Annual reminder of Australia’s 250 year long prison addiction

When the writer @alistairkitchen.bsky.social was stopped by C.B.P. last week, an officer told him it was because of what he had written about the protests and Columbia. Kitchen was detained, his phone was searched, and he was eventually deported. nyer.cm/miKH6aK

'A wake for those staying': Fears for NZ journalism as billionaire buys up A Canadian billionaire has swooped into the New Zealand mediascape and bought a major stake in the country's biggest news publisher.

A Canadian billionaire has taken a major stake in New Zealand's biggest news publisher. What does it mean for the future of journalism in the country? @rebekah-holt.bsky.social reports.

3. Fail to state the vote winning line when interviewed the next day: you know it’s not your place to tell any woman what to wear

My eyebrows haven’t quite recovered from her big pre election 2022 push to have a school kids swear an oath of allegiance

Australia operates ‘immigration prisons’, human rights lawyer tells UN In closed hearing, Alison Battisson says country has a ‘terrifying’ record of detaining people unlawfully for indefinite periods

I also spoke of Australia's lack of action on people detained overseas. The Guardian's political editor, Karen Middleton, reports exclusively on my trip to Geneva. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is so good Sam

solidarity to the Hansard stenographer who is head down furiously smashing out KA MATE KA MATE KA ORA KA ORA TĒNEI TE TANGATA PŪHURUHURU as it goes off all around her