Voices Under Fire: Stories from Gaza Join me at this event on 6 November to bear witness to the lives of Gazans experiencing genocide.  For one night, we'll come together as a community to read the poetry and first-hand accounts of Palestinians who have had to flee their homeland, those who have…

Oh I missed this yesterday - ABC will finally have a China correspondent again, 5 years after Bill Birtles was forced out. Allyson Horn is the new Beijing corro. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Also we've got an online panel this Thursday on what the media landscape will look like leading up to the SA state election next year. Speakers are Pas Forgione (APNSA), Rebecca Tooher (@sacoss.bsky.social) and journo @waltermarsh.bsky.social Thu 28 Aug, 12-1pm SA time via Zoom, DM for the link

Calling change-makers in Adelaide: We're running free media spokesperson training in Sept/Oct! Interested? Apply before Tue 26 Aug: www.tfaforms.com/4896630

Adelaide folks, we're running free media spokesperson training in Sept/Oct! Interested? Apply before Tue 26 Aug: www.tfaforms.com/4896630

All Bendigo Writers Fest needed to do was assure the visiting authors that nothing in their code of conduct would prevent attendees from using the g-word in relation to Gaza. If they had then none of this would be an issue. Why haven’t they? Because censorship is the point.

Exclusive | Speakers are boycotting the Bendigo Writers Festival after receiving a code of conduct from event organisers that required “compliance” with a controversial definition of antisemitism.

Israel has killed 180 Palestinian journalists since Oct 2023. There are 120 of us in this video remembering our slain Palestinian colleagues - it's staggering to see so many faces and realise more than this number have been killed. #StopKillingJournalists #SanctionIsraelNow meaa.io/45A4vZ5

Over 100 journalists from every outlet you can think of are in this video. Journalists care about the truth and about our brave colleagues in Gaza. It's the bosses who have let us all down. Join your union.

Israel has killed 180 Palestinian journalists since Oct 2023. There are 120 of us in this video remembering our slain Palestinian colleagues - it's staggering to see so many faces and realise that more than this number of media workers have been killed. #StopKillingJournalists #SanctionIsraelNow

One of the many devastating things about making this video was that we had to update it about three times during the making to account for further killings of journalists, including (you'll see at the end) a special mention of the 6 Al Jazeera journalists targeted by Israel. Please watch to the end.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

🚨 A new report into unlawful Centrelink payment cancellations is out! The Ombudsman has raised concerns about whether payment suspensions happen "fairly and reasonably" with @caitkelly.bsky.social Tune in to ABC RN to hear from @squigglyrick.bsky.social apcentre.substack.com/p/damning-om...

Unwelcome? This is literally your policies working as designed.

Imagine the public outcry and Murdoch media beat-up if Australia allowed the China lobby to define sinophobia then enacted censorship on the PRC's behalf. Yet that's exactly what's happening with Israel and antisemitism.

In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running. giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...

Working at @chinadigitaltimes.net was the highest honor. Though much of CDT's work is archival, it is not a monument to what was. CDT is a future website. It is the only place in the world you can see what a free Chinese internet *will* look like.

🚨 HELLO, IF YOU ARE ON A CENTRELINK PAYMENT AND HAVE “MUTUAL” OBLIGATIONS OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES, PLEASE READ + SHARE

ABC found to have contravened the Fair Work Act in Antoinette Lattouf's termination!!!

My cousin's 10yo just interviewed me for a school project and it was so fun! I love talking to young journalists 😊 Not sure if all my comments about Pauline Hanson and 90s racism will make it through but I enjoyed reflecting on my experience as a child migrant

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Naarm launch of #Salvage last night! Huge thanks to @jinghuaqian.com for the excellent, in-depth in-conversation and to Readings for hosting. 💙📚🎉

Key aspect was that 1 in 5 people thought the changes to tax concessions of super balances over $3m would affect them. In reality, it's about 1 in 200. Easy test: if you don't know how much is in your super you won't be affected (because people with $3m in their super sure as sh*t know it)

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Heading to Naarm/Melb for Thursday’s launch of #Salvage - 6pm at Readings Carlton, with the excellent @jinghuaqian.com www.readings.com.au/events/salva...

I'm helping Jennifer Mills launch her new novel this Thursday, come along! 6pm Thu 19 June at Readings Carlton

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Rather than what the 1% make, the more interesting fact for me is that if your income is $100,000, it's well above the median everywhere, even in the richest suburbs. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

hey I'm coming up to Canberra and Brisbane soon (after not leaving the state for 2 years!) DM if you wanna hang out ✈️

Thought this was old news. Indonesian fishing vessels have been travelling between Yolngu country and China since well before white colonisation of Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

I see soooooooo many great writers putting so much of their time, effort, skill and money squarely in the lap of a really evil and untrustworthy company. Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!

Shangers go update your language in Medicare/mygov

This is the smallest thing I have to complain about but it really irks me that my native language NEVER appears on drop-downs even though it's widely recognised as one of the top 50 most spoken languages in the world

I’ll just leave this here for your edification.

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SLV has published a "ways of working commitment". I'd like to know how much they've spent on spin doctors over the last 15 months to produce this drivel. www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

Get your applications in! Or share it with someone you know. This assistant audience editor position at @australia.theguardian.com closes on Friday 👇

I can't help it, I'm so invested in the mushroom murder trial. Not so much in whether or not Erin Patterson is convicted, I just want justice for Asian grocers in the eastern suburbs!

Feeling so loved and appreciated looking at this open letter, and seeing the names on it. Blak solidarity is an act of resistance! overland.org.au/2025/05/open...

Great speech by Stella winner Michelle de Kretser discussing the censorship around Gaza. Deeply strange its contents were only reported by The Age. Neither ABC nor Guardian write ups of the event mention her powerful comments at all. stella.org.au/2025/05/mich...

Michelle de Kretser’s Stella acceptance speech in full. Well worth reading.

And in your final year, your super grew from $2,861,301 to $3,017,016. So it went up $155,715. How much tax would you now owe due to the super tax changes? $60,000? lol $25,000?? roflol $10,000??? oh please. Cripes, only $1,000?????? Try $14.40.

Kudos to author Michelle de Kretser for speaking out for the people of #Gaza & against white supremacist Australian govt complicity with #Israel & its oppression. www.theage.com.au/culture/book... #GazaGenocide #auspol

Australia's tax system is currently geared to help the very richest avoid paying tax. That means everyone else has to pay more to ensure we have the things we need.

This is how we need to talk about and think about and campaign about tax. Brilliantly put by Greg.

A statement from @asauthors.bsky.social on the appalling rescindment of the black&write! fellowship this week. "This represents yet another alarming instance of the undermining of freedom of expression and arms-length arts funding from a major institution." www.asauthors.org.au/news/state-l...

Beyond the obvious, it appears we have a situation where the Queensland arts minister has directed a state body to disburse federal funds, awarded for a specific purpose, in service to a political objective.

Being asked to call themselves the “Nationalss” was just a step too far.