David
@dvdhlo.bsky.social
Social Policy researcher, Tasmanian, Quaker, lots of other things.
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BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...
January 11, 2026 at 11:54 AM
BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...
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In 2024 you all combined to write and complain about the NACC's Robodebt non-investigation
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
In 2024 you all combined to write and complain about the NACC's Robodebt non-investigation
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
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Instead of posting on social media, use your power, use your voice as an Australian citizen
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
January 11, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Instead of posting on social media, use your power, use your voice as an Australian citizen
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
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Francesca Albanese and the lonely road of defiance johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...
Francesca Albanese and the lonely road of defiance
The UN special rapporteur investigating Gaza is sanctioned, blacklisted and treated as a criminal. The response reveals how power reacts when accountability is applied to the powerful.
johnmenadue.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Francesca Albanese and the lonely road of defiance johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...
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Please read our important post on the upcoming Adelaide Writer’s Week after their cancellation of speaker Randa Abdul-Fattah.
Next week, we start our boycott of the Festival’s sponsors if nothing changes.
Are you in?
#ToYourBrooms
Next week, we start our boycott of the Festival’s sponsors if nothing changes.
Are you in?
#ToYourBrooms
January 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Please read our important post on the upcoming Adelaide Writer’s Week after their cancellation of speaker Randa Abdul-Fattah.
Next week, we start our boycott of the Festival’s sponsors if nothing changes.
Are you in?
#ToYourBrooms
Next week, we start our boycott of the Festival’s sponsors if nothing changes.
Are you in?
#ToYourBrooms
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'Close to death': What 60 days on hunger strike is doing to Palestine Action prisoners - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-linked-activists-60-days-hunger-strike-damage
'Close to death': What 60 days on hunger strike is doing to Palestine Action prisoners
Doctors supporting families of the two activists say they risk irreparable damage to their organs if the situation continues
www.middleeasteye.net
January 8, 2026 at 12:45 PM
'Close to death': What 60 days on hunger strike is doing to Palestine Action prisoners - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-linked-activists-60-days-hunger-strike-damage
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Dear Board of the Adelaide Festival,
I hope this fax finds you well.
Just letting you know that I wrote a book on the history of Australia last year, which I am happy to talk about for many hours to fill any gaps that might have recently opened up in your program.
Yours sincerely
Tones
PS/
I hope this fax finds you well.
Just letting you know that I wrote a book on the history of Australia last year, which I am happy to talk about for many hours to fill any gaps that might have recently opened up in your program.
Yours sincerely
Tones
PS/
January 8, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Dear Board of the Adelaide Festival,
I hope this fax finds you well.
Just letting you know that I wrote a book on the history of Australia last year, which I am happy to talk about for many hours to fill any gaps that might have recently opened up in your program.
Yours sincerely
Tones
PS/
I hope this fax finds you well.
Just letting you know that I wrote a book on the history of Australia last year, which I am happy to talk about for many hours to fill any gaps that might have recently opened up in your program.
Yours sincerely
Tones
PS/
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As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
January 8, 2026 at 4:50 AM
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
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Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let's all do it! bsky.app/profile/just...
January 7, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Let's all do it! bsky.app/profile/just...
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I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
We've had 26 royal commissions. Their failures should caution us against a repeat johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...
We've had 26 royal commissions. Their failures should caution us against a repeat
Calls for a royal commission after the Bondi shootings reflect public anger and distrust, but decades of experience suggest such inquiries rarely deliver lasting reform or accountability.
johnmenadue.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
We've had 26 royal commissions. Their failures should caution us against a repeat johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...
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Emma vs. Karl
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Emma vs. Karl
Imagine two revolutionaries walking into a burning house.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Emma vs. Karl
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“Hi Gina, it’s Scott….
Scott Morrison….
Former Prime Minister of Australia….
Anyway, I’ve heard you’ve organised for former famous athletes to sign a petition calling for….
Well I did cosplay as a test cricketer once or twice so I just thought I’d offer…..
Hello? Are you still there?”
Scott Morrison….
Former Prime Minister of Australia….
Anyway, I’ve heard you’ve organised for former famous athletes to sign a petition calling for….
Well I did cosplay as a test cricketer once or twice so I just thought I’d offer…..
Hello? Are you still there?”
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 AM
“Hi Gina, it’s Scott….
Scott Morrison….
Former Prime Minister of Australia….
Anyway, I’ve heard you’ve organised for former famous athletes to sign a petition calling for….
Well I did cosplay as a test cricketer once or twice so I just thought I’d offer…..
Hello? Are you still there?”
Scott Morrison….
Former Prime Minister of Australia….
Anyway, I’ve heard you’ve organised for former famous athletes to sign a petition calling for….
Well I did cosplay as a test cricketer once or twice so I just thought I’d offer…..
Hello? Are you still there?”
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How come nobody’s arksed me to sign a letter in support of a Royal Commishon yet? I’m just as famous as them are!
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
How come nobody’s arksed me to sign a letter in support of a Royal Commishon yet? I’m just as famous as them are!
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What George Carlin said 👇
January 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM
What George Carlin said 👇
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One of the people the USA killed in Venezuela was Rosa Gonzalez, 80 who they blew up in her apartment.
Will you hear this on the European News?
I doubt it.
Will you hear this on the European News?
I doubt it.
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM
One of the people the USA killed in Venezuela was Rosa Gonzalez, 80 who they blew up in her apartment.
Will you hear this on the European News?
I doubt it.
Will you hear this on the European News?
I doubt it.
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It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 AM
It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.
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People who paid pure lip-service to a Royal Commission's findings suggesting we need a Royal Commission.
Glorious. Stick it on the front page.
Glorious. Stick it on the front page.
How about business leaders first institute all the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry?
January 2, 2026 at 1:06 AM
People who paid pure lip-service to a Royal Commission's findings suggesting we need a Royal Commission.
Glorious. Stick it on the front page.
Glorious. Stick it on the front page.
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Whenever Jews anywhere in the world are subjected to an attack or a threat, Israel, along with a wide network of political and media supporters, is quick to frame the incident as a direct extension of historical #antisemitism. Refaat Ibrahim.
#auspol #Israel #Gaza
#auspol #Israel #Gaza
Between identity and politics: Unpacking the systematic conflation of “Antisemitism” and criticism of Israel
Whenever Jews anywhere in the world are subjected to an attack or a threat, Israel, along with a wide network of political and media supporters, is quick to frame the incident as a direct extension of...
johnmenadue.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Whenever Jews anywhere in the world are subjected to an attack or a threat, Israel, along with a wide network of political and media supporters, is quick to frame the incident as a direct extension of historical #antisemitism. Refaat Ibrahim.
#auspol #Israel #Gaza
#auspol #Israel #Gaza