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Jimmy Barnes & nearly 40 other artists have joined the call to ditch the proposed cuts at the ANU School of Music. This joins a long list of controversies in Australia's unis recently. It's a result of running unis like a business, explained Richard Dennis: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/905472...

National public holiday? Probs a good idea - give folks time off work to protest the orange despot.

The Albanese Govt thinks providing Pacific island nations with funds to address the impacts of Climate Change (incl. sea level rises) somehow excuses our profiteering from causing the catastrophe by our fossil fuel sales. It's such an insulting colonialist altitude. #auspol #ClimateChange

Superb cartoon. For those unaware - referencing this photo - www.artsy.net/artwork/alfr...

ICYMI- yesterday's @australia.theguardian.com cartoon

“I can’t stress enough the number of variables that just aren’t included. This is a minimum cost,” – Richard Denniss at estimates re National Climate Risk Assessment. “What you see in that report is the best-case scenario.” via @themandarin.bsky.social ▶️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/devasta...

Proof that Trump did indeed love Kirk like he was his own son ca.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...

"Political violence is a virus,” Klein noted. This assertion is true. It is also at odds with Kirk’s own words. It’s not that Kirk merely, as Klein put it, “defended the Second Amendment”—it’s that Kirk endorsed hurting people to advance his preferred policy outcomes." Yep

The costs of climate damages are rising and local government revenue isn’t keeping up. ‘It’s the fossil fuel companies that are causing climate change that should be paying for some of the damage.” - Rod Campbell, Research Director @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

"All the President's Men" (1976) starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman is available free-to-air on SBS On Demand. #Watergate #USPolitics #journalism #film 🎥 www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The start of (a lot of) beautiful bird content - because its Bird of the Year time!!

"The frenzy shifted in tone. Once Fox News knew the suspect was, as far as we can tell, a cis white 22-year-old named Tyler Robinson, it started blaming college for “radicalizing” him (Robinson attended UVU for one semester).

@kudelka.bsky.social RTYI www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Thank you @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social for doing what journalists are supposed to do: asking informed, insightful questions of those in power. #JournalismMatters #DonaldTrump #USPolitics

@terriblemapshq.bsky.social has proposed a two-state solution for the United States. #USPolitics

The Australian Government's (bad) excuse for more gas? So that the world will use less coal...🤨 So why is the Australian Government...also approving new coal mines!? 🔊 Executive Director Richard Denniss appearing at the Senate Environment Committee @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Anyone surprised at the horrendous takes from centrists like Klein should read Orwell’s 1940 review of the Mein Kampf reprint - where he makes the point that the original version, printed one year before, was greeted sympathetically and cast Hitler as ‘kindly a light as possible’

Come at us

AUKUS ties us ever closer to an increasingly volatile and aggressive America. Add your name to the petition for Australia to conduct an inquiry into AUKUS, something the US and UK are already doing. ✍️ theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry #auspol

President Trump's scorn for highly respected Australian journalist John Lyons was followed up by an official White House X account branding him a "foreign fake news loser". Our research shows Australians want a more independent foreign policy. #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/poll-in...

Donald trump trying and failing to bully an ABC 4corners journalist. #auspol

Good morning birdie.

Even more support to save the ANU School of Music. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

D is so good this is unfair.

My favourite thing last night was right wing nutters last night tagging The Aus Inst twitter account to try to get me into trouble for my tweets.

Robert Redford reminds me that IMO the first 20 minutes or so flashback in The Way We Were might be my favourite 20min in cinema. It's such excellent story telling. The rest of the film remains very good (could have been great had Pollack listened to Barbra), but that flashback is perfect.

Had fun being targeted on Twitter last night because apparently Kirk was a saint who thought everyone was equal and he never tried to destroy the livelihoods of anyone whom he disagreed with.

Disasters are multiplying & the costs are set to skyrocket. The ADF is already stretched, & shouldn't be asked to carry this burden. We need to decide who pays for disaster relief: ordinary Australians, or the fossil fuel industry fuelling the damage? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

RIP #RobertRedford. This was his best. Inspiration to all of us journalists whose mission is holding truth to power. Still such an important message on the corrosion of democracy. Solidarity to my colleague John Lyons, preparing a story on the current climate for our program #4Corners. #journalism

Yeah-nah. My @smh cartoon.

Me too! Proud to be part of this 64-year tradition of holding truth to power. Thank you. ❤️

The best thing Albanese can do is not meet Trump.

Cop unions are always terrible

Shameless of the gambling industry’s peak body to try and leverage parliamentary sport and then also associate themselves with a local mental health group doing great working to prevent suicide. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Wish I thought that the Albanese Labor Govt was going to stand their ground with Trump over John Lyons’ very valid questions - but sadly I don’t. #auspol

Good morning from Seven Hills, NSW, Australia, where at 7 am on Wednesday, September 17 it is a pleasant 18°C. Car at Mechanics, so catching Public Transport to visit wife in Hospital today. Have a great day, take care, talk later. Keep smiling.

