The Blake Poetry Prize 2025 applications are open. Listen to the winner of 2024 Simone King stunning poem. www.westwords.com.au/the-68th-bla... #poets #poetry

Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

If food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the U.S. 😱 source: Food and Ag Org of the UN For more information on food waste, check out @paul-west.bsky.social for @sentientmedia.org 🔗 sentientmedia.org/the-climate-...

Book review by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on Bee Wilson's new book about kitchen objects and the stories they tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...

The 2025 Brisbane Writers Festival Address by @dranitaheiss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/anitahei...

AFOPA urges the president and board of the National Press Club to reconsider their cancellation of #ChrisLynnHedges appearance on 20 October and to honour the commitment they made. #auspol #NPC #media

Author and podcaster Sarah Wilson ‘Can we talk about your silence?’ open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...

Monument to the Burghers of Calais, 1889, Bronze by Auguste Rodin, Museum Rodin Paris. Remarkable.

Powerful testimony by Dr Terumi Tanaka, who was a 13 years old child living in #Nagazaki in 1945 when the #atomic #bomb destroyed his city. He is now a Chair of #NihonHidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. #BanNuclearWeapons #TPNW www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Under the rules of war, parties to conflicts cannot use starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering. Even wars have limits. #IHL

In the face of egregious and widespread violations of international humanitarian law in conflicts around the world, we need to act. Leaders of 🇿🇦🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇷🇯🇴🇰🇿 together with @ICRC urge States and the international community to uphold the #GenevaConevntions www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-fo...

You can find information on the Global Initiative to galvanise political commitment for #IHL at www.upholdhumanityinwar.org/documentation, including ✅ Workstreams ✅ Next events and consultations ✅ Statements from states in previous consultations

Do the hard thing … AI is making you genuinely stupid. open.substack.com/pub/pluri/p/...

@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on the liberating potential of trash and the creative process. #innercritic #recycle #art . open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

“If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.” Damien Davis @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042641/when... #emergingartists

Voting for the Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award closes today. There are 8 finalists, please support any one of the authors. I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself). www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...

Treaty: This is how we get over it @mrdtjames.bsky.social on "Victoria has tabled a treaty the first in the nation's history " firstpeoplesvic.org/reports-reso... "This treaty is not the end of the story but the beginning of a new era ... " open.substack.com/pub/thespenc...

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Looking up to clouds … and checking to see if @cloudappsoc.bsky.social on @bsky.app #cloudappreciation

The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest It only took 48 hours for the court to scrub out a Banksy showing a judge striking down a protester with his gavel Silencing a work of art about silencing protest? Maybe it was a little too close to home

‘You and I are Earth’ Inscribed earthenware plate via @londonmuseum.bsky.social Post-Medieval — 1661; 17th century substack.com/@thesynchron...

“Firmament.” [Jeu de tarot de fantaisie “égyptien” à enseignes italiennes, dit “Grand Etteilla”, c.1850–1875] @gallicabnf.bsky.social gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

An Australian billionaire (who loves Elon Musk of course) wants to destroy a world beneath the oceans before we even come close to understanding it. There are no limits to this ultra capitalist strip mining of our one and only planet.

Jacinta Parsons on the fall of another literary institution- Meanjin.

On Vernon Ah Kee’s statement on “misconceptions circulating around Hoda Afshar’s award winning image for the 2025 Australian National Portrait Gallery prize. “Firstly, I wish to make clear that this is an Aboriginal led project. substack.com/@thesynchron... #art #photography

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Winner Untitled #01 (from the series Code Black/Riot), 2024 Hoda Afshar Sherry Quiambao received the First Time Finalist Award, and George Fetting won the Art Handlers' Award. #photography #photocontest www.portrait.gov.au/npppphoto/10...

My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...

Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia’s cultural landscape and the nation’s second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support. www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Have you registered for the Indigenous Literacy Day Livestream celebrating this year's theme: Strength in our Stories: For now and future generations... Starts 10.30am on Wednesday, Sept 3, and can be watched on demand from 12pm onwards. www.sydneyoperahouse.com/schools/indi...

As always Elif Shafak weaves memory, art, literature and the everyday to awaken us to the magic of our humanity - to care and know we are all “beyond all borders and beyond all boxes. substack.com/@elifshafak/...

Don’t Ask the Trees for Their Names Pre order Now In this richly woven tapestry of stories, nine Arab women share their deeply personal journeys of migration to Australia, each reflecting on the legacies of their homelands and the complexities of forging new lives gazebobooks.com.au/product/dont...

Sydney! Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW - Naala Buda is a must see, guided tour a bonus! On extraordinary artists of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land, NT and the power of their art from the 1940s to now.Ends 6 October www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exh...

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

The fabulous @dranitaheiss.bsky.social on Indigenous Literacy Day Wednesday, 3 September - Sharing First Nations Stories, Cultures and Languages with children and adults around Australia.

Recognition of Palestine should have happened decades ago and is a fundamental right that the Australian Government has denied for too long. Now we need action: Australia must sanction Israel & end the two-way arms trade. Recognition won’t feed starving kids or stop the bombs.

How Spirituality went from Taboo to Trendy in the art world. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri... #art #klint

If you want to understand how the ABC ended up in this god awful cluster fiasco, harming the careers of @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social , Stan Grant, Emma Alberici, Yasmin Abdel Magid, Andrew Probyn, Nick Ross & the many that you don’t hear about, I explain it in my recent book:

Tomorrow at 1pm AEST Digital Rights Watch is hosting an online town hall, Stolen Property: Big Tech’s Push to Mine Our Culture, which will look at the Productivity Commission’s proposal to give AI companies a ‘right to mine data’. You can register to attend here: events.humanitix.com/stolen-prope...

Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...

ASA Director and lawyer, @joshbornstein.bsky.social says, “The Productivity Commission’s exploration of this proposal is perverse. A text and data mining exception would mean that some of the wealthiest corporations in Big Tech would be able to freeload from low-paid authors’ labour…” #copyright

March for Humanity today Sunday 3 August @ Sydney Harbour bridge March for Gaza. ☮️❤️🙏🏽

Powerful interview w/ @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and Terry Tempest Williams on MacFarlane’s ‘Is a River Alive’ @orionmagazine.bsky.social ‘To call a river alive is not to personify a river, but instead further to deepen and widen the category of both “person” and “life”.’ #nature #naturewriting

During 2001 to 2024, 515 million hectares (Mha) of tree cover was lost worldwide. This equates to the whole of Australia except for WA. One-third of the loss was caused by permanent land use change. #auspol #environment

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

Storytelling is an integral part of the oldest continuing culture on the planet. The ABC is celebrating the rich history, stories and achievements of Australia’s First People and MEAA is proud to support and celebrate members working on these productions that continue this tradition meaa.io/4lUCjXq

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people