The #Anthropocene is a street in the Netherlands. Clearly a multi-generational philosophical corner with Rene Descartes and Hippias

My latest article for @insidestory.bsky.social, thanks to Peter Browne, looks at Russia's drone attack on Poland and how it tests the boundaries of Europe. Will Europe and NATO be ready for the next 'incursion'? What dangers does it pose for both Europe & Ukraine? insidestory.org.au/russia-tests...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Guess what? The planet can't afford this "sport" either...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Classic AI story: take a shortcut (leave out the human) - get a quick, cheap "solution" that soon doesn't work. Only this time the "consultant" is stuck with the consequences. He's an idiot politician. The BigCon AI model is to be on the next job - elsewhere.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... This is a sports story @abcnewsbot.bsky.social (not F1) More like this please.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... So let's stop feeding the Formula 1 machine, @abcnewsbot.bsky.social Endless stories about this boring destructive un-sport. Not public interest. The public can't afford to go anyway. Just give the space to something less noisy instead ...

Value of Australia’s coal and gas exports will plunge 50% in five years, treasury modelling forecasts So why are we allowing Woodside to destroy cultural and natural heritage till 2070??? And subsidising the retreating investors????

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Weekend reading here!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... This is the same system used for camping in popular national parks. It is very unfair on people with poor internet services. But there is nowhere to queue in person for Vic Nat Parks. Online allocation looks good for the corp, terrible for the client.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Important report reflects pain felt in this sector. This ruthless management style is breaking students and staff alike. Let's start: reduce VC & allied pay to 'realistic' People are being promoted so that their departments can be now be shut down behind them.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/fashion... Selling small may be the future. The "annual clip" Big Biz model is broken. People want ethical & sustainable & much Big Biz isn't on the right scale for either.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Services to and from the National Capital are already very weak. This is yet another grab by Sydney of the independence of our nation's capital. Not much insight within Sydney about how Sydney-centrism annoys everyone else. 🤔

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Good work all including #AustralianHistoricalAssociation and wider History Community @iceho.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Worst case scenario from the options touted. Better than the crazy opposition offerings that are deeply unpopular. 30% of 🇦🇺 didn't vote for either Big Party. These voters want #ClimateActionNow (not deals with #Woodside). This is "just a number". Let's do better.

It is hard to take @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social seriously when he says things like this. Woodside's North West Shelf project will do nothing to support Australia's energy grid; is a very polluting project; and culturally destructive.

Shameless of the gambling industry’s peak body to try and leverage parliamentary sport and then also associate themselves with a local mental health group doing great working to prevent suicide. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ABC describe the former VC as the “first” to lose their job because of the ANU governance crisis. There seems to be a growing consensus that she should not be the last. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

A weekly round up of Nanna activities. There's a lot happening right now. knittingnannas.org/2025/09/16/n...

A landmark climate change risk report has provided a dire warning to Australia should the planet succumb to severe global warming, and the government is releasing its "lighter-touch" social media ban details today.

‘Cascading, compounding’: five key takeaways from Australia’s national climate risk assessment Important report released (finally) but they slipped through the Woodside approval till 2070 last Friday on the "trash" shift. @albomp.bsky.social must fund "risk",not leave to Vic, NSW #FireStormDrought

On heatwaves Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick says "nowhere is safe"... @anufennerschool.bsky.social

Lina Bryans' study of a deeply thoughtful Nina Christensen (part of the #NGA Cezanne to Giacometti exhibition in Canberra, last week) is a reminder of the deeply cultural roots of #Meanjin Surely we who care about culture & lit can rise above the accountants? @savemeanjin.bsky.social ??

There are wars, and rumours of more wars, but almost total neglect of what should be the most significant global battle: keeping the planet habitable, writes John Hewson. satpa.pe/OGsKDas

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... This adds to the regional poverty in the new BoM modelling - we used to "ground truth" with data from remote properties all over Australia. Now storm forecasts rely on satellite data from far away with no human checks. Connectivities on the ground are hard to find.

The Productivity Commission revealed that Australia has 20 per cent of the world’s pokies and, even more astonishingly, nearly 75 per cent of the world’s pokies in clubs and pubs. satpa.pe/wwDiQCB

The local and the global water stories explained here - but note England "low risk" has droughts too - caused by governance failures. Greedy privatised corp managers must not be allowed to add to #ClimateCrisis. #WaterJustice is part of the predicament, not "a different problem". Let's start here.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Really useful explainer about Climate change tipping points here! This is what I mentioned in Stavanger last week @wrigleyca.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

Good article here for anyone curious about what climate change looks like - when it’s just starting (and btw, WA’s Water Authority started preparing themselves in the 1980s, before the current political denial nonsense got fully underway) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... This is a #climate war. The fed gov approves the big mining deals (one till 2070 signed on Friday), the state pays for disaster relief. @albomp.bsky.social needs to help ALL states with Fire, Flood & Drought. Better still take some #ClimateActionNow

"I stood on the towering pile of Australian words we’d heaped up and surveyed the lexical horizon, looking for a patch of vacant turf which might yield enough words for a dictionary to write by myself." - Bernadette Hince niche-canada.org/2013/09/29/f... #envhum #antarctic #envhist

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... This one slipped out with the "trash" late on Friday... 🤔

inside.org.au/australias-n... @irynaskubii.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... The Chancellor is responsible too. But ANUreset must face the issue of WHERE the cuts shd fall. Arts, humanities and national institutions were all in the gun. All #ANU strengths. Unfair cuts & poor explanations cost $$$ to fix. @ouranu.bsky.social

ASEH Applications for Prizes, Fellowships, and Grants are now open! Deadline to submit is November 20, 2025. Please visit the ASEH website to learn more and apply: https:/aseh.org/Awards-&-Funding

insidestory.org.au/from-deserts... A reminder from Jim Davidson that we are a nation... not an economy.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Ghastly competitive race to moral turpitude. Esp on AI stolen from unpaid creatives ... Can we NOT have news like this? It is a health hazard.

drive.google.com/file/d/1e3Lh... A new way forward. Very good news Thanks @ouranu.bsky.social and team

A good change, but long overdue: “Other wildfire-prone nations, such as Canada, Greece and Australia, provide their firefighters with masks to prevent lung damage and smoke-related diseases . . . and have not seen increases in heat stroke among the crews.” www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position.

The ACT would be wrong to copy new election finance rules which have been proposed federally and in South Australia. Our research shows that a “reimbursement” model for public funding, as recommended by the ACT Electoral Commission, would favour wealthy incumbents at the expense of new entrants.

You don't have to be an expensive accountant to see that if universities need to save money they'd save a lot more by reducing annual corporate travel (even a little bit!) than cutting #Meanjin or #AustralianNationalDictionary @savemeanjin.bsky.social @ouranu.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m... This small cut in Melb Uni's mega-spending hardly saves any money... but will do *untold damage* to its international reputation. NOT a good public relations exercise for an institution that spent $$$ on travel & marketing last year.

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

theconversation.com/the-decision... Full on destruction all for the sake of "a rounding error"? Not just accounting in play here... @savemeanjin.bsky.social

"We think that the ANU community best knows how existing decisions have impacted them, and what principles and frameworks might be necessary to improve future governance outcomes," the Governance Project said. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906187...