We're through the looking glass here people

No, Dick, projections for 2100 show Australia’s population will reach 43.1 million not your ridiculous figure. Please stop with the scaremongering. population.gov.au/sites/popula...

Obesity doesn’t equate to ill health www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm joining Vogue Australia in their upcoming #VogueCodes event! You can still nab some (but very limited) tickets. Join me in Sydney on 13/6 alongside trailblazing women! www.vogue.com.au/vogue-codes/...

Declining birth rates, why we should really worry. theconversation.com/birth-rates-...

Great excitement back when I was a gal and it reached 12 million.

Australia’s population clock has ticked over 28 million www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...

FECCA conference | Navigating Change, Shaping Australia
Many stories, One future fecca2026.com.au

‘…investment in data centre equipment, specifically server racks and processing equipment, significantly boosting overall investment figures…builds on a similar spike in data centre investment recorded [last quarter]’ www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

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Today marks the beginning of bargaining for a new workplace agreement at ANU. Meeting at 1:30pm today to endorse the log of claims. Here's to a new start! @nteuact.bsky.social

#Census2026au is coming 11/8. Australia’s audit office assessed readiness of the statistics office to guard against cyber weakness. Four recommendations were made concerning risk management, preparation & infrastructure. ABS has agreed to recommendations. www.anao.gov.au/work/perform...

USA has well and truly gone to the dogs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Please don’t stuff this up 🙏🏼 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Playing peekaboo with climate change won’t make kids less anxious

lol 5yos panicking about climate change and they* want to stop teaching kids science. Dear reader, kids start school at about 5. Schools aren’t indoctrinating kids w/ climate dread, it’s happening way before that. PS closing your eyes doesn’t make climate change go away. *IPA

It’s women getting shafted after becoming mothers…. That why the birth rate is dropping. Globally. It’s the toxic patriarchy, stupid!

These findings are astonishingly damning and bleak: "I am exhausted. I feel like I'm in survival mode all the time. I don't really feel like I'm living life." As @drdemography.com says so trenchantly: "We require structural change"

Sure as a Kudelka tea towel it's that time again.. #auspol

if you want to make a submission, which can be short, personal, here are the details www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

A great read! ❤️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

"Senior leadership refuses to accept there is a crisis in the sector." Then maybe the sector should refuse to accept senior leadership? 🤔 Ask me about a little case study called #ANU.

Lovely piece highlighting the work of ANU colleague (and great) Mary Lou Rasmussen #IDAHOBIT reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

It’s that time again. Let’s play population bingo!

TL;DR No, one migrant / one house migration policy won’t work. Targeting non-voters to progress populist policy fails to address the key issue: Australians are feeling left behind; that’s not a migration issue that’s an inequality problem.

Net overseas migration (NOM) and the migration program are very different things. NOM is flows of people & used in population counts, it includes Australians, NZers, temporary, permanent, others. Migration program reflects number of permanent intake. theconversation.com/factcheck-is...

I’m loving all the rich people tears #auspol #budget

I’ve been an academic for 20 years and have yet to meet a student who works for award wage and also puts “most of her pay into index fund ETFs”. This is AI generated—but that’s not the problem. The problem is using a *deliberately* inaccurate scenario to complain about CGT changes you don’t like

Late last year I was among the first to apply for and get a spot in the government’s help-to-buy scheme. After 10 rentals in 25 years, including social housing support, I bought a home. It’s a humble home perfectly suited to my family’s needs. I NEVER dreamed I’d ever own a home.

Encouraging to see the bursts of bravery in the government’s budget. Tackling housing is a bold and welcome move. Remember: it’s hard to govern and shepherd an angry electorate.

Congratulations Alicia Payne MP, @davidpocock.bsky.social, Aurora, Ian Chubb, @drdemography.com & Thomas Emerson MLA on standing up for #ANU staff! Once again we have staff at the mercy of ANU's governance failures. 😡

A woman pregnant with twins sleeping rough gives birth and one of her babies dies. This is a damning indictment of the myriad failures facing Australians doing it tough. It’s simply not ok. Love to this mum and family. 💔 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.

As an ANU outsider, but someone deeply focussed on what’s happening in the sector, this is really useful. I share the NTEU’s support for TEQSA’s involvement in the process to appoint the next Chancellor. Prof. Peter Coaldrake who will oversee the process will bring sector expertise & impartiality

Politics and population panic driving student visa stupidity www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

An excellent explainer from @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social. Please take the time to learn what’s really happening @ouranu.bsky.social.

I’m so sorry, Kumanjayi Little Baby. 💔

Something you might have missed - today is ATEC's first full day of operations. I spoke to Barney Glover this morning about the commission's work on whole-of-system university reform. Its a piece of unambiguously good news, imo. #ausnews #auspol

Qld lawmaker says people with addiction should simply exercise, as the government cuts vital services for people with substance use disorders www.cairnspost.com.au/subscribe/ne...

Straight women scrolling through Instagram to find a decent photo when you ask to see their crush

But I’m sure the “listening process with senior leadership” will fix everything, because THEY have also been doing such a bang-up job the past few years. 👍

ANU governing body can’t be trusted to fulfil one of its most basic of functions, it seems based on the regulator’s moves. Council members must resign.

RSL bowing to woke, cancel culture pressure.

Apart from everything else it’s clearly AI slop that gets the flag wrong.

Don’t get excited. He doesn’t apologise or recognise the foulness of their fat shaming, disability discriminating, poverty hating jokes. He just reflects on the toll on him. FFS. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The cloud is made of concrete pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

Whistleblowers being treated worse than a fella accused of being a serial killer. Straya. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

New Zealand is on the forefront of end of the night drunk food innovation

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There is something peak arsehole about booing acknowledgment of country at a dawn service. The festering heart of what ails this place.