Greg McLaren
@gregmclaren.bsky.social
Poet and nuisance. A bit autistic.
New book, camping underground, is a fun post-apocalyptic verse novel with Puncher & Wattmann.
New book, camping underground, is a fun post-apocalyptic verse novel with Puncher & Wattmann.
When anti-immigration migrants resolve their cognitive dissonance.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
Home affairs minister says ‘if you are on a visa you are a guest’ as Matthew Gruter has visa cancelled
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
When anti-immigration migrants resolve their cognitive dissonance.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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John Menadue:
“Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....
“Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....
The Prince and the Dismissal
Anthony Albanese recently told us with bated breath from Balmoral Castle that Charles is someone who is very interested in Australia”. “Interested “would be an understatement.
johnmenadue.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
John Menadue:
“Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....
“Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....
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Why do Australian police forces keep facilitating neo-Nazi rallies? 🤔🙄
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.
www.smh.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Why do Australian police forces keep facilitating neo-Nazi rallies? 🤔🙄
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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Imagine being a non-white and/or young woman student at Campion Catholic College. Or somebody who believes in the words of Jesus, and wants to live by them, for that matter. May the nearest deity smite those who could do with a thorough smiting.
1/ Stephen McInerney -- ex-Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Guy & current Dean of Studies & Associate Professor of Literature at Catholic tertiary institution Campion College in Sydney -- urges support for Tom Sewell's incipient neo-Nazi political party.
!['I'm not in the NSN but believe, for strategic reasons, people should become 'political supporters' of the White Australia Party. The creation of such parties is the only safeguard against White erasure. Other pro-White parties will follow in time. Sieze [sic] the day.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o2ggsnr4ihu4pjka6zd7rv27/bafkreihocgeelqxtafrohy5geget2tdo4iximk4v6gvh5qx732wylht7dy@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Imagine being a non-white and/or young woman student at Campion Catholic College. Or somebody who believes in the words of Jesus, and wants to live by them, for that matter. May the nearest deity smite those who could do with a thorough smiting.
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
October 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
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@southerlylitmag.bsky.social, so-called Australia's oldest literary journal, has quietly woken from a long hiatus to join us in the Bluesky. This must be a sign of something brewing. So give them a follow.
October 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
@southerlylitmag.bsky.social, so-called Australia's oldest literary journal, has quietly woken from a long hiatus to join us in the Bluesky. This must be a sign of something brewing. So give them a follow.
So, for Sydney-siders and those adjacent, to celebrate Gleebooks' 50th anniversary, I'll be reading with a bunch of terrific poets, among them Judy Beveridge, Pam Brown, Joanne Burns, Laurie Duggan, Jane Gibian on Saturday the 25th of October: gleebooks.com.au/event/poets-...
Poet’s Choice – Gleebooks.com.au
gleebooks.com.au
October 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
So, for Sydney-siders and those adjacent, to celebrate Gleebooks' 50th anniversary, I'll be reading with a bunch of terrific poets, among them Judy Beveridge, Pam Brown, Joanne Burns, Laurie Duggan, Jane Gibian on Saturday the 25th of October: gleebooks.com.au/event/poets-...
Vale Tony Harrison.
Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
September 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Vale Tony Harrison.
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EXCELLENT reporting in SMH on how people were duped into attending the Nazi protest
With another protest due in October let’s ensure everyone knows that the mostly unemployed, bankrupt, incarcerated, tiny dicked Nazi’s are the main organisers this time so that numbers are low AF
With another protest due in October let’s ensure everyone knows that the mostly unemployed, bankrupt, incarcerated, tiny dicked Nazi’s are the main organisers this time so that numbers are low AF
‘Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet’: The great March for Australia deception
Anti-immigration rallies that have drawn tens of thousands of Australians are being secretly controlled by neo-Nazis – part of a co-ordinated “fraud on the public”.
