Author, Actor, Educator. First novel, Painting the Light, published May 2. Also writes plays, non fiction & stuff. Acts when called upon. Still teaches.
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Today’s independent AUKUS Public Inquiry, led by Peter Garrett, found that the submarine timetable is likely unachievable, that successive governments have concealed AUKUS’s true costs and risks, and that Australia could be left without an effective submarine capability.
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Public schools are hideously underestimated. Their work does not simply matter, it changes lives. smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-…
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The midterms look like they’ll be the wipeout so many have predicted (and so often have been embarrassingly wrong about) since Trump first entered politics, Susan B. Glasser writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wq…
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Please @AlboMP do not sell out Australia’s music, text, audio, video, arts, media creators to the AI platforms to “train” their data centres in local content. Please make this non-negotiable in fast tracking the AI revolution here. Yes we want this investment .. but only with fair compensation.
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1920s, Ramallah, Palestine 🇵🇸
Members of the Qurt family from al-Taybeh, dressed in traditional Palestinian attire.
Pictured from right to left: Halina Qurt; Juries Qurt; Rahma Qurt with her daughter, Veronica; Juries Mansour; Abida Qurt of Beit Jalal with her granddaughter, Nathema; and Nusra Qurt with her daughter, Fadwa.
I love the way the first port of call is to blame teachers for whatever ill afflicts children. “What did you do to cause ‘x’ to call you an ‘effing dickhead’ ?” for instance. Indefensible behaviour by some boys, especially towards female teachers, is put down to wokeness!
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“The world stands by. The left is tiny, weak & hoarse from sounding too many warnings. The anti-Bibi opposition oscillates among downplaying the danger, remaining indifferent to it & outright supporting expulsion.” Amira Hass in Haaretz on clearing Palestinians from river to sea.
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No makes an argument like Jeff Sparrow does:
The climate crisis may be reaching a tipping point. If we are ever to tackle the vested interests that stand in the way of any real solutions, we will need to sacrifice “social cohesion"
- by Jeff Sparrow
crikey.com.au/2026/09/02/nep…
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BREAKING: Doug Ford just unveiled a massive sign reading “Lake Ontario Now and Always” on the shoreline of Lake Ontario.
Trump would hate it if this went viral.
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Taxpayers should not be funding Scots College and so called “elite” private schools which embed entitlement with students repeatedly exposed in egregious misconduct cases. 👇Our public schools are underfunded but no government is willing to take this on. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comm…
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Australians expect the killing of humanitarian worker Zomi Frankcom to be fully criminally investigated and charges brought against the perpetrators. It is an outrage that Israel has decided not to.
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The writing is on the wall for Labor’s aged care assessment tool. Older people, carers and experts have been screaming for months that it's systematically under-assessing need & priority.
Now the Senate has been crystal clear: it’s time for Labor to go back to the drawing board.
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Labor's primary vote up 3% in latest Morgan Poll - highest primary vote for ALP in 3 months. Labor holds election winning lead on two-party preferred basis against either One Nation (53% to 47%) or the L-NP Coalition (52% to 48%) #auspol roymorgan.com/findings/10311…
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In 1966, Gurindji workers walked off Wave Hill station over poor pay and conditions. Their stand became a landmark campaign for land rights.
A new circulating 50 cent coin honours their courage and legacy. ramint.gov.au/about-us/whats…
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Labor’s moral turpitude on gambling advertising is indefensible. Australia smashed much larger countries in the Commonwealth Games precisely because we are a sports-loving culture. Our athletes grew up loving sport for its own value, not crass probabilities & profits. No longer.
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This is a magnificent speech at Garry Sobers’ funeral. Obama-level oratory that never felt stitched together from various cloths of nationalism and fandom and sport, but one thread of respect and honour.
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'No one wants to be right about this’: Climate change scientists’ horror and exasperation as predictions play out.
"It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself."
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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