I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did. We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.

A former Deputy Prime Minister within a week of the worst terrorist attack Australia’s experienced in a generation… And he can behave like this because Australia’s political media rewards the behaviour.

Australia is a racist nation. Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined an anti-immigration rally at Prince Albert Park in Sydney thenightly.com.au/politics/bar...

The world sees Australia: an antisemitic atrocity; a zombie ex-PM lurches out of his Jason recliner to cancel out his previous, one-off moral stance for better gun laws; dull-witted racists plan to assemble, fomented by neo-Nazis & whingeing egotists Hanson & Joyce. All the would-be dividers.

Anti-immigration rallies planned for day of remembrance. If there was ever any doubt these rallies were about intolerance, here’s your evidence. #bondibeach www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

Even fictitious cartoon dogs find it easier to get promoted to professor than women

Kissing. Why? ‘It's quite risky — you're literally swapping saliva, and we know we can get ill from that.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Fewer people are coming to Australia and more people are leaving, latest data shows.

Net overseas migration down, latest data for Australia reveals. Decline driven by decrease in arrivals and increase in departures. www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

Just heard about a friend’s (white) adult son out with his (brown) mate at night this week, and a random bloke has bowled up and started abusing the brown mate for being Muslim (he is, but no obvious sign). Friend’s son tells him to “F-off racist” and the bloke punches him. Only 1 kind of hatred?

If only the Trump administration was as concerned about gun culture as it is about ‘woke’ culture. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A tax on condoms to increase birth rates? What could possibly go wrong?! time.com/7340374/chin...

glad the kids aren’t on the socials just so they can’t see how lame the adults are at adulting 😭 bsky.app/profile/keta...

what the hell, i'm dying

Since claims that Europe is in danger of “civilisational erasure” are in the news, recommend checking out this book on great replacement ideologies. Covers their long history and how they are currently being mainstreamed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is the whole reason the social media ban was introduced. To get friendly front pages. Labor is just a giant focus group in a trenchcoat.

‘Noticeable increase’ in calls to Kids Helpline **due to** social media ban www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

When Crikey’s @cameronwilson.bsky.social asked Anika Wells what “success” with the teen social media ban will look like to her, the minister struggled to answer.

A country of teenagers suddenly going cold turkey. Wonder how this will pan out. Probably best to steer clear of malls for a week or two.

@markgkenny.bsky.social on the Albanese's govt's failure to act beyond election promises: "We have distortions in the property market getting worse... but we're not going to address negative gearing & capital gains tax concessions. We're going to talk about immigration." #HousingCrisis #auspol

Absolutely stunning to see Australia's teen social media ban rushed through while every single government, educational institution and probably a huge number of parents are frantically force-injecting chatbot slop into the mind of every single child in the country without a second's hesitation

This is really something! Yikes. www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...

PM tells young Aussies to read a book…maybe his government should have read the research! ‘safety by design can have an impact. The only thing missing is the will to implement it.’ theconversation.com/banning-kids...

The sledgehammer social media ban is so, so lazy.

Great Grattan 🔥❤️‍🔥 theconversation.com/view-from-th...

Has anyone been approved for the new Australian help to buy scheme?

“I think that if we, as politicians, expect respect from the Australian public, clearly we’ve got to respect them.” PM (2015) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

University councils can no longer be a law unto themselves - @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social www.canberratimes.com.au/story/912904...

That's how I can square last minute rebooking of flights at great cost shortly after the Optus triple zero outage. They didn't consider the "I don't hold a hose mate" factor because it was showcasing a News corp campaign (here she is mentioning it in her first UN doorstop comments)

I have been thinking about this in the context of the US flight trips that are in focus of some parts of the media. That whole UN trip was catered to favourable news coverage from News Corp papers that have campaigned for the ban so I expect they weren't thinking it'd turn on them.

Australia’s world-first under-16s social media ban will damage young people’s political education theconversation.com/the-under-16...

A whole lot of not thinking things through with this policy. Pretty much assumes everyone is a middle-upper class white, straight teenager with no issues living in a city www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia’s social media ban comes out of the cult of self-help books. Dodgy research and rich false gods preaching about the ills of contemporary society. Yet structural issues aren’t addressed. Australia, this is embarrassing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Among many other things, the entire teen social ban saga is a brilliant example of how shitty, badly-researcher airport books can have shockingly outsized influence www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Bless IBCK www.ifbookspod.com

Australia’s social media ban fails to consider so many aspects of parenting and childhood, let alone fixing structural problems of online platforms. Disability and disadvantage are key issues ignored by the ban. Shocking policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Denied pregnancy care and threatened with prosecution: in the wake of widespread abortion bans, across the United States prosecutors have launched more than 400 cases charging people with crimes related to their pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth or birth.

Australia's new national AI plan has an “opportunity first” approach to capitalise on the "productivity" and "innovation" that AI apparently delivers. The plan rejects the mandatory protective guardrails that were included in the standalone AI act proposed by former industry minister Ed Husic 🧵

‘In a telling irony, a report about transparency had been denied transparency. That the government felt relaxed about such obvious secrecy and then about retaining what are clearly flawed processes, is a bad sign.‘ - ⁦ @markgkenny.bsky.social www.canberratimes.com.au/story/912810...

Defending Country’s review of my recent article with coauthors Paul Turnbull, Cressida Fforde and Jocelyn Bardot www.defendingcountry.au/news/there-i...

Fresh call for a baby bonus payment to increase fertility in Australia is ludicrous. Don’t forget we got the baby bonus because the conservative government refused to give us what we wanted: paid maternity leave. Fix housing, economic security, gender inequality, and the climate.

Baby bonus? Yeah, nah. Families need way more than a tiny splash of cash at birth. "You men in easy chairs say ‘populate or perish’. Well, I have populated and I have perished – with no blankets.” #auspol theconversation.com/population-p...

The article I wrote with Gemma Carey has been placed in an issue, so one last promotion: dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol...

Australia’s social media ban doesn’t solve the structural problem of harmful platforms - it simply slaps a bandaid on a monumental wound. And while we’re on catastrophic wounds. $100k!! For ordinary Australians it’s a house deposit. Out of touch much FFS! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Same

Australian National University abandons plan to axe the School of Music after public pressure www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

No job allows poor performance without accountability, outside a dictatorship. This is what’s happening on government boards: unchecked poor performance and potentially problematic behaviour. Ordinary ppl answer to a boss; privileged ppl answer to no one. www.apsc.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Time to appoint a reform commission composed of blokes from the rowing club.

The Albanese govt sat on this report for TWO YEARS, and then only released it after parliament finished for the year. The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol