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Andre Kwok

@andrekwok.bsky.social
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Passionate about space law and security, and transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region. Researcher at @acsg.bsky.social. Opinions are very much my own. Documentary Photography. Pokemon Fan. He/Him

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The Lowy Institute @lowyinstitute.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“The transformation of a hybrid court into a domestic institution offers lessons for localising international justice” Read Andre Kwok in The Interpreter. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpret…
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Cambodia takes control of its war crimes legacy
The transformation of a hybrid court into a domestic institution offers lessons for localising international justice.
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Dr Cassandra Steer @cassandrasteer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Exiting moment for us at @acsg.bsky.social as we move from "Australian" to "Australasian", with a focus on shaping responsible space governance that contributes to prosperity in the Indo- and Asia-Pacific. Stay tuned more to come in a few weeks!
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Dr Cassandra Steer @cassandrasteer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I curated a collection of gorgeous images, our planet from above, for this week's Space Citizens Substack. It tells the story of how important EO data is for so many things on Earth, including understanding the relationship between space and our lives on Earth. open.substack.com/pub/spacecit...
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Why we should all fall in love with Earth observation
"EO can change and save the world"
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vsamsondc.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I'd be very happy never to see "manifest destiny" used again theconversation.com/for-too-long...
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For too long, colonial language has dominated space exploration. There is a better way
How we talk about outer space shapes the futures we imagine and build. Indigenous perspectives offer a better way forward.
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Dr Cassandra Steer @cassandrasteer.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
To replace the self-fulfilling prophecy that space is “congested, contested and competitive”, we need a new mantra, one that offers solutions: “Communication, cooperation and collaboration”. Check out my Substack this week and say the mantra with me. open.substack.com/pub/spacecit...
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Communication, Cooperation and Collaboration in Space
Why these words matter
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Dr Cassandra Steer @cassandrasteer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This week I'm asking you what you want to know about Mr Musk himself, and I'll answer. I don't write about him very often, but with a new Exec Order this week making it even easier for launches and re- entries to be licensed, his name is in the headlines once again. Spacecitizens.substack.com
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Ha. ANU VC says she's happy with how she's done her job, & that there will be no more forced redundancies- that is, OTHER THAN THE ONES ALREADY ON THE TABLE. So, yes, there will be more forced redundancies. #fundHigherEdFairly www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904605...
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The next steps for ANU now that forced redundancies have been ruled out
'I'm comfortable with who I am and how I do the job.'
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It’s such dark times at ANU
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 03/06/2025
ANU announced a newly created position of Chief Risk Officer - worth $500k+/yr - in same email it talked up the $50M+ worth of staff cuts via redundancies, another $50M to come. Also same email staff lectured on being respectful talking about job losses, cuts. 🤯 Schadenfreude
Staff rebellion. We are not inefficiencies.
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Dr Cassandra Steer @cassandrasteer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Next installment of my "Space Citizens" Substack newsletter: "Artemis and the Moon Part 1". Not (yet) about NASA's skinny budget, I'm starting instead with the mythology of Artemis the goddess of the Moon, and possible cautionary tales. Audio also because it's long! open.substack.com/pub/cassandr...
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Artemis and the Moon: Part 1
The backstory
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Shunsuke Miyatake @casadetake.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A man drying fish on the roof / Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Dr Cassandra Steer @cassandrasteer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I've started a Substack called "Space Citizens", as I write a book. Space matters, in ways you may not think of, and more than you may realise. My mission is to raise Space literacy across government and militaries, policy and decision-makers, and the public. open.substack.com/pub/cassandr...
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Welcome, Space Citizens
It's not what you think! It's a call to enlargen our cognitive identities to include our near-Earth environment, where humanity is already active, and upon which we are already highkly dependent, and ...
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 31/03/2025
There are 21 year olds who are alive today who don't have any significant memories of life and politics pre-Trump. There are also 30 year olds alive today who have no memory of life and politics pre war on terror. We literally have generations of youth who have normalized madness.
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Andre Kwok @andrekwok.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What happens when the courtroom doors close? My latest paper looks at the residual functions of the ECCC and how tribunals are shifting from a "get in and get out" model to long-term public engagement. From TikTok to community outreach, courts are shaping their legacy far beyond verdicts. 🧵(1/4)
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Andre Kwok @andrekwok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How you know you go to ANU without saying you go to ANU
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I love that this book has cited me!
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Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space | International Pers
Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/02/2025
My VPN works
The Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps, correctly identified as The Gulf of Mexico and absolutely nothing else
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Countries such as Australia must courageously push back and recalibrate our relationship with the US as needed. We should never accept a lawless, violent world of unbridled hegemonic power. It endangers all of us." - Prof Ben Saul If only we had a PM with a spine. www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
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Nations such as Australia must push back against Trump’s illegal Gaza scheme
Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians, if it were without their consent, would constitute a war crime.
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Australasian Centre for Space Governance @acsg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our chair, @cassandrasteer.bsky.social, explores the evolving 21st-century spacescape and why space governance must move beyond its state-centric roots. As space citizens, we all have a stake in a multi-stakeholder, multi-domain, inclusive & intergenerational approach to security & sustainability.
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Space Citizen: The Gap Between You, Me and the Governance of Space
Existing space governance institutions and mechanisms are built on a twentieth-century reality, when states were the main actors and the main, if only, subjects of international law. While internation...
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The #USAID website has just gone dark, amidst reporting #Trump may try to dissolve it completely. But #Congress established USAID in statute, and Trump can't unilaterally override a statute by executive order. Read my latest via @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...
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Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
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Australasian Centre for Space Governance @acsg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
@vsamsondc.bsky.social and @almuazcarate.bsky.social, who previously featured on an ACSG podcast, have published an expert paper on counter-space capabilities. The paper examines multilateral efforts and regulatory mechanisms for managing both civilian and military uses in space governance.
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Excited to say I was invited on one of my fave #podcasts, #Law on #Film! I chatted w/ @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social about 2 #Cambodia #Genocide films, First They Killed My Father & Le Temps des Aveux. I hope people find it as interesting as I find other episodes! www.buzzsprout.com/2073468/epis...
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First They Killed My Father (2017) and The Gate (2014) (Guest: Melanie O'Brien) (episode 37) - Law on Film
This episode looks at two films about the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s: First They Killed My Father (dir. Angelina Jolie), and The Gate (or Les Temps des Aveux) (dir. Régis Wargnier). First They Ki...
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I discuss 20+ films that can help to teach about the relationship between law and race. Many of these films also invite a discussion into how filmmakers (mis)use the medium in their reflection on law and race. Other suggestions are welcome. folukeafrica.com/the-law-and-...
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The Law and Race Film Club
20+ films on Law, Race and Society
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Katrin Travouillon @ktravouillon.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year 🇰🇭
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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Quick reminder for academics teaching students who aren't from wealth: students are really struggling both emotionally and financially (these are frequently linked) and they can't reduce their paid work to study. They look like poor students but mostly they are overwhelmed. Show some compassion
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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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Andre Kwok @andrekwok.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Check out the last podcast episode of the year at @acsg.bsky.social featuring @cassandrasteer.bsky.social and @outerspacesocsci.bsky.social. They discuss whether space is 'cool' and the significance of outer space in our everyday lives. Stay tuned for more exciting work from the ACSG next year!
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Ep. 010 Space Is Not Cool | with Aleks Deejay
Space Matters: The Space Governance Podcast · Episode
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Andre Kwok @andrekwok.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Love my part of the world!
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
NEW: New Mandala calls it a year. www.newmandala.org/new-mandala-...
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New Mandala in 2024 - New Mandala
An end-of-year note from the editor.
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
More excellent in-depth reporting from Reuters: #Myanmar is facing one of the worst (underfunded) #food insecurity crises on the planet, but this info is being suppressed by the #Tatmadaw, who threaten aid workers to not reveal data. Some researchers have disappeared. www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Myanmar junta intimidates aid groups in effort to hide hunger crisis
Myanmar’s army has warned aid workers not to release data showing millions are hungry. Fearing retaliation, aid groups have held back publicizing their findings
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Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
On this day in 1998, 26 years ago, Pokémon Trading Card Game was first released on the GameBoy This game was an RPG that featured you going to 8 clubs and playing the Pokémon TCG to become the overall grand master www.serebii.net/tradingcardg...
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Andre Kwok @andrekwok.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
B/W photo of lion dancers taken in Foshan, Guangdong
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
marking be like
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was an amazing scientist but also a huge supporter of poetry. 🧪 📚 #WomenInSTEM
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Dark Matter: Poems of Space
Poets have long been stargazers, moved by the strange infinities of the universe to translate them into metaphor and song. But what do they know of the science of astronomy? And what do astronomers kn...
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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 28/11/2024
What happens when lawyers & judges rethink how testimony is produced in legal settings? In this paper I show how looking at communication in context can make a crucial difference and help ensure access to refugee protection #Langsky #LawSky #Linguistics link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Incorporating Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Australian Refugee Credibility Assessments: the Case of CRL18 - Journal of International Migration and Integration
Credibility assessments in asylum visa applications have attracted criticism across diverse research fields. This article builds on existing critical examinations by presenting a case study of a succe...
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
OTP files for arrest warrant for Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity of deportation & persecution of the #Rohingya. Glad to finally see progress but disappointed to see no #genocide charges. #Myanmar www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Application for an arrest warrant in the situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar
Today, my Office is filing an application for a warrant of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar. Image ICC Prosecutor Khan on ap...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The spiral galaxy The Milky Way that we are in is actually one of the least likely to contain intelligent life. The spherical galaxies are hundreds or thousands of times more likely to contain life, and in fact may be teeming with them like Star Wars or Star Trek.
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There's a rally to support Senator Lidia Thorpe's Genocide Bill, 28 November 2024 at Parliament House, Canberra (land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples). Blak people of this continent have always stood in solidarity with other Indigenous peoples. Aust government is complicit in genocide #Mobsky
Poster: a black raised fist, on a background of black at the top and red at the bottom. There is a q code on the right.
Main text: End the Genocide. Text at the bottom: 9am - 3pm 28 November 2024 Parliament House, Canberra. Main text: Genocide enablers cannot be held to account because of the Attorney General's excessive powers. Join us to demand the prosecution of genocide in so-called Australia.
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
censure of Sen Thorpe is probably punishment for her current Genocide Bill. Attorney General has power to block prosecution of genocide, war crimes & crimes against humanity from proceeding in Aust courts. Given Aust's complicity in genocideS this needs to change 9/ www.lidiathorpe.com/genocide_bill
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Genocide Bill
Independent Senator for Victoria
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Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On this day in 2002, 22 years ago, Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire were first released. These games started the third generation and introduced 135 new Pokémon. It told the story of you stopping Team Aqua or Team Magma serebii.net/rubysapphire/
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Once in a lifetime shot! ☄️ 📸 josh_dury_photomedia
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Danish Sheikh @dansheikh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
For years, I’ve had dinner table rants about why lawyers - and everyone who cares about justice in relation to storytelling - should listen to Taylor Swift. Now I also have an article to go with it: t.co/df4xIVtqoF
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Dr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
everyone should use aglc referencing idc the rest can all burn
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
And we're out! The final episode of Season 1 of #CalledToTheBar is live and it's time for end of year drinks! So proud of all we've achieved this year, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social , @drnajimagi.bsky.social and @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
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26. End of Year Drinks: The Year in Review
The final episode of season 1! This week Douglas Guilfoyle, Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Imogen Saunders, Juliette McIntyre review the year in international law, the year in their own careers and the life o
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Funny because true.
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Andre Kwok @andrekwok.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
An international tribunal on TikTok? I wrote for @justsecurity.org on how the Khmer Rouge Tribunal uses TikTok & computational media to engage a large Gen Z society post-Case 002/02, sparking debate on the role of international courts beyond criminal adjudication 🌐📱 #InternationalLaw
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Vlogging International Criminal Justice? Digital Optics at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the Khmer Rouge regime tribunal, has ventured into uncharted territory: TikTok.
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