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don't
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Life partner unveils most insane dishwasher packing strategy yet
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Chris Paxton
about 1 month ago
We all have days like this
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back on my bullshit (writing about how good old bikes are)
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about 2 months ago
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
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Kill Your Darlings
3 months ago
Culture is the real tortured ghost of Emerald Fennellâs âWuthering Heightsâ, writes @laurencarrollharris of Hollywood's latest hype-machine. Read it here:
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Josh Taylor
4 months ago
I feel like large parts of the commentariat have memory-holed that the Christchurch terrorist was Australian and was radicalised in Australia.
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Crazy Optical Illusions
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Luke O'Neil
4 months ago
"Thereâs no engagement on Twitter. Get rid of that excuse. If youâre on the left or center, nobody on Twitter comes to your work through that app."
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Royce Kurmelovs
4 months ago
âWelcome to Moscow on the Torrensâ Louise Adler resigns as Artistic Director from Adelaide Writers Week with a blistering editorial.
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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writersâ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/13/i-cannot-be-party-to-silencing-writers-which-is-why-i-am-resigning-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week-ntwnfb
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wrote about how bikes rule
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4 months ago
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savage garden: "animals and children tell the truth, they never lie" me: ok sure "which one is more human, there's a thought now you decide" wait what
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violet allen
8 months ago
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Guardian Australia
8 months ago
Bitter fruit: the dark underside of the booming NSW blueberry industry
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Bitter fruit: the dark underside of the booming NSW blueberry industry
Labour hire companies operating on the mid-north coast said to be taking advantage of âextremely weakâ state regulation and visa loopholes * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Ian*, a retired farmer, refers to the two Solomon Islanders living on his farm as âemancipated slavesâ. He met James* sitting on the veranda of a house near a blueberry farm on the NSW mid-north coast. He stopped to chat, as he does with many of the blueberry workers in the area. James explained that he was in debt to the farmer for repairs on his car. His passport had been taken, his wages docked and he had no money for food. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/04/nsw-blueberry-industry-farm-labour-loopholes-dark-underside?CMP=aus_bsky
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Maria Bustillos
8 months ago
On language "learning," Duolingo, A.I., and travel; many beautiful and comical reflections by
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did a bit of reverse image searching at work
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9 months ago
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MEAA
9 months ago
Targeting journalists is a war crime. As colleagues, we remember them.
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Guardian Australia
10 months ago
Australiaâs potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands
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Australiaâs potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands
The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companiesâ brazen arguments â and caught the Australian government off-guard * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity. Itâs just surprising that the Productivity Commission appears to have bought into the argument â and caught the Australian government off-guard. The Productivity Commissionâs view on AI trained on the copyrighted works of others without compensation, published Wednesday, is that the horse has already bolted for big tech companies â that providing a text and data mining (TDM) exception in copyright law would not change much, but should be worth considering. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/australia-productivity-commission-tdm-copyright-exception-proposal?CMP=aus_bsky
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MEAA
10 months ago
MEAA supports the Palestine Action Groupâs bid to March for Humanity across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
meaa.io/4laIpSL
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Marisa Kabas
10 months ago
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by
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Kill Your Darlings
12 months ago
In a time when big conglomerates are absorbing small publishers, thereâs a new indie on the scene! We spoke with Emily Hart and Margot Lloyd about why they packed in their jobs at established publishing houses to start Pink Shorts Press from scratch.
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Pub Talk: Pink Shorts Press
Get book industry insights from those in the know!
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wrote something very silly about one of the less soul-crushing ways to spend time online
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank before being handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested
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Kill Your Darlings
about 1 year ago
Editors share what they've learned on the job in our latest What I Wish I'd Known. Read more:
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Josh Nicholas
about 1 year ago
I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne
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Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed
When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/22/tourists-watercolours-and-the-sad-still-star-sketching-the-route-35-tram-showed-me-a-melbourne-i-had-never-really-noticed
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Peter Labuza
about 1 year ago
Art canât stop genocide, but this is an incredible moment
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Kill Your Darlings
about 1 year ago
Today in KYD, Jess Scully, former deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, on why Creative Australia's failure to uphold artistic freedoms is an issue for all Australiansânot just the arts community.
