Best of luck Nina!

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money.

Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas.

EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers.

That's it. That's all you really need to know.

Assume it gives a rosy view of planet earth's inhabitants future (not)

Lessons from ANU for Australia’s university governance crisis The Australian National University (ANU) has spent the past eighteen months in a state of rolling crisis. The headline issues are now familiar. In October 2024, a large projected deficit was announce...

Following up from last night's shocking Four Corners, great analysis from Dr @marijataflaga.bsky.social, Dr Francis Markham and Distinguished Professor Keith Dowding on the broken governance structures that lead to these scandals.

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Revisiting Robert Crawford's ‘Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life’ This special issue revisits Robert Crawford's influential 1980 paper ‘Healthism and the medicalization of everyday life’ to reassess its conceptual value for contemporary medical sociology. We show h...

Revisiting Robert Crawford's ‘Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life’

Clare Herrick, Kirsten Bell

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Salmon farm antibiotics found in native species An antibiotic used by the Tasmanian salmon farming industry is detected in native species more than 10km away from the closest fish operation using it.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Always enjoy being told that the private sector is a more efficient and productive way to deliver public services

Calling for urgent action to better address the needs of Stolen Generations survivors Stolen Generations survivors from across Australia gathered in Canberra this week, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands, attending a series of

Calling for urgent action to better address the needs of Stolen Generations survivors – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/calling-for-...
By Professor Steve Larkin, a Kungarakan man from Darwin and chair of The Healing Foundation board
#AusPol

Paying tribute to a leader for health justice – “comrade, colleague, teacher and friend to many” Introduction by Croakey: Many people have shared tributes and memories of health justice scholar and activist Emeritus Associate Professor David

Paying tribute to a leader for health justice – “comrade, colleague, teacher and friend to many” – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/paying-tribu...
@franbaum.bsky.social writes about the legacy of her dear friend & colleague, David Legge.

Let's get this straight.

Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.

After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.

Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
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Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/advice-to-go...
By Prof @franbaum.bsky.social

This is what happens when you have an antivaxer as Secretary of State for Health
@phaa-onehealth.bsky.social

Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis Introduction by Croakey: Governments were ill-prepared for the harmful algal bloom that began in South Australia almost a year ago,

Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis www.croakey.org/advice-to-go...

USA gone mad

You deserve it!!

Randa Abdel Fattah Legal Fund This fundraiser is being run for Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah by Readers and Writers Against the Genocide. RWAG is a community of readers and writers who believe in the power of literature to enable us to sp...

Consider contribuing to Randa Abdel Fattah's Legal Fund chuffed.org/project/rand...

I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/PDrQJVHpC789hK

Great cartoon, nothing to apologise for

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

No comment necessary: "I cannot be party to silencing writers so, with a heavy heart, I am resigning from my role as the director of the AWW.... Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you." Louise Adler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week Exclusive: Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to appear

Louise says Adelaide is now "Moscow on the Torrens"

Sad so sad!

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Please don’t tell me that a single letter was behind the Adelaide Festival board’s decision

Adelaide festival dumps prominent academic Randa Abdel-Fattah over ‘cultural sensitivity’ concerns after Bondi attack Abdel-Fattah accuses the board of ‘blatant and shameless’ anti-Palestinian racism and censorship, as other authors pull out in solidarity

Writers festivals used to be about dangerous ideas.

Now they are about ensuring that their program of speakers and topics has been pre-approved by a foreign power, and/or their local agents.
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Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years Telco Services Australia generated more than $185m in revenue in 2024-25 and $130m the year before but paid zero tax

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The unconscionable outcome of outsourcing human services to corporations. Fund the Australian Public Service to keep its critical work in-house for the public good.

'Wickedness thrives in darkness': Former Adelaide Festival leaders pen scathing letter on Writers' Week - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia Eleven SA art directors pen a scathing letter criticising Adelaide Festival Board's decision to drop a Palestinian author from Writers’ Week.

Please don't resign Louise Adler - we need you to restore Adelaide Writers Week reputation

A new Board and a reset, a letter to all writers saying Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has been re-invited with an apology for the actions of previous Board

www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Hearing the amazing Stan Grant first speaker at The Equity Co-Lab Fair by Design National Summit #Equity #healthequity

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

JobSeeker: Shame, and now with added AI slop

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Every billionaire is proof millions of people, somewhere, are being robbed of a life worth living.
#SocialistSunday

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

Hugh rally in #Adelaide for #Palestine #Gaza great speeches including by @barbarapocock.bsky.social