💁🏻‍♀️ #Politas

One of the messages of Rick Morton's 'Mean Streak' was the need to hold senior public servants to account. The response of the current government has been to make it easier for them to hide.

If you don't want your decision-making made public, don't accept a public service job.

Envoys in glass houses Jillian Segal’s position as antisemitism spokesperson is untenable

'believe this- she had no influence at all when the family company donated to a hate-speech group & wouldn't judge it; yet she assumes the right to dictate what's acceptable conduct in all Australian public spaces, cultural institutions, universities and media'

nickfeik.substack.com/p/envoys-in-...

Island magazine - Nature Writing Prize We are delighted to present our inaugural NATURE WRITING PRIZE, run in partnership with Fullers Bookshop Hobart and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy.  The prize will be judged ‘blind’, which means the j...

If you are - or know - an Australian writing about nature, consider submitting your work to the inaugural Island Nature Writing prize. The winner will be offered a week-long residency on the Tasman Peninsula.
island.submittable.com/submit/02fa0...

By coincidence, today I read this glowing report on the Sirius building in Sydney - turned from social housing to millionaire apartments. The sale was supposed to fund more social housing: how much has been delivered, I wonder, and what happened to the Sirius community?
view.com.au/news/once-pu...

Urging the ABC to remember: Tim Wilson is just a backbencher with a dubious record who'll constantly offer himself for self-serving dial-a-quote and spring-loaded-TV-appearances. Every program he's on will slough off any vestiges of credibility & damn its producers for eternity.

Why would anyone "make a deal" with someone who could just decide not to honour it next week?

That's not "fearmongering", that's simply re-stating what they've said they'll do.

When Suicide Prevention Australia is calling out your reckless legislating...

True. Pity that you also continue to approve fossil fuel projects.

Love the idea of someone capping the ripoff that is US pharma prices; be very surprised if he manages to pull it off. GOP, after all, is very free market/small government when it comes to putting limits on business.