Censorship writ large A Jewish community representative will preview & critique exhibitions from the Sydney Biennale before they open to the public to try to avoid an Adelaide Writers Week-type furore and counter claims that artists on the program hold anti-Zionist views www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

The reason I’m reposting this link is: a few weeks I received an email from a former student; saying that she revisits some of the works covered in the course often, and they helped her through a personal crisis - remember - you always have a friend in literature… blakandblack.com/2025/05/26/l...

One Nation's appeal isn't positive—it's a negative. Not them expanding, but the LNP in chaos & Labor seen as a sellout to donors, lobbyists & special interests. It's pure protest. Oz needs a centrist alternative to reclaim the middle & render ON irrelevant again blakandblack.com/2026/02/05/p...

Unmasking the real Pauline Hanson, stripping away the Folklore & urban legends - what’s left is a carefully constructed myth. For many supporters she serves as an everywoman, champion of “ordinary Australians” against remote elites, this isn’t the reality blakandblack.com/2026/02/05/p...

Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi … the only reason I’m putting this sculpture, which is outside the MCA in Sydney, up, is to remind the #OneNation aka One Neuron mob that real Aussies come in more than one gender & in multiple colours, shades, complexions & ethnicities … it’s called #multiculturalism

Another brilliant Cathy Wilcox cartoon … so much said in one little image… #EpsteinFiles

Few themes in modern storytelling have proved as persistent and unnerving as the idea that civilisation is precarious. Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game – explore how quickly the moral frameworks can dissolve blakandblack.com/2026/02/04/l...

Palestinian poetry has emerged as a profound medium for preserving cultural identity and resisting systemic oppression since the 1948 Nakba… blakandblack.com/2025/05/27/p...

“Protest restrictions extended ahead of Israeli president's visit to Australia” “The Public Assembly Restriction Declaration remains the same — parts of Sydney, stretching from the inner-west to the CBD and the inner eastern suburbs, but excluding Hyde Park in the city” apple.news/A4CzFDqo2R76...

The Final Expulsion of Palestinians Is Underway – and Your Indifference Enables It The changes in the West Bank – being made under the umbrella of decisiveness – are tectonic and occur at lightning speed. The Israeli opposition remains silent www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

“New political donations data released by Australian Electoral Commission showed Hancock Prospecting made 2 donations in 2024-25 to Advance, worth combined $895,000. The company donated $105,000 to Liberal party’s Vic division, S Kidman & Co, donated $99,000 to Western Australian Liberal division.”

Trump receives FIFA alleged nonce of the year award…

About 40 knock-off versions of artist Peter Drew’s “Aussie” posters appeared in the Melbourne last week. They use the same bold typeface underneath an image of Naveed Akram, one of the shooters behind the Bondi Beach massacre. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Both @AusFedPolice & @AustralianLabor are seriously corrupt and compromised institutions, to the point that they pose a serious threat to Australia’s democracy. It’s frustrating when a citizen has to look to international institutions to seek justice… blakandblack.com/2026/02/03/s...

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting donated almost $900,000 to rightwing political campaign outfit Advance last financial year, while Clive Palmer was the country’s largest single donor, giving his own Trumpet of Patriots just over $53m. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Liberal senator Alex Antic and former senator Cory Bernardi could be the latest political figures to join Pauline Hanson’s One Nation as it surges ahead of the fractured Coalition in the polls. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Much like the legends surrounding the opening of ancient Egyptian tombs, Pauline Hanson’s reputation amongst her followers relies more on the desire to believe than it does on evidence.

There’s a strange old bird on scorched southern ground, called Neoliberalism – a native by name, forged in backrooms and woken by profit’s strange call, its feathers stitched from bargains and slogans, eyes glinting cold as a miner’s gold. blakandblack.com/2025/09/27/a...

Our Pauline … Far Right But Always Wrong #PaulineHanson #OneNation

According to several people with knowledge of the telephone conversation, which took place on Jan. 12, Mr. Bovino made derisive remarks about the faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, Daniel N. Rosen. Mr. Rosen is an Orthodox Jew www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

Pauline Hanson rants about “shit” literally…

The gods have spoken… Always Was Always Will Be Decreed By the Ancients To Be Aboriginal Land NB: if you believe that odd story about Israel and G-d … then … the actions of the Ancients must also hold legal authority … #JustSaying

And quite the unexplained and unquestioned pivot from Asians to Muslims in her second coming.

SAY WHAT?: NBC says Epstein allegations "were not widely known until 2015." Here's Conchita Sarnoff article in Daily Beast in 2011 www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst... NY Post photos w/Prince Andrew in Central Park same year nypost.com/2011/02/21/p...

In 1996 Pauline Hanson gave her infamous “Please Explain” interview with 60 minutes … the cringeworthy interview was basically a litany of uninformed complaints. 30 years on Hanson is still prattling on about the same “boogeyman” - what policies or legislation has she drafted? youtu.be/rU5mt7oAqH0

This post examines the clash between the enriching processes of tertiary education and the superficiality endemic to large-scale social networks, using the Dunning-Kruger effect and the illusory superiority bias as analytical lenses… blakandblack.com/2026/02/01/t...

