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Doco filmmaker, comms, futures, PhD candidate (ethics & impact producing) Director - Economic Media Centre. Dja Dja Wurrung Country https://echotango.org/ https://unquiet.com.au/ https://thethingswedidnext.org/ https://economicmediacentre.org/
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Very worrying 👀

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"Our faith is ours as much as it is anyone else's." Aisya Zaharin writing for ABC Religion and Ethics on Islam's historical embrace of gender diversity and how that's erased today www.abc.net.au/religion/mur...

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@nickfeik.bsky.social on the "total, unmitigated cock up" of the Sabsabi affair. "Can Creative OZ explain how any artist is able to make any work that could avoid being misread by bad-faith actors in 15 years' time?" nickfeik.substack.com/p/no-apology...

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Centrelink trialling AI in fraud detection & debt prioritisation, I spoke to @asherwolf.bsky.social & Justin Warren about it. Tip me off about high risk AI & automation usecases on Signal: JeremyNadel.86 ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

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I do not like this at all.

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Going to the town pool with hot kids and grabbing icy poles before a serious talk - I kinda like it.

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Can not wait to read this!

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"Trigger divisive narratives? This is a low bar. Artistic expression in this formulation has been reduced, in very practical terms, to this: if News Corp attack, it's unsupportable."

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Creative Australia is advertising for an Executive Officer who will act as "maestro/maestra" for Creative Australia's board, reporting to Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette 👀 australiacouncil.pulsesoftware.com/Pulse/job/Oo...

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Creative Australia's very bad night in Estimates. My write-up in Crikey www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/26/a...

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I stand with Fred Leone, a principled artist of integrity and heart. Awful watching him get dragged in senate estimates by "shadow arts minister" ("" because how this represents the arts is beyond me) who is starting as she means to go on. Generating outrage, throwing artists under the bus.

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This most recent controversy – only the latest in a long series of pre-emptive self-censoring gestures by Australian arts organisations – suggests the direct threat facing the arts is from within. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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the organisation was exposed / divisive narratives / a duty of care to the artist / graphic imagery / social cohesion / conflict of interest.....

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Senate estimates - Creative Australia live now www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Ahead of Adrian Collette's senate hearing, David Pledger reflects on the state of censorship, control and interference in Australia’s art funding

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London bus stop. #Swasticar

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Multiply our amplification of key ideas and messages -

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If you missed tonight’s town hall with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social on resisting the shock and awe politics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts, you can watch the video here:

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And suddenly they're outraged? On the 'Australian' art industry and the Venice Biennale Matt Chun Feb 19, 2025 mattchun.substack.com/p/and-just-l...

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... so tired of this at every level

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Kinship over courts – where real justice begins Maia Onyenachi missingperspectives.com/posts/kinshi...

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Luis Rubiales found guilty of sexually assaulting Spanish footballer Jenni Hermoso www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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What’s worse? Standing up to attacks from conservatives and murdoch media or shredding credibility with the community you supposedly exist to serve?

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“Creative Australia’s executive director, Adrian Collette, told staff at an angry meeting on Monday that the public outcry would have been greater than the one he now finds himself embroiled in, if the Sabsabi exhibition had gone ahead.”

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This whole thread -

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Media release: Artistic and creative organisations across Australia must reaffirm their commitment to freedom of expression following a series of interventions over the past 12 months which have resulted in artists being silenced or sidelined. https://meaa.io/3CYDkg5

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Social cohesion a fantasy when the media peddles division and double standards www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/17/m...

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Pretty stoked to get to do this work with the EMC!

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Let them play! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Statement on Freedom of Opinion and Expression in the Creative Sectors - Diversity Arts Australia diversityarts.org.au/statement-on...

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“The last sixteen months offer ample evidence that, rather than peace, Australia is in pursuit of an alarming sort of quiet. Quiet will do.” Michaela Sahhar on the silencing of Khaled Sabsabi.

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Sam Kerr's arrest highlights the white supremacy, racism and misogyny of British policing www.bigissue.com/opinion/sam-...

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If Creative Australia thinks it's reducing the risk of losing public support by cancelling Khaled Sabsasi, surely the question is, who is this “public” it is worrying about? Creative Australia's shameful dumping of Khaled Sabsabi independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

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Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry If conservative media is going to dictate cultural policy, Australian culture will face a reckoning. www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/17/k...

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#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure. The group calls for them to be reinstated.

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Solidarity with my brothers Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino

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Creative Australia’s decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino’s representation in the Venice Biennale is a disturbing capitulation to right-wing racist fearmongering.

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‘Art should not be censored’: Khaled Sabsabi responds to cancellation of Venice Biennale project www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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A letter from other shortlisted artists demanding the reinstatement of Khaled Sabsabi (artist) and Michael Dagostino (curator) to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale

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Creative Australia ditching Khaled Sabsabi as our representative at the Venice Biennale is an extraordinary denial of artistic freedom by our supposedly leading & independent arts advocate. A week ago Sabsabi said he thought the honour "wouldn’t happen because of who I am.” Turns out he was right.

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