Never feel more alive than when I'm teaching my 16 year old to drive on the open road.

Everyday I think back to this headline

Not travelling light- my Herzog visit cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

See Mona Rudolph & Nina Kleinöder's introduction to the upcoming special issue 'Business and Labour in German Colonialism', currently #FreeAccess : doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Build Neo-Hahndorf. High speed O-Bahns. Liam Hogan Thought will endure!

Exciting news!!! The CFP for the 2026 AHA Conference has been extended! Missed out on submitting an abstract? You've now got until 20 February -- two whole extra weeks! We can't wait to see you at Macquarie University in July -- head to the website for all the details! theaha.org.au/aha-conferen...

Not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia explored as option in US congressional report

Morning. ☕️

AUKUS fails its medical. A second opinion is needed. Time to review the real costs of AUKUS. #auspol www.theage.com.au/national/let...

Wird @aussenminister.diplo.de Wadephul @diplo.de vorher das Buch des australischen Historikers Prof. Matthew Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social über die kolonialen Ambitionen Deutschlands im Pazifik lesen? Und Verantwortung für koloniales Unrecht übernehmen?

#auspol #Australia

“ANZUS is all about the security of the state. It is totally uninterested in the security or the welfare of the people,” writes @emmashortis.bsky.social, International & Security Affairs Director at The Australia Institute. Read Dr Emma Shortis’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/49MlI4H

David Pope in Canberra Times

And not only the US. It serves a fairly nefarious purpose too. The technocratic subtext is 'stop trying to understand the society you live in.'

"In north-west Victoria, Mildura experienced just six individual days above 45°C between 1946 and 2000. This month there have been four already, and today another 45°C day is expected." Welcome to The Future, kids.

Big update today! I have not only updated the SA politics tracker, but created TWO new ones for the upcoming state election, a tracker for candidates and a policy tracker! I'll provide each as a link below, please feel free to share them around! #saparli #auspol

“The AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point. And yet here we are.” - Greg Jericho Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp

In this article @rosaburc.bsky.social explains why the recent attacks on Rojava aim to erase the Kurdish political subject. Read the whole article on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

Might be time to hive Nats off to One Nation, while the Libs court the teals.

Ok so advocating genocide is fine (exempt) under the hate speech laws but criticising the guy responsible for genocide is an offence. 👌

Just a quick last minute Maccas run, folks. Nothing to worry about.

Carney: Now is the time of monsters Albo: Nuclear subs and obsequiousness forever!

Can anyone imagine Albo offering a speech like Mark Carney's?

If I was a Russian operative directing US foreign policy, I would deliberately generate a crisis on NATO's western flank, so as to muddy the waters and divert troops and resources away from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.

SA premier ‘fundamentally opposed’ Randa Abdel-Fattah appearing at Adelaide writers’ week, letter to board shows www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“The UK saw Australia as a rich dummy that will basically subsidise their creaky submarine program,” says former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. satpa.pe/gFdqq68

The Adelaide Festival Corporation Board successfully putting Adelaide on the map of Deutsche Welle: www.dw.com/en/australia...

I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

Adelaide Festival is done - and the rest of the board has stepped down

"Colleagues in the arts, beware of the future." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Read more: satpa.pe/wB3FyYn

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

These writers have dropped out of the Adelaide Festival in support of Randa Abdel-Fattah. Buy their books and support them if you can

Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard

A dreadful decision. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Maybe go with 'kidnapped in contravention of and with flagrant disregard for international law' just for clarity's sake.

2/ ~old jk is best jk~

The Australian government must unequivocally condemn the lawless aggression of the US if its position in the international community is to be taken seriously.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

My most uncontroversial opinion is that a pitch shouldn't yield 20 wickets on the first day of a test.

Excellent new article on labour history & (pre) colonial Samoa. "The Bankruptcy of the ‘South Sea Kings’: Plantation Business, Labour Recruitment and German Politics in the Western Pacific, 1870s and 1880s" www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...

„Returning to Samoa – The Appropriation and Restitution of a Samoan Prow: Germany, Colonialism and the Current Restitution Debate“ @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/tr...

This chart shows complete failure.

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

Shattering. Horrific. Despicable.

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Just brushing up on the latest definitions of piracy in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.