Traces of One Nation in Greek mythology: The Grey Sisters—Deino (dread), Enyo (horror), Pemphredo (alarm)—share one eye, symbolising unified vision and collective action. One Nation? They share one neuron, so members can't think beyond fish 'n' chip gossip. Independent thought? Perish the idea!

MAGA treats Alex Pretti like a criminal with zero proof and ignores mountains of proof that Trump’s a pedophile.

Where is the proof that this was done by “Militant leftists”? … smells like another right wing false flag operation … the far right perfected false flag propaganda with Marinus van der Lubbe…

Does this bring anyone else to mind … FIFA 😉 THE NEW YORK TIMES. Oct. 14, 1933 MUNICH, Oct. 13.-The Academy of Graphic Arts, which recently created a medal to be conferred on persons meriting artistic recognition, has chosen Adolf Hitler for its first recipient. www.nytimes.com/1933/10/14/a...

Marxist analysts argue that fascism acts as a "corrective strategy" by capital to preserve its power when democratic systems fail. Can’t we just skip that part given we can see it in the US before our very eyes or is it the only way to shake people out of their comfort?

Pauline Hanson is both a symptom & amplifier of a politics that prizes grievance over governance. Her rhetoric and tactics provide a cautionary example about the consequences of normalising exclusionary discourses and of privileging spectacle over policy. blakandblack.com/2026/01/31/p...

What vile folks there are in this world. I visualise them walking down streets tearing heads off flowers, kicking kittens & scowling at the colours of the rainbow. No wonder they need an enemy to punch down on, they have nothing of substance to offer the universe.

Where Western taste prizes flawless symmetry and immaculate surfaces, Japanese aesthetics esteem the opposite. A tea bowl with dents, sediment or kintsugi mends is exalted: its imperfections confer uniqueness and narrate a dignified history of use, repair and continuity. #WabiSabi

This reply is as left under one of my posts that had nothing to do with Indigenous people or culture, it was a post critiquing One Nation. It seems that ON supporters are nothing more than *one trick ponies* everything has to come back to Indigenous people - Hanson thinks she’s ready to be PM 🤣🤣🤣

Pauline’s Clown House I don’t like it. It’s always their fault – First the Asians – Which ones? Please explain. Indians this week, Chinese next, But always, always It’s the Aborigines – I just don’t like them. Please explain. blakandblack.com/2026/01/30/p...

Far right politicians need to stop dancing with the past, and start developing strategies, and policies to deal with present and future realities… Populism is nothing more than the decaying corps of democracy…

What happened to Trump’s promised U.S. support for the protesters… “Iranian doctor who fled to Australia after operating on massacre victims estimates death toll in tens of thousands” apple.news/AdpyGM-1JT5C...

Double Speak 101 - Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East 🤔

Home truths…

A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

maybe it is time that we have a jury duty type ballet where 10, 20 or 30 * Australians (new, old & potential) get to sit in PM office on draft legislation prior to going to parliament? Dunno but may take out the whole tiny but loud representative voice * & maybe 5+ reps from first nations peoples

I was just listening to Ol’ Blue Eyes “My Way” and thought … my regret: I believed the Oz justice system has integrity, the AFP have integrity, any of our politicians have integrity, our media has integrity. I wish that I had never tried to expose the Labor Party ACT Home Loan Portfolio heist…

Don’t be sucked in by all the bullshit being peddled by Advance, One Nation, March for Australia, and Murdoch … in Australia … white people, men in particular … still control the sinews of power out of proportion to their demographic representation blakandblack.com/2025/12/25/h...

When you hitch a ride with a populist politician you’re actually riding with the ghost of democracy, a phantom, without substance It was midnight in the country, And dust upon the lane – From city square to hollow field Echoed voices lost in pain. blakandblack.com/2026/01/28/t...

Telfer’s recollections capture the brutal frontier wars of the 1830s in northern NSW, to quote Telfer: “… In that year the Aborigines were subjugated after a stubborn resistance … dying out altogether leaving the whites in possession of their Country for ever more” blakandblack.com/2026/01/27/c...

A UN Human Rights Council special commission of inquiry into the war in Gaza found Israel was committing genocide, and that comments made by Mr Herzog following the Hamas October 7 attack were evidence of genocidal intent… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

We are 28 million, we are one. We gather under cloudless skies or scattered rain, our cities shining beside rivers and oceans, our towns stretching from sunrise to far horizon. blakandblack.com/2026/01/26/w...

This #australiaday2026 post draws upon “The Art of the First Fleet & Other Early Australian Drawings”, it explores Indigenous society as portrayed in these artworks, delving into the Eora’s physical & cultural world - it shows terra nullius to be fiction. blakandblack.com/2026/01/26/a...