The festival is scheduled for late Feb. I’d love to know *when exactly* the festival board think it will be ok for Randa and other Palestinians to speak in public. Next Feb? 2029?
In the meantime it’s 7 weeks for writers and readers to organise their responses.
Trump has just withdrawn the US from a stack of organisations including
(xi) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Because it is “Contrary to the Interests of the United States”
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Hotspotting the cricket while waiting for the NBN guy to show up on the first day back at work (he didn’t show up) really is peak Australian summer😅😅 #summerofcricket
Glad someone is still clinging to Christmas🎄
When your wifi is broken on the first day of the Sydney test match…guess I’ll go sit in my garden and look at birds
Trying to get back to posting, congratulations @profmdavis.bsky.social on being made a Fellow of the @aiianational.bsky.social in 2025
Cannot think of anyone more deserving, and proud to call Megan a colleague & friend
AIIA Fellows are still disproportionally white & male, but this is a good step!
This cured today’s disassociating
Are you an ANU faculty member? You can vote for me to be your representative on Council!
Running as the NTEU endorsed candidate, I want to be a voice for transparency & good governance!
See my statement and info, voting is open for 1 month here;
apollo.anu.edu.au/default.asp?...
🎉 Proud of our Master’s student Zyarna Leefe! Zyarna represented Australia at the #G20 Youth Summit (#Y20) in South Africa, advocating for Indigenous peoples to have formal seats & decision-making roles in multilateral institutions — a proposal supported by 18/20 delegations!
New A Rational Fear podcast feat. @internationalintrigue.io ‘s Jeremy Dicker, @jamesblackwell.bsky.social, @danilic.bsky.social and Lewis Hobba: www.arationalfear.com
Always good to see @croakeynews.bsky.social run pieces by PhD students, especially when they’re also ANU Bell School colleagues❤️🔥
Isabelle Zhu-Maguire writes about what we could expect to see from an Australian #COP31, especially given our attachment to fossil fuels
www.croakey.org/in-a-country...
Doctors (inc my sister) are on strike across NSW, and you might wonder why — aren’t doctors paid heaps?
Junior doctors in NSW earn 1/3 less for the same job than in other states. They work 12hr shifts days in a row.
Junior doctors deserve better pay & conditions so they can be better physicians.
I’m not gonna link the article because it doesn’t need clicks, but Mike Pezzullo continues in his quest to find rock bottom Aussie racism…
If anyone’s stupid enough to continue working with him, you can’t say you didn’t know he’s a racist, and you’re tainted by association (Looking at you AIIA)!
🧵: Those pushing these economic/green agendas for Indigenous peoples *without* a rights framework (either deliberately or not — and some are deliberate) are arguing a losing case for most mob. The only people who win there are those already winning. That changes nothing.
🧵: I’ve been in the US since Nov, meeting many Indigenous nations. Property, legal, and political RIGHTS are CENTRAL to their economic agendas. Otherwise all we get is fancy Indigenous businesses taking all the cash, none of it going where it needs to — aka what we have now!
Ben Wyatt is currently advocating, along with some Canberra big-noters, for an economic empowerment/green economy framework that First Nations in Aotearoa, Canada & the United States *ONLY* achieved *BECAUSE* of Indigenous property RIGHTS and constitutional recognition.
Peter Jennings is the very problem with ASPI. The Varghese review called out his behaviour & management many times. And this doesn’t even touch his history of what I would argue are racially problematic views. That we should listen to him now is farcical.
www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/v...
WOOHOOOOO!!! My sister just graduated with her MD from @sydneyuni.bsky.social! 7 years of hard as fuck work — some absolute Wiradyuri EXCELLENCE right there! Marambangbilang!🧡🎉
Now she’s not just a little shit, she’s DOCTOR little shit — congrats Dr Sarah Blackwell!! 🎉🤣
I just cast my vote for @dbmacdonald.bsky.social to be President of @isanet.bsky.social for 2025-26! If you haven’t yet voted, please do so, and please consider giving David your vote!🧡
As always, Australia just copying NZ🤦🏼♂️🤣
Why is EVERYONE here suddenly?!
They would NOT survive a Canberra winter🤣
I don’t do much myself, but would be happy to have a yarn!
Not sure this will be as fun (see: unhinged) as the other place, but giving it a go all the same!!
