I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.

Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.

So the Libs are irrelevant? Great we knew that. But an OECD report released overnight put the focus on the actual govt and the Safeguard Mechanism which is quite the dud My column for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/2150

Australia's environmental law #EPBCAct reforms are being discussed in the Senate Environment & Communications Committee today, you can watch here www.youtube.com/live/D8eyUiN...

Academics and students fought for 5 years against research sponsorship at Monash University from oil and gas company Woodside. This week, we forced Australia’s largest university to abandon its greenwashing contract www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Alright yall 15 hours left, please share! 👋🏾 Aid is not entering Gaza, only commercial goods, and the prices are still very high. For these six families—mostly kids—who are still severely malnourished, they can ONLY eat with YOUR help. Remember the famine last ceasefire? Help them survive—36/1000

Gaza residents say they fear a return to Israel’s full-scale bombing as they struggle to find food, water and medicine.

The EDO have produced a very thorough first take on the legislation, more informed detail than I've seen anywhere else so far www.edo.org.au/2025/10/31/e...

Today Minister Murray Watt introduced a suite of bills to amend the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. We are concerned that the proposed reforms risk failing to protect nature unless key weaknesses are addressed and loopholes closed. #EPBC #auspol #ausnews #biodiversity

Please share. A displacement camp for fifteen families is trying to rebuild the site in this slow genocide. We have the option—duty—to help. Give / find their link here. 12 hours left. 100/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...

There is a reason "offsetting" does not exist in the vast majority of cases of avoidable harm to human safety: it would be laughed off as physically absurd and outright fraudulent. Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal

Israel just extended this pediatrician's arbitrary detention without trial, torture and abuse by 6 months. Release him immediately! Petition at @amnesty.org www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

This is an important petition on academic freedom, for a professor at Syracuse, NY, USA, who has been indefinitely suspended for a very mildly sarcastic four-word social media post relating to US politics. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please sign. Help us get to 3000 signatures

Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust? Good article by @nickfeik.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/16/n...

“The Albanese Government is committed to no new extinctions” Environment Minister Murray Watt, reaffirming Labor’s 2022 pledge on Threatened Species Day 2025 2 weeks later Australia’s only shrew is declared extinct. #auspol #climate @australiainstitute.org.au minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/media-r...

Using ChatGPT

I feel this in my soul. There's so much to say about climate change, climate action, misinformation, links to our other crises... ... But it's hard avoiding burnout when the world is burning.

The Israeli government denies mistreating Greta Thunberg. Then Police Min Itamar Ben Gvir goes on TV to gleefully announcing that she was indeed tortured. He says he's proud of the fact. It's a great demonstration of how the Israeli government under Netanyahu works, unable to coordinate its lies

BREAKING: Labor is actively hiding the truth of Australia’s genocidal supply of F35 fighter parts to Israel. My office uncovered via FOI the Defence Department quietly deleted its webpage celebrating Australian companies pumping weapons parts to Israel to keep F35 jets flying.

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues. Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump. 📰 AFR ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social ✍️ @edmundtadros.bsky.social 🗣️ @chrisrudge.bsky.social

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️ Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians? 1/

DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla. Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained. The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.

📰BREAKING📰 SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes. Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.

Absolute worst journal experience of my life with @environmentalpol.bsky.social Two years, four revisions, now rejection. One reason cited by EIC is "small number of interviews... limits the rigor of the empirical work". There were 26 interviews, it's qual work. Never raised by reviewers.

$348/464… who can help make up the last $US116 to evacuate single mum Maha and family out of Gaza City? ANYTHING HELPS.

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.