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Jack Hayes

@jackhayes.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School, ANU. Queerness, democracy, institutions…let’s call the whole thing off

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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Look I geddit, I understand no one wants to be the party of government when the Australian property market collapses. But I hope whomever is in power at the time has a contingency plan for: 1. regulating away predatory post-collapse investors 2. protecting renters and FTHB 3. genuine housing reform
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I would feel very stressed as an Australian if, five years ago, I had pivoted my entire professional expertise towards AUKUS
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
What happened at Bondi is a tragedy and a crime. If there's one thing I hope for, it's that we don't fall into "now is not the time to talk about gun control" bullshit. Now is EXACTLY the time to talk about gun control. We need to stop this from happening again. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge
There are now more than 4m guns in the community – almost double the number recorded in the years after the Port Arthur massacre that prompted a national crackdown
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
How are LGBTQIA+ politicians in Australia treated online? @blairwilliams26.bsky.social , @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social , @gosiami.bsky.social & @jackhayes.bsky.social analyse over 75,000 tweets in this new article in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Out online: an analysis of tweets posted to LGBTQIA + Australian politicians during the 2022 federal election
Social media has increasingly become crucial for political actors, especially during election campaigns. However, these platforms are not without risks, as they can expose politicians to various fo...
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I'm unsure if this is a Guardian editorial policy but I find it odd in a piece on Trump's knee-jerk misogyny in the face of ongoing Epstein pressure that they have chosen not to name the two women reporters he insulted. We know it was Catherine Lucey from Bloomberg and ABC's Mary Bruce. 1/2
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Australia's greatest ally
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
pleasantly surprised that writing along to the soundtracks of city-building computer games like Age of Empires and Sierra's Pharaoh - games I played non-stop as a kid - unlocks some instinctual hyper-productivity that adulthood had buried
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
feels like there is some point of connection when, out fear for my ever-diminishing attention span, I turn to google for help on blocking vertical videos on apps - and all solutions are behind paywalled content
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election. It's also Open Access! #AusPol @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social
tandfonline.com
Out online: an analysis of tweets posted to LGBTQIA + Australian politicians during the 2022 federal election
Social media has increasingly become crucial for political actors, especially during election campaigns. However, these platforms are not without risks, as they can expose politicians to various fo...
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Just because the Trump administration frames this violence in an existential ideological divide (e.g. "real" Americans versus the radical left) it doesn't mean that news sources (particularly outside of the States!) should engage in the same rhetoric. 1/2
abc.net.au
A bitter blame game is pushing the US towards the precipice
In a country with more guns than people, an increasingly violent and threatening public discourse is creating serious dangers.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
probably says something about Vance that public service is not, in his opinion, an expression of gratitude
independent.co.uk
Vance goes after NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani for not showing ‘gratitude’ to the US
‘I don’t know the guy but my sense is that he has had a very good life in this country,’ said Vance on Zohran Mamdani
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
if Trump can reframe an illegal invasion into a 50/50 scrap then every country with a significant security alliance with the states should be having a very close re-read of their agreement obligations. Is it in Pillar I or II? asking for a friend
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Not sure "the international paedophile ring encroached on the thing I had going on at Mar-a-Lago" is quite the argument he thinks it is...
abc.net.au
Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women, including Virginia Giuffre, from Mar-a-Lago
The US president has given some of his most expansive public comments yet about his falling out with the convicted sex offender.
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Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at ANU @anubellschool.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"We can't say we didn't know", @civilianprotection.bsky.social PhD Scholar from our Department of International Relations, writes for @aunz.theconversation.com
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In academia, we're expected to critically engage with available research, or to conduct our own, in order to substantiate an argument. This is a deeply serious accusation that is not at all self-evident, and I would expect the ASECA to be held to similar standards.
