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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
  Taking a break for three weeks in New Zealand - off social media & most news, minimal checking of email - take care everyone - keep compassion alive, grieve with those who grieve & hold the truth up against the powerful
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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
  Universities in governance crisis and this is dumped into the mix? This will not end well for anyone
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    Guardian Australia australia.theguardian.com · Feb 4
    Australian universities to be graded on how well they deal with protests under antisemitism report card
    

    Australian universities to be graded on how well they deal with protests under antisemitism report card

    Exclusive: Leaked documents show how universities will be assessed under new system, which was fast-tracked after Bondi terror attack * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Universities will be graded on how well they “deal with” protests, encampments and the display of flags as part of a controversial antisemitism report card system adopted by the Albanese government after the Bondi terror attack, according to documents seen by Guardian Australia. The antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, devised the report card system as part of a wide-ranging plan handed down to the federal government last July to combat antisemitism, which also proposed withholding government funding from universities that “facilitate, enable or fail to act against antisemitism”. Continue reading...

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
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  Albanese can still withdraw his invitation to Isaac Herzog. He should do so, for the sake of social cohesion | Chris Sidoti

  The prime minister should recognise he made a terrible mistake and put a stop to this divisive political visit

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
  Something to talk about with Mr Herzog? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
  

  Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves

  Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
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  On a street in Minneapolis, two versions of masculinity clashed. One anchored in fear, the other in care | Alexander Hurst

  Alex Pretti had courage and empathy. This, not Maga’s conception of male power, is what we must teach young men, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
  False Alarm open.substack.com/pub/johnquig...
  

  False Alarm

  Nine's Red Alert on China was never credible

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
  February 3, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
  

  February 3, 2026

  Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 4
  Antony Green: Which seats could One Nation actually win? www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/03/w...
  

  Antony Green: Which seats could One Nation actually win?

  If, come the next federal election, One Nation is polling at 25%, it will be sweeping up seats all across rural and regional Australia.

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 3
  Are women's rights more at risk than we thought? open.substack.com/pub/ruthbrau...
  

  Are women's rights more at risk than we thought?

  On the Handmaid's Tale, glass vs. rubber balls, and singing in the shower

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  Doug dougincanberra.bsky.social · Feb 3
  Theologians at twenty paces? My money's on Pope Leo
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    Jack Jenkins jackjenkins.me · Feb 3
    Note: Speaker Johnson has since posted a lengthy theological argument on his Twitter feed about this (only part of it is below). He frames it as his response to the "insistence of the progressive Left" — but the impetus here is religious criticism of Trump's immigration policies from *Pope Leo.*
    
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