Anthony Eaton
@anthonyeaton.bsky.social
Full-time academic, sometime writer, drinker of coffee, reluctant cat owner.
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Sheikh Wesam Charkawi who was leading the sunset prayer at yesterday’s events in Sydney. Please watch.
February 10, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Sheikh Wesam Charkawi who was leading the sunset prayer at yesterday’s events in Sydney. Please watch.
The good thing about being insomniac at this point in history is that you can always jump online in the middle of the night and find a plethora of very justifiable reasons to lie there wide awake.
January 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The good thing about being insomniac at this point in history is that you can always jump online in the middle of the night and find a plethora of very justifiable reasons to lie there wide awake.
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Quick reality check: there are less than 1.5 million under-16 teens (that is 13-15yos) in Australia. If Inman is right (and assuming most pre-teens didn't have accounts), they've had an average of three accounts blocked each. Doesn't pass the laugh test.
Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month
Global regulators are closely watching the implementation of the world-first ban for users under 16, with some U.S. states considering whether to follow suit.
www.nbcnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Quick reality check: there are less than 1.5 million under-16 teens (that is 13-15yos) in Australia. If Inman is right (and assuming most pre-teens didn't have accounts), they've had an average of three accounts blocked each. Doesn't pass the laugh test.
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“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/LL2wwbN
Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector
satpa.pe
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/LL2wwbN
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A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing.
An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).
An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).
More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing.
An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).
An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).
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Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People, Volume Three includes, 'Beyond the Binary: Shapeshifting and Nonbinary Identity in Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction' by Candice Lemon-Scott.
Available: ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/v... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky #lgbtq
Available: ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/v... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky #lgbtq
July 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People, Volume Three includes, 'Beyond the Binary: Shapeshifting and Nonbinary Identity in Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction' by Candice Lemon-Scott.
Available: ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/v... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky #lgbtq
Available: ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/v... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky #lgbtq
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“The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades.” https://trib.al/bTIvynH
How to fix university funding
Now the election is finally over and the parties and candidates have settled down to their new realities, national priorities must be afforded their proper place. The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades. Specifically, no one was talking
trib.al
June 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades.” https://trib.al/bTIvynH
I have never voted liberal in my life, but tbh any party willing to make serious policy commitments along the lines suggested by John Hewson here would be a serious contender for my support. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How to fix university funding
Now the election is finally over and the parties and candidates have settled down to their new realities, national priorities must be afforded their proper place. The election campaign focused too muc...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I have never voted liberal in my life, but tbh any party willing to make serious policy commitments along the lines suggested by John Hewson here would be a serious contender for my support. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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A message for @australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social from the Australian people 🇦🇺🦘🐨👇🏻
May 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A message for @australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social from the Australian people 🇦🇺🦘🐨👇🏻
May 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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You've got a mandate, fucking use it
May 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
You've got a mandate, fucking use it
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One of the lessons of Liberal Party over my lifetime is that the next leader will be worse than you thought the last one was.
May 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
One of the lessons of Liberal Party over my lifetime is that the next leader will be worse than you thought the last one was.
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Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
😂
😂
May 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
😂
😂
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Anti-Trumpism, in Australia and Canada at least, has become a more powerful political force than anti-incumbency.
May 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Anti-Trumpism, in Australia and Canada at least, has become a more powerful political force than anti-incumbency.
May 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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So fucking sick of the LNP claiming to be the natural guardians of national security. Because they are totally fucking NOT.
May 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
So fucking sick of the LNP claiming to be the natural guardians of national security. Because they are totally fucking NOT.
May 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM