Excellent #4Corners episode highlighting the public funding crisis in Higher Ed. & the corporatisation of universities into which slimy consultants have well & truly dug their claws, giving bad & manipulative advice.
Bravo, Steve Cannane!
#auspol #HigherEducation #universities #FundEducation
Actually there might be another study—conducted by historians which finds that Australians are very concerned about our history of economic shocks, foreign interference, natural disasters, distrust in government & its agencies, & historic lack of social cohesion.
So, fund history!
#auspol #history
Exactly, I’m glad you see it too.
New research conducted by security-wallahs & war hawks finds that Australians very concerned about (economic shocks, foreign interference, natural disasters, distrust in government & its agencies, etc that they claim are all basically issues of) "national security".
Um ok!
#auspol #WeaselWords
Hastie’s moment of cognitive dissonance.
Freshly baked Nankhatai on a cooling rack on a kitchen countertop. Behind a red biscuit tin with a map of Australia and a picture of a kangaroo in the map. Besides the tin, a small sunny yellow plant pot with a plant.
I had mixed feelings about Harmony Day after realising it’s Howard’s perversion of Int. Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination. My kid’s school opted to celebrate it tomorrow to ensure it wasn’t during Ramadan. So suck it, Howard!
Nankhatai to share at Harmony Day Picnic tomorrow.
#auspol
I’m so sorry for your loss 💔🐈⬛
“I’m looking for an obituary”, the man explains.
“But, comrade, the obituaries are not on the front page”, says the vendor.
“The one I’m looking for will be.”
2/2
#obituary #FrontPageNews
Apropos nothing, I’m reminded of an old Soviet joke about a man who goes to the newsstand everyday, picks up the newspaper, looks at the front page, shakes his head & puts it back.
After months of this, the vendor asks him about his curious routine.
1/2
I suspect Al might have got it right. This sounds more like a distracted journo/ intern. Either way pretty dangerous since most people will get the wrong information and message, especially since the actual article is behind a paywall.
The Age article blurb on Facebook The royal commission into antisemitism has been thrown into crisis by the shock retirement of special adviser Dennis Richardson, who says he came to feel his contributions were unnecessary and he was not paid enough to do his work. The ASIO boss quit his position just weeks before commissioner Virginia Bell is due to deliver her interim report into the performance of the nation's intelligence and police agencies in the lead up to the Bondi massacre on December 14 last year.
The Age article headline Former spy chief on $5500 a day says he was paid too much to do too little on royal commission
The Age article blurb on Facebook: “shock retirement of special adviser Dennis Richardson, who says… he was not paid enough to do his work.”
Same paywalled article headline: “Former spy chief on $5500 a day says he was paid too much to do too little on royal commission.”
#auspol #MSM #TheAge
Rules-based world disorder.
#auspol #RuleofLaw #RuleoftheJungle
Our chillies be chillin’
🌶️🌶️
#harvest #chillies #GardeningAustralia
The ship and its crew were in India at the invitation of the Indian government to participate in friendly naval exercises. They were guests of India and were attacked unprovoked by the US submarine as they were leaving.
I mean it’s not like we can let a United Nations Special Rapporteur just rock up to a university! And give a speech about international law! It will be anarchy. Where will it end? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
When you gain the admiration of actual fascist supremacists, it may be time for for some self reflection.
#auspol #ALP
That is so beautiful. I do love that colour! Beautiful chartreuse 🥰
An Israeli defense official just said out loud that the US was only pretending to negotiate, in other words. An over-mighty and presumptuous ally, indeed.
In a statement issued on Saturday evening, Anthony Albanese said: “Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression”…by supporting them being bombed into oblivion.
#auspol
How right you are! And that’s a gorgeous lace shawl.
Here’s mine: still incomplete since I got distracted by another mosaic shawl.
Man arrested for a bit of red paint on the statue of the misogynist racist responsible for the murder of millions.
#Churchill #colonialism #racism
Knitting progress of a red shawl with yellow & green mosaic work. The image shows the yellow elephants and flower designs that look like tie-dye work. A ball of yarn and a teal/ green elephant candle holder with a candle are besides the shawl.
This Nine Nights shawl is so special — it evokes joyous images of celebrations, festivities and weddings!
Inspired by the bandhani (tie-dye) Gharchola sari that I rarely get to wear, this shawl will be worn each time I need a cultural hug.
Also 🐘
#knitting #tiedye #shawl
The politics of hope, justice, resistance that we have seen at protests against genocide across the world is undoubtedly going to manifest as election results, sooner or later, even if our media pretend otherwise & magnify hate.
This 🧵 offers some key pointers for Australia!
#auspol #GoGreens
If Reform had won this, it would be all over our media as an ‘unstoppable force’ and Hanson would be platformed as saying it was inevitable here. But no one ever treats a progressive win in the same way. That’s an ‘outlier’
So sectarian and regressive are the Muslims, that they voted for a young white feminist in a party led by a progressive Jewish gay man.
Matt Goodwin or Matt Soreloser?!
#MattSoreloser #MattGoodwin #UK #elections
Academics and students are more likely to face “repression” for their pro-Palestinian views than any other group in the UK, says European Legal Support Center www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
As has been the case for a while now, our excellent satirical news outlets capture the mood and gravity of this issue.
#auspol #DifficultWomen #Media
“Secret report”?!
Once you start to believe your own cooked narratives, you need secret reports, autopsies and deep analysis to tell you what is blatantly obvious to us all. She lost because she supported a genocide.
Absolutely! Maybe the chapters in Abbott’s history book outlining this were mislaid by the printers?
A white man with white nationalist values & Western Christian culture is the terrorist.
Following LNP & ON logic, will white men & Christian religious leaders take ownership of this pattern of terror that they have unleashed from colonialism to the present day?
#auspol #terrorism #racism #Perth