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“As soon as man can disobey with impunity, his disobedience becomes legitimate.”

- 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...
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
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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
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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
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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!👊👊👊
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-...
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
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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
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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
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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...
August 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Ken Henry: the marine disaster in SA is not an early warning. It’s a late warning. We should have been awake decades ago to the damage climate change will do and is doing. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol
July 16, 2025 at 3:34 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.
July 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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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
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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
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
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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...
July 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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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
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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
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...
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