Gemma Killen
@gemkillen.bsky.social
Queer, feminist, angry, etc.
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Thank goodness for advocates like @gemkillen.bsky.social speaking truth to those in positions of power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My son was stillborn in 2020. By allowing working parents time to grieve, Baby Priya’s bill will change lives | Gemma Killen
I can hardly imagine how hard it would have been to return to a workplace that had declared that I was not a parent – and that my baby didn’t really count
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Thank goodness for advocates like @gemkillen.bsky.social speaking truth to those in positions of power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This would have been very funny if it wasn't also a terrifying part of the complete eradication of democracy in the states.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Trump aide freezes on live TV after controversial claim about president
A Trump administration official faces criticism after allegedly claiming US President Donald Trump has "plenary authority" while on a live interview with CNN.
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This would have been very funny if it wasn't also a terrifying part of the complete eradication of democracy in the states.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out.
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We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
September 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out.
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I don't know how anyone is getting anything done while the world is the way it is. How to focus on writing my silly little policy briefs or my budget submission when SO MANY things are SO TERRIBLE.
September 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I don't know how anyone is getting anything done while the world is the way it is. How to focus on writing my silly little policy briefs or my budget submission when SO MANY things are SO TERRIBLE.
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Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position.
Breaking: Embattled ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell resigns
Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position.
www.abc.net.au
September 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position.
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“If the most prestigious university in Australia will not fund our most prestigious literary journal, then it makes you question whether or not universities actually care about Australian culture.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin
After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing.
johnmenadue.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“If the most prestigious university in Australia will not fund our most prestigious literary journal, then it makes you question whether or not universities actually care about Australian culture.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
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Here's fun.
The Business Council of Australia put out a press release and new report about how to make healthcare more efficient. One of the big claims in the press release:
"AI has the potential to free up 30 per cent of a clinician’s time, allowing them to spend more time with Australians"
The Business Council of Australia put out a press release and new report about how to make healthcare more efficient. One of the big claims in the press release:
"AI has the potential to free up 30 per cent of a clinician’s time, allowing them to spend more time with Australians"
September 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Here's fun.
The Business Council of Australia put out a press release and new report about how to make healthcare more efficient. One of the big claims in the press release:
"AI has the potential to free up 30 per cent of a clinician’s time, allowing them to spend more time with Australians"
The Business Council of Australia put out a press release and new report about how to make healthcare more efficient. One of the big claims in the press release:
"AI has the potential to free up 30 per cent of a clinician’s time, allowing them to spend more time with Australians"
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To be clear, I feel strongly about safety in childcare, but it is understaffing and high turnover that creates signficant risk in ECEC, and CCTV - with no assurance for workers' or children's right to privacy - will make it worse.
Let's surveil the predominantly female workforce that is already underpaid and over-stretched and see what that does for staffing levels.
Even where they mention privacy it's in relation to children, not the workers - who are ignored in the whole conversation.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Even where they mention privacy it's in relation to children, not the workers - who are ignored in the whole conversation.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
CCTV trial for hundreds of childcare centres to be rolled out later this year
Education Minister Jason Clare says the new measures won't be a "silver bullet" but they will help improve the safety of children in childcare.
www.abc.net.au
August 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
To be clear, I feel strongly about safety in childcare, but it is understaffing and high turnover that creates signficant risk in ECEC, and CCTV - with no assurance for workers' or children's right to privacy - will make it worse.
Let's surveil the predominantly female workforce that is already underpaid and over-stretched and see what that does for staffing levels.
Even where they mention privacy it's in relation to children, not the workers - who are ignored in the whole conversation.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Even where they mention privacy it's in relation to children, not the workers - who are ignored in the whole conversation.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
CCTV trial for hundreds of childcare centres to be rolled out later this year
Education Minister Jason Clare says the new measures won't be a "silver bullet" but they will help improve the safety of children in childcare.
www.abc.net.au
August 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Let's surveil the predominantly female workforce that is already underpaid and over-stretched and see what that does for staffing levels.
Even where they mention privacy it's in relation to children, not the workers - who are ignored in the whole conversation.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Even where they mention privacy it's in relation to children, not the workers - who are ignored in the whole conversation.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Didn't you know it was ok to starve sick and disabled people?
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Didn't you know it was ok to starve sick and disabled people?
Of course, women work less hours than men in many jobs - but in most jobs, that doesn't explain the pay gap. @theguardian.com have made this helpful graph to show the difference btween the pay gap and the hours worked gap. Pathologists have a pay gap of 74% but an hours gap of only 12%.
August 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Of course, women work less hours than men in many jobs - but in most jobs, that doesn't explain the pay gap. @theguardian.com have made this helpful graph to show the difference btween the pay gap and the hours worked gap. Pathologists have a pay gap of 74% but an hours gap of only 12%.
I am nerding out over the data in Jobs and Skills Australia's Gender Equality Study. Did you know that female truck drivers work 10% more hours and get paid 5% less than male truck drivers? Female family day care workers work 28% more hours and get paid 22% less than male family day care workers!
August 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I am nerding out over the data in Jobs and Skills Australia's Gender Equality Study. Did you know that female truck drivers work 10% more hours and get paid 5% less than male truck drivers? Female family day care workers work 28% more hours and get paid 22% less than male family day care workers!
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Well done to Josh Taylor for sinking the boot into the Productivity Commission's risible report on AI. Rubbish like this suggests it's well past time to abolish the Productivity Commission altogether. Put the funding into actual research, not this nonsense www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Well done to Josh Taylor for sinking the boot into the Productivity Commission's risible report on AI. Rubbish like this suggests it's well past time to abolish the Productivity Commission altogether. Put the funding into actual research, not this nonsense www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Productivity Commission has floated an idea to expand the fair use provision, which would make the kind of scraping AI companies do to train ChatGPT et al legal.
Authors and other creatives are rightly outraged.
NB: this isn't the first time the PC has come for book publishing.
Authors and other creatives are rightly outraged.
NB: this isn't the first time the PC has come for book publishing.
The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers
Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent.
theconversation.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Productivity Commission has floated an idea to expand the fair use provision, which would make the kind of scraping AI companies do to train ChatGPT et al legal.
Authors and other creatives are rightly outraged.
NB: this isn't the first time the PC has come for book publishing.
Authors and other creatives are rightly outraged.
NB: this isn't the first time the PC has come for book publishing.
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"If ANU is serious about preparing students to lead in the public interest as public servants, community organisers, researchers and analysts, it must retain an autonomous, standalone school of sociology."
@nteunion.bsky.social stands against #ANU job cuts.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/902804...
@nteunion.bsky.social stands against #ANU job cuts.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/902804...
The loss of the school of sociology undermines decades of intellectual investment
It would be a big loss for the ANU
www.canberratimes.com.au
July 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"If ANU is serious about preparing students to lead in the public interest as public servants, community organisers, researchers and analysts, it must retain an autonomous, standalone school of sociology."
@nteunion.bsky.social stands against #ANU job cuts.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/902804...
@nteunion.bsky.social stands against #ANU job cuts.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/902804...
This was my list - four out of ten isn't bad!
July 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This was my list - four out of ten isn't bad!
A whopping 16% of the top THIRTY were women! Only FIVE songs! I don't think it's true that there aren't as many women in Australian music, I think it's just that many Australians don't think of the work of women as exemplary or iconic.
July 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A whopping 16% of the top THIRTY were women! Only FIVE songs! I don't think it's true that there aren't as many women in Australian music, I think it's just that many Australians don't think of the work of women as exemplary or iconic.
Literally screamed when Untouched started playing
July 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Literally screamed when Untouched started playing
So far top 20 is all men (and Julia) - what's what about
July 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
So far top 20 is all men (and Julia) - what's what about
The ABS have calculated the monetary value of unpaid care in Australia. In Sep 2024 quarter, unpaid care in Aus was valued at $308.4 billion! Women are responsible for two thirds of that value! Imagine, if we had actually been paid, we might have been able to buy a couple of hypothetical submarines!
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The ABS have calculated the monetary value of unpaid care in Australia. In Sep 2024 quarter, unpaid care in Aus was valued at $308.4 billion! Women are responsible for two thirds of that value! Imagine, if we had actually been paid, we might have been able to buy a couple of hypothetical submarines!
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#AcademicSky: Are you a social scientist researching the future of #work and #care? Do consider submitting an abstract for a contributed volume, edited by a stellar team: docs.google.com/forms/d/11V0... #sociology @hss.springernature.com @lutfunlata.bsky.social @drshereegregory.bsky.social
Chapter abstract submission for Future of Work and Care
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the traditional labour market by substituting human employment areas that were previously thought to be uncomputerizable (Bruun and Duke, 2018; Joyce e...
docs.google.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#AcademicSky: Are you a social scientist researching the future of #work and #care? Do consider submitting an abstract for a contributed volume, edited by a stellar team: docs.google.com/forms/d/11V0... #sociology @hss.springernature.com @lutfunlata.bsky.social @drshereegregory.bsky.social
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Chief Economist Greg Jericho reviews Acoss’s new myth-busting report on Australia’s tax system.
“If you can’t admit Australia is a low-taxing nation, then you should not get entry into any roundtable discussion on the topic.”
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
“If you can’t admit Australia is a low-taxing nation, then you should not get entry into any roundtable discussion on the topic.”
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
July 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Chief Economist Greg Jericho reviews Acoss’s new myth-busting report on Australia’s tax system.
“If you can’t admit Australia is a low-taxing nation, then you should not get entry into any roundtable discussion on the topic.”
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
“If you can’t admit Australia is a low-taxing nation, then you should not get entry into any roundtable discussion on the topic.”
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol