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- Comment on Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’ 4 days ago:
Are you talking about Australian war crimes in 1918 or the fucking events of 1947.
Both - they’re drawing parallels between the two events.
That quote is actually from the booklet they published last year, which you can find here: drive.google.com/file/d/…/view
Specifically, in this section:
WHAT DOES PALESTINE HAVE TO DO WITH ANZAC DAY?
Few students and teachers sitting through the annual Anzac ceremony, for instance, would associate Anzac day with Palestine — but the first Anzacs invaded Ottoman Palestine in World War I, and they took control of the land and the people for the British Empire.
After the armistice in 1918, Anzac soldiers of the Light Horse brigade remained in Palestine, waiting to be demobilised and sent home to Australia. During this time, some returned to the Gallipoli Peninsula, where they engaged in what was described as the “holy task of locating the graves of Anzacs, and in collecting trophies for the Australian national memorial collection,” solidifying the nationalist myth of the Gallipoli Landings, the anniversary of which was already being observed as Anzac day from 1915 onwards.[1]
Such acts of quasi-religious myth-making about the Anzacs have continued to this day. In 2017, to mark the centenary of the Anzacs’ capture of Palestinian territory, then Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten attended a commemoration service at Beersheba with Benjamin Netanyahu.
In his official address, PM Malcolm Turnbull stated that the Anzacs “like the State of Israel has done ever since … defied history and with their courage fulfilled history. Lest we forget.”[2] His words are striking, not only because of the monumental historical narrative that they invoke (the Anzacs “defied” and ‘fulfilled’ history), but also because of the way in which they situate the Anzacs as “courageous” heroes who birthed two nations.
Turnbull was right to connect the Anzacs’ military successes with the creation of Israel. The Australian victories set in motion a series of devastating events, enabling the fulfilment of the Balfour Declaration, where Britain agreed, despite separate and contradictory promises, to recognize “a National Home of the Jewish people” to be located in Palestine, and the establishment of a “Jewish National Colonising Corporation for the resettlement and economic development of the country [Palestine].”[3] In short, the British mandate was secured in part by the Anzacs, and this laid the ground for the creation of the state of Israel, while preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.
There are some other parallels with Israel that Turnbull did not draw. If both countries form their identities through stories of noble military successes, they both also hide a history of horrific, racially motivated violence against Palestinians. More than this, the brutal massacre committed by the Anzacs at Surafend chillingly portended the Nakba, the catastrophic displacement of Palestinians in 1947-1949.
Turnbull did not share this darker parallel because it did not suit the heroic myth-making project of the Australian and Israeli governments to do so. As teachers, however, it is our obligation to bring this history to light.
- Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’www.theage.com.au ↗Submitted 5 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Early voting is now open. Find out if you're eligible and where to vote where you arewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Labor vows to consider strengthening Australia’s animal welfare body after shocking abattoir revelations 1 week ago:
“vows to consider”
- Monster swells claim a fourth life in NSW, while search to resume tomorrow for man washed off rocks in Sydneywww.smh.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite 1 week ago:
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Australia Moves To Ban Maple Syrup Because Fuck You Too Canada
- Comment on Queensland council abandons EV charger installation plan after 'dirty nickel' media report - ABC News 1 week ago:
Non-AMP link: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/…/105177008
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- Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 2 weeks ago:
Purplepingers is an anti-landlord activist currently running for the Australian Senate for the Victorian Socialists party: pingers4parliament.com
He’s previously done a lot of ‘naming and shaming’ of landlords (www.shitrentals.org) and compiled lists of unused properties that people could squat in.
Reading between the lines, this video is encouraging people to fuck with properties rented out through Airbnb, or at least trying to mess with the heads of the ‘hosts’.
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- Comment on Go Private? 2 weeks ago:
As others have mentioned, there’d seem to be hard downsides:
- Can’t send direct links to people without an account
- Harder for people to ‘discover’ the instance or check it out, which would surely reduce people signing up to the instance and participating in our community
So I’d be against it unless there’s really strong reasons for it. I haven’t really experienced bad server-load issues.
There’s conceivably a middle-ground where the instance becomes logged-in-only automatically under high load. That’d no doubt be a considerable extra work, but just throwing it out there as an idea. I still don’t think even that’s necessarily a great idea, because again, if the traffic is people showing interest in the instance, that’s a good thing in the long term. It’d be better than setting it to logged-in-only permanently.
I think this should be pretty much a last resort for any performance issues, and any other measure should be considered first, including spending more money.
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- Comment on Where will my vote go? 3 weeks ago:
You don’t need to vote below the line to choose your own preferences in the Senate anymore. ‘Above the line’ voting is now preferential, with at least 6 boxes needing to be numbered.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 3 weeks ago:
Is there any resource out there that can show me where the preferences get fed to, so I can make an informed choice.
You choose your own preferences.
On the House of Representative ballot, this has always been the case.
On the Senate ballot it used to be the case that if you voted ‘above the line’, you could only vote ‘1’, and nothing more, and the parties decided the preference flow. That is not the case anymore. Now we have partially-optional preferencing ‘above the line’, numbering at least 6, or all the boxes above the line if you choose. (You can also number below the line if you want to pick your own ordering of the candidates for each party/group.)
- Comment on Menthol cigarettes banned and every stick to hold a warning 4 weeks ago:
Good point, thanks. I’ve added a content warning.
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- Comment on 'Limited incentive' for Coles and Woolworths to compete vigorously on price, and margins have risen, ACCC finds 5 weeks ago:
This SMH live post provides a bit more information: smh.com.au/…/australia-news-live-accc-puts-most-p…
9.01am
Government pledges $2.9m to help suppliers stand up to supermarkets
By Josefine Ganko
As the ACCC supermarkets report reveals how the duopoly exerts power over consumers and suppliers, the government has announced $2.9 million in funding for produce industry associations to support education programs that will empower farmers to enforce their rights under the Food and Grocery Code.
Speaking at a press conference in Canberra, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the funding was about “strengthening the arms” of the groups that represent farmers and producers. Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at a press conference in Canberra
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at a press conference in Canberra Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“We want to make sure that when our supermarkets are negotiating with our farmers, that we can strengthen the arguments of the people who produce our food.”
Chalmers added that Labor’s move to make the code mandatory and to introduce bigger penalties would also benefit suppliers.
Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh added that there were particular concerns around fresh food producers being required to agree to annual contracts, but then being subjected to week-to-week bidding, with the notion they will face much lower prices at the markets if the big supermarkets don’t stock their produce.
“This new initiative does ensure that the suppliers are going into those negotiations better able to take on the big supermarkets,” Leigh said.
- Parents, patients, doctors weigh in on [Queenland Health] hormone freeze debate for trans kidswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charles 1 month ago:
RIP 😢🍆🐋
- Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charleswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 1 month ago:
Barcode numbers can sort of give an indication.
The first three digits are determined by the country the barcode was assigned in. The barcode can’t tell you the country of origin of the product, but it’s fairly likely the company that made the product is headquartered in the country indicated by the code (or at least has some administrative presence there).
Here’s a list of country codes for reference: www.barcodestalk.com/…/barcode-country-codes
Here’s a Snopes article about what the country codes can’t tell you: www.snopes.com/fact-check/bar-code-origin-point/
- Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekendwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
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- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 1 month ago:
In some states, but not in federal elections
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 2 months ago:
Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?
Only you can answer this. How many days worth of data are you prepared to lose?
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 2 months ago:
Europe is closer to China than us. Why aren’t the Brits, French and Germans doing this?
Australia is slightly closer to any part of China than Germany is, but Australia is much closer to the Paracel Islands (Germany is about 9000km, Australia about 4000km).
The rest of your comment is spot-on, though. There’s no way we’re getting those nuclear subs.
