Tom Carey
@tomcarey.bsky.social
Comms guy. Union guy. Studying public policy guy. Dad guy. Cool guy.
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It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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Congratulations to members at University of Newcastle for standing up and taking strike action today for safe workloads, job security and fair pay.
Education is a right, not a business, and hardworking staff deserve to be treated with respect.
Join the campaign today: nteu.au/join
Education is a right, not a business, and hardworking staff deserve to be treated with respect.
Join the campaign today: nteu.au/join
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Congratulations to members at University of Newcastle for standing up and taking strike action today for safe workloads, job security and fair pay.
Education is a right, not a business, and hardworking staff deserve to be treated with respect.
Join the campaign today: nteu.au/join
Education is a right, not a business, and hardworking staff deserve to be treated with respect.
Join the campaign today: nteu.au/join
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What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k
Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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ANU interim vice chancellor today announced no more forced redundancies under the Renew ANU program. Cuts are ongoing, but forced redundancies are off the table. It’s been a hard slog. Harms are ongoing. There’s still more work to do. I’m so proud of my colleagues, ANU community.
September 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
ANU interim vice chancellor today announced no more forced redundancies under the Renew ANU program. Cuts are ongoing, but forced redundancies are off the table. It’s been a hard slog. Harms are ongoing. There’s still more work to do. I’m so proud of my colleagues, ANU community.
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Job cuts are a symptom of a broken governance model. It's time for transparency and meaningful reform in our public institutions.
Let's change our universities for the better 👉 betterunis.nteu.au
See the latest coverage on ABC News👇
Let's change our universities for the better 👉 betterunis.nteu.au
See the latest coverage on ABC News👇
September 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Job cuts are a symptom of a broken governance model. It's time for transparency and meaningful reform in our public institutions.
Let's change our universities for the better 👉 betterunis.nteu.au
See the latest coverage on ABC News👇
Let's change our universities for the better 👉 betterunis.nteu.au
See the latest coverage on ABC News👇
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Australia-specific data suggests BHP fuelled 50 heatwaves, Woodside 49, Santos 49, and Whitehaven Coal 41
Excerpt 👉 theenergy.co/article/expo...
Excerpt 👉 theenergy.co/article/expo...
September 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Australia-specific data suggests BHP fuelled 50 heatwaves, Woodside 49, Santos 49, and Whitehaven Coal 41
Excerpt 👉 theenergy.co/article/expo...
Excerpt 👉 theenergy.co/article/expo...
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More details, including @nteunion.bsky.social statement, to follow.
Join the union today at www.nteu.au/join.
Join the union today at www.nteu.au/join.
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
More details, including @nteunion.bsky.social statement, to follow.
Join the union today at www.nteu.au/join.
Join the union today at www.nteu.au/join.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal
August 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal
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These sudden and unnecessary course and job cuts are a symptom of the broken governance structures that overpaid and unaccountable university leaders operate under. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian universities to cut about 2,400 jobs and hundreds of courses as sector blames ‘confused’ government policies
Vice-chancellors say they’ve been forced to restructure but critics point finger at ‘unaccountable’ university management
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
These sudden and unnecessary course and job cuts are a symptom of the broken governance structures that overpaid and unaccountable university leaders operate under. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Opinion | Labor was scathing of the Job Ready Graduates scheme when it was introduced under Scott Morrison. So why hasn't Anthony Albanese scrapped it?
Money and votes may speak louder than equity for Labor’s higher-education policy
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August 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Opinion | Labor was scathing of the Job Ready Graduates scheme when it was introduced under Scott Morrison. So why hasn't Anthony Albanese scrapped it?
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Another thing I keep thinking about — Miss Rachel’s confused, teary “I feel like I’m living in a nightmare where I keep having to explain that it’s wrong to starve children.”
We can get so wrapped up in the horror and the “it’s complicated” rhetoric that we lose the simple humanity of that.
We can get so wrapped up in the horror and the “it’s complicated” rhetoric that we lose the simple humanity of that.
August 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Another thing I keep thinking about — Miss Rachel’s confused, teary “I feel like I’m living in a nightmare where I keep having to explain that it’s wrong to starve children.”
We can get so wrapped up in the horror and the “it’s complicated” rhetoric that we lose the simple humanity of that.
We can get so wrapped up in the horror and the “it’s complicated” rhetoric that we lose the simple humanity of that.
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Could someone - anyone - explain why @jasonclaremp.bsky.social hasn't intervened already? www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904099...
ANU's horror show only has one fitting ending now
This is a wake-up call for Bishop and Bell.
www.canberratimes.com.au
August 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Could someone - anyone - explain why @jasonclaremp.bsky.social hasn't intervened already? www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904099...
