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Listen up Labor, you are suffering from political anaemia. Stop appeasing & start opposing injustice. You think you are treading a fine win-at-all-cost line, but you are trashing your raison d’être. Tax the gas, abandon AUKUS, stop giving to the rich and punishing the poor, invest in sovereign AI…

A move in the right direction - NSW take note! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

AUKUS is barking mad. Albo & Co seem unwilling or unable to disengage from this madness. “Perhaps the best hope is that the Americans decide after all that they cannot supply the AUKUS … pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

“A struggle for the future looms, in the university as elsewhere: for genuine knowledge, for humanity, for life.” A brilliant essay well worth your time. When I retired, the situation was bad, unrecognisable from when I started, but now it’s much worse. theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Fiona Katauskas nails it again. Fund public schools properly!

Absolutely. The power of the oligarchs has become a clear and present danger to the health of humanity. They must be opposed and their powers reduced.

One more reason to avoid anything from Meta ... (Already given X and Amazon the heave-ho)

After apparently sabotaging the No Kings rallies today, this comes as no surprise. The powerful thing folk can do to resist this fascism is to resign from Instagram and boycott Facebook.

The private school club is self perpetuating. #AusPol

Jane Caro: Australians are blind to the damage our publicly funded but increasingly segregated education system is doing to our children and their future. It suits powerful vested interests that we do not see. www.themonthly.com.au/nation-revie...

In 2023 my city voted YES to the Voice Referendum although my country overall voted NO. This was an important opportunity missed to recognise the painful consequences of dispossession and begin to atone for the horrors that have been perpetrated against the Indigenous owners. Shame on us.

Anne Aly absolutely bristling at the abhorrent comments Angie Bell made about her and Anthony Albanese getting stoned in the square. Anne Aly’s anger and disbelief is palpable. This wasn’t misspeak or a comment that can be apologised away. It was a dog whistle and hopefully the AFP looking at this

What does the inequality crisis look like? This 👇 98% of public schools are underfunded – that’s 2.6 million kids without the resources they need for the education they deserve. Yet the richest private schools are charging massive fees while banking billions of public dollars.

Literally dirty money … gleaned hand over fist by mining what always was and is Indigenous earth and given with a quid pro quo. Return her cheque immediately.

🙏 To Our Digital Warrior! Julia Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, will leave after 10 years on the job. She has served our country & the civilised world so brilliantly. I can only imagine what she has personally been subjected to. Thank you for your years of service and innovation.

Common sense and ingenuity from Sweden … if we have to have these things, we need to think more creatively about where we put them, how they are powered and cooled, and where their waste goes. Meanwhile a moratorium will give us time to think and plan.

suebarrett.substack.com/p/we-are-all... an important reflection.

Thank you Mary Oliver via Stephanie Dowrick for this question: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” stephaniedowrick.substack.com/p/a-poem-a-d...

Message found at the bottom of an Australian Bottle Tree (not a Boab, that’s a different tree) in Roma, Queensland.

suebarrett.substack.com/p/the-conver... A great summary of where we stand and what we can do about it. Thank you Sue Barrett!

While Albanese is responsible for what is happening now, this wicked situation has a much longer history. If we value social harmony we had better begin righting this ship by generously funding our public schools immediately!

An important article.

Ed Husic - such an impressive man calling for a nationally consistent AI approach that prioritises sovereign capability and effective control. Such a shame that he is no longer in the Cabinet.

Just brilliant as always!

This refusenik has a point!

share.google/trFap1OfVppq... Well worth the time in order to understand just who the Hansonites are - and out of George Megolagenis’ new book, who we are.

Unbelievable! Who are these people? Hanson can’t be trusted & negatively impacts all of us. “The findings … found [that] Hanson … has emerged as both the most trusted political leader and the one Australians believe is having the most positive impact (38%).” www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

A powerful message to all of us who are lucky enough to be citizens with the right to vote.

Carnarvon Gorge crossing number 1 Freed from the electronic and digital soup of daily life, here in Sandstone Country in Outback Queensland, a sense of calm, of perspective and peace descend. What a gift.

Brilliant and unmissable read: “But surely by now this Court must understand what it has wrought for America and the Constitution, and is aghast as we all are, even if it is not penitent. Surely, surely, it will understand the signal moment … [as] its supreme obligation to the nation.

Nick McKim has torched Matt Canavan & Angus Taylor for their misogyny, ‘fueling the toxic manosphere”, ‘blaming women’ & making claims of ‘femisation of schools’ “What does that even mean?” “Real men don’t blame women when life gets tough.”💥💯

Australia- wake up. AI without ethical oversight is beyond dangerous. We need action on this now. No more data centres - none - until a regulatory framework is in place for AI.

From Crikey on born-to-wreck Canavan/born-to-rule Taylor and born-clueless Hanson’s curriculum crap: Jason Clare responded to this rhetoric: “Teaching boys to respect girls isn't woke. It's just common decency.” Coalition tries to stoke culture wars in schools www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/04/c...

substack.com/@nyadolnyuon... Nailed it. I want to protest the historic masculinisation of the curriculum. Blah blah Matt Canavan!

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... vale Gloria, thank you!

Fascinating introduction to Lesbia Harford - we are more modern than postmodern in these times if the quote given from Bergman is anything to go by - but I suspect in its ironic endgame times. theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Fabulous National Press Club speech and questions with Chanel Contos www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Some good/better news …

zoedaniel.substack.com/p/more-in-co... Climate change will not be denied and inaction is not an option- a heartfelt post from Zoe Daniel.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Brickbats to Google Maps. Disgusted that Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario “Lake America”. Such subservient toadying nonsense. It will not stand. Bah humbug!

Essential Reading! You’re in a class war, whether you fight back or not theshot.net.au/uncategorize... The neoliberals’ representatives have nothing but fear and hatred to sell us now. Fear of feminists, fear of trans people, fear of Muslims, fear of The Left, fear of socialists and communists. …

Another must read from Ashenden! I’m reading Michael J. Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit which owes much to The Rise of the Meritocracy, “An Essay on Education & Equality.” Schooling in Oz is based on brazenly crafted futures - prizes for some, humiliation for others. insidestory.org.au/what-michael...

Education should be public, secular and inclusive. The rorting of public funds by private schools that are religious, exclusive and divisive must end.

aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon... Thank you for saying what is becoming increasingly unsayable: “That mountain did not thaw and fall because these things just happen sometimes. It fell because projections were filed, understood, and set aside in favour of quarterly returns.”