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Kevin Rudd Tweets

This is a physical attack on the institutions of democracy by a far right mob.All because of extremist statements by political leaders attacking the legal results of a democratic election,echoed faithfully by a cancerous far right media.This affects us all

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1346913554117525509

https://archive.ph/DaUHy

Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol as former DC police chief denounces 'coup attemp'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/06/georgia-election-latest-news-senate-ossoff-warnock-democrats-republicans-trump-biden

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Unbelievable that Murdoch media would publish this outrageous cartoon of President Biden calling him “Creepy Joe” - and for what reason? Then suggesting he’s controlled by a non-existent organisation - “Antifa”. All QAnon crap. #MurdochRoyalCommission

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1352905036305637377

https://archive.ph/iI7Sz

Gold Coast Bulletin, January 22 2021 - Page 23

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Kevin Rudd Tweets

Murdoch has zero interest in stopping dangerous far-right extremism. He sees QAnon as just another marketing tool to sucker people into his parallel universe where he can take their money and tell them how to vote. #MurdochRoyalCommission

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1357519643410272256

https://archive.ph/sGLEq

Tucker Carlson defended QAnon and said attacks on it were part of a government plot to control people's minds

The Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday defended the QAnon conspiracy-theory movement, whose adherents groundlessly believe that Donald Trump is planning a purge of child-abusing Democrats who run the world.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fox-news-tucker-carlson-defends-qanon-conspiracy-theory-movement-2021-1

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In America, the Murdoch media continues to support a QAnon congresswoman who is notorious for her racist, antisemitic nonsense. The lesson for Australia? Murdoch will back bigger fruitcakes than Craig Kelly if he thinks there’s money and power to be gained

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1357556909650243584

https://archive.ph/76u1O

Fringe-Watching: Marjorie Taylor Greene

From The Daily Show

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Chris Bowen Tweet

Qanon is a conspiracy driven cult. And the Prime Minister has serious questions to answer. Watch my brief speech in Parliament

https://twitter.com/Bowenchris/status/1404673224638550018

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Kevin Rudd Tweet

Great speech by Chris Bowen on Morrison and his close personal relationship with an activist from QAnon - the far right, extremist, religious conspiracy group that stormed the US Capitol.

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1404718885220151306

https://archive.ph/Ztyfi

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Kevin Rudd Tweet

Morrison has questions to answer on his personal relationship with a leading activist of the same extremist religious/conspiracy group that stormed the US Capitol. His wife worked for Morrison.His family have reported him to the National Security Hotline

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1404418922787446784

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QAnon follower Tim Stewart's an old friend of Scott Morrison. His family reported him to the national security hotline

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/qanon-follower-old-friend-scott-morrison-stewart-family-speaks/100125156

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Kevin Rudd Tweet

Could you imagine any other Australian PM refusing to answer questions about inviting an extreme, far-right religious cultist to Kirribilli House? What about accepting his help to write a speech to parliament? His own family reported him to the National Security Hotline.

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1405070098008711169

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Kevin Rudd Tweet

Premier Andrews is right to call out Morrison's offensive courting of political extremists at the expense of ordinary law-abiding Australians. Whether it's far-right radicals, anti-vaxxers or the QAnon cult. Just appalling.

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1461569968214974466

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Prime Minister's War Of Words

From The Today Show

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Kevin Rudd Tweet

Donald Trump is a traitor to the West. Murdoch was Trump’s biggest backer. And Murdoch’s Fox Television backs Putin too. What rancid treachery.

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1497863031497564161

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Trump defends praise of Putin, makes strongest hint yet of a run for president in 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/26/trump-2024/

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https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/1071755419499069441

Those with the most to lose are the loudest.

Those who 'knowingly' broke the law in a coordinated effort [treason] are the most vocal.

Crimes against Humanity.

Q

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Julian Assange to ask for prison release to attend Vivienne Westwood’s funeral

Latika Bourke - December 31, 2022

London: Stella Assange says her husband, Julian Assange, will apply to British authorities for leave from Belmarsh Prison to attend the funeral of their dear friend, Dame Vivienne Westwood.

Westwood, one of Britain’s most-loved designers and a long-time political activist and supporter of the WikiLeaks founder, died on Thursday in the UK, aged 81.

In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Stella Assange said she first met Westwood at Julian’s 40th birthday party when he was under house arrest in Norfolk in 2011, and Westwood had remained his friend and supporter “until the end”.

A decade later, Westwood attended celebrations for Julian’s 50th birthday held in his absence because he was in jail.

“Vivienne is irreplaceable. She was a huge friend, a great supporter, and it’s an enormous loss,” Stella said in an interview by phone from Spain, where she spent Christmas with her 91-year-old father as she said she could not visit her husband in prison.

“She was such a generous spirit and she really, really cared about the future of the world and future generations and she really saw all of these issues as justice and truth and the destruction of the planet as interrelated causes.

“She used her profile and her fashion to fight for the causes she believed in.”

Stella said she got to know Westwood well during her husband’s seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he lived as an asylum seeker to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where authorities wanted to question him over now-lapsed sexual assault allegations.

“Every couple of weeks, she would come on her bicycle and spend some time with Julian, and they loved each other’s company, and they would spend hours talking about all sorts of things,” Stella said.

“There was so much laughter and she was a very intelligent and curious spirit, she was very creative and they found each other’s company riveting.”

Julian Assange is on remand in Belmarsh Prison, a facility in south-east London often used to hold prisoners in high-profile cases involving national security, and is fighting an order for him to be extradited to the United States to face charges over the hacking of classified US intelligence cables, which he published more than a decade ago.

Stella said she spoke to her husband shortly after the news of Westwood’s death was posted on the designer’s social media feeds and that he had provided her with the first quote since he had been in prison.

Julian Assange said Westwood would be “terribly missed”.

“Vivienne was a Dame and a pillar of the anti-establishment,” he said. “Bold, creative, thoughtful and a good friend. The best of Britain.”

Asked how she planned to represent her husband at Westwood’s funeral, Stella said: “Julian’s going to put in a request to be able to attend.”

Westwood was one of Julian Assange’s earliest supporters and staged stunts dressed in yellow in a cage outside the Old Bailey to draw attention to the Australian’s case, which Assange and his supporters argue is a political witch-hunt.

She designed the wedding dress and tartan kilts for the Assanges’ wedding inside Belmarsh Prison earlier this year.

Stella Assange said Westwood made careful alterations for the dress, including replacing the metal boning in the corset so it wouldn’t get caught in metal detectors and sewing a fresh rose into the bodice so that the bride would have a flower during the ceremony.

Her bouquet was taken from her by security and prison staff made her sign an agreement to never share the photographs of her and Assange marrying.

“There was so much detail and love in that dress and it’s really heartbreaking that she didn’t see how much joy she brought to our wedding day,” Stella said.

“But she knew that she had made our wedding day so amazing.

“It brought a lot of additional attention to our wedding and this was part of her magic and her intelligence to be able to give exposure to important political causes.”

Stella hopes to share the “unique gift” of her Westwood wedding gown and one day exhibit her dress alongside her husband’s kilt.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/julian-assange-to-ask-for-prison-release-to-attend-vivienne-westwood-s-funeral-20221230-p5c9kg.html

Australia to resist international moves to test Chinese tourists for COVID

Sumeyya Ilanbey - December 29, 2022

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Australia is resisting moves by a number of countries to impose mandatory COVID tests and quarantine on travellers from China after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would rely on medical advice, which is to keep the borders open.

China is experiencing a wave of COVID infections after its surprise lifting of restrictions earlier this month, with almost 37 million people possibly having been infected on a single day last week.

The United States, India, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea and Britain have all either imposed new restrictions on Chinese travellers, or are considering doing so. Most involve compulsory testing but some are imposing quarantine for those who test positive. Almost half of the passengers arriving in Italy on two flights were found to be infected with the coronavirus.

But Albanese said on Thursday Australia was making no change to its rules on allowing travellers from China into the country.

“We will take the appropriate advice from the health experts,” Albanese told the ABC.

“There is no change in the travel advice at this point in time, but we are continuing to monitor the situation, as we continue to monitor the impact of COVID here in Australia as well as around the world.”

Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said he was comfortable with the current arrangements because Australians had already been confronted months ago by the variants that were believed to be circulating in China.

The “soup of variants” that had confronted Australia over the past 12 months included the main variant in China, and had contributed to “high hybrid immunity” in the Australian community, he said.

Australians were also highly vaccinated and had access to testing and antivirals, meaning they were “very well protected from the severe issues”.

However, neither he nor Albanese ruled out future action.

“The biggest issue in China that we need to watch is the emergence of other variants, and at this stage that hasn’t happened,” Kelly said in an interview with ABC radio. “It’s a dynamic situation. We certainly need to watch closely what’s happening in China, and that’s what we’re doing.”

The stance has not satisfied everyone. The Victorian president of the Australian Medical Association, Roderick McRae, said anyone arriving from China should be screened at the airport and forced to quarantine at the Mickleham quarantine facility for seven days.

He said Australia should prepare for an avalanche of cases. “We need to think that every jet that comes into Tullamarine from China is just riddled with COVID-19, and we need to take it seriously,” McRae said.

“Do we want to fill our hospitals with tourists from China coming to the Australian Open, or do we want to look after Victorians who have already got deferred care, larger cancers in their bodies [and other illnesses]? It’s an important conversation the community needs to have.”

He also warned of new variants, saying: “It was the circumstances in China that started SARS-COVID-2 … If someone comes off a plane from China coughing or sneezing, they’ve got COVID.”

Adwin Town, of the Chinese Association of Victoria, said imposing stricter rules, such as mandatory quarantine, on travellers from China would be unfair and discriminatory.

“If you only isolate and only pinpoint on one country [the need for quarantine] because of what they do or what they think, that is unfair,” Town said. “We should have a more satisfactory reason to execute such a restrictive process.”

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The United States has announced mandatory COVID-19 tests on travellers from China beginning on January 5. All air passengers aged two and older will require a negative result from a test no more than two days before departure from China, Hong Kong or Macau. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Americans should reconsider travel to China, Hong Kong and Macau.

It would also apply to passengers from China who enter the US through a third country, or who connect through the US to other destinations, The New York Times reported.

India has mandated a COVID-19 negative test for travellers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand, its health minister said. Passengers from those countries will be put under quarantine if they show symptoms of COVID-19 or tested positive.

Japan will require a negative test on arrival for travellers from mainland China from midnight on December 30. Those who test positive will be required to quarantine for seven days.

Italy earlier mandated tests for all travellers coming from China. Milan’s main airport, Malpensa, had already started testing passengers arriving from Beijing and Shanghai. “The measure is essential to ensure surveillance and detection of possible variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population”, Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said.

Taiwan said all passengers arriving on direct flights from China, as well as by boat at two offshore islands, would have to take PCR tests on arrival from January 1.

Malaysia announced new tracking and surveillance measures for those who test positive, while South Korea is requiring virus tests for visitors from China. Officials in Britain are expected to decide on Thursday (London time) if tests will be required.

Lunar New Year, which begins on January 22, is usually China’s busiest travel season. Officials said on Tuesday they would resume issuing passports for tourism for the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

Italian authorities are also sequencing the Milan tests to see if there are new variants, the Health Ministry said. If a new strain is found, officials may impose stricter curbs on travel from the country.

Italy was the first European country to be hit hard by COVID in early 2020.

