PSA: this variant is currently circulating in Australia.

What we're doing is a dangerous, damaging false economy. If humanity had any sense, the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic should have ushered in glocal initiatives and mass funding for comprehensive clean indoor air systems. But, of course, as a collective, we don't. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Genuinely incredible: “This is the first evidence of birth assistance in non-primates. It is fascinating to see the intergenerational support from the grandmother to her labouring daughter, and the support from the other, unrelated females.”

It's time for new ideas, new voices, new gatekeepers, new strategies, new incentives, new politics to support Australian culture and the arts. Submissions to the Australian Government's consultation on its new cultural policy close 24 May. #ausarts #auslit #revive www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/n...

Every COVID-19 infection carries a risk of Long COVID - affecting the brain, heart, lungs, and immune system in ways that can last months or longer. Prevention still works. - Masking: Wear a high-quality mask (N95 or better) to reduce spread - Ventilation: Bring in fresh air and (...)

Meanwhile, the BCARR/Census confirmed that the arts and cultural sector contributed $67.4 billion (2.5% of GDP) to the Australian economy in 2023–24, and writers' prize money gets taxed up to/exceeding 50% rate, literary grants have been decimated, and many artists/writers live on the poverty line.

So, we can add this to the list of drastic health outcomes associated with COVID and COVID-denialism.

I love Linda - mostly because she was an animal rights activist and vegetarian campaigner way before most people ever had a passing thought on either front, as well as an excellent photographer.

Something to note while the gov is putting out promo about granting visas to the defecting Iranian women football players. It's called playing to look like good guys while being broadly unconscionable.

Media coverage of the housing crisis makes it sound like there's a shortage of housing. There are enough properties, but investors dominate them, and the gov enables with tax incentives (also, over 50% of federal MPs are property investors, so). thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Just in case you were in any doubt about this being a sign, along with the climate emergency and more, of the death-spiral induced by unbridled capitalism.

We stood together against anti-Palestinian racism and they cancelled our festival. So we organised our own. Very tired now, but very proud of Constellations! Great in depth coverage from Hannah Story here www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

And 10 dingoes were murdered for nothing. Still, this finding is a relief, and if there's anything positive to come out of it, perhaps it will deter others from taking unnecessary risks on K'gari.

This is what we need a Royal Commission on if we're in the mood to call for RCs.

Trump and Netanyahu must be held accountable for these murders! Where is our collective global outrage that 165 school girls and teachers were killed in Iran? It's as though the world has become numb - and these atrocities are now normalised. Imagine if this had occurred in the US.

Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Sorry to interrupt the collective denial, but this is happening, whether we want to face it or not.

Which makes sense of why and how it can affect every bodily system.

Good on QUT for coming to the rescue.

NSW cops taking inspiration from US ICE thugs to squash peaceful protest. Dark times.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

This is about AU gov Zionist appeasement, not community 'unity.'

And on it goes.

Rays of hope.

Australia: still wilfully, knowingly, ruining the lives of those with the least.

I wish Australian media would read Israeli media.

And it's ethically criminal.

Invasion Day 2026: where will events be held around Australia? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The young woman's end is a true tragedy, and I dearly hope she drowned first, but there is something deeply wrong with the cultural reflex to punish living beings in their natural environment simply for trying to survive.

The Australian literary world has been in the news lately, so why not support the Vagabond Press 'Just one book' campaign? It's aiming to shift 300 books in Jan to help fund the publication of new works. Some great titles on the list. Get amongst it. vagabondpress.net

Best of 2025: Medicare’s promise was clear: no-one denied care because of cost. Today, split federal–state funding is breaking that promise for millions. Real reform must start there, writes Graeme Stewart. #Medicare #HealthPolicy #AusPol #PublicHospitals #HealthReform

Attempts to silence writers often achieve the opposite: they amplify dissent, expose power without legitimacy, and deepen division, writes Raghid Nahhas. #auspol #FreeSpeech #Writers #PublicDebate #PearlsAndIrritations

What kind of monster doesn't like dogs? (That was a joke - given the context of the article, but also a true question). Also, word is this journo is not an alarmist: Lordy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Agreed.

If Israel passes this horrific death penalty law, it is yet another reason for Canberra to end its timidity and impose sanctions on this rogue state. #auspol #Israel #Palestinian #Death penalty

A sad and predictable outcome in the sorry debacle that is this year's Adelaide Festival: Louise Adler has stepped down. This is her articulate and powerful statement. She pulls no punches - cites McCarthyism, and I don't think that's drawing a long bow. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everyone with any non-racist, fair-minded decency rejects this decision.

Boo, hiss. I'd be withdrawing in protest, too, if I was scheduled to attend this festival. Outrageous.

Speeding is off the charts, especially on highways and in country areas. So much entitlement and acting out on the road. New strategies are needed.

This is a call to sanity, reason, unity and resistance in the face of pressure to take unwise actions for optics in the wake of the Bondi attack. I dearly hope it prevails. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/11/jewi...

We did it once in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre - showed true leadership re preventing gun violence. Then, govs let it slide some, under pressure from gun-lovers, and now, having paid the price, we're stepping up again. Take heed Amercia.

At this tender, painful moment in the life of my country and hometown, this is the voice I choose to amplify. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQ4...

The hero is named Ahmed al Ahmed.

Oh, God, the hide.

Brillant (and hilarious) review. Literary criticism that boldly expresses how many of us outcasts living in the shadows of society experience Trent Dalton's wildly lauded and rewarded fiction (not that I have read any since BSU, and even that I couldn't finish).

Not just an opportunity lost to make game-changing social progress ensuring protection against this and the next (potentially worse) pandemic (by maintaining good, honest public health education and advancing public/business clean air initiatives etc); it's an opportunity squandered and spat on.

The “new normal” for Australia in the last few years is around +6% on the pre-pandemic baseline – worse than even the UK (see below). Even out to June this year (as variant evolution slowed) it was still running at +5% annually. Are there any lessons we could learn from NZ? 🧵

Also, I always wonder how First Nations people in the US feel at 'Thanksgiving.'

I'll never understand why there isn't more activism about gov wastage of tax payer $, given there is so much of it. This is a clear cut and outrageous case, but it's also been happening endemically in the Centerlink and aged care systems, with middlemen 'providers' fleecing the system.