Vicki Kyriakakis
@vickikyriakakis.bsky.social
Author, Improviser, Witch based in Naarm, Melbourne. Spin Doctor on ABC Melb Drive. Founder + Creative Director, The Story Shaman. “A crazy whackadoodle superhero” She/Her.
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My author/performer photoshoot from last year remains one of my favourite things I've ever done. My 9-year-old even doubled up as co-creative director to help us create these fun and colourful shots.
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The ASA is dismayed by the news that literary journal Meanjin will cease publishing this year, with the final issue due to be released in December.
Read more: www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-dismayed-over-meanjin-closure/
Read more: www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-dismayed-over-meanjin-closure/
ASA dismayed over Meanjin closure - Australian Society of Authors
The ASA is dismayed by the news that Australia's second-oldest literary journal Meanjin will cease publishing in December 2025.
www.asauthors.org.au
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The ASA is dismayed by the news that literary journal Meanjin will cease publishing this year, with the final issue due to be released in December.
Read more: www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-dismayed-over-meanjin-closure/
Read more: www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-dismayed-over-meanjin-closure/
We have an enormous leadership vacuum in our politics and global community. And an even bigger compassion and empathy vacuum. Our systems have elevated sociopathy instead of wisdom and cruelty in place of care.
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
We have an enormous leadership vacuum in our politics and global community. And an even bigger compassion and empathy vacuum. Our systems have elevated sociopathy instead of wisdom and cruelty in place of care.
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Opinion | Australia's silence on the genocide in Gaza only encourages Benjamin Netanyahu to be more open and aggressive in his slaughter of Palestinians, writes Bernard Keane.
Australia's silence on genocide gives Netanyahu a free pass to exterminate Palestinians
The refusal of Australia and other Western countries to talk about Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza is encouraging a more blatant Israeli program of exterminating Palestinians.
www.crikey.com.au
July 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Opinion | Australia's silence on the genocide in Gaza only encourages Benjamin Netanyahu to be more open and aggressive in his slaughter of Palestinians, writes Bernard Keane.
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We always wondered why people did nothing about the genocide during WWII.
I for one - don't wonder anymore.
During WWII it wasn't on screens every single day.
Now it is - and we still do nothing.
In fact Govts who should step up instead supply the weapons used!! #auspol
I for one - don't wonder anymore.
During WWII it wasn't on screens every single day.
Now it is - and we still do nothing.
In fact Govts who should step up instead supply the weapons used!! #auspol
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
We always wondered why people did nothing about the genocide during WWII.
I for one - don't wonder anymore.
During WWII it wasn't on screens every single day.
Now it is - and we still do nothing.
In fact Govts who should step up instead supply the weapons used!! #auspol
I for one - don't wonder anymore.
During WWII it wasn't on screens every single day.
Now it is - and we still do nothing.
In fact Govts who should step up instead supply the weapons used!! #auspol
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A leaked report has confirmed what Larrakia people and environmental experts have been saying all along — Labor's Middle Arm Gas Hub is an ecocidal disaster in the making.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Leaked document shows two threatened species could be wiped out at Middle Arm development site
Exclusive: Conservation advocates say assessment shows controversial NT project ‘shouldn’t get past the starting gun’
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A leaked report has confirmed what Larrakia people and environmental experts have been saying all along — Labor's Middle Arm Gas Hub is an ecocidal disaster in the making.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Jewish Council Advisory Member Louise Adler AM does not mince words about Israel’s crimes against Gazans—forced starvation among them.
Videography by Simon Aubor.
Videography by Simon Aubor.
May 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Jewish Council Advisory Member Louise Adler AM does not mince words about Israel’s crimes against Gazans—forced starvation among them.
Videography by Simon Aubor.
Videography by Simon Aubor.
“The Israeli army says it is reviewing an attack on the home of two doctors in Khan Younis which killed nine of their 10 children.”
