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...

They’re not sending their best

Constellations not cancellations! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The guy auditing higher education for anti-semitism jokes about ‘decades of house arrest’ for Louise Adler archive.md/pD9eg

Congrats to amongst others @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, nominated for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for his biography of Lesbia Harford! (Also, @lancerichardson.bsky.social in Melbourne town in March!) hazelrowley.com/news/

A piece for @crikey.com.au on Greenland, Trump and climate change www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/20/g...

Most of these think pieces about Adelaide completely miss the point. There is a genocide in progress. If you’re curating a festival of ideas, do you want people who talk about supporting the genocide or speakers who talk about opposing it? Everything else is secondary.

I wrote a piece for @crikey.com.au on how we should be talking about MAGA anti-semitism www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/15/m...

Penny Wong doing her part to destroy international law

These organisations working in the public domain should have a responsibility to publicise their decisions. Make the minutes available! Show who voted for what and why!

I gotta say, I'm not jazzed by the apology for "how the decision was represented" and "the distress this decision has caused" rather than apologising for the decision itself www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

Morry Schwartz "navigates a complex and unprecedented moment" by blaming Louise Adler for the implosion of Adelaide Writers’ Week, claiming it was an act of deliberate sabotage on her part to invite Randa Abdel-Fattah to appear. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ archive.is/t5uEA

Welp, the Chaser's article on the Adelaide Writer's Week, calling it the Adelaide Writer's Afternoon, has infiltrated the Edge AI summary. 'Hilariously', the AI summary combines the parody article with real news, so it could very easily trick people not in the know. #saparli

I wrote for @crikey.com.au on the Wilcox stuff www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/12/t...

Thanks to Tom Ballard for having me on his Serious Danger podcast. Full episode via seriousdanger.com.au

I'm sure Szego thinks she's making a point here but her writing's so bad it's hard to work out what it is. 'The usage by the man on the Clapham omnibus is normalised at top universities,' or something.

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

Looking at that guest list it seems most unlikely they’ll have a festival now. They must have known that but they did this anyway

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory explicitly names the Israeli President as responsible for inciting genocide — and yet Albanese is inviting him here. Shameful and scandalous!

Wrote something for @OverlandJournal about the scapegoating of the Palestine solidarity rallies overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...

“If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral,” writes @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, “we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence.”

British Labour is significantly more authoritarian than Trump

Not long before he joins One Nation

When Scomo waved his lump of coal in parliament, he was supporting Malcolm Turnbull’s attack on renewables www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I wrote a piece for @deepcutnews about how the media sees some genocides as more important than others www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...

I’ve got a piece up at @OverlandJournal about Gaza and colonial Australia as part of Subscriberthon. Take out a sub and show your support! overland.org.au/2025/10/stra...

Wrote a piece responding to critics of recent protests www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

Hard not to feel you’re going insane watching confirmation after confirmation of an ongoing genocide

Shameful!

Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7 'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia. A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S

This is why we march www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Unimelb to Latrobe: hold my beer! www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Solidarity with @Dave_Brophy. All universities should oppose genocide!

Sydney Uni has a ‘thirteen page flag policy’, which they used to stop @Dave_Brophy from protesting against genocide. t.co/24ONohK0Ds

More concerned with ‘social cohesion’ than stopping a live-streamed genocide. The most extraordinary moral failure in a generation.

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

Here is the current list of places sanctioned by Australian universities using DFAT’s list of countries designated for human rights abuses etc. It is disgraceful that none of the unis have the moral fortitude to add Israel to that list in the context of an ongoing genocide.

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem publishes a new report ‘Our genocide’ www.btselem.org/publications...

It was just as possible then as it is now.

Why yes, Zotero — why not erase 900 footnotes just for the lols!

This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07... Now that a court has made this entirely obvious point perhaps even the universities can understand it.

The wretched failures of liberalism are allowing the worst grifters to come to the fore.