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Daniel James

@mrdtjames.bsky.social
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Yorta Yorta - Host of the Mission 3RRR FM. Co-host 7am podcast. thespencerstreetend.com.au mrdtjames@proton.me for story tips.

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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sitting in a hospital (I’m all good), but wondering which 2/3 of the staff here, that are almost all from overseas wouldn’t be let into the country under the opposition’s immigration cuts.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here’s the link to my chat with @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social We talk about the global rise of the populist right and the threat AND opportunities that this presents for the progressive side of politics. youtu.be/tT3cg-L6suE?...
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Alastair Campbell on Pauline, Trump and the shifting world order
YouTube video by 7am
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah. Short and sharp.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earthquake in Melbourne?
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My opinion piece on the Western Australian child protection situation I think it’s a pretty important read nit.com.au/30-09-2026/2...
nit.com.au
Too quick to remove, too slow to protect: What South Hedland tells us about WA child protection
I was born and raised in the Pilbara. Before becoming a psychologist, I spent close to a decade as a child protection worker in some of our highest-risk remote Indigenous communities. In 25 years of p...
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A word or two of explanation: greenworlds.substack.com/p/its-been-a...
greenworlds.substack.com
It’s been a while ...
I think I have memory of the first seizure.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This makes me happy.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
smh.com.au
Jailing children fails on every measure. So why do we persist?
It costs $1.3m a year to keep a child in prison. And it doesn’t work.
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An article from Daniel James cannot be missed. An article in 2026 that shouldn’t have to be written. “We have spent long enough being told to wait while the numbers get worse. Our ancestors are as tired as we are. The soul of the nation will be found in what happens next.”
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thespencerstreetend.com.au
The Punitive and Procedural
The two faces of Australia’s relationship with Aboriginal people
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thespencerstreetend.com.au
The Punitive and Procedural
The two faces of Australia’s relationship with Aboriginal people
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Honor Laois 🦘#DoNoHarm🦘 @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks @mrdtjames.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thespenc...
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The Punitive and Procedural
The two faces of Australia’s relationship with Aboriginal people
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Feeling strongly validated for not having watched a minute of AFL Channel 7 this year. #AFLGF
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dodge city.
theguardian.com
One Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private property
Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is there a fire in Melbourne’s inner-west? Smoke is blanketing the city.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indig...
theaustralian.com.au
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If I were a world leader I might have something to say about the bloke toying with unleashing a nuclear holocaust on 93 million people. But I’m old fashioned like that.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
theage.com.au
Mick Gatto hit with intervention order over alleged harassment of journalist Nick McKenzie
The underworld figure has featured heavily in the award-winning reporter’s coverage of the construction industry.
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What even are we? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Shackling prisoners giving birth should be a last resort – but it’s happening around Australia anyway
Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced a bill to prohibit the practice in Australian prisons that advocates say violates the human rights of both mother and child
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gagging and blacklisting: What's going on in the NT www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
thenewdaily.com.au
Gagging and blacklisting – what's really going on in the NT
Amid Hanson’s latest controversy, Australia’s most right-wing government announced yet another devastating decision for Indigenous people.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Proto-Stolen Generation? open.substack.com/pub/joeljenk...
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A Proto-Stolen Generation?
The Lia Finocchiaro NT government has implemented generational changes to child protection laws, motivated by politics rather than proof.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In Victoria in the June quarter of 2026, the imprisonment rate was 1,973.6 per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults, compared with approximately 114 per 100,000 non-Indigenous adults. Roughly 17 times the non-Indigenous rate.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meanwhile, during the year leading up to 30 June 2026, the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people imprisoned in Victoria increased by nearly a quarter.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can’t tell you how liberating it has been to break the habit of a lifetime by not watching the nightly news. All those agendas being pushed under the broad term “news.”
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One year without mum. She was great and I miss her. Xo
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
cheekmedia.substack.com/p/police-sta...
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Police state: How the NT Government is ramping up its assault on First Nations lives
Human rights abuses and the fossil-fuel-induced climate catastrophes have proliferated while the federal government remains silent.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In the NT, relations between the CLP govt and First Nations communities are falling apart and they weren’t strong in the first place. The govt has ceased listening to experts & evidenced based advice. It’s an administration that is off the leash and only the federal govt can do something about it.
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Something is seriously wrong in the Northern Territory
One by one, the Aboriginal leaders, organisations and watchdogs the Northern Territory government is supposed to work with are walking away. The Children’s Commissioner has resigned. An Indigenous MP...
