Dr James Kite

We've seen an accelerated push for expanded speech and protest powers. Yet these measures largely sidestep root causes of social tension: inequality, exclusion, injustice, financial stress, and collapsing trust in institutions, while creating new levers that far-right actors can exploit and provoke.

Formative Research to Inform an Australian Innovative Mass‐Reach National Skin Cancer Prevention Campaign Issue Addressed With high skin cancer rates, Australia faces challenges in encouraging young people to think differently about their sun protection behaviours, particularly in an evolving media envi...

Pleased to be able to share our latest paper. We share findings from formative work for Cancer Council Australia’s latest skin cancer prevention campaign. Work like this is so rarely published so it’s nice to get this one across the line!

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I refuse to believe that this is a real book. It is so stupid that it must be fake

Look at those profit margins. Absolute vampire industry if ever there was one

Public health policies and interventions to address health inequities in high-income countries: an umbrella review - BMC Public Health Background Health inequity: defined as systematic and avoidable difference in health outcome, remain entrenched across high-income countries, with socioeconomic gaps in life expectancy exceeding 7–10 ...

"...interventions characterised by low agentic demand: welfare reform, housing support, and legislative measures; yield the most consistent reductions in inequity"

Jatinder Hayre, Ellie Canning, Helen Pearce, Raj Khera & John Ford

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#SDoH

I think this makes you human

The secret world government must be all trans people

WHO'S IN THE CAGE NOW BITCH?!?

Quick! We best double down on it before the poors rise up

“While using the traditional ‘left-right’ lens makes some sense for some policy issues, for most of the big issues paralysing our current federal parliament it is the left-right frame that is causing much of the confusion and paralysis.” - Richard Denniss

Read more: https://theaus.in/4axwXhF

A callout for Australian Jews: add your name by Friday 9am!

We are taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement next week to send a loud message that Herzog is not welcome here – this is your opportunity to add your name at the link below.

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We just need to hope poll numbers don’t translate into electoral success. ON is full of big egos with thin skins and an appetite for airing petty grievances so, given time, they should destroy their own brand and ensure they stay a fringe party

What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way Industries' Narrative Playbook to Fight Regulations

Our latest piece in Commercially Determined breaks down 10 common tropes used by industry to sway policy. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/narrative-.... Curious which you hear most in your policy space.

You also don’t have to go back to the Bad Site to see what the fuckheads over there are doing. I came here to get away from them.

The less you know the more room you have to imagine, I guess?

“Just because something seems ordered, doesn’t make it right. Political and media classes will always try to shape right-wing anger as legitimate, while continuing to treat pushback as radical.”

The government can always afford something when the want to pay for it

Turns out you CAN spell ‘investment’ without ‘ethics’. Who knew?

“The AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point. And yet here we are.” - Greg Jericho

Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp

The idea that the government spending more is inherently bad is a cancer in Australian media. What matters is what they’re spending the money on!

AFR screenshot 3 ways to beat the new super tax With the new super tax slated to start in less than six months, we asked the experts for the strategies you can put in place now to limit potential liability.

Looking forward to the AFR's column on how people on Newstart can avoid mutual obligations

Reducing the cost of your digital academic life Before I start this post – a quick announcement. My business partner and pod cohost, Dr Jason Downs, is visiting the UK in late April. If you’d like to meet and chat with him about the …

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As I tell my qualitative methods students: reviewers will inevitably ask you to add more evidence and cut 3,000 words.

Trust is a verb: how to reimagine confidence in health systems Trust in health, science, and public institutions has become a central concern in many countries (O’Doherty 2023, 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer 2025, Cologn

Reposted this earlier but have just read it. It's excellent.

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Broden is wrong. Everything must be content!

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Empire of Vice In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

Of vice and men

Just goes to show that policy decisions aren’t really about cost!

"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

What are the proposed gun control reforms and how did we get here? The Albanese Government’s omnibus ‘Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill’ includes the most significant reforms to Australia’s gun control laws since 1996.

Last night, the Commonwealth passed its part of the most significant gun control reforms since 1996.

But how did we get here? What does this legislation do? And how have the far-right taken advantage of Australia's gun laws?

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