Holly Goblin
@goblinmode101.bsky.social
Queer & tired.
Kaurna Yarta.
Kaurna Yarta.
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The focus on the ‘sensible centre’ has created a bad map where the road leads to nowhere, ignoring evidence when convenient and stifling democratic debate.
Order a copy of Dead Centre:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/store-dead-centre-vantage-point-issue-2/
Order a copy of Dead Centre:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/store-dead-centre-vantage-point-issue-2/
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The focus on the ‘sensible centre’ has created a bad map where the road leads to nowhere, ignoring evidence when convenient and stifling democratic debate.
Order a copy of Dead Centre:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/store-dead-centre-vantage-point-issue-2/
Order a copy of Dead Centre:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/store-dead-centre-vantage-point-issue-2/
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Unsolicited advice for anyone on Bluesky who wants to fight fascism in 2026 - don't stress about following big national accounts.
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
January 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Unsolicited advice for anyone on Bluesky who wants to fight fascism in 2026 - don't stress about following big national accounts.
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
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Feeling a bit teary/tired about how much my reputation and career has been attacked just because I speak up against genocide. Whatever scarce work I do get is soon taken from me. I've no source of income on the horizon. But I'll keep speaking up, keep standing up, because it's the right thing to do
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Feeling a bit teary/tired about how much my reputation and career has been attacked just because I speak up against genocide. Whatever scarce work I do get is soon taken from me. I've no source of income on the horizon. But I'll keep speaking up, keep standing up, because it's the right thing to do
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The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.
January 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.
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How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
January 10, 2026 at 5:21 AM
How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
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My information is that this is an out and out lie.
It's extraordinary that the SA Premier sees no problem trashing the reputation of one of the few organisations in his state that is internationally celebrated as a leader in its field.
Don Dunstan must be turning in his grave.
It's extraordinary that the SA Premier sees no problem trashing the reputation of one of the few organisations in his state that is internationally celebrated as a leader in its field.
Don Dunstan must be turning in his grave.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
My information is that this is an out and out lie.
It's extraordinary that the SA Premier sees no problem trashing the reputation of one of the few organisations in his state that is internationally celebrated as a leader in its field.
Don Dunstan must be turning in his grave.
It's extraordinary that the SA Premier sees no problem trashing the reputation of one of the few organisations in his state that is internationally celebrated as a leader in its field.
Don Dunstan must be turning in his grave.
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Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation
January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation
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Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard
Adelaide Festival board facing a stark choice: Are they willing to sacrifice the entire festival to prevent a single Palestinian-Australian author from speaking?
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard
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From May last year, when NDIS execs backflipped and introduced default 3-month funding "periods" more than 20,000 plans -- one third -- were cut by an average of 22.5 per cent. Rest increased but this includes across the board indexation. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/01...
Exclusive: One third of reassessed NDIS plans see cuts to funding
As parliament considers another bill to boost the NDIA’s power to cut costs, tens of thousands of participants are now on reduced plans and many more have lost flexibility due to restructured payments...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
From May last year, when NDIS execs backflipped and introduced default 3-month funding "periods" more than 20,000 plans -- one third -- were cut by an average of 22.5 per cent. Rest increased but this includes across the board indexation. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/01...
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Alas I suspect zero chance any of the ABC journalists attending the Adelaide Writers Festival will withdrawal.
Centrism means supporting genocide
Centrism means supporting genocide
January 8, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Alas I suspect zero chance any of the ABC journalists attending the Adelaide Writers Festival will withdrawal.
Centrism means supporting genocide
Centrism means supporting genocide
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bob carr whitesplaining how palestinian people should shut up and stop being counterproductive in talking about their own genocide
January 9, 2026 at 6:05 AM
bob carr whitesplaining how palestinian people should shut up and stop being counterproductive in talking about their own genocide
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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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It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide
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PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use.
So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/
So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use.
So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/
So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/
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Public housing HAS to lead the way, and Community housing needs to be mandated to Air con
So does private rentals but at least those two can be forced into it
So does private rentals but at least those two can be forced into it
The City of Melbourne’s heat health plan is pitiful. The issue is hidden in public housing without solar and aircon. And the rich do not care til the grid goes down 1/3
January 5, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Public housing HAS to lead the way, and Community housing needs to be mandated to Air con
So does private rentals but at least those two can be forced into it
So does private rentals but at least those two can be forced into it
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"No more blood for oil. No War on Venezuela"
Posters spotted in Houston, Texas
Posters spotted in Houston, Texas
January 4, 2026 at 11:10 AM
"No more blood for oil. No War on Venezuela"
Posters spotted in Houston, Texas
Posters spotted in Houston, Texas
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"We urge all parties to support dialogue and diplomacy"? What kind of nonsense statement is this? The US just bombed them with no cause, kidnapped their president and his wife, and declared that they would be running the country in order to secure its oil for themselves.
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"We urge all parties to support dialogue and diplomacy"? What kind of nonsense statement is this? The US just bombed them with no cause, kidnapped their president and his wife, and declared that they would be running the country in order to secure its oil for themselves.
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In 2026, remember that what matters is what you do, not what you think—and this is why the Zionist status quo is doing its best to strangle your ability to do anything, from protesting to speaking out to even how you spend your money or, more accurately, how you refuse to spend your money.
January 1, 2026 at 7:44 AM
In 2026, remember that what matters is what you do, not what you think—and this is why the Zionist status quo is doing its best to strangle your ability to do anything, from protesting to speaking out to even how you spend your money or, more accurately, how you refuse to spend your money.
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A keen group of advocates are going to be running a campaign to end the partner income test in 2026 - they're raising some funds to get a website up for it
Please share or donate if you believe the partner income test should be scrapped!
www.gofundme.com/f/end-partne...
Please share or donate if you believe the partner income test should be scrapped!
www.gofundme.com/f/end-partne...
Donate to End Partner Testing Campaign Needs a Website, organized by Robert Buckmaster
We're a campaign to end Partner Income Testing. This is the rule that t… Robert Buckmaster needs your support for End Partner Testing Campaign Needs a Website
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December 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A keen group of advocates are going to be running a campaign to end the partner income test in 2026 - they're raising some funds to get a website up for it
Please share or donate if you believe the partner income test should be scrapped!
www.gofundme.com/f/end-partne...
Please share or donate if you believe the partner income test should be scrapped!
www.gofundme.com/f/end-partne...
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Are our lawyers and judges and activists up for the fight againt the coming fascist bullshit? Because I know for a fact our journalists are not, and I'm increasingly sus on the unions.
Labor is simultaneously talking about letting CSG, a Zionist security org with close links to the IDF, carry heavy firearms at events in Australia, and also Australians can't protest anymore... What does that feel like?? Seriously?? Anyone that isn't batshit psycho ok with this?
December 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Are our lawyers and judges and activists up for the fight againt the coming fascist bullshit? Because I know for a fact our journalists are not, and I'm increasingly sus on the unions.
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"The average mortgage pays $200,000 in profit over its life to the banks," says Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute.
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform here: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251113-genuine-economic-reform-is-long-overdue
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform here: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251113-genuine-economic-reform-is-long-overdue
December 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
"The average mortgage pays $200,000 in profit over its life to the banks," says Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute.
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform here: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251113-genuine-economic-reform-is-long-overdue
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform here: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251113-genuine-economic-reform-is-long-overdue
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"The richest 10% of households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the child-care subsidy, government schools or higher education. They get nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost the government to include dental in Medicare:"
Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
thepoint.com.au
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"The richest 10% of households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the child-care subsidy, government schools or higher education. They get nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost the government to include dental in Medicare:"
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wealth redistribution also includes giving tens of billions of public dollars to wealthy schools, the military industrial complex, landlords (again) via negative gearing and rent assistance, tradies, franking boomers, and employment agency grifters.
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
thepoint.com.au
December 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
wealth redistribution also includes giving tens of billions of public dollars to wealthy schools, the military industrial complex, landlords (again) via negative gearing and rent assistance, tradies, franking boomers, and employment agency grifters.
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
December 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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The idea that we simply have to kill off a bunch of animals because it's a net benefit to climate is a false dichotomy that serves corporate interests trying to avoid having to put in the effort of finding good, well-chosen sites
Really wish media would consider breaking through this thinking
Really wish media would consider breaking through this thinking
Climate a bigger threat to biodiversity than renewables, experts say
As the green energy boom gathers pace, experts say climate change is a bigger threat to biodiversity than wind farms and other renewables projects.
www.abc.net.au
December 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The idea that we simply have to kill off a bunch of animals because it's a net benefit to climate is a false dichotomy that serves corporate interests trying to avoid having to put in the effort of finding good, well-chosen sites
Really wish media would consider breaking through this thinking
Really wish media would consider breaking through this thinking