Leanne Veronica
@leanneveronica.bsky.social
* Public Policy
* Internet, Telco & Security Regulation
* #auslaw
(Formerly @MsLods on Twitter)
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Kate McClymont free from the threat of a defo suit is a wonderful thing www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away.
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Kate McClymont free from the threat of a defo suit is a wonderful thing www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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@mikepbowers.bsky.social "I felt like I knew the Prime Minister, ridiculous I know I really didn’t, but he called me ‘young Bowers’
I stopped telling my friends at school that I knew the Prime Minister, they used to give me too much grief."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
I stopped telling my friends at school that I knew the Prime Minister, they used to give me too much grief."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
11th November 1975, a pivotal moment for Australian politics and me
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@mikepbowers.bsky.social "I felt like I knew the Prime Minister, ridiculous I know I really didn’t, but he called me ‘young Bowers’
I stopped telling my friends at school that I knew the Prime Minister, they used to give me too much grief."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
I stopped telling my friends at school that I knew the Prime Minister, they used to give me too much grief."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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A new start after 60: I found my feet in midlife, became a park ranger at 85 – and retired happily at 100
A new start after 60: I found my feet in midlife, became a park ranger at 85 – and retired happily at 100
At 104, Betty Reid Soskin has had the most extraordinary life, from protest singing to civil rights activism to meeting the Obamas. She reflects on what it takes to stay strong and keep going
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A new start after 60: I found my feet in midlife, became a park ranger at 85 – and retired happily at 100
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What do young Australians think about the 'Social Media Ban'?
Join young people and researchers online to find out what the upcoming changes mean for 12-15 year olds from around Australia.
🗓 Mon, 1 Dec 2025
⏰ 9:00am Perth ⏰ 11:00am Bris ⏰ 12:00pm Syd/Melb
👉 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/webinar-am...
Join young people and researchers online to find out what the upcoming changes mean for 12-15 year olds from around Australia.
🗓 Mon, 1 Dec 2025
⏰ 9:00am Perth ⏰ 11:00am Bris ⏰ 12:00pm Syd/Melb
👉 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/webinar-am...
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
What do young Australians think about the 'Social Media Ban'?
Join young people and researchers online to find out what the upcoming changes mean for 12-15 year olds from around Australia.
🗓 Mon, 1 Dec 2025
⏰ 9:00am Perth ⏰ 11:00am Bris ⏰ 12:00pm Syd/Melb
👉 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/webinar-am...
Join young people and researchers online to find out what the upcoming changes mean for 12-15 year olds from around Australia.
🗓 Mon, 1 Dec 2025
⏰ 9:00am Perth ⏰ 11:00am Bris ⏰ 12:00pm Syd/Melb
👉 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/webinar-am...
Who is the target audience for GenAI comics of law journal articles (in my case about a court case I worked on from 2009 - 2011)?
Academia churning about AI slop ...
Academia churning about AI slop ...
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Who is the target audience for GenAI comics of law journal articles (in my case about a court case I worked on from 2009 - 2011)?
Academia churning about AI slop ...
Academia churning about AI slop ...
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This is so good. A beautiful antidote for a f*cked up world.
“Peaceable Kingdom” - Patti Smith (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This is so good. A beautiful antidote for a f*cked up world.
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If ever science journalism needs reviving, it's today. It once had a strong position in the MSM, but it's been buried under the diverting fluff that passes for commercial journalism today.
My review of SouthWest's 'Best Australian Science Writing 2025':
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
My review of SouthWest's 'Best Australian Science Writing 2025':
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
The Best Australian Science Writing 2025
If ever there were a time to resurrect science journalism, it is now. Between artificial intelligence, the soaring misuse of toxic chemicals, the distractions of noise and light pollution, the growth ...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If ever science journalism needs reviving, it's today. It once had a strong position in the MSM, but it's been buried under the diverting fluff that passes for commercial journalism today.
My review of SouthWest's 'Best Australian Science Writing 2025':
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
My review of SouthWest's 'Best Australian Science Writing 2025':
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
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Sat in a room last week with human rights defenders from Gaza and Sudan saying how to get, transmit and verifiably archive video of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
People are risking their lives to report on drones wiping out families
as GenAI destroys the ability to believe them.
People are risking their lives to report on drones wiping out families
as GenAI destroys the ability to believe them.
"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy."
Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai
www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...
Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai
www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...
Sora Is Here. The window to save visual truth is closing
Opinion: Sam Gregory argues that generative video is undermining the notion of a shared reality, and that we need to act before it’s lost forever
www.transformernews.ai
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Sat in a room last week with human rights defenders from Gaza and Sudan saying how to get, transmit and verifiably archive video of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
People are risking their lives to report on drones wiping out families
as GenAI destroys the ability to believe them.
People are risking their lives to report on drones wiping out families
as GenAI destroys the ability to believe them.
"According to Forbes, no fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least $100,000 to stop Mamdani ...".
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"According to Forbes, no fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least $100,000 to stop Mamdani ...".
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Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.
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Reddit and Kick included in the list of platforms required to ban under 16s. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reddit targeted by Australia’s under-16s social media ban as list of platforms grows
Popular platform added to list of companies required to restrict access for children, along with video streaming site Kick
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reddit and Kick included in the list of platforms required to ban under 16s. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...
Built for Inequity
How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage
www.thespencerstreetend.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...