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Dija

@diaja.bsky.social

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Fat, trans, anti-capitalist. Does a bit of mental health system advocacy work in Canberra. Reads a bit of philosophy from time to time.

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · Jun 18

Today the ACT Mental Health Consumer Network launched ACCESS DENIED: A consumer-led study into barriers to accessing mental health services in the ACT.

It's represents over two years of work by the work of the ACT mental health consumer community. Check it out now! : actmhcn.org.au/latest-news/

Latest News - ACT Mental Health Consumer Network

actmhcn.org.au

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 15h

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 3h

Polycule life by necessity.

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a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .

Alt: An audience wearing finely tailored clothes in a theatre erupt with applause and give a standing ovation.

media.tenor.com

Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 3h

Former ACT Attorney General charged with grooming a child.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Former ACT politician charged with grooming teen

Former ACT attorney-general Gordon Ramsay has faced the ACT Magistrates Court, charged with grooming a teenage boy.

www.abc.net.au

Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 18h

@blairwilliams26.bsky.social - DocConnor is an old UNSW Canberra hand by now. I met him back in 2012 & ended up doing my PhD with him. Good friend, great colleague & deeply knowledgeable about all the nooks and crannies of UNSW Canberra. Would love to welcome you with a breakfast & coffee in time!

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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 1d

Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong should hang their heads in shame that they left the safety and fate of heroic Australian humanitarians in the hands of violent war criminals.

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate the opportunity I have with my work to put my writing skillset to good use. But, it absolutely drains my tank for other writing tasks. I find it so hard to carve out writing time for non-work related purposes at present. 😵‍💫

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natalie feliks 🐿 @nataliesqrl.bsky.social · 1d

New article:)

I encourage everyone to read up on operation inglenook.

Trans women getting incarcerated in men's prisons isn't some trumpian anomaly. It's the policy of the australian labor party.

Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 1d

“We still live in an age where migrant sex workers are portrayed as gullible and weak damsels in distress, rather than struggling, disadvantaged women just playing the cards they have.”

Natalie Feliks on Operation Inglenook and its echoes of the ICE raids in the US.

Australia's own ICE raids: A look at Operation Inglenook - Overland literary journal

Racially-motivated raids, trans women being placed under male confinement without trial, and police-sanctioned sexual abuse are not exclusive to foreign countries or the Trump administration. They are...

overland.org.au

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 1d

"No. The malaise will continue until it builds into a crisis that is big enough for us to develop a private-public market based solution so that we can shift more profits from the public purse to private hands and also not solve the problem."

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Refugee Action Campaign CBR @raccanberra.bsky.social · 1d

Join @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Prof Alan Gamlen from ANU Migration, and Prof John Minns as they tackle myths, misinformation, and scare campaigns against migrants, refugees, and multiculturalism.

Wednesday, 15 October, 6:30pm, Copland Theatre, ANU. refugeeaction.org/20250910/deb...

Banner with text says: Debunking racist myths about immigration.

Date: 15 October
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Copland Lecture Theatre, ANU

With bios of Amy Remeikis, Alan Gamlen, and John Minns, full text available at included link.

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 1d

Yo @docconnor.bsky.social, Dr. Williams is heading your way!

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 1d

This is simply press censorship. It is completely unacceptable.

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

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'SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high in newsrooms across the country two years after the October 7 massacre.'

www.theage.com.au/business/com...

SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition

SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high.

www.theage.com.au

Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 2d

The extent to which the corrupt gerontocracy of the Democratic party & its backers have failed US democracy is staggering. They have had five elections & 3 administrations since Bush 2 to protect fundamental democratic structures. Instead they have conceded to fascists & pursued personal enrichment.

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He really is a pustule of a human.

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No lie, the peach no sugar monster is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d

The Federal Government funds 71% of every spit hood put on an Aboriginal child in the NT. It's time to ensure Federal Funding comes with conditions including complying with human rights law!

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

Proposed changes to Australia’s FOI laws would make a repeat of the disastrous Robodebt coverup more likely, rather than less, our new research shows.

The PM described Robodebt as a “gross betrayal and human tragedy”, yet his government plans to make cabinet documents harder to access. #auspol

Government’s FOI changes could cover up the next Robodebt - new research

Proposed changes to Australia’s Freedom of Information (FOI) laws would make a repeat of the disastrous Robodebt coverup more likely, rather than less, according to new research by The Australia Insti...

australiainstitute.org.au

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 4d

More than 2 years after the NACC was established, it hasn’t held a single public hearing. Now we learn the PM pushed to make it harder to hold them.

Public hearings are vital to building trust - the Govt should be making them easier, not harder.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/10...

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings

The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 4d

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 4d

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

johnmenadue.com

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Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social · 5d

Why on Earth is the ABC’s Rachael Lucas asking grifter and ‘former neo-Nazi’ Jeff Schoep what he thinks about the NSN, and the fallout from the March for Australia?

New from me, read now: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 5d

Come on, you can't tell me Demolition Man isn't absolutely S+ right wing action nonsense? It was the original anti-wokeness movie, it's so laughably bad that it's amazing.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 5d

Every f'n government should work their arses off to get the crews of Sumud Flotilla home ASAP !!
So far only 4 Italian crew members have been sent home, as far as I know

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 5d

The only acceptable context in which to read the end of a book first is when you're parsing an academic text & you want to know who the author is going to be referencing - & how - before you start reading & analysing their arguments. Doing this for just about anything else is seriously strange

Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 5d

A fucking non stop roller coaster of brutality. Like Mad Max for gut turning horror. Smashingly brilliant film.