Wendy Bacon
@Wendy_Bacon
Journalist, Researcher, Activist. Past Prof Journalism UTS
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Appeal for help 🚨 I don't know what to say, but the agony of getting food and water became very tiring, Support my family. If you respond with 4 replys, you will help me a lot to make my post visible to everyone, even if a dot. buymeacoffee.com/appealforhelp
That half a billion dollars we just gave the Americans for AUKUS? There's no accountability for it — whatsoever. All we can get is "assurances", Bernard Keane writes. crikey.com.au/2025/07/25/auk…
Any politician who thinks JobSeeker is adequate should try to pay rent, eat, and live on $20k a year. We need to raise JobSeeker. The Vinnies report backs calls from the Greens and others incl Labor’s own econ advisory committee, that this must happen. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Our recent blockbuster story by @PeterCronau + @KellieTranter, revealing that Australia continues to sell weapons parts to Israel, goes rightly global:
The secret is out . Jerusalem Post: Despite denials, Australia sending F-35 parts to Israel - report “For months, the Australian government has been repeating that it will not send spare parts for F-35 fighter jets, but an investigation by the newspaper "Declassified…
Every Mediterranean state should use their navy to break the israeli blockade and send humanitarian aid to Gaza, says @FranceskAlbs
How embarrassing for Penny Wong and the Labor government, censuring and effectively banning Mehreen Faruqi for holding up this sign. Shows how cowered and controlled Labor and LNP is by the Israel and Zionist lobby. Gutless. What a total disgrace. #AUSPOL
You’re not going mad. We see it too. We examine the framing of the massacre of Palestinians seeking aid that’s as deadly as it is misleading. Listen to We Used To Be Journos wherever you get your podcasts from or watch in full on YouTube.
Imagine being the person who moved the motion against the person protesting a genocide. Shame on @SenatorWong & everyone who voted for her motion.
The Senate expresses “extreme disapproval” against Senator Faruqi and disallows her participation in delegations. FFS! Senators who have supported Netanyahu voted for this yet their reprehensible and inhumane conduct is unsanctioned. Beggars belief! theguardian.com/australia-news…
What’s happening in Gaza is not a war. Calling it a war is a deliberate attempt to obscure the truth. Let’s name it up. It’s a barbaric slaughter, a genocide, a mass murder. And Labor has made Australia complicit. End the genocide and free Palestine ✊🏼🇵🇸
Senate has expressed its 'displeasure' at Mehreen Faruqi for her Gaza protest yesterday - and meanwhile, Australia has quietly sent the next $800m Aukus installment to the Trump administration for Aukus live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/07/austra…
"So, let me say that I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is…
Disappointing that MSM ignored big protests like the one in Canberra calling for action (not words) in support of the Palestinian people under attack by Israeli's genocidal IDF in Gaza. Luckily we've independent media like @StephanieTran @MichaelWestBiz michaelwest.com.au/march-on-canbe…
Massive tax breaks for wealthy property investors are cooking our housing system. Instead of a roof over the head of all, 🏠 have become an investment asset class. All wrong. theage.com.au/politics/feder…
15 people including children starved in #Gaza yesterday; #IDF stormed WHO compound & targeted body parts of youth seeking food. But some Australian journos are worried about whether it’s appropriate for @MehreenFaruqi to hold up a sign in parliament calling for sanctions
Shout out to all the staunch protestors at the Convergence on Canberra – kicking off the first week back at Parliament with strength, calling out this government's complicity in genocide!
The Israeli Army is now targeting starving children in the head and testicles in Gaza, while terrorising others, together with violent lunatics, in the West Bank. These past 650 days, Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history. And it is absolutely sickening…
🚨 SHOCKING REPORT: Israeli soldiers in Gaza are reportedly turning the targeting of Palestinian children into a horrifying and systematic “human-hunting game,” according to British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard. He testified: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a…
Hunger. I can't stop saying and writing and thinking the word. Hunger, rather than "famine". Hunger. The physical sensation of the body eating itself because it has nothing else to eat. Hunger is not a form of "punishment". Hunger is not revenge. Hunger is an annihilation that…
Hannah Thomas is in Canberra for the #FreePalestine rally. #auspol
Labor’s housing policies failing: homelessness has increased by 10% since Labor was elected in May 2022. 14% amongst women. Time for a national homelessness plan, investment in public housing, rent caps & ending tax breaks for wealthy property investors abc.net.au/news/2025-07-2…
James Henderson was among three British aid workers killed in Gaza last year. His family urged Keir Starmer to put an arms embargo on Israel. Instead, Starmer's government allowed the chief of the Israeli air force to visit Britain this weekend👇 declassifieduk.org/stop-arming-is…