A text screenshot from the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, reading, quote, "Antisemitism is evident within schools and universities and has become ingrained and normalised within academia and the cultural space. We need to resolve this urgently. We are on a dangerous trajectory where young people raised on a diet of disinformation and misinformation about Jews today
risk becoming fully-fledged antisemites tomorrow." End quote.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Jumpscare for De Santis' nasal whine. Also, least of the issues in the 77 seconds of this clip, but why are there always three times as many flags and seals than necessary? Betsy Ross didn't throw the first brick for this.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The Algorithm seems very sure that I'm a NYC resident of voting age
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Woke up to more deeply upsetting news out of the States (so, it's a day ending in y).
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
didn’t expect to get a little weepy in the Tate Modern. a beautiful collection of quilts honouring 384 people who died from HIV/AIDS. I’m always struck by how sweet and moving the messages stitched in by friends and family (chosen or otherwise). We live on in the memories of others.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
With my sister in London and she’s filling out a local residence suggestion form for her street (requesting more pedestrian crossings). So why is “is your registered sex different to your sex at birth” the third question?
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
hey that’s me
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Congrats, Sussan Ley
A warning sign, similar to what you may find on a hiking trail, warning of an imminent cliff edge.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I 💛 the AEC
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I'll be joining some fantastic people online on Friday to discuss the global backlash towards diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, and it's creep into Australian political rhetoric. ⏰ Friday 2nd May, 2pm-3pm (AEST) 🗓️ Register: shorturl.at/76LWt
events.humanitix.com
DEI under fire: The state of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion in Australia
Get tickets on Humanitix - DEI under fire: The state of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion in Australia. Online. Friday 2nd May 2025. Find event information.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Australian reporting and commentary on the horiffic mass deportations currently underway in the United States remain incomplete without an acknowledgement that the Trump administration has taken significant inspiration from Australia's draconian offshore detention policies. 🧵1/5
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So interesting when the data is this stark - the Liberal party is running twice as many men than women in this election, and of the seats the women candidates are contesting, 84% are mostly unwinnable 🥲
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I spoke to the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia about Peter Dutton's recent comments on the so-called 'woke' agenda in Australian schools and universities. I had some thoughts (1/7) 🧵
sbs.com.au
What does 'woke' mean? Peter Dutton's warning to schools is deliberately vague
Schools and universities with "woke" curriculums have been put on notice by Peter Dutton who doesn't want young people "indoctrinated"
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Why are no media outlets discussing Mark Butler’s gorgeous dimples?
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I cannot imagine how difficult and exhausting it must be for a trans person living in the U.S. in this particular moment. Just a constant pouring of vitriol from the White House
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling horrified hearing Trump repeatedly claim that Ukraine somehow instigated their own invasion - see comments made at the Saudi meeting - but there's a trend in analysts going out of their way to parse Trump's statements into entirely different points. For e.g.:
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
WIth a federal election looming, keep a close 👁️ on the audiences the majors will be attempting to attract. It's clear that the Coalition is trying to recreate the Trump playbook - a media blitz of microbloggers, streamers and podcasters with audiences comprised mainly of 18-35yr olds 🧵 1/5
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Just in time for the next federal election, read into our latest paper on the “risky visibility” of queer people running for political office, posted with @aunz.theconversation.com Read here: theconversation.com/australian-l...
aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
Australian LGBTIQ+ politicians were hit with vile online abuse at the last federal election. The coming campaign could be even worse
New analysis of more than 100,000 tweets has found that queer Australian politicians suffer more personal abuse online than straight politicians.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
How does it become a man to behave towards this American government today? In Thoreau we trust.
A page of text from “Reflections at Walden”
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GIWL ANU @giwlanu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We're so happy to be joining Bluesky! Stay tuned to hear all about our latest research, news, events, podcasts and more!
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Excited to announce our latest paper, co-authored with @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social @gosiami.bsky.social and @jackhayes.bsky.social Examining the Twitter harassment of LGBTQIA+ pollies during the 2022 Aus Fed election, we found that they face a double bind, experiencing more personal hate. #auspol
doi.org
‘Risky visibility’: the online harassment of queer politicians
Politicians face high levels of public scrutiny and abuse online, with minoritised candidates experiencing qualitatively different treatment. Queer politicians, in particular, face ‘risky visibility’,...