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What is the threshold for sanctioning PM Netanyahu and his govt?! Signatories to the genocide convention like 🇦🇺 must take action in the face of genocide, including taking measures to stop it. The global community has to do more. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

"You can make an internet troll the FBI director, but will always be nothing more than an internet troll." – Senator Adam Schiff Stellar critique of infantile incompetent loudmouth Kash Patel. #USPolitics

Thank you @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social for doing your job and for playing your vital role 🙏🙏 #auspol

If you agree with the UN Commission of Inquiry's conclusion that Israel IS committing genocide in Gaza, and you want the Aus Govt to act, I encourage you to sign the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social petition to sanction Israel now: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti... #SanctionIsrael #auspol

If you’ve never listened to Klein’s podcast - every single episode is like this - him desperately working to agree with his interviewee and not challenge them to except to say “I’d like to pick up on that point…”

The Bible explicitly says what now?????

Actors who were true stars in the 1960s still around: Eastwood, Barbra, Hoffman, Beatty, Jane Fonda. Anyone else? Nicholson really was the 1970s.

I wrote something about the Trump regime’s “Horst Wessel” moment with Charlie Kirk so an American didn’t have to *risk their job* by saying the exact same thing. Solidarity, America. www.facebook.com/share/p/1CfT...

Klein thinks politeness is the most important aspect of politics. He doesn't mind people calling for the mass incarceration of a race, so long as they use their inside voice.

Klein is such a useful idiot. It's been a pretty amazing and sharp fall.

Great run by Jess Hull to get the bronze in the 1,500m #worldchamps

Oh no - oh NO - how I loved him! Robert Redford gone!

poor @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Time to wrap it up.

A huge one. #RIP www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My light reading material for this evening, after our local #AUKUS community meeting in Rockingham. If I start glowing in the dark, someone switch me off please.

From the archives: chaser.com.au/world/israel...

Even BBC now saying it

Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social cc @senatorwong.bsky.social The UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Will you expel the Israeli Ambassador now? Will you sanction Israel now? Or will we just hear more empty words? #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide

The American celebrities praising Charlie Kirk (with the caveat "I didn't always agree with him") is giving off strong Nazi collaborator vibes. Some people will sacrifice their principles to stay on the good side of the Trump regime. 🙄 #USPolitics #CharlieKirk #DonaldTrump

Opposition Home Affairs spokesman Andrew Hastie says he would quit the Coalition frontbench if the Liberals remain committed to a net zero by 2050 policy. Does he realise nobody cares what the Coalition does? Nobody but the right wing media is listening to them. #auspol #ClimateChange #NetZero

Women who matched with him on dating apps hope it could lead to him one day even getting a bed frame. chaser.com.au/general-news...

Surprisingly, I couldn’t track down a copy, new or used, of Michael Cronin’s “An Ghaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht” (2019) on any of my usual online sites, be it in Ireland or abroad. Thankfully, An Siopa Leabhar came to my rescue though! #SpéirGorm www.siopaleabhar.com

I am deeply concerned about the impact should Qantas proceed with closure of its Qantas Link base in Canberra. It would hurt the workers and their families required to relocate and could also exacerbate already high rates of flight cancellations.

This is a long interview with Catherine Connolly, but well worth listening to in its entirety, not least for the point at which she describes Irish as part of the solution to climate change, given that there is no false distinction between humanity and nature in the Irish language. #SpéirGorm

"We're telling 20 year olds to worry about superannuation they won't get until 2065. "This report is saying there are catastrophic risks coming right now, way before you need your super." 🔊 Executive Director Richard Denniss at the Senate Environment Committee @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

"We're telling 20 year olds to worry about superannuation they won't get their hands on until 2065. "This report is saying there are catastrophic risks coming right now, way before you need your super." 🔊 Executive Director Richard Denniss at the Senate Environment Committee

“To say that I care about your security & actually do the very thing that’s actually threatening our security, it does not make sense. We cannot be that stupid,” – Anote Tong, fmr president of Kiribati. Pacific leaders see through the rhetoric & are furious about Australia's fossil fuel expansion.

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workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/855/ I was delighted to announce this week that @tommcilroy.bsky.social has been appointed as @australia.theguardian.com political editor, That means we are looking for a chief political correspondent to join our Canberra team.

Australia Institute polling shows that 54% of Australians want a more independent foreign policy over a closer alliance with the US. “This is a really rare opportunity that Trump is giving us, to collectively rethink our security and our safety.” - Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

Our Revenue Summit will feature this fantastic panel to discuss bold solutions to the housing crisis. ⭐️ Josie Lee, Maiy Azize and @purplepingers.bsky.social, hosted by @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Tickets: events.humanitix.com/revenue-summ... #auspol

"All the things I could do If I had a little money It's a rich man's world" The world's first trillionaire? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... In which @peterlewisemc.bsky.social thoroughly skewers the tech bro's AI demands

Good stuff from Michael Koziol ... Kirk's killer's ideology, motives may never be fully known, incoherent...but the guns are a constant. Only an arm's reach away, the solution to any problem. Sick society. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...