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Adam Hannah

@adamjhannah.bsky.social
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Public policy guy at University of Queensland, focusing on health, ideas and (non)knowledge. about.uq.edu.au/experts/33712 scholar.google.com.au/citations?use…

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 10/07/2026
If I have to know about Graham Platner then every American should have to know about Mark Latham. I’m not joking.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So cool how universities globally are reliant on these expensive platforms that are generally a worse experience for all than running everything via a course email inbox would be.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Well there’s my new example for next time I’m teaching about the horrors of first past the post
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 04/02/2026
Instead of every writer starting their own newsletter for subscriptions, what if we bundled those bits of writing into regular collections released periodically, and they could share common editors and production. It could be a ‘magazine’
Gus Gould monologue at origin
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This is a disastrous decision, to save what would be less than pocket change in the context of a state budget. VicHealth has been a world leader in preventative health, and should be seen if anything as even more important given the pressures on the health system.
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Why should we care about (a specific form of) #MalignPolicymaking - #IllegalAction by the state❓ @adamjhannah.bsky.social & Linda Botterill study the #Robodebt scandal in #Australia & discuss how the government avoided Parliamentary and media oversight👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This whole section really.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Hypocrisy perhaps, given I used to teach US politics for a living but: you do not have to pay attention to this stuff and most people would better off ignoring 99% of what goes on there. Australian media‘s obsessive coverage, especially the ABC, does everyone a disservice.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
📘New article on the Robodebt case focusing on legal advice. The short version: with pressure to automate and AI-ify everything, legal protections are critical. We cannot assume policymakers and administrators will act in good faith and legal advice should be a "brake" with real force.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
call for no more papers
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We need to address the real drag on Australia’s productivity: too many people wasting time talking about productivity.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. 
Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Highly recommend this new article from Daniel and Maria Maley – fascinating use of FOI requests to see if agencies have learned anything from Robodebt.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
And here is the third article in our upcoming Robodebt SI, by my wonderful new colleague Sarah Ball. Sarah highlights a "culture of technical rationality" that has hollowed out expertise and ethical capacity in the APS and contributed to the "administrative evil" of Robodebt doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Doing the right thing, not just doing the thing right: the importance of explicitly ethical policy advice
The Robodebt Royal Commission highlighted the Australian Public Service’s (APS) role in designing and delivering a programme that caused significant harm to vulnerable people. The APS’s actions wen...
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Helen Dickinson @hdicko.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just out from me and @annekavanagh.bsky.social - The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support theconversation.com/the-governme...
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The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support
As the government seeks to moderate growth of the scheme budget, some NDIS participants are finding they are no longer eligible for the scheme.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 15/05/2025
I bloğued: Accomplishments orangejuiceandryvita.com/234/accompli... #blog
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Accomplishments | Orange Juice & Ryvita
The teals have an accomplishment-based ideology
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 10/05/2025
It would absolutely be Australian media all over if the first we heard of a major regional war between nuclear powers in the subcontinent was a bunch of Australian cricketers getting killed in it
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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🚨 What can be learned at the intersection of crisis management & administrative burdens? is out now and open access! 🚨 Written with the v much missed @gemcarey.bsky.social. For folks researching crisis management, admin burden, disability & the NDIS. Short 🧵 with link 👇
What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During COVID-19 by Nicholas Bromfield and Gemma Carey in Social Policy and AdministrationThe abstract for the paper, reading: 'Crisis management is a field that evaluates and solves crisis and disaster responses. Whilst the effectiveness of the ideal-type parameters of crisis management and administration has been well examined, crisis responses create administrative burdens, particularly for marginalised groups, that must be navigated. This paper brings together the administrative burden and crisis response literature, presenting a systematic review of research into Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) during COVID-19 to answer: What burdens emerged during the COVID-19 response for people with a disability? Why did these burdens arise? Were they potentially avoidable? And who was harmed by these burdens? We find that NDIS workers and participants experienced considerable administrative burdens during the implementation of the Australian pandemic response and co-produced the limited successes found in NDIS COVID-19 measures. Consequently, we argue that a crisis equity agenda should anticipate multiplied burdens for marginalised populations, plan to mitigate them and prioritise and assist the most disadvantaged in navigating stressed policy systems during a crisis response.'
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New article (open access): Linda Botterill and I try to make sense of the strategically ignorant behaviour of senior leaders during Robodebt fiasco. This is part of an upcoming special issue co-edited by Sarah Ball and myself on the administrative and social harms of the scheme.
