Happy AFR power list day to all who celebrate sycophantic bullshit journalism.

Just a humble Harvard law professor who doesn't really know anything about Kissinger's career.

A non-fungible shared office space. How incredibly embarrassing.

Not a single one of them prepared to be named. Total cowards, both the MPs and the Guardian.

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

Never has a ‘sut da fuk up’ response been more justified.

Portishead - ‘Roads’ 2025 – Together For Palestine holy fuck (free Palestine)

Such a great piece. “In its doddering senescence, the capitalist war machine is no less murderous than fascism was—witness the millions of Muslims killed by the United States and Israel since 2001—but it has considerably lower production values.”

RIP John Martinkus. 'Martinkus made his name reporting on conflict. He was the first and last journalist covering East Timor’s brutal struggle for independence, and went on to cover Iraq, Afghanistan, Aceh, Burma and West Papua. He died on Sunday in Melbourne, aged 56.' archive.md/pFXkv

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Reposting this for no particular reason www.themonthly.com.au/may-2025/ess...

Australian media and politicians have taken a huge interest in an overseas figure the vast majority of their constituents would have never heard of prior to September 10, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.

Helping.

If I was a delusional rich guy trying to sell my book about how everything is fine, I’d probably try to get endorsements from at least one person who’s not part of the self-satisfied political establishment and partly responsible for the mess we’re in.

Great work from Antony Loewenstein. youtu.be/DfK10unkiGw

Guessing the journalist used AI to find out when Orwell published his two most famous books.

Spot on. open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...

Bishop needs to go as well. There is no sensible governance arrangement where she gets to lead appointing a new VC. A new Chancellor / Chair and then a deep breath followed by a proper process to appoint a new VC / CEO needed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I’m obviously no fan of Price, but the scolding she’s facing from the same kinds of morons who hyped her as a future PM is really quite something.

Opinion | Melbourne University Press says it shut down Meanjin for "purely financial reasons". Perhaps the university could have used some of its $273 million surplus to safeguard the seminal journal, @catrionamp.bsky.social‬ writes.

Lol, this guy is such a freak. “She could have been radiating the sort of maternal warmth that women her age often do…” Ok, calm down Leunig.

My latest for SRB. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bast...

This is why it doesn't make sense to make decisions about culture on "purely financial grounds" (quote from a university administrator). Meanjin is a critical part of Australian literary culture, an outrage it is being shuttered so unceremoniously.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Contemptible response.

Could this campaign get any more embarrassing? You lost, move on.

I'm attempting my first and last marathon this weekend in Sydney, and raising some money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Please chip in if you can. sm25.grassrootz.com/ilf/dominic-...

Wasn’t aware of this Gornick/Kristol connection.

Opinion | Labor was scathing of the Job Ready Graduates scheme when it was introduced under Scott Morrison. So why hasn't Anthony Albanese scrapped it?

I'm attempting my first and last marathon this weekend in Sydney, and raising some money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Please chip in if you can. sm25.grassrootz.com/ilf/dominic-...

Counterpoint: no it won’t.

Here’s my Gordian Knot solution: ignore Matt Yglesias

We need to address the real drag on Australia’s productivity: too many people wasting time talking about productivity.

One of the most annoying things about this dumb series is how everyone thinks their suburb is a secret place unknown to the rest of Melbourne. It’s not. Shut the fuck up.

Incredibly powerful op-ed written by Randa Abel-Fattah that everyone needs to read. It’s being published by @deepcutnews.bsky.social after The Age commissioned it then spiked it.

A cowardly pre-emptive move by Bendigo Writers' Festival to avoid claims of antisemitism has ended in disaster, and it's not hard to see why, @marquelawyers.com.au writes. Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/1...

Nonsense email from the Vice-Chancellor.

Queensland Music Awards

NGA covering Palestinian flags in a tapestry

Monash University Museum of Art

Starting a list of our cultural institutions that have self-harmed in order to appease Zionists. Please add at your leisure. - ABC - Creative Australia - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Sydney Theatre Co - National Gallery of Vic - State Library of Vic - State Library of Qld - Bendigo Writers Fest

It is hard to explain to people who are not in academia just how openly management demonstrate their contempt for regular teaching and professional staff.

“unnecessary inconvenience” hey? You’re so close to a revelation here.

La Trobe leadership covering itself in glory yet again.

The greedy AMA and ideologues like Terry Barnes favour handouts to the private health insurance scam over simply investing in the public system. Fuck off.

Broken Britain. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Did I miss Robert Skidelsky going off the deep end?

First it was Creighton using it to provide backing for the great replacement theory, now this dipshit on net zero. I guess it’s just a genre of right-wing journalism now.