Simon Stevens
@simonstevens.bsky.social
Lecturer in Historical and Political Studies.
Perth, Australia.
Perth, Australia.
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Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
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Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we remember those we’ve lost, recommit to ending gender-based violence, and honour those who carry stories of survival that should never have been written.
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we remember those we’ve lost, recommit to ending gender-based violence, and honour those who carry stories of survival that should never have been written.
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Housing in Australia is unaffiordable mainly because it has been the official and explicit policy of every government for a generation that dwelling prices must always rise www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Extraordinary' housing values crush home ownership dreams
Home prices have risen by almost 50 per cent in the past five years, with more than a decade now needed to save for a standard 20 per cent deposit for a house in most capital cities, according to a ne...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Housing in Australia is unaffiordable mainly because it has been the official and explicit policy of every government for a generation that dwelling prices must always rise www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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An overrepresentation of Aboriginal defendants has led to the NT government shutting down Legal Aid, cutting free legal representation and leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court, reports Russell Marks. satpa.pe/eCeZv6K
NT cuts legal aid for anyone out of custody
The Northern Territory has made widespread cuts to free legal representation, leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
An overrepresentation of Aboriginal defendants has led to the NT government shutting down Legal Aid, cutting free legal representation and leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court, reports Russell Marks. satpa.pe/eCeZv6K
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Environment laws must “actually protect nature” says David Pocock. 👏 #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia politics live: Pocock says environment laws must ‘actually protect nature’ as Labor offers compromises to Greens and Coalition
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November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Environment laws must “actually protect nature” says David Pocock. 👏 #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Trump’s Dept. of Transportation has:
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump’s Dept. of Transportation has:
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
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Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists
@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
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@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
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Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists - The Shot
Around the West, mainstream figures are normalising far-right actors and ideas. Some of them, for example the Australian judiciary, do...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists
@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
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@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
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Checking in on MechaHitler
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Checking in on MechaHitler
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Major environment groups urge government MPs to improve nature bills. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia news live: ‘What a day!’ – new NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane thanks colleagues after winning leadership unopposed
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November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Major environment groups urge government MPs to improve nature bills. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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📢 The National Socialist Network leader, who led the anti-Jewish rally outside parliament, is now in custody.
Neo-Nazi leader Joel Davis arrested by AFP at Bondi
www.smh.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians | Amy McQuire
The refusal to conduct an inquest reveals again what many black women know: it’s not a place for truth-telling but rather a mechanism to alibi the state and its failures
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term.
No president since Clinton has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on such a scale.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
No president since Clinton has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on such a scale.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Trump Is Undoing DOJ Prosecutions From His First Term
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term.
No president since Clinton has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on such a scale.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
No president since Clinton has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on such a scale.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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'Eltis said the party’s constitution was fully drafted and one plank of its policy platform was the mass deportation of people of Jewish faith.'
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
Far-right figure who visited ‘motherland’ Germany is close to forming national party
Sydney man Jack Eltis said the National Socialist Network “was about 90 per cent” of the way to forming state and national parties.
www.theage.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
'Eltis said the party’s constitution was fully drafted and one plank of its policy platform was the mass deportation of people of Jewish faith.'
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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GUARDIAN: “Israeli soldiers described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers… use of human shields, opening fire unprovoked…” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
GUARDIAN: “Israeli soldiers described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers… use of human shields, opening fire unprovoked…” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Musk is paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat | Steven Greenhouse
Musk is paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat | Steven Greenhouse
We may be in a golden age for the super-rich – but it doesn’t feel that way for the 42 million Americans who use Snap
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November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Musk is paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat | Steven Greenhouse
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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Our EO @sarahschwartz.bsky.social spoke to ABC News this morning about yesterday’s neo-Nazi stunt outside NSW Parliament. We stand with Jewish people and all people impacted by racism and acts of hate.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Our EO @sarahschwartz.bsky.social spoke to ABC News this morning about yesterday’s neo-Nazi stunt outside NSW Parliament. We stand with Jewish people and all people impacted by racism and acts of hate.
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1/ wtf is going on at Home Affairs? I’ve lost count of the number of offshore detention-related scandals
2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored
3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.
2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored
3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.
‘Mind-boggling’: Whistleblower reveals how global bikie boss won Nauru security deal
A former soldier recruited to support an Albanese government deportation plan wants an inquiry after finding a gang had infiltrated the border security operation.
www.theage.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
1/ wtf is going on at Home Affairs? I’ve lost count of the number of offshore detention-related scandals
2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored
3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.
2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored
3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.
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Will Labor’s environment laws actually address Australia’s biodiversity crisis? Five reasons to be concerned
Will Labor’s environment laws actually address Australia’s biodiversity crisis? Five reasons to be concerned
Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules
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The Albanese government is overhauling national environment laws. It wants its changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act rushed through parliament before the end of the year.
But should they be? Continue reading...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Will Labor’s environment laws actually address Australia’s biodiversity crisis? Five reasons to be concerned
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Trump to Americans right now
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Trump to Americans right now
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009