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We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

The idea we should behave in such a way that the Trumpists will not portray us as dangerous/ lawless/ violent is a silly idea, because they always portray us that way and no amount of curtseys and rolling over and playing dead will change that. So people might as well speak up and stand strong.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

if the national guard are sleeping rough shouldn't the cops be beating them and stealing their shit

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Re-upping this thread as it appears that quite a lot of people have finally realised

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not a “sinister plot” but the comfortable reliance on cliches that absolve police of responsibility and equate their violence to protestors is what people are upset about. Tomasi’s own colleagues at Nine are concerned with the language, so weird concern trolling from a fellow journalist here.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Israeli settlers set fire to homes while families were still inside, according to Palestinian media reports about an arson attack on a village in the occupied West Bank.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

It's the same story with a lot of the soft power that the US is throwing away. The WHO is now replacing US funding with Chinese, and the same is going to happen with research. Certainly not in the short term, but over 4 years I imagine many of the major research works will move overseas.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The people of WA in 2022 voted for 3 Labor senators. Labor now has 3 senators from the 2022 cohort.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Even the NYT is reporting that the IDF admitted to shooting “near” civilians, BBC has an IDF soldier confirming they shot, but nothing will stop the ABC from running Israeli propaganda

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Gut Yontiff / Chag Sameach for all of our Jewish followers this Shavuot.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I disagree. People voted for mass deportations, they just assumed - without evidence - that there would be exceptions made for humanitarian reasons. It's the same reason that women are dying of sepsis because they can't access a needed abortion.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Once we tax $3m super balances, we should then tax $3m family homes. Then we've got a modest package to tackle subsidised intergenerational wealth transmission by the rich.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Oh, look, I wrote this two months ago.

submitted 14 days ago • 68 comments

Papers like The Age are so explicitly pro-Israel it makes critiquing them on that basis sort of pointless. But sometimes they publish something so heinous they need to be reckoned with it. www.lamestream.com.au/the-ages-att...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just a note because I'm seeing some of this stuff, if people like Labor winning seats on Greens prefs in the House they should not complain about One Nation winning seats on RW prefs in the Senate. And vice versa. Cuts both ways.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

One Nation doubling its Senate representation should pour cold water on the folk who convinced themselves this election was some progressive triumph.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Welcome to the Chinese century

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‘in 2023, the Australian National University spent $11 million, just on executive travel. Who are these people - and did one of them go to the moon?’ Equivalent of 95 academic salaries spent on 15 people, averaging $3/4M each. @hannahforsyth.bsky.social hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/spending-t...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

May I recommend an article we wrote based on a cut chapter? foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/s...

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

This is superb. “There is only one system that has ever truly protected Jews over time, and that is liberalism” “Illiberalism always turns on Jews. There are no significant counterexamples. In the end, authoritarians protect Jews until they don’t.”

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Reminder: McBride’s original complaint was that the war crimes were being investigated at all.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Rosehill Racecourse won't sell? Don't worry, Randwick Racecourse is already state-owned! Wind up that lease mateys we're building housing 😤

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Some Israelis chant, ‘Death to Arabs’ and ‘May your village burn,’ as they march through Jerusalem’s Old City.

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

Great speech by Stella winner Michelle de Kretser discussing the censorship around Gaza. Deeply strange its contents were only reported by The Age. Neither ABC nor Guardian write ups of the event mention her powerful comments at all. stella.org.au/2025/05/mich...

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Critics of the changes to super tax want to scare you by saying many people will one day be affected. But their own numbers show that very few people under 30 currently working will have more than $3m in super #OffTheCharts @grogsgamut.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-cha...

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

On this week’s podcast we took an in-depth look at how the Australian media failed in its most basic duties and spent the last 18 months doing little more than amplifying Israeli propaganda. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/03Iu... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul substack.com/home/po...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

The Albanese government shelved free trade negotiations with Israel back in 2022 and already sanctions West Bank settlers. Australia can and should do more but holding up Starmer as an example is shallow politicisation of the issue.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if the "crossbenchers deserve more staff than Shadow Ministers" argument will continue to be pushed now that the Nats would surely be entitled to the same staff as Independents

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

#UN warns 14,000 babies could die in #Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Minsky is about how, when you set up good enough market governance that people and companies can become wealthy, the first thing they do is use the wealth to attack the foundations of the wealth for some reason. anyway, more things are ibn khaldun than are lotka-volterra

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Via Haaretz: Netanyahu has repeated his mission, saying “we are going to take over all of Gaza”, admitting that aid is being allowed in, only because Israel’s reputation is being damaged. Yet our politicians pretend that Israel is not committing genocide or ethnic cleansing. A disgrace.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

I think of this quote all the time.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

🇪🇸 RTVE has shared the following message right before their #Eurovision 2025 grand final broadcast.

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

submitted 25 days ago • 316 comments

I think this debate could have been better with a more nuanced case against our single-member electoral system, so I wrote one here. #ausvotes

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments