Jennifer Mills
@jennifermills.net.au
Writer, reader. On Kaurna land.
SALVAGE out now 🌏🪂✨
A Concise Compendium of Wonder coming 03/26 👹🧗🏻♀️🌳
Chair @asauthors.bsky.social, opinions my own
SALVAGE out now 🌏🪂✨
A Concise Compendium of Wonder coming 03/26 👹🧗🏻♀️🌳
Chair @asauthors.bsky.social, opinions my own
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Jennifer Mills
@jennifermills.net.au
· Aug 18
Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what's next - ABC listen
Russian born US writer Gary Shteyngart imagines a future America with strong parallels to Russia in Vera, or Faith, Adelaide based author Jennifer Mills' latest novel Salvage rockets into space after ...
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Always cool to chat with the book show on ABC RN. Listen in if you want some laughs about billionaires leaving the planet so the rest of us can deal with the climate crisis, I write fiction I swear 🌏🪂💥
#salvage
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#salvage
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Good result but have you thought about making men take responsibility for their behaviour? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
An answer to domestic violence may be sitting behind pharmacy counters
The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Good result but have you thought about making men take responsibility for their behaviour? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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It’s being reported that the new laws will require large emitting projects to disclose their carbon emissions. Good news.
“The Albanese government has secured a historic deal with the Greens to pass major reforms to national environment laws.”
#auspol #auslaw
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#auspol #auslaw
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Albanese strikes deal with the Greens to pass environment protection bill
The Albanese government has secured a historic deal with the Greens to pass major reforms to national environment laws.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It’s being reported that the new laws will require large emitting projects to disclose their carbon emissions. Good news.
Passed out mid roll 💙
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Passed out mid roll 💙
I read the Szalay and now feel terrible for any commentator who described it as being “about masculinity”
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I read the Szalay and now feel terrible for any commentator who described it as being “about masculinity”
Catching up with this incredible conversation between Peter Greste and Omar El Akkad from Canberra Writers Festival last month www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
One day, everyone will have always been against this — Omar El Akkad and Peter Greste reckon with Western hypocrisy over Israel's war on Gaza - ABC listen
The Western world is supposed to stand for values like freedom, justice and human rights, a commitment to meet wrongdoing with consequence, guided by rules and obligations. How then, do we reconcile t...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Catching up with this incredible conversation between Peter Greste and Omar El Akkad from Canberra Writers Festival last month www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The impacts of the algal bloom are still evident along our South Australian shores, dead fish scattered as far as the morning walk. To face the climate change driven causes behind this national disaster Australia needs a firm commitment to stopping the expansion of fossil fuels.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The impacts of the algal bloom are still evident along our South Australian shores, dead fish scattered as far as the morning walk. To face the climate change driven causes behind this national disaster Australia needs a firm commitment to stopping the expansion of fossil fuels.
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We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
Everybody look at this cool moth
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Everybody look at this cool moth
The tide has turned against AI theft. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
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November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The tide has turned against AI theft. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A privilege and a joy for my first public duty as new Chair of @asauthors.bsky.social to MC our annual celebration, the Colin Simpson Memorial Keynote, held in Naarm last night.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A privilege and a joy for my first public duty as new Chair of @asauthors.bsky.social to MC our annual celebration, the Colin Simpson Memorial Keynote, held in Naarm last night.
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It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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A rallying cry for my fellow journalists to put their boots on and grow a backbone.
drilled.media/news/media-b...
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Make Media Brave Again
The only way to protect what’s left of journalism is to do the job right.
drilled.media
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A rallying cry for my fellow journalists to put their boots on and grow a backbone.
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drilled.media/news/media-b...
I liked the springsteen movie, it was endearingly flawed. Mostly I loved jeremy strong’s scene-stealing landau. What a study
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I liked the springsteen movie, it was endearingly flawed. Mostly I loved jeremy strong’s scene-stealing landau. What a study
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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My secretary has had it
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My secretary has had it
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“Aunties! Yes, Aunties!”
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“Aunties! Yes, Aunties!”
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
I love working longhand. The rough draft happens by accretion, almost unseen. A physical process, embedded with the marks of mood and energy and memory. More like carving or knitting something than typing.
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I love working longhand. The rough draft happens by accretion, almost unseen. A physical process, embedded with the marks of mood and energy and memory. More like carving or knitting something than typing.
“Lessons have been learned” - I hope so. And if so, it’s only because writers stood together for a colleague, and spoke up against this ridiculous overreach by a festival sponsor. That collective power is the more important lesson.
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FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival
A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Lessons have been learned” - I hope so. And if so, it’s only because writers stood together for a colleague, and spoke up against this ridiculous overreach by a festival sponsor. That collective power is the more important lesson.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Renewed my subscription to @overlandjournal.bsky.social for another year. Always essential reading. Please subscribe/donate if you can - overland.org.au
Overland - Overland literary journal
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November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Renewed my subscription to @overlandjournal.bsky.social for another year. Always essential reading. Please subscribe/donate if you can - overland.org.au
Got out of the sea because of approaching thunderstorm and was unlocking my bike just as it hit. Must have looked like a gleeful witch bcos some dude walking past pointed at me and said “you did this didn’t you”
November 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Got out of the sea because of approaching thunderstorm and was unlocking my bike just as it hit. Must have looked like a gleeful witch bcos some dude walking past pointed at me and said “you did this didn’t you”
It’s the happiest day of the year! Samhain/Oíche Shamhna baking 2025 feat. special guest star, Karenia mikimotoi 🦠💀👻
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It’s the happiest day of the year! Samhain/Oíche Shamhna baking 2025 feat. special guest star, Karenia mikimotoi 🦠💀👻
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Huge thank you to the comedians, musicians, artists and writers who are just as mad and bewildered as the rest of us but are still doing their best to make life worth living for everyone.
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Huge thank you to the comedians, musicians, artists and writers who are just as mad and bewildered as the rest of us but are still doing their best to make life worth living for everyone.