The British mind cannot comprehend a sensible electoral system

"Organised crime are now the new big tobacco in Australia" www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Journals giving moderate punishments to authors who use AI hallucinated citations. I wonder how the ghost of Keith Windschuttle is doing

Exciting new developments in Australian welfare policy - the Minister can decide to short-change recipients in the name of budget repair.

Amazing how “restoring original intent” has become a euphemism for cost-shifting onto disabled people and their families. This package is mostly austerity, the government should at least have the decency to be honest about that.

gee, what could possibly go wrong with this kind of power 'A new power will allow the minister to cut funding amounts across the board for some supports, such as to community participation budgets' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Once again begging the UK to introduce a sane electoral system

meanwhile we've pressured our Vice-Chancellor into paying casuals the same rate of super (17%) as other staff* there's an easy way and a hard way to engage with unions :) *from 2030

I think this is a really good point that isn’t emphasised enough. There are no prominent models of people disagreeing reasonably, and people with less hard-line views are pushed out of the discussion.

I was thinking earlier that because everything is in super or my home loan, I probably have a lower asset test number than when I was 25 and broke

Someone should ask Greg Craven why, if antisemitism is so bad at Australian universities, he did nothing about it when he was in charge of ACU.

I usually push back against the idea that government expenditure is wasteful etc. But they might as well burn this $50 million per year (or is it $90 million per year?) for all the good it does

I am once again here to say that Australia and Israel are both in Eurovision for the same reason

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Who counts as a revolving door lobbyist? In my new paper in Interest Groups & Advocacy @igajournal.bsky.social I use sequence analysis to detail the many different career trajectories that fall under the label. Excited to share this project that has been many years in the making! rdcu.be/ffYTx

This is kind of funny given that the PHAA's preferred policy of law enforcement magically working, if effected, would also result in billions of dollars more profit going to Big Tobacco.

Looks like the Greens' result in Farrer will be their lowest in any Reps seat since either 2.21% in Flynn 2013 or 1.97% in Flynn 2007. This without a Labor candidate - not good!

personally I'd advise just giving the whole "just fight for the things you want" thing a shot. gets easier over time

open the borders to solve your "fertility" problem you cowards.

My “not a golden calf” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions etc etc

"Or we could go straight to a comparison that Chun would find meaningful: if UQP had offered a publication contract to somebody associated with Chabad, would he have called for UQP to rescind the contract?"

Speers: "This result will give One Nation more numbers in the House." This sort of gear is why he get's the big bucks.

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The current debacle in British universities has multiple causes, but a simple, partial remedy for the disastrous Tory removal of student number caps was for Labour to reverse it. They didn't, and they will reap the economic consequences at a local level across the country.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

The means-testing obsession is out of control in this country. It's a brain disease.

Oh my God are blogs back

Reserve bank of Australia board: *grunting* look if we wedge this little 25 basis point interest rate rise in, we should be able to clear the blockage in the Strait.

They meant government-mandated transfer of wealth (derogatory) when most of the rest of us read this as government-mandated transfer of wealth (complimentary).

The ABC reporting that regular welfare indexation is "draining the government's coffers" is incredibly dark stuff. all aboard the austerity train

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Mark Carney accused of plagiarism by Australian PM

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I'm a mid-career researcher insofar as my research career is mid

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, kids.

I mean it's not like he put it in a press release and sent it out on official government letterhead? *Checks earpiece* I'm, I'm just getting a correction in

Also breaking news, people who stop dieting for eight kids are projected to regain their shed pounds within months.

If they won't respond to a polite invitation, perhaps a less polite compelled summons is in order.

The NT government gets 80% of its budget from the Commonwealth. Some of that money goes on spit hoods for kids. On Friday, every child in detention was locked in their cell all day because there weren't enough staff. This is where your federal dollars go.

Its 'weird' how we went through a campus speech 'crisis' where people on the right claimed we were shutting down campuses and the instant they got in power they all exercised the most gross, blunt, obvious political control on speech they could. It was really incredible.

I will say this for my country over the British, our members of parliament might be alcoholics and worse, but they know how to spill an unpopular leader

Odd way to announce your candidacy for the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination, but here we are I guess

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