Who would have thought that Rav Kook would have been relevant to both @parlcharlie.bsky.social and @clothedvillainy.bsky.social - “just as there are laws of poetry, there is poetry in the Law.”
Have you ever tried to include iambic pentameter in legislative drafting?
There is still time! And my daughter is now getting into The West Wing, so she could join us.
When I’m bored I come onto BlueSky to read who @clothedvillainy.bsky.social is dunking on today. Then I need to work out who on earth he is subtweeting about
JAG was a great show. Combine big ships. Big planes. Police procedural. What could go wrong!
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I went down to Bondi today, for the first time since the terror attack
“What were Michelle Obama and Jill Biden hiding?” @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
In Australia, these sort of “courts” are usually called “tribunals” and the decision makers are “members” not “judges” for this exact reason. So Refugee Review Tribunal, or Migration Review Tribunal or Administrative Decisions Tribunal
I think this could be your DECRA project?
University of Canberra’s new advertising posters say “discover there are no deadlines in life”. As a lecturer, does that mean I can’t impose deadlines on any assessment?? (I mean, it often seems we can’t decline extension requests….)
Here's how focus on "Iran" has looked in the US for that time span.
Just updated CanberraInbox. Who is talking about "Iran"?
First graph just this year. Second goes back to 2024. It is mainly the Libs/Nats. Labor largely ignoring it?
ping @dcinbox.bsky.social
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That is scary… deeply worrying.
Prob not much diff in method. Content matters. Mass writing campaigns are ignored. One of Howard's advisors said “millions of bloody letter-writers are wasting their bloody time.” What matters are individual stories that pull heartstrings of the MP.
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An excellent analysis, not just of Remeikis’ book, but implicitly on the state of much #auspol political commentary.
Reading @jonchu.bsky.social's fascinating book - 'Social Cues: How the Liberal Community Legitimizes Humanitarian War' & came to one of his surveys of n=12,233! Amazing! How did he get such a large sample! Must have been expensive!
No - it was a technical error! Best type of error!
Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
“In this busy newsroom, hundreds of international lawyers called Trumps’ threat a war crime, but when an Oscar winning actor criticises the President, it’s hard to know how to allocate precious column inches”
ping @pandanuspetter.bsky.social
Ping @pandanuspetter.bsky.social
Joh jumped to his feet at one stage and confirmed that he had discussed uranium mining with the Shar of Iran during his recent middle East trip. He said that the Shar had agreed with him that if we failed to mine uranium and export it, others would take it by force. Blast the Great Divide There was one particularly intelligent question from the parliamentar-ians. This came from Bob Katter junior, who asked whether the Great Dividing RAnge could be blown up with A-bombs to allow water to flow inland to his electorate of Flinders.
Bob Katter AND Shah of Iran jumpscare in as many paragraphs, truly a rich text
No. It’s only “invading” if it comes from the “ĂĹ„vaÄŹe” region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparking military action.
With #robodebt back in the news again, it’s worth considering how the APS is engaging with the lessons. Has any genuine policy learning occurred…. My analysis using #foi documents in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, w/ @mariamaley.bsky.social
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Letters to MPs (& the PM) are an under-researched part of public opinion - here I explore letters to the Aussie PM between 1996 and 2000 and discover that a letter that tugs on the heartstrings can have an impact. But mass letter writing campaigns usually don’t
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Ping @parlcharlie.bsky.social this thread is up your alley
My research note on using ChatGPT/LLMs in teaching has somehow hit 10 citations in less than two years! A side project has become my most cited piece. An example of teaching lead research.
@ausjpa.bsky.social #chatgpt
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I think @mfwitches.bsky.social would absolutely support Jesus here, given how they proudly took credit for Kyle’s cancellation.
That is what you are talking about?
Isn’t it?
So to clarify, you 100% accept the allegations on the right, but question the findings from the UN on the left?
Again #metoo unless you are a Jew
Amy, she called the October 7 rapes "propaganda"! #metoo unless you are a Jew?
Grace Tame says she has “reflected” on chanting “globalise the intifada.”
So naturally, when given the chance to clarify herself on ABC Sydney Mornings, she questioned whether Israeli women were raped and murdered on October 7.
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’The war at home’. Disgraceful phrasing that somehow manages to be worse than the article describing opening a bakery as an act of high street aggression. Casual extremism like this cannot be normalised.
Of the 15 killed, I think 1 wasn’t Jewish?
And the target was a JEWISH community event. Jews were the target. The motive was antisemitism.