Gettin' robbed, gettin' stoned Gettin' beat up, broken-boned Gettin' had, gettin' took I tell you, folks, it's harder than it looks

SAVE THE CSIRO ✊️ Sign David Pocock's petition to stop the job cuts #auspol www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csi...

One of the most incredible Tests I’ve ever seen. Still thought we were no chance even needing just 200 to win, can’t believe how easily we did it in the finish given how good England looked early today. Take a bow Mitch Starc and Travis Head! And go you Aussies!! #ashes

people all around england waking up on a saturday morning to find out they lost a test match in 2 days, ruining their weekend even more than being british normally ruins things

Travis Head vs the England bowlers. 🏏 #Ashes

I thought we had dealt with this problem #ashes

So, it's been almost two weeks since literal Nazi's marched outside NSW parl with their literal Nazi oaths and messaging calling for the end to the 'Jewish lobby'. Instead of condemning this blatant antisemitism, the special envoy is hiring heavies to police university campuses. #Auspol

So, the special envoy will 'monitor' universities 'governance responses to encampments and other campus activities that may incite discrimination.' 'Campus activities' is doing some industrial-level load bearing there. I wonder what may 'incite discrimination'? This needs to end. Now. #Auspol

What is happening over at eSafety commish HQ? They can be very credibly accused of making this stuff up on the fly based on nothing more than vibes. Literally days away from implementation, Twitch is now in the naughty pile of platforms u/16 yo can't access #Auspol sleep walking into this

Bit of a pattern with the @albomp.bsky.social gov's emerging legacy Pump up expectations then fail dismally, delay, distract, renege or run in the opposite direction: Indigenous Voice Referendum, NACC, redressing Robodebt harms, gambling advertising reform, climate action, reforming EPBC nature laws

All (climate) COPs are bastards. I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is. "Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."

It was clear from the start that Labor didn’t really want to host the CoP climate summit. Labor didn’t want to be grilled by the world over the North West Shelf gas extension, or their 31 coal and gas approvals, or their pathetic climate target.

PM @albomp.bsky.social says "his government was a “friend of science”" @australiainstitute.org.au graph says NO (Australia's pitiful R&D spend includes tax breaks to private companies; h/t @rodcampbell.bsky.social, @tomswann.bsky.social) #WithFriendsLikeTheseWhoNeedsEnemies

The #ALP rightly spoke up for the #CSIRO funding cuts under the COALition however it is now too busy funding nuclear subs to care. Tell the #ALP to restore funding to our chief #Science agency. Here's a petition put up by #CPSU. Please consider signing #Auspol

if starmer was some great personality or had some obvious neuroses, it would at least give something to latch onto but somehow the man is just empty on every level. no personality. no intellect. no vision. no charisma.

Being difficult is the only path to change. We don’t get change by being obedient. accepting the status quo and accepting “This is the way we have always done things” as a good reason to keep doing things that way. We get change by asking “why?”, asking “who benefits?” asking “how can we do better?”

The longer I live, the more structural damage I see wrought upon our country by HoWARd et al. We told them at the time, we pleaded with subsequent govt's to change policies. #MiddleClassWelfare #Privatising #CES -ve Gearing #CGTC #SuperTax #IR #PrivateHealth #Concessions #ChildCare on & on #Auspol

We need more honest language: Theft Tech (AI) Grift Tech (crypto) Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)

Well, it looks like someone in the state government heard me yelling about community microgrids for the past few years. They're building community microgrids, and Port-Enfield council has it's hand up to gets one of those sweet community batteries. www.energymining.sa.gov.au/consumers/so...

This is obscene. The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds. While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.

Our national science agency is under attack with more than 800 research & science support roles already gone & more than 300 more jobs to be cut. These cuts now surpass those delivered by the Abbott Government. Can you join me and take action? www.proudtobepublic.org.au/csiro

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

From FB 😂

You can read the full report I pulled out under FOI here - it starts at page 36. The intent of the unlawful mutual obligations scheme stripped bare: www.dewr.gov.au/download/171...

The moral repugnance of conditional unemployment benefits had been with us for a very long time. Here however is conclusive evidence of unlawful practices to keep punishing those receiving benefits. This is after a RC into #RoboDebt. Breathtakingly savage. #Auspol #ALP

After all, they “don’t hold a hose” #LNPArePointless

@aurecon.bsky.social not a good look - I know there is a global shortage of engineers, but some due diligence is always required #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Mid- #AcWriMo mood. The academia / writing / research meme stash always has the goods! 🙌 #highered #academicsky #resdev #academicchatter #PhDchat

If you were thinking of being an independent politician in Australia go now, go hard #auspol

Every time the Coalition criticises renewables they insult the 43% of Australian households with solar panels.

Always nice to find a LibGuide that's clearly a labor of love. guides.lib.berkeley.edu/twlf/home

This Labor party is rotten to the core. Imagine saying kids are too young to understand what they’re reading online but old enough to spend the rest of their lives in prison if they commit a violent crime. It’s demented. But what both policies share is an extreme need to control and punish kids.

Brilliant. And just as relevant to Australians in 2025 as a ship on the ocean floor

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

Never forget this most extraordinary rendition of the Whitlam Dismissal from the "Gillies Report" ABC TV Still thrilled to have been a bit player in the BEST of Australian satire! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7f...

NSW’s universal policy instrument: new legislation to ban more protests.

Tamworth Council went to court to try and stop a wind farm. It didn’t go well. Tamworth Council argued that the wind turbines would be too big for local roads. The judge pointed out there is no approval needed to drive on a public road reneweconomy.com.au/youve-got-to...

After several decades of monitoring their activities, it's still odd, even if explicable, to witness public figures express shock & surprise at the existence of nazis in AUS, & almost invariably only when it's thrust in their/our faces. So too, immediate calls for more laws & more police. Anyway.

Chris Minns is odious. He could have copped to the error and put police on notice. Instead he creates a pro-cop straw man when they have already demonstrated the violence they are willing to commit with their existing powers. Just not against Nazis.

Pro-tip: Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it. Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Meanwhile, in New South Wales….

There were ample laws to prevent this or shut it down. The NSW Police just didn’t want to.

here is Minns saying he wants to give police more powers to not authorise nazi rallies after police authorised a nazi rally after Minns gave police more powers to police “antisemitic hate” based on racist lies and fake terror plots. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's grotesque

Of course Chris Minns is going to suggest cops need more power. That's his whole schtick - the beginning and end of his policy ambitions. What, pray, would Australia's antisemitism envoy like to say about the antisemitic Nazi rally that occurred? I wonder if we'll ever find out. #Auspol #NSWpol

It's time—to understand our history and get serious about our future. Tuesday marks 50 years since the Dismissal; Monday I'll be speaking with Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social and Matt Harvey on their @whitlaminstitute.bsky.social paper "The Double Dismissal" events.humanitix.com/whitlam1975

Moderate Liberals breeding program. The Age

BBC really burying the lede there

You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence The LLM: You can eat that rock

#ALP climate minister #Bowen goes out of his way, amending legislation and appealing courts to knock back an offshore wind farm. Why? Applicants don't know either #ClimateCrisis #COP30 #Auspol