Louis Devine

Notice that when the government *actually* wants to get something done, they immediately abandon the "if both sides are mad I must be correct" mentality.

Passing IR reform with the Greens or immigration reforms with the Coalition spring to mind.

This is such a facile approach to policy making. It enables Labor to keep proposing bad legislation on important topics, get nothing done, and then blame everyone else.

#auspol

I look forward to reading it! Would also be interested in interviewing you on my podcast about it. I mostly interview political theorists. DM me if interested.

It's good to have democratically elected politicians as the final decision-makers, they can be held accountable and the buck stops with the minister.

Ultimately they'll be acting on advice, but having one person accountable is preferable to unelected bureaucrats being able to blame one another.

Can't believe that the media is still trying to read the tea leaves and find meaning in Trump's brain farts.

If Trump says he doesn't believe that Xi will invade Taiwan, this isn't a shift in US policy, it's the ramblings of a man who has no idea what he is talking about.

#auspol

Torn between admiration at how well Albanese's meeting with Trump went, and revulsion at our strategic obsequiousness.

No matter how much Trump praises AUKUS, it's still a rotten deal.

#auspol #trumpalbanese

New poll delivers bleak outlook for ‘terminal’ Battin leadership Opposition Leader Brad Battin is not facing an imminent leadership challenge, but there is growing momentum to overthrow him.

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Victorian Liberals will scrap Australian-first Treaty within 100 days if elected The Victorian Liberals will scrap the state's proposed Treaty agreement with First Peoples' if elected. The opposition had previously withdrawn support for the proposed agreement, which is set to be d...

"if elected" is the operative phrase here

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Thank you!

For what it's worth, I don't agree with Prof. Xiang. I take a more materialist explanation myself, but it's an interesting book nonetheless. Not least because it highlights differences in "Western" and "Chinese" metaphysics.

Chinese Cosmopolitanism | An Interview with Shuchen Xiang

Racism, colonialism and slavery — these are not accidents of history, they are the result of a metaphysical worldview peculiar to the Western world.

That is the bold claim made by Prof. Shuchen Xiang, who joined me to discuss her new book, Chinese Cosmopolitanism.

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📵Aussie workers now have the right to ignore after-hours calls & emails.

Your time is your time.

Work stops when the shift ends. 💪

Very interesting. You don't need to tell me this after I experienced working in a bakery.

Thanks!

Thanks for the share

It's me!

The Geopolitical Context Behind Albanese's China Visit Prime Minister Albanese and I have a few things in common.

As I find myself in China at the same time as PM Albanese, I decided to write a little primer on the geopolitical context behind his visit.

This was written on my phone, so please excuse any typos.

#auspol #auschina

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Rawls in the Streets Katrina Forrester's In the Shadow of Justice shows the radical potential—and political limitations—of John Rawls' philosophy.

Enjoyed this piece by @mattpolprof.bsky.social for @liberalcurrents.com

Rawls offers a "...political project centered around the quintessentially liberal principle that all life is equally sacred and deserves to be experienced with dignity."

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Absolute scenes today in Dengfeng, China. The Song Mountains.

US forces make Australia a Chinese target. That raises a big question The Coalition’s shadow defence spokesman is posing questions the Albanese government is refusing to answer about Australia being drawn into a war over Taiwan.

I'm dismayed that it's a Liberal (Andrew Hastie) rightly calling for greater transparency about the US alliance, while Labor is enmeshing us further with the US.

Some interesting notes in this article, esp. that conflict over Taiwan could spark a regional war. #auspol

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It was worth a shot!

Lovely to chat union history and my new book, "No Power Greater", with @louissdevine.bsky.social on his Ideas Matter pod

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) Jacquie Lambie says Trump is now at war and Australia 'ain't going with him' | ABC NEWS

The Australian MP making the most sense on Trump and Iran right now is Jacqui Lambie. Calling him a "bully" and a "sociopath" who treats war like a game to be announced over social media. #auspol

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Trump's biggest con was convincing people that he represented a break from establishment US foreign policy.

Marking exams on a Sunday night

the hero Australia neither needed nor deserved

I totally agree. Capaldi's theme was great, but the visuals were lame. Clocks to represent time travel? C'mon

It's impossible to beat! Personally I love the 1980 version and the 2005 revival version.

A History of Trade Unionism in Australia, feat. Dr Liam Byrne Ideas Matter · Episode

Are you interested in:
• the early formation of working-class parties
• the meaning and history of unionism
• how labour responded to the neoliberalism of the 1980s?

Then my interview with Liam Byrne is for you!

@liamj47.bsky.social #auspol

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I'm not familar with the situation at USyd. Do you have an article I could read?