My first substack post is now online.

It should not be possible to be this wrong

Terrific piece by @shakirahussein.bsky.social , full of grab quotes, but best read the whole thing. www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/i...

Compare and contrast the headlines.

Really proud to have a piece I co-wrote with two fabulous academics included in the government’s Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia resource list www.oseci.gov.au/resources/co... @shakirahussein.bsky.social

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I am feeling very snubbed by the fact that not a single one of the senior people in Australian national security who I have rubbed shoulders with over the years has ever thought to cc me in an OPSEC signals chat about a forthcoming military operation.

Memo to Creative Australia: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

I am Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. #Spartacus

'Research funding body suspends grant to pro-Palestinian academic' www.afr.com/policy/healt...

'"We are now instructed as follows, the ABC does not put in issue, that is, it does not dispute […] that the Lebanese, Middle Eastern or Arab races exist, or that Ms Lattouf is one or more of those races," the ABC's lawyer Ian Neil SC told the Federal Court today.' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Invasion Day 2025.

What does it mean to contribute to Pay The Rent? * it honours the Sovereignty of Aboriginal people * a more just way of living on this stolen land * transfers money on a grassroots to grassroots basis to support land justice and sovereignty campaigns You can get involved today: paytherent.net.au

I’ve got a piece up at Crikey today on the NDIS. There’s been a concerted campaign to attack the NDIS in recent months, and it’s been massively dishonest www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/24/b...