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This, from the former secretary of the parliamentary friends of Palestine group. Apparently the decision to not comment on every statement is actually a decision to not comment on any.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Limiting access to gender affirming care doesn’t make adolescents healthier, happier or safer. And the Qld gov NAMING the health clinic that allegedly triggered the review certainly does not make the public health staff working there safer! Incredibly irresponsible. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
abc.net.au
Queensland Government bans puberty blockers and hormone therapies for minors - ABC listen
Medical experts, human rights groups and trans advocates have criticised the Queensland government's decision to block new patients under the age of 18 from accessing puberty blockers and cross-sex ho...
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Another year, another march to change the date. This year was all about centring the next generation ❤️💛🖤
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A tricky part of these early weeks of the Trump regime is that there will be so many headlines exactly as horrible as this that it will be difficult to maintain a grasp on how awful this is for individual people. It will require real skill to centre the suffering of people over knee-jerk outrage
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“They say: We can act like Nazis not because we are all secret Nazis in the official underground Nazi club, but rather, because we are free to play with History that YOU have deemed inappropriate in your era of total cultural dominance.”
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
At possibly only 1.6% (Pew ‘22) of the US pop., protecting vulnerable trans and non-binary people should be one of the core principles of a modern democracy. My heart breaks over the scapegoating of queer people by the Trump regime. This does not make anyone safer, more secure, or more prosperous.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Biden swerving the customary President to President Kiss? Welcome to the resistance
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
saddest thing about people being surprised Anita Bryant was still alive (until very recently) is the idea she was able to live her remaining days in relative anonymity
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
abc.net.au
Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
A new study shows more than 20 per cent of climate and environment protests in Australia lead to arrests, more than in the UK, Norway, and the United States.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The two Australian case studies in the Five Eyes release today about youth radicalisation are both white supremacist/far right radicalisation examples... The spy agencies tend to be a bit reluctant to call this out in isolation because of the politics around it. www.asio.gov.au/system/files...
Australia – case study 1
The Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) investigated
a minor (who was 16 years at the time of offending)
following initial reporting they were mobilising to commit
an act of ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE).
JCTTs exist in all states and territories of Australia
and consist of the Australian Federal Police (AFP),
the relevant State or Territory Police, the Australian
Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and, in
New South Wales (NSW), the NSW Crime Commission.
The minor was part of a loosely connected online
network involving hundreds of local and international
participants, some of whom shared similar IMVE
ideologies. The minor was sharing IMVE documents,
images and videos, and advocating for attacks
on persons of non-Caucasian appearance, and urged
others to prepare for an upcoming race war to
‘defend the white race’. This included discussing carrying
out a mass killing offshore, posting about live-streaming
a shooting on Facebook, requesting assistance in
bomb-making, praising mass shooters, and suggesting
the targeting of ‘high profile enemies’.
During the JCTT investigation, the minor was observed
to have very few real-world relationships which consisted
primarily of work colleagues and family members.
He did not participate in any extra-curricular activities
and appeared to spend limited time socialising offline.
The risk of the minor undertaking some form of physical
attack was assessed as too great, so the AFP moved
to overt resolution. The minor was charged with
advocating terrorism and urging violence against
members or groups. The arrest of the minor and
dissemination of intelligence to international partners
also led to the arrest of a person of interest offshore
who had links to the minor’s Telegram posting.
The minor was sentenced to an 18-month term
of imprisonment with a non-parole period of
14 months. Upon sentence expiry, the minor was
an adult and was released into the community on
an Interim Control Or…
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A “Meet the Critic™” session for @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social’s fantastic book, The Face of the Nation. Self professed critic-turned-fan-girl Prof @becstrating.bsky.social is nailing it! #APSA2025
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Exciting to see a few more people here.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Trump has exploited a rare loophole in the muted mics problem, which is that if you just interrupt for long enough they’ll turn it back on
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Huge/unfortunate night for Aurora, Colorado, the only town Trump seems to know in that state
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