Fiona Kelly McGregor

Fiona Winning's Memorial Service

Please come in person or online to celebrate the life of this stellar person. It will be a wonderful event of tributes in music, song, dance and talk. vimeo.com/event/538680...
 
Fiona Winning was a visionary curator and producer of performance in Australia. She is irreplaceable.

@beejay silcox’s review of Dalton is brilliant.

MPARNTWE 😃

My review of the awe-inspiring art festival DESERT MOB in Moarntwe- Alice Springs.

#desertmob #indigenousart #desertart #aboriginalart #artcriticism #artwriting

www.smh.com.au/culture/art-...

« Australian universities in general, helmed by an overpaid stratum of neoliberal executives, are no loner reliable custodians of culture. »

Great piece on the Meanjin debacle by @catrionamp.bsky.social

‘Cascading, compounding’: five key takeaways from Australia’s national climate risk assessment From rising heat-related deaths to the environmental and economic cost of climate change, here’s what the landmark report warns

5 salient facts -
Heat related deaths
Coastal flooding
Environmental impacts
Services unable to keep up
Underinsurance (I’m there already due to bad experience)

Complaint letter emerges after Melbourne hospital’s decision to cancel ‘children and war’ panel angers staff Exclusive: Letter to CEO argued event would pose a risk of ‘moral injury, vicarious trauma and harmful workplace behaviours’ to staff and patients

A panel on children and war at Melbourne Hospital has been cancelled after a complaint letter from Sydney psychiatrist Dr Samuell.

#censorship

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...

‘Will there be anyone left in Gaza to benefit if the tide finally turns?’

On Israel’s bombing of Even Prison in Tehran on 23 June -

« Kayvan had often thought about what he would do if he saw his tormentors out in the world … The head guard appeared, brushing down his uniform … spotted Kayvan, embraced him and began to sob. »

#sydney #warrang #bridgewalk #gadigal #palestine

Peter Reith …

What would he know?

Iris has legs! 🦵🏻🦵🏼

Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at 2026 Venice Biennale After controversially and suddenly withdrawing Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has announced it has reversed its decision.

Fabulous news this rainy afternoon. Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino have been reinstated as representatives of Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Love and solidarity to Khaled and Michael. And 🙏🏻🙏🏻 to all those who spoke up in support of them.

#artactivism

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Yes, an unlawful attack.

Another murder of civilians.

Speaking out on Gaza: Australian creatives and arts organisations struggle to reconcile competing pressures As cultural institutions respond to political statements on the war, many artists say they face a choice between career opportunities and standing up for their beliefs

And on it goes …

#censorship #genocide #freedomofspeech

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

10 years after gas exports from Queensland began, all of the gas companies involved, bar one, have not paid a cent in company tax.

This is despite them selling $125 billion worth of LNG out of Queensland, and reporting $330 billion in total Australian revenue. #auspol

More censorship of genocide and its protesters

Selma Dabbagh | ‘You can read the writing on them’ I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference between...

Still relevant
“The British chief prosecutor of the court, Karim Khan KC, recently described the situation in Gaza as ‘hell on earth’. ‘We’re at a pivotal point in the world order,’ he said. If ‘some people are denied protection of the law’, it ‘undermines the rule of law everywhere, for everyone’.”

Are articles by the ABC even worth reading any more? Mealy mouthed, euphemistic, always quoting Israeli figureheads while pretending to care. And the G word barely figures.

This is the oldest rock art in the world. 50,000 years. Degraded by pollution from #woodside for years now.

Shame job #labor.

How about suspending the $169M arms exports?

Mais au même temps continuer d’exporter les armes? Comment ça marche? Mieux que rien mais pas du tout assez.

‘Absolutely no evidence’: how NSW police backflipped on unlawful strip-search Shortly before court hearing class action involving 3,000 people, force admitted to unlawfully strip-searching Raya Meredith and withdrew all its witnesses

Well whaddaya know?? #nswpolice strikes again. Then denies. Then withdraws witnesses.

Taxpayers fork out $Ms every year to defend a public service who attacks and humiliates the vulnerable on a daily basis. Go the plaintiffs!

#penalcolony

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Course it was honey

I hope not!

But it’s a Hydra. Here comes James Paterson …