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Someone will need to explain to me the logic of deregulating minimum fees in rates for solar in Victoria as incentivising more competitive rates?

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Well this can’t be good…

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The use of Lime scooters and bikes as weapons of the resistance delights me in ways I can’t describe.

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Day trip to Canberra and I’m greeted this morning at the airport cafe with the below sentiment. To quote @drmeljohnston.bsky.social - “the revolution will be caffeinated.”

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Anti-feminism is an prevalent political attitude in Australia. Violent anti-feminism is supported by nearly 20% of Australian men. Needless to say, recognising our country’s problem with femicide does not amount to a “war on men” www.australianfemicidewatch.org

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Can you win with the support of lads and dads alone? No, duh!

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That election rap is a bop and I’m afraid it may actually work.

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As the front benchers of the Labor Party and Coalition criss-cross the country, Crikey is tracking the eyebrow-raising local spending announcements they’ve made along the way.

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“The American people, they expect action. And that is what they’re getting. And they’ll get the exact same attitude under a Peter Dutton government.” That sentiment aged like prison toilet wine…

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Donald Trump expending political capital to try and free Andrew Tate. How can we make sense of this?

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A huge welcome to the brilliant @drmeljohnston.bsky.social! Anyone interested in critical political economy, gender, development and security would do well to give her a follow.

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After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

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Patricia Owens, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January 2025 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Just published on APSR First View: "White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash" by Stephane Wolton. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/white-male-and-angry-a-reputationbased-rationale-for-backlash/BEB3DADCC3F7CCC1A7DB49ECDA6787CF

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In the history of patriarchy’s reconstitution, actors appear twice: first as tragedy, then as farce. Yet there are things that happen to women that the existence of capitalism cannot explain. We offer feminist dialectics to illuminate the internal relations of & transformation to global patriarchy.

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“Have the US election results and the rise of the tech broligarchy got you worried about the morbid symptoms of global patriarchy?” — the latest from @sarameger.bsky.social and Melissa Johnston blogging on their essential read article in @ejir.bsky.social

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In the coming days, please don’t forget the crucial role that my posts played in the fall of Bashar al-Assad

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“Written on the shell casings were the words ‘deny,’ ‘defend’ and ‘depose,’ according to sources.”

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The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam. There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality. It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

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When universities hire chief diversity officers, it has no effect on the diversity of faculty or university administrator hires. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

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Instead of performing “ornamental intersectionality,” what would it mean to consider the internal relations of patriarchal, capitalist, and racial oppressions? A great little summary of a knock out article by @abieler.bsky.social and @morton.bsky.social

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“ #PoliticalEconomy analysts are missing the elephant in the room: #patriarchy. … the voting gap is in fact due to #women having become significantly more #feminist, while men have become more patriarchal” #WPS #participation #misogyny #UNSCR1325 #gendersky #conflictsky

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I made a starter pack of political studies folk in Australia - I know I surely haven't captured everyone here, so please let me know if you'd like to be added - share widely! go.bsky.app/UtgJPaZ

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Why should political economists care about misogyny and violent extremism? “Talking with Tom, Dick or Harry about Misogyny and Violence in Global Politics”. Part of the @ppesydney.bsky.social 10th anniversary series www.ppesydney.net/talking-with...

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I'm building a Global Political Economy starter pack! Many new folks joining Bluesky - send me handles! go.bsky.app/AT3W7Q4

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Hey IR folks, Australasia's biannual festival of International Relations (the OCIS conference) is in the beautiful city of Sydney next July. Join us in the land of Oz! ocis.org.au/call-for-pap...

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I, for one, am 100% behind banning social media accounts for children. This is why: nyti.ms/3O93u1v

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