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We love a flirt

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

I was the Archives Editor at Meanjin – its closure is baffling As Archives Editor, Emma Sutherland had ‘read everything’ in Meanjin's past, but was unprepared for its troubled present.

"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend.
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

You could try drowning overseas?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an X.com Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an "AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla. What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt? AUTISM

That she's cool as fuck?

Yesssss Brisbane domination continues #NRLW

When the Scrivener app updates and is now purple instead of black and white: crying, screaming, throwing up

I'm a Taurean and allergic to change; please spare a thought for me in this trying time

If Stephen is pronounced Steven shouldn’t Stephanie be pronounced Stevenie? Ok have a good day everyone

“This is where Zionists and liberals love to remain: in conversation, doing nothing, going nowhere, talking for the sake of talking and loving how good and necessary the discussion is”

YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, 'Judgement Day'

The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza.

Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection.

Please watch and share widely.

youtube.com/watch?v=mHunLNYShWI&feature=youtu.be

University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on Meanjin Closure 11 September 2025 The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia's oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international reputation carries Australian stories and voices to the world. For 85 years, Meanjin has supported, elevated and launched the careers of a staggering number of writers, including many of our own staff and students; it's also an important resource for all teachers and students of Australian literature. The Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature, Professor Tony Birch, says, 'Meanjin has been a major supporter of Blak writers and artists in Australia. Without the support of such a significant literary and cultural journal, many of us would not have been able to publish as emerging writers and may not have gone on to have a publishing life at all. We must ensure that such support continues. If Australian society is genuinely committed to truth-telling, these truths will be told by Blak artists.' As writers and creative writing academics, we know how precious journals like Meanjin are to the continuing development of Australian literature, although of course its scope goes far beyond that. While we hope new literary journals continue to emerge, Meanjin is irreplaceable. It has survived for almost a century, through the Second World War, the Cold War and numerous budget crises, and has retained its undeniable significance as part of the University of Melbourne and Melbourne University Press. It continues to publish vital, timely work that, to paraphrase Sylvia Martin, keeps the intellectual and aesthetic fires of this continent alight.

We continue to hear from our students and will be sharing more of their responses. From two: "Meanjin has and will always be the one literary magazine I look up to when I think of literary perfection." "Meanjin was my dream publication. I feel that yet another opportunity has been taken from me before I can even get my foot in the door." These students are completing their degrees while our industry is in crisis. Now is the moment that we, the University of Melbourne, must step up. The cost of maintaining Meanjin to the University is minimal, but the value is enormous. As the University of Melbourne Public Humanities initiative puts it 'culture is something that we care for, just as it cares for us.' We call on the University of Melbourne to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly and housing this important journal within its Community and Cultural Partnerships portfolio and resourcing it appropriately for the long term. Meanjin is vital to each and every member of the creative writing program and we can't imagine our future without it. Dr Romy Ash, Dr Clem Bastow, Dr Quinn Eades, Dr Rachel Hennessy, Dr Andy Jackson, Dr Odette Kelada, Bec Kavanagh, Dr Emma Marie Jones, Dr Liz MacFarlane, Dr Helen Milte, Dr Cath Moore, Dr Nadia Niaz, Dr Radha O'Meara, Associate Professor Eddie Paterson, Dr Hayley Singer, Dr Soren Tae Smith, Associate Professor Maria Tumarkin, Associate Professor Julienne van Loon, Dr Jessica Zhan Mei Yu.

A collective statement from my University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program colleagues and I about the closure of Meanjin - and thank you to Julienne and Bec for representing us at the rally!

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

ew gross

Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...

So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg.
-Why the sudden irreversible decision?
-Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)?
-Why the secrecy?
-Why use the financial viability argument now?
As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.

FYI MEAA Rally: Save Meanjin!
Thursday 11 September, 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.

Israel destroys second Gaza high-rise as military kills another 56 Palestinians, including aid-seekers Residents say military gave them 20 minutes to evacuate 15-storey building before attacking, with casualties unclear

The horrors continue.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The closure of Meanjin is real blow to the Australian literary community. We're sad to see the loss of another place where writers, thinkers, and culture-makers have a voice and platform. Our thoughts are with staff and contributors.

This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin:

An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin

Me at 11 watching the X-Men movies: Xavier is doing his best in a difficult world!

Me now: Magneto should be allowed to hunt every senator that supported the mutant registration act for sport

I can’t keep paying for Britbox it isn’t right

If we get their monarch we get their television

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

What would happen if Australia stopped supplying F-35 parts to Israel? | First Dog on the Moon Another strongly worded statement

If only there was something we could do

Danielle! You have to scroll way down past all the REAL news! (The Bulldogs lost in the footy, a lifestyle piece about the Japanese's secrets to anti-aging, and an article about people not knowing how to use e-sims)

Screenshot from a Guardian article in which police estimate crowds of 10,000 people for Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney's Pro-Palestine marches (which were all clearly attended by tens of thousands more people than 10,000 people)

Leave them alone guys, they can only count up to ten thousand 🥺

Oh boy, oh boy, can't wait to tune in to ABC at 7pm and see them give a ridiculously low estimate of the crowd numbers today!

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Heartbroken, disgusted, enraged by this brutal cowardice. Never silenced by it.