Monash University recorded a 2025 surplus of $580 million but is asking for donations

🚨 Google continues to lobby the UK government to hand the work of the country's creatives to big tech companies for free. 🧵 1/3

Australian university students paid $368 million more to study their undergraduate courses in 2024 than they would have if the Morrison government had not introduced a new pricing system. Julie Hare reports. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/30/s...

One for the future historians. Ukraine has embarked on a strategic drone bombing campaign against Russia’s warmaking industries, roughly at 1943 levels of the air war in Europe

I feel like she, specifically, should know better

"Either knowingly or through ignorance, Services Australia has been failing for years to process social security payments and benefits across 93 separate matters," writes Crikey's correspondent-at-large Rick Morton. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/30/s...

Multi-billionaire Steven Lowy again publicly preaching about "values", this time calling for national service. He's far less vocal about $550,000 in secretive payments he directed to the Liberal Party via an obscure company weeks before federal election…(ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/nation-suffe...

Links to take action in the YouTube video description. If you're in Australia, make sure to join this townhall meeting on July 6!

University of Wollongong hearings at ICAC today: consultant Tanya Diesel got a lucrative contract with the University despite a close prior business relationship with Chancellor Michael Still. She even invited him to her poetry reading ...

Climate change really ruins a ski season

PARAGUAY! PARA-GUAY-HAI-HAI-HAI

Mt Hotham in July. Nothing to see here

I honestly think it was cool how for the Freedom 250 concert they symbolically had one attendee from every state

"I think I'm learning to walk into the room, curious and ready to learn something. That's been a good way for me to navigate the unknown." Acclaimed saxophonist Josh Johnson discusses genre fluidity, Wayne Shorter's wisdom, and how limitations unlocked creativity on his album 'Unusual Object.':

Ancient Roman Cthulhu mosaic. They knew.

"The ultimate contradiction within the ALP's climate politics, however, is precisely its ‘tactical fatalism’ – its refusal to confront fossil capital, effectively locking in higher warming"

Completely understandable mistake. I, too, have occassionally mistaken a pat on the shoulder for a violent assault, and have only sorted it out after making a formal complaint to Victoria Police www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Yes please www.carscoops.com/2026/06/cars...

What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out.

House prices in 2024 - "impossibly unaffordable". House prices today - slipping back to 2024 levels is now apparently a disaster.

Residents in Sydney’s lower north shore fear being swamped by data centre tsunami www.afr.com/property/res...

Today I'm introducing a Private Member’s Bill into parliament, to change the date of HECS indexation and make the system fairer for millions of Australian students and graduates.

"If the Royal Commission is serious about investigating the nature of antisemitism and its 'key drivers', it should begin with Australia’s Israel lobby – the leading proponents of the conflation of antisemitism with antizionism." @louiseadler1.bsky.social 💥🎯💯 www.deepcutnews.com/p/if-the-roy...

Maine just became the first U.S. state to pass a moratorium on hyperscale data centers.

Sarah Martin has been absolutely all over the grift that is One Nation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is low-budget desktop McGuyering genius

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

"Degrowth" isn't about shrinking GDP for fun. It's about shrinking the destructive sectors (fossil fuels, fast fashion) while expanding the human sectors (care, education, arts, local food).

The Kate Lamb story on this is brilliant (and scary) would strongly encourage reading if the Indonesia of it jumped out to you. This is a full on industry and an engrained part of Indonesian political culture now www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j...

So many of them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach ruled that an additional settlement of $548.5 million, which includes the $475 million Robodebt compensation, $60 million in costs to administer the scheme and $13.5 million in legal costs, was fair and reasonable au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, September 1979, an image used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #WomensArt

Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death

On a completely different note, yet another challenging (in a good way, it’s really well-written) and fascinating article from Joe Tomlinson and others kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Galaxias Wolf-Rayet - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/brGSRZ

“The Ellisons are just one instance of a much larger, much more unwieldy transformation taking place, an inter-capitalist conflict with global implications, but they are a titanic plutocratic force that leverages familial and social ties and banks on the regulatory and governmental side of things”

Once again confirming my general assumption that the dumbest people you know (ABC senior management) are the ones most into A.I.

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I think we need to ask why a previously normie TV personality would leave a $2m a year job

Dark sky over a field of daisies.

hey twitter margaret kudelka and a bunch of @kudelka.bsky.social’s family and friends are doing dry july, raising money for canteen who do incredible work supporting young people affected by cancer. if you have a few spare bucks you should chuck them here: www.dryjuly.com/users/margar...

So here for this

Climate change is really, really bad for agriculture

Right-wing campaign group Advance and the Exclusive Brethren will be compelled to attend a parliamentary inquiry into the 2025 election. JSCEM statement said they were asked nicely and declined - so now compelling them

One of my favourite things about the World Cup is the incomprehensible Scottish special comments guy. Some guy will kick the ball at the goalie, and the commentary is like "Ferntustic bawl, moooving, tame and spaace, strerng harnd, keeeeper awaay" Sounds great, no idea what this means

Here’s my Foreign Policy piece on the life saving qualities of AC and why we need more policy support to help vulnerable people survive heat waves: foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...

Hello fellow hooo-mans. I, too, like the sport of foot-the-ball. We all enjoy foot-the-ball on my plan…I mean in my home town, which is also full of hooo-mans.

Europe, take it from us in Australia: air conditioners are good