While the high rate of passengers with the virus has put authorities on alert, one factor in Italy’s favour is its high vaccination rate. More than 80 per cent of people are fully inoculated, according to the World Health Organisation, and many have also received booster shots. It’s a similar story across much of Western Europe.

In Germany, health authorities were “closely watching” the situation, according to Health Ministry spokesman Sebastian Guelde.

“We have no indication that a more dangerous mutation has developed in China that would give rise to a declaration of a virus variant area, which would result in corresponding travel restrictions,” he said.

The French Health Ministry was also monitoring developments, and said it was “ready to look at all useful measures that could be put in place as a consequence, in collaboration with France’s European partners”.

Early in the pandemic, the US barred entry to foreigners travelling from China, weeks after the virus first emerged there three years ago. Americans were allowed to return home and flights from China were funnelled to selected airports where passengers were screened for illness.

But the virus was already spreading in the US among people with no travel history.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/italy-reports-50-per-cent-of-passengers-on-china-flights-have-covid-20221229-p5c976.html

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War of words erupts over tests for China travellers

ED BOURKE - 31 December 2022

A war of words has erupted between medical leaders over how Australia should handle visitors entering the country from Covid-stricken China.

China is experiencing an explosion in Covid-19 infections and deaths after Beijing reversed its policies and let the virus run rampant.

According to authorities in Italy, 50 per cent of passengers on China flights to the country have Covid-19.

Victorian president of the Australian Medical Association Dr Roderick McRae attracted the ire of industry peers after calling for arrivals from China to be quarantined at Victoria’s Mickleham facility for seven days.

Authorities had to assume every plane arriving at Melbourne Airport from China was “riddled with Covid”, Dr McRae told The Age this week.

“Do we want to fill our hospitals with tourists from China coming to the Australian Open, or do we want to look after Victorians who have already got deferred care, larger cancers in their bodies,” he said.

“It was the circumstances in China that started SARS-COVID-2 … if someone comes off a plane from China coughing or sneezing, they’ve got Covid.”

Top emergency doctor and former Victorian AMA president Dr Stephen Parnis took to Twitter to blast Dr McRae for his hardline comments.

“I would expect these sorts of crude, inflammatory comments to come from an extremist politician, not a current state AMA leader,” Dr Parnis wrote.

“Our responses to Covid in Dec 2022 must, of necessity, be very different to those of Feb 2020.”

Australia has so far resisted calls to follow countries including the US, UK and France in imposing restrictions or mandatory Covid testing on Chinese arrivals, amid fears from infectious disease experts that concerning new variants could be released overseas.

Another Melbourne doctor, Dr Kate Gregorevic, tweeted that she “absolutely did not stand with” Dr McRae’s comments.

“I look forward to the AMA putting out a statement that will confirm that they do not support labelling people from an ethnic group or country as a threat,” Dr Gregorevic wrote.

It comes as Victorian Covid cases decreased by more than 30 per cent on the previous week, according to new Department of Health data released Friday.

There were 745 people hospitalised and 44 in intensive care due to the virus, with 16,568 new Covid cases reported during the week.

Chief health officer Brett Sutton warned the drop away may be due to lower levels of reporting during the holiday period.

“Covid hospitalisations edged higher in the past week, having stabilised earlier in December,” Prof Sutton said.

“The risk of Covid infection can increase through large family and social gatherings.

“It is important to consider older family and friends and those who may be more vulnerable to severe Covid illness.”

The UK, France, Spain, South Korea and Israel on Friday became the latest countries to impose mandatory coronavirus tests on visitors from China.

They join Italy, Japan, India, Malaysia, Taiwan and the United States in requiring negative Covid tests for all travellers from mainland China, in a bid to avoid importing new variants from the Asian giant.

Chinese state media reacted furiously to the restrictions.

“… the real intention is to sabotage China’s three years of COVID-19 control efforts and attack the country’s system,” the Global Times stated in a report.

It also published a cartoon attacking Japan for its policies targeting Chinese citizens.

