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Strong piece by @richarddenniss.bsky.social: "Engaging with people you disagree with is part of democracy. Silencing authors is not." #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Engaging with people you disagree with is part of democracy. Silencing authors is not.
The Australia Institute’s decision to withdraw its involvement in, and sponsorship of, Adelaide Writers’ Week was easy to make but raises difficult questions. As a research-based think tank, we thrive...
thepoint.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Strong piece by @richarddenniss.bsky.social: "Engaging with people you disagree with is part of democracy. Silencing authors is not." #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Best of 2025: Facilitating friendships, social contact and support systems are the single most important intervention needed to live our post-working years productively. Potential solutions could assist the all ages with isolation and loneliness. #auspol #agedcare
Best of 2025 - Age policy is a shambles. Where to from here? Part 1 & 2
Wherever you look, at residential aged care institutions, at retirement village life, at the home support package scheme, or talk to the people over 65 — called the old — living at home making no claim on the system, just coping by whatever means they can, this stage of life means grappling with overwhelming challenges.
johnmenadue.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Completely inappropriate for ABC Sport to run an interview during the cricket tea break with a spokesperson for athletes pushing for a Royal Commission. No other perspectives canvassed - just a platform handed to one side of the argument on a silver platter. Appalling.
January 4, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Completely inappropriate for ABC Sport to run an interview during the cricket tea break with a spokesperson for athletes pushing for a Royal Commission. No other perspectives canvassed - just a platform handed to one side of the argument on a silver platter. Appalling.
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‘As for the “open” bit, forget it – that aspect of Open AI’s mission was quietly forgotten. Any discoveries the company might make were now proprietary.’
John Lanchester on the utopian promises and dystopian reality of the ‘AI revolution’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester on the utopian promises and dystopian reality of the ‘AI revolution’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?
Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM
‘As for the “open” bit, forget it – that aspect of Open AI’s mission was quietly forgotten. Any discoveries the company might make were now proprietary.’
John Lanchester on the utopian promises and dystopian reality of the ‘AI revolution’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester on the utopian promises and dystopian reality of the ‘AI revolution’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.
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He has said he has always been uncomfortable with multiculturalism, and had called for Asian migration to stop. He disagrees with people who say racism is a problem in Australia because that hasn’t been his experience. Why would anyone listen to him about social cohesion?!
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
He has said he has always been uncomfortable with multiculturalism, and had called for Asian migration to stop. He disagrees with people who say racism is a problem in Australia because that hasn’t been his experience. Why would anyone listen to him about social cohesion?!
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It is time to stop referring to the National Party as the “junior partner” in the Coalition. Considering the Voice and now where the Libs are heading on net-zero by 2050, it is clear who is in charge. #auspol
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It is time to stop referring to the National Party as the “junior partner” in the Coalition. Considering the Voice and now where the Libs are heading on net-zero by 2050, it is clear who is in charge. #auspol
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Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on reports that Trump plans to deploy the military in his state
August 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on reports that Trump plans to deploy the military in his state
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Listen to this week's podcast of OLD EVERALD AND YOUNG JAMES TALK POLITICS. We challenge Productivity Roundtable to open its eyes and realise that #OlderAustralians are our nation's most wasted asset. Give us a go to help our nation achieve #prosperity.
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@everaldatlarge.bsky.social and i on this week's show talk tax reform, the summit between trump and putin and new illegal plans by israel in the west bank - listen in and have your say!!
#auspol #auspol2025
@everaldatlarge.bsky.social and i on this week's show talk tax reform, the summit between trump and putin and new illegal plans by israel in the west bank - listen in and have your say!!
#auspol #auspol2025
Taxing Conversations (S5E29)
Old Everald and Young James talk Politics · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Listen to this week's podcast of OLD EVERALD AND YOUNG JAMES TALK POLITICS. We challenge Productivity Roundtable to open its eyes and realise that #OlderAustralians are our nation's most wasted asset. Give us a go to help our nation achieve #prosperity.
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Every word. Feels like the Starmer government is really losing the plot now.
Dubbing tame pensioners as ‘terrorists’ makes a farce out of the Terrorism Act
It’s a funny old world when Margaret Thatcher had a greater sense of individual liberty than Keir Starmer
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Every word. Feels like the Starmer government is really losing the plot now.
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Welcome to surveillance pricing, a sneaky practice where big corporations exploit your personal data to charge you more. In Australia, there’s little to stop them. #auspol #surveillancepricing
The new pricing scam: How surveillance pricing exploits us all
Imagine booking an Uber ride on your shiny new iPhone 16, only to discover it costs $10 more than the same trip booked on your friend’s older Android.
johnmenadue.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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We can only hope the Commission has learnt something from the decades during which they presided over Australia’s poor productivity performance, masked only by a terms of trade boost from commodity prices. #auspol #productivity
Economic reform must included industrial transformation - Part 1
For a while it looked like federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Economic Reform Roundtable would turn into a tax summit, such was the clamour to revisit missed opportunities. And we have an abundance of those in Australia.
johnmenadue.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We can only hope the Commission has learnt something from the decades during which they presided over Australia’s poor productivity performance, masked only by a terms of trade boost from commodity prices. #auspol #productivity
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As a country historically reliant on its partnership with the US, Japan is building a more resilient and autonomous strategic network of like-minded partnerships, reflecting a pragmatic, forward-looking response to a more fragmented world. #auspol #Japan
Japan’s economic security strategy looks beyond the United States
In the face of increasingly uncertain global economic headwinds, Japan is redefining its economic security strategy.
johnmenadue.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Further chaos is yet to come for #Coalition in Australian Parliament. #Liberals will split. Christian Right who send busloads of Pentecostal bigots into marginal seat campaigns have nothing in common with Moderates many of whom will now choose to sit in Parliament as #Independents.
May 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Further chaos is yet to come for #Coalition in Australian Parliament. #Liberals will split. Christian Right who send busloads of Pentecostal bigots into marginal seat campaigns have nothing in common with Moderates many of whom will now choose to sit in Parliament as #Independents.
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From today’s Sun-Herald. Great talking to the fabulous Peter Fitzsimons.
May 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
From today’s Sun-Herald. Great talking to the fabulous Peter Fitzsimons.
Does anyone know why Sarah Ferguson was looking so grim as the results rolled in yesterday? Was it just a long day?
May 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Does anyone know why Sarah Ferguson was looking so grim as the results rolled in yesterday? Was it just a long day?
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Sally McManus says she “started laughing” when hearing LNP refer to cutting of student debt as “elitist”
“Because I just thought this comes from the people who, most of them went to elite schools themselves & send their kids to elite private schools”
“I just think it’s insulting”💥
“Because I just thought this comes from the people who, most of them went to elite schools themselves & send their kids to elite private schools”
“I just think it’s insulting”💥
April 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Sally McManus says she “started laughing” when hearing LNP refer to cutting of student debt as “elitist”
“Because I just thought this comes from the people who, most of them went to elite schools themselves & send their kids to elite private schools”
“I just think it’s insulting”💥
“Because I just thought this comes from the people who, most of them went to elite schools themselves & send their kids to elite private schools”
“I just think it’s insulting”💥
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Exceptional article in The Age/SMH about Advance and the #AtlasNetwork and, as ‘journalist Mungo MacCallum said at the time, "a stratospherically elite clique of rich, bored men looking for a hobby".’ They are trying to turn Australia into a Trumpian hellscape. #Auspol archive.is/2025.04.17-1...
archive.is
April 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Exceptional article in The Age/SMH about Advance and the #AtlasNetwork and, as ‘journalist Mungo MacCallum said at the time, "a stratospherically elite clique of rich, bored men looking for a hobby".’ They are trying to turn Australia into a Trumpian hellscape. #Auspol archive.is/2025.04.17-1...
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Only 66% for the 2 majors.
The latest YouGov poll shows Labor and the Coalition TIED on 33% in the national primary vote
If this was the actual election result, it would be the lowest vote total for the Coalition since the Liberal Party was formed in 1944
If this was the actual election result, it would be the lowest vote total for the Coalition since the Liberal Party was formed in 1944
April 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Only 66% for the 2 majors.
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We need to rethink the very concept of US isolationism. Conventionally, isolationism has been perceived of as an active American choice.
In the Trump era, however, US isolationism is increasingly being imposed on America from outside.
In the Trump era, however, US isolationism is increasingly being imposed on America from outside.
The Upending -my long read on how Donald Trump’s post-American world marks a return to the pre-American world.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
We may be seeing the start of the 'anti-America century'
Some of America’s strongest allies are rethinking their relationship as Donald Trump’s isolationism threats to entirely remake the West.
www.abc.net.au
April 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
We need to rethink the very concept of US isolationism. Conventionally, isolationism has been perceived of as an active American choice.
In the Trump era, however, US isolationism is increasingly being imposed on America from outside.
In the Trump era, however, US isolationism is increasingly being imposed on America from outside.
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Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale environmentally themed murals #WomensArt
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale environmentally themed murals #WomensArt