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Who Stands with the Arts?
Creative Australiaâs troubling decision signals an authoritarian turn we canât ignore.
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Ben Eltham
about 1 year ago
Creative Australia only terminated Khaled Sabsabiâs Venice contract *today* and only sought legal advice on it three days ago
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Nour Haydar
over 1 year ago
EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
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âThis is censorshipâ: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited âhigh levelâ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/20/palestinian-flags-covered-nga-gallery-exhibition-ntwnfb
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Nour Haydar
over 1 year ago
Arts Minister Tony Burke made some remarks earlier this week about Creative Australiaâs decision to ditch Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as the pick for the 61st Venice Biennale. They didnât get much coverage but I canât get them out of my head. So here you go.
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Actual quote from Creative Australia about dropping a Lebanese-Australian artist due to pressure caused by his past statements in support of Palestinians: âCreative Australia is an advocate for freedom of artistic expression and is not an adjudicator on the interpretation of art. However,â
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Khaled Sabsabi dropped as Australiaâs representative to Venice Biennale
Amid political pressure, Creative Australia says deselecting the Lebanese-born artist will avoid âdivisive debateâ
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/13/khaled-sabsabi-dropped-as-australias-representative-to-venice-biennale-ntwnfb
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Amy Remeikis
over 1 year ago
I am often accused of being too emotional when reporting on politics - but I would rather have a human emotional response than pretend this is just 'reshaping US policy in the Middle East'. It's ethnic cleansing and the end of the rule of law. And the Australian government has said nothing
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petit burgo
over 1 year ago
âDeepseek wonât talk about Tiananmen Squareâ Is a bit of an empty gotcha given the entire western world has been doing McCarthyism to any who has dared to say that genocide is bad over the past 18 months
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Josh Taylor
over 1 year ago
This is cancel culture.
www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...
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SEN Radio parts ways with cricket journalist over Palestine social media posts
Peter Lalor, whose X feed includes re-posts of news stories about Israeli attacks in Gaza, and about the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, was told he could not cover cricket for SE...
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/sen-radio-parts-ways-with-cricket-journalist-over-palestine-social-media-posts-20250202-p5l8zn.html
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Catriona Menzies-Pike
over 1 year ago
I wrote about PRH's acquisition of Text Publishing and my skepticism about the reach of Charters of Independence and such like. And yet again, I express despair at the ALP's reluctance to put their money where their mouth is on funding AU arts and culture.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/30/t...
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Another publishing house gets swallowed, leaving Australian literature on shaky ground
Penguin Random House's acquisition of Text Publishing leaves Australian publishing further concentrated in the hands of a few multinational companies.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/30/text-publishing-australian-literature-penguin-random-house/
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BoschBot
over 1 year ago
Garden of Earthly Delights
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Putricia is the one piece of good news at the moment and i am holding on to it for dear life
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âPutricia for presidentâ: Sydneyâs blooming corpse flower becomes a cult hero â to those who canât smell her
Acronyms, in-jokes and online fan clubs spring up as viewers across the globe prepare for Sydneyâs first corpse bloom in 15 years â from a safe distance
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/putricia-for-president-sydneys-blooming-corpse-flower-becomes-a-cult-hero-to-those-who-cant-smell-her
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Alice Grundy
over 1 year ago
Decades after conglomeration swept through American publishing, is it Australia's turn? Some thoughts on the Text / PRHA merger in
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The acquisition of Text Publishing by Penguin Random House is part of a worrying trend in Australian publishing
Mergers within the Australian publishing industry have significant implications for the literary culture.
https://theconversation.com/the-acquisition-of-text-publishing-by-penguin-random-house-is-part-of-a-worrying-trend-in-australian-publishing-248005
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Catriona Menzies-Pike
over 1 year ago
Text's chirpy press release about this is a classic of the 'only good news, nothing to see here' genre. I agree with Ben, it's a tremendous shame to see a true indie, a publisher that has made a huge contribution to Ozlit, get absorbed by PRH.
www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...
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nattie winters
over 1 year ago
dutch wasnât originally all cutesy like âweer petten de leetel raabbetâ, but they changed it so they could iâm-just-a-little-guy their way out of being in trouble for the east india company
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Bec Shaw
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Jeremiroquai
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