Dianne Masri

Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia AFOPA is responding to the statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club on 20 October 2025.

AFOPA urges the president and board of the National Press Club to reconsider their cancellation of #ChrisLynnHedges appearance on 20 October and to honour the commitment they made. #auspol #NPC #media

Can we talk about your silence? before fascism stops us (**uncomfortable ideas incoming)

Author and podcaster Sarah Wilson ‘Can we talk about your silence?’ open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...

Monument to the Burghers of Calais, 1889, Bronze by Auguste Rodin, Museum Rodin Paris. Remarkable.

Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.

Powerful testimony by Dr Terumi Tanaka, who was a 13 years old child living in #Nagazaki in 1945 when the #atomic #bomb destroyed his city. He is now a Chair of #NihonHidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
#BanNuclearWeapons #TPNW
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Parties to conflicts cannot deprive people of food or water.

Under the rules of war, parties to conflicts cannot use starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.

This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering.

Even wars have limits. #IHL

World leaders united in defence of international humanitarian law to uphold humanity in war (21 September 2025) Alarmed by widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in conflicts around the world and the resulting unconscionable human (…)

In the face of egregious and widespread violations of international humanitarian law in conflicts around the world, we need to act. Leaders of 🇿🇦🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇷🇯🇴🇰🇿 together with @ICRC urge States and the international community to uphold the #GenevaConevntions

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You can find information on the Global Initiative to galvanise political commitment for #IHL at www.upholdhumanityinwar.org/documentation, including
✅ Workstreams
✅ Next events and consultations
✅ Statements from states in previous consultations

Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid Do the hard thing. There are no shortcuts to excellence. And, a call for the revival of academia.

Do the hard thing … AI is making you genuinely stupid. open.substack.com/pub/pluri/p/...

The liberating potential of trash On recycling as creative process

@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on the liberating potential of trash and the creative process. #innercritic #recycle #art . open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

Introducing the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist! The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist has been revealed. Find out which six books are in the running for the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction

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Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging” If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.

“If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.” Damien Davis @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042641/when... #emergingartists

Voting for the Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award closes today. There are 8 finalists, please support any one of the authors.

I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself).

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Treaty: This is how we get over it Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.

Treaty: This is how we get over it @mrdtjames.bsky.social on "Victoria has tabled a treaty the first in the nation's history " firstpeoplesvic.org/reports-reso... "This treaty is not the end of the story but the beginning of a new era ... " open.substack.com/pub/thespenc...

Who killed Meanjin? And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?

New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Looking up to clouds … and checking to see if @cloudappsoc.bsky.social on @bsky.app #cloudappreciation

The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest

It only took 48 hours for the court to scrub out a Banksy showing a judge striking down a protester with his gavel

Silencing a work of art about silencing protest? Maybe it was a little too close to home

Dianne Masri (@thesynchronicityofthings) ‘You and I are Earth’ A note to ourselves everyday. Thoughts on the olive trees and the air we breathe. Inscribed ceramic - Post-Medieval — 1661; 17th century ‘A tin-glazed earthenware plate with...

‘You and I are Earth’ Inscribed earthenware plate via @londonmuseum.bsky.social Post-Medieval — 1661; 17th century substack.com/@thesynchron...

“Firmament.” [Jeu de tarot de fantaisie “égyptien” à enseignes italiennes, dit “Grand Etteilla”, c.1850–1875]
@gallicabnf.bsky.social gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

An Australian billionaire (who loves Elon Musk of course) wants to destroy a world beneath the oceans before we even come close to understanding it. There are no limits to this ultra capitalist strip mining of our one and only planet.

