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Likes geography, hates writing bios. Settler on stolen land. He/his. I have never met with Brian Burke.
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like, if i was one of those online lefties always pretending I'd Luigi a mining tycoon I'd be obsessed with how the Indonesians do it. (I already am, but that's because i'm a fricken nerd)

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

For inspiration, watch the blistering anti-fascist speech by the German Left party co-leader with the Rosa Luxemburg tattoos, Heidi Reichenneke, that has been watched over 30m times and led to a last-minute surge in the polls (auto-translate works ok) youtu.be/l7bWsE_fMxI?...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Not long after I submitted my application to the national redress scheme I received a phone call from the local police where the abuse occurred. The Catholic church had reported my application to police after the government provided my application to the church.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

New theory of history just dropped

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

#stopsilos? how’s that working out for you Sarah?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Anne Twomey gives a thwacking to the amended electoral disclosure, donations and spending changes. Will be a very interesting HCA challenge when it happens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kfF...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Homeownership now a lottery, a birth lottery. Nepobank driving inequality. www.smh.com.au/property/new... www.smh.com.au/property/new...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump 2.0 ushers in new impenetrable bond vigilante language

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation seeking 1.8 billion Australian dollars ($1.15bn) in damages from WA after it allowed a mining firm to establish an iron ore project on its ancestral land without a land use deal, according to court filings. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

it's so unbelievable to me that zizek has a substack. on the other hand it's very believeable that he uses it to make observations such as that willem defoe playing bobby peru in wild at heart has a "cuntface"

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

This should be a massive wake-up call to the Jewish community. Yes, antisemitism is very real and scary. And the response to that cannot be to hate back. That way sheer madness lies. As this utterly meshugannah situation demonstrates perfectly.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

New book: Indigenous Statistics: From Data Deficits to Data Sovereignty, 2nd ed. by Chris Andersen, Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Chelsea Gabel. First ed was a very useful read. www.routledge.com/Indigenous-S...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

New researcher positions in the Parliamentary Library, across politics & public admin, social policy and defence. Here's the link to the PPA job (you can get to the others via APS jobs): www.apsjobs.gov.au/s/job-detail...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Climate change as a driver of inflationary supply pressures needs to be a bigger part of our economic discussion. From insurance to food, it's having an impact We're too focused on demand as the main driver & trying to crush it via monetary policy which won't address the structural causes #auspol

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments