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VICTORIAN LIBERAL SENATOR Sarah Henderson made a goose of herself and her office by "grilling" the SBS about Eurovision during Senate Estimates on 28 May. Her big concern was why Australia didn’t give any points to Israel during the Eurovision 2026 Grand Final. She demanded to know what the selection process for SBS’s seven-person jury was.
No one in politics is serious anymore. Those that are serious are a minority and most of them are serious about fascism.
I'm not Australian, btw. Apologies if I'm speaking out of turn.
I mean, I kind of agree with you but the Liberals are definitely a minority party now (let alone the fact that without the Nationals, they’ve always been a minority party). They’ve been ringing their death knell for a while now. I get what you’re saying and its intent but be careful you don’t accidentally call the Libs serious about fascism.
It’s really just the Greens and Independents that are the real politicians these days; i.e. those that genuinely represent the views of their constituents.
Why did we roll out the red carpet for Israel’s president the other month
I'm assuming the 20% that likes them enjoys a plethora of power and influence.
My favourite Jewish people are the ones who say "Fuck Israel" with the rest of us.
'Asshole' is an underwhelming critique of genocide.
So is 80%.
It would mean 20% of Aussies are stupid and/or scumbags
That's at least 30% better than America so not too bad I'd say
that awful country isn't really a benchmark
I mean it should be arseholes but yeah, fuck pedanticness
You anti-pedanticite!
Eh, it was editorial already. Fucker's ,war criminals, won't water down cunt, that's a different thing.
20% are wrong.
20% are afraid of being labelled antisemites by the cunts who live in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and whisper into the ears of the politicians
20% drink the cordial.
Damn. Worth the read.
20% are ill-informed or don't want to be. 1 in 5 people thinking it's excusable to mass murder your way to 'security' is a stain on our society. The society of the 'fair go', what? Any politician bringing up the Eurovision crap show can't sink any lower. But maybe they can.
The sooner Netanyahoo goes the better.
It's way more than Netanyahoo, what will change without him? Nothing.
Like Trump, Netanyahoo is the result, not the cause
Agreed. But unfortunately theres more widespread problems with the way the Israelis perceive their neighbours and act on those perceptions (Definitely understating their 'actions'). So Netanyahu going, would be a good thing, but its bigger than one person.
Yeah, they've been behaving this way since way before Netanyahoo
Albert Einstein, Hannah Ardent etal letter to the New York Tines in 1948 about Israel
Blaming him solely and pretending that when he's gone that genocide state will be an acceptable democracy again is Bernie the Snake tactics.
They have been terrorizing Palestinians since their existence.
Fuck israel
but israeli, and people tied to israel are still going to be here in other countries, pushing thier expansionism.
Fuck Israel.
I always liked Australia
"They called my dad the only rabbi in jackboots
They called my mum the wife of my dad
They circumcised me at the Nuremberg rally
That's how I became a semitic Nazi for life"
Nice lyrics TISM!
Leave Melbourne’s musical sacred cows from last century alone!
I saw them perform live last month lol.
They have plenty of songs about nazis, jews, politicians and SBS.
Don't get off the train a Caulfield.
Why continue to keep trying
To separate the real news from the lying?
In the end it all comes down to this
Turn off SBS.
Only 80%?
So 1 in 5 Australians are totally cool with the actions of that State?
Christ. They're slowly becoming the southern hemisphere's USA but without the GDP.
As the article says (which you didn't read).
Australia, in fact, now has the most unfavourable attitudes toward Israel of any Western nation. This month's Pew polling data found 79 per cent of the public now feel unfavourable about it.
So, I guess go complain about other western nations?

I mean I wouldn't go that far
Should still be higher though
That one in five may also be a bit nuanced. Every time Bibi gets in, it's by a bee's dick. That tells me that perhaps not all Israelis are in fact arseholes.
As a citizen of a nation whose government has embarrassed me and made me ashamed of my nation in the past, I get it.
Their government and any who support it's actions - Arseholes. Israeli kids burning their national service letters - they're all right.
That's Bernie whitewashing talk.
They have a consistent history of massacres and ethnic cleansing.
The vast majority are scumbags.
Fuck that shithole