In medical emergency can tell you all you need to know about Korean cinema. Flaneur,curmudgeon,optimist,usual disclaimers; prev @Variety @EmpireAust film critic

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A must have book for anyone* interested in the entwined history of the Korean peninsula and Japan. On sale now! Orders delivered after 4 March 2026. *especially fans of South Korean cinema #AcademicTwitter #Koreancinema #Koreanfilm #AcademicX routledge.com/Representation…
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Victoria Barracks sale protest: John Howard headlines eclectic rally against sale of historic Paddington defence facility Did he mention his Govt tried to flog it off in ‘97? Lest he forgot … smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
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Congratulations Professor Andy Jackson on his new book publication Spring in My Hometown / 아름다운 시절. Readers around the world are able to read the open-access edition on Fulcrum. fulcrum.org/concern/monograp…
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When Labor finally won, I allowed myself to dream of a country where @SenatorWong would choose a meeting with Francesca Albanese over one with Isaac Herzog. Seeing the exact opposite happen is a deeply painful reminder of what could have been.
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Reminder: it was on @2GB873 that Alan Jones urged people to go to Cronulla and bash people. It was on @2GB873 that Alan Jones called for Julia Gillard to be put in a chaff bag and thrown into the sea. You do NOT get to moralise over this.
It's one thing to tell the nation to turn the temperature down, but Michael McLaren unpacks why it's rising in the first place. More: 2gb.com/has-democracy-turned…
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David Speers & Patricia Karvelas are quick to call out Social Media as a source of extremism but you'll never hear them single out the biggest source, the right-wing media. The media has normalised #HateSpeech: - 3AW/2GB - Sky News - Herald Sun - Seven/Nine #auspol #HelenHaines
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As politicians recoil in shock at attack on Helen Haines, and call to dial down temperature of political debate - one reminds @AlboMP @AustralianLabor Govt that ALL media, not just social media, landed us here. Address it at its heart: Murdoch #auspol sbs.com.au/news/article/kevi…
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If California billionaires can burn through $340 MILLION to run ads against paying a billionaire tax, then they can definitely afford to pay a billionaire tax.
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I received a goodbye message from a disabled woman this morning. She told me ‘she couldn’t take any more’. She had no hope left. Having someone like us in Parliament, someone who fought tirelessly for us, had been one of the things keeping her alive. I searched her Facebook wall, found her CoS, who called her and contacted police. An ambulance was sent. Her Facebook page has since entirely disappeared. I don’t have her number. This is the third incident like this in 2026. I don’t know whether she’s alive. I don’t know whether she’s going to spend six months in hospital, like the last disabled woman who reached this point. I don’t know what happens next. But I know what happened this week. A disabled man who sent Facebook messages to two women a decade ago, women who did not even make any kind of formal complaint to the Greens, a matter investigated by the WA Greens at the time, has been dragged through the political sewer and publicly compared to Bruce Lehrmann on Insiders. A man found by a Federal Court judge, on the balance of probabilities, to have raped a woman. Jordon has also been dealing with relentless stalking, has an AVO in place (as do others, against the same woman), and serious related matters are before police. Apparently, none of that warrants the slightest consideration from the self-appointed guardians of decency. And then there’s the particularly filthy business of ‘feels on wheels’. An insult coined by Labor in 2022 because Jordon cried in Parliament over dead disabled children, now being twisted into something sexual. What sort of miserable, grubby little bastard takes a man’s grief over dead children and repackages it as a sexual smear? And what sort of journalist repeats it without establishing where it came from? There is a special place in the political gutter for people who manufacture moral outrage out of somebody else’s suffering, then congratulate themselves on their integrity. These grubs couldn’t recognise due process if it walked into Parliament wearing a fucking name badge. They’ve confused cruelty with courage, public humiliation with justice, and political opportunism with principle. Their compassion is a theatrical production with a press release and a remarkably convenient list of people who don’t qualify for it. And while this circus was consuming every available inch of political oxygen, Parliament was getting on with the business of dismantling disabled people’s lives. The very changes Jordon had been fighting. The ones you’re not talking about while you’re talking about this. Cuts to essential supports. Data matching and surveillance. People being shut inside their homes and shut out of life. Disabled and aged Australians facing terrible harm at the hands of a government that treats us as disposable commodities. Fuck that. You can find an unreported complaint of an inappropriate Facebook message from ten years ago, but apparently you can’t find your conscience when disabled people are begging you not to destroy their lives. What a thoroughly rotten collection of political cowards. You have mistaken the absence of consequences for the possession of principles. You know every word. Trauma-informed. Safeguarding. Human rights. Procedural fairness. You can pronounce them all beautifully into a microphone. You just don’t give a fuck about practising any of them when doing so might cost you a headline, a preselection - yeah, looking at you, WA Greens - a dead cat on the table or a convenient political scalp. And spare me the lectures about protecting women. Where was this righteous fury when disabled women testified about being raped, beaten and abused in institutions? Where is it now, when disabled women and carers are trapped in violent homes because they cannot get the support they need to leave? Where is it when women are telling you that the loss of their disability supports will put their lives in danger?