The paper described the restrictions as “unfounded” and “discriminatory.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/politicsnow-new-year-boost-for-1-million-welfare-recipients/live-coverage/c1379724ba2e8fcfc46f901563fb34e6#85836

https://twitter.com/SParnis/status/1608670029863882754

https://twitter.com/DrKGregorevic/status/1608655012854657024

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1282939.shtml

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1282966.shtml

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‘The scale, speed … it’s unbelievable’: millions of Chinese now infected

Covid-19 has not spread as fast as it is in China right now. At its current rate, more than a billion Chinese citizens may catch the coronavirus by March. It could happen even sooner than that.

WILL GLASGOW - December 30, 2022

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Covid has not spread as fast as it is in China right now. Hundreds of millions of people have been ­infected in the past three weeks.

At its current rate, more than a billion Chinese may catch the coronavirus by March. It could happen even sooner.

The haste with which Xi Jinping’s “zero Covid” apparatus has been dismantled has stunned even the closest observers of China’s pandemic policy.

Until three weeks ago, people who tested positive for Covid were sent to offsite quarantine centres. A stint was mandatory even for those with only mild symptoms or none at all.

Now Covid-infected employees are being instructed to return to work, unless they have extreme symptoms. Three years after the coronavirus’ initial outbreak, the world’s focus is again fixed on China. Some epidemiologists fear a new variant could emerge and change the course of the pandemic. Others hope the biggest health crisis in 100 years is finally coming to an end.

This week The Australian struggled to speak to anyone in China – of the world’s last “zero Covid” hold out – who had not been infected in December.

“It’s unbelievable. The scale, the speed,” says Huang Yanzhong, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and expert on China’s healthcare system.

“Very likely it’s already infec­ted more than 30 per cent of the population,” Professor Huang tells The Australian. This would be more than 400 million people.

For years, he and other medical experts had advised Beijing to let go of its “zero Covid” mentality – but not like this. Only 66 per cent of people over 80 have had two jabs of a vaccine, a damning statistic in a country where supplies have been plentiful for ­almost two years.

Supplies of Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral drug, Paxlovid, are in short supply, due to a mixture of nationalism and protectionism. The life-saving drug, now being sold at exorbitant prices, has ­become one of the highest status gifts among China’s wealthy elite.

Rather than take measures to flatten the wave as the healthcare system is subsumed with patients, some are urging the infection of the country’s 1.4 billion people. Supporters call the strategy “quickly reaching the peak”.

The goal, they argue, is to get through the pain as fast as possible so that economic normality can resume.

Many investment banks see good news on the other side of the outbreak. In recent days Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse have released bullish forecasts for China’s stockmarket in 2023. The Economist Intelligence Unit has upgraded its outlook for Chinese growth for 2023 from 4.7 per cent to 5.2 per cent.

But others argue its messy ­reopening will damage its tarnished reputation with the international business community.

“Xi’s failures to prepare for ­reopening will tarnish his authority and the party,” said Lawrence Brainard and Jon Harrison, analysts at TS Lombard, a macroeconomic forecasting consultancy.

A doctor in one of Beijing’s overwhelmed hospitals laments China’s first nationwide outbreak is happening in winter, the peak season for respiratory illnesses. “Most of my colleagues have been infected,” she says.

So long as their symptoms are not extreme, medical staff keep working in their respiratory disease department, which is overrun with patients.

One, Mr Li, 72, a retired schoolteacher, was brought by his wife. He was worried his recovery had taken longer than his neighbours, who had all been infected.

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Xi goes missing

China’s leader – long hailed as the “commander-in-chief” of the “people’s war” on Covid – has been notably silent on the dismantling of his signature policy.

Only this week did one of Beijing’s most senior health bureaucrats finally reveal the Communist Party’s most senior comrades, including General Secretary Xi himself, had been jabbed with Chinese-made vaccines. They did not say when.

