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Iain Davidson AU
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Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578 .. more

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · Oct 21
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Art or Scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication
This book descibes the origin and evolution of art and that art consists of relationships between people. It challenges the standard definitions of art
link.springer.com

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 8h
Unbelievable. I wonder how many the Islamophobia envoy is getting.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 9h
All those nice looking books in German. Ach. I feel very little not knowing German.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 9h
I would have thought this was fairly conclusive. Growth is part of our problem NOT a solution to anything.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?
Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?
www.theguardian.com

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 10h
Gail, I am at a loss to interpret how to get a copy. Can you shed some light? Please

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 14h
How nice to hear the Islamophobia envoy going public. This is a really important issue and extremely relevant to the discussion which has been dominated by a foreign head of state.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 14h
We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 15h
I have a simple question. Have Jewish Australians from Bondi had a visit from their Head of State? She is the Governor General.
Statement by the Prime Minister about the head of state of Israel to Australia.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 15h
As I have been saying, there is an immense amount of unused talent among the teals and even in the cross bench. Steggal is saying it clearly.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 15h
Lovely. I think that many Palestinians would also see the star of David as a hate symbol.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 15h
Or make it legal to punch anyone with one of theses
Police and a nazi with similar moustache

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 16h
Absolutely. The violence came from the police.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 17h
That was horrifying. Bloke lying on the ground with arms behind his back and the police thug started pummelling him. No excuse.
ladystardust64.bsky.social ladystardust ☮️ @ladystardust64.bsky.social · 19h
WTAF that cop was just pummeling that non-resisting person 🤬

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h
I'm reminded of the colonist practice of distributing blankets with smallpox in them

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h
Do not forget that Netanyahoo offered to train Australian police in the handling of opposition. I do hope we turned him down, but it looks as if we did not. The last thing we need here is the Gestapo.

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ladystardust ☮️ @ladystardust64.bsky.social · 19h
WTAF that cop was just pummeling that non-resisting person 🤬

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 19h
Are these the tactics that Netanyahu promised to bring to the Australian police? Push the bike into the crowd then punch up anyone who stands there with their hands up, isolate them and reform

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
I am with you in spirit. I failed to find a protest in Armidale, alas. Go well.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, but that went the way of the Dodo

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Herzog said: "And we did not seek that war October 7. Our nation terribly and people were butchered, murdered, raped and burnt and abducted. "
He conveniently forgets all of the butchery, murder, rape, burning and abduction of Palestinians by the Israelis over the years since 1948.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
That is really sad. I loved his cartoons in The Saturday Paper. My condolences to his family.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
“The bottom line here is we’ve got an international visitor who’s been invited by the Commonwealth government. Reasonable people expect us to keep him safe and to keep the community safe,” the premier said.

You know, I think that reasonable people expected to be safe in their own homes in Gaza.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Now is this an analogy with the lack of social cohesion on Australia caused by the genocidal head of state or with the US caused by ... So many options. And who likes any of them?

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
It took me a while to realise why there are so many photos of Superb Owls on this day. Now I understand. It is all about people who consent to damaging their brains with the promise of riches.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
And it is published in the Australian.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
But when the tyranny of democracy holds power, the ability of independents to hold anyone to account is very limited, or nil. I'd be tempted to say there is more talent among the independents at the moment than among all the rest of the members but how is that talent manifested in action?

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
So long as there is one party with a majority, however many independents there are, they will form government and ensure that community independents have no power as independents. We could we be stuffed by our system of government and major parties have no interest in changing that.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Supposedly the zionists are funding and campaigning quietly against Greens. Talk about cohension. I'm sure they could find a leader. And I also hope that large numbers of the backbench team up with the Teals and form a centre party (which to the left of Albanese) to form government.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Cohesion.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
I suspect that may be true. But who would be the alternative?

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d
Albanese’s stupid, immoral decision to invite Herzog has inflamed divisions in the local Jewish community too.