Tom Tanuki

Australia, Melbourne

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Compulsory Anzac Day services an attack on freedom

2 weeks ago | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

Forcing children to participate in school Anzac Day services is an attack on freedom and should be made illegal, writes Tom Tanuki. WHEN I WAS a little boy, forced to attend Anzac Day services at gunpoint, I used to stand in my school uniform during the minute’s silence, getting into the mood by imagining Saving Private Ryan scenes.
Twitter promotes Nazi groups so it's time to say goodbye

1 month ago | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

As Twitter further plunges into the far-right cesspool, a line needs to be drawn once ads for the National Socialist Network start to appear, writes Tom Tanuki. I’M CONSTANTLY renegotiating my relationship with social media. I’m not writing yet another article about “digital detoxes” here, so I don’t mean as an individual — even if that thought has weighed on our minds for a decade as our collective relationship with big tech and social media has grown heavier and more extractive.
Cyclone Alfred turns larrikinism into animal cruelty

1 month ago | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred brought out the worst in humanity as people mocked the natural disaster for clicks and likes, risking the lives of pets in the process, writes Tom Tanuki. I STARTED WRITING this on a laptop which I charged to around 20 per cent from a local shopping centre. By now we’re mostly past the ongoing effects of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, although there are still around 70,000 people without power (down from just under half a million people).
Four Corners shifts spotlight to Neo-Nazi cult tactics endangering children

2 months ago | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

A Four Corners program has helped reposition the spotlight away from neo-Nazi cult groups' salacious media stunts and onto their child grooming tactics, writes Tom Tanuki. A MORE MAINSTREAM discussion of the child grooming, child recruitment and coercive control tactics of the National Socialist Network (NSN) is beginning to happen as a result of ABC’s Four Corners coverage earlier this week.
New Labor laws render neo-Nazis into needless martyrs

2 months ago | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

If the intended aim of legislating against Nazi gestures and symbolism is to stop racist fascists from organising and growing, the past year has proven that doing so has the opposite effect, writes Tom Tanuki. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE state this country is in regarding its civic freedoms when I am forced to write to defend the right of neo-Nazis to do Nazi salutes from an anti-fascist perspective. But here I am. It shouldn’t be a crime and they should be able to do it.
So, Elon Musk did a one-armed salute: Here's what's more important

Jan 24, 2025 | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

The really fascist stuff on Trump’s inauguration day wasn’t Elon’s right arm — it was the executive orders turning the United States of America into an ultranationalist garrison state, writes Tom Tanuki. IN DECEMBER, I drove down a Coburg street and passed a man in his 60s standing on the kerb grinning and Hitler saluting at oncoming traffic. I could immediately see he wasn’t doing it as a sincere Nazi gesture. I’m an educated adult of sound mind and I can read and intuit context.
Sickly nationalism: You want Vegemite McShaker fries with that?

Jan 10, 2025 | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

A multinational’s chips, flavoured with a yeast-based spread that we're all convinced is right up there with koala and thong as a hallmark Australian tourist attraction? Tom Tanuki is having none of it!McDONALD'S IS selling new Vegemite McShaker fries for a bit. Cross-branded promotional marketing is all for nothing if you don’t fully realise its benefits by informing the stenographers of the nation’s local establishment media via an immediate press release.
#10 TOP IA STORY OF 2024: Comic banned after Zionist heckler calls in big guns

Dec 24, 2024 | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

THE TOP TEN IS BACK! Celebrate the holidays with our top 10 stories of 2024 over the next week and a bit. This story of deception and skullduggery caused astonishment among the IA audience in April. ***** The isolated report of one Israeli heckler has been broadcast around the world as an instance of “anti-Semitism” after a performance by Northern Irish alternative comedian Paul Currie.
AI Christmas music a soulless cash-in on holiday spirit

Dec 13, 2024 | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki

I want to give you a list of AI Christmas music to block in your major music streaming platform. I don’t think it’s comprehensive. I bet there’s a bunch of new ones that I am still unwittingly playing. I just want to feel festive for a moment sometimes, which is why I play this music. But now I know about artificial intelligence (AI) Christmas music, so I can’t be happy in December, either. AI sludge is already everywhere and now it’s here, too.
Bashed in the street: Being Jewish and wearing a keffiyeh

Nov 29, 2024 | independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki |James Crafti

A smattering of pro-Palestinian activists were mobbed by a large contingent of Zionists recently, illustrating how hard it's become for communities to disagree with the unfolding genocide, writes Tom Tanuki. ON MONDAY evening, a Zionist event was held at the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation to discuss 'Israel’s challenges and opportunities in a new Middle East'. Speakers included former and current (The Israel Defence Forces) IDF personnel.