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Sam Twyford-Moore
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@samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social on Sumner Locke Elliot's late-life coming-out novel, Fairyland. Listen to the podcast: apple.co/4nVRuAW
October 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Loved being a part of this podcast and writing about SLE!
kydmagazine.bsky.social Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · Oct 15
What was it like to be an Australian gay man in the 1930s and 40s? This week @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social joins @rebeccastarford.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about a fictional insight into the Sydney queer scene and one man's lifelong journey to love.

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It’s Never Too Late To Come Out: Sumner Locke Elliott’s Fairyland
Episode 4 of the Queer Critics Podcast with Sam Twyford-Moore
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October 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Australian real estate culture is rotten. A take on everything.
October 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement. A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors. (photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document. At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment. The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI. SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report. Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth. The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”
October 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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What can we glean from the last bastion of regular television book coverage? @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social finds out.

killyourdarlings.com.au/article/brin...
Bringing Back 'The Book Club'
Rewatching ABC’s book show highlights a negligent lack of televised arts criticism.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Finally a hot bisexual man. The representation we needed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Ex-West Coast defender Brown becomes AFL's first openly bisexual player
Former AFL player Mitch Brown creates history by becoming the first person in the league's 129-year history to reveal he is bisexual.
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August 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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i feel like there's probably a better way to dunk on ai tools than using them extensively so you can post all the poor results that in turn encourages even more people to use them to post their "funny" mistakes. true believers don't care, you're just amplifying its use and feeding it more user data.
August 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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I would like to read my very interesting book on the bus but instead I have to listen to your very boring conversation.
August 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.”

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Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor
The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard
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August 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ‘rampant theft’ of Australian content to train AI
Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ‘rampant theft’ of Australian content to train AI
Productivity Commission report raises possible exemption for ‘text and data mining’ and expanding fair dealing rules, prompting fierce pushback * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Arts, creative and media groups have demanded the government rule out allowing big tech companies to take Australian content to train their artificial intelligence models, with concerns such a shift would “sell out” Australian workers and lead to “rampant theft” of intellectual property. The Albanese government has said it has no plans to change copyright law, but any changes must consider effects on artists and news media. The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has demanded that copyrighted material must not be used without compensation. Continue reading...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I challenge Australians to have normal conversations on public transport, or, better yet, none at all.
August 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Again, someone hoping to provide report cards on universities advocates for this role in a report that would likely fail as an undergraduate paper for lack of citations and evidence of its many claims.
drmelob.bsky.social Dr Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · Jul 15
What stands out to me here is that Segal produces NO EVIDENCE to back up her assertions that antisemitism “has become ingrained and normalised within academia” & the ABC and SBS were presenting “false or distorted narratives” which inflamed antisemitism. #AUS #AusPol
nickfeik.bsky.social Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Jul 15
There’s an overlap betw Advance campaigns & Segal’s views.
Each seek to silence protests, target Greens and activists as antisemitic, & blame the media, unis & “elites” (read, arts & cultural orgs) for rising antisemitism, without evidence.
Segal still hasn’t condemned the donation or Advance.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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In a week that the Yoorook Commission found a genocide had taken place in Victoria, and the NT coroner found the territory was rife with (potentially fatal) racism, Albanese ignored both. He owns the furore that followed, and the mess it has become.
Envoys in glass houses
Jillian Segal’s position as antisemitism spokesperson is untenable
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July 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Glad to announce my next book The Mush Room: Australian Publishing's Rushed Erin Patterson Books will be out in a few weeks. Start writing it tomorrow!
July 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social has put out a very strong and well argued statement rejecting the special envoy’s antisemitism plan
Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms, inflaming community divisions, and entrenching selective approaches to racism that serve political agendas. The report is riddled with misinformation and claims about nefarious funding sources for protests and universities that verge on conspiracy theory. The Council is especially concerned about the plan’s strong endorsement of the widely discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, which has been used to silence legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism. The Council criticised the plan's emphasis on surveillance, censorship, and punitive control over the funding of cultural and educational institutions: measures straight out of Trump's authoritarian playbook. We caution that some of the reccommendations including new visa powers and judicial inquiries into student activity — risk censoring criticism of Israel, deepening racism, and failing to meaningfully address the root causes of antisemitism. The Council is calling on the government to: • Ground its response in anti-racist principles that include tackling Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, racism against First Nations people and all other forms of racism; • Engage a broad spectrum of Jewish voices, including those critical of Israel, who have not been consulted in the development of this plan; • Reject authoritarian proposals that erode civil liberties under the false guise of Jewish safety.
July 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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“Israel is massacring Palestinians at aid sites every day” is the headline you scumbags www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys
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July 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The word is "massacres"
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 9
Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys Medical officials, humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily “mass casualty incidents” as they struggle to deal with those wounded by Israeli fire on Palestinians seeking aid. Doctors said many of the casualties they are treating describe being shot as they try to reach distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a secretive US- and Israel-backed organisation that began handing out food in late May. Continue reading...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some of these films are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin on our list of significant political films.

Published June 22, 2023: https://trib.al/4OEgh53
The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.
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July 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This is so fucking evil
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 24
BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say
Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.
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June 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Keep forgetting to post about it (everything's frantic, prepping for this + working to get the
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festival line-up sorted), but I'm doing my first keynote tomorrow, as part of the PICNIC @ 50 symposium at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, organised by Jonathan Rayner and SCRIF.
Information for the Picnic @ 50 symposium, organised by the Sheffield Centre for Research in Film, which takes place on June 20th as a hybrid event. The poster mostly features text, as well as the title screen from Peter Weir's film Picnic At Hanging Rock, which will be the focus on the symposium.
June 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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June 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Respect the game
May 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux
The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux
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May 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Shout out to @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social for writing this incredible book on film in Australia. Witty, fascinating and at times (for a film student wanting to make Australian works) disheartening
April 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM