Michael Taylor
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“The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day.”
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Experiments in Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches
The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day. From December 10 this year, as announced by the [...]
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December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day.”
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The United States has crossed a moral red line from which recovery will be painful and prolonged. The bare minimum is holding Pete Hegseth fully accountable under U.S. and international law for what credible allegations describe as complicity in war crimes.
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A line crossed, a standard shattered
In the stark, unforgiving waters of the Caribbean, the United States crossed a line from which it will be difficult to return. That line was crossed with two chilling words allegedly spoken by Secreta...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The United States has crossed a moral red line from which recovery will be painful and prolonged. The bare minimum is holding Pete Hegseth fully accountable under U.S. and international law for what credible allegations describe as complicity in war crimes.
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“We watch as corporations pollute our rivers, exploit their workers, and ravage the environment, all while posting record profits.”
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The Shareholder's Reckoning: A Simple Cure for Corporate Malfeasance
We watch as corporations pollute our rivers, exploit their workers, and ravage the environment, all while posting record profits. We lament this “corporate greed” as if it were a force of nature. It i...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“We watch as corporations pollute our rivers, exploit their workers, and ravage the environment, all while posting record profits.”
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“This was a man flapping his arms at the universe, hoping sheer volume might bend reality back into his preferred shape.”
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Nothing says “I’m totally fine” like shouting it into the void 160 times
If you judged the situation only by President Trump’s 160 late-night Truth Social posts, you’d think something catastrophic had happened. A coup? A meteor? Someone using a paper straw in his presence?...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“This was a man flapping his arms at the universe, hoping sheer volume might bend reality back into his preferred shape.”
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“We owe our young people a duty of care that goes beyond headline-grabbing social media bans.”
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Ban It and They’ll Thank Us Later: Labor’s Teen Social Media Panic
While Finland invests twenty years teaching its children to think critically about media, Australia reaches for symbolic gestures and declares them progress. Within days, a new law regulating social m...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“We owe our young people a duty of care that goes beyond headline-grabbing social media bans.”
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“A geriatric senile demented malevolent, curmudgeon grump, always looking backwards.”
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Trump “wags the dog”
By Alasdair Black President Donald Trump is contemplating yet another oil war, who’dda thunk it, from the amoral, corrupt, money grubbing mammon-worshipping president? Trump is trying to “Wag the Do...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“A geriatric senile demented malevolent, curmudgeon grump, always looking backwards.”
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Israel’s interpretation of “ceasefire” appears to mean “less bombing but continue to starve those who survived the bombs.”
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A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from st...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Israel’s interpretation of “ceasefire” appears to mean “less bombing but continue to starve those who survived the bombs.”
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“Understanding how money is created in Australia empowers citizens. We no longer need to accept claims that Aus cannot afford world-class schools, housing, healthcare, or environmental protection. The limit is not money.
The limit is political will.”
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The limit is political will.”
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How Money is Created Without Printing Cash
Learn how money is created in Australia, why most money is digital, and how both government spending and bank lending create new money.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
“Understanding how money is created in Australia empowers citizens. We no longer need to accept claims that Aus cannot afford world-class schools, housing, healthcare, or environmental protection. The limit is not money.
The limit is political will.”
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The limit is political will.”
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“Australia’s defence policy continues to serve an empire’s interests, not its own.”
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The architecture of a vassal: how US bases in Australia project power, not protection
The strategic placement of key US and joint military facilities across Australia reveals a pattern not of national defence, but of integration into a global, offensively-oriented network for force pro...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Australia’s defence policy continues to serve an empire’s interests, not its own.”
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Australia has long worn its belief in the “fair go” as a badge of national identity: the idea that everyone, no matter where they started, deserves a decent chance to get ahead. Yet in recent years that proud slogan has begun to sound hollow.
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A Fair Go for All?
Australia has long worn its belief in the “fair go” as a badge of national identity: the idea that everyone, no matter where they started, deserves a decent chance to get ahead. Yet in recent [...]
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December 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Australia has long worn its belief in the “fair go” as a badge of national identity: the idea that everyone, no matter where they started, deserves a decent chance to get ahead. Yet in recent years that proud slogan has begun to sound hollow.
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“Australians voters deserve a government that prioritizes ecological survival over mining profits.”
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Part Four: “When ‘Historic Reform’ Means Managed Decline”
This is how you capture environmental policy without killing the environment entirely. You write laws that prevent environmental protection from working. The Real Question Did the federal government’s...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“Australians voters deserve a government that prioritizes ecological survival over mining profits.”
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Reposted by Michael Taylor
What's going on in Australia?
Michael Taylor's @ausindimedia.bsky.social knows.
His site has produced some great articles lately (& previously).
Check it out. Well worth a visit.
Michael Taylor's @ausindimedia.bsky.social knows.
His site has produced some great articles lately (& previously).
Check it out. Well worth a visit.
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What's going on in Australia?
Michael Taylor's @ausindimedia.bsky.social knows.
His site has produced some great articles lately (& previously).
Check it out. Well worth a visit.
Michael Taylor's @ausindimedia.bsky.social knows.
His site has produced some great articles lately (& previously).
Check it out. Well worth a visit.
“In a move that formalises the military-industrial complex for the digital age, the U.S. Army has quietly sworn a group of powerful tech executives directly into its ranks as high-ranking officers.”
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The New Officer Class: How Silicon Valley Executives Were Sworn Directly into the Heart of the U.S. Army
A strategic analysis of Detachment 201 and the unprecedented fusion of corporate and military power In a move that formalises the military-industrial complex for the digital age, the U.S. Army has qui...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“In a move that formalises the military-industrial complex for the digital age, the U.S. Army has quietly sworn a group of powerful tech executives directly into its ranks as high-ranking officers.”
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“You can almost chart the moral decline of a country in the way its leaders talk.”
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American Madness
By James Moore “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” (Frederick Douglass). She died at only age 20, picking up trash for [...]
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December 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“You can almost chart the moral decline of a country in the way its leaders talk.”
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“Australia is choosing to violate international environmental law. Deliberately. Explicitly. In statute.”
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The Climate Silence. And What Actual Environmental Commitment Looks Like
Part Three When your environmental law explicitly forbids considering environmental catastrophe, that’s not policy. That’s capture. The Climate Provision That Isn’t There Here’s the bit that will make...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Australia is choosing to violate international environmental law. Deliberately. Explicitly. In statute.”
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“I like ‘Landman.’ I like root canals too, but only one of these is meant to hurt. “
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Landman: Fossil-Fuel Fan-Fiction Wearing Cowboy Boots
By: L.J. “Flywheel” Pascolini Cultural critic A TV critic’s review sketched between thunderous applause and involuntary eye-twitching I like Landman. I like root canals too, but only one of these is m...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“I like ‘Landman.’ I like root canals too, but only one of these is meant to hurt. “
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“In Gaza today, we are witnessing not only the collapse of buildings but the dismantling of a civilisation’s ordinary life, the places where people once cooked, learned, played, prayed, and buried their dead. What is being lost cannot be measured in body counts alone.”
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The language of conflict
There is a moment in every conflict when language collapses. Words like justice, revenge, and security are repeated so often they lose their meaning. When that happens, something even graver follows, ...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“In Gaza today, we are witnessing not only the collapse of buildings but the dismantling of a civilisation’s ordinary life, the places where people once cooked, learned, played, prayed, and buried their dead. What is being lost cannot be measured in body counts alone.”
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“The clownish effort by the Starmer government against Palestine Action has brought the importance of civil disobedience and lawful assembly to the fore.”
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Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban
On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct partic...
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November 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“The clownish effort by the Starmer government against Palestine Action has brought the importance of civil disobedience and lawful assembly to the fore.”
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Happy Coo Day @prof-alistair.bsky.social @gonegirl23.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Happy Coo Day @prof-alistair.bsky.social @gonegirl23.bsky.social
Strange how the Nats were so determined to keep Barnaby.
What for? He’s useless. By @rossleighaim.bsky.social
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What for? He’s useless. By @rossleighaim.bsky.social
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Barnaby's Party Gets Wild And A Tale Of Indian Cobras!
For the past few weeks, people in the Coalition have been trying to persuade Barnaby Joyce that they don’t want to lose him and that he’s really, really appreciated and there’s no need to be [...]
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November 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Strange how the Nats were so determined to keep Barnaby.
What for? He’s useless. By @rossleighaim.bsky.social
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What for? He’s useless. By @rossleighaim.bsky.social
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“Australians want strong nature protection, clear environmental rules, & leadership that puts the common good first. The Murray Watt environment deal arrives at a time when trust in environmental decision-making is low, & concern for nature is rising.”
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Why Murray Watt Environment Deal Divides Australians
Is the Murray Watt environment deal real reform or political spin, and does it truly protect nature or weaken safeguards?
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November 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
“Australians want strong nature protection, clear environmental rules, & leadership that puts the common good first. The Murray Watt environment deal arrives at a time when trust in environmental decision-making is low, & concern for nature is rising.”
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Oh, the irony - anti-renewable crusader Barnaby Joyce was Deputy PM when Australia signed up to the Paris Agreement.
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Consumer beware
By now everyone is well aware of the Coalition and One Nation’s anti-renewable crusade, claiming the lights won’t go on and industry will be shuttered. ‘No net zero’ is a great marketing term – fittin...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Oh, the irony - anti-renewable crusader Barnaby Joyce was Deputy PM when Australia signed up to the Paris Agreement.
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