Beyond Books: How Libraries Are Becoming the New Urban Living Rooms www.outlinesforum.org/beyond-books...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Human rights belong to all Australians

www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i... Congratulations Newcastle on this wonderful investment in the Arts

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi... Seven of the ten books were by Irish writers

Great result

Police overreaching again

A short film about endometriosis has won a BAFTA, bringing much needed visibility to the disabling condition. Endometriosis and adenomyosis robbed me of years of my life. Countless surgeries, blood transfusions and hospital stays. Doctors saying it was “no big deal”. It’s a very big deal:

John Banville is a hit-and-miss author for me and this one is a miss. Judges who longlisted it for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction thought otherwise! anzlitlovers.com/2026/02/24/v...

The dogs resting while I drink a coffee and idle on social media

I updated The Cage Gauge today — my ranked list of every Nicolas Cage movie ever made. Now at 110 films! I think I’m the only person in the world who’s seen and written about all of them. If that’s wrong and there’s somebody else out there…shame on you, weirdo. www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... AI in Education (Australia)

open.substack.com/pub/heterose... This is excellent from Patrick Lenton

Yeah I loved this when it came out. Still holds up

youtube.com/watch?v=HL3K... Pathetic Pauline Hanson spouts hatred and intolerance every day no one seems to care

Do you have a new library built and opened between 1 January and 31 December of 2025? Then why not apply for @ifla.org Public #Library of the Year Award - applications open! www.ifla.org/g/public-lib...

I’m glad he understood the gesture

oh no, audiences will be devastated. they love KPMG's logo

"Usually in a book of essays there are some that don’t work...This is not the case with this splendid volume. All are interesting and raise important issues across a wide spectrum." Braham Dabscheck reviews Dennis Altman's Righting My World: newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/dennis-altma... #BookSky 💙 📚

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f... A very good dog

Easier to say 55 million sorry’s than to ask permission in the first place. #AusPol #DiversityLoss #Mining #CapitalismSucks

I really don’t like Tim Wilson

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe... Such a fun movie

🎧New episode of the Info Pro Podcast! Bodleian librarian Richard Ovenden joins Rob Green to talk Libraries Alliance, advocacy and need for a workforce with the skills to navigate the digital landscape. Like, share & subscribe. Listen now on your favourite platform or at: https://ow.ly/FbzY50YcJA3

Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation – here’s how to build the skill theconversation.com/deep-reading...

The Liberals should just call themselves the Anglo Saxon party. It signifies centuries of tradition and lets multicultural Australians know exactly what values they stand for

Boz Scaggs released his seventh studio album ‘Silk Degrees’ (1976) 50 years ago this week | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @tenelson65.bsky.social here: album.ink/BSSilkDegrees

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Quite the story about body building and steroids

Australia to design its first National Media Literacy Strategy to help Australians build the skills needed to navigate the challenges and opportunities of the digital world

on the NSW SC decision to not overturn Major Event declaration by NSW Tourism Minister. As Wendy Bacon shows, the decision turns on judicial deference to police (assumed officers act reasonably) and judicial interpretation of a political event as “cultural”. michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...

Lest we forget

open.substack.com/pub/andrewne... I enjoyed this from @pulpcurry.bsky.social on Year of the Dragon which I loved when I first saw it and watched again recently

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... How embarrassing for Minns as he continues to defend the indefensible

new police version of what police did to Muslims praying at Town Hall just dropped. This is why we never believe what police say, and why the dominant media culture of Police Say reporting is both grotesquely irresponsible and intentionally spreads disinformation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Frida and Flora on the sofa with me

There is something rotten in the state of NSW under Premier Minns and both these articles from the SMH are worth a read

As a first generation Australian whose parents migrated here, this doesn’t sit well with me. However it is also financial sense that immigration provides a net positive economic impact over the medium to long term to Australia

Mischievous me wishes that Susan Ley would step aside and Dan Tehan step up to deny Angus his chance for the poisoned chalice

Oh I knew I had this somewhere…from when he visited the Sydney Writers Festival many years ago… #CeesNooteboom

Absolutely huge crowd in Melbourne right now. People from all backgrounds, ages and professions - united in opposition to genocide and war. This is what social cohesion looks like.

I went out before today's Herzog protest at Parliament and saw this massive police surveillance tower. This is completely unnecessary, and intimidating, at a peaceful protest. Police need to be protecting protesters, not snooping on them, or attacking them.

Very unexpected and welcome news! QUT will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane. www.qut.edu.au/about/meanjin

I mean, we're in Brisbane!

Excellent

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Phones in schools - The UK experience