Chris Wallace
@chriswallace.bsky.social
Canberra, South Coast, London.
Prof at Uni of Canberra.
Know the past, do the future better.
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/chris-wallace
Prof at Uni of Canberra.
Know the past, do the future better.
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/chris-wallace
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Australia’s new National Children’s Commissioner says the current approach to youth justice reflects a deeper erosion of children’s rights. satpa.pe/ONIA2ID
Youth crime is ‘not in a crisis’
The new National Children’s Commissioner cites among her top concerns an increasingly draconian criminal justice system and improvements to the youth social media ban.
satpa.pe
December 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Australia’s new National Children’s Commissioner says the current approach to youth justice reflects a deeper erosion of children’s rights. satpa.pe/ONIA2ID
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Excellent to see.
When Katie Pahlow turned 60, she decided to finally bite the bullet and book herself in for some surf lessons.
Why a growing number of older women are living out their surf dream
When Katie Pahlow turned 60, she decided to finally bite the bullet and book herself in for some surf lessons.
www.abc.net.au
December 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Excellent to see.
‘Since Australia…barred children under 16 from using social media, parents around the world have been debating at school drop-offs & playgrounds, & on group chats & online forums, whether similarly tough action is needed in their own countries.’
Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...
Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...
Worn Down by Worry, Parents Look Longingly at Australia’s Social Media Ban
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
‘Since Australia…barred children under 16 from using social media, parents around the world have been debating at school drop-offs & playgrounds, & on group chats & online forums, whether similarly tough action is needed in their own countries.’
Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...
Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...
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This seems bad
December 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This seems bad
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News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Australia’s sales of big cars are out of control
Australia has a big “big car” problem; we have too many SUVs and utes, and we keep getting lots more of them.
thepoint.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Australia’s sales of big cars are out of control
Australia has a big “big car” problem; we have too many SUVs and utes, and we keep getting lots more of them.
thepoint.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
‘…let’s be brutally honest: what we saw at the MCG this week was not Test cricket. It’s been a souped-up T20 played over two days. I watch a lot of cricket in Australia and have never been so disappointed by a pitch here.’
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b7674ff...
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b7674ff...
Dreadful pitch turned fourth Ashes Test into glorified T20
Surface for Test cricket’s blue-riband event was a joke and it sold the whole sport short
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
‘…let’s be brutally honest: what we saw at the MCG this week was not Test cricket. It’s been a souped-up T20 played over two days. I watch a lot of cricket in Australia and have never been so disappointed by a pitch here.’
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b7674ff...
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b7674ff...
Can’t bat, can’t bowl, can’t build decent defence kit even for themselves. What are the AUKUS subs going to be like?
Gift article: Inside the Army’s £6bn Ajax disaster www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/31dfd35... #auspol
Gift article: Inside the Army’s £6bn Ajax disaster www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/31dfd35... #auspol
Inside the Army’s £6bn Ajax disaster
The tank programme was meant to revolutionise modern warfare, but now a spiralling scandal has put its future in doubt
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Can’t bat, can’t bowl, can’t build decent defence kit even for themselves. What are the AUKUS subs going to be like?
Gift article: Inside the Army’s £6bn Ajax disaster www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/31dfd35... #auspol
Gift article: Inside the Army’s £6bn Ajax disaster www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/31dfd35... #auspol
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new video up on jd vance youtu.be/zJuikC2nouc?...
J.D. Vance: From Trump Critic to Millennial David Duke
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
new video up on jd vance youtu.be/zJuikC2nouc?...
‘The terrorism brought two political leaders into sharp public focus, Albanese and New South Wales premier Chris Minns, and the comparison was unfavourable to Albanese. What has been seen by voters can’t be unseen.’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Anthony Albanese was cruising to the summer break. Now his leadership faces its most serious test
Despite a landslide election victory little more than six months ago, the prime minister is facing a complex political landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
‘The terrorism brought two political leaders into sharp public focus, Albanese and New South Wales premier Chris Minns, and the comparison was unfavourable to Albanese. What has been seen by voters can’t be unseen.’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Citizens would be more impressed by dignified Coalition MPs supporting the government in the serious business of finding & fixing the system’s gaps, errors, oversights & processes that failed to stop this terrorism…than by shouty accusations against the PM.’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Anthony Albanese was cruising to the summer break. Now his leadership faces its most serious test
Despite a landslide election victory little more than six months ago, the prime minister is facing a complex political landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“Citizens would be more impressed by dignified Coalition MPs supporting the government in the serious business of finding & fixing the system’s gaps, errors, oversights & processes that failed to stop this terrorism…than by shouty accusations against the PM.’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘It is all very well styling yourselves as cricket’s answer to punk rockers, revelling in raw self-expression and anti-establishment energy. But it all means nothing when the idea stands so glaringly at odds with the execution.’