Oh they are ‘reviewing’ it? Oh that’s nice.
That doesn’t bring back her innocent babies you complete monsters.
Oh they are ‘reviewing’ it? Oh that’s nice.
That doesn’t bring back her innocent babies you complete monsters.
May 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“The Israeli army says it is reviewing an attack on the home of two doctors in Khan Younis which killed nine of their 10 children.”
Oh they are ‘reviewing’ it? Oh that’s nice.
That doesn’t bring back her innocent babies you complete monsters.
Oh they are ‘reviewing’ it? Oh that’s nice.
That doesn’t bring back her innocent babies you complete monsters.
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If starving and bombing children to death doesn’t warrant sanctions what will?
For 19 months children have born the brunt of the war in Gaza. It is a war on children.
There is no excuse for the brutality being inflicted on the innocent lives of Palestinian children & families.
It must end 💔
For 19 months children have born the brunt of the war in Gaza. It is a war on children.
There is no excuse for the brutality being inflicted on the innocent lives of Palestinian children & families.
It must end 💔
May 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
If starving and bombing children to death doesn’t warrant sanctions what will?
For 19 months children have born the brunt of the war in Gaza. It is a war on children.
There is no excuse for the brutality being inflicted on the innocent lives of Palestinian children & families.
It must end 💔
For 19 months children have born the brunt of the war in Gaza. It is a war on children.
There is no excuse for the brutality being inflicted on the innocent lives of Palestinian children & families.
It must end 💔
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Powerful Stella prize speech from Michelle de Kretser:
“In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”
“In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”
‘Serious consequences for Australian democracy’: Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship
Australian author Michelle de Kretser described feeling afraid of speaking publicly about the conflict in Gaza as she accepted the 2025 Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice.
www.theage.com.au
May 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Powerful Stella prize speech from Michelle de Kretser:
“In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”
“In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”
I’ve heard more than once that those of us with no ‘dog in this fight’ should stay silent, that there’s infinite complexity that we couldn’t possibly understand.
But there’s nothing complex about the destruction of international law. And we ALL bear the cost of that. You will not silence us.
But there’s nothing complex about the destruction of international law. And we ALL bear the cost of that. You will not silence us.
And the lines all our nations have allowed Israel to wilfully stomp over will come back on all of us. There is no international law now. No one is safe. Nothing they do matters. You could see 40,000 babies burned in a room and it would barely make a ripple in the mainstream. I’m so, so broken
May 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I’ve heard more than once that those of us with no ‘dog in this fight’ should stay silent, that there’s infinite complexity that we couldn’t possibly understand.
But there’s nothing complex about the destruction of international law. And we ALL bear the cost of that. You will not silence us.
But there’s nothing complex about the destruction of international law. And we ALL bear the cost of that. You will not silence us.
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I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide
May 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide
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There's nothing ever wrong with facing objective reality.
‘This could be the beginning of the end’
Finally, the @abcnewsbot.bsky.social gets real. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
‘This could be the beginning of the end’
Finally, the @abcnewsbot.bsky.social gets real. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
'This could be the beginning of the end': Toxic algal bloom a sign of a changing climate
A mysterious, brown foam appeared on a beach an hour south of Adelaide. It was just the beginning of a toxic algal bloom that has now grown to thousands of square kilometres in size, killing precious ...
www.abc.net.au
May 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
There's nothing ever wrong with facing objective reality.
