Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.

excellent piece on online mmt's schtick of using word game tricks to sound pseudo-profound and transformative - @jomichell.bsky.social criticalfinance.org/2025/12/19/w...

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

In response to the reappearance of MMT, I have, somewhat reluctantly, written up where the current crop of 'pop MMT' goes wrong. The short version: yes the central bank issues money; no this doesn't change anything. criticalfinance.org/2025/12/19/w...

When we most need clear thinking abt threats (ISIS, gun availability, racist & lethal ideologies), & elevation of acts of courage, & care for all communities hurting, Minns, unforgivably, serves up inflammatory conflation of anti-genocide rallies w the terror attack Feel 🤢 abt what 2026 will bring

Unpopular view, but I do think the progressive drift away from prioritising free expression has made us more vulnerable to these moves. Lowering criteria for speech restrictions from objective risk to subjective harm and vulnerability leaves us without a coherent framework to push back.

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

crazy stuff - deliberate law breaking for decades and as to consequences, well 🤷

At the moment it’s limited to public assemblies (protesters the easiest targets), but logically why stop there? Contentious discourse in the media, online, running for office, in parliament etc could all cause disharmony.

Shocking to blame Gaza protesters (which include his own MPs), but even more disturbing is the rationale for protest repression. It isn’t about risk at the event. It’s that expressing contentious political views might vaguely undermine community harmony. The problem is political expression itself.

When police and ministers can wholesale shut down public assemblies across an entire state, via administrative decision, without a defined or contestable risk threshold, without judicial authorisation, and keep them shut for months… truly a grim moment for liberal democracy

whatever the problem, in nsw banning protest will be the solution

Interesting discussion of dating-app anomie among men and women. IMO a Polanyi angle would fit well: apps disembed mate-selection from social contexts, fostering consumer-market logics that strip away informal norms that once regulated expectations, behaviour and meaning jacobin.com/2025/12/dati...

I've student or worked at several unis and while many have administration / IT problems Macquarie is singularly bad omg

no social media and finally kids just being kids again, thanks Albo 🙏 youtube.com/shorts/GfSaU...

The AFR run a 2 year campaign to get the ALP to weaken the changes to super tax concessions to make it easier to avoid paying the tax. The ALP does it. The AFR criticises the ALP for weakening the policy because people can avoid paying the tax. My column #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251213

Legislation passed in the Queensland Parliament tonight to allow imposing ankle trackers on 10 year olds - "it will let the police know everything they do and where they are" according to the Minister for Youth Justice.

“Let them be kids!” But Victoria passed the Adult Time for Violent Crime legislation which can send 14 year olds to adult jails. Which is it you want them to be? Adults or children? Or simply not seen or heard at all?

A very normal thing for any dictatorship to do. Not sure why the fuss.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs less to house people.

when did everything become matcha this, matcha that? was this a “green tea” rebrand?

retirement villages are scams

lmao

all looks darkly comic after Victorian Labor’s law and order spectacle about treating 14yo as adults

Stacking out the machinery of government with progressives is good actually.

universe is trolling me. my son went off and wrote the letters "mmt" on a post-it note, brought it over and asked me what it means.

future amartya sen scholar

cracking up at this answer - Hasan is literally an abundance lib x.com/collinrugg/s...

I agree this is a good feature, but imo the worst feature of means testing is that it under taxes the wealthy. A means test caps out at 100% of the benefit value lost - someone $1 over loses as much as someone $1M over. Tax them more. westernsydneywonk.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/m...

The Mother of Rock and Roll.

‘And maybe she’s right. Maybe in a media landscape where institutional authority has collapsed, where nobody trusts anything anyway, where personal brand is the only thing that survives platform collapse and industry implosion, Nuzzi is simply ahead of the curve.’ www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

Suppose you wanted to persuade politicians that universities were just a bunch of money-hungry lobbyists, concerned more about profits than educating our young people. What would you do? The Group of 8 (lobby for "sandstone" unis) decided to join "an alliance of industry groups". #universities

Acoss research found the cost of fully indexing tax thresholds to inflation is $38B by 2031, with half going to the highest 20% by income. So that's not the solution. Closing tax shelters is. www.acoss.org.au/wp-content/u...

interesting - Marshall Islands introduces universal income funded by dividends from national investment fund

admittedly I haven't read the book, but discussions seem to lack specifics and fall down a a vague vibey "do betterer" jacobin.com/2025/11/klei...

there was a 50k strong petition demanding the qld government enact "arnie's law" to ratchet up jail times. and then it was revealed the car theft was a hoax and the perpetrator was the owner www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

And many disabled people feel that it's not safe for them to move in with a lover, or to marry as the loss of independent basic income can make them incredibly vulnerable, especially if they lose DSP entirely, and would be required to apply again from scratch in the event of a split.

modern Labor just doesn’t have the ticker

New Substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... Parts of the Labour party and BBC simply don't know what their jobs should be.

the current government take credit for Whitlam’s higher education support, personally benefited from it, and seem to be determined to obliterate that legacy

This could have been Australia if we weren't suckers for mining industry bullshit propaganda and the venal #duopoly of Labor and Coalition gravy trains #vulco

this Morrison Government policy was highly criticised within Labor and the centre-left media. All just forgotten and accepted now?

14yo brain: too immature for TikTok, mature enough for adult court and life in prison.

chat gpt 5.1 sucks bad. I asked it to compare to bass pedals, and got this

favoured categories of worker idpol via differential sentences in the criminal justice system, very cool

the 1990s called and wants it’s shitty law and order populism back

#BREAKING 🚨 Graham Richardson to lie in state permanently at Old Parliament House

this is un-american