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I have almost run out of things to say about the people running Australian universities www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Uni staff told to 'wash delicates' for stress management as 146 courses suspended
The University of Technology Sydney is suspending more than 100 courses as it prepares for a controversial redundancy program to save $100 million.
www.abc.net.au
August 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I have almost run out of things to say about the people running Australian universities www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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More than HALF of 🇦🇺’s gas exports are given away with no royalty, no PRRT, no meaningful company tax
Norway taxes oil & gas heavily so has a $2.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
We have $1 trillion of debt.
We need urgent PRRT reform to stop the great gas giveaway
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Norway taxes oil & gas heavily so has a $2.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
We have $1 trillion of debt.
We need urgent PRRT reform to stop the great gas giveaway
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas
In Norway, they tax their oil and gas industry heavily and give their kids free higher education. Here, we do the opposite.
www.smh.com.au
August 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
More than HALF of 🇦🇺’s gas exports are given away with no royalty, no PRRT, no meaningful company tax
Norway taxes oil & gas heavily so has a $2.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
We have $1 trillion of debt.
We need urgent PRRT reform to stop the great gas giveaway
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Norway taxes oil & gas heavily so has a $2.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
We have $1 trillion of debt.
We need urgent PRRT reform to stop the great gas giveaway
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
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every time this is raised i think 'that should be a national scandal'. and yet, here we are. if only newscorp could milk some kind of culture war angle ... then we might get somewhere.
www.theage.com.au/business/the...
www.theage.com.au/business/the...
Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas
In Norway, they tax their oil and gas industry heavily and give their kids free higher education. Here, we do the opposite.
www.theage.com.au
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
every time this is raised i think 'that should be a national scandal'. and yet, here we are. if only newscorp could milk some kind of culture war angle ... then we might get somewhere.
www.theage.com.au/business/the...
www.theage.com.au/business/the...
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Thanks Newy Council for backing the community and supporting climate justice, and to the councillors who spoke and voted in our favour.
This is a powerful reminder that people power works.
This is a powerful reminder that people power works.
August 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Thanks Newy Council for backing the community and supporting climate justice, and to the councillors who spoke and voted in our favour.
This is a powerful reminder that people power works.
This is a powerful reminder that people power works.
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Sometimes it takes an act of extraordinary courage to expose and bring down those who rule through fear and intimidation. I hope @nteunion.bsky.social member Liz Allen's brave and harrowing testimony today is the start of such a process - at ANU and other universities.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Julie Bishop accused of bullying by ANU staff member, senate inquiry hears
Former member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened ...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Sometimes it takes an act of extraordinary courage to expose and bring down those who rule through fear and intimidation. I hope @nteunion.bsky.social member Liz Allen's brave and harrowing testimony today is the start of such a process - at ANU and other universities.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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‘Our public universities have become corporatised, governed from behind closed doors by people with little connection to the daily realities of staff and students. The consequences have been catastrophic.’ Dr Alison Barnes, NTEU National President at today’s Senate Inquiry into university governance
August 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
‘Our public universities have become corporatised, governed from behind closed doors by people with little connection to the daily realities of staff and students. The consequences have been catastrophic.’ Dr Alison Barnes, NTEU National President at today’s Senate Inquiry into university governance
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Bishop and Churchill have shamelessly denied allegations made against them and the VC, but members of the ANU community all know who is speaking the truth and who cannot be trusted.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Julie Bishop accused of bullying by ANU staff member, senate inquiry hears
Former member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened ...
www.abc.net.au
August 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Bishop and Churchill have shamelessly denied allegations made against them and the VC, but members of the ANU community all know who is speaking the truth and who cannot be trusted.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Tricky words by the Albanese government obscure the obvious truth: Australia is deeply enmeshed in a global arms trade. There’s lots more being bought and sold than just F-35 parts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Marles insists Australia ‘not supplying weapons to Israel’ but critics argue ‘parts of weapons are weapons’
Acting prime minister decries ‘misinformation’ regarding arms exports while Greens claim ‘hollow talking points … aren’t washing with the public’
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Tricky words by the Albanese government obscure the obvious truth: Australia is deeply enmeshed in a global arms trade. There’s lots more being bought and sold than just F-35 parts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian National University's plan to axe its School of Music an "act of cultural vandalism". www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Australian Chamber Orchestra slams ANU plan as 'cultural vandalism'
The Australian Chamber Orchestra's Richard Tognetti has warned that the ANU's plan to axe its School of Music would result in an "act of cultural vandalism", with another Canberra ensemble saying its ...
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August 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Australian National University's plan to axe its School of Music an "act of cultural vandalism". www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Such a horrifying example of media “complicity” in punching down. Aided and abetted by “progressive” politicians.
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‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media
The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media.
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August 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Such a horrifying example of media “complicity” in punching down. Aided and abetted by “progressive” politicians.
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