Josh Hallwright, PhD

Pakistan warplanes bomb Kabul; Islamabad declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan

Pakistan warplanes bomb Kabul; Islamabad declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan https://aje.news/aozifo

A couple of years ago, on another social media platform, I told a story about a former work colleague. I was reminded of him again today, and I thought it’s worth re-telling the story to you good folk on BlueSky.
It’ll be a lengthy thread, but I think it’s worth reading all the way through
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BREAKING: UK Greens smash Reform and Labor to win the by-election in Manchester. This is real momentum and it’s how we defeat the racist right across the globe, with hope and confidence we can build a brighter and fairer future. 💚💚💚

There are now 30 and counting First Nations clean energy partnerships in Australia with First Nations involvement, ownership and equity, some that are community-led, most yet to be operational.

www.firstnationscleanenergy.org.au/energy-proje... #auspol #mobsky #energysky nit.com.au/24-02-2026/2...

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Subsidies are intended to protect consumers by keeping prices low, but they come at a high cost. Subsidies have sizable fiscal costs (leading to higher taxes/borrowing or lower spending), promote inef...

That is wrong.

Fossil fuels corp. currently receive ~$7 Trillion in taxpayer support worldwide.
If this fact was as widespread as once #SaveTheWhales was. Big oil would be on the back foot.
Low hanging fruit. Pass it on. #auspoli #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis

www.imf.org/en/topics/cl...

Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits | Adam Morton The government will hand over $10.8bn this financial year under the scheme that makes it cheaper for miners and other industries to use diesel and petrol

Excellent piece in @us.theguardian.com by Adam Morton on massive fossil fuel subsidies in Australia to diesel.

“Thanks to fuel tax credits, big companies are allowed to pay significantly less to burn dirty fuels than households”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fishing net of a supertrawler can be 10 times the length of the ship itself at around a kilometer (0.6 miles) long, trailing ocean floor obliterating marine life - nothing escapes

Scars left behind by trawlers can be so vast that they’re even visible from space

www.iflscience.com/seamounts-in...

Hopes 'extremely rare' fossil will unlock answers about evolution of whales A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.

Photoshopped image of Anthony Albanese talking to a doctor with a spine in front of him next to an image of Grace Tame wearing her 'Fuck Murdoch' t-shirt. Headline: Spineless man frustrated that woman dares to have one

“She just doesn’t have the spinlessness needed for politics,” said Albanese chaser.com.au/national/spi...

Join us for the launch of Oli Frost's debut picture book ‘Why Daddy’s law firm works for the nice oil men’ | Wednesday 4 March 2026 Dear Serious People We can't wait to share with you our first ever children's book. On a chilly winter night, a little penguin dared to wonder: if Daddy loves me, why does his law firm facilitate fo...

Betw 2020 & 2024, London law firms facilitated $59.84B in fossil fuel transactions - @lsca.bsky.social

On a chilly winter night, a little penguin dared to wonder: if Daddy loves me, why does his law firm facilitate fossil fuel expansion?

Why Daddy's Law Firm Works for the Nice Oil Men? @olifro.st

Australian media isn’t covering this but what’s happening in Cuba is dreadful. Trump signed an executive order cutting off Cuba’s last oil supply. Ten million people are paying with their lives. Sewage systems are failing, food is rationed, it’s getting worse.

Renewables surpassed 50% of Poland's power capacity at the end of 2025 Poland has registered a record 50% share of renewable power in its installed capacity at the end of 2025, up from 24.12% in 2020, according to Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment (ministry…

Renewables surpassed 50% of Poland's power capacity at the end of 2025 #EnergySky

Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger, famine and attacks on refugee camps

Almost half the 50-million population of Sudan – 24.6 million people – do not have enough food
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Menacing letters sent to politicians bear hallmarks of Sydney mosque threats The ABC can reveal two of the threatening, hate-filled letters sent to Lakemba Mosque this month bear close resemblance to similar racist letters sent to multiple politicians since 2022.

Three years ago a series of racist threatening letters were sent to the Victorian Greens. They were covered in white supremacist hate, swastikas and explicit threats against my life and my family. They were reported to police. But as far as I know nothing came of it 🧵

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

Israel lobby law firm jags plumb role in Bondi Royal Commission - Michael West Gilbert & Tobin, key sponsor for elite Israel lobby group AICC, is to "provide legal support" for the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Major conflict of interest with #Israel lobby law firm hired for support for the Royal Commission into Antisemitism michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby... #StopIsrael #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #auspol #Palestine

• •• HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... Introduction Volk Capital Together, we are promoting a new fusionism that argues that there are—as Mises knew— iron links between culture, economics, and politics. —Lew Rockwell In 2006, Charles Murray, the longtime think-tanker and tireless advocate of a revived race science, gave the keynote address at a "Freedom Dinner" marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the international hub for neoliberal think tanks, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. A member of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) since 2000, Murray used his time to rehearse the well-worn story of how Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher provided the opportunity for the ideas of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman to break through, aided by "Cato and Heritage and Hoover and the dozens of think tanks around the world that Atlas has fos-tered."1 Projecting forward, Murray asked what they would

HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... be discussing at an Atlas meeting on its fiftieth anniversary in 2031. It would not be economic liberty, free trade, the genius of the entrepreneur, or any of the other standbys of the neoliberal script. He predicted they would be talking about science. "For the last forty years," he said, "the battle cry of the Left has been 'equality.'" Science would deal the death blow to this demand. "The explosive growth of genetic knowledge," he said, "means that within a few years science will definitively demonstrate precisely how it is that women are different from men, blacks from whites, poor from rich, or, for that matter, the ways in which the Dutch are different from Ital-ians." If the enemy, at its root, was the claim of human equal-ity, science would deliver the coup de grace. The confirmation of ineradicable group differences would leave a void "in the moral universe of the Left," Murray predicted. "If social policy cannot be built on the premise that group differences must be eliminated, what can it be built upon?" The same year that he gave the talk, he argued in one of his rare peer-reviewed articles that the persistence of Black/white intelligence differences made affirmative action untenable.3 A few years later, Murray expanded on the theme at a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in an exotic location: the Galá-pagos Islands. The name of the meeting was "Evolution, the Human Sciences, and Liberty" and his talk was titled "the rediscovery of human nature and human diversity," a process that he claimed was going to happen because of new discoveries in genetics. These would induce "reversions to age-old understandings about the human animal." This would lead to

HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... the reconfirmation of discredited prejudices as scientific truths. He dwelled on the question of racial difference. "Throughout the 19th century and first half of the 20th cen-tury," he wrote, "physical anthropologists accepted the concept of race with little dissension." Carleton Coon's magnum opus, The Origin of Races (1962) "provoked no outrage when it appeared," he claimed. (Not true; in fact, it "sparked enormous controversy in the anthropological community.")= Two events led to what he called "the intellectual eclipse of human nature and human diversity in the United States": the civil rights movement and the feminist movement. Political developments had since obscured the primal origins of difference between not only the races but the sexes. Appealing to the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology developed at Harvard University by E.O. Wilson, Robert L. Trivers, and his students, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (the latter two who were in attendance in the Galapagos), Murray claimed that we still bore binary gender differences as an inheritance of the savanna. "Men who could process trajectories in three dimen-sions-the trajectory, say, of a spear thrown at an edible mammalhad a survival advantage," he said in Ecuador. "Women did the gathering. Those who could distinguish among complex arrays of vegetation, remembering which were the poisonous plants and which the nourishing ones, also had a survival advantage." This is why, he claimed, "ele-vated three-dimensional visuospatial skills" for men and "an elevated ability to remember objects and their relative loca-tions" for women "show up on tests of these abilities today." Going back to nature was necessary to reaffirm hierarchies

... HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... hardwired into genetics challenged by insurgent social movements and progressive ideologies. Shattering taboos around race and gender differences was necessary not only to fight the pernicious effects of what Murray called the "Equality Premise" but to better recognize and organize patterns of aptitude in a changing economy. This book argues that the appeal to nature was a central part of the neoliberal solution to a problem they faced in the decades after the Cold War. This was an era in which communism was dead but, as they put it, Leviathan lived on. Public spending continued to expand even as capitalism became the only surviving economic system. Behind this was a political problem. The social movements of the 1960s and 1970s had injected the poison of civil rights, feminism, affirmative action, and ecological consciousness into the veins of the body politic. An atmosphere of political correctness and "vic-timology" stultified free discourse and nurtured a culture of government dependency and special pleading. Neoliberals needed an antidote. Confounded by persistent demands for the redress of inequality at the expense of efficiency, stability, and order, neoliberals turned to nature in matters of race, intelligence, territory, and money as a way to erect a bulwark against the encroaching demands of progressives and hopefully roll back social changes to return to a hierarchy of gender, race, and cultural difference they imagined to be rooted in genetics as well as tradition. Neoliberals had always been concerned with the extra-economic conditions for capitalism's survival, but they had

🧵Over the next week there are two rightwing conferences in Sydney. This weekend Tony Abbott leads the hate group-boasting Advance. Next week John Anderson leads the up-market version, Aspire. (Details below) Both are based on hysteria about culture/race suicide. Need to read this book to 💡 #Auspol

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David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT).
#auspol
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Not even the Nine Network in Australia:

RTS, Switzerland:
👇👇👇👇

The next era of conservative politics will make John Howard look woke (Angus) Taylorism is just another word for nothing left to lose

' ... the ugliest aspects of the culture wars will be doubled down on by a fractured conservative movement with nothing else to offer and nothing more to lose.'

The next era of conservative politics will make John Howard look woke
- by Tim Dunlop

#AngusTaylor
tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-next-e...

Absolutely. But the same billionaires own the media so the Greens are never going to get a fair go.

I wish people would follow the Greens MPs so they can see for themselves how hard they work & who & what they work for. We could have real government!

YouTube video by 10 News Does Australia Get More Tax From Beer Than Gas?

Does the Australian government raise more money from beer than it does from the tax on our gas exports?

YES

And the look on their faces is priceless.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZln...

#AliceSprings #Mparntwe

Lhere Mparntwe flash-flooded last night.

Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/12/l...

One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media

Why the fuck would we “socially cohere” for monsters?  - The Shot Yesterday, the gulf between the will of the Australian people and the actions of the Australian government revealed itself to...

“and may all your racist, fascist cops with their gimpy moustaches be cursed to a lifetime of burning urethras...”

New curse just dropped and mate I snorted. By the indefatigable Dave Milbo:

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Read executive officer, Sarah Schwartz's opinion piece in the Financial Review today about why Herzog doesn't represent Australian Jewry and shouldn't have been invited in the first place: www.afr.com/policy/forei...

ABC NEWS verify
has called for any videos from last nights protest in Sydney

Pass it on to other platforms pls

#auspol
#ABCverify

Don't stop witnessing what Labor demands to be normalised - GENOCIDE

Don't stop witnessing what global "leaders" though their silence and inaction, is normalising - GENOCIDE

𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