www.theage.com.au
September 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
EXCELLENT reporting in SMH on how people were duped into attending the Nazi protest
With another protest due in October let’s ensure everyone knows that the mostly unemployed, bankrupt, incarcerated, tiny dicked Nazi’s are the main organisers this time so that numbers are low AF
With another protest due in October let’s ensure everyone knows that the mostly unemployed, bankrupt, incarcerated, tiny dicked Nazi’s are the main organisers this time so that numbers are low AF
The absolute shameless motherfucking hide of these people.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Convicted rapist Gareth Ward argues he should receive lighter sentence due to ‘enormous fall from grace’
Lawyers for former Kiama MP tell court Ward has lost political career and prospective legal career, while standing in community ‘shattered’
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The absolute shameless motherfucking hide of these people.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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'Disgusted” Noongar writer Claire G. Coleman, writing on Bluesky, called Meanjin’s closure “cultural vandalism of the highest order”; she pointed out the journal is older than the Sydney Opera House.'
theconversation.com/australian-w...
theconversation.com/australian-w...
Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin
Meanjin published the cream of Australia’s writers. With its sudden closure, a vital, 85-year thread of our cultural conversation will fall silent.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
'Disgusted” Noongar writer Claire G. Coleman, writing on Bluesky, called Meanjin’s closure “cultural vandalism of the highest order”; she pointed out the journal is older than the Sydney Opera House.'
theconversation.com/australian-w...
theconversation.com/australian-w...
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Surprise!!! I’m excited to announce @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!
September 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Surprise!!! I’m excited to announce @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!
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A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
September 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
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I'd be happy if today's events -- neo-Nazi leadership of a series of white nationalist processions -- meant more people took anti-fascism seriously.
That would be both ace & grouse.
That would be both ace & grouse.
August 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I'd be happy if today's events -- neo-Nazi leadership of a series of white nationalist processions -- meant more people took anti-fascism seriously.
That would be both ace & grouse.
That would be both ace & grouse.
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Alaina Gougoulis, an experienced senior editor, explores the dire state of the publishing industry.
Read more: buff.ly/bvRibNi
Read more: buff.ly/bvRibNi
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Alaina Gougoulis, an experienced senior editor, explores the dire state of the publishing industry.
Read more: buff.ly/bvRibNi
Read more: buff.ly/bvRibNi
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A year after Israeli politician Moishe Feiglin invoked the mass murder of our Jewish ancestors in the Nazi holocaust as a model to take over Gaza, the calamity of the Israeli government’s genocide has reached a new and staggering level of mass violence.
August 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A year after Israeli politician Moishe Feiglin invoked the mass murder of our Jewish ancestors in the Nazi holocaust as a model to take over Gaza, the calamity of the Israeli government’s genocide has reached a new and staggering level of mass violence.
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To state the obvious, Western journalists, writers, and filmmakers need to talk more about our colleagues being murdered in Gaza and the West Bank. You can do it from pure self interest if you want: every journalist murdered with impunity is a precedent which is headed in your direction
Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️🔥
The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,
was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️🔥
The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,
was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +
July 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
To state the obvious, Western journalists, writers, and filmmakers need to talk more about our colleagues being murdered in Gaza and the West Bank. You can do it from pure self interest if you want: every journalist murdered with impunity is a precedent which is headed in your direction
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Israel has systematically assassinated Palestinian journalists in Gaza while preventing international journalists from entering for nearly two years, and it does not take much to understand why the IDF views the very concept of journalism as an existential threat
Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?)
“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”
“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”
July 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Israel has systematically assassinated Palestinian journalists in Gaza while preventing international journalists from entering for nearly two years, and it does not take much to understand why the IDF views the very concept of journalism as an existential threat
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As evidence grows of deliberate massacres of Palestinians seeking aid at the U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid sites, the pattern of injuries suggests that Israeli military forces and other security contractors staffing the sites are “playing some sort of game” in their targeting of civilians
July 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
As evidence grows of deliberate massacres of Palestinians seeking aid at the U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid sites, the pattern of injuries suggests that Israeli military forces and other security contractors staffing the sites are “playing some sort of game” in their targeting of civilians
