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Dominic Kelly
@dominickelly.bsky.social
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Honorary Research Fellow, La Trobe University CH Currey Fellow, State Library of NSW Book: https://blackincbooks.com.au/books/political-troglodytes-and-economic-lunatics Short-form: https://medium.com/@dominickelly_ Next book: history of Quadrant magazine
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15h
New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 1d
My boldest auspol prediction is that a grand coalition is coming in the next few election cycles. Neither major party will be able to form a majority so they’ll team up to protect their donors, locking out pesky minor parties and independents. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 2d
Being generous, the collapse in voting support today is obviously far worse, but the exact same dynamics are at play.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 2d
Um, didn’t you literally write the book on Australian politics in the 80s? This is very clearly what also happened to the Liberals then.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d
Royal children’s hospital Melbourne
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 3d
who's gonna tell him
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 3d
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
David Squires on … Nottingham Forest’s clash of the titans
Our cartoonist anticipates a battle royale between big men who never shy away from confrontation
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 3d
National Press Club www.afopa.com.au/blog/2025/10...
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 5d
David wonders what happened to visions of e-democracy. I wrote about the Australian experience here: insidestory.org.au/like-uber-bu...
Like Uber, but for politics
Dominic Kelly on the false promise of digital democracy
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 5d
I swear to god the Sat Paper regular op-ed line-up – Grant, Bongiorno, Hewson – is an elaborate practical joke.
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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 8d
Modelos Never Tasted So Good: ‘One Battle After Another’ is a Perfect Movie open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...
'One Battle After Another' is a Perfect Movie
Modelos never tasted so sweet.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 6d
“The one major European country that has nothing to be ashamed of in its 20th-century history is Britain.”
– Tony Abbott, serious historian and intellectual
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 6d
Genuinely can’t tell if this is an error or a bad attempt at a pun.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 8d
The nerve of this bullshit artist.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 8d
Ladies and gentlemen, one of your Boyer lecturers for 2025. Farcical.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · Aug 1
Funny shit from Australia’s leading pseudo-intellectual. www.afr.com/rear-window/...
John Anderson says brain science explains ‘pig ignorant’ teals
The former deputy prime minister appeared before Liberal members on Sydney’s north shore to explain his unifying theory.
www.afr.com
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 8d
'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.'

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The far-right figures teaching students at a Sydney college
The dean of studies says the country will need political parties for white Australians. A senior lecturer wants an Anglo-Celtic club to inspire fear in “leftist thugs”.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 8d
The Australian right will never give up on the idea that Tony is very smart.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 11d
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 10d
Obviously we all consume too much in all sorts of ways, but no product combines enormous wastefulness and uselessness quite like AI (and crypto-currency).
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 10d
Does my head in that people who claim to care about climate change have no qualms about using AI for tasks they're perfectly capable of doing themselves. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson
Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 10d
Grateful to the editors of @nplusonemag.com for the clarity and force of this editorial.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Black text on a sepia background: "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 14d
Happy AFR power list day to all who celebrate sycophantic bullshit journalism.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 16d
Just a humble Harvard law professor who doesn't really know anything about Kissinger's career.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16d
Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
= THE NEW YORKER ICO In terms of human rights, I've always found it a little bit puzzling, given what you write, and given who your wife is, that you two were so close to Henry Kissinger. Of all the pre-Trump political figures in America, he is the one I think of as in some ways the opposite of liberal, given his behavior toward the rest of the world. I'll tell you a story. I wrote a book a few years ago on Star Wars. We invited Dr. Kissinger to my Star Wars book party, and he said, "You wrote a book about Star Wars? Why'd you write a book about Star Wars?" He was puzzled and courteous, but really confused. And then he came to the book party, which was quite generous. He was a busy person. But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party. Yeah, and then I gave a talk on Star Wars, and he came up to me afterward and he said, "Oh, I see why you wrote a book on Star Wars. There's a lot there. It's, like, about families and it's about governments and freedom." The amount of curiosity and generosity that he showed was incomparable. I don't know anyone who showed that level of curiosity and generosity. And we really got into Star Wars. He just wanted to think about it. I know there are strong views about his career, and I'm hardly an expert on his career. But your wife is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about him being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book. About Star Wars. It is certainly a touching story. But that's not totally an answer to the question. Yeah. Well, I don't know. What he would think of this book I'd love to know. But no second thoughts about being friends with him or anything? I feel generally very grateful for friendship, and he was, when I knew him, a person of immense kindness. Those who think of him as someone who was something horrible or worse, 1 don't know what to say about that. But you could have an opinion on it. You have an opinion on all kinds of things, right? Well, on him and his role in government, that's not something I've particularly studied, so I don't know. I know some people who think he was a horrible historic figure. They would say, "Would you be friends with Genghis Khan? Would you be friends with Stalin?" And I wouldn't be friends with Stalin, so I concede that. Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides. Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn't be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend. Professor, thank you so much for doing this. Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else. *
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 17d
Only learned of it today myself. www.smh.com.au/cbd/colonel-...
Colonel Anthony Pratt? How the cardboard box king earned his stripes
On Monday, Anthony Pratt announced he’d become a permanent US resident. But it was another title that caught CBD’s eye.
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