‘This could be the beginning of the end’
Finally, the @abcnewsbot.bsky.social gets real. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
‘This could be the beginning of the end’
Finally, the @abcnewsbot.bsky.social gets real. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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They can rescind my award, take away my prize money, rip up the contract but I was still one of two winners of the prestigious Blak & Write Fellowship for 2025. A panel of peers read my manuscript, and selected my work as worthy of winning. Haters can not rob me of Blak joy
May 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
They can rescind my award, take away my prize money, rip up the contract but I was still one of two winners of the prestigious Blak & Write Fellowship for 2025. A panel of peers read my manuscript, and selected my work as worthy of winning. Haters can not rob me of Blak joy
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below is the brief acceptance speech I was going to give on Tuesday, but instead my Fellowship was rescinded a few hours before the award ceremony:-
I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
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I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
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May 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
below is the brief acceptance speech I was going to give on Tuesday, but instead my Fellowship was rescinded a few hours before the award ceremony:-
I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
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I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
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The @statelibraryqld.bsky.social is blaming the Queensland Government. The Queensland Government is blaming the State Library. Who will have courage to at least admit they are consciously suppressing an important Indigenous writer’s voice, and collective freedom of expression and speech here?
May 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The @statelibraryqld.bsky.social is blaming the Queensland Government. The Queensland Government is blaming the State Library. Who will have courage to at least admit they are consciously suppressing an important Indigenous writer’s voice, and collective freedom of expression and speech here?
This is abhorrent. Violence is never ever the answer. My sympathies to the victims and their families.
Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were killed Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum. The suspect, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was detained by security after entering the museum and could be heard chanting “free, free Palestine” while in custody.
May 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This is abhorrent. Violence is never ever the answer. My sympathies to the victims and their families.
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This is nuts. Neither of these parties will ever be in government again unless they find a way to build a new coalition. But the scales have finally fallen perhaps from many an eye. This puts Labor in their strongest position ever historically. Let’s see what Albo makes of it.
Wrote about this being a strong possibility and yup - the Nationals have had a massive dummy spit and broken up the Coalition. Marching both parties even closer to obscurity. Absolutely amazing.
May 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This is nuts. Neither of these parties will ever be in government again unless they find a way to build a new coalition. But the scales have finally fallen perhaps from many an eye. This puts Labor in their strongest position ever historically. Let’s see what Albo makes of it.
Mark Kenny showing the moral clarity so many are lacking right now.
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Mark Kenny showing the moral clarity so many are lacking right now.
This years comp was an excellent demo of why nations currently committing atrocity have no place being in Eurovision. Even the results become political. Shame on the organisers for not having more moral clarity.
Israel should not have been allowed to compete in Eurovision any more than Russia. Platforming matters. International pressure matters. The atrocities must stop.
May 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This years comp was an excellent demo of why nations currently committing atrocity have no place being in Eurovision. Even the results become political. Shame on the organisers for not having more moral clarity.
Israel should not have been allowed to compete in Eurovision any more than Russia. Platforming matters. International pressure matters. The atrocities must stop.
May 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Israel should not have been allowed to compete in Eurovision any more than Russia. Platforming matters. International pressure matters. The atrocities must stop.
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Nothing to do with October 7. The escalation of Israel's genocide had been planned since 2017 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel laid out its harrowing plan to take Palestinian territories in 2017. Now it is happening | Ofer Cassif
Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich’s vow that Gaza be ‘entirely destroyed’ should surprise no one – he formulated this chilling idea way before 7 October, says Ofer Cassif, a Hadash member of the Kness...
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Nothing to do with October 7. The escalation of Israel's genocide had been planned since 2017 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Synopsis for draft 0 done for my new ‘sapphic greek myth retelling x steampunk romantasy’. It’s got lady pirates, flying triremes & sexy times. It’s the first time I’ve outlined a whole book before jumping in to write it and honestly it’s been a revelation how easily this one has come together.
May 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Synopsis for draft 0 done for my new ‘sapphic greek myth retelling x steampunk romantasy’. It’s got lady pirates, flying triremes & sexy times. It’s the first time I’ve outlined a whole book before jumping in to write it and honestly it’s been a revelation how easily this one has come together.
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American conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten
May 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
American conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten
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Elephants joyfully react to didgeridoo performance - ABQ BioPark Zoo
YouTube video by NMBioParkSociety
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May 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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