Did they treat the messenger with contempt?

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

An Egyptian funery technician cuts a few corners to save on costs and 1600 years later they're finally getting exposed as a shoddy operator, except everyone thinks it's really cool.

So the AYCC emergency appeal is on track for success. My understanding is the total shown on the site only shows donations through raisely, not including offline pledges or bank transfers.

The true figure is at least 2x, possibly 3x or more, what is shown. 💛

This is hopeful one day in, BUT...

Exclusive: University of Queensland scraps Indigenous children’s book, citing controversial anti-Semitism policy The University of Queensland has decided to pulp all 5,000 copies of a children’s picture book written by an Indigenous poet, after media queries from News Corp’s _The Australian_ newspaper that levelled accusations of anti-Semitism against the book’s illustrator. It’s a decision that also marks the first time a controversial definition of anti-Semitism, adopted by Australia’s universities last year, has been cited as the basis of a book cancellation. _Bila, a river cycle_ , was written by award-winning Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun. It’s an environmentally-focused book that tells the story of a river’s journey from mountain to sea and the people who pollute the waterways. Money and Chun began work on the book in 2022 and it was due for release this year. Jazz Money, the author of __Bila, a river cycle.__ In January this year, Dymocks announced that it was removing all of Chun’s books from its stores after he wrote an article titled “We don’t mourn fascists” in the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack. After the Dymocks announcement, _The Australian_ approached University of Queensland Press (UQP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Queensland, to ask about _Bila._ The chair of UQP, Professor Heather Zwicker, told the newspaper that the publisher had, “put the proposed publication on hold pending the outcome of an internal review and external legal processes underway,” effectively suspending its publication. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

The book's author has described the decision to pulp all 5,000 copies of the book as reckless and disrespectful, and says it "sets a chilling standard".

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

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University of Queensland directs UQP to cancel & pulp an Aboriginal writer's environmental-focused book for children. Jazz Money has done nothing wrong and doesn't deserve to be treated this way. Her book is important for young readers. Shameful

Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s...

Yuuuuuppppp

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Excellent analysis here from Tim Dunlop.

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Australians are being played by Rinehart and Hanson, and the media is helping – Amy Remeikis Legacy media's refusal to scrutinise One Nation is going to hurt the country

It should worry you that the One Nation candidate on track to win Farrer thinks it is "above his paygrade" whether Gina Rinehart is funding the party.

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Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

Funny how the law and order guys never think it applies to them 🙄

He’s again blaming the courts, the protesters and those attacked by police all for his appalling and illegal attempts to ban dissent

America’s mainstream media was never ready for democratic backsliding. It has proven itself to be woefully inept at this moment.

Historians and political scientists will write - with ease - about the failure of the fourth estate to act as a watchdog, educator, and scrutineer for what has occurred.

Here's their target: "Meanwhile, in-kind transfers like government-subsidised education, disability and healthcare are increasing."

Public Education
Public Disability Care
Public Health care

They want to be America.

Was just coming to post this link - depends on the JSP but overall the govt hasn’t done much to change the status quo

Federal polls: DemosAU, Roy Morgan, Freshwater Strategy (open thread) - The Poll Bludger Plus news on by-elections, preselections, court actions, and state election counting bungles.

www.pollbludger.net/2026/04/17/f...

When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days Exclusive: The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

No one should have to suffer the indignity & injustice of neglect. Direct government funding in public housing and robust, wrap around, homeless support services stops people falling through the cracks.

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The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly? The way we deal with rising inflation is highly problematic.

Yup

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My 2PP conversions (last-election) for today's batch of polls
Spectre 50.8 to ALP (-4.1 but last poll was Nov)
Resolve 54.5 (+1.2)
Newspoll 54.7 (+0.9)

Vs One Nation
Spectre 51.1 to ALP
Resolve 55.6
Newspoll 54.7

Is the success in the room with us now?

An increase in social media economists and journalists angrily telling us we've never had it so good, with graphs

Who's really behind 'Big Australia'? Taylor's high immigration stance raises eyebrows Angus Taylor's criticism of high immigration puts a strange spotlight on his own party's policy legacy.

Why Angus Taylor's criticism of high immigration is raising eyebrows - ABC News

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I’m not at all deserving of that sort of praise 🩷

some other fun stuff Coal Australia does that might be of interest

1/2 Yes, Coal Australia does highly deceptive astroturfing like this.

The lobby group is also a funding source for right-wing, Atlas Network-aligned think tanks and advocacy groups [such Advance and IPA], often acting to oppose #ClimateAction.

For more on this, follow @lucyham.bsky.social.

Pauline Hanson was welcomed to Sorrento yesterday, a very blue chip town full of wealth and old money. I’d say there’s a big cohort of racist old Libs who are happy to flip further right with her. The Victorian election is shaping up to be a shitshow.

I think he may always have been, but was just able to mask it better.

Potent cartoon.

I take from well meaning messages from friends the Tiny Man Acronym has written about me and Where it all went wrong for The Daily Fail. He hates it, which means you will probably love it (it includes facts, actual acknowledgement of power and isn’t personal - all things strangely alien to him) 🩷

Trump voices optimism about Iran deal; Tehran cautious Iran announces opening the Hormuz Strait, but says ships must received IRGC permission to cross the strategic waterway.

The NY Times is again totally full of shit today. Trump’s comments about Hormuz being open and free are idiotic and untrue, as are his claims abt nuclear enrichment and Lebanon. Iran still controls the strait and holds the cards.
But it’s great the markets believe him.
Aljazeera has the real news:

Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail after being charged with five counts of war crime murder Former SAS soldier to be released from Silverwater prison ahead of possible trial on charges relating to alleged killing of civilians in Afghanistan

more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

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