By Soaliha Iqbal
Charlie Pickering. Negative gearing. Capital gains tax. One Nation. A so-called ceasefire in Lebanon. It is the end of the week and my brain is fried from reading media reports which sell the same right-wing, for-the-wealthy-and-powerful narrative over and over again.
The antidote, in part, is to read important journalism that covers stories that aren’t being told by establishment media.
Here are the stories you might have missed this week.
A special guest episode of Only Fran
Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities, The Shot
The Shot has revealed in a shocking, but not entirely surprising, report that Australia is manufacturing the raw explosives inside the bombs falling on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran.
Two factories — one in Mulwala, NSW and one in Benalla, Victoria — manufacture the munitions that end up inside the shells, bullets, missiles and bombs used by the US and Israel.
According to The Shot, the NSW factory staffs around 400 people and operates 24 hours a day. This is because of worldwide demand for its munitions, which reportedly spiked after 2023. We wonder why.
The factories are owned by the Australian government which contracts them out to a French arms company.
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