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Surely there has never been anything less controversial and more accurate than calling Pauline Hanson a racist.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When I hear Hanson’s voice, I hear the voice of Lang Hancock.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...
pearlsandirritations.com
The NT’s dangerous addiction to punishment
The Northern Territory’s soaring imprisonment rates, punitive youth justice policies and rejection of expert advice reveal a system failing Indigenous communities and strengthening the case for urgent...
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: Dozens of AI data centre projects will escape Australia's proposed energy & water restrictions which aren't expected apply to green-lit projects. While the Prime Minister said they're "smaller", these projects are generally bigger and power hungrier www.abc.net.au/news/...
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
theklaxon.com.au/sham-hanson-...
theklaxon.com.au
Sham Hanson "news" sites push Rinehart propaganda - The Klaxon
Bogus social media “news” pages aggressively spreading Pauline Hanson propaganda are lavishing praise on her multi-billionaire bankroller Gina Rinehart.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Astonishing.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
About paying attention in a world full of noise. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/allowing-t...
thespencerstreetend.com.au
Allowing the moment to come to you
Paying attention as a writer in a world full of noise.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Opting out of an algorithm is an act of free speech you clowns.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It should be opt-in, but I imagine this will raise the ire of our "closest and most strategically important" ally, whose president owns a social media company, that relies specifically on brain rotting algorithms. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
theage.com.au
Australia to opt out of social media algorithms, Albanese confirms
Labor says Australians would be able to choose between existing algorithms or their “following feed” under tough new legislation.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There doesn’t seem to be a government anywhere the world capable of dealing with this existential threat.
smh.com.au
‘No one is prepared’: ChatGPT maker’s top scientist sends an AI warning
OpenAI’s top scientist says it is a time for “extreme caution” as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
About paying attention in a world full of noise. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/allowing-t...
thespencerstreetend.com.au
Allowing the moment to come to you
Paying attention as a writer in a world full of noise.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Always great to yarn with Claire.
rrr.org.au
Segments: The Mission: Claire G. Coleman on The Living Archive — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
Nyungar writer Claire G. Coleman joins Daniel James on The Mission to explore what happens when stories are preserved, though not truly remembered. Coleman reflects on who gets to tell the past, cons...
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Let's rubbish a generation of progress so we can enter into competition with organised crime and the illicit tobacco they peddle. The tobacco lobby has got their claws in deep with One Nation and the Coalition.
theage.com.au
‘Reckless’: Coalition’s 80% cigarette tax cut slammed by health experts
Australia’s leading medical body has labelled the Coalition’s plan to slash tax on cigarettes “reckless”, while the opposition frames the move as an assault on organised crime.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Witnessed the owners of a new florist in North Melbourne today giddily taking photos by the front window as it was clear they were ready to open for business. What a lovely thing to witness, best of luck to them.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
theage.com.au
Sandringham College expels year 12 boys after misogynistic behaviour, threats to female staff
Action against the year 12 boys came as the school’s principal issued a campus-wide warning of multiple incidents of male students disrespecting women and girls.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don’t promote the goings on of few hundred losers on Sunday. They crave the attention, no matter how putrid they make themselves to get it.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We’re actually diminishing our sovereignty by relying on AI models developed by a foreign run by unpredictable narcissist. If we are serious about AI and sovereignty, we should be investing in our own models, instead of just being a dumping ground for privately owned data centres.
smh.com.au
AI biggest ‘sovereignty moment since World War II’
To avoid being a passive “taker” of AI, Richard Marles has declared: “We’re with the United States - there’s no question.”
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nine News labeling some protestors “far left extremists” and the literal neo-Nazis, “anti-immigration protestors”. Shit stuff from Nine there.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
thespencerstreetend.com.au
Strung out
The pain of playing an instrument
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Perfect last Saturday of winter. 🌞
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
deepcutnews.com
Dave Hughes’s ‘common sense’ is just another rich person whining – Amy Remeikis
We hear too often about the concerns of the rich, and not enough about the concerns of Australia’s silenced majority
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A star One Nation candidate said he was a criminal lawyer. There’s no record of that www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/27/m...
crikey.com.au
A star One Nation candidate said he was a criminal lawyer. There's no record of that
A One Nation candidate who makes Pauline Hanson's cartoons claims he used to be a criminal lawyer. Finding out that wasn't true was a surprisingly difficult process.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've heard similar. Could be good.
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