Australians with disabilities copped the biggest cuts in the budget. Yet conservative media’s heart bleeds for the wealthy - by @grogsgamut.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

“You know why the Norwegians charge their kids nothing to go to university? “Because they tax the gas industry and they fund public services.” – Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO of The Australia Institute ✍ Sign to support a 25% tax on all Australian gas exports ➡️ https://theaus.in/3R78MQ4

there’s no end to the list of serious medical conditions that doctors will misdiagnose in women as “anxiety”

Australia is leaving money put aside for medical research funding in the bank while our brightest minds head overseas and young researchers question their future in medical research.

#PEM is real & not the same as fatigue. It is biological, not due to deconditioning or lack of motivation. Telling people to push through can cause harm. Join us 2pm AEST, Tuesday 12 May, for a conversation on recognition, validation & preventing harm. zurl.co/umjjR

More than 60% of Australian medical researchers left active research roles between 2019 & 2024 because they could not make ends meet - while my costings from the PBO suggest the govt could more than double annual spending from the MRFF without any effect on its base level of funding.

Australia's health and medical research funding is utterly broken, so many great researchers leaving and critical work not being done. It's totally unsustainable to spend months writing grants that have very little chance of being funded www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

powerful, important reading from the always brilliant @hayleygleeson.bsky.social

Addressing vaccine hesitancy requires skill and patience – some days, the people who do it feel like they’re drowning in a sea of lies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

excellent thread on pacing for people w ME/CFS and other energy limiting conditions

Devastating the algal bloom in Sth Australia is continuing almost 12 months after it began www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

The utter sham of offsets, yet again... “Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As long as our political 'leaders' keep supporting the fossil fuel industry, major 'donors' to political parties, people, communities, wildlife and ecosystems will all face increasing dangers. It's basic physics, chemistry and ecology. Duty of care, anyone? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New misfeasance in public office decision dropped. A cracker: Judge awarded $2m in damages, including v. rare punitive exemplary damages, against former head of Medicare watchdog. Matters are RARE. Wins rarer. A boon to potential Robodebt + other cases. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Another totally messed-up act in colonial Australia. First Nations peoples disregarded and sidelined, again. Wongari (dingoes) murdered. Shame on all responsible. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Literally every criteria used in this article was there in Trump’s first presidency. The only new part is the occupation of cities and killing of citizens, which were logical next steps predicted by many. You can be a fascist and a mafioso and many other bad things at once.

Advance -- recipient of $50,000 from Australia's Special Envoy To Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal & her husband John Roth -- is helping to promote this mob Reclaim Australia Day from Indigenous protesters. www.theage.com.au/national/sec...

The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

"92 per cent of Australian medical researchers who applied for the National Health and Medical Research Council’s annual “ideas grants” last year were unsuccessful; about half of those deemed to have an outstanding application were rejected."

More voices standing up.

Great reporting from the ABC. Bowman says scientists have stopped being reluctant to say climate change was making disastrous fires like these worse. “The temps are higher, which changes the atmosphere.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Recent research shows blood from people with ME/CFS and Long COVID directly harms healthy muscle, reducing force, stressing mitochondria, and causing structural breakdown. Results implicate blood-borne drivers of muscle weakness, exertion intolerance, and PEM. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1758...

Seems like there are a few issues in Malinauskas’ government www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.

Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

Mr Herzog seems nice, and it's nice too that the Australian government is rolling out the red carpet for him. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Going against Santos?? Malinauskus will be wanting to charge the riders with hate crimes. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Boards composed of individuals with little experience in the arts & blind to the moral implications of abandoning the principle of freedom of expression, have been unnerved by the pressure exerted by politicians calculating their electoral prospects & relentless, coordinated letter-writing campaigns

"The increasingly extreme and repressive efforts of pro-Israel lobbyists to stifle even the mildest criticism has had a chilling effect on free speech and democratic institutions. "

On Saturday, an imam and his wife were allegedly victims of a violent hate crime — forced off the road by another car, with attackers then getting out to assault the imam/threaten his wife. ANIC put out a statement on Sunday arvo, noting rising islamophobia. The media is just getting to it now.

In Venezuela, Chavez and Cabello brought together and armed Colectivos; gangs of thugs ready to enforce their authority on the streets by terrorising and murdering people. This was then supported by the national police and “intelligence” police. All authoritarian regimes need something like that.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

Time shapes everything – our work, our health, our relationships – but it's not shared evenly. Join Prof Lyndall Strazdins and Annabel Crabb to unpack the gendered politics of work, care and burnout, and why time has become one of the most unequal resources of all. 🔗 https://ow.ly/wZuE50XQvhF

Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’

Almost a decade ago Emma Johnston, Tanya Monro and I appeared at The National Press Club of Australia to talk about our stories and our views of issues that impact on Women in Science. It was an amazing experience… I will miss you Emma. theconversation.com/if-we-really...

Vale Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE The Academy is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of our Fellows, Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 recognising her leadership in the field of marine ecology, 🧵 vimeo.com/762105195

Omnishambles doesn’t even start to convey the lawlessness and looseness in these cowboys’ operations. How can Venezuelans hope for this process to restore the rule of law and democracy to our country when it’s clearly against these principles in the USA? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

“What has driven me in my life is a deep love of the science, a love of working with people and helping them to flourish and achieve, and a desire to work with others to protect this world I was immersed in as a scientist. And in that, I feel I have gone well beyond what I ever set out to achieve.”

If ever there was a breath of fresh air and optimism in Australian academia it was Emma. Utterly devastating news. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

"Latest list of new mine proposals reveals 97 new coal and gas projects are under development" #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251219-...

“The concern is that we are bootstrapping our way into armed conflict,” Finkelstein said. “We’re upping the ante in order to try to get them to engage in an act of aggression that would then justify an act of self-defense on our part.” I mean, obviously.

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Extreme heat inflames inequality" The people most vulnerable to extreme heat either live below the poverty line, have a long-term health issue, and/or are aged 65 and older. @mhharrington.bsky.social #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251218-...