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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Public health messaging in a nutshell.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thanks to ABC News 24 I’m entirely across the views of former PM Morrison on the Iran strikes.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Joh’s legacy should be to sustain a keen understanding of governance and accountability in the public, pollies, public servants & lawyers. But so many have forgotten. Looking forward to watching this.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I’m just not sure about this.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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National Indigenous Times 🤖 (unofficial) @nit-bot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
25 years ago, Aboriginal and non-Indigenous people gathered side by side to erect a memorial marking a shameful historical chapter in a move of reconciliation and truth-telling. Every year, hundreds of people gather, many travelling from interstate, to mark the Myall Creek Massacre at Bingara.
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Reconciliation and truth-telling: Hundreds gather at Myall Creek memorial for important anniversary
25 years ago, Aboriginal and non-Indigenous people gathered side by side to erect a memorial marking a shameful historical chapter in a move of reconciliation and truth-telling. Every year, hundreds of people gather, many travelling from interstate, to mark the Myall Creek Massacre at Bingara.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Ah yes. Because it’s individual consumers who can turn this ship around.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just to complicate things. There is no Liberal Party or National Party in Queensland. David Littleproud is a member of the Liberal National Party of Qld. However under its constitution, the LNP is a division of the Liberal Party of Australia. online.lnp.org.au/lnp-constitu... #auspol
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Whither the LNP?
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Traditionally, law has been sourced from verified authority. Then it became open and we could search online. We could assess quality of source. If we use AI, an algorithm generates a response. The filtering is taken out of our hands. Someone else controls the algorithm.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Annika Wells - ‘we now have enough Qld women in the house for a netball team and we’re here if you need.’ 😂😂😂
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I don’t need co-pilot or whatever to write for me. But some basic formatting would be great. ‘Please fix chaotic numbering, tabs & tables’. Or, idk, Microsoft could throw some coin to make their existing WP system actually work?
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Speaking of universities, the Oz has published an attack on a second law lecturer based on a leak of a recorded lecture. Policy prohibits sharing lecture recordings. For 20yrs I’ve warned of vulnerability for staff & students of recording class. It’s now become a reality that Uni’s must address.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
That senator last night on the ABC. I can’t stop thinking of his insistence that pre-polls would overcome the *9+%* swing against Mr Dutton. It was incredible to watch.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I guess Jane Hume’s proposal to have TEQSA check every university subject outline for ‘woke’ content will not become a reality. NB this is from the people who commissioned an inquiry into academic freedom & implemented a policy to uphold it. ‘Do academic freedom’ ‘No, not like that’
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Let’s see if the senate inquiry into university governance will actually do something, given the govt is set to continue.
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As a collateral casualty of the culture wars who reads the Oz to keep tabs on the landscape, I can’t imagine the pile ons and obsessions finishing any time soon.
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Advance Australia anti-Albo ads 4 in a row (!!) every 15 minutes during the NRL. I thought there was an ad blackout?
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Except on car headlights.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Was there an authorisation?
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Wombat news.
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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s not good out there.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Head of AI consultancy advises you to start using AI. 💁🏻‍♀️ There is no aspect of my work as a lawyer in which that I can see a role for AI. I can’t even think of a mundane task to give it. And if you send me an automated email, I’m unlikely to read it.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is so terribly offensive on many levels. MP unaware of the rules in his own electorate. Offered a lesser sanction than Aboriginal people. Dreadful.
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Alastair Humphreys @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
IS A RIVER ALIVE? Robert Macfarlane on the rights of nature and future of rivers www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/is-a-river-a...
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Is A River Alive? – Outdoor Swimming Society
In his new book, The Outdoor Swimming Society’s Patron, Robert Macfarlane, travels to the Ecuadorian cloud forest, the dying rivers of Tamil Nadu and the mighty Mutehekau Shipu in Québec on a quest…
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Donna Weeks @psephy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Turning education into a profit-making industry at all levels, from pre-school to university has been just one of the very wrong policy directions over the last couple of generations, particularly when those who profited most have no interest, care nor understanding of the purpose of education.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Apparently, in a largely policy-free election, the number of welcome to countries is the leading voter issue as Australia votes.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Devo that #vera is over 😭
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
As a former kindy president, this sounds right!
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
CNN reports that the oligarch is building a "master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal government" with the help of Palantir, to create "targeting lists". That all sounds very very bad. edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE team is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say | CNN Politics
Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations, by combining sensitive data from across the federal g...
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NOPSEMA has given approval to Santos' $5bn Barossa gas project off Australia's remote northern cost. With CO2 average about 16% in the gas deposit, the project has been referred to as a "carbon factory" and a "carbon bomb" by critics.
info.nopsema.gov.au
Industry environment plans
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today drilling for gas under the Barossa project off the coast of Darwin was approved. That's 274mil tones of emissions from one of the dirtiest gas projects in the 🌏 More than 100x emissions from the 🇦🇺 electricity system. Our approvals system is broken. We need urgent reform.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Interesting to see how this influences the Australian Church and the battles therein.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Absolutely. Not an observer of days myself, I love a public holiday.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I find it remarkable that this is newsworthy. They could literally print the same story every year.
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Bede Kelleher @thevenerablebede.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m old enough to remember when we Australians sent refugees to prison camps in foreign countries.
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National Indigenous Times 🤖 (unofficial) @nit-bot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Teho Ropeyarn has forged his place in the Australian arts scene, earning recognition as an accomplished artist, influential curator and in 2025, as the Artistic Director for the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair and Principal Judge for the prestigious Gab Titui Indigenous Art Award.
nit.com.au
From entrant to principal judge: Teho Ropeyarn returns to the Gab Titui Indigenous Art Award
Teho Ropeyarn has forged his place in the Australian arts scene, earning recognition as an accomplished artist, influential curator and in 2025, as the Artistic Director for the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair and Principal Judge for the prestigious Gab Titui Indigenous Art Award.
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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A bill that sought to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, and take that new definition to a referendum has been voted down in parliament. The bill, brought by the right wing ACT Party, was voted down by all other parties. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04... #nzpol
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NZ Treaty bill defeated: 'We had two choices — to live or to die'
New Zealand's Treaty Principles Bill has been voted down in the country's parliament, killing off the controversial piece of proposed legislation.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I stand firmly with Dr Dani Linder in the face of appalling treatment by media this week.
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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The best choice is write your essay yourself.
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go follow @news.abc.net.au @abc-news.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Native title owners welcome High Court win: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-09/sa-l…
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Native title owners welcome High Court win
A group of native title owners from South Australia's far north have welcomed a win over a small parcel of land near Oodnadatta.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
After 4 weeks of articles dressed up as defence of legal education, it’s clear that The Oz is on a bad faith campaign of harassment of individual law lecturers including scurrilous innuendo and tacit encouragement of a mob attack. I stand with these academics.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If I were to establish a political party, of any stripe, I would not call it Trumpet of Patriots. Each to their own, I guess.
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Katgallow @katgallow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Apparently, combat destroys women’s hips and we are destroying our beautiful women, the backbone of our families, by sending them to combat. No mention of DFV, sexual assault and harassment, lack of access to reproductive care etc etc in wider society. Just combat.
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