Mr Xi’s only comments on the outbreak have been an oblique observation that the “epidemic prevention and control faces new circumstances and new tasks”. What to do about it was left to others.

Beijing’s propaganda machine is running at overdrive to counter the “futile slandering” of China’s fight with the virus.

“Shame on those trying to ­belittle and slander the nation’s efforts,” huffed the China Daily.

China’s Foreign Ministry says the country is going “through a ­period of adaptation”, as has ­happened in countries that have allowed community transmission.

“China is no exception as we shift gear in our Covid policy. China’s Covid situation on the whole remains predictable and under control,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

State secrets

Where China is exceptional is its secrecy. On Christmas Day, Beijing announced it would no longer publish daily Covid statistics. That day, modelling by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention estimated 250 million people had been infected in the first 20 days of December, according to people familiar with the briefing. Officials estimated 37 million people had been infected on the day before the meeting, according to the Financial Times. The official figure for the day was just over 4000.

Beijing has crowed about the US’s death toll exceeding a million, which it has argued demonstrates the failure of its political system and China’s superiority. Now China’s death toll is being treated as a state secret. Modelling from The Economist suggests in a worst-case scenario 1.5m Chinese people will die from the virus in the coming months.

Professor Huang thinks it is likely more than a million will die.

“That, of course, has political implications,” he says.

The security agencies are also doing their bit to obscure the toll. This week, journalists based in China were threatened with having their residency visas removed if they reported on the country’s overwhelmed crematoriums.

Earlier news stories had ­embarrassed officials, who claim that only six people have died of Covid in China in December.

A video report by CNN days before Christmas showed containers full of bodies in yellow storage bags, with more being ­delivered as the team filmed. Hundreds of cars waited in a queue to deliver more, but were told the overwhelmed facility had no place for cremation.

Some people waiting said the hospitals where their loved ones had died had told them they had no room to store the bodies.

Videos posted on social media show similar queues at funeral homes around the country.

Those facilities are now surrounded by police. Instructions have been issued to staff ordering that “no interviews with journalists are allowed; no disclosure in any kind of the present operation now”. They warn of punishment for any breaches.

Forgetting about Covid

This week, Beijing announced China’s border will open to the world from January 8. Chinese citizens will, for the first time in three years, be allowed to travel outside the country.

Those travelling to the US, Japan and India will need a negative test. Other destinations, ­including Taiwan, will test Chinese tourists on arrival.

For now many in China are nervous about leaving their apartments. Subway numbers, domestic flights and traffic congestion have plummeted.

Even James Cameron’s anticipated blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water is struggling to sell tickets. The original Avatar was a massive hit. Sun Linlin was at a screening on Tuesday. She is also one of the rare people to not have caught Covid in China’s capital. “If I really get infected, I will be a true ‘fever fan’ of Avatar! Let me complete my Avatar dream by that,” she joked.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/china-throws-caution-to-the-wind-on-covid/news-story/a4e37ca3e9741075119d84e9ea5ab36c

How sexual assault victims may soon make claims on paedophiles’ superannuation

Large lump sums of superannuation tucked away by paedophiles will soon be open to compensation claims by sex assault victims.

Mark Buttler - December 31, 2022

A wave of claims by sex assault victims on the superannuation of paedophiles is set to emerge, a legal expert says.

The federal government has paved the way for victims to move on the money of bankrupt perpetrators who, under law, do not have to pay up.

Paedophiles have for years hidden their wealth in superannuation accounts which cannot be retrieved by crime victims.

But the federal government has made it clear it would soon be open season on super tucked away by abusers.

Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones has signalled loopholes quarantining the money would be closed, a stance supported by the Opposition.

Lawyer Andrew Carpenter, who specialises in pursuing claims for sex assault victims, said he had dealt with multiple cases of affluent paedophiles transferring their wealth to super so it could not be grabbed for victim compensation.

Mr Carpenter said some abusers were sitting on many millions of dollars in super, while those they hurt struggled to survive.

