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Meera Ashar । મીરાં

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Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter, storyteller ll

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The ship and its crew were in India at the invitation of the Indian government to participate in friendly naval exercises. They were guests of India and were attacked unprovoked by the US submarine as they were leaving.

04.03.2026 23:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

I mean it’s not like we can let a United Nations Special Rapporteur just rock up to a university! And give a speech about international law! It will be anarchy. Where will it end? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

04.03.2026 10:47 👍 229 🔁 83 💬 8 📌 2
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When you gain the admiration of actual fascist supremacists, it may be time for for some self reflection.

#auspol #ALP

01.03.2026 02:53 👍 232 🔁 85 💬 9 📌 10

That is so beautiful. I do love that colour! Beautiful chartreuse 🥰

28.02.2026 10:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An Israeli defense official just said out loud that the US was only pretending to negotiate, in other words. An over-mighty and presumptuous ally, indeed.

28.02.2026 08:26 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’ Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East

In a statement issued on Saturday evening, Anthony Albanese said: “Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression”…by supporting them being bombed into oblivion.

#auspol

28.02.2026 10:05 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 2
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How right you are! And that’s a gorgeous lace shawl.

Here’s mine: still incomplete since I got distracted by another mosaic shawl.

28.02.2026 09:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Man arrested after Churchill statue outside UK parliament sprayed with graffiti Met arrest man on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage after slogans including ‘Zionist war criminal’ sprayed

Man arrested for a bit of red paint on the statue of the misogynist racist responsible for the murder of millions.

#Churchill #colonialism #racism

28.02.2026 06:35 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Knitting progress of a red shawl with yellow & green mosaic work. The image shows the yellow elephants and flower designs that look like tie-dye work. A ball of yarn and a teal/ green elephant candle holder with a candle are besides the shawl.

Knitting progress of a red shawl with yellow & green mosaic work. The image shows the yellow elephants and flower designs that look like tie-dye work. A ball of yarn and a teal/ green elephant candle holder with a candle are besides the shawl.

This Nine Nights shawl is so special — it evokes joyous images of celebrations, festivities and weddings!

Inspired by the bandhani (tie-dye) Gharchola sari that I rarely get to wear, this shawl will be worn each time I need a cultural hug.

Also 🐘

#knitting #tiedye #shawl

28.02.2026 05:42 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The politics of hope, justice, resistance that we have seen at protests against genocide across the world is undoubtedly going to manifest as election results, sooner or later, even if our media pretend otherwise & magnify hate.

This 🧵 offers some key pointers for Australia!

#auspol #GoGreens

28.02.2026 02:31 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

If Reform had won this, it would be all over our media as an ‘unstoppable force’ and Hanson would be platformed as saying it was inevitable here. But no one ever treats a progressive win in the same way. That’s an ‘outlier’

28.02.2026 01:10 👍 611 🔁 198 💬 23 📌 7
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So sectarian and regressive are the Muslims, that they voted for a young white feminist in a party led by a progressive Jewish gay man.

Matt Goodwin or Matt Soreloser?!

#MattSoreloser #MattGoodwin #UK #elections

28.02.2026 01:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Academics and students ‘face censorship’ for Palestinian support Universities worst affected as lawyers collate database of incidents of ‘repression’

Academics and students are more likely to face “repression” for their pro-Palestinian views than any other group in the UK, says European Legal Support Center www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

26.02.2026 09:37 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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As has been the case for a while now, our excellent satirical news outlets capture the mood and gravity of this issue.

#auspol #DifficultWomen #Media

26.02.2026 08:55 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes The DNC's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided to hide it from the public.

“Secret report”?!

Once you start to believe your own cooked narratives, you need secret reports, autopsies and deep analysis to tell you what is blatantly obvious to us all. She lost because she supported a genocide.

23.02.2026 00:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely! Maybe the chapters in Abbott’s history book outlining this were mislaid by the printers?

17.02.2026 06:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Man who allegedly threw homemade bomb in Invasion Day rally crowd named The man accused of throwing a bomb at Invasion Day protesters in an alleged terrorism act attack in Perth can be named as Liam Alexander Hall.

A white man with white nationalist values & Western Christian culture is the terrorist.

Following LNP & ON logic, will white men & Christian religious leaders take ownership of this pattern of terror that they have unleashed from colonialism to the present day?

#auspol #terrorism #racism #Perth

17.02.2026 06:14 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics From ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festival

When people say they stay “out of politics” or prescribe that others/ films/ art/ sport should “stay out of politics”, aren’t they simply saying that the status quo works for them?

#politics #StayingOutofPolitics

14.02.2026 10:15 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Bharat Bandh: 30 crore workers join all-India general strike against labour codes, Centre’s policies Bharat Bandh today: Workers across India observed a day-long strike on Thursday, protesting government policies they describe as anti-worker and pro-corporate. The strike affected banking, insurance, ...

300 million people protested in India against the pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-farmer policies of the Modi government.

Unsurprisingly, this has not been reported by the pro-corporate, anti-worker Australian media and scarcely by the Indian media.

#India #ProtestsWork #MSM

14.02.2026 04:32 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Thomas Sewell lookalike contest?

12.02.2026 12:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly there aren’t enough eyerolls so I’ll just say ‘pfffttt’!

12.02.2026 11:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Uncle who always complains “You can’t say anything anymore” surprisingly in favour of laws banning pro-Palestine chants

Uncle who always complains “You can’t say anything anymore” surprisingly in favour of laws banning pro-Palestine chants

This sudden change in opinion was expressed in an angry Facebook comment left on a News Corp headline. chaser.com.au/general-news...

12.02.2026 09:08 👍 254 🔁 51 💬 5 📌 1
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NSW premier won’t apologise to Muslims after police grab men praying at rally against Isaac Herzog Chris Minns doubles down on support for NSW police, stating officers would ‘never have disrupted a prayer service … unless it was in the middle of a riot’

Asked on Thursday if he would apologise, Minns said: “Look, I won’t.”

#auspol #racism

12.02.2026 07:58 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.

10.02.2026 20:45 👍 738 🔁 282 💬 24 📌 6

Finally, a piece of good news!

#auspol #Meanjin

11.02.2026 03:22 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

10.02.2026 00:13 👍 948 🔁 348 💬 51 📌 17

The beatings will continue till social cohesion improves.

#auspol #SocialCohesion

09.02.2026 11:49 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

#ABC claiming this is 500 people. Maybe they have a super special lens that only counts some as people… or maybe they only counts every 6th person.

#auspol #Canberra #CantCount #MSM

09.02.2026 11:47 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

The defining theme of this moment in history seems to be the Third Reich, the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Column all working together to destroy humanity.

#auspol #politics #ThirdReich #FourthEstate #FifthColumn #MSM

08.02.2026 11:14 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

“They have no respect for the living, so why would they respect the dead?" Wilma says of the Israeli government.

#auspol #ANZAC

08.02.2026 00:52 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1