Josh Hallwright, PhD
@hallwright.bsky.social
Humanitarian and disaster management professional turned 'academic'; ex-UNOCHA, ex-Red Cross, ex-fammer, ex-X; enjoys wine, food, the natural and social sciences; acknowledges the unfortunate job security that comes with working in humanitarian crises.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Maybe it's a coincidence but Leyton Hewitt, Ian Thorpe, Nova Peris and Dawn Fraser are clients of the PR company Markson Sparks, whose CEO is Max Markson.
It takes a lot of contacts and resources to organise 60 people at random. Just saying.
It takes a lot of contacts and resources to organise 60 people at random. Just saying.
January 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Maybe it's a coincidence but Leyton Hewitt, Ian Thorpe, Nova Peris and Dawn Fraser are clients of the PR company Markson Sparks, whose CEO is Max Markson.
It takes a lot of contacts and resources to organise 60 people at random. Just saying.
It takes a lot of contacts and resources to organise 60 people at random. Just saying.
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Demonising the term ‘Democratic Socialism’ and misleading the public into believing that it’s a form of oppression rather than empowerment is the most evil lie spun by corporate capitalists
Buying into this lie made the nightmares of Brexit and MAGA a reality
Buying into this lie made the nightmares of Brexit and MAGA a reality
December 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Demonising the term ‘Democratic Socialism’ and misleading the public into believing that it’s a form of oppression rather than empowerment is the most evil lie spun by corporate capitalists
Buying into this lie made the nightmares of Brexit and MAGA a reality
Buying into this lie made the nightmares of Brexit and MAGA a reality
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Amongst much else (horrifically cruel, etc)... a good example of the violence - real violence - of bureaucracy.
Amongst much else (horrifically cruel, etc)... a good example of the violence - real violence - of bureaucracy.
'Simply unprecedented': Israel banning dozens of charities from Gaza
The Israeli government says the organisations have not met new requirements, which include recognising Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and banning any so-called "de-legitimisation" of Israel.
www.abc.net.au
January 1, 2026 at 6:43 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Amongst much else (horrifically cruel, etc)... a good example of the violence - real violence - of bureaucracy.
Amongst much else (horrifically cruel, etc)... a good example of the violence - real violence - of bureaucracy.
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“A year has passed since the detention of my father, in this white coat, he walked alone amidst death, destruction, and in front of tanks, not because he was fearless, but because his oath and his humanity were greater than any fear,” Elias wrote.
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
December 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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What's going on up in Sydney? Sounds like they want the PM responsible for police, and the Premier in charge of the army?
December 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
What's going on up in Sydney? Sounds like they want the PM responsible for police, and the Premier in charge of the army?
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Peace protests against genocide blamed for shootings? Rather than the genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, crimes against humanity, settler violence, dispossession, oppression, starvation…
Standing by is complicity.
I won’t be complicit.
Send them all to The Hague.
Standing by is complicity.
I won’t be complicit.
Send them all to The Hague.
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Peace protests against genocide blamed for shootings? Rather than the genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, crimes against humanity, settler violence, dispossession, oppression, starvation…
Standing by is complicity.
I won’t be complicit.
Send them all to The Hague.
Standing by is complicity.
I won’t be complicit.
Send them all to The Hague.
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Minns and Albanese are being played like puppets by the Israel lobby and Mike Burgess is too busy hoping nobody will notice the failure of his agency to neutralise a terror cell unassociated with the public sympathy and marches for Palestinian liberation. No one in leadership is doing their job.
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Minns and Albanese are being played like puppets by the Israel lobby and Mike Burgess is too busy hoping nobody will notice the failure of his agency to neutralise a terror cell unassociated with the public sympathy and marches for Palestinian liberation. No one in leadership is doing their job.
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Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
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“Existing tax settings allow for (and in some ways facilitate) growing inequality, mounting evidence shows the role of inequality in reducing economic growth,” writes Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at The Australia Institute.
Read more: australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...
Read more: australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“Existing tax settings allow for (and in some ways facilitate) growing inequality, mounting evidence shows the role of inequality in reducing economic growth,” writes Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at The Australia Institute.
Read more: australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...
Read more: australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...
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In Nairobi, on the last Saturday of the month, three dozen people hand over their phones. It’s the first rule of the Serenity Social Club’s Disconnect event – a day of no screens or digital notifications. In their place are yoga, pottery, crocheting, conversations with strangers – or even just naps.
Airplane mode for scattered souls
The Serenity Social Club has nailed the blueprint for connecting by disconnecting in a bespoke little world free from WiFi.
continent.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
In Nairobi, on the last Saturday of the month, three dozen people hand over their phones. It’s the first rule of the Serenity Social Club’s Disconnect event – a day of no screens or digital notifications. In their place are yoga, pottery, crocheting, conversations with strangers – or even just naps.
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Don’t be ridiculous. The US is far from a Banana Republic. It’s a Banana De Facto Monarchy.
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Don’t be ridiculous. The US is far from a Banana Republic. It’s a Banana De Facto Monarchy.
ICYMI
(NB working link is www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...)
(NB working link is www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...)
December 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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New from the Australian Institute of Criminology, data on human trafficking and modern slavery in Australia 2024–2025. www.aic.gov.au/publications...
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
New from the Australian Institute of Criminology, data on human trafficking and modern slavery in Australia 2024–2025. www.aic.gov.au/publications...
