reminder that this symposium is on Thursday this week. join in person or online. full program and rego link: palestinespeech.my.canva.si

This is quite a story by @gingerandhoney.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Improved massively by James’ editorial overhaul

Thank dog for those whose need to tell the truth was stronger than the need to keep a comfortable job with an organisation that does not wish to do so. An incredible failure by legacy media. #auspol

I have a long essay up at the Conversation looking at Adam Johnson's important book on the liberal media and the Gaza genocide

Kinda astonishing how corporations keep insisting we want algorithms running our lives. No normal person ever said, gosh, I wish my recipes were optimised by AI.

A piece on the ‘audit’ of higher education overland.org.au/2026/05/behi...

What can you even say?

This Gawenda stuff is a tempest in a teapot and a distraction from the real horror of the genocide. Still, it is proving quite illuminating. The Oz has now correct the story without telling their readers that they've done so, as per these two screenshots.

In this earlier article, I illustrated how lax the CIS’s purported academic rigour had become in a new “Energy Program” run by a Twitter (sic) agitator. @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

It’s worth looking at the points that @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social makes so well in context of CIS’s history as an Atlas Network vehicle where donors used strategists to deploy underpaid academics willing to shill for a buck. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/brief-slop...

These comments just get more and more astonishing. Hard to believe that this guy once edited a major newspaper and fancies himself an expert on ethics.

An extraordinary response by Michael Gawenda and my reply (in comments) overland.org.au/2026/05/jour...

If you'll permit me, a thread: On the weekend, former Age editor Michael Gawenda had a crack at @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social via The Australian. Jeff's supposed crime was organising and publishing an anti-genocide letter in 2023 while editor of Overland and senior lecturer in journalism at UniMelb.

A brief reply to Michael Gawenda's slander overland.org.au/2026/05/jour...

Absolutely disgusted by this appalling treatment of an author and an illustrator by UQP www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-un...

I wrote for @crikey.com.au about some parallels between repression now and in the past

I wrote about BRS and war criming for @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/08/b...

More flagrant than South African apartheid.

I wrote for @overlandjournal.bsky.social about some university policies and Palestine overland.org.au/2026/03/cond...

Excellent article by @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social: www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/16/q...

Does the Australian government have any comment about this new war crime? There is a huge population in Australia with relatives in Lebanon. What does the government say to those people?

I have a piece in Crikey about the Queensland laws and that crazy 'Zionism for Everyone' article www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/16/q...

In Australia, you risk your job if you point out the obvious parallels between Zionism and other forms of violent ethnonationalism. Tablet just comes out and says, yes, Zionism is volkisch and that’s good! www.tabletmag.com/feature/zion...

An astonishing article in Tablet that correctly links the origins of Zionism to German Romantic nationalism but presents that as something to celebrate x.com/tabletmag/st...

An astonishing article in Tablet that correctly links the origins of Zionism to German Romantic nationalism but presents that as something to celebrate x.com/tabletmag/st...

Was just thinking this earlier in the week

Constellations: Not Writers Week begins tomorrow. Over 100 authors are participating in more than 50 events across 20 venues. And we have raised enough donations to pay them all ASA rates, plus print these paper programs. bit.ly/constellationsfestival for details January Tiser oped for scale

TOC for Somewhere Here the Future’s Hid, my Lesbia Harford bio.

Who are Australia’s most important right wing intellectuals?

I wrote for @crikey.com.au comparing the the Herzog visit to the tour by the Springboks during South African apartheid www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/12/c...

Just straight up antisemitism

I can’t think of a social moment that consistently draws such a young, diverse crowd as the anti-genocide protests

Once again, the Queensland state protects apartheid

Combatting Antisemitism Czar™️, Jillian Segal's, hand-picked University Report card independent assessor - Greg Craven - brings novel views and thoughts to the position.

It’s quite something that so many Australian institutions are doing all they can to defend apartheid www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The racism of Australian institutions is so off the charts that it doesn’t occur to a major newspaper to seek reactions from Palestinians to a visit from the president of the genocidal regime. Palestinians are simply non people.

Is there a previous example where a newspaper has published as many attacks on a Jewish woman as the Oz has unleashed against Adler? It’s reminiscent of the Islamophobic campaigns against Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Randa Abdel-Fattah except against a prominent Jew.

I wrote a piece for @crikey_news on fossil fuel donations and the election www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/05/f...

I can’t see how any institution that implements this can survive as a university in the way that term has previously been understood. If staff are forced to state that they accept the claims of the Israeli apartheid state (which is what the proposed ‘training’ entails) what’s left?

engaging in censorship to avoid an adelaide-like “furor”, which was centrally about censorship

Imagine you're an artist who's worked hard for years, finally getting a chance to present work in a major, critically significant exhibition – work you hope connects with audiences and convinces critics – and you're told someone with no skills in your field will be doing a 'walk-through'

Scoundrel time

Probably will also judge them on how much support they give to the bigots in Advance. This is truly gross stuff.

Are there any Australian Straussians?

Looking forward to talking to Sylvia Martin about her fascinating— and beautiful— new book www.readings.com.au/events/dr-sy...

Wrote a piece for @crikey.com.au on how the media stopped discussing climate change www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/02/c...