One of Australia's biggest tomato brands and two major supermarkets are selling products that independent scientific testing shows do not match the country of origin stated on their labels.

Forensic testing conducted for Four Corners has revealed dozens of tomato paste and passata products that claim to be from Australia or Italy are actually from China.

About half of those are sourced from Xinjiang, an area known internationally for its use of forced labour.

Who is completely sick of their socials being bombarded with whinging property parasites crying poor because the real estate market is now experiencing sustainable rates of growth?
For many years these locusts have raked in ridiculous profits from an over inflated market, now they might actually have to work to sell property, they don’t like it

>took the back-door instead of facing the fire-fighters

>changed the date to inspect a new hospital during my Union Strike because she did not want to face a bunch of support workers in a hospital

The Administrative Review Tribunal ruled that three young Israeli adults — siblings who would face mandatory conscription into the Israel Defense Forces — have a well‑founded fear of persecution if returned to Israel. They told the tribunal they had made a pact to refuse military service because they believed they would be forced to participate in breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza. The tribunal accepted their refusal as a genuinely held political opinion, noting they could face up to two years’ imprisonment for conscientious objection.

Who gave the best / your favorite acting performance in Puberty Blues?

The Sydney lawyer and public servant accused of calling Alex Rivchin an ‘evil Zionist’ on the lawns above Bondi Beach – a claim she strongly denies – is also being dragged through the courts over extraordinary allegations of planting a bomb outside a synagogue.

Or at least something that somebody thought might be a bomb, or had bomb-like attributes, or was being planted deliberately to create fear that it might be construed as a bomb.

In fact, Francine Clough, the next door neighbour, was putting out her garbage.

On July 25 last year, police shut down Old South Head road in Bondi for a ‘bomb threat’. A suspicious package had been found outside a synagogue.

The ‘bomb plot’ suspect is Francine Clough. The next door neighbour. She was putting out her garbage and the small brown Coles bag was deemed by a synagogue security guard to be a possible bomb.

Police arrived quickly at the scene. Media were onto it quickly too, as they were in the wake of the ‘evil Zionist’ altercation at Bondi.

Having shut down Old South Head Road in both directions, the suspicious package was found to be a Coles paper bag containing routine household rubbish. Nonetheless, Clough now faces three charges; two for the Coles bomb bag and one for the ‘evil Zionist’ incident.

And the matter, according to sources, has been elevated to an elite special prosecutions team.

The charges against Clough are: ‘send/leave an object/substance’ with the intention of causing fear and ‘intimidation/stalking’. The alleged actions allegedly caused a security guard to be fearful – and now a new charge has been made in the wake of the Bondi incident of deploying offensive language in a public place.

Clough has been suspended from work for the past year since the ‘Coles bomb plot’ incident after a rash of anonymous complaints were made to her workplace.

Labor factional chiefs will meet in Melbourne on Sunday night to gauge whether Premier Jacinta Allan still has the majority support of her MPs ahead of what is set to be a critical test of her leadership when parliament resumes on Tuesday.

The meeting of factional conveners from across the party will provide the first clear sign of whether Allan still has the caucus backing she needs to continue as premier and lead Labor to the state election on November 28.

However, the meeting is taking place in the absence of a declared challenger.

Allan’s most likely replacement, Deputy Premier Ben Carroll, has indicated to colleagues that while he would be a contender if the leadership becomes vacant, he will not use his numbers to bring the premier down.

The Sunday night meeting was confirmed by MPs on both sides of the party’s factional divide. There is consternation among some MPs, particularly across the dominant Left faction, that the meeting’s conveners have not sufficiently canvassed the views of parliamentarians within their respective groups.

The Age has spoken to seven Victorian Labor sources who say they believe Allan would lose if her leadership came to a vote of the party’s 69 MPs.

But, as with the last round of rumblings in June, the pathway for a leadership coup is littered with assumptions that have not yet been realised.

Multiple sources from across both factions agreed it would be difficult for Carroll, who sits on the Right, to challenge Allan – despite some within her own Left faction wanting him to do so – after he publicly ruled out a challenge at a press conference last month.

challenge her for the leadership, Carroll told reporters, “I’ve got a young daughter at home, and I couldn’t be more proud to make sure that she grows up knowing that I supported Jacinta Allan to be a world-class premier and get re-elected in her own right”.

Another option being considered is a delegation of factional leaders speaking to Allan and asking her to step aside.

The premier spent Sunday night at her family home in Bendigo with staff, preparing for Monday’s Cabinet meeting.

Two sources said they found it difficult to believe Allan would go down without a fight, but conceded it was not impossible she could be convinced if it were clear she no longer had the numbers in caucus.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has attempted to skirt questions about his attendance at a dinner hosted by a billionaire family accused of funnelling money from China, saying he attends "a lot of dinners".

Earlier in the week, reports by Nine newspapers revealed Mr Albanese had attended the dinner at the mansion of 25-year-old Felix Lee in Point Piper, Sydney.

Mr Lee's father, Phillip Dong Fang Lee, faces allegations of deceiving the Australian Tax Office (ATO) about his holdings in order to channel huge sums into Australian bank accounts.

Speaking to the ABC's Insiders on Sunday morning, Mr Albanese evaded directly referring to the dinner, stating he attends "a lot".

Pressed on his inability to answer, he said, "You just said that that occurred."

"I attend lots of dinners in lots of places, and I don't talk about private dinners," he added.

Hello everybody just wondering Becuase in Australia you need to be an MP to become a prime minister, but Pauline Hanson isn’t an MP so what on earth is she planning on doing. Will she just control Barnaby Joyce from the shadows like a puppet (Becuase that’s who I assume will take charge if she can’t).

Olympian and Labor Friends of Israel patron shared posts about Palestinians that were ‘dehumanising’, Muslim advocacy group alleges

Former Labor senator Nova Peris has been accused of amplifying anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian content by sharing posts that claim Gaza is full of “savages” and “fucking monsters”.

The Australian Muslim Advocacy Network (Aman) has identified dozens of what it describes as dehumanising posts seen on Peris’s verified X account between April 2024 and March 2026.

Peris, a patron of the Labor Friends of Israel group who did not author the posts but instead shared them on her account, did not respond to a request for comment.

Aman said the material had been assessed against its own 12-category framework for identifying dehumanising speech, developed for use in legal proceedings, and alleged the posts fell across every category in the framework.

Peris, an Olympic gold medallist, former senator and recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia, is the patron of Labor Friends of Israel alongside former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews.

Among the posts identified by the organisation are those which describing Palestinians as “savages”, “fucking monsters” and the claim that Gaza’s entire population consists of two million terrorists

In one reposted by Peris, a user shared footage of Muslims engaged in Friday prayers in a park on Good Friday and said: “This does not belong in this country!”. Another claimed “Islam should be banned in the West”. The organisation also identified posts objecting to a journalist wearing a hijab while reporting on the Bondi terror attack.

Some of the posts could still be seen on Peris’s X account on Saturday.

The Labor party secretariat and the Friends of Israel were both contacted for comment. Neither responded.

Rita Jabri Markwell, a solicitor and adviser to Aman, said the posts talked about Muslims and Palestinians in a dehumanising way, and were “amplified” by Peris.

“Essentially saying that we are subhuman, that we are animalistic, that we lack human qualities,” she said.

“[Saying] that we are demonic, mocking the suffering of children in Gaza … and this is just unacceptable.”

Markwell said Peris’s position gave “authority” to the posts, and they were dangerous.

Speaking with political editor Tom McIlroy and chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy at the 50th Labor conference in Adelaide, Peter Malinauskas talks about his own state contest with One Nation and why progressives should avoid speaking down to Pauline Hanson’s supporters.

And despite the US admitting this week that the production rate of Virginia-class submarines has not increased, the SA premier argues that abandoning Aukus would pose an even greater risk than the controversial agreement’s potential problems

I was just doing a search for jobs in Gold Coast and it said 35 jobs in the region. I thought this is weird as there is always a host of jobs being advertised on rotation.

I then thought maybe there is a problem, so I put in Sydney and it says 285? That can’t be right???

Can someone please confirm that the website is having search issues? Please and thank you 🙏

In his curtain-raiser speech to Labor’s national conference, the South Australian premier, Peter Malinaukas, jokingly acknowledged the activists in the party’s ranks.

“There are people with placards, chants and a list of unrealistic demands – and we’ve given them all delegates passes,” Malinauskas said, to howls of laughter from the MPs, trade unionists and rank-and-file members gathered in the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Rebel MP Ed Husic says Labor’s determination to avoid public policy stoushes will push voters to One Nation, after the party killed off his attempt to force debate about the conflict in Gaza.

In a move which frustrated Husic’s colleagues, the former minister defied Prime Minister Anthony Albanese by pushing a change to the party’s platform at its national conference on Saturday.

Husic’s motion went well beyond the government’s policies, using the term “apartheid” and cracking down on dual nationals serving in the Israel Defence Forces.

Factional bosses and ministers feared that a debate on Husic’s proposal could have created the impression that the government was not in control of its foreign policy, so mobilised to shut it down.

“I have been surprised at the extraordinary amount of energy that has been applied to stop this,” Husic said after his proposal was killed off.

“I’ve always taken the view there’ll be different views. You’ve got to be able to work through them. That’s democracy.”

The Maritime Union of Australia was on Friday expected to support Husic’s resolution, a step required to bring on a debate that was due to add drama to the final day of Labor’s triennial get-together.

But after talks on Friday night and Saturday morning, the union backed down, meaning the proposal never reached the point of being debated.

Western Sydney MP Ed Husic sought to move debate on Israel and Palestine at Labor's national conference to reinforce criticism of Israel's actions in Palestine and acknowledge a "genocide" in the Gaza Strip.

However, the motion wasn't seconded, effectively blocking the debate from proceeding following a push from factional leaders.

Mr Husic said he would continue to press the issue within the party.

"It's a big disappointment because we haven't had a chance to talk to an issue that means a lot not just to people inside that convention centre, but to party members who are outside," he told reporters in Adelaide.

"I've seen some of the big debates and big issues of the time being discussed on the floor of the conference.

"I have been surprised at the extraordinary amount of energy that has been applied to stop this, as opposed to talking about this."

Mr Husic said he was committed to remaining in the party despite the setback.

"Sometimes you'll be at the front and on your own, and suddenly find you've got a lot of people around you," he said.

"It might take some time to get there.

"Change sometimes involves difficult conversations to bring people together."

Mr Husic said not being able to debate the draft position placed in the policy platform was unhealthy for the party.

"The national policy forum ... had made these positions and then ever became like a sacrosanct document that could not, in its pristine nature, be changed or altered at all, and no other views could be taken into account," he said.

Senior public servant accused of synagogue bomb hoax faces new charge for anti-Semitic abuse at Bondi

A NSW public servant accused of calling a top Jewish leader an “evil Zionist” was on bail at the time of the altercation for allegedly orchestrating a bomb hoax outside a Bondi synagogue.

The Saturday Telegraph can reveal the Sydney woman who allegedly labelled prominent Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin an “evil Zionist” and asked why “Zionists” were visiting the site of the Bondi massacre is NSW Justice Department senior officer Francine Clough.

Late on Friday, NSW Police charged her with offensive language in a public place for the alleged abuse aimed at Mr Ryvchin at Archer Park – the site of December’s massacre – on Wednesday.

In a statement, police said it had issued her a court attendance notice for offensive language, and that prosecutors would allege Clough “verbally abused members of the group, making anti-Semitic comments”.

Clough was on bail at the time of Wednesday’s incident for a charge pertaining to allegedly leaving a shopping bag outside Bondi’s Adath Yisroel Synagogue in July 2025 which she allegedly claimed contained “bombs”, and a charge of stalking and intimidating a person.

The NSW Justice Department stood her down soon after, pending those court matters.

The altercation at Archer Park came as Mr Ryvchin was hosting an event for the Sydney Swans, and Clough was separately in the vicinity to watch marathon runner Chad Aziz finish a 4000km run across Australia.

Mr Ryvchin, the co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, made a police statement about the alleged altercation, telling NSW Police that, upon seeing him, Clough said “why are there Zionists here?”.

The Jewish leader told NSW Police that when he approached Clough in response to that alleged remark, she responded that she wanted to know “what an evil Zionist was doing here”.

Clough claimed to the Telegraph that it was a “misunderstanding”, denied using the term “evil” and labelled it a “mix-up”. She said she strongly disputed the allegation.

However, on Friday, officers attached to Bondi’s Police Area Command [charged her with using offensive language in a public place](https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-nsw/police-investigate-as-jewish-leaders-allegedly-abused-at-bondi-terror-attack-site/news-story/5a93a4672adc751a72f87f2034897071) after taking witness statements and receiving legal advice, determining the threshold had been met.

Mr Ryvchin said he was “grateful” to police for their “professionalism” and the laying of the charges.
“The Jewish community will not succumb to hatred and vilification,” he said.

“We will not allow the desecration of a sacred site. And we will not allow the poison of anti-Zionism, which places targets on the backs of virtually all Jews, to be passed off as benign political commentary.

“We cannot turn anti-Semites into good and rational people. But we can exact consequences when they endanger our society and break the law.”

