Josh Holloway
@jholloway.bsky.social
Lecturer in Government at Flinders University.
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Josh Holloway
@jholloway.bsky.social
· Oct 3
🎉 New publication out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with @duncanmcdonnell.com and Michelle Evans!
We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates:
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
Indigenous political candidates face less voter bias than parties might think: new research
A world-first study involving 4,000 Australian adults shows political parties shouldn’t assume Indigenous candidates will face voter rejection.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates:
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
These figures from the new McKinnon index seem unusually low to me. While they're slightly different questions, the figures are also at odds with the ~90% confidence in the AEC previously in reports like from the APSC as recently as 2023.
Wonder what's going on here.
Wonder what's going on here.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
These figures from the new McKinnon index seem unusually low to me. While they're slightly different questions, the figures are also at odds with the ~90% confidence in the AEC previously in reports like from the APSC as recently as 2023.
Wonder what's going on here.
Wonder what's going on here.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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This is some story.
After Andrew Bolt announced he was leaving Melbourne "for good" due to his Covid tantrum etc, the taxpayer-owned NBN Co arranged a special high-speed internet connection for Sky News at his Mornington pad so he could broadcast his bile from home...
After Andrew Bolt announced he was leaving Melbourne "for good" due to his Covid tantrum etc, the taxpayer-owned NBN Co arranged a special high-speed internet connection for Sky News at his Mornington pad so he could broadcast his bile from home...
'Throw the kitchen sink at it': NBN Co fast-tracked upgrade for Bolt
Senior managers at the National Broadband Network intervened to accelerate a home internet upgrade for News Corp pundit Andrew Bolt and resolve a technical problem for a top executive's friend during ...
www.abc.net.au
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is some story.
After Andrew Bolt announced he was leaving Melbourne "for good" due to his Covid tantrum etc, the taxpayer-owned NBN Co arranged a special high-speed internet connection for Sky News at his Mornington pad so he could broadcast his bile from home...
After Andrew Bolt announced he was leaving Melbourne "for good" due to his Covid tantrum etc, the taxpayer-owned NBN Co arranged a special high-speed internet connection for Sky News at his Mornington pad so he could broadcast his bile from home...
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the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,
Obama-in-a-tan-suit levels of dumb criticism
omg, I cannot believe this is an actual line of attack from Sussssan.
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Obama-in-a-tan-suit levels of dumb criticism
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I just published a new article with Tina Hardin, Wendy Keech and Bernadette Richards that compares data sharing legislation in Australia at both federal and state level and its impact on health and social welfare data sharing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Public data sharing legislation, privacy and sharing of health and social welfare data in Australia: a legal and policy document analysis | Data & Policy | Cambridge Core
Public data sharing legislation, privacy and sharing of health and social welfare data in Australia: a legal and policy document analysis - Volume 7
www.cambridge.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I just published a new article with Tina Hardin, Wendy Keech and Bernadette Richards that compares data sharing legislation in Australia at both federal and state level and its impact on health and social welfare data sharing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
major party competition in this space firmly settling on
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change"
vs
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change (but we'll look a little sad about it)"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change"
vs
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change (but we'll look a little sad about it)"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
'Climate trigger' formally ruled out of environment laws
A "climate trigger" that could be used to block coal and gas projects has been formally excluded from the government's overhaul of Australia's environment laws, minister Murray Watt confirms.
www.abc.net.au
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
major party competition in this space firmly settling on
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change"
vs
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change (but we'll look a little sad about it)"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change"
vs
"we're not going to do anything meaningful about climate change (but we'll look a little sad about it)"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
data4democracy.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
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Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."
Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."
October 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."
Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."
let's tune back into American politics to see if things have gone back to norma-
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RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
October 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
let's tune back into American politics to see if things have gone back to norma-
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It's still going. The republished Deloitte report into the Targeted Compliance Framework is STILL full of slop references. How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this?
✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social
✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's still going. The republished Deloitte report into the Targeted Compliance Framework is STILL full of slop references. How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this?
✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social
✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
Unsurprising that some of the most concise and meaningful input into this comes from the young people to be affected.
The last line in particular is key - it's not to get the impression that the government just wants the easy way out by targeting young Australians, not Big Tech's creations.
The last line in particular is key - it's not to get the impression that the government just wants the easy way out by targeting young Australians, not Big Tech's creations.
Here's what she told them fwiw www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Unsurprising that some of the most concise and meaningful input into this comes from the young people to be affected.
The last line in particular is key - it's not to get the impression that the government just wants the easy way out by targeting young Australians, not Big Tech's creations.
The last line in particular is key - it's not to get the impression that the government just wants the easy way out by targeting young Australians, not Big Tech's creations.
Big day for gambling lobby news
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
October 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Big day for gambling lobby news
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.
I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.
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Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …
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Labor pledged to save $6.4bn through cutting the government's use of consultants and external labour, and yet here they are forking out more. The government's focus must be on rebuilding the public service for core work functions.
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Labor pledged to save $6.4bn through cutting the government's use of consultants and external labour, and yet here they are forking out more. The government's focus must be on rebuilding the public service for core work functions.
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Now Treasury can write their very own $400k Deloitte reports
Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers.
This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
October 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Now Treasury can write their very own $400k Deloitte reports
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Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach
Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach
Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider
Video game chat platform Discord has suffered a data breach, informing users that their personal information – including identity documents of those required to prove their age – were compromised.
The company stated last week that an unauthorised party had compromised one of Discord’s third-party customer service providers, leading to the access of “a limited number of users” who had been in contact with the customer service or trust and safety teams. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach
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I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.
A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.
A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.
October 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.
A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.
A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.