Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.

Honeyguides from the Varswater Formation (Pliocene of South Africa), the oldest known fossil honeyguides: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RI... 🪶🧪 (📷Louchart et al.)

It takes a village to protect & enable abusers. There's the people who take part in the abuse, the ones who help to cover it up & the ones who know what's going on but who choose to look away. Not a single abuser acts alone. It takes a village. And that village is more vast than most people realise.

Of course we do, while welcoming a man who signs bombs to kill children…

The #SundayShot returns this weekend! Please join @davemilbo.bsky.social and me on Sunday morning plus our expert panellists @emmashortis.bsky.social and @marquelawyers.com.au and Dave interviews The What & The Why's Nick Hanna. It will be good to be back!

The deep irony is that by reading the algorithm-driven posts on Twitter/X, I actually know what is going on in the released Epstein files, including stuff about Musk. This contrasts sharply with BlueSky which is like a deliberately tepid bath of blandness where nothing much is going in the world.

Is Zionism a cult? Oped by Israeli and Jewish Australian Veronica Sherman #auspol #antisemitism michaelwest.com.au/zionism-the-...

Funniest thing about learning Peter Malinauskas wore a wire to record a conversation in a blackmail investigation is, I can’t tell if it’s election campaign fodder from his own team to make him seem hardcore, or if it’s someone trying to throw him under a bus just before the election. #AusPol

A little light cello restoration over the long weekend. A badly chipped student instrument on its way to looking pretty again. Before and after. 🎻

I constantly worry about the implications of ecological collapse- but I caution against using tired Malthusian arguments about environment & conflict. Let’s draw attention to the drivers of ecological collapse instead - tackle extreme wealth, fossil fuel companies, industrialised agriculture etc

New South Wales versus old South Wales - what exactly are we celebrating on 26th January an why? A short read from me ⬇️ medium.com/@elen.shute/...

Made a frog pond. Kinda. 🐸🐶

What the heck, Saint-Saens. There better be a logical explanation for this percussion marking 🤔 🥖 🥁

I love being a little older and knowing who I am. My cat wandered across the camera during an interview and instead of feeling weird I just said "and honestly, if you think this is unprofessional, we're not going to be a good match" and when I look up dude is holding up HIS cat to the camera.

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

Our latest report, Medical care in the crosshairs, is out now. In it we detail how attacks on medical care in armed conflict have reached record levels ⬇️

Feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction. Claims these introduced predators aren't responsible don't stack up. Protecting our unique species will be even harder if feral cats and foxes are given a free pass to keep killing. 🌐🌎 theconversation.com/yes-feral-ca...

Very cool 👀 🐦 www.newscientist.com/article/2512...

Amnesty has issued a report about rising #authoritarianism & #humanRights violations in #USA, incl enforced disappearances, restrictions on #freeSpeech incl the media, increased #corruption, militarisation of law enforcement, mass surveillance, weakening of rule of law www.jurist.org/news/2026/01...

Random Delightful Fact of the Day - Eastern quolls go grey as they get older! A juvenile (~6 mths old) on the L, & a 4 yr old on the R (Worth noting that 4 yrs old is oooooold for an eastern quoll)

New hypothesis. Having seen the scramble for Greenland’s future mineral resources (when the ice melts due to global heating), the madcap AUKUS scheme is not about defending Australia-Pacific from China, but about stopping China from mining Antarctica in the future. Plausible? #AusPol ☃️❄️

Revealed: Australian taxpayers subsidising the IDF, illegal settlements in Israel. michaelwest.com.au/revealed-aus...

WOW. This is the best yet from Ronni.

It was inevitable.

All-time great scientific article title

From The Department of That's a Nice Adelaide Writers' Week You've Got There. It Would Be a Shame If Something Happened to It: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Occasionally I edit Wikipedia pages, just minor stuff I notice. I know controversial pages get restricted so they can't be vandalised, but I just went to correct a reference in an article about 18th Century composer, Handel, and he's on the naughty list 🤔 🎵 🤷‍♀️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Tingle www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Labour Is building the authoritarian state that a far-right Farage government could inherit, from @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

“Who in their right mind would want a walking, talking surveillance machine inside their home?” – the answer is the people who would happily bring back slavery if they could. But that’s not the point of Sam’s excellent article on the AI automation mirage, which you should definitely read.

Most politicians "both can’t and won’t see the shifting sands in front of them. It also means disagreement, dissent & criticism will continue to be reframed into very narrow definitions of ‘hate speech’, ‘agitators’ & ‘social cohesion’." @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/adelaide-f...

Just 2 days to consult on profound changes to our right to political speech is not enough. Tell the Federal Government to take a step back, legislate carefully, and consult properly. #AusPol informationrights.org/take-action/...

YOU'VE GOT ONE DAY, 24 HOURS, TO C.O.B. THURSDAY, TO COMMENT ON ALBANESE'S ANTI-SEMITISM BILL ONE DAY OR LOSE YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?

The Albo government's antisemitism bill is a rushed hatchet job. Nobody has proper time to consider it carefully enough, and it will have all sorts of unintended consequences if passed. It is the worst kind of law-making: moral panic induced, pandering to powerful lobby groups' demands.

So Malinauskas was lobbying the Festival board to drop Randa Abdel-Fattah several months before the Bondi massacre, but used Bondi as a justification for her exclusion. He’s been found out - no wonder the remote control premier was a bit emotional today. nickfeik.substack.com/p/the-implos...

I will never stop until the Labour Govt’s toolkit for authoritarians has been dismantled piece by piece. Today mandatory Digital ID, and next we stop police facial rec and preserve protest rights and trial by jury. Human rights matter more than ever right now. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

So Malinauskas was lobbying the Festival board to drop Randa Abdel-Fattah several months before the Bondi massacre, but used Bondi as a justification for her exclusion. He’s been found out - no wonder the remote control premier was a bit emotional today. nickfeik.substack.com/p/the-implos...

I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

I saw this incredible photo on the Merton Community Page. I saw it yesterday and I just can’t stop thinking about it, and I think it deserves sharing. That little fire trunk fighting the front Taken by Tom who works for FFMVic in aircraft, of the Merton CFA Tanker. #VicFires

I have been sent a copy of Adelaide Festival's response to the letter raising concerns about Thomas Friedman's participating in Adelaide Writers Week. The response says that Friedman could not participate due to "last minute scheduling issues".

the issue is instrumentalisation of antisemitism allegations to silence criticism of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Royal Commission TORs legitimise baseless accusations, inflated claims, and outright fabrications. michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism...

Hey Aussies..Nationwide protests are being planned against the visit of Israel’s president Isaac Herzog: We will announce times and dates when we hear about the details of Herzog's arrival. Please SHARE to spread the word to be ready to protest this war criminal.

For clarity: We have two letters that have been sent, neither have been released publicly. We also have a festival board that appear to have sidelined their prominent and respected Jewish director, to appoint a committee of unknown third parties to consult on editorial decisions. Plot thickens.

Unfortunately for Malinauskas, the internet remembers. Instagram user beccilove dug out this quote from a few years ago.

I know there's A Lot to be worried about right now but India is arresting climate activists on the grounds that they're opposed to fossil fuels www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/f...

I got a bit over-excited and reduced my corner-to-corner blanket too soon. Got to the end, unfurled it, & realised a chunk was missing 🤦🏼‍♀️ Dog doesn’t care - to him any fabric is good fabric.

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

BREAKING ABC announces new TV show You Can’t Protest That where a panel of Labor Premiers and the Prime Minister tell people who write in what they are allowed or not allowed to protest