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BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website.
Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.
Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.
January 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website.
Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.
Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.
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I guess it's not surprising but it is still completely disgusting and outrageous that the ABC is going to both-sides American fascist militia murdering civilians
January 8, 2026 at 9:26 AM
I guess it's not surprising but it is still completely disgusting and outrageous that the ABC is going to both-sides American fascist militia murdering civilians
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Remember when the Australian Jewish Association fiercely opposed the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, calling it divisive and against Aussie values? Fast-forward to 2026, and they're backing Jillian Segal's role as Antisemitism Envoy—basically a Jewish Voice to Parliament without a referendum.
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Remember when the Australian Jewish Association fiercely opposed the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, calling it divisive and against Aussie values? Fast-forward to 2026, and they're backing Jillian Segal's role as Antisemitism Envoy—basically a Jewish Voice to Parliament without a referendum.
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A question for fearless journos out there to put to Australia's political leaders. Why do we have > $300 billion to attempt to buy submarines but not enough $ to pay more fire fighters & support staff & to buy more urgently needed firefighting equipment, so we have sufficient resources when needed?!
January 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
A question for fearless journos out there to put to Australia's political leaders. Why do we have > $300 billion to attempt to buy submarines but not enough $ to pay more fire fighters & support staff & to buy more urgently needed firefighting equipment, so we have sufficient resources when needed?!
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The audacity of these threats. It’s time Aussie taxpayers stopped paying Segal.
Take AUKUS off the table. Stuff paying the criminal US regime.
As for a RC, @albomp.bsky.social, roll in 500k voters’ wishes and investigate all detractors from our social cohesion.
#MurdochRoyalCommission
Take AUKUS off the table. Stuff paying the criminal US regime.
As for a RC, @albomp.bsky.social, roll in 500k voters’ wishes and investigate all detractors from our social cohesion.
#MurdochRoyalCommission
January 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM
The audacity of these threats. It’s time Aussie taxpayers stopped paying Segal.
Take AUKUS off the table. Stuff paying the criminal US regime.
As for a RC, @albomp.bsky.social, roll in 500k voters’ wishes and investigate all detractors from our social cohesion.
#MurdochRoyalCommission
Take AUKUS off the table. Stuff paying the criminal US regime.
As for a RC, @albomp.bsky.social, roll in 500k voters’ wishes and investigate all detractors from our social cohesion.
#MurdochRoyalCommission
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Rallies will be held across Australia against a visit from Israel's president Isaac Herzog, with organisers calling on the government to instead impose sanctions on Israeli officials
Melbourne rally organiser Jasmine Duff spoke to 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlRl...
Melbourne rally organiser Jasmine Duff spoke to 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlRl...
Rally set to oppose Israeli president's visit to Australia
YouTube video by SIX News Australia
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Rallies will be held across Australia against a visit from Israel's president Isaac Herzog, with organisers calling on the government to instead impose sanctions on Israeli officials
Melbourne rally organiser Jasmine Duff spoke to 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlRl...
Melbourne rally organiser Jasmine Duff spoke to 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlRl...
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The ArtsHub list is at 90, but given it doesn't have eg Brigid Delaney, John Lyons, Bob Brown, Marian Wilkinson, it's a good bet the real number is over 100.
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
January 10, 2026 at 8:56 AM
The ArtsHub list is at 90, but given it doesn't have eg Brigid Delaney, John Lyons, Bob Brown, Marian Wilkinson, it's a good bet the real number is over 100.
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
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The world's richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:56 AM
The world's richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
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⚠️Nobody ever talks about the crazy ⬆️40%-50% higher risk of hospital staff deaths during/after pandemic. Pre-pandemic death rate was 850-900… post pandemic it’s hovered around 1200-1300 consistently since 2022 to today. #LongCovid is serious. It’s not the vaccine—been proven. It’s COVID.
January 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
⚠️Nobody ever talks about the crazy ⬆️40%-50% higher risk of hospital staff deaths during/after pandemic. Pre-pandemic death rate was 850-900… post pandemic it’s hovered around 1200-1300 consistently since 2022 to today. #LongCovid is serious. It’s not the vaccine—been proven. It’s COVID.
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Adelaide Writers Week is one of my most loved events every year, where I've had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Dennis & Yanis Varoufakis. The brave expression of free & open ideas is the DNA of this festival. I won't be participating this year unless the decision is reversed.
