Matt
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I spent a few years writing profiles of Australians from all different walks of life, which forced me to think about this to some extent. I have no good answers but the sense I have is that colonial Australians don't really associate themselves with, or engage with place.
A hypothesis: it’s partly that we’re largely unable to talk about Australian cities non-ironically, regardless of medium. You can’t sing about Melbourne the way Fontaines DC sing about Dublin, so we get the Smith Street Band.
Seeing trailers for some upcoming Screen Australia backed films and it’s amazing how so few Australian Stories involve cities at all. Everyone in our cities are completely devoid of stories. Our streets are narrativeless. Only the Bush has agency.
September 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I spent a few years writing profiles of Australians from all different walks of life, which forced me to think about this to some extent. I have no good answers but the sense I have is that colonial Australians don't really associate themselves with, or engage with place.
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"The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people."
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...
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July 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people."
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Fatima Pyaman called Labor out on Gaza and lost her job.
Ed Husic tried to change Labor from within and lost his job.
The major parties are not serious about diversity.
Ed Husic tried to change Labor from within and lost his job.
The major parties are not serious about diversity.
Ed Husic on #insiders “you can’t support diversity and then leave it to sit quietly in the corner.”
May 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Fatima Pyaman called Labor out on Gaza and lost her job.
Ed Husic tried to change Labor from within and lost his job.
The major parties are not serious about diversity.
Ed Husic tried to change Labor from within and lost his job.
The major parties are not serious about diversity.
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The framing of this article is bizarre. Regional areas are actually over-represented in the new WA upper house.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Regional representation in WA Upper House slashed
Regional representation in WA's Upper House has been reduced by more than a third, prompting calls for some of the state's metropolitan politicians to set up offices in the country.
www.abc.net.au
April 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The framing of this article is bizarre. Regional areas are actually over-represented in the new WA upper house.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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I have just been told that people from Melbourne are not familiar with the term 'early mark'. Two people have backed this. Am I insane, or is 'early mark' universal
April 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I have just been told that people from Melbourne are not familiar with the term 'early mark'. Two people have backed this. Am I insane, or is 'early mark' universal
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January 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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people in Perth in the 1990s:
Why are we being tormented by people from South Africa. What the fuck did we do to South Africa
January 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
people in Perth in the 1990s:
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Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
November 27, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
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“It’s not like cat books are huge in Japan. It’s not as big a thing as is being made out in the UK.”
Japanese fiction is booming here. But is a golden age turning into a glut? I spoke to readers, translators, editors and agents about why it's so popular, and how Murata is the new Murakami:
Japanese fiction is booming here. But is a golden age turning into a glut? I spoke to readers, translators, editors and agents about why it's so popular, and how Murata is the new Murakami:
Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming
From tales of alienation to comforting novels set in bookshops, Japanese authors have written nearly half of this year’s bestselling translated novels in the UK. What’s their secret?
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:40 AM
“It’s not like cat books are huge in Japan. It’s not as big a thing as is being made out in the UK.”
Japanese fiction is booming here. But is a golden age turning into a glut? I spoke to readers, translators, editors and agents about why it's so popular, and how Murata is the new Murakami:
Japanese fiction is booming here. But is a golden age turning into a glut? I spoke to readers, translators, editors and agents about why it's so popular, and how Murata is the new Murakami:
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“It has been personally moving for me to encounter so many readers connecting Gwangju to Gaza. I am inspired by their committed, intelligent reading to use my royalties from Human Acts to support Palestinian liberation, and grateful to every reader for making those royalties possible.”—Deborah Smith
KLN Features > Cover Features > [Essay] Reflecting on Han Kang
Features, Cover Features, [Essay] Reflecting on Han Kang, The webzine of KLN, an English-language quarterly on Korean literature.
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November 19, 2024 at 3:54 AM
“It has been personally moving for me to encounter so many readers connecting Gwangju to Gaza. I am inspired by their committed, intelligent reading to use my royalties from Human Acts to support Palestinian liberation, and grateful to every reader for making those royalties possible.”—Deborah Smith
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An unofficial timeline of the Albanese government's teen social media ban #auspol 🧵🪡
Murdoch: Zuckerberg stopped paying his annual financial tribute to me in order for his apps linking to my news sites! He needs to be punished!
Michelle Rowland: Yes sir! Any suggestions?
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Murdoch: Zuckerberg stopped paying his annual financial tribute to me in order for his apps linking to my news sites! He needs to be punished!
Michelle Rowland: Yes sir! Any suggestions?
1/n
November 14, 2024 at 4:52 AM
An unofficial timeline of the Albanese government's teen social media ban #auspol 🧵🪡
Murdoch: Zuckerberg stopped paying his annual financial tribute to me in order for his apps linking to my news sites! He needs to be punished!
Michelle Rowland: Yes sir! Any suggestions?
1/n
Murdoch: Zuckerberg stopped paying his annual financial tribute to me in order for his apps linking to my news sites! He needs to be punished!
Michelle Rowland: Yes sir! Any suggestions?
1/n
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Japanese internment polled well at the time.
November 11, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Japanese internment polled well at the time.
Remind me why I live in this hell hole?
"The Western Australian Labor government appears all but certain to give one of Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters the green light to operate until 2070 after it announced it would abolish state emissions-reduction requirements"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Fifty-year extension for one of Australia’s biggest CO2 emitters likely after WA ditches emissions-reduction rules
Extending life of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas processing plant on Burrup Peninsula could result in billions of tonnes of climate pollution, critics say
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Remind me why I live in this hell hole?