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Ignoring harm, saving face: non-knowledge, senior public servants and the Robodebt scheme
Policy-making is well-known to be characterised by the boundedly rational and selective use of knowledge. However, the decision-making and knowledge manipulation which characterised the Robodebt sc...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
vaccines are maybe the coolest thing we ever figured out. they are more impressive by a wide margin than the moon landing. We have never done anything better with our capacity for genius
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Online radicalisation of elites is a significant and yet poorly understood aspect of contemporary politics.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/04/2025
New Cambridge Element 'Bad Public Policy: Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking' by @howlettm.bsky.social, Ching Leong & @timlegrand.bsky.social out now. Read #OpenAccess here - cup.org/44g9MFT #cambridgeelements #politics
Front cover of Cambridge Element 'Bad Public Policy: Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking' by Howlett, Leong & Legrand.
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Southern Jacobin @thomas26july.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
For those keeping track we now have 1 post presidency W for Obama
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Time to start shifting international conferences away from the US. There’s plenty of other places with hotels and auditoriums.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Reciprocal tariffs, do it Albo. A can of American soda should cost like $12.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/02/2025
1 more point on literacy: it's a disaster that the inner workings of the US government are incredibly complicated and illogical (filibuster, reconciliation, Electoral College, etc). parliaments work better bc dipshits can pick a party that sounds good and see that legibly translated into outcomes
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Losing track of my second gen iPod is one of my biggest (device) regrets. We had perfection and threw it all away for streaming.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The FT continues to be the anglosphere’s only good newspaper
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Been noticing this also. Coverage from traditional news is often "look isn't this interesting!" no matter the topic. The best coverage, coming from non-traditional news or independent blogs, gives clear description what is happening, who is doing it, what the implications are. E.g:
techdirt.com
A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested cod…
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Shock Doctrine in the metropole
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The NYT and WaPo should be carrying 100 pieces like this.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
No, I do not think we should use gAI to build literature reviews, and we definitely shouldn't be teaching faculty how to do this, this is not just some fancy new search engine, what on earth is wrong with you and why are you doing this ffs
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
When the NTY house style gets embedded so deep you can’t see what is right in front of you.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
They say the prices are turning people off smoking, but a cigarette and cup of instant coffee is maybe $2.50 and I'm out here paying 6 bucks for a flat white.
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Lizzy Acker @lizzyacker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Writing is the good part. Can AI do the dishes? Then I will use AI for that.
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Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If I'm interpreting this correctly, NZ Govt has cut all social science and humanities out of their version of ARC Discovery. Backwards and destructive for so many reasons, but I'm sure we will soon see copycat proposals to do the same in Australia. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Government's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed
Cutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
They’ve spent a gajillion dollars on this and the only meaningful impacts have been a) Facebook AI slop and b) screwing up university assessment forever. Big shout out to all the credulous tech journalists for enabling it, thanks guys!
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
CDs were (and are) the peak way to listen to music. Even aside from the bad economics of streaming, having access to every song ever on your phone is a terrible idea.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Grill’s was doing this when I worked there in *2008*. I suspect strategy of using the fake Cert III to underpay staff has been a not insignificant factor in the expansion of the business.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Emma was one of the kindest and most generous scholars you'd ever meet. A huge loss.
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Kingsmillism is a guiding ideology of the Australian academy too - e.g. the fake meritocracy of competitive research funding endlessly rewards seniority.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My university has 16 executives paid more than our state premier :/ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 300 Australian university executives make more money than state premiers, report reveals
Union says average vice-chancellor gets paid almost double the prime minister, with salaries seemingly ‘plucked from thin air’
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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a tennis court with a net that says atptour on it
ALT: a tennis court with a net that says atptour on it
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I feel like a lot of the discourse about echo chambers and bubbles misses the point of why most people are on social media: to talk to people they like and follow people who post interesting things It's not a bloody debating club
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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
You can be a guy that claims WiFi causes brain cancer and vaccines cause autism and this is how you'll get covered by mainstream press
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Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
RFK as HHS Secretary may kill a lot of people, but it will also help public health academics publish more articles, so it's impossible to say whether it's bad or not.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
fundamentally this is what Trump administrations are all about: the guys. there will be new guys every week. they will startle you, you'll be astounded by them, and then as quickly as they appeared they will fade into an indistinguishable mass, leaves on the forest floor.
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