“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/LL2wwbN

A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).

Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People, Volume Three includes, 'Beyond the Binary: Shapeshifting and Nonbinary Identity in Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction' by Candice Lemon-Scott. Available: ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/v... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky #lgbtq

“The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades.” https://trib.al/bTIvynH

I have never voted liberal in my life, but tbh any party willing to make serious policy commitments along the lines suggested by John Hewson here would be a serious contender for my support. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

A message for @australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social from the Australian people 🇦🇺🦘🐨👇🏻

Hey Albo, how about fixing the universities now, eh? #auspol #ausvotes #binnight

You've got a mandate, fucking use it

FUND UNIVERSITIES. PROPERLY. #ausvotes

One of the lessons of Liberal Party over my lifetime is that the next leader will be worse than you thought the last one was.

Seriously though Labor, this isn’t the Australian people saying ‘well done Labor’ this is us saying ‘take your Trumpian bullshit and fuck off’. Don’t lose sight of that. #auspol #ausvotes #binnight

I also want to say thanks to the Australian people for the faith they placed in Peter Dutton (ie: none) #auspol #binnight #ausvotes

Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?” 😂

Anti-Trumpism, in Australia and Canada at least, has become a more powerful political force than anti-incumbency.

I really hope Labor has the sense to understand that this is as much a repudiation of trumpian politics as it is an endorsement of Labor’s performance over the last 3 years. #auspol #binnigjt

Are we allowed to suggest that the swing is on yet? #auspol #binnight

So fucking sick of the LNP claiming to be the natural guardians of national security. Because they are totally fucking NOT.

Kudos to Laura Tingle for having a last stab at getting a tax policy out of James McGragh at 8.52 on election night…, #auspol #binnight

🎶mashed potato mashed potato….🎶 #auspol #binnight

The prepolls will save us!!!! (Meanwhile in the background, the band is playing ‘abide with me…’) #auspol #binnight

Gut. The. Chicken! Gut. The. Chicken! #auspol #binnight

Any chance someone can get some painkillers or Valium to James McGrath? Reckon he could use them. #auspol #binnight

Getting a strong vibe that James McGrath isn’t a massive fan of climate 200… #binnight #auspol

How about we start celebrating higher education as a nation? How about we start shouting, loudly, of the social good of higher education? How about we talk of the nurses, the doctors, the teachers, the social workers, educated at universities? How about we celebrate the artists, the writers, 1/

Editorial: “Anticipation had been building for days about just who Kevin Rudd would turn gay for when he fronted the season finale of Rove Live last night,” Katharine Murphy recorded in The Age. Some see this as the moment campaigning changed in Australia.

So many lies in this story. 1. Fuel excise doesn’t pay for roads. It goes to consolidated revenue. 2. Home owners pay for 75% of Australia’s roads (657,000km) through their council rates. Source: ALGA 3. “EV road charge” is a tax. #ausvotes2025 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Indeed, in Aus we have govt and opposition parties alike promoting policies to reduce int'l student intake. If a govt did these sorts of things to stop growth in any of the country's other top ten export industries, they would be hounded out of office for threatening jobs and national wealth

After being diagnosed with an inoperable glioblastoma, The Saturday Paper’s editorial cartoonist, Jon Kudelka, took time to consider what really matters – and it is not politics.

God I love FDOTM. An absolute ray of desperately needed sunshine atm. Vive le turbochooks!!

On hatred.

Australia could be taking advantage of the millions of students now too scared to go to university in America. Instead both Dutton and Albanese are threatening to *massively reduce* intl student numbers.

@cathywilcox.bsky.social has been utterly on her game this week.

Trump-like. My @smh @theage cartoon.

(4/3 - I lied!). So what I think is most horrific about the Lib Gen / Meta thing is not only is it directly stealing intellectual property (IP rights you can bet your bottom dollar Meta would fight tooth and nail to protect if someone was stealing from them), it's directly hurting creative authors.

I've seen a few posts about 'what about libraries?!'. Well, libraries pay for the book (or the right to the ebook). And in Australia, if your book is in library you get what's called 'public lending rights'. Recognition your work is worth compensation, and people borrowing it aren't buying it.

This is so different to creative publishing. Creative authors are paid ~10% royalties (it differs with contracts and publishing format etc) and this is how they make their living. Many creative authors have to supplement by another job anyway, but royalties help. Lib Gen kills this. (2/3)

The Lib Gen / Meta thing - so, I do not care one iota if my academic articles are made free for others. Academic publishing pays nothing to authors. There's a really valid argument all academic work should be open access and a lot of great journals are headed that way. BUT - (1/3)

Looking the Meta LibGen revelations, and the number of people whose work is being stolen. It occurs to me this is yet another consequence of letting the people who've decided the only worthwhile pursuit in life is the accumulation money have so much power. Art is an undefinable value.

Hey look! Here’s those 9 novels I spent a decade and a half researching, writing and editing. All illegally scooped up by Zuckerberg and used to train his plagiarism machine. What a time to be alive!

Completely delusional response from Universities Australia - if we needed confirmation they are simply grifters for the university corporate elite instead of the higher education sector as a whole, here it is. P.s join your union @nteunion.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/pro...

Just jumped onto social media for the first time today. I see the world is still circling the toilet.

Just extraordinary. Labor came to power promising to end political interference in academia, and they are responsible for the greatest acts of repression since the McCarthy era. Astonishing. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Australia, 2025.

will the next be the last fair election in australia? another ad from the australien gov’t that’s surprisingly honest… @thejuicemedia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYI...

Be the change you want to see, I guess?

An open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Always a good day with a new HGA drops. So please watch this right now - and importantly share outside of BlueSky #auspol >> youtu.be/JBqVVBUdW84?...

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Ever wondered how to almost guarantee against a kid being permitted to buy a toy?

@cathywilcox.bsky.social brilliantly depicts the real effect of dutton's nuclear policy. under the coalition's plan millions fewer homes will install solar and existing household solar systems will be frequently switched off to ensure his nuclear plants hit their production targets.