The origins of neoliberalism, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, the Overton window, the Nobel Prize in economics, and cryptocurrencies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

With love and solidarity for Elders and all First Nations people today. #alwayswasalwayswillbe🖤💛❤️

Could Sydney’s creaking sewage system be linked to the spate of shark attacks?

Vigil Belong this Sunday 25.01.26 Barangaroo, Sydney 7.45pm. led by Uncle Mathew Doyle, Nardi Simpson, deadly legends, Elders, musicians & 300 singers amongst the HELD sculptures by Lucy Simpson. First Nations ceremony ahead of invasion day. It’s free! www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/vigil...

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Solidarity with Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah. We stand against this retrograde decision and with the countless authors withdrawing in support of Randa and her work.

“Writers perform a crucial national service. For this service they are underpaid and undervalued. The Adelaide Writers’ Week Festival has just made them pay the price for a problem they didn’t create." Read Leanne Minshull’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

The 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week has officially been cancelled. Well done to the Board of the Festival and the Premier of South Australia for this devastating outcome.

Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires

Considering Adelaide writers week, wonderful writers of conscience, the amount of paper in books & a talk I heard last year about the billions of trees we need to plant to get to Net zero. Festivals are resource intensive & Adelaide, a proud leader & traumatised by the algal bloom, could reimagine…

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

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

Warrior Louise Adler. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website. Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.

Delivering his first annual foreign policy speech, Pope Leo did not hold back in his criticism for the might-makes-right mentality of world leaders.

Gosh.

Oh look! In 2024, the Festival Board recognised that an international reputation for supporting artistic freedom of expression was worth protecting. (Note too that despite News Corp's desperate framing, Friedman was NOT uninvited from the 2024 Writers' Week)

My information is that this is an out and out lie. It's extraordinary that the SA Premier sees no problem trashing the reputation of one of the few organisations in his state that is internationally celebrated as a leader in its field. Don Dunstan must be turning in his grave.

Surgeon General Recommends Adding Cancer Warning To All Nuclear Bombs https://theonion.com/surgeon-general-recommends-adding-cancer-warning-to-all-nuclear-bombs/

We are not here to debate. We are here to dismantle. ICE’s violence is not “unfortunate.” It’s intentional. It’s deadly. This weekend — we gather to demand accountability — and to build power. #ICEOutForGood social.demcast.com/s/G9n7pPTc

Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds

Beautiful evening @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social for #Garabari #JoelBrayDance Sydney festival - one more show

Stay safe all those facing the immediate impacts of extreme weather and climate crisis today - through heat, flood, fire and cyclone. We must do more to prepare, mitigate, adapt and transition. #climateactionnow #culturematters

Forget Big Ben! Try Telford’s Frog Clock: why Hollywood should stop destroying the same old landmarks

Instead of highlighting "a" single voice, a more illuminating headline might focus on why 55 literary and journalistic luminaries felt it necessary to withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week and how Mali's mini-Minns antics trashed the reputation of one of his state's best assets.

Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

Adelaide Writers Festival has been a very important and special event - where ideas are explored and exchanged, free and in the public realm. It’s been my favourite festival until now… the real question is whether the Adelaide Festival Board will admit a mistake & make amends?

My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.

Fantastic piece by Alison Pennington and Michael Wright about the need to tax wealth more than we tax work. 💯 www.afr.com/policy/econo...

New Australia Institute polling reveals only 8% of Australians are genuinely convinced Australia “shares values” with Trump’s America. “It is past time Australia rethinks national security – and focuses on fairness and climate action, not blind fealty to America.’ @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

Doctors for the Environment Vs Woodside & NOPSEMA chuffed.org/project/1455...

"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change." - co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

🚨 In Newcastle today, Rising Tide painted “TAX ME” on a coal ship named Climate Justice, calling for a 78% fossil fuel profits tax to fund a just transition for workers + communities. Australia’s biggest polluters pay less tax than nurses. #RisingTide #ClimateJustice

Yesterday ARN media announced that the only women on Brisbane and Adelaide radio will be Jackie O supporting Kyle Sanderlands in their hour of power between 6-7pm . They have replaced all women with white men. #sexistmedia #racistmedia

Albo sells out First Nations protocols & concerns for environmental disaster in a mining deal with fascist USA leader! Shame @australianlabor.bsky.social ignoring deepening climate crisis to maintain a broken economic system. @climate200.bsky.social @larissawaters.bsky.social pls create alt plans

Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties

Panel rethinking food, climate & innovation in a crisis age @sxswsydney a bit stuck in market model & gap between consumers dream & do - climate crisis not driving sales. Projections of middle class growth didn’t seem informed by growing disasters. Good news = farmers collaborating with lab food !

Paul Feig talks comedy movies, women comedians, commercial success and hanging onto the heart of your ideas @sxswsydney.com today 💡

I am a co-conveners of the #CulturalGardeners - Australian cultural alliance for climate justice. On Friday we made a submission to the Govt’s review of the #Revive cultural policy demanding that climate crisis be added as context. artsfront.com/action/22393...

I am a co-conveners of the #CulturalGardeners - Australian cultural alliance for climate justice. On Friday we made a submission to the Govt’s review of the #Revive cultural policy demanding that climate crisis be added as context. artsfront.com/action/22393...

Wet day for the Palestine March on Gadigal Land #saynotogenocideinGaza

www.facebook.com/share/16EmzZ...? Please show up for our native forests tomorrow and all the threatened creatures that need them. Please…

Crisis at Creative Australia deepens: * 3,000 artists sign petition calling for Khaled Sabsabi's reinstatement * all-staff meeting today told the Board would override peer review again * panel that made the decision to select Khaled Sabsabi "deeply concerned" www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Absolute nonsense from @abcnewsbot.bsky.social and @tourismaustralia.bsky.social that bird watching is a ‘green’ contribution to the economy. Heavy reliance on flights - a concentrated use of fossil fuels, makes this another green nature wash for destructive emissions & behaviour. #climateactionnow

Such an hour to sing with Baraygal choir in Australian Parliament today on the 17th anniversary of The Apology to First Nations people Stolen Generations. Still happening now. #alwayswasalwayswillbe🖤💛❤️