Paediatric + Adult Neurosurgeon | Board Chair @IPPNW + @TheUbuntuLab | @ican_australia Board Member (2017 #NobelPeacePrize) | #NuclearBan #neurosurgery
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I’d love to tell you all my stories of taking bullets out of people’s brains and spines but I live in #Australia so there have only been 2, despite working in the biggest and busiest #trauma centres for over a decade #ThisISMyLane #Thisisourlane Prevention is better than cure. – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Shoebridge rips into Jillian Segal over her false claims at the antisemitism RC on the Gaza death toll & asks what she has to say now that the UN has called her out
Segal says her role is to give views of the Jewish community
Shoebridge “Your role is to give truthful evidence”💥
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Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ sold-out show kicked off in Dublin with special guests Hozier, Kneecap and Ed Sheeran’s own backing band rollingstone.com/music/music…
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This is extraordinary detail on how the 250 MP candidates on the Student List were chosen in Serbia. They are now projected to win about 140 of 250 seats. Incredible outbreak of direct, participatory democracy to product a Parliament of doctors, scientists, artists and activists.
Sırbistan'da öğrenciler doğrudan demokrasi yöntemini seçim siyasetine taşıdılar.
Liderlere dayalı, yukarıdan aşağıya bir örgütlenme yerine, herkesin söz alabildiği öğrenci genel kurulları (plenum) oluşturdular. Kararlar tartışılarak, mümkün olduğunca uzlaşmayla alındı.
Bu yöntemi üniversitelerin dışına da taşıdılar. Mahallelerde, kentlerde ve köylerde yurttaş meclisleri (zborovi) kuruldu. İnsanlar kendi sorunlarını tartışmak, çözüm önermek ve birlikte karar almak için toplandı.
250 kişilik milletvekili aday listesini de şöyle oluşturdular:
1- Önce 250 adaylık kontenjanı, öğrenci sayılarına göre altı üniversite kenti arasında paylaştırdılar. Belgrad'ın listeye hâkim olmaması için diğer kentlerin de üst sıralarda temsil edilmesini sağladılar. Ardından her kentin kontenjanını fakülteler arasında dağıttılar.
2- Ülke genelinde 80'den fazla fakültede öğrenci genel kurulları toplandı. Öğrenciler kendileri aday olmadı ama her biri aday önerebildi ve neden o kişiyi önerdiğini açıkladı. İsimler tartışıldı, önce uzlaşma arandı, gerektiğinde oylama yapıldı.
3- Mevcut siyasi kadrolara kapıyı kapattılar. İktidar partilerinin mevcut ve eski üyelerini, iktidar adına görev yapmış siyasetçileri ve bürokratları, muhalefet partilerinin üst düzey yöneticilerini aday göstermediler. Böylece hem iktidardan hem de yerleşik muhalefetten bağımsız bir liste oluşturdular.
4- Fakülteler birbirlerinin adaylarını da denetledi. Önerilen bütün isimler ortak bir listede toplandı ve tüm fakültelerin incelemesine açıldı. İtirazlar öğrenci kurullarında tartışıldı. Adayın elenmesi için kurulların yarısından fazlasının veto etmesi gerekiyordu. Tek bir fakültenin itirazı yeterli değildi.
5- Elenen veya çekilen adayların yerine yedekler getirildi. Böylece profesörlerin, doktorların, bilim insanlarının, işçilerin, sanatçıların ve aktivistlerin yer aldığı 250 kişilik liste ortaya çıktı.
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Every Australian should listen to this interview with Chrystia Freeland former Canadian DPM: she talks about how Canada stood up to Trump in both his administrations. The choice is to be a vassal or have the strength to stand your ground as an equal. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/opini…
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Few people in the world have had such a profound impact on the global good, so clearly, powerfully, kindly, and humbly as Dr. Ron McCoy. His vision inspired a movement of consciences dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons, @nuclearban. Here with at the Conference on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons in Nayarit, Mexico. 2014. @IPPNW
"We Remember an IPPNW Giant", a tribute and celebration of the life of Dr. Ron McCoy. Compiled by Dr. @tilmanaruff and John Loretz
Read about the Godfather of ICAN (@nuclearban): peaceandhealthblog.com/2026/…
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying.
No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.
Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence.
We’re trying to model solidarity & co-existence between Jews and Palestinians, and to call attention to the horrors of the occupation. The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.
This was not about harvesting olives.
It was about harvesting headlines.
Brad Lander’s latest stunt is nothing more than a calculated political provocation.
Lander traveled to a foreign country, deliberately entered a restricted security area, and participated in an unauthorized activity without the required coordination.
What makes this stunt even more outrageous is that his own team contacted Israeli representatives in the United States ahead of his visit and was explicitly informed that proper coordination with the relevant authorities was required.
He chose to ignore those instructions.
At a time of heightened security tensions, Israeli security forces have a responsibility to protect lives, prevent dangerous incidents, and maintain public order.
Had anyone been injured as a result of his reckless political theater, Lander would undoubtedly have been among the first to demand that Israeli authorities intervene and provide protection.
Brad Lander came looking for a confrontation. Now he is pretending to be its victim.
Dr Ruth Mitchell (she/her/ella) retweeted
A small mercy in all this is seeing how widely Helen Haines is cherished. We need the best of us in politics. And we should be grateful when they make it there.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay has called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for genocide in Gaza. trib.al/YAT9y9I
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"The risk of nuclear war has never been as high as it is now" @MelissaParke01 for @el_pais
elpais.com/internacional/202…
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This will be a cracker of a case (Herzog protesters who were brutalised by police). A win for Nick Hanna as the judge rules docs and comms he requested will have to be produced, including comms between Police and the Premier.
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ICYMI an Israeli company hijacked online ads to track millions of devices and open the door to zero-click spyware, with our nuclear science agency, critical infrastructure and newsrooms compromised. This is a big deal.
ALT ABC news screenshot Australia's nuclear agency targeted with ads linked to spyware that infect devices without a click By national AI reporter Cam Wilson Topic:Cyber Security Posted about 14h agoabout 14 hours ago, updated about 13h agoabout 13 hours ago The ads appear to be a generic image that says "SALE" and shows a picture of miscellaneous products. The ads appear to be a generic image that says "SALE" and shows a picture of miscellaneous products from Ugreen, a Chinese consumer electronics company. (X: John Scott-Railton) In
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"We Remember an IPPNW Giant", a tribute and celebration of the life of Dr. Ron McCoy. Compiled by Dr. @tilmanaruff and John Loretz
Read about the Godfather of ICAN (@nuclearban): peaceandhealthblog.com/2026/…
Dr Ruth Mitchell (she/her/ella) retweeted
To mock someone for speaking openly about a medical condition that affects so many Australians is beneath contempt.
Jacqui’s courage gives voice to thousands of women who might otherwise suffer in silence.
Ridiculing her disrespects every one of them.
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"Sydney Water - data centres to consume 25% of Sydney’s drinking water by 2035." Toxic water comes out the other end.
Missing - obligations on disclosure and toxic waste
Claudia Weisenberger
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/waste-tsu…
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Half a million people will lose access to food assistance in Gaza abc.net.au/news/2026-10-19/u…
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Not a single arrest has been made of any Israeli involved in the murder of almost 300 journalists in Gaza.
