Trouble in paradise www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Brereton should resign, imo. He's personally compromised (defence), completely stuffed up the Robodebt investigation (and had personal connections with those involved), and his NACC has produced nothing else of any significance, despite thousands of referrals.

“Some of the people responsible for robo-debt are working outside the public service and not sanctioned by legal boards as far as I know, and some who designed robo-debt are still in the public service in compliance and audit roles. How can that be?”

Modus operandi: make abhorrent comments against a respected cardiologist then go to ground & hope no one follows up Bad luck 4 them as @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters scrutinise board members at St Vincent's Hospital & the VictorChang Cardiac Research Institute 4 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

When John Howard was Prime Minister, he participated in many International Democracy Union events overseas from 1996 onwards. He even was elected the chair in 2002 while Prime Minister so attended its annual forum overseas every year as Prime Minister. The sheer desperation of this #auspol beat-up

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Robodebt is a cultural touchstone. The associations that quickly come to mind are harmful systems, lost accountability, over-responsiveness, and people being reduced to data points www.themandarin.com.au/299754-ai-ar...

On October 8, Alana Lentin will host a book launch for 'The New Racial Regime', on Gadigal land (Sydney), w guests Kaiya Aboagye, Keiran Stewart-Assheton & Shawna Tang. Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong. Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....

Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide. Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...

We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 16th at the Wheeler Centre for a conversation bringing together Palestinian, Jewish and Syrian voices. We'll explore themes of justice, liberation and what revolution means for people fighting for freedom. Tickets at: events.humanitix.com/on-revolutio...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... $350m to $750m 👀

What is it with privileged, powerful people in this country?! They appear to assume the rules simply don’t apply to them. And in so many respects the rules aren’t applied to them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Discord is hiring a child safety threat operations specialist in Australia ahead of the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 taking effect www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... cc. @cameronwilson.bsky.social @joshtaylor.bsky.social

Boonwurrung land earlier today. Could see the You Yangs.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers and Jimmy Fallon should just quit TV & start an experimental jazz band called The Political Climate. I'm sure Jaco Pastorius would want that.

"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

Go Cats! 💙🤍🤞🏼

Terrifying

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/09/hare... Hare-Clark! Why Do We Have It? Are There Any Alternative Approaches? #politas

Review of #Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) in Singapore’s Strait Times: “Singh is committed to exploring the human cost of conflict through intimate character studies rather than battlefield narratives.” www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/su...

Former Greens leader Adam Bandt has been announced as the next CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation, taking over from Kelly O’Shanassy in January 2026 The statement from the ACF added that Bandt “will not play any further role in the Greens”

Great news in from the ACF. Congratulations @adambandt.bsky.social www.acf.org.au/news/acf-app...

one of the last things I did before leaving work was on the urgent need to support folks with very high support needs living in group homes this situation is completely untenable, and solvable if their needs are kept at the front archive.md/NT1Fi

One of the great injustices of Neo-Liberalism is how people who work taking care of the elderly and taking care of the disabled are barely respected and poorly paid.

Pakistan is a great example of the global solar boom and shows why petrostate politicos are freaking out! Solar is doing more to address energy poverty than any power tech! Expensive fossil fuels cripple poor nations e360.yale.edu/features/pak... #energysky

"misleading" is putting it politely. The Australian government is gaslighting us about emissions reductions, on behalf of the fossil fuel lobby. #ClimateCrisis #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

It’s been a hell week for South Asians in Australia: www.sbs.com.au/news/video/c...

Hope the ATO and government are proud of themselves. Pursued this poor guy for 7 years, wrecked his life for the crime of exposing serious wrongdoing - costing millions - all for a final result of no recorded conviction and a 12-mth good behaviour bond.

Sun’s up in Reservoir. Spring around the corner. #Wurundjeri land

Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It’s time to lift living standards for all www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really great to see this book now available open access, 'Why Vulnerability Still Matters'. It is the follow up to the fabby 2004 Bankoff et al book 'Mapping Vulnerability' but with a twist. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Bart Shteinman, @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social: “As with Russia, members of Israel’s ruling coalition parties should already be subject to sanctions by the Australian government, including Rothman” And especially including genocidal war criminal Netanyahu. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

BREAKING: The Tassie Parliament’s upper house has removed the Lord’s Prayer from its formal proceedings, making it the first chamber of an Australian state parliament to do so. We welcome the decision, but further secular reform is needed. More: rationalist.com.au/rsa-welcomes... #taspol #auspol

Tune in live tomorrow morning for the Federal Court hearing of my client Raelene Cooper’s case against the Federal Minister for the Environment. Raelene is seeking orders requiring the Minister to make a decision on her application to protect the Murujuga Rock Art. youtube.com/@federalcour...

'Downsizer' apartments listed in Rhodes Bay (Sydney), starting from $865,000. That's a microcosm of everything wrong with the assumption that people will willingly sell their family homes. Net of debt extinguished, how much equity does downsizing generally release for median retirees?

Mean Streak has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in the non-fiction category. Stoked, of course, but particularly because I think this episode deserves to linger in the consciousness for as long as possible.

It pisses me off how many ppl just say “draw down your super” to survive late capitalism. What are we supposed to survive on when elderly? Nothing? www.canberratimes.com.au/story/903787...

Anas al-Sharif and his fallen colleagues are heroes. Israel clearly and deliberately kills journalists—over two hundred in less than two years, more than died in WWII and the wars in Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined.

Provisional results in the Darebin Northwest ward by-election caused by the terribly sad death of Gaetano Greco: his successor will be Angela Villella, from the Darebin Progressive Independent Network that he established before his death. Labor knocked to 3rd, the Vic Socialists have come in 2nd!

Tom Uren’s politics came from the war-time struggle of the Burma Railway. On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings, these days Uren would be dismissed as 'woke', says Martin Flanagan in Footyology's 'Society' section.

I'm outraged by Labor's decision to greenlight PwC, a consultancy firm which has proven to be untrustworthy & that has continuously refused to cooperate with government inquiries. 🧵

Talk is cheap. Expel the Israeli ambassador.

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A lot of nice little old ladies and gents from the leafy north shore will be surprised today to find themselves described as extremists set on dividing us. #marchforhumanity

The solutions for keeping children safe are really very simple. imprintnews.org/top-stories/...

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

Resharing this article while it's still Open Access at Families in Society. If you're interested in learning more about abolishing the child welfare system, this paper and it's "counterpoint" from Jessica Pryce are a great place to start! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Join us this summer at Toward Liberation, where we'll be expanding our reading of Tip of the Spear! Throughout the summer we'll be diving deeper into the book and exploring some of the additional voices featured in the text. Join us! www.towardliberation.com/p/tip-of-the...