Alcohol Promotion via User-Generated Content on Instagram & TikTok: A Content Analysis Alessandro Crocetti, Nichole Lister, Florentine Martino @jennbrowne.bsky.social @kbackholer.bsky.social Peter Miller, Emma Jane Pristov @drmdunn1.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/dar....

Today’s privatised government services are tomorrow’s royal commissions. “When essential services fail their citizens, governments should not entrust the clean-up to private consultancies…A system corrupted by the unaccountable motive of profit isn’t repaired within that same logic.”

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians... theklaxon.com.au/hrgd

Yet we continue to pursue people on Centrelink payments www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

It’s a very dark reflection on the state of Australian politics that Labor (including Albanese) seem more satisfied with defeating Bandt than Dutton. Progressive voters are tricking themselves into thinking this election was a great result, but Australia’s centre of gravity keeps going right.

The real hate media

The latest attack on science by the thought police

“a logical outcome of the steady mainstreaming of far-right rhetoric in Australia, made palatable by sanitised political soundbites and monetised by media corporations, traditional and new, all too eager to bank the profits”

The food we eat: a triumph of the military industrial complex. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The welcome to country was booed at the Melbourne dawn service. This group of bad actors, "Advance", has been aggressively sowing hate and division behind-the-scenes against the Indigenous ceremony. Advance is quietly funded by the Liberal Party. (ICYMI:) theklaxon.com.au/liberal-part...

Well done Nine papers, looking forward to your outrage at what happened this morning at the dawn service.

It's a lot of work, and not cheap either. So why bother? We're making a point.

🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report A new document shows that vested interests were behind a “mud slinging” PR campaign to discredit the 2019 EAT-Lancet study. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

Many politicians invest in industries such as mining and energy, banks, big supermarkets, gambling and alcohol. Crikey's Auspol Index shows you exactly who, when and what.

If you thought Australian funded health research was safe from Trump style attacks and interference, have a look at what my Aboriginal colleagues leading an MRFF breastfeeding promotion project are facing: www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/09/i...

After the damaging impacts on the mental health of First Nations communities during the Voice referendum, Indigenous leaders and mental health experts are calling on politicians and the media to adopt "respectful, inclusive language" during the federal election campaign.

🔔 NEW at Health Promotion International Social media and the spread of misinformation: infectious and a threat to public health ✍️ Emily Denniss, Rebecca Lindberg OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf023

Victoria’s bail reforms won’t make communities safer www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/2025...

Exclusive: In 2015, the AGS first provided legal advice the Community Development Program was likely unlawful. Leaked papers show successive government ministers and bureaucrats did nothing to stop ‘Black robodebt’.

Built at a cost of more than $1 billion, an enormous new jail is empty more than two years later – with millions spent on leaky ceilings and malfunctioning security.

Hello? #FollowtheMoney

Dutton targeting public servants is a false economy & it’s Australians who will pay the price - from veterans to communities dealing with increasing natural disasters. A good recap of what happened last time these frontline services were cut👇 @SatPaper www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.

Genuine food security requires more than supporting the agriculture industry to produce more food

If major sporting codes are going to continue taking money from alcohol, gambling and junk food companies they should at least pay tax on it

The good people at @crikey.com.au have navigated the frustrating FOI process to access and publish federal ministerial diaries. Politicians should be volunteering this information.

I wasn’t allowed to respond to Anthony on Q+A, so I’m doing it here x youtu.be/iZSaaV0igFo

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NPR *again* issues a long promotion of Bill Gates's memoir. This time NPR discloses that it's funded by @gatesfoundation ($25million). But really we need to get to a point where we end these odious financial conflicts of interest, not just disclose them www.npr.org/2025/02/21/1...

Big Sport and Big Media in bed with Big Gambling

In a country with frequent elections and compulsory voting our limited civics education leaves us open to disinformation and manipulation, undermining our democracy www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Who profits when effective policies are taken away causing sales of cheap alcohol to go up? www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...

Right-wing lobby group Advance has spread misinformation during elections and used AI to generate misleading digital ads. And it’s benefiting from a Liberal Party fund, writes John Hewson.

Seventeen years after signing up to Closing The Gap, governments are not just neglecting their commitments – they are enacting policies that actively undermine them www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The Albanese government has secured bipartisan support for a major new regime covering electoral donations and spending, after making significant concessions.

Now an executive order to bring back plastic straws?!

The fundamental problem is that housing has become a product and an investment market, rather than a human right www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

About time www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

The great thing about being PM is you can make stuff happen if you want to. This PM has a bill to help protect our democracy from lies and AI in elections + a path to get it through the parliament next week - but he’s choosing not to take it.

The Trump admistration’s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion is a major threat to public health research and science communication, including in Australia www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20129/...

“Now is the time to strengthen our systems for addressing COIs, separating harmful industry funding from science, and acknowledging that public health research should seek to serve the public good, not the profit motives of vested interests.” Our latest editorial ⬇️ academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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?

As Trump and Musk gleefully smash the institutions of government, they simultaneously rush us towards the Earth systems horizon. You think this is a dangerous moment? It is. But add escalating climate breakdown to your calculations and multiply by ten.

Yet another reason why the criminal “justice” system should not be outsourced to private companies

The biggest changes to the electoral donations laws in 40 years risk undermining democracy by favouring the major parties over independents.