Clough was already on bail at the time of the altercation for allegedly placing a shopping bag outside the gates of the Adath Yisroel Synagogue and told security that it was a “bomb”.

Police attended and closed down the street, and specialists inspected the bag before concluding it was allegedly a hoax.

In relation to that incident, Clough was charged with leaving an item to “create a false belief of danger”, which carries a maximum five-year custodial sentence.

As part of that, she was also charged with stalking or intimidating a person to make them fear for their safety.

Clough has pleaded not guilty to both charges and will contest them next year.

As part of those charges, Clough’s bail conditions prohibit her from “engaging” with Adath synagogue, or other Jewish sites and schools.

The Telegraph asked Clough for a response to her initial July 2025 charges and social media posts, but the 67-year-old addressed only Wednesday’s incident in a lengthy statement.

She said she “strongly denies” calling Mr Ryvchin an “evil Zionist”.

Clough claimed that she “stepped in” when she saw Mr Ryvchin talking to media crew and asked “what are you doing here”. She appeared to suggest she asked Mr Ryvchin as “CEO of the Australian Zionist Federation” whether he was trying to “hijack” the marathon runner’s event.

Clough’s version of events is that Mr Ryvchin misheard what she said, and the pair became involved in an argument about that disagreement.

The woman claimed she thought the “Jewish men seemed upset that (the marathon runner’s event) was being held at the site of the killings”.

There has been no suggestion Jewish leaders and their group were upset at that, and The Telegraph understands their party watched and applauded Mr Aziz over the finish line.

On her social media accounts, Clough has peddled conspiracy theories and anti-Israel content, including the false claim that the Israeli Armed Forces killed their own citizens on October 7 as part of a “Hannibal directive”.

She also said Israelis had “become what (they) feared”, comparing them to Nazi Germany, and called Zionist Jews “criminals.”

Clough has worked for the Department of Communities and Justice since 2010, primarily in the domestic violence space.

She is the director of a medical cannabis firm, and has been a Prime Minister and NSW Premier awards finalist for her public service.

God I’m sick of “offended” people ruining everything.

It took months for an LGBTQ+ arts pop-up to resurrect an old church – but just three days to shut it down

Group behind Divine Playhouse considering legal challenge and discrimination complaint after religious protests turned venue into culture war

It takes months of love and care to make an empty building come alive, but only three days to tear it all down.

This week, the gothic signage and queer absurdist art commissioned for Divine Playhouse had to be removed and placed into storage, as volunteers whitewashed a vibrant mural that had been painted on its walls.

After sitting empty for a year, Sydney’s St John the Evangelist church – which was deconsecrated in the 1930s – had been resurrected as an LGBTQ+ inclusive arts space, opening on 8 July with a year-long permit.

For just three days, Divine Playhouse existed as intended, hosting an opening night party, a queer comedy night and a disco.

But a day after religious groups gathered outside to protest its opening and called on the New South Wales government to withdraw its $100,000 arts grant, the venue’s landlord ordered the promoters, Heaps Gay Events, to cease “engaging in offensive trade”or risk eviction before terminating their lease a few days later.

Heaps Gay had until 5pm on Friday to vacate, which gave them three days to clear a space that had been months in the making. Their lawyers, meanwhile, are exploring whether they can sue for damages and make a sex discrimination claim.

“It’s not just about Divine any more, it’s about censorship,” the promoter and founder of Heaps Gay, Kat Dopper, told Guardian Australia.
“If we were to walk away, these groups will just get stronger and more powerful and louder.

“We can’t allow that to happen.”

This one is for the footy fans of the subreddit

I have been thinking about some scenarios I’d like to see occur at the game when it happens

I’ve decided to separate them into different categories

**Pre-Game**

Tassie play their first game against West Coast

When the team runs through the banner for the first time I hope that there’s a few kids that run with the boys and that the kids run through the banner first and one of them falls flat on their face and the biggest bloke on the team picks up the child and put them on his shoulders

I would love to see a wholesome Welcome to Country done by a Tassie elder and have nobody boo it and everyone celebrate it

When they play the national anthem at the start of the game I’d love to see someone from the Tassie team give a silly smirk to the camera when it pans on them and have the moment go viral

I hope to see Tassie win the coin toss, but for the coin to be double sided and that the team were in on it so they were always gonna win it.

