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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 16h

Labor pledged to save $6.4bn through cutting the government's use of consultants and external labour, and yet here they are forking out more. The government's focus must be on rebuilding the public service for core work functions.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 17h

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 19h

Now Treasury can write their very own $400k Deloitte reports

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 19h

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers.

This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider Video game chat platform Discord has suffered a data breach, informing users that their personal information – including identity documents of those required to prove their age – were compromised. The company stated last week that an unauthorised party had compromised one of Discord’s third-party customer service providers, leading to the access of “a limited number of users” who had been in contact with the customer service or trust and safety teams. Continue reading...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 5d

Democrats haven’t internalized how much the tech oligarchy has radicalized against them. They are still hoping to woo them back. They need to instead make them fear consequences for this kind of partisanship. Threaten corruption charges, break up big companies etc. what else can breakthrough?

404 Media @404media.co · 5d

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 5d

This is kinda sad

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

Cool - if I run into you at APSA it'd be good to hear about it 😀

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

That's really interesting! Is that from something of yours?

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah this could be the explanation - the positive violation of expectations and shifting standards explanations we consider essentially get at that.

So, it's not necessarily a super positive story about racism not existing - it could be it's just manifesting differently.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

Implications: party selectors should rethink 'electability' concerns. Reducing supply-side barriers could meaningfully improve Indigenous representation without the voter pushback many party gatekeepers fear.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

Why the inverted hierarchy? Possibly a "positive violation of expectations" - when Indigenous candidates defy negative stereotypes, they may be rated more favorably than equally qualified candidates from other backgrounds. Possibly "shifting standards" of trait meanings across racial groups.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

Ideology matters, though. As respondents placed themselves further right on the political spectrum, the competence and warmth advantage of Indigenous candidates declined - and in some instances reversed.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

What we found: Indigenous aspirant candidates were rated *more competent* and *warmer* than both White and Chinese-Australian counterparts - an inverted hierarchy of bias relative to what one might expect from existing work. This finding was amplified for darker-skinned Indigenous candidates.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

In a large nationally representative survey experiment (n=4,000), respondents evaluated the perceived personality traits of potential candidates with identical biographies, but different racial backgrounds, skin tones, and gender.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 5d

🎉 New publication out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with @duncanmcdonnell.com and Michelle Evans!

We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.

Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 6d

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates

By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 6d

'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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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 7d

great to see this series giving a platform to some new, previously unheard voices expressing opinions we absolutely cannot predict well ahead of time

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9d

The asteroid cannot come fast enough. We can't have a long radio news bulletin at 7.45 am in the morning (that had run since 1939) because money but this is cool I guess.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 7d

Trump tells rare meeting of top military officers that the US faces a "war from within" and suggested American cities be used as "training grounds" for troops

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 8d

History: "But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement."
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7d

Standing on the top of the turnbuckle with my hand cupped around my ear as the crowd screams “IS? THAT? GOOD???”
www.theinformation.com/articles/bus...

Business Adoption of AI Will Take Years, Say Venture Capitalists and Executives

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 9d

weird that: i) a party that has become the natural party of government in SA and recently enjoyed a (seat count) landslide federally needs 'saving', and ii) the positions that have relegated their opponents to, well, opposition are what's being championed here

but it's the Tiser and Hildebrand, so

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 9d

all of it is great but it's hard to beat Coates's reply here, posing what should be a question posed to all op-ed writers like Klein

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