Gorgeous to wander Sydney’s Chinatown on a balmy 28-degree night. No cars, just multiple generations ambling happily in search of food and conversation. When I arrived 35 years ago, this part of town was a stinky, gritty dive. Now it’s sophisticated, with gentle spaces under the high rises.

The consumption of McDonalds started in the 1950’s and has rapidly grown. Narcissists have become increasingly common in the last few decades, especially in the US. Therefore McDonalds causes narcissism It should be banned Thank you for your attention to this matter!

People pushing Truth Social posts into this space just makes everything worse. Fuckwit echo chambers are for fuckwits. How about we point out the idiotic nightmare of a supposed president running the US Govt from their own social media account with their own bitcoin?

Optus makes another catastrophic mistake and three people are dead after letting customers down 'when they needed them most' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The Whippet Weather Warning System (WWWS) says a storm is coming. Shakeometer is in the red zone. Blue Mountains, watch out!

Kimmel wasn’t removed for comments on Kirk. He was removed for pointing out Trump’s vacuous response to Kirk’s murder.

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

If Donald Trump understood a single thing about Australia he would know that the worst thing you can possibly do is dob on someone. I stand with John Lyons from the ABC! Yes to questions! Down with dobbing to the PM! (@bcdreyer.social, I think you will like this)

The Tasmanian Planning Commission has rejected the proposed AFL Stadium in Hobart, on comprehensive grounds! Including that it will permanently alter the character of the city, in a very bad way.

Meanjin closing & AI stealing the work of authors. Times are tough for Australian writers. Please sign chng.it/p4KFP8BB9Y #australianwriters

Yeah-nah. My @smh cartoon.

Absolutely damning. Australia claims that it is not an active participant in the Israeli atrocities against Palestinians, but provides military materiel and military intelligence (through Pine Gap, for example), and maintains diplomatic & trade relations, in breach of international law. #auspol

Can you believe a Sydney psychiatrist complained a Melbourne kid’s hospital would traumatise Jews by discussing how to treat children in war? And the hospital CEO canned the event? The CEO might have wanted to avoid conflict. The psych just wanted ppl to shut up about Gaza abuses. #freepalestine

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The Minns “Labor” Government defunded Reconciliation NSW. And the History Council of NSW. Seriously. This is the worst NSW Government I have ever lived through.

Mere thoughts and prayers for kids murdered in school shootings but 'grief and anger' for Charlie Kirk? Trump is wildly selfish.

How bloody unfair is it that someone can gold-plate their legal team for a defamation case and refuse to settle prior to court. And then the court awards compensation AND 80% of the gold-plated costs? There should be a definition of "reasonable" costs, because $2700 per hour is not that.

Holy moley, I only learned about Gerard Barron and The Metals Company and oxygen-making polymetallic nodules today and I have to say I’m a bit upset. Keep fighting, ISA!

It beggars belief that Israel can blow up whole apartment buildings in Gaza City with impunity. What a world we are living (and dying) in.

Hmmm, Great Koala National Park … Remember folks, it’s not a national park or a ban on logging until it’s Gazetted. Without that, it’s just sparkling announcements from the greenwashing region.

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

The NSW budget included $7.9 million for shooters, while community arts is cut to the bone. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Meanjin contributors include AAH Fellows Judith Wright, Manning Clark, Alex Miller, Sarah Holland-Batt, Alexis Wright, JM Coetzee, Tim Rowse, Frank Bongiorno & Djon Mundine — whose essay, “I am an invisible man”: This is how I became a curator, was published in the Winter 2025 issue. bit.ly/4p7GEsm

Since its inception in 1940, Meanjin has fostered a rich and rigorous national conversation through the cultivation of hundreds of Australian thinkers and writers. The closure of Meanjin represents a significant loss to the Australian literary sector and to the development of new Australian talent.

The loss of Meanjin is devastating news for Australian writers and readers. Always meant so much to see my work there. Some of my best experiences of being edited. An entirely avoidable disaster.

Amid all the bad news about cut to the cultural sector, perhaps the most distressing is the axing of the long running series, "The Defamation Trials of Ben Roberts-Smith." It's been action packed, but the High Court refused to extend the show. Bit of a fizzer of an ending, although morally clear.

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

Depressing news. Meanjin hardly posed a significant call on the University of Melbourne's finances: its annual budget was no more than a third of the VC's salary. To shut it down diminishes the University of Melbourne and leaves a large hole in Australia's already threadbare cultural landscape

I am devastated to learn of the closing of Meanjin. I cannot believe it actually. I was also lucky enough to write for them thanks to Jonathan Green and always hoped to write more. It was our best literary journal and I cherished the beautiful writing in it.

Easy way to stop anti-vaxxers and sovereign citizens walking over the Harbour Bridge is to put a message on their weird socials saying that's where the 5G towers are, and it's regularly misted with astra zeneca vaccines.

Jacinta Price has put a video of herself posing with an Australian flag and the captions say "I'm Jacinta Number Dimmer Price".

Watching BMX Bandits for the first time ever. It’s beautiful cinematography, a horror show of Australiana cliches, and fab Harbourside local history. Also, Nicole Kidman.

One of my friends is at the medieval fest, and is most def chuffed about this

Bob Katter cheerfully poses for a photo-op. #auspol #NoRoomForRacism

I’m a historian (president of History Council NSW and Professional Historians) and I’m so proud of my profession for our creativity, collegiality and our strength and solidarity against colonisation and genocide.

If you've been called 'weak' by Israel and Iran in the space of seven days you are probably walking the middle road correctly.

Breaking! We have just found out that the Albanese Government plans to pay hundreds of millions for building houses for US troops and foreign arms companies using a secret AUKUS “cost-sharing” deal with Donald Trump.

A smart person would just drive to the nearest airport. Just saying. 😜

I see this as a free speech issue - chuffed.org/project/1432...

Hey everyone, my book manuscript goes to a copy editor tomorrow. It's called 'Musquito: [pls insert subtitle]'. If all goes super well, Allen & Unwin will publish it, with a subtitle, in July next year.

I recently did a history on behalf of a business that was consulting to an agency. A man working for the agency asked the business to supply copies of reports I had cited. He could have clicked on the hyperlinks in my reference list to get the items himself ... or googled. Would a woman do this?

These repulsive institutions…that have stolen and crushed everything meaningful and wonderful about knowledge and culture…now profoundly harming their people… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Can you believe that a university would (a) stop students enrolling in particular courses (b) send advice to adult doctors and professors who currently teach the suspended courses that they can manage their stress by "washing their smalls" and playing some music in their bedroom?

Zionist Jeremy Liebler says in the SMH today, “history has shown that in the Middle East, there are no shortcuts. Bold gestures are not a substitute for the hard work of peacemaking and institution-building.” He’s talking about Palestinian statehood, but what happened in 1947? Hello?

📢 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is preparing to imminently announce Australia’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state, following moves by France, the UK and Canada.

If David Speers thinks your argument selling parts for F35s to Israel is not arms sales completely sucks, you have entirely lost the pub test. Boycott, divest, sanction.

Every Australian academic should sign this, imo, historian or not. Job Ready Graduates fundamentally disrupted the whole HE funding and enrolment ecosystem for the worse. It's not just about who does Arts.