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Martijn Boersma

@martijnboersma.bsky.social
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A/Prof Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney | Editorial Board: Journal of Business Ethics and Australian Journal of Human Rights | Views are my own | #BizHumanRights #ModernSlavery | Free Palestine 🇵🇸🍉 | www.martijnboersma.com

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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The IDF cleared personnel of criminal wrongdoing over the strike in Gaza in 2024 that killed 7 aid workers, including Zomi Frankcom. The IDF: “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct that would justify the opening of a criminal investigation”. Unacceptable. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Israeli military clears soldiers over Gaza strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom
Penny Wong said she is "outraged" and plans to haul in the Israeli ambassador after the Israel Defense Forces cleared its personnel of any criminal wrongdoing in the April 2024 strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza, where Australian woman Zomi Frankcom was killed.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Iconic face offs in British politics, Thatcher vs miners, Liz Truss vs Lettuce, Farage vs Binface. Come on Binface! #TeamBinface #UKelection www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Farage goes head-to-head with Count Binface in snap by-election
Nigel Farage is the clear favourite, but Count Binface is attracting serious support in a by-election featuring a record 34 candidates, including an Australian software engineer and three "Loonies".
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Disappointed that the @economist.com describes the win of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary as "the latest indication of the far left’s growing influence." Far left, really? Universal healthcare and affordable housing is far left now?
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The king of Morocco has named a highway in the disputed territory of Western Sahara (a former Spanish colony) after Trump, in honour of Trump’s “historic recognition … of Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara”. (1/2) www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Moroccan king's letter confirms naming of major highway in honour of Trump
The highway enters Western Sahara, a disputed territory that Morocco claims sovereignty over.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The dark side of business model innovation: human traffickers are very good at finding novel ways to force people to make them money. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
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Online scam centres fuelling human trafficking worldwide, warns UN agency
IOM chief says victims from more than 80 countries are lured into scam centres through fake job offers on social media.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is what you get when you apply copious amount of hairspray to a turd. www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Senior Liberal Michaelia Cash insists One Nation is a ‘centre-right’ party
The shadow attorney-general believes the Liberal Party was right to preference One Nation over Labor because their approach to small government aligns.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It saddens me that Albanese abandons class politics and embraces meritocracy myths. Political pragmatism (i.e. bad polls after the unpopular budget) seemingly instantly curbs attempts to address intergenerational wealth transfer and finding ways to share the cake rather than obsessively growing it.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"These €800 billion would be paid by billionaires and centimillionaires in the form of equities and shares and placed in a sovereign fund, allowing public authorities to redirect investment in line with the country’s strategic priorities, particularly energy." www.socialeurope.eu/a-solidarity...
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A Solidarity Tax on Billionaires Could Raise €800 Billion
France is set to make decisive political choices in the coming year. On one side stands a nationalist right wing on the rise, increasingly aligned with business interests, aiming to take power by…
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Andrew Norton @andrewjnorton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New higher education funding legislation was introduced today. It wants to expand enrolments while capping them at the university level. My Conversation article explores these semi-contradictory policies. theconversation.com/caps-are-com...
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Caps are coming for domestic uni places, but the government also wants to grow student numbers. Can this work?
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has introduced a bill under which universities face new caps on their domestic student numbers.
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︀︀︀Damon Dawg ✌🏼🫶 @bigdawgnc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Now known as the Strait of Warm Ooze.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If Macquarie University's redundancy process was so “rigorous and fair”, why has its own review processes raised serious concerns? Universities cannot preach integrity while treating staff advocacy and unionism as a managerial inconvenience. #auspol #highered www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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'Punched in the guts': Sacked academics take uni to Fair Work Commission
Two senior academics from Macquarie University allege they were targeted for redundancy because of their union activity.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Universities exist to teach students critical thinking not to protect politicians from ideas they find inconvenient. Threats to “break” university funding because students engage in debates on race, climate, colonialism, etc is state backed ideological policing #auspol www.smh.com.au/world/europe...
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‘Break’ their funding: McKenzie calls for penalties on universities that teach ‘white guilt’
In a keynote address to a major conservative conference in London, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie also called for a tougher approach to border policies so that migrants were chosen on their values...
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump's Tariffs and Australia's Modern Slavery Laws – SBS News Martijn Boersma speaks to SBS News on Trump's tariff threat and whether Australia's Modern Slavery Act goes far enough on forced labour in supply... www.martijnboersma.com/trump-tariff…
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Pauline Hanson exposed for what she is at the National Press Club, a grub and enemy of the working class. #auspol
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Australian industry superfunds are often seen as the “good” investors, looking out for members’ interests. This chapter explores tension between labour roots and financial logic, and what it means for the promise of workers’ capital. #superannuation #ESG www.martijnboersma.com/does-workers...
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Does Workers Capital Shape Society For The Better?
The idea that workers, through their retirement savings, might shape the economy they depend on is powerful, highlighting the role of workers capital.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
When universities police dissent rather than protect it, their claims to ethical purpose ring hollow. The genocide in Gaza has exposed the narrowing space for critique by students and scholars within institutions that once prided themselves on it. #HigherEd www.martijnboersma.com/universities...
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Reclaiming Dissent In The Corporate University | Martijn's Blog
The discussion on "genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity" highlights crucial issues in the Corporate University.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Imagine a B-cast like Tony Abbott, Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart 'having your back' after you are charged with the killing of 5 Afghan civilians. Here comes the cavalry, but it's season 34 of Dancing with the Stars, the white supremacist edition. #BenRobertsSmith www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtu...
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Former SAS soldier turned inmate recieves backing from politicians | 9 News Australia
YouTube video by 9 News Australia
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Habermas’ core belief was that the formation of public opinion through constructive deliberation was vital for democracies. There is a sad symbolism in his passing coinciding with a peak in mis-and disinformation, anti-intellectualism, and rising authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive
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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38%. Major broadcast networks in the U.S. cut their climate coverage 35% compared to the year before. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein. grist.org/language/glo...
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Palantir CEO saying the quiet part out loud: “This technology disrupts humanities-trained - largely Democratic- voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.” #AI newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is some grim dystopian crap. Forever wars driven by AI-systems that make 37 million computations per second. #Palantir #Maven www.afr.com/world/middle...
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How AI ‘kill chains’ are speeding up the US war on Iran
Systems from Palantir and Anthropic are helping to turn torrents of battlefield data into thousands of strikes.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Meanwhile, Australian energy companies are making windfall profits. Time for a windfall tax. During the 2022-23 energy crisis the EU collected €26 billion which it used to support households. In Aus, use for of cost of living easing and energy transition. #auspol www.smh.com.au/business/mar...
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Rate hike forecasts surge one week out from RBA meeting
Two of the country’s biggest banks have predicted the Reserve Bank will jack up interest rates in response to ongoing high inflation and the oil price shock.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Left: Dutch career criminal Willem Holleeder, who kidnapped brewery magnate Freddy Heineken in 1983. Right: Angus Taylor, the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. I think the Liberals may want to check Angus’ eligibility to sit in Parliament: he may be a dual citizen. #auspol #libspill
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Meanwhile, Australia rolls out the welcome mat for the president of israel. This is the head of state of a country whose prime minister stands indicted by the International Criminal Court. This is also a man who declared there were “no innocents in Gaza.” Disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...
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Israel Launches Deadly Strikes on Gaza, Saying Militants Attacked Its Soldiers
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“Market failure” suddenly matters when it’s about critical minerals. Price floors, guarantees, trade rules, etc. But when labour prices plummet this is accepted as an outcome of supply and demand. Minerals get protection from volatility; workers are told to absorb it. 🤡 www.afr.com/world/north-...
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Vance pitches critical minerals trade zone to counter China
At a meeting with foreign allies, the vice president urged them to lock in co-ordinated trade rules that would offer price guarantees for new sources of minerals.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The abduction of Nicolás Maduro marks a grim threshold. If a head of state can be seized with impunity, then the international rules-based order (what was left of it) is dead. The statements by Trump about access to Venezualan oil shows that this is US imperialism asserting itself without disguise.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A resolution by the ILO’s regional staff union, which was supported by nearly 80% of the members, warned that “relocation risks sending mixed signals to constituents and normalising weak labour standards in a region dominated by migrant workers with limited effective rights”. on.ft.com/4oR679i
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UN labour body’s proposal to move Mideast HQ to Qatar sparks staff alarm
ILO employees question if agency can stay independent in country where rights groups allege regular worker exploitation
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CNN @cnn.com · 30/09/2025
A federal judge delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university professors and students by targeting non-citizens on college campuses who have spoken out in support of Palestine.
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‘Full-throated assault on the First Amendment’: Judge rips into Trump over attempts to deport pro-Palestinian academics | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Tuesday delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university profe...
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“This amendment is really designed to shield Israel from any accountability by penalizing those who protest its violations of Palestinian human rights through boycotts, which should be protected by the First Amendment.” #Boycott #BDS #Israel #US #Gaza theintercept.com/2025/09/11/i...
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The House Just Passed a Bill Punishing “Politically Motivated” Boycotts of Israel
Far-right Rep. Lauren Boeberg added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS boycott movement against Israel.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
UC Berkeley has handed over 160 names of faculty, staff, and students to the Trump administration in a probe of “antisemitic incidents.” With no due process, no transparency, and international students at risk, this is blatant McCarthyism and a disgraceful betrayal of academic freedom. #highered
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Charges against Sydney pro-Palestinian protester Hannah Thomas, who was seriously injured by police, were dropped.
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Charges dropped against ex-Greens candidate injured in protest arrest, civil suit flagged
Charges against Sydney pro-Palestinian protester Hannah Thomas, who was seriously injured by police, were dropped.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
UTS has KPMG on retainer for $180,000 per week for work it was meant to complete in the original $4.8 million contract. KPMG gets $180,000 a week. The same amount gets you a lecturer and tutors for an entire year! Incompetence of UTS 'leadership' and utter governance failure. #auspol #highered
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Workplace intervention at UTS is great news for KPMG
The big four consulting firm scored a $180,000 per week contract extension, to finish work it had already been paid $4.8 million to do.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A labour court, in the Amazonian state of Pará, on Friday ordered VW's Brazilian subsidiary to pay compensation of 165 million reais ($A46.5 million) over the illegal exploitation of workers in the 1970s and 1980s, the Brazilian public prosecutor's office for labour said.
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Volkswagen Brazil faces $46.5m fine over modern slavery
German car manufacturer Volkswagen has been hit with a multi-million-dollar fine over modern slavery allegations in Brazil.
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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
With moderate CO2 emissions, the tipping point will be reached at around 2063. With high emissions, the collapse could begin as early as 2055. This leads to additional sea level rise, more storm surges, and agricultural yields will decrease by about 1/3. And all of that will last for centuries.
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Gulf Stream collapse could start by 2060, Dutch researchers warn
The Gulf Stream, a system of ocean currents that plays a crucial role in the climate, may reach an irreversible point of collapse much sooner than previously thought. Previously, scientists thought th...
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
New research | 4 largest US asset managers, like BlackRock and Vanguard, now manage 1/8th of all Dutch listed companies. That’s over 10 times more than the five largest Dutch asset managers. They are much less likely to vote in favour of climate resolutions compared to Dutch asset managers.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Amid international outrage, Israel is now claiming the double-tap strike on Nasser hospital was an accident—after celebrating it in Hebrew media. Drunk on their own impunity they take us all for fools. They mock humanity itself. Hell is not hot enough for these monsters.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Israel has murdered at least 192 journalists. The latest 5 journos were killed after #IDF ‘mistakingly’ bombed a hospital in Gaza. Israel is not going to stop slaughtering Palestinians unless the rest of the world makes them. Impose sanctions FFS #auspol www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
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20 Killed in Gaza Hospital Strikes. Netanyahu Claims ‘Tragic Mishap.’
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Six universities are looking to cut around 1,500 jobs. Millions of dollars have been spent on external consultants, who get to shape the future of public higher education in Australia - and with what accountability? Universities are a public good, education is not a product. #auspol #highered
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Not even rain, cold and crappy Sydney weather could stop @nteunion.bsky.social members coming together to protest against corporatised uni governance and job cuts today. ✊✊✊💜💜💜☔️☔️☔️
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Fear mongering - for a second I thought I was reading Murdoch media. An inheritance tax on the very wealthy to reduce inequality should not be dubbed a 'death tax', just to get some extra clicks. This won't impact the inheritance of the bulk of Australians, and it is a sensible policy idea. #auspol
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Call for 'death tax' to help Australia raise $70 billion
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18/08/2025
“Israel fears the people who tell the world about what is happening in Gaza — the war, the genocide, the famine. Anas made it a mission to tell these stories, our stories, all over the world. And people listened,” a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist who lives in the US writes for @theintercept.com
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Anas al-Sharif Was My Friend. Here’s Why Israel Feared Him So Much.
I met Anas al-Sharif during an Israeli siege of a hospital. The Al Jazeera journalist grew to be my mentor — and my friend.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Big win for the TWU and a big congratulations to everyone involved in building this case ✊🏻💪🏻
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I’ve donated to support John Keane and Nick Riemer in their Federal Court case defending free speech, academic freedom, and the right to oppose genocide and apartheid. I encourage others to read about their fight and contribute if you can. #highered #freepalestine @nteunion.bsky.social
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Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack!
Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane are academics at the University of Sydney and long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians. Since October 7, in articles, on social media and at ...
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The U.S. State Dept’s new human rights report on Israel has been gutted — shrinking from 103 pages last year to 9. Gone are UN and NGO accounts of abuses, the ICJ genocide case, ICC warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant, and detailed reporting on press freedom, torture, and mass civilian deaths in Gaza.
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New U.S. Report on Israel's Human Rights Abuses Is 91 Percent Shorter
Clocking in at nine whole pages — down from 103 in 2024 — the new State Department human rights report is “functionally useless.”
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Recorded electrical activity from brain implants can predict attempts to say different words. With the use of AI, the computer accurately predicted almost 6,000 words, with an accuracy of 97.5%. It then synthesises words using the patient's voice based on recordings made before they developed A.L.S.
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For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
‘Our public universities have become corporatised, governed from behind closed doors by people with little connection to the daily realities of staff and students. The consequences have been catastrophic.’ Dr Alison Barnes, NTEU National President at today’s Senate Inquiry into university governance
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Australian Human Rights Institute @austhumanrights.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
There are just two weeks until the United Nations Business and Human Rights Regional Forum in Melbourne, co-hosted by the Australian Human Rights Institute. Explore the program and register here: events.humanitix.com/un-bhr-regio...
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United Nations Business and Human Rights Regional Forum: Australia and New Zealand
The inaugural UN Business and Human Rights Regional Forum: Australia and New Zealand (the Forum)
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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The draft report identified 56 “nationally significant climate risks” in eight areas, including defence, the economy, primary industries, regional communities, and health and social support. www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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Labor keeps ‘dire’ climate report under wraps
The government has delayed the release of a “shocking” assessment of climate change’s effect on the economy, just weeks before its 2035 target decision.
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Martijn Boersma @martijnboersma.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience – including pensioners – have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.”
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Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
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