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alistairsisson.bsky.social
cities & housing • Gadigal/Wangal land • he/him https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/alistair-sisson
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This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Read this, and remember that this government had the perfect policy window to end this tragic workfare system. But instead of worrying about the poor, they decided to care about the rentiers who profit from them.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Please sign this letter in support of Palestinian academic Dr Randa Abdel Fattah. The attacks on her are also attacks on our basic rights to academic freedom

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Open letter in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and condemning the latest attempt to silence her — please sign & share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Incarceration doesn't make for safer communities - this carceral "common sense" needs critical examination so we can understand what prisons are really for, & the impact they really have, in the colony Thanks @emmakrussell.bsky.social @francismarkham.work @blatmannaama.bsky.social Andrew Burridge!

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Mass incarceration is out of control in Australia. 1% of Territorians are in jail now — that's higher than even Mississippi in the US. An absolute crisis situation. #ntpol nit.com.au/31-12-2024/1...

submitted 59 days ago • 19 comments

The homeowners welfare state, as I like to call it

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Came to Brian Howe’s archives to read housing stuff, stayed for his hatred of cars

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.com

submitted 107 days ago • 10 comments

"Boycotts are effective, and ending complicity is a profound ethical obligation that Palestinians have asked us to fulfill." Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard on the "largest cultural boycott from writers since the South African anti-apartheid movement" breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment