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The same officials colluding in Israel’s current crimes by shipping arms to Israel
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The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

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The Free Palestine Party
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The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World
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PNAG's Joey Tau in Honiara
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Has the Pacific’s Ocean of Peace concept been hijacked?

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Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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