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Adelaide Writers Week is one of my most loved events every year, where I've had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Dennis & Yanis Varoufakis. The brave expression of free & open ideas is the DNA of this festival. I won't be participating this year unless the decision is reversed.
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The point is that, while criminal proceedings are on foot, a royal commission can't look at anything to do with the Bondi shootings or the shooters, including why and how they did it, that is it can't touch on the subject that is its sole reason for being established. It will achieve nothing.
There's a glaring problem with calls for a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack
Australians deserve answers after the Bondi Beach shooting — but a royal commission won't deliver them.
www.crikey.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 AM
The point is that, while criminal proceedings are on foot, a royal commission can't look at anything to do with the Bondi shootings or the shooters, including why and how they did it, that is it can't touch on the subject that is its sole reason for being established. It will achieve nothing.
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If we survive long enough, I see a future where the young can hear tell of the ancient tools once called "laws" from wizened GenX & Millennial crones who remember life before The Shittening.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
If we survive long enough, I see a future where the young can hear tell of the ancient tools once called "laws" from wizened GenX & Millennial crones who remember life before The Shittening.
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For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne
January 5, 2026 at 7:48 AM
For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne
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We’ve got a fair idea.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:25 AM
We’ve got a fair idea.
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Just want to say a giant FU to PBAC, which is only recommending semaglutide (Wegovy) to be listed on the PBS for patients who've *already* experienced a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack, stroke, or have symptomatic peripheral arterial disease. This is horribly bad public policy
January 2, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Just want to say a giant FU to PBAC, which is only recommending semaglutide (Wegovy) to be listed on the PBS for patients who've *already* experienced a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack, stroke, or have symptomatic peripheral arterial disease. This is horribly bad public policy
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PBAC decision to greenlight PBS listing of Wegovy only for patients who've had *diagnosed* cardiovascular events means more men than women will be able to access subsidised GLP-1s due to diagnostic discrimination. Further entrenching gendered health discrimination www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
Heart attack signs look different in women. It affects the care they receive
Australian women having a heart attack are less likely to be promptly diagnosed and treated compared to men, although the gender gap in cardiac care is narrowing.
www.abc.net.au
January 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
PBAC decision to greenlight PBS listing of Wegovy only for patients who've had *diagnosed* cardiovascular events means more men than women will be able to access subsidised GLP-1s due to diagnostic discrimination. Further entrenching gendered health discrimination www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
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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 12:55 AM
How about business leaders first institute all the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry?
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Silicon Valley isn’t just polluting our cultural and information systems with AI slop and destroying the environment in the process.
They’re also poised to force consumer electronics to shoot up in price because they’re buying up so much hardware for data centers.
They’re also poised to force consumer electronics to shoot up in price because they’re buying up so much hardware for data centers.
Chip shortages threaten 20% rise in consumer electronics prices
Manufacturers and analysts warn AI data centre build-out is crowding out market for semiconductors
www.ft.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Silicon Valley isn’t just polluting our cultural and information systems with AI slop and destroying the environment in the process.
They’re also poised to force consumer electronics to shoot up in price because they’re buying up so much hardware for data centers.
They’re also poised to force consumer electronics to shoot up in price because they’re buying up so much hardware for data centers.
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Do you dump your rubbish in the ocean off the great ocean road?
Woodside does.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Woodside does.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
December 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Do you dump your rubbish in the ocean off the great ocean road?
Woodside does.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Woodside does.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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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 9:59 AM
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?
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One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-c...
AI Chatbots Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors
People and their AI companions are entering into shared delusions, doctors say, and chatbots can be “complicit.”
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-c...
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Are we gonna have armed militias to protect us from climate activists next?
#GetFuckedMinns #nswpol #auspol
#GetFuckedMinns #nswpol #auspol
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Are we gonna have armed militias to protect us from climate activists next?
#GetFuckedMinns #nswpol #auspol
#GetFuckedMinns #nswpol #auspol
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Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
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AUKUS is likely the dumbest defence decision Australia has ever made.
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…
Rockingham in Perth's south is fast becoming a crucial part of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, with promises of a big boost in jobs and infrastructure — but it's also leaving residents afraid for their lives and lifestyle.
Seaside city's leap to major AUKUS defence hub leaves locals trepidatious
Rockingham in Perth's south is fast becoming a crucial part of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, with promises of a big boost in jobs and infrastructure — but it's also leaving residents afraid for their lives and lifestyle.
www.abc.net.au
December 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
AUKUS is likely the dumbest defence decision Australia has ever made.
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…