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If your favourite films are Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, Spielberg's 1941 and Inarritu's BIRDMAN, then you might be in with a chance with #DIGGER, but for anyone else...
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but I do wonder what Roy Andersson makes of #DIGGER?
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I notice that in a joint statement with her counterparts from the UK, Canada, and France, @SenatorWong criticised the Palestinian Authority for postponing elections. Did she also do the same when @ZelenskyyUa cancelled Ukraine's elections?
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Ah yes, South Korea, born out of a once-extinguished nation, survived an Armageddon of a war, then spent its entire existence preparing the next Armageddon war while being surrounded by four of the greatest powers of the world - definitely a poster child of dewy-eyed idealism.
The Ukrainians live in a ruthlessly practical world, like some others. They are baffled by those who don't understand reality and who don't deal with it practically. Seoul's policies toward PRC and Russia increasingly out of touch.
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𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗶𝗺!🔈 One night. Three films. Stories that stay with you.🌗 📍 Boonah Cultural Centre 📆 16 Oct 🎞️ Journey There | Maze | Once We Were Us 🎟️ Free to attend. Impossible to forget.
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There are two schools of thought about this. The first is that Albanese and Wong would like to do the right thing about the ICC, Palestine, antisemitism, etc, but are hamstrung by pressure from Washington and a powerful Israel lobby which they dare not defy any further (after recognising Palestine). They are morally decent people but they have a gun to their head and can’t act in the way they would like to. The second is that there is no gun to their head because their values, principles and policies are closely aligned with Washington’s and the Israel lobby. They don’t need to be pressured, threatened or intimidated because they share the same view of Israel as its defenders do. This explains their refusal to join the UK in banning exports from the occupied Palestinian territories, their silence about Trump’s attacks on the the ICC, and the extent to which they have broken ranks with the UK, Canada, Denmark, France Germany, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands. Which approach best explains Australia’s moral descent? My money is on the second.
Penny just ‘concerned’ again, I guess…
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A reaction from someone who went to see Digger on its opening night in Japan: “This is the first time I’ve ever been in an IMAX theater with only four people in it.”
うん。こりゃ米国で爆死するわ。 米国と資本主義の傲慢さに容赦なし。 興行成績捨てて トムのやりたかったことヤッてるな〜😆 画面を観るに 制作費かなり掛かってそうだけど 回収するの度外視か? まぁ今迄 映画産業を救ってるからねぇ~。 IMAXの箱で4人しかいないの初めて🤣 #映画ディガーを語ろう
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When is the last time you saw a Western media headline about “Israeli torture camps”
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When Ukraine-affiliated big accounts praise an insurrectionist who tried to end South Korean democracy, South Koreans tend to remember that and react accordingly.
President Yoon knew exactly which countries are South Korea’s allies and which are its enemies. He is sorely missed today
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I am so sick of my workplace (a university if you can believe it!) force-feeding AI into everything we do - "so that you know how to apply AI responsibly". Given this technology is based on IP theft and is an environmental disaster - how about not using AI...period!!
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