on December 27, 2025, 12:11 pm
Australia reacts to Trump attack on ‘scum’
Nathan Schmidt
Sat 27 December 2025 at 8:01 am NZDT
The Australian government has thrown its support behind US air strikes targeting the Islamic State in Nigeria.
US President Donald Trump revealed in a social media post on Christmas Day he had directed a “powerful and deadly strike against ISIS terrorist scum” in restive northwestern Nigeria.
Mr Trump has long accused militants of attacking Christians in the predominantly Muslim north.
“I have previously warned these terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight there was,” he said on Truth Social.
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Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the Australian government supported US-Nigerian co-operation against the Islamic State group, including Friday’s strikes.
“ISIS terrorises people around the world. Its extremist, violent ideology must be stopped,” she said.
It comes as Anthony Albanese continues to grapple with the fallout of an alleged “ISIS-inspired” attack on Bondi Beach with killed 15 people.
Police allegedly recovered homemade Islamic State-style flags from a car belong to the alleged gunmen, Sajid and Naveed Akram.
“The ISIS-inspired atrocity last Sunday reinforces the rapidly changing security environment in our nation,” Mr Albanese said earlier this week.
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"In Canberra last week I met some Australian members of parliament. It gave me hope, because until I heard them speak I had always thought that Israel’s right wing politicians were the worst. —-(LAUGHTER)— I’ve never heard any Israeli politician speak about the Palestinian people the way that those Australian politicians did. But they are Australia’s problem, not mine. (LAUGHTER) I spoke with the Australian foreign minister; she talked and she was very nice but we could not agree on anything." (LAUGHTER)
---Gideon Levy, speaking in Auckland, 3 December 2017
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2017/12/unbelievable-brutality-day-after-day.html
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