Instead of posting on social media, use your power, use your voice as an Australian citizen If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint And - get everyone else involved too

The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.

as nation we owe a huge debt to @pupfiction.bsky.social for rapidly re-organising the line-up for the event

Such a great episode to end the year. Thanks to the #SundayShot team in front of the mic and behind the scenes. To all the wonderful folk who participated throughout the year on screen and in the chats. Current affairs you want to wake up to. #auspol

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges and I have plenty to cover — his remarkable career, the betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club fiasco, and *that* ABC Late Night Live interview. We Used To Be Journos bonus episode drops Friday, 5am AEDT.

Salt of the earth, both … Kim Krebs and Greg Watters are land speed legends. Both records (still current) set at Lake Gairdner in 2018 – Kim @ 343.560km/h and Greg 337.585km/h, both on Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusas. Both are competing at Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials, August 23-28 2025. Go gettem

NAIDOC 2025: A Voice To Parliament Finally Achieved

So, will the organisation with all the power and all the history have the courage to act swiftly and honourably so that the issues identified with that culture are no longer a risk to the First Nations populations in the NT 🤔 inside.org.au/officer-indu...

Add your name to the call for a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia...

If you have a mo, please share & sign the petition to honour the Sarajevo declaration of the Gaza People’s tribunal. It’s a quick way to join with others internationally to make your voice heard. www.change.org/p/sign-the-s...

Another young Aboriginal man killed by NT police. I wholly concur with Yuendumu community and Andrew Boe’s assertion that an independent inquiry is the only viable option. Seeking justice for Kumanjayi White www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The in depth nature of discussions on the Sunday Shot are stimulating and revealing, even if I don’t get to listen till later in the week. Giving my brain a nutritious feed: www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

Weekly treat: sharp minds, in depth analysis not entirely wedded to binaries, bit of history, plenty politics, stimulating thinkers. Thanks again youse mob m.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

I despair at what is happening to civilians, ordinary people in Gaza. Wee children are being bombed and starved, deprived of proper medical care, education, music, play, and the freedom to sleep and laugh. It must stop. History will not look kindly on those who simply stood by.

Tonight, Australia voted No to ignorance & Yes to Acknowledgement; No to xenophobia & Yes to Welcomes; No to regression & Yes to progress. Peter Dutton, Jacinta Price, Clive Palmer, Pauline Hanson, the IPA & Advance henceforth have no mandate. They’ve been thoroughly told NO.

www.youtube.com/live/JIFxsMT... Thank goodness for broad ranging unvarnished and relevant contemplation of the facts at hand.

The Guardian winds the prize for making me laugh out loud this morning. Headline: Andrew Bolt says it was the voters who were wrong as Sky News commentators grieve Dutton election loss.

This has been incrementally amplifying for decades. Policing in the NT (and throughout the country), despite attempts at reform from well intentioned operatives, requires fundamental restructure and refocus. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigen... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Barossa Valley

In depth exploration of political shit with experts, profound and profane. So so glad to have this every Sunday!

What’s up … lenticular clouds!

Refreshing and nuanced!

Sunrise, and moonset

Cultural invasion! Foff Trumpty Dumpty

Today feels like a good day to re-share this lit review essay that I recently wrote. Please, don't put a bird on it. IYKYK overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...

www.flashes.blue/profile/ezol... The remarkable and exorbitant luxury of a new one every day.

BREAKING: In response to criticism that he abandoned Queensland during the ongoing cyclone emergency, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has said he has bone spurs that prevent him from filling and carrying sand-bags and asked for understanding. #auspol #qldpol

Really good piece by Waleed Aly, saying something nobody else has bothered to to say www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

bsky.app/profile/alic... Imagine these dead animals are family or friends. They are.

Dr FIONA WALSH Why do we continue to allow and accept the deaths of animals on our roads? I recognise that global warming, wildfires and floods accelerated by profiteers are beyond the immediate control of many of us. They too hurt many native animals. But there is something we can all do. We can …

The World After Gaza Pankaj Mishra discusses how his own views on Israel/Palestine shifted after witnessing first hand the everyday structural violence imposed on the occupied territories—much like Ta-Nehisi Coates. In conversation w/ Michelle de Kretser #adlww

Yes. Fundamentally MAGA is founded on toxic masculinity, reasserting male dominance over women & they’ll destroy the whole planet if need be to do it. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’ve noticed some cartoonists and commentators using metaphors of rape & even child abuse to talk about what Trump is doing to America, or another issue. Respectfully, please don’t.

An immensely satisfying exploration beyond glib headlines. Particularly appreciate Sarah Schwartz’s discussion on the perils of inappropriate overuse of the term ‘antisemitism’.

Pucking brilliant! After a long hard drought of political insight and interrogation this is a really welcome shower of smarts and forthrightness.

Sunrise. Always a good time to be out in the air.

Two Murdoch editorials exactly 12 months apart. Barnaby might be a 'drunken idiot' but he's our drunken idiot.

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Fighting Trump's destruction successfully requires getting the American people on our side. There is NO SUBSTITUTE in the courts or anywhere else for public opinion: www.persuasion.community/p/theres-no-...

Queensland is flooding, continental south eastern Australia is burning. Nothing to see here … climate what?

Wind farm with wallaby

Its that time again ♥️ www.adelaidefestival.com.au/writers-week/