Michelle Prak - author 🇦🇺

Someone so insulated and oblivious to the struggles of life - not only tragedy and war but everyday struggles - should never be in charge. It’s shameful.

Thanks for reading! I truly appreciate it 💙

How did it feel?

A tale as old as time

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Agreed. That would be wonderful.

Constellations at the Exchange Constellations program at the Exchange

At one of those events, South Australian authors will choose one of their favourite SA readings, and share it with the audience. I'm chairing that panel and I can't wait.
It's part of Constellations at The Exchange, and you can see the whole program here:

events.humanitix.com/constellatio...

Constellations at the Exchange Constellations program at the Exchange

I am so grateful that organisations including Writers SA have banded together to create Constellations - Not Writers Week. It was awful to see Writers Week cancelled; now we've got a flurry of so many writing events on the horizon!

Literature is important.
Art is politics.

Live: Sussan Ley to quit politics after losing spill, setting up by-election Sussan Ley announces she will quit the parliament after losing her leadership to Angus Taylor, setting up a by-election in her seat. Follow live.

Media needs to keep pressing Taylor:

>> Taylor has repeatedly said he wants to protect Australians' way of life. "We believe in democracy, the rule of law, our basic freedoms. These things really matter," he says <<

Who doesn't, dickhead?

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Australia, here. We have mail-in ballots.

We'll throw the idea into the hat 😃

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The schedule of the attending publishers and agents for our Picture Book Matchmaker event has been announced! ✨

Applications will open 9 February and will close on 19 February.

View the schedule: www.asauthors.org.au/picture-book...

Whether you're a true crime junkie, a fiction fan, or just love a good twist, you're invited to this Adelaide Fringe show. Join me, Vikki Petraitis and Emily Webb. We have so much to talk about!

1.30pm Saturday 7 or Sunday 8 March, The Austral.

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/vi...

Are you kidding me?! @albomp.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social this better be investigated! This police behavior is brutal and beyond

Posted elsewhere by @greenleftonline.bsky.social with accompanying words:

Sydney Town Hall Square is overflowing as enormous crowds join the protest against Israel's President Isaac Herzog on Gadigal Country.
#isaacherzog #gazagenocide #freepalestine #greenleft

Our government crossed a line by inviting a war criminal - they can’t uncross it.

We've shut down the busiest pedestrian intersection in Naarm/Melbourne because our government invited a genocidal war criminal to our country

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

One fish fought for its survival against six people wielding weapons for more than two hours…until the exhausted animal succumbed.

What a depressing story and another awful episode for the animal kingdom.

Disgusting.

FOI request for Adelaide Festival board minutes delayed until after election - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia The Adelaide Festival board has told InDaily it needs up to 85 days to find and deliver board minutes for a period of one month.

More on Adelaide Writers Week.

“identifying, retrieving, and reviewing this volume of material will require extensive and time-intensive searches across multiple record-keeping systems”.

Apparently the Board doesn’t use modern record management.

www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

The findings are stark, showing creators losing across every creative discipline.
- 99% of creators say their work has been scraped without consent 
- One in three creative jobs already lost to GenAI 
- A third 32% of illustrators report lost commissions or cancelled projects due to GenAI

I’ll miss you so much, Moira Rose 😭

They didn’t know he had a gun until after they were already surrounding him and beating him on the ground. What was the threat?

A picture of the Australian continent, with the words: NOT A DATE TO CELEBRATE inside. The colours are those of the First Nations flag.

Read more:

www.clothingthegaps.com.au/pages/not-a-...

OMFG. When the NRA has to demand responsible voices.

THE NRA.

PH is a POS.

Any reasonable person - especially a person holding government office - should be saddened and apologizing for what happened.

What will it take, Congress?

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.