He said there would be many Victorian victims able to take advantage of the new rules, which are expected to be available for use by next year.

“It’s going to be a wave. A lot of people in the past haven’t been able to go against the offender,” he said.

Mr Carpenter said the move would help ease the burden on taxpayers who are helping pay for the ongoing treatment of victims, many who are unable to work.

“It’s effectively taxpayers providing the redress now,” Mr Carpenter said.

Mr Carpenter, the Grace Tame Foundation, the Carly Foundation and Fighters Against Child Abuse Australia have lobbied hard to have paedophiles’ super assets open to their victims.

A petition with 20,000 signatures gave the move more momentum.

It will require changes to the legislation covering bankruptcy and superannuation.

One of the cases which has sparked most outrage is that of former Bega Cheese chief executive Maurice Van Ryn, who committed ­grotesque ­assaults on nine children.

Van Ryn had a multi­million-dollar superannuation portfolio but it was shielded from being used to provide compensation to the victims.

It was ruled to be a protected asset under civil law.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/how-sexual-assault-victims-may-soon-make-claims-on-paedophiles-super/news-story/840760ac178080a13832ee7e6c818bf3

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre sues his ex-girlfriend Rina Oh over defamation case

Priscilla DeGregory - December 30, 2022

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre claims a defamation suit filed against her by the dead pedophile’s ex-girlfriend is “a sham,” new court papers show.

Rina Oh, 43, filed a $10 million-plus federal lawsuit against Giuffre in January for publicly naming Oh as one of Epstein’s recruiters. Oh claims she has since realized she was also a victim of Epstein “and his gang.”

Oh also alleged Giuffre, 38, sexually abused her “at Epstein’s direction.”

Giuffre has now fired back with her own lawsuit — claiming Oh’s case is an attempt to silence and punish Giuffre for Twitter posts protected under her constitutional right to free speech.

Oh’s “lawsuit is a sham attempt to silence and harasses Ms. Giuffre, while defendant Oh is afforded the opportunity to continuously defame and disparage Ms. Giuffre,” the suit alleges. “Oh’s civil action was not to remedy a wrong but was brought for the malicious and intentional purpose of harming Ms. Giuffre and to punish her for exercising her constitutional right to free speech and to participate in the public discourse.”

Giuffre is suing for unspecified damages under New York’s free speech laws.

Giuffre has been described as Epstein’s underage “sex slave,” and claims she was even sex-trafficked to Prince Andrew – whom she subsequently sued, and then settled with for an estimated $12 million in February.

The new legal action is the latest salvo between the two women whose feud began on Twitter in October 2020, sparked by Oh’s admission that she brought at least three women to Epstein. The disclosure came during the podcast “The Recruiters, Broken: Seeking Justice.”

On the podcast, Oh admitted Epstein was her “older, rich boyfriend” in the early 2000s, and said she took the then-teenage Giuffre to buy a school girl outfit to please the rich financier — justifying the outing by saying “17 to me is not a child.”

Giuffre alleges Oh’s interview “re-traumatized” her, according to the court papers.

Oh brought her own case against Giuffre for calling Oh a “co-conspirator for” Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in a series of tweets about the interview.

On the same podcast, Giuffre claimed Oh cut and slashed her as “part of the sadomasochist” abuse “for Epstein’s pleasure,” the court papers say.

Oh’s lawyer, Alexander Dudelson, told The Post: “This is simply a baseless counterclaim filed in response to Ms. Oh’s defamation suit against Ms. Giuffre in the US District Court.”

https://nypost.com/2022/12/30/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-virginia-giuffre-sues-his-ex-girlfriend-rina-oh/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-recruiters/id1478460758?i=1000496307220

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Dec 31, 2022

On this very last day of the year, we decided to continue NetEase News‘s 2022 legacy recap which now has been 404ed in China.

We hope that everyone can really reflect the year 2022 and live better in 2023.

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