Michael Winkler
@micwink.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg. michaelwinkler.com.au
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That guy Maks
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Rex Patrick
5 days ago
The perpetrators of the 2004 spying on
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maritime boundary negotiating team have asked Attorney-General Michelle Rowland to issue a ‘secrecy certificate’ over why they say they shouldn’t have to confess to the sordid gas theft crime everyone knows they facilitated.
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#NoTruth
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Rival Image
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Disciple of the
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school of cleaning: "There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years, the dirt doesn't get any worse."
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If you're in Sydney or you can get to Sydney or you've ever visited Sydney or you've heard of Sydney or you know someone who knows someone called Sidney, love to see you at the legendary Better Read than Dead on the 15th.
www.betterreadevents.com/events/micha...
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Michael Winkler In Conversation with Giacomo Bianchino | Better Read Events
https://www.betterreadevents.com/events/michael-winkler-in-conversation-with-giacomo-bianchino
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦
15 days ago
Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.
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Another quixotic Upswell title. Clara Brack's memoir of her parents takes risks and provides interest.
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Alice Grundy
13 days ago
Last change to apply for a 2027 Anne Kantor Fellowship at the Australia Institute. Along the lines of a grad program, this is a chance to work with some of Australia's leading thinkers, working to change minds. Applications close midnight, 1 June.
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How to apply
https://www.annekantorfellowship.org.au/how_to_apply
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Stephen Wright
21 days ago
There was actually a good plan put in place for Lismore post flood! Return north & south Lismore to wetlands, buy everybody out, shift the CBD. The Fed govt were on board, the Reconstruction Authority said, 'We're gonna do this'. Minns was elected & deliberately walked away from it.
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A rich Melbourne teenager has become one of the almost 14,000 people to climb Everest. Wall-to-wall media coverage. News value close enough to zilch.
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That guy Maks
22 days ago
With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below
mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...
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Olga Tokarczuk zapowiada ostatnią powieść w karierze: „Pisanie długich opowieści jest dziś ekonomicznie nieopłacalne”
Czy w świecie powszechnego pędu i pośpiechu jest jeszcze miejsce na duże, wymagające opowieści? Olga Tokarczuk wyraża obawę, że ta era dobiegła końca. Dlatego najnowszą powieść, uważa za ostatnią w ka...
https://mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga-tokarczuk-zapowiada-ostatnia-powiesc-w-karierze-pisanie-dlugich-opowiesci-jest-dzis-ekonomicznie-nieoplacalne/20717
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Stephanie Convery
24 days ago
Forgive me for sharing this again, but the Kyle Hudson inquest was incredibly affecting – and revealing – about the depth of harm gambling can cause to a young man with no adverse circumstances, the info betting companies have, and crucially, what they do with it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/16/how-betting-firms-watched-melbourne-man-gamble-before-his-death-gambling-inquest-laws
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Yumna Kassab: Goodbye, My Love
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Andrew Roff
28 days ago
I don't want to alarm anyone, but Wayne Marshall's historical/literary/speculative romp, Henry Goes Bush, is at large and roaming the countryside. Track down a copy however you can.
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Grateful to the National Library for inclusion in their new book Postscript: Life, Love and Loss in Australian Letters.
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Standing room only at today's launch of Henry Goes Bush by the newest Bard of Bacchus Marsh, Wayne Marshall. (Peter Carey and Frank Hardy can shuffle along a spot.)
about 1 month ago
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No-one ever has made a better book launch entrance. Congrats
@drkerryjewell.bsky.social
you kooky thing.
about 1 month ago
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Maks, from you, this means so much. A privilege to be read so well. Thanks.
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Caustic Cover Critic
about 1 month ago
New Patrick deWitt cover is an excellent Stephen Shore photograph, unfortunately slightly dulled from familiarity through previous use:
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Joel S.
about 1 month ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the answer to this is "No."
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Alice Grundy
about 1 month ago
🧵In their sub to the Inquiry into the taxation on gas resources, INPEX has a section entitled "the PRRT system is working as designed". The execs repeated this line under questioning last week. So what does "working as designed" look like?
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Submissions
Submissions
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Taxation_of_Gas_Resources/TaxationofGasResources/Submissions
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Dorian Stuber
about 1 month ago
This is actually our motto, but it doesn’t fit on the bookmarks
@leviathanbookstore.bsky.social
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Yung En Chee
about 2 months ago
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Nick Feik
about 2 months ago
Albanese’s incrementalism would be better characterised as homeopathism
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Albanese poised to kill off move to increase taxes on gas giants
The government will not increase taxes on gas giants in next month's budget, echoing the industry's argument that exporters are already paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-23/anthony-albanese-poised-to-kill-off-increased-tax-on-gas-giants/106598932
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Jennifer Mills
about 2 months ago
One time he won a literary prize and not being in particular need of the money, he found out which was the poorest public school in the state, asked them what they needed, and bought them a school bus. It’s possible to be both a great writer and a good person. Vale.
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Nick Feik
about 2 months ago
Let them eat nuclear submarines
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Taking Griefdogg to where it was written and set. Tell your Mallee mates! Raising bucks for the mighty Mildura Writers Festival.
events.humanitix.com/michael-wink...
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Michael Winkler: Griefdogg
Join us for a conversation about a new novel set in Mildura, written by Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Michael Winkler, interviewed by Donata Carrazza.
https://events.humanitix.com/michael-winkler-griefdogg-mildura
about 2 months ago
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Loved this book. Best known as a printmaker, but what a perceptive, stylish writer. For books about Aussies in 1960s London, I'll take this over Clive James any day.
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A.Valliard
about 2 months ago
We should all write a novel called something like “The Invisible Metallurgist of Accidental Regrets” or “The Afternoon Society of Disconsolate Ferrymen” and retire to a vineyard in Crete.
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FROVO
about 2 months ago
DAIRY FARMER: do you have a milkmaid OTHER DAIRY FARMER: yes but you don’t know her she goes to an udder stool
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Pup Fiction
about 2 months ago
BREAKING Angus Taylor deletes AI generated post of himself as Tony Abbott resurrecting John Howard’s immigration policy. “I thought it just depicted me as a racist”
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Elias Greig
about 2 months ago
The anti-migrant sentiment being expressed by a terrifyingly large number of people across the political spectrum has, ultimately, very little to do with the behaviour of actual migrants, and everything to do with anxieties around defending and maintaining white supremacy in the settler colony.
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Loved the chance to chat to two of the sharpest brains around. Many thanks, Pat and Tim
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Tim Dunlop
2 months ago
Also has trouble with fair pay and poetry
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benjamin
2 months ago
If Matt fucking Canavan makes you look like a simp for genocide maybe it's time you fuck the fuck off
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If you're in Canberra or know someone else who is, love to say gidday on Friday.
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Operation Eric Furry
2 months ago
The Bangles really didn't land the follow-up.
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Nick Feik
2 months ago
Has the president suggested injecting bleach into the strait of Hormuz yet
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AusPoast
2 months ago
Under a proposed gambling shakeup, children will only be able to access their Sportsbet accounts at recess and after school.
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Tim Dunlop
2 months ago
Ahab spots Trump
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Magabala Books
2 months ago
🌈 Announcing the Magabala Pride Fellowship 🌈 In partnership with Pride Foundation Australia, the Fellowship will award $10,000 to a First Nations storyteller to dedicate time to developing or completing a manuscript. 📅 Applications close 24 April 2026 👉 Apply now:
bit.ly/4tjK50s
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Mueller, She Wrote
2 months ago
Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow.
#TDOV
#ProtectTheDolls
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Intrigued by this ambitious novel by Johanna Bell. Elastic, innovative approach to storytelling. And Jo Hunt should win all the book design awards. (Transit Lounge)
2 months ago
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Plashing Vole
2 months ago
Join a monastery they said. Quiet contemplation they said. Now we know where Douglas Adams’s Electric Monk came from.
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Chris Somerville
2 months ago
when you get up to the short story the collection is named after
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I had the time of my life at the Griefdogg launch. Thanks everyone who braved the rain to attend. Thanks to my mates who performed a song we wrote for the night, Michael Heyward and Robert Skinner who spoke, MC Silas Moir and my choir buddies. Now going to hide away a while and think about it all.
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Liz Duck-Chong 🇵🇸
3 months ago
In case you didn’t know, the new Harry Potter show directly funds anti-trans work - if that’s not aligned with your values, maybe it’s time to stop engaging with the franchise and show your trans siblings some love! 🏳️⚧️❤️
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Mark Walsh
3 months ago
The man sitting next to me on the bus told me that he has started to memorise poems to improve his memory. He then recited the longest poem I’ve ever heard. So long in fact, that I had to say that we were at my stop, even though we were nowhere near it. I walked home in the pouring rain.
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All welcome, bring your mates.
3 months ago
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The legend Chong, outside Brunswick Bound bookshop.
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Reading Alan Fyfe's rollicking 'The Cross Thieves' and he refers to May Wirth, the trickrider. She must have been something to see.
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