@garethhutchens.bsky.social
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“As soon as man can disobey with impunity, his disobedience becomes legitimate.”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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excellent look back at decisions to screw over early childhood services, including those who warned about what would happen, from @garethhutchens.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australia's scandal-ridden childcare sector a legacy of 'golden age' of reform
The decision by past governments to push Australia's childcare industry in the direction of marketisation and corporatisation has left a lasting legacy.
www.abc.net.au
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
excellent look back at decisions to screw over early childhood services, including those who warned about what would happen, from @garethhutchens.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.
October 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.
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👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/
Thank you @rossgittins.bsky.social. That’s high praise coming from you.
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
The RBA says changing rates won’t raise house prices. I wouldn’t be so sure
The biggest and most pressing economic problem Australia faces is nothing new: the ever-worsening ability to afford to own the home you live in.
www.smh.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Thank you @rossgittins.bsky.social. That’s high praise coming from you.
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Being a renter in Australia means handing over an unnecessary amount of personal data to real estate agents who have no clue - and who often don't care - how to keep that data secure. Many can't tell you how it's stored, who can access it and when/if it gets destroyed
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Being a renter in Australia means handing over an unnecessary amount of personal data to real estate agents who have no clue - and who often don't care - how to keep that data secure. Many can't tell you how it's stored, who can access it and when/if it gets destroyed
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Incredibly powerful op-ed written by Randa Abel-Fattah that everyone needs to read. It’s being published by @deepcutnews.bsky.social after The Age commissioned it then spiked it.
Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.
Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby
www.deepcutnews.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Incredibly powerful op-ed written by Randa Abel-Fattah that everyone needs to read. It’s being published by @deepcutnews.bsky.social after The Age commissioned it then spiked it.
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Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
August 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
Federal Court judge Michael Wigney says when Australia’s government set its greenhouse gas emissions targets in 2015, 2020, and 2021, its targets were “plainly not consistent” with its international obligations under the Paris Agreement, nor with the best available science.
July 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Federal Court judge Michael Wigney says when Australia’s government set its greenhouse gas emissions targets in 2015, 2020, and 2021, its targets were “plainly not consistent” with its international obligations under the Paris Agreement, nor with the best available science.
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"the Special Envoy’s overreach with this latest report is part of a process that has been ongoing in Western democracies for decades now. Piece by piece ... an issue is presented in a way that drains it of all its nuances and reduces it to an us-against-them confrontation."
Licensing rage
Don't let "Special Envoys" rob us of our power of democratic deliberation
tdunlop.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"the Special Envoy’s overreach with this latest report is part of a process that has been ongoing in Western democracies for decades now. Piece by piece ... an issue is presented in a way that drains it of all its nuances and reduces it to an us-against-them confrontation."
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The word is "massacres"
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...
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The word is "massacres"
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🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
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Just days after Elon Musk's AI chatbot praised Hitler and called itself "MechaHitler", Australia's lead advisor on fighting antisemitism praised Musk's platform X's use of AI to "root out hate" 😵💫
www.crikey.com.au/20...
www.crikey.com.au/20...
July 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just days after Elon Musk's AI chatbot praised Hitler and called itself "MechaHitler", Australia's lead advisor on fighting antisemitism praised Musk's platform X's use of AI to "root out hate" 😵💫
www.crikey.com.au/20...
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Have failures in coverage of Israel signalled the death of traditional newsrooms?
'It is completely incongruous': How the media’s coverage of Gaza has sent reporters independent
An increasing number of reporters are launching independent ventures as audiences express distrust in the big newsrooms.
www.crikey.com.au
July 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Have failures in coverage of Israel signalled the death of traditional newsrooms?
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Momentum is building
Creative Australia reverses controversial decision to dump Biennale artist
After controversially and suddenly withdrawing Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has announced it has reversed its decision.
www.abc.net.au
July 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Momentum is building
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On 6/20/25, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale smeared Steve Bannon & Tucker Carlson—who oppose US intervention in the Israel/Iran war—as “this new Woke Right.” (The Israel/Iran war & “Woke Right” smear continue to fracture the MAGA coalition.) 1/
June 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
On 6/20/25, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale smeared Steve Bannon & Tucker Carlson—who oppose US intervention in the Israel/Iran war—as “this new Woke Right.” (The Israel/Iran war & “Woke Right” smear continue to fracture the MAGA coalition.) 1/
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Could everyone please read this. By @garethhutchens.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
As the media works to win trust, people say they want the truth
Australians want journalists to tell the truth. Is that a simple request?
www.abc.net.au
June 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Could everyone please read this. By @garethhutchens.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
If we want to live in a world in which individual human and civil rights mean anything, certain groups in society must not be allowed to behave with impunity.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
The planet warms, liberal democracy is attacked: Does the government care?
Fossil fuels are warming the planet. Liberal democracy is under attack. Does Australia's government understand what's happening?
www.abc.net.au
June 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
If we want to live in a world in which individual human and civil rights mean anything, certain groups in society must not be allowed to behave with impunity.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...