The Australian Basic Income Lab is proud to endorse Basic Income for a Just Transition, a bold proposal from @equalrightorg.bsky.social @give-directly.bsky.social BIEN and Project Deep. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Great piece from my colleague @alistairsisson.bsky.social exploring the implications of our voter data on the ##HousingCrisis johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

The 1st publication from the 2025 Cooperative Election survey was launched yesterday prepared by the Macquarie Housing & Urban Research Centre, this report explores perceptions of housing affordability and perceived solutions (thread)

Fascinating stuff from @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social and the gang - check it out!

What do voters think about the housing crisis? Just out in @aunz.theconversation.com our piece (w @shaunwilson.bsky.social @alistairsisson.bsky.social Kristian Ruming and Adam Stebbing) for MQ's Housing and Urban Research Centre exploring #Housing attitudes theconversation.com/most-austral...

Join us for a free webinar hosted by Macquarie University where researchers will present the fascinating insights they have drawn from data collected by Accent Research at the 2025 federal election showing how voters' demographics, backgrounds and economic interests shape housing politics

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Now out with New Political Economy: What's going on in the legal back-end of 'innovative' climate finance constructs? I provide some additional clues to why it's so hard to de-risk private climate finance by public means. Open access, too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How did #Housing shape the 2025 #auspol Election? Come to our free webinar. We analyse new data to see how generation, tenure and voting shape housing politics With @emmabaker.bsky.social @shaunratcliff.bsky.social and @everybodyshome.bsky.social Maiy Azize events.humanitix.com/webinar-on-h...

Our submission on Help to Buy is in. Biggest concerns? *Inflated prices *Hidden fiscal costs *No perpetual affordability 💡 Shared equity could work better. Tie it to Community Land Trusts → permanent affordability, real public benefit: sbee.link/6phagtynb8 #HousingCrisis #HelpToBuy

This event is going to be wonderful! A chance to discuss the past and future of political economy in Sydney 👏💖🎈

I hadn't seen George Brandis' op ed about expanding parliament but it is indeed completely false and @benraue.com has kindly saved me the trouble of debunking it www.tallyroom.com.au/62130

I suppose they've given up on abundance...? "We think the WTO needs to focus on oversupply issues … There’s plenty of products that I think people would say there’s an oversupply." www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

JOB! Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

How did #housing shape the #auspol election? Come and hear new data and analysis from our MQ Housing and Urban Research Centre unpacking how generation, tenure and partisanship shape how we see the problem and the solutions. Zoom event, Oct 22, 12pm events.humanitix.com/webinar-on-h...

What did i just read. Cass Sunstein on Henry Kissinger the great Star Wars admirer

Join us on Tuesday night at UTS to discuss: A New Australian Politics? George Megalogenis @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @lizhumphrys.bsky.social Emily Foley and I discuss how the last two elections have changed Australian politics and what it means for the future events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...

Really interesting article on the history of engagement with women and gender norms in the Liberal Party. Thanks @blairwilliams26.bsky.social for your research!

"In Australia we tax wealth really badly. "And because we tax wealth really badly, we need to have higher taxes on, for example, income." - Senior Economist Matt Grudnoff on 3AW Radio Mornings #auspol @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social

Check out our co-director @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social discussing #BasicIncome #AI and #Inequality in The Conversation this morning.

Just out in @aunz.theconversation.com: #AI #Abundance and money. My reflections on #BasicIncome #BasicServices and why we need more than technical solutions to the political challenges of #poverty and #inequality theconversation.com/if-ai-takes-...

🚨 PhD Scholarship 🚨 Thinking about a PhD on the political economy of climate change? Want to work with some of the kindest and best scholars in the field? Do this. Tbh, I'm jealous of whoever gets this!!!

Solidarity with colleagues at Macquarie University opposing catastrophic cuts to Sociology. You can make a difference by adding your name to the petition here: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

Proud to stand with my Sociology colleagues, joined by @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social @damiencahill.bsky.social and the mighty @nteunion.bsky.social against the devastating cuts proposed at Macquarie University

From a supporter email Climate 200 sent today - a good example of how the organisation exhibits 'party-like' behaviour, as @phoebehayman.bsky.social, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social and I wrote about @ausjpolsci.bsky.social in 2024: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hello Sydneysiders! On Tuesday 23rd Sep join Frank Bongiorno, George Megalogenis, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social, @lizhumphrys.bsky.social & me for our public event A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment. Registration is free & we'd love to see you there! events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...

