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Anthony Eaton
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Full-time academic, sometime writer, drinker of coffee, reluctant cat owner.
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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
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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).
July 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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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
July 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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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
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
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A message for @australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social from the Australian people 🇦🇺🦘🐨👇🏻
Seriously though Labor, this isn’t the Australian people saying ‘well done Labor’ this is us saying ‘take your Trumpian bullshit and fuck off’.
Don’t lose sight of that.
#auspol #ausvotes #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Hey Albo, how about fixing the universities now, eh? #auspol #ausvotes #binnight
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
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FUND UNIVERSITIES. PROPERLY. #ausvotes
May 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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
Seriously though Labor, this isn’t the Australian people saying ‘well done Labor’ this is us saying ‘take your Trumpian bullshit and fuck off’.
Don’t lose sight of that.
#auspol #ausvotes #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I also want to say thanks to the Australian people for the faith they placed in Peter Dutton (ie: none) #auspol #binnight #ausvotes
May 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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
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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
I really hope Labor has the sense to understand that this is as much a repudiation of trumpian politics as it is an endorsement of Labor’s performance over the last 3 years. #auspol #binnigjt
May 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Are we allowed to suggest that the swing is on yet? #auspol #binnight
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
Kudos to Laura Tingle for having a last stab at getting a tax policy out of James McGragh at 8.52 on election night…, #auspol #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🎶mashed potato mashed potato….🎶 #auspol #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The prepolls will save us!!!! (Meanwhile in the background, the band is playing ‘abide with me…’) #auspol #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Gut. The. Chicken! Gut. The. Chicken! #auspol #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Any chance someone can get some painkillers or Valium to James McGrath? Reckon he could use them. #auspol #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Getting a strong vibe that James McGrath isn’t a massive fan of climate 200… #binnight #auspol
May 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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How about we start celebrating higher education as a nation? How about we start shouting, loudly, of the social good of higher education? How about we talk of the nurses, the doctors, the teachers, the social workers, educated at universities? How about we celebrate the artists, the writers, 1/
May 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Editorial: “Anticipation had been building for days about just who Kevin Rudd would turn gay for when he fronted the season finale of Rove Live last night,” Katharine Murphy recorded in The Age. Some see this as the moment campaigning changed in Australia.
The stick and the bristle worm
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM