A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Reminder that Tony Burke went on Sky News and defended the officer’s actions

On disagreement www.deepcutnews.com/p/from-charl...

Keep cancelling! creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

I spoke with the wonderful @jessdavis.bsky.social about why fatalism makes me so intensely mad, and how most of it comes from the fossil fuel industry, or its lobbyists, defenders and acolytes the whole piece on collapse is a great read -->>>> www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Good morning!! Here's my latest for @crikey.com.au -> one of the reasons the CCA weakened its climate target suggestions is the possibility of uncontrolled data centre growth. I found the lobbyists already working to sell them as 'climate solutions' in Aus ---->>>>>

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

I have a few hot takes on the Aus 2035 target. Here is one of the least important of them but I had to rant: 'ranges' are shameless when you have a target to stop killing people, why is there a maximum amount of stopping-killing-people

Doctors Without Borders reports that Israel fired upon a clearly marked MSF water truck. This was deliberate. How many times do we need to go through the same cycle: Israel targets humanitarian vehicles and aid workers, and then says: “Whoopsie! It was an accident, believe us!”

The math ain't mathing. We can reveal worrying details about the closure of Meanjin - one of Australia's longest running literary journals. It starts with G ... Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

It’s time we believed Labor when they tell us they are quite happy to see countless people, not to speak of creatures, die in fires, floods, droughts and storms, so as to enable the fossil fuel industry to keep making profits a while longer. The old world is dead. Time to birth the new.

📞 Contact your Labor representatives today at: www.aph.gov.au/senators_and... Tell them: This is NOT good enough. We need strong climate targets to help make our communities safer. 2/2 #2035ClimateTargets #StrongerTargetSaferFuture

Australia’s 2035 target of 62–70% isn’t strong enough. If every country did this, we’d exceed 2.4°C of warming. That would bring more frequent and dangerous bushfires, more deaths from heat and smoke, and 5 times the damage bill. 1/2 #2035ClimateTargets #StrongerTargetSaferFuture

Hey Australia, this is very relevant today

What do you see? 👀

Truly, this is such a great piece. I guarantee you probably have no idea just how deeply and profoundly the "AI for good" narrative has become embedded into the superstructure of so many progressive movements - not least the climate movement. Go read @abeba.bsky.social's piece:

It is over for the genocide deniers. Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide. Those who supported Israel's onslaught: You backed a genocide. You will never scrub the shame away.

Genevieve Bell’s resignation as ANU vice-chancellor is a microcosm of the governance crisis at Australian universities www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/g...

Read @amyremeikis.bsky.social's excellent column on Charlie Kirk that The New Daily saw fit to take down here: amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Your regular reminder that the LNP is irrelevant and the ALP has no excuse for not doing everything on its platform.

It's happening here, too, the trend is clear. Our universities, symphony orchestras, public libraries, media, all levels of politics - there's a fascistic push to get us all to shut up about Israel's genocide of Palestine. Don't be too complacent; this is about all of us and our democracy.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I don’t know Tala, but I know this child deserves to live in safety and with dignity. Tala is one of the 2.38 million Palestinian children who have the right to a future. Please sign up at letchildrenlive.com & share their name on social media to make sure every child is represented #letchildrenlive

I wrote this. Every journalist, social media producer and news influencer in Aus should read it & memorise @whiterosesociety.bsky.social principles of reporting. Huge thank you to @kurtsengul.bsky.social for invaluable expertise, I was very tempted to publish all your answers verbatim. #auspol

Today we are told that the 🍉 symbol is antisemitic Remember when Musk’s heil was described as clumsy? Nazi salute? Not antisemitic Fruit? Antisemitic The inanity of this would be funny if it weren’t so incredibly dangerous. As a Jew, this devaluing of real antisemitism scares the shit out of me.

Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show: Documents show state agency took 4 years to publish report & told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlier www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Here's me. "Anti-Semitism envoy, condemner of watermelons, declines to comment on Nazi terror attacks on First Nations and Palestinians"

In 2022, with a two seat majority, the Albanese government legislated our first climate targets. In 2025, with a supermajority, it’s claiming it lacks political support to update those targets. It’s time for transparency about climate risk and our climate targets. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The complicity of major tech companies in the genocide in Gaza is unprecedented and shameful

The brave whistleblower Richard Boyle featured on tonight's Media Watch. Let's give him & his wife Louise some time to recover from the hideous ordeal inflicted upon him by our Govt by donating to his GoFundMe - we're just 4% away from reaching our target. www.gofundme.com/f/whistleblo...

Nothing is more powerful and louder than love. It was one of the great honours of my life to host more than 300 refugees from Gaza today with the ASRC and PARA. We will not be divided, we will not let our hearts be dimmed by fear.

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

Hope the ATO and government are proud of themselves. Pursued this poor guy for 7 years, wrecked his life for the crime of exposing serious wrongdoing - costing millions - all for a final result of no recorded conviction and a 12-mth good behaviour bond.

Seems a fairly gross abrogation to me but hey you do you Tanya

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

"While AI is helping to solve some of the world's biggest environmental challenges, it also brings its own." IS IT, THOUGH? Can we please stop conflating AI with any 'complicated stuff computers do'? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Today's National March for Palestine over Commonwealth Bridge in #Canberra www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

National march for Palestine, Parliament House, Canberra

National march for Palestine, Canberra

Says the guy who has remained silent while they remorselessly blow people up

"disabled people are a minority so it's ok to not effectively support them"

You'd have hoped the VC would be aware of the "never give ANU an apostrophe S" rule

The febrile reactions of Netanyahu and co to Australia's very limited actions so far shows and underscores how much moral and practical power we do actually have on Gaza. If we didn't matter, we would be ignored. We should do much more, including applying sanctions, to help end the slaughter.

Tune in live tomorrow morning for the Federal Court hearing of my client Raelene Cooper’s case against the Federal Minister for the Environment. Raelene is seeking orders requiring the Minister to make a decision on her application to protect the Murujuga Rock Art. youtube.com/@federalcour...

Great reporting by @deepcutnews.bsky.social on the unfolding catastrophe at Bendigo Writers Fest - surprising nobody, pro-Israel lobbyists directly targeted the festival’s inclusion of Palestinian voices

Grotesque. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Labor 94/150 House majority and it celebrates by promising to ‘cut red tape’ - Coalition policy for decades. Young people being told that intergenerational 🏠 inequality is the result of red tape - not housing taxes delivering for the wealthy that have driven up 🏠 demand and prices. Flabbergasting.

Somewhere in this Australian university, some well-paid HR people (and consultants, there's always consultants) thought that it was good idea to tell staff worried they might be made redundant that they should hand-wash their good undies to cope with the stress. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...