I hate this shit with the power of a thousand suns "The Morrison-era university payment system... it's seen students pay $368 million more in one year alone and fewer poor students enrolling at all."

Thanks to everyone who made time for a chat about the stories we choose to tell, on the 30th anniversary of Port Arthur Some links to listen back: Late Night Live with David Marr: www.abc.net.au/.../pakistan... (starts 22.20) Triple J Hack: www.abc.net.au/.../port-art... (11.20)

In case you missed it yesterday, this is a staggering piece from one of the Australia's best thinkers and writers on this topic.

Love and strength to all survivors and families on the 30th anniversary of #PortArthur today Wrote this for @ninenewsaus.bsky.social

if you did wanna buy my book, may i remind you it is currently reduced for pre-sale - $70 instead of $90 Perth peeps, it'll be stocked by the wonderful team at New Edtion/Pigface/Crow I'll have some events coming up in a few weeks, and you can buy it at those too www.routledge.com/Mass-Shootin...

“When life changes in an instant, it comes with no warning, no sign. There is no clue that when you drop your child off at the school gates one day, you will never see their face alive again.”

Published by #Routledge in April/May Much to talk about

Patty Voss quickly becoming the most Dockery Docker ever to Docker, LOVE him #ForeverFreo #AFLDockersTigers

Heard the ever-excellent @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social talking about light sensitivity as a marker for neurodiversity this week, so have been reflecting on my constant need to soften lights and grumble at my wife's monstrous propensity for the big light

Privileged to live on Noongar land Love and strength to anyone good enough to feel bad today xx

Happy Sunday Another beautiful day on Noongar land

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

If you're wondering why i shared my article on Orwell the other day... @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social

Good morning to everyone except Nazis and the people who are terminally unable to report what they see even when their job is to report what they see www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXi...

Jan 21 is the 75th anniversary of the death of George Orwell I wrote this one on the 70th anniversary The keywords change but the principle remains ever-more depressingly relevant "Totalitarianism begins with language, then with indifference, then fatefully with blind loyalty."

I'm very proud of this project @sisonke_msimang and I have been running since August A great group of seriously smart people Keep an eye out for the full report on ABC news on Saturday night, and online as well @abcperth: www.instagram.com/reel/DElTeyL...

Treating news like a commodity, that exists purely to make a profit, is a very big part of the reason we ended up here* *gestures broadly at everything

What if we didn't make it so easy for billionaires to own the news www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

“In the first six months of the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s operation, the body’s key governance officer became so “alarmed” at the behaviour of executives that she decided to leave the fledgling agency” Scoop by @squigglyrick www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

[email protected] is not a billionaire. But there are actual billionaires “crawling all over our democracy”, who won’t be curtailed by Labor’s donor reforms. I spoke to Holmes à Court about how the changes hurt new entrants, and why that’s bad for democracy: www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/21/s...

Check this vid out #ForeverFreo peeps. Goosebumpy. Looks like a brilliant project in the works.

Delighted to be part of this Curtin Uni project celebrating the incredible Indigenous heritage of the Fremantle Dockers Troy Cooke, The Wiz, Dale Kickett, Alicia Janz How good www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoo...

If we don't fight for change and build systems to amplify more women and progressive voices online, we will be stuck with a media landscape that continues to exacerbate inequality and warps our political landscape for the worse. www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...

While I'm introducing myself around here, if you enjoyed my piece on American art and Pain, you might like my piece on Pop Music at the End of the World over at Meanjin: meanjin.com.au/essays/pop-m...

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Here’s a piece everyone who cares or claims to care about the Gaza genocide needs to read. We can’t look away, we can’t normalise mass murder, even if only because this could one day be our fate too.