Perfectly encapsulating the character test

Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Definitely the case at my place and all my teen’s friends.

Here we go again. Really hope these two people are okay.

The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...

Australia has no plan for emergencies. Two showers and one washing machine between 200 people staying at the Katherine evacuation centre. But yeah, let's go to war. #Nowar #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish between social cohesion and common assault

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

The @nswpolice.bsky.social bashings of men praying in Sydney today looked a lot like fascism to me. Extremely concerning.

Read our advisory committee member, Josh Bornstein's important contribution in the ABC today (link in bio) about why Albanese should not have invited Herzog to Australia. Rescind the invitation, now.

Just signed the petition as a Sikh Australian ally:

So you have to sit and watch your car charge, how’s that going to work

Anyone got a spare free/cheap mid to large venue in Adelaide that's not totally booked out during Festival/Fringe season? Just need it for one day, for an Aboriginal-led writers event. Promise to take good care of it

I believe the rise in scabies cases is systemic and linked to failing care systems. The places we see this issue reoccur is where there’s workforce casualisation: no one takes responsibility to treat it, the client cannot manage it and the issue becomes chronic www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

📚 Enjoy free access to thousands of Edinburgh University Press ebooks!  Until March 2026, your library can enjoy free access to our collection through Paradigm’s University Press Library. @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social  Find out more:

Bring back public housing:

The coolest summer for the rest of your life.

The child welfare system doesn’t help families. We more accurately call it the family policing system. Read the full zine: upendmovement.org/zine/

If you are travelling in Victoria, watch out. Great Ocean Road flash flooding leaves beach towns to count the cost

Ted Cruz in 2016, "We're liable to wake up one morning and Donald Trump if he was President would have nuked Denmark" "That's not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe"

#OpenAccess is central to our mission to advance research and knowledge worldwide. 📖 🚀 In 2025 more than 70% of our research published open access 💻 From 2026 more than 50% of our journals will be fully open access, removing barriers to access. Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/4pDZS8f

Hundreds of satellite images capture Victoria’s destructive bushfires erupting #ClimateCrisis #environment

Labor is rushing a 144-page omnibus mess through parliament with just 48 hours for public submissions. Communities are fearful this is designed to criminalize people calling out genocide in Gaza. You have my word that we won't let Labor silence dissent.

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

2025 was a hot one. Maybe show some urgency in preventing new coal/gas mines....? #ThePoint My post on @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

can't really hide how scary the Greenland thing is. Same roiling mix of anxiety I felt in the first few weeks of COVID19 lockdowns. The scariest part is just that it isn't meant to make any sense. All of Europe is threatened It is all going to get so much worse before it gets better again

We'll say it again: "social cohesion", when uttered by the holders of political and social power and privilege, means simply the maintenance of the dominant culture and silencing of any challenge to it.

Every single day in 2025 was hotter than the same day in 1974 - the year I was born.

Acting to prevent dangerous climate change is too costly for the economy, some say… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Some media have reported that Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has dropped her defamation claim against SA premier Peter Malinauskas. That is incorrect. She has resolved her separate defamation claim against Adelaide Festival Corporation.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

Word and meetings are not sufficient. By request, we are deploying a contingent of Heard Island Defense Forces to Greenland to send a simple message. Flippers up and F*%# right Off! -General Thaddeus Snowclaw

Our first contingent of Defense forces arriving in Greenland. It feels like home! Looking forward to be joined by Germany, Sweden, France & Norway soon. Flippers up! @ec.europa.eu @germany.diplo.de @swedenun.bsky.social @norwayinusa.norway.no @norwaymfa.government.no @ecfr.eu @en.france24.com

Ooh yeah

‘A hierarchy of harm’: Labor’s hate speech laws exclude LGBTQIA+ Australians qnews.com.au/a-hierarchy-...

Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

Adelaide Festival Board & Premier Peter Malinauskas made a race-based consience choice by erasuring the 10,000+ First Nations people who were massacred by British soliders, Aust police & settlers during 1788 to 1930. Some single massacres resulted in 100s of deaths. australian.museum/learn/first-...

Memo to the Vic Arts Minister Colin Brooks: you can appoint 5 new board members to State Library of Victoria any time to fix its ongoing fiascos: currently no board member is a librarian, writer, researcher, publisher, library user group member. The 1 academic is part-time & lives in Canberra.

Join me in supporting the legal costs fundraiser for Dr Randa Abel-Fattah: chuffed.org/project/rand...

WTH?! “When the Premier was asked on Wednesday if he was concerned about the economic hit the state will face through the loss of Writers Week, he said “because the Adelaide Writers’ Week is a free event, it is not a ticketed event, it generates zero revenue. So no, not just at this stage.””

Wow, phenomenal knowledge of arts events, and the economic benefits that flow from them. He should run that argument past all the accommodation providers who'll now face cancellations.

President Donald Trump said he “should have” ordered the National Guard to seize ballot boxes during the 2020 election, raising fears he will actually do so in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

People across Iran are demanding freedom. Since 31 Dec 2025, protests have spread to all 31 provinces. The authorities responded with killings and internet blackouts, trying to prevent the spread of information. We must be loud for them. The EU must speak up for freedom.

General reminder: do not donate *anything* until organisations directly make requests. Dumping unasked for donations creates secondary issues for communities in crisis situations. #VicFires

I guess it's not surprising but it is still completely disgusting and outrageous that the ABC is going to both-sides American fascist militia murdering civilians

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...