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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I’ve been out of action for a few weeks and not able to read much. My main response to the AWW debacle, now that I’m catching up properly, is, is this shit for real? I wrote a newsletter about risk, cancel culture and concussion. infra-dig.ghost.io/hard-surfaces/

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Hard surfaces

Cancel culture strikes again? Adelaide Writers' Week, risk management, and our de facto national cultural policy settings

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Zali Steggall points out the consequences of inviting Isaac Herzog given the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestine was 'highly foreseeable' live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Nice to hear we have a future with @meanjin.bsky.social in it. Some refreshing news on the shitscape horizon.

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Well deserved criticism of Liberals for doing all they could to politically exploit Bondi massacre ‘Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse’ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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Politicising Bondi backfires for Liberals who got what they asked for

Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse.

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The Socialist Party stands against The Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill (2026). This bill, which is being rammed through parliament early next week is a significant attack on Australian civil liberties and the right to protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 🧵

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Brilliant synthesis of where we’re at now from @squigglyrick.bsky.social — 🙏

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org

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Jews Demand Action

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We call on UofM to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly & housing this important journal within its Community & Cultural Partnerships portfolio and committing to resourcing it appropriately in the long term www.juliennevanloon.com.au/post/univers...

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University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on the proposed closure of MEANJIN

The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia’s oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international ...

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Powerful op-ed by Randa Abdel-Fattah about what it’s like when Australia’s entire pro-lsraeIi genocide lobby dedicates its efforts to professionally ruining you, specifically, to shut you up It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation

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Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.

Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A tipping point has been reached. Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world. Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months. You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.

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Gaza health ministry says 33 people dead from malnutrition in last 48 hours

New figures from the Hamas-run ministry include 12 children who have died, as the UN says Israel must allow aid into Gaza.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Heroes ✊👏

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

'To be a liberal Z'st today is to be both scapegoat & cover: reviled as a traitor when you speak out & trotted out as evidence of pluralism when the world is watching.' @shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...

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Liberal Zionism Is Dying—It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery

For years, liberal Zionism let me feel principled while providing cover for injustice. It’s time to call out the illusion—and stop shielding what can’t be defended.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I’m also fascinated by how universities emerged as combos of abbeys & madrasas, but most of all as student unions – mainly of international students! everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We KNOW lsraeI's whole plan is to empty Gaza of its people & erase all witnesses; the IOF even exhumes & abducts victims from mass graves so their bones can never shame the evil land-hunger of foreign necro-colonists So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A must-listen chat with Bill Bowtell on LNL that ends w a prognosis & prediction for what happens globally w HIV now that US funding is withdrawn podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

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Bruce Shapiro on US politics, Bill Bowtell surveys 40 years of HIV, and the world's richest shipwreck

Podcast Episode · Late Night Live — Full program podcast · 15/07/2025 · 55m

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 15/07/2025

🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival

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1000 Women in Horror

From the silent era until today, the nightmares that have haunted our screen have been sculpted and embodied by women, but many of those artists have gone....

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Unclear if this activism will lead to the systemic model change this industry needs, but huge kudos to these academics for stepping up, withdrawing their labour and the intellectual capital they gather.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

It disgusts me the way that the captive media try to justify their genocide stenography as ‘neutrality’ – and punish truth-telling journalists as ‘activists’ –and yet here they are bringing opinion into a news lede in a way that would fail a first-year J-school news writing assignment

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza" Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:

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'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“Doctors Recall Torture They Endured in Gaza Documentary the BBC 'Refused to Air'” Thank you to ⁦‪Charlie Nash‬⁩ and ⁦‪Mediaite‬⁩ for reporting on our important new documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’

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Doctors Recall Torture They Endured From Israeli Military in New Documentary the BBC ‘Refused to Air’: ‘They Hung Me Up’

Palestinian healthcare workers recalled the torture they endured at the hands of Israeli military personnel in a new documentary the BBC "refused to air."

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Are you a woman working in a male-dominated industry or know someone that is? We are Union is running a survey as part of the Through the Workplaces for Women project weareunion.typeform.com/Equality-Sur...

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Workplaces for Women - Equality Survey

Take our 10-minute survey to tell us what your workplace really looks like.

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

From Graeme Turner's new book: “The policy settings that were put there piece by piece since Dawkins have produced a kind of monster [...] I don’t think there’s a lot of care about those consequences now.” publishing.monash.edu/product/brok...

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Broken - Monash University Publishing

A strong higher education system is fundamental to civil society. The building of knowledge and the dissemination of information is vital to the proper functioning of our democracy. At the...

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I can't make it to this launch sadly, but thrilled to have a longish review of @garthgreenwell.bsky.social recent novel 'Small Rain' in the winter edition of @meanjin.bsky.social, with thanks to reviews editor Cher Tan meanjin.com.au/books/what-v...

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What value, a poet?

At its core, Small Rain is an interrogation of value.

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Meanjin Quarterly @meanjin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New reviews on the Meanjin Daily! First, @dionkagan.bsky.social reviews Time Together by Luke Horton @lukehorton.bsky.social / @scribepub.bsky.social. 'Holidays are rarely an escape from trouble and relational tension, but more often magnify them.' meanjin.com.au/latest/the-b...

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The Big Chill in Mornington

When people break from their everyday routines, something unresolved or unwanted often emerges.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Bless those eggheads at CPA Australia, but their media release framing gig-economy work as a "side hustle" woefully misunderstands labour precarity anyway, the Sharing Economy Reporting Regime (SERR) now legally mandates digital platforms to report AU users' income to the ATO

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 28/05/2025

"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.

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Claire G. Coleman @clairegcoleman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

In 2016 I was one of the winners of the Black&Write! fellowships/awards. It was a life changing award, leading to the publication of my Terra Nullius and all the awards, accolades, and publications I have achieved since. Without B&W and the SLQ I wouldn't be a writer ... 1/

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded, including an email from a journo at The Australian sent 20 minutes before she was told.

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

My sister just told me her 'situationship' has ended. I feel sorry for her, but also slightly surprised to hear a fellow millennial use that term to refer to someone they are 'early days' dating. Is that what it means? When you are seeing someone but it's not 'a relationship' proper, yet?

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just spent an hour completing portal admin with [global consultant agency] representing [Australia's #1 ranked uni] as part of a wage remediation program for which I *may* receive back payment. If so, this will be the 4th university to reimburse me for underpayment over 2+ decades in the sector.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/05/2025

A gas exploration drilling rig has appeared within sight of one of Australia’s most loved natural wonders, the 12 Apostles. We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports. @emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️

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There's a huge new gas rig looming over our 12 Apostles

YouTube video by The Australia Institute

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

💘this rundown by Cerise Howard of the 75th Berlinale and 39th Teddies, their queer film award. So many fillums to track down!

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Not Shy… But a Little Coy, All the Same: A Panoramic View of the 75th Berlinale and 39th Teddies – Senses of Cinema

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

@amyremeikis.bsky.social election unpack on Triple R’s Future Perfect today was so on point, especially RE where the electorate is at on progressive reforms and the limits of a culture war mandate. www.rrr.org.au/on-demand

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On demand — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Community media on 102.7FM, 3RRR Digital in Melbourne & worldwide via RRR Apps

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