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Great article, featuring our PhD student Ann Flemming Nielsen talking about work she is involved in with the Gamay Rangers and UNSW, and her PhD research, testing the best ways to restore endangered Posidonia australis seagrass in Gamay/Botany Bay 🌐🌱🌊🧪
Our work with the Gamay Rangers to restore the environmental and cultural values of seagrass in Gamay - Botany Bay www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
'Localised extinction' risk for seagrass in Botany Bay
It is estimated half of the local seagrass habitat in Gamay (Botany Bay) has already been lost. Researchers and Aboriginal rangers are replanting seagrass fragments and using biochar to restore the ar...
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Great article, featuring our PhD student Ann Flemming Nielsen talking about work she is involved in with the Gamay Rangers and UNSW, and her PhD research, testing the best ways to restore endangered Posidonia australis seagrass in Gamay/Botany Bay 🌐🌱🌊🧪
This is why I'm a vegetarian.
Having a 'dietary requirement' should refer to eating meat rather than referring to those who don't (and other diets).
Having a 'dietary requirement' should refer to eating meat rather than referring to those who don't (and other diets).
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is why I'm a vegetarian.
Having a 'dietary requirement' should refer to eating meat rather than referring to those who don't (and other diets).
Having a 'dietary requirement' should refer to eating meat rather than referring to those who don't (and other diets).
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Just a thought… but maybe let’s not have massive data centres sucking up water, gutsing on electricity and destroying the social fabric. Could be an option?
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Just a thought… but maybe let’s not have massive data centres sucking up water, gutsing on electricity and destroying the social fabric. Could be an option?
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“The Japanese Ambassador in Australia said, ‘Japan needs Australian gas for keeping the neon lights of Tokyo’, but it’s not true” – Yuki Tanabe at the Climate Integrity Summit 2025.
Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“The Japanese Ambassador in Australia said, ‘Japan needs Australian gas for keeping the neon lights of Tokyo’, but it’s not true” – Yuki Tanabe at the Climate Integrity Summit 2025.
Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
That's incredible - similar to photos from tornado alley in the states!
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
That's incredible - similar to photos from tornado alley in the states!
Gas use for electricity generation in Australia is plummeting.
Down 50% over the past decade (!!!) in the NEM on the east coast.
Gas has a small role that's getting smaller and will be absolutely crushed by big batteries in the electricity.
Not a transition fuel, no matter what BS the PM pushes.
Down 50% over the past decade (!!!) in the NEM on the east coast.
Gas has a small role that's getting smaller and will be absolutely crushed by big batteries in the electricity.
Not a transition fuel, no matter what BS the PM pushes.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Income inequality is higher in the US today than it was in 1774, even if you factor in slavery.
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Income inequality is higher in the US today than it was in 1774, even if you factor in slavery.
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Beautiful UK rainfall map
(elevation and wind direction play a big role)
(By Alasdair Rae @@undertheraedar)
www.linkedin.com/posts/alasda...
(elevation and wind direction play a big role)
(By Alasdair Rae @@undertheraedar)
www.linkedin.com/posts/alasda...
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Beautiful UK rainfall map
(elevation and wind direction play a big role)
(By Alasdair Rae @@undertheraedar)
www.linkedin.com/posts/alasda...
(elevation and wind direction play a big role)
(By Alasdair Rae @@undertheraedar)
www.linkedin.com/posts/alasda...
Quite insightful. Amongst many other pearls: "China’s average electricity rate of $0.084/kWh is cheaper than most of the rest of the world, but its power lies not in the base price but in its strategic application."
Australia's is $0.26 #auspol
Australia's is $0.26 #auspol
electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...
“China is building the “mint”…at an incredible, world-changing scale, retained state control over its distribution. Its deployment of new electricity generation, from renewables, is staggering. It met its 2030 target of 1,200GW of renewable capacity 5 yrs early, in 2025.
“China is building the “mint”…at an incredible, world-changing scale, retained state control over its distribution. Its deployment of new electricity generation, from renewables, is staggering. It met its 2030 target of 1,200GW of renewable capacity 5 yrs early, in 2025.
Electricity is about to become the new base currency and China figured it out
As we accelerate into an all-electric, all-digital age, the ultimate representation of productive capacity becomes the kilowatt-hour (kWh).
electrek.co
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Quite insightful. Amongst many other pearls: "China’s average electricity rate of $0.084/kWh is cheaper than most of the rest of the world, but its power lies not in the base price but in its strategic application."
Australia's is $0.26 #auspol
Australia's is $0.26 #auspol
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Australia joins pledge to phase out fossil fuels, in a move described as its strongest statement yet and requiring a rapid scaling up renewable energy.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Australia joins pledge to phase out fossil fuels, in a move described as its strongest statement yet and requiring a rapid scaling up renewable energy.
Australia, take note.
With our state of duopoly, this is a very realistic risk for us.
With our state of duopoly, this is a very realistic risk for us.
2. Policies to halt & reverse the rise in ultra-processed food production, marketing, & consumption. 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Policies to halt and reverse the rise in ultra-processed food production, marketing, and consumption
Dietary patterns high in ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have been associated with poor
diet quality and health outcomes, and are displacing healthier dietary patterns—meals
and dishes prepared with fres...
www.thelancet.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Australia, take note.
With our state of duopoly, this is a very realistic risk for us.
With our state of duopoly, this is a very realistic risk for us.