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Here’s a poem called ‘For Your Own Safety and Protection’.

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Peter Dutton - who thinks a POTUS who just put a tariff on Australian penguins is a “big thinker” - wants to control what your kids learn at school and university. #auspol

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Albanese’s solution to all problems, as one Labor figure puts it, is to “apply more Albo”. Since voters rate Labor more highly than its leader, however, “more Albo” during the campaign is not the answer. Spot on @chriswallace.bsky.social

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🌙✨ Eid Mubarak! Wishing you joy, peace, and prosperity on this special day. May your celebrations be filled with love and laughter! 💛 #EidMubarak #ANU

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“Economic inequality shouldn’t be exploited by rhetoric that blames migration for what are usually far more complex and deeply trenched problems,” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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My old friend and #Columbia colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet. [E]ven quoting Fanon will be perilous..., as will be mere mention of race and racism, not to speak of gender, disability and much else." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A photo of the moment of inspiration (January 2023) at the National Gallery of Australia.

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Discovered this work amongst the 6-year-old’s pile of sketches & scribbles. “The Invisable person (The original)” by Rohan ashar-Kasbekar “Rohan got inspired by art when he was three. Then another three years, he got inspired by the blue poles which made him do the invisable person!”

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It may partly be the strong painkillers I’m on today, but this David Pope cartoon made me weep uncontrollably… Not again, never again for everyone…

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Criminals. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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Duterte flown to The Hague after arrest over Philippines drug war killings www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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We have new laws with seriously dangerous consequences in response to what was a fake plot police believe was designed to divert attention and resources to enable other criminal acts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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When my 6yo was younger, he liked watching the garbage trucks and loved space. He announced to us once that he was going to be a space garbage collector. I guess it will be a legit job when he’s older… #space

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As some of us have been saying for a while, Kamala Harris lost because she continued funding the massacre of Palestinians. Her base is sympathetic toward Palestinians. Will the ALP learn from this in time? #auspol

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So ALP and Albo have jumped ahead in the polls after funding Medicare and supporting Ukraine. Now if they fund universities and support Palestine they’d win by a landslide. #auspol

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Apropos of nothing, I’m wondering if this is the time to offer a crash course on ‘India’s Non-Alignment policy’ with a module on ‘Lessons for Australia’ #indianhistory #auspol

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Whereof one cannot speak the truth, thereof one must be silent.

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‘It’s a Sunday, so excuse the sermon, but we can do much better. It’s time to grow up, face our demons and create an inclusive, robust future.’ Well said @juliannes.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #auspol

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I think I know what happened to the tech bros.

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Knitters know best! 🧶 #knitters #auspol #minoritygovernment @knitnannassyd.bsky.social

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It is the job of the artist to provoke, to be controversial, to be outspoken, to get us to think. Isn't that one of the main points of art? If we start cancelling every artist because they "create debate" then who the hell are we as a society? Craven cowards. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Because that ‘relocation’ turned out so well for both countries… #historymatters #India #Pakistan

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Will they use our steel? My @smh @theage cartoon.

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Sunday afternoon done right. Am so enjoying this translated collection of Gujarati pulp fiction, some of which I have read in the original.

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This man is a big thinker…

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The feel-good story of our times.

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Indeed, they can’t align with most of the neo-Nazi ideology (anti-immigrant, homophobic, anti-Asian, anti-Muslim…) and pretend to be appalled by the rest.

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Excited about the publication of my essay 'ARE WE AT A TURNING POINT IN WORLD HISTORY?' in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com

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Media done right.

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Happy new year of the snake! 🐍 My Ouroboros jumper inadvertently fitting & festive. #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake #snake #Ouroboros

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PUKKA! The THUGS & DACOITS PUNCH & LOOT our CASH, SHAMPOO, BANDANAS & run like a TYPHOON to their GYMKHANA in BLIGHTY. Meanwhile on the VERANDAH of our BUNGALOW in KHAKI DUNGAREES, CASHMERE SHAWL & JODHPURS we dream of MULLIGATAWNY & CHUTNEY & rest on a COT in PAJAMAS. No JUGGERNAUT in the JUNGLE!

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Almond orange cake for tea

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UN analysis of verified deaths during a five-month period confirmed that of those who died, 44% were children. Most often, those children were five- to nine-year-olds; 80% of them killed in their own homes.

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In the dark times, may there always be Sicilian lemon almond cookies with a cheeky kiddo!

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It is very important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.

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Today is the 26 January, when the first fleet arrived in Botany Bay. Here is my attempt to understand what the idea of ‘uninhabited’ ment to a C18th British colonial person. An idea that, at face value, was a contradiction even then. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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This was projected by Mary Lou Pavlovic on Sunday in Canberra across what is known as the “Big Bunny” - a US built column in the middle of Australia’s Defence precinct looking straight at Parliament and topped by a US eagle - just in case we forget who is really in charge.

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I spoke to Andrea Ho on ABC Nightlife last evening about #IndiraGandhi becoming (the first, and as yet only, woman) PM of #India in the history segment. I did not share the anecdote of my Pol Sc prof who was smitten by her and referred to her as the “only man in the cabinet”… 🙄

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What could possibly be the rationale of killing at least 101 Palestinians, including 27 children, after agreeing to a ceasefire? Other than pure, undiluted misanthropy? aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Guy who ignored Gaza ‘for mental health reasons’ celebrates ceasefire with Instagram story chaser.com.au/general-news...

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