On the evening of Tue 23rd Sep join George Megalogenis, @frankbongiorno.bsky.social, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social, @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social & I for our public event at UTS. Registration is free & we'd love to see you there! events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...

JOIN US: AUWU Advocacy Training on July 12th or 19th! We'll help you become better informed about the regulations around Centrelink and Workforce Australia, so you can be an effective advocate. If you're interested, just send us an email at [email protected] @ausunemployment.auwu.org.au

Involvement in US strikes on Iran could make Australia a target, experts warn as government tight-lipped on Pine Gap

"Planet Wreckers… Four Global North countries – the #UnitedStates, #Canada, #Norway, and #Australia – are responsible for nearly 70% of projected new #oil and #gas expansion from 2025 to 2035" Architects of an unliveable nightmare future... #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChaos oilchange.org/blogs/planet...

Great piece by @johnquiggin.bsky.social on University Australia's recent commitments around anti-semitism open.substack.com/pub/johnquig...

‘Calling for zoning and planning reform is a popular technique for seeming concerned about housing while avoiding the systemic change that would deliver additional supply.’ Systemic change like public investment in affordable homes, & rent & tax reform. theconversation.com/is-regulatio...

Universities are in trouble. But is Nous Group the answer? The business model of the consultant is sharp and sophisticated. They bought the sector 'benchmarking' data and use it to sell services. Griffith Uni even hired 4 exec staff from them. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

that’s a residential apartment building, Bevan.

Good read from NTEU Adelaide University Branch President Kit MacFarlane on how Australia’s public universities have become stacked with unelected members brought in from big business. Join our campaign to end bad governance for good: betterunis.nteu.au www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

Redundancies when there are no funding cuts. Outrageous. Thoughts with the people about to lose their jobs because yet another new boss wants to stamp their own mark on an organisation for the fourth time in eight years.

At the *arresting senior union leaders* point

Good to hear from my comrades and friends @alisonbarnes.bsky.social and @jennyleong.bsky.social at our 350 strong @nteunion.bsky.social crisis meeting to fight outrageous cuts at Macquarie. Hard times, but feeling enormous solidarity 💪🏼

Record union meeting at Macquarie today - currently 336 staff in the meeting and rising. NTEU Branch President, Nick Harrigan speaking - "staff have to save this University from its own Management"

🚨 This is massive news. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to hear it. While they've not said anything on the details, we can say with confidence they will now look at matters *other* than the current mutual obligations framework. We can all think of one or two legal issues of that description.

Around the country, an unaccountable class of university managers is thinning out rich and meaningful curriculums and replacing them with generic mass units dressed up as skills-focused learning. The latest from my University:

Standing with my colleagues & friends at Macquarie Sociology tonight. Sociology has often been the conscience of this University, but planned job cuts will leave it vastly diminished. We will resist this, along with cuts affecting staff in other areas just as vital to Macquarie & Oz Higher Ed.

Peter Harcher says “The climate wars are over. And the Coalition lost.” If thats the case then the fossil fuel industry won Labor just approved a 45 year extension of Woodside. Not 5, or 10…45 The only transition in Australia is the transition towards expanded fossil fuel production

The Macquarie PhD scholarship on our new Climate Economy project is now open - working with me, @garethbryant.bsky.social Sophie Weber, @clairerhiannon.bsky.social & Svenja Keele. We'll explore how climate change remakes our political economy. Topic negotiable. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

ACTU statement on the appalling atrocities in Gaza

Can't wait to kick off this new project on Australia's Climate Economy with some very cool people. This post-doc will be based at Sydney Uni, and there will be a funded PhD scholarship based at Macquarie coming soon...

The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.

The UN has warned that 14,000 babies could die if Israel continues to block humanitarian aid in Gaza.  This would be utterly catastrophic. The Australian Government must take every action they can to pressure Netanyahu to stop.

A major corporate not being able to defend a claim that advertising around offsets breaches the misleading and deceptive conduct provisions of our main consumer law is a big deal.