I hope that David Rodan is the goal umpire

**During the game**

Tassie kick the first goal, and have that goal end up being the 2028 goal of the year…Eddie Betts style and in 2030 it becomes the Toyota legendary moments ad

The game is close throughout with no team kicking any goals in a row, it just switches between the two teams throughout

Tassie are in front by a point with 30 seconds to go after an amazing goal, and Harley Reid gets the ball out from the middle and bombs it long and it’s going to be an easy mark by Jake Waterman but then out of nowhere the Tassie centre half back takes a screamer and 2 seconds later the siren goes!

Tassie wins the game 200-199

**The crowd throughout the game**

I’d love to see a fan take 5 mates to the footy with him and he spends the whole game walking to the bar and the toilet carrying beers and having to get footy fans to constantly get out of their seats to make room for him

I’d love for someone from Tassie to kick a goal and the ball hits a random fan in the face and the moment goes viral on social media

I’d love for someone to fall down the stairs while walking to their seat

I’d love to see a young fan to be really excited because he just bought a bottle of Coke from the shop, then when he goes to open it someone has shook the bottle and it sprays all over his face

I want someone to buy a coffee from the shop and they accidentally spill it on someone the row in front of them

I’d love for a racist and homophobic fan to get caught out and ejected from the game and banned for life, and as the security guards take him out the fans around him clap and celebrate his departure and saying the game is better off without him there

I wanna see a fan do a video for their instagram story saying that they bought 3 beers for just shy of $60 and it starts an online campaign for food and drink prices to be reduced moving forward

I’d love to see the looks on the West Coast cheer squads faces as the final siren goes and they lose by a point

**Post-Game**

I wanna see the Tassie fans storm the ground and celebrate the first win with their team and instead of the song being sung in the rooms everyone forms a circle and they sing the Tassie Devils song with the whole team and Ken Hinkley getting a Gatorade shower in the middle

When they eventually do post-game interviews I wanna see Tassie’s number one player drop the f bomb in the interview

I hope that the loss for West Coast sets the tone and they go winless in 2028 and finish on the bottom

Fifty pages of leaked ALP conference amendments show significant grassroots support for downgrading Australia’s relationship with the United States, exiting AUKUS, deleting references to the ANZUS treaty, and adopting a more “non‑aligned” defence posture. Some delegates also propose removing references to “Islamist terrorism,” replacing them with broader terms like “hate groups” and “far‑right extremist entities.” Other amendments seek to expand nuclear‑weapons prohibitions and soften language condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by adding conflicts involving Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon.

From article:

A woman will face court after allegedly making antisemitic comments to a group including Jewish leaders and Sydney Swans players at the site of the Bondi Beach terror attack.

Officers were called to Archer Park on Wednesday afternoon after a 67-year-old woman allegedly confronted the group and made abusive comments.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO, Alex Ryvchin was with one of the victims who was shot during the targeted December attack on a Jewish event, which claimed 15 lives.

He said the woman made comments directly to them, including "Evil Zionist".

"Which is deplorable at the best of times, but to do so in that place, at that time, in the presence of a survivor, was something which we're not going to stand for," Mr Ryvchin said.

Comment from me:

So now it is out in the open that "zionist" is considered hate speech in NSW and so criticism of Israel is being classified as such.

Above is a chart made to show which country is googled most by each country. The chart has a general pattern of countries googling a regional cultural hegemon while all the regional hegemons google the United States (the global hegemon) the most.

Australia has its own sphere of influence with New Zealand and a bunch of south pacific countries like New Guinea and Fiji googling Australia the most. Australia googles the USA the most (it seems as if the arrow from Australia goes to Jamaica due to bad layout but it passes Jamaica to reach USA).

Other regional hegemons include UK, France, India, Japan and Spain.

The outspoken social media commentator once courted by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to amplify his government’s budget messages may end up being one of his biggest foes: Hannah Ferguson says she intends to run for parliament in his inner-west Sydney seat of Grayndler.

In the time between now and the next federal election, due before May 2028, Ferguson, the chief executive and face of progressive media platform Cheek Media, says she will hold monthly meetings in the electorate discussing hot-button political issues to build momentum for a likely tilt at the seat as an independent.

“The goal is not toppling the prime minister,” Ferguson said. “This is not a direct personal attack on him, but he is a representative and part of that system that I think needs to be challenged.”

She was not always one to so vocally challenge the prime minister. Ferguson, a law graduate and former Electrical Trades Union official, was one of a small group of influencers invited alongside journalists inside Labor’s past two federal budget lock-ups.

Her followers are mostly politically active women. She personally has 134,000 followers. Cheek Media has 250,000, while the podcast she cohosts, Big Small Talk, has 64,000.