This is a Jimmy Chalmers brain fart. #TellLaborToShoveIt #DDTime #BlockSupply #auspol #SoSickofThisShit

@anupress.bsky.social “ANU Press publish open-access, fully peer-reviewed books and journals “with a special focus on Australian and international policy, Indigenous studies and the Asia-Pacific region.” Their catalogue is extraordinary- the dream of open source publishing continues…

mind your step..

This is happening in the middle of Tel Aviv 👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼💙

This person buys a public platform to spread her right wing nonsense with the vast fortune her father made off mining Indigenous lands. “Gina Rinehart calls for immigrants’ social media to be screened in Anzac memorial speech”. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Amazing how Gina genuinely seems to believe she's the very essence of what it means to be Australian when she proudly presents the opposite of our self image. She's utterly devoid of humour, ungenerous, greedy, prissily prim & lacking any sense of family values www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This schooling inequality is our national shame. Well one of them. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

Well a gracious speech by Trump at the presser afterwards. But it also just shows that the ballroom is uppermost in his febrile mind.

Chaos follows Trump wherever he goes. The White House Correspondents Dinner is no different. Shocking.

🦘 Aussies are heading out to photograph nature for science this weekend! The @inaturalist.bsky.social #CityNatureChallenge runs from today, through to Monday 27 April. Your photos can even end up on Wikipedia when they are added to iNaturalist with a CC0, CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA license. 🐝🌳

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NDIS - a groundbreaking idea poorly executed at the start and mismanaged under the Morrison Madness. Middleton writes: “A key architect of the original scheme, Martin Laverty, described the proposed changes as “necessary for the nation”. … themonthly-admin/karen-middle...

I love AOC. There’s scorn, righteous anger and disgust in her posture. She is the voice of sanity in an insane world!

So true. In Australia, the Fat Cats come out to play in favour of despoiling our beautiful environments and supporting mad right wing politics. These entitled ones must be opposed ( and taxed!). Come on Labor, earn your keep as the minder of the progressive flame!

TO BE CLEAR The more Dick Marles says “to be clear” the more confusion reigns. Australia’s “posture” lacks among other things, the courage and integrity of Canada and the clarity of Spain. Nuclear subs à la AUKUS do not make for “strategic clarity”!

open.substack.com/pub/samkriss... “Politics is losing its content; being on the left has come to mean being a girl, and being on the right is just another way of saying being a boy.” Hmmm a thoughtful and fascinating piece of analysis of our post literate future.

substack.com/@kairostimen... Brilliant! And so true - as only satire can be

Pushing back on the doom and gloom, the light of hope shines in community - a great story from the amazing Julia Baird showing how great ideas transplanted from the US to Australia bring hope to troubled children. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Australia is, they note, the only country that places no cap on how much private wealth a school can accumulate without forfeiting public funding, a situation traceable to Country Party influence during the Whitlam era.” johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

She's a great cartoonist

The regime change we need? Remove the global threat in Washington www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/01/r... Australians are being encouraged by our PM to take public transport - all because of the deranged US President. Calling on all MAGA to cease and desist their support for the wrecking ball POTUS!

mailer.ucl.ac.uk/cr/AQjvsBMQp... Quality Open Access books and journals from UCL (University College London) Press. Free to Download, an internet dream made real.

Fabulous article on the frontier of women’s educational leadership in 19C Australia, challenging gender but upholding racial hierarchies. ‘The story of our influence is not so easily told’: Annie Sharpley, a teacher at Naracoorte’ press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e... Any Australian, or indeed anyone, using Facebook- including the ABC itself- must surely think twice now after the platform was shown to spread child pornography in the recent New Mexico judgement reviewed in this episode of the excellent Media Watch.

Australian Universities Consulted to Death! Or Metrics Gone Mad. Strategic plans are kryptonite to the research and teaching missions of the university. youtube.com/watch?v=quc2...

This week's cartoon, by Oslo Davis: satpa.pe/3bD4MML

Wishing all who march on No Kings Day a splendid HUGE turnout that defies predictions. I hope the good people of the USA flood the streets in peaceful protest at this immoral government. “Protest is an act of love … Rep. John Lewis 🙏

A statement regarding recent contact from Queensland Police about my work.

Coming to terms with Australian history with the late Professor Emerita Lyndall Ryan, a brilliant and brave scholar, sadly missed: youtu.be/Spd1lar2z70?...

Dear USA, Please STOP ✋ the war now! Defence expert Ben Wallace wrote in Britain's Telegraph, "This is what you get when a superpower with the most powerful armed forces in the world, is run by a collection of TV pundits and golf buddies: pure chaos". (M. Kenny, “we used to fear the unthinkable”)

ALL children matter & well resourced public education builds communities, not inequalities. BUT “The average grant to those public schools that received capital funding in 2023 was $75,492 – equating to just under 7% of the average grant provided to private schools – $1,098,334.” For shame.

Libs’ Ashton Hurn should not be treated as victim this election. Her first vow as leader was to scrap SA’s Indigenous Voice. Let’s not forget it was Libs’ No Campaign which unleashed the politics of hate, grievance and division on Australia. Libs let loose this ugly One Nation beast and it ate them!

SA Elections 2026 The No Notion Party, backed fulsomely by the Massive Mega Mining Political Dabbler, the Big G, is set to romp in second in a lacklustre race to the bottom.

I saw this and got an inkling to listen Bad Woman by Paloma Faith 😁

Beware the Jabberwocky. Here he comes talking right wing nonsense masquerading as political vision.

I was put off by the extreme level of violence in the 2 main best picture nominees. Isn’t “ordinary life” in Trump’s USA scary enough? I guess that’s the point - revenge porn shadow play, one against an out of control state and the other against a racist society. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

open.substack.com/pub/historyn... “Pass the buck, not, the buck stops here.” Nick Bryant on Trumpian realpolitik (dealpolitik?) - a politics of the absurd- dangerously stupid. Or A tv presenter and two real estate guys walked into a bar…

It’s a no brainer people! Stop sending your kids to private schools if you love our country and value its future.

substack.com/@historyneve... brilliant- worth a thousand words!

It is both frightening and appalling that in Australia we fund private schools (religious schools run by churches) so generously. Our school funding policies are undermining our society. And the tragedy is we will never be able to roll it back. It’s heartbreaking

I was fortunate to teach “enabling students” at university. There are legions of such inspiring professionals who started university via these “opportunity bridges”. Bravo Minister for championing these Cinderella university programs.

The first draft of this historic weekend by Nick Bryant. Anthropic at least deserves support for remembering that ethics matter. open.substack.com/pub/historyn...

Opinion | Is there any voting group Anthony Albanese hasn’t disappointed? He might think he’s governing from the centre, but he’s just driving voters away, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/26/g...

Great commentary based on deep historical knowledge. open.substack.com/pub/historyn...

More “difficult” Australian women, demanding the vote in the late 19th century. Thankfully, after they made their beds, they didn’t lie in them. They made good trouble.

ICYMI: tonight’s full #4Corners, Scarred on gynaecologist Dr Simon Gordon is here. YouTube for international viewers. youtu.be/EwnqZ12O1sQ #endometriosis #medicine #surgeon

the smell of racism..