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/689951d...
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/689951d...
England are gaslighting us – their arrogant rhetoric is an insult to fans
England have got nothing right on this Ashes tour, slumping from one avoidable mistake to another
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
‘It is all very well styling yourselves as cricket’s answer to punk rockers, revelling in raw self-expression and anti-establishment energy. But it all means nothing when the idea stands so glaringly at odds with the execution.’
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/689951d...
Gift article: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/689951d...
Bazball has failed and Brendon McCullum must go www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...
Bazball has failed and Brendon McCullum must go
Hubris has taken over from common sense in this England team – it is time for change
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Bazball has failed and Brendon McCullum must go www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...
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As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
I figured, what the hell, I’ll do this for work. Then Covid hit and podcasts went through the roof, and now I have the salary of a dermatologist and live in Brooklyn, which is Israel for podcasters.’
The Hatred of Podcasting
thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...
The Hatred of Podcasting
thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...
The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.
thebaffler.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I figured, what the hell, I’ll do this for work. Then Covid hit and podcasts went through the roof, and now I have the salary of a dermatologist and live in Brooklyn, which is Israel for podcasters.’
The Hatred of Podcasting
thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...
The Hatred of Podcasting
thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...
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Behold the TACO President
December 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Behold the TACO President
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I’m actually old enough to remember this
Consulting the card catalogue at the National Library of Australia in Canberra in its first months of operation in 1968 (photo by Photo by Max Dupain, National Library of Australia)
December 12, 2024 at 5:49 AM
I’m actually old enough to remember this
‘After four weeks…Will was sleeping more deeply than ever before, Gaby was reading quickly again, Devin had shocked himself not only by his output (15 essays in four weeks) but also by how long (a full six hours) he could just sit in a room — alone — and write.’
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
‘After four weeks…Will was sleeping more deeply than ever before, Gaby was reading quickly again, Devin had shocked himself not only by his output (15 essays in four weeks) but also by how long (a full six hours) he could just sit in a room — alone — and write.’
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
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The History of Parliament is excited to announce this year's Annual Lecture!
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
Annual Lecture: Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51
Join us for the History of Parliament Annual Lecture for 2025, given by Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The History of Parliament is excited to announce this year's Annual Lecture!
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
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New timber straw hemp neighbourhood "The Erven" with 519 homes planned near Amsterdam #strawhouse #strawbuilding #biobased
whitearkitekter.com/news/white-a...
whitearkitekter.com/news/white-a...
White Arkitekter part of winning team for The Erven | White Arkitekter
We supervise the architectural team and are one of the architects in the winning team behind The Erven, a phase of the Lincolnpark sustainable development area. This new timber neighbourhood in Hoofdd...
whitearkitekter.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New timber straw hemp neighbourhood "The Erven" with 519 homes planned near Amsterdam #strawhouse #strawbuilding #biobased
whitearkitekter.com/news/white-a...
whitearkitekter.com/news/white-a...
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The original and only Womensart - Art posted every single day, 365 days a year, for almost a decade....!Thanks to the artists for so much create genius.....♀️ 💜
Thanks to you...one of more than half a million followers... 💜 !! 🫶🙏
Thanks to you...one of more than half a million followers... 💜 !! 🫶🙏
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The original and only Womensart - Art posted every single day, 365 days a year, for almost a decade....!Thanks to the artists for so much create genius.....♀️ 💜
Thanks to you...one of more than half a million followers... 💜 !! 🫶🙏
Thanks to you...one of more than half a million followers... 💜 !! 🫶🙏
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Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/big-bat...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/big-bat...
December 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/big-bat...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/big-bat...
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The seismic echoes of capsizing icebergs falling from Thwaites Glacier have been detected for the first time.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The seismic echoes of capsizing icebergs falling from Thwaites Glacier have been detected for the first time.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
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My article in todays @mstaronline.bsky.social about FIFA morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fifa...
Fifa fawning on Trump is the culmination of football’s corruption by money
LAST week the beautiful game of football died with shame.The decision to create and award a so-called “peace prize” to US President Donald Trump took brown-nosing to a whole new level.But it was actua...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My article in todays @mstaronline.bsky.social about FIFA morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fifa...