If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates: theconversation.com/indigenous-p...

And we've now written this up for @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/indigenous-p...

These figures from the new McKinnon index seem unusually low to me. While they're slightly different questions, the figures are also at odds with the ~90% confidence in the AEC previously in reports like from the APSC as recently as 2023. Wonder what's going on here.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

seems bad! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This is some story. After Andrew Bolt announced he was leaving Melbourne "for good" due to his Covid tantrum etc, the taxpayer-owned NBN Co arranged a special high-speed internet connection for Sky News at his Mornington pad so he could broadcast his bile from home...

the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,

Obama-in-a-tan-suit levels of dumb criticism

I just published a new article with Tina Hardin, Wendy Keech and Bernadette Richards that compares data sharing legislation in Australia at both federal and state level and its impact on health and social welfare data sharing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

major party competition in this space firmly settling on "we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change" vs "we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change (but we'll look a little sad about it)" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."

let's tune back into American politics to see if things have gone back to norma- oh

It's still going. The republished Deloitte report into the Targeted Compliance Framework is STILL full of slop references. How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this? ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Unsurprising that some of the most concise and meaningful input into this comes from the young people to be affected. The last line in particular is key - it's not to get the impression that the government just wants the easy way out by targeting young Australians, not Big Tech's creations.

Big day for gambling lobby news www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Labor pledged to save $6.4bn through cutting the government's use of consultants and external labour, and yet here they are forking out more. The government's focus must be on rebuilding the public service for core work functions.

Now Treasury can write their very own $400k Deloitte reports

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️ Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians? 1/

Democrats haven’t internalized how much the tech oligarchy has radicalized against them. They are still hoping to woo them back. They need to instead make them fear consequences for this kind of partisanship. Threaten corruption charges, break up big companies etc. what else can breakthrough?

🎉 New publication out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with @duncanmcdonnell.com and Michelle Evans! We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans doi.org/10.1017/S153...

'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.' www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

great to see this series giving a platform to some new, previously unheard voices expressing opinions we absolutely cannot predict well ahead of time

Trump tells rare meeting of top military officers that the US faces a "war from within" and suggested American cities be used as "training grounds" for troops u.afp.com/SWHJ

History: "But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement." The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Standing on the top of the turnbuckle with my hand cupped around my ear as the crowd screams “IS? THAT? GOOD???” www.theinformation.com/articles/bus...

weird that: i) a party that has become the natural party of government in SA and recently enjoyed a (seat count) landslide federally needs 'saving', and ii) the positions that have relegated their opponents to, well, opposition are what's being championed here but it's the Tiser and Hildebrand, so

all of it is great but it's hard to beat Coates's reply here, posing what should be a question posed to all op-ed writers like Klein

I mean, besides politics and big tech, but yes. "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

"Where is the world? Where are the Arab nations?" This Palestinian girl broke down as she described an Israeli attack that targeted her family’s shelter in Gaza City.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3228):

Bringing out a classic in the genre of climate change denial - denying the existence of broad consensus

Worth noting the timing: this was released after the North West Shelf and billion-dollar Scarborough project was nicely squared aware, Woodside was given a cosy deal over the rock art, and the Prime Minister has returned from his tour of the Pacific to try and promote regional security partnerships.

New from myself and Walker Bragman. Perhaps the most defining part of Kirk’s legacy is his role as a gateway to right-wing radicalization.

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

Wow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...