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Dominic Kelly

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Honorary Research Fellow, La Trobe University Short-form: medium.com/@dominickelly_ Book #1: blackincbooks.com.au/books/politica… Book #2: a history of Quadrant magazine (forthcoming)

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 34m
Getting bored of US statesmen grokking "western civilization" to erect intellectually feeble scaffolding to justify attacks on liberal democracy in Europe - most recently Rubio at the Acropolis. Stop plundering Plato to justify your will to power.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 8h
In Crikey today, I have a long read on Canberra’s endearment with AI and the dubious promise of data centre riches. While Australia’s creatives are being sold down the river, you don’t need to fire up Claude to spot some cracks in the hype-doom sales pitch ($) www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/08/a...
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Canberra is 'drinking the Kool-Aid' on AI. Where will it take us?
The Albanese government is treating the promises of AI and data centre investment like a digital mining boom. How does it sit within Labor's broader social project?
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m colour blind so forgive my ignorance, but this would be Queensland state of origin, no?
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tomorrow!
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Contrarianism rots your brain.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sensible takes on Victorian politics are very rare; a nice relief to read this excellent piece by Paul Strangio. insidestory.org.au/oh-victoria-...
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Oh Victoria, Victoria! • Paul Strangio
A kind of dread hangs over the state as the November election approaches
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Great stuff from Clinton Fernandes. www.theage.com.au/technology/r...
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Gone ‘rogue’ and set to kill us all? Please. I know the banal truth
There’s snake-oil being sold to us and much of the world is falling for it.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm presenting on my Quadrant research next week as part of the State Library of NSW's Fellows' Findings series. Tuesday 6 October, 11am, online and free. Please come along! www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/domin...
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Dominic Kelly: Quadrant’s internal cold wars
Historian Dominic Kelly illuminates some of the disputes and controversies navigated by Quadrant magazine during the Cold War era.
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A new book thoroughly documents America's complicity in genocide www.equator.org/articles/bid...
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Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Talk growing that Ireland’s players will refuse to play Israel www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland’s match against Israel thrown into chaos as Bazunu tells squad he does not want to play
Some other players understood to be considering whether to join goalkeeper in withdrawing from Nations League fixtures
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Could Mossad be behind Pearce’s Achilles injury? Just asking questions here.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Never forget that Chris Fagan pressured Indigenous couples into having abortions. No amount of success can remove that stain, despite the media whitewash of his reputation.
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this was a great read about the evacuation of Chud Saigon www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Tim Howard @tmhwrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[goose meme] what else did he advocate? WHAT ELSE DID HE ADVOCATE?
Music
Angry Anderson dies aged 79:
Rose Tattoo frontman was a ferocious rock 'n' roll singer and youth advocate. He was also a bigot.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ah yes, the conservative man of principle with deep goodwill towards First Peoples.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shocked to see the most detestable fans in the AFL acting like a bunch of entitled cunts.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Was only following the scores on my phone from an airport but can I just say: suck shit Hawthorn
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 16/09/2026
There’s only one occasional trillionaire in America, but there are more than twenty-three million millionaires. To truly understand the story of wealth inequality in America, we should be paying more attention to them. thebaffler.com/latest/for-t...
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For the Love of Money | Nico Taylor
Main Street Millionaires are every bit as greedy and as cunning as the so-called fat cats we’re accustomed to reviling.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 25/08/2026
From the underwriters of eighteenth century London to the American viaticals industry of the 1980s, the insurance industry has long bet on death. Prediction markets follow in its footsteps. thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...
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The Polymarketification of American Life
Prediction markets have been trying to skirt regulators by selling themselves not as sportsbooks but as insurance.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come on, 20 wins out of 82 games is pretty good.
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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Me on 'The unmaking of the Australian party system': my inaugural lecture as Donald Horne Professor for the Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas at the University of Canberra: inside.org.au/the-unmaking...
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The unmaking of the Australian party system • Frank Bongiorno
How should we deal with a fragmented political landscape? First we need to understand how we got here
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Excellent essay by @joshuablackjb.bsky.social
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Damn, didn’t know about Róisín Murphy going down this dark path.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Peak New Republic
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Call me paranoid but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they found such an unsympathetic figure for this story on AI refusal. Her cause is just! www.smh.com.au/technology/t...
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This ‘AI refuser’ quit her dream job, and hopes others follow
Gabrielle Boyle resigned three days before the AFL switched on Microsoft’s AI assistant, having been told she couldn’t opt out.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ages of the three opinion columnists in the Saturday Paper today: 93, 82, 79
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The easiest mark in footy media.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
👑
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
And what a roaring success the Do Not Call register has been.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don’t use it then. Pretty simple.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK. It's French. DELIGHTED to welcome @juliekalman.bsky.social onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France. Listen below, Youtube or your pod app of choice
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Episode 27: The history and cultural impact of Asterix the Gaul
The Untitled History Podcast · Episode
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
90% of conservatives have the same pathetic origin story: lefties annoyed me at uni.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Got a new review up at @insidestory.bsky.social. insidestory.org.au/one-theory-t...
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One theory to explain it all • Dominic Kelly
How did Cultural Marxism become the right’s all-purpose pejorative?
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James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I have an article about the 'cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory in the latest ABR. www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...
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James Ley reviews ‘The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the right blames the Frankfurt school for the decline of the West’ by A.J.A. Woods
Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the ideas of Theodor Adorno will know he was an antagonist of what he called the ‘culture industry’. In Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), co-written wit...
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Got a new review up at @insidestory.bsky.social. insidestory.org.au/one-theory-t...
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One theory to explain it all • Dominic Kelly
How did Cultural Marxism become the right’s all-purpose pejorative?
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Courier-Mail get on it. (Little Manning Clark joke for you all.)
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This will form a significant part of Jacinta Allan’s legacy. She must be proud.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Really important research with clear findings, implications & policy recommendations to arrest the trend of oversized cars & trucks killing & maiming more pedestrians 🙏 & kudos to Milad Haghani, Abbas Rajabifard, Iman Taheri Sarteshnizi, & Neema Nassir @aunz.theconversation.com
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Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it
Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Raise your hand if you think Joe Aston’s newsletter is worth TWENTY-NINE MILLION DOLLARS. What the fuck are we doing here.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Best review I’ve read of this book.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Quadrant asking ChatGPT to go full R. Crumb.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Lol, I think you mean Stanley Kramer, though I’d love to have seen Kubrick’s interpretation.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The HR Nicholls Society has had a rebrand, dropping the 'Society'. A nod to Thatcher, perhaps? Regardless, I'm sure it'll solve the issue of their complete irrelevance.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Remembering Utøya means refusing to compromise with far-right nationalism. Remembering Utøya means attacking the political and economic power of the oligarchs who promote far-right ideas. Remembering Utøya means continuing to fight for international social democracy.
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Benjamin Clark @benjamin-clark.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Some footage from #CPACGB earlier today. Absolutely packed crowd for Pauline Hanson’s speech! It was honestly quite sad. Liz Truss succeeding at event organising about as much as she did formulating economic policy. More to come from me in Monday’s @crikey.com.au
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