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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 · 09/02/2026
AI took this audio and hallucinated the wrong conclusion
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Grape Lady falls (Original)
YouTube video by Peop Hoofd
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
oh so he couldn't source a western philosopher to edgelord out on? woke
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
unrelated but what's your stance on unmanned drones for the purpose of surveillance and war?
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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 · 29/01/2026
almost thirty years of hateful photo ops and she still can't/won't run a steamer over the flag
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
and if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
a shocking combo of names there!!
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm so grateful people like yourself have this kind of institutional memory and can point directly at hypocrisy - I read these columns with the sense that the truth is being bent, but appreciate when someone can step in and point to the bending!
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
big fan of you waxing lyrical!
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
plans B, C and D all involved pints, I hope. this is reassuring though, considering how much of IR has refused to stay still since I started the PhD. Agility and flexibility with expertise is not just helpful, it's a survival skill
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
and this is why they pay you the big bucks!
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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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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I've been logging complaints against this account since I first came across it in late November '25, and every response was meta's autofilled "nothing to see here" hopefully a bit of publicity will get the content removed
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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
It feels important to name them considering the President is very specifically /not/ naming them in his insults. Also, it's just weird that the only woman journo who does get named is, of all people, Megyn Kelly...
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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 · 11/11/2025
yes! the battle music certainly raises the stakes
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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 · 13/09/2025
The President's son then speaks on Fox! Power! Legitimacy! Why pretend like the right and left are on an equal playing field here?
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
And again, "[a]lready, both the far right and the far left are fuelling the flames." Fox News hosts "guest after guest blaming the left", and MSNBC (apparently the bastion of the far left?) hosts "at least one commentator." Why are these presented like the same thing? In proportion and misinfo?
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
In the endless bothsiderisms of political violence, you're sanitising the fact that perpetrators of this violence are mostly ideologically aligned with one of these sides
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The article digs in even further in it's summary of Jan 6. The "hard right" and "hard left" (lol) of the States disagree as to Trump's role of inciting violence in the capital, but then the rioters are discussed like some third party, as if they are not made up of that same "hard right."
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's on the reader to decide whether "both" sides are culpable in fomenting violence, as if one set of remarks isn't /literally/ demonstrating that. It would be good if the ABC was a little clearer on that.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
...significant difference in the tone and delivery of the illustrative quotes. Two college girls quipping to camera versus two intense threats of violence ("...for the liberals, it's war motherf*ckers") are presented with no further analysis.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Trump analysis aside - which in is broadly fine - I find the "dangerous threats and ghoulish celebrations" subheading disingenous and misleading. The reactions to Kirk's death are not split down the binary of promised retribution versus celebratory, but there is also a...
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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 · 11/09/2025
theconversation.com/the-liberals...
theconversation.com
The Liberals used to be the party for women – then John Howard came along
The Liberal Party used to lead the way on female representation and socially liberal policies. History shows us where the party’s “women problem” began.
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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 · 01/09/2025
why the bending over backwards to sift through the detritus in search of "goodwill", but pro-Palestinian marches are anti-semetic unless proven otherwise?
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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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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Thank you for parsing this. It remains frustrating that people are still so enamoured with the idea of a one and done injectable prevention dose, rather than the more realistic behavioural and social changes needed to eradicate a disease.
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
when the ALP inevitably fold I have been wondering about ways to hold them to account. No revisionist history at the next by-election
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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 · 17/07/2025
"Tasmanian devil of romantic catastrophes" fkn lol
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
you’re very welcome. Can’t wait for the doozies to come in the next eps #ghostalingus
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Having torn my way through the series, I’m really enjoying these reviews, both for the self-congratulatory “I noticed that too” and for the stuff I missed
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I'm crashing out over the choice of language around campus safety - clearly insinuating Palestinian solidarity camps are inherently antisemitic without outright saying so. "Antisemitism...has become ingrained and normalised witin academia and the cultural space." Just an enormous claim to throw out
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
What tolerance? Genuine question - what university in this country is protecting staff who "promote antisemitic rhetoric or harassment of Jewish students"?
A screenshot of the ASECA report, reading, quote, "Importantly, universities must embrace cultural change to end their tolerance for antisemitic conduct. All members of the university community – including staff, students and visitors – who promote antisemitic rhetoric or harassment of Jewish students or academics must be held accountable."
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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 · 10/07/2025
Are these events (the panels) happening in Canberra or Melbourne?
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
God this is such an American response. “But WE’LL put the right people in the swamp detention centre.”
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Jack Hayes @jackhayes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
speak on it!!!
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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 · 01/07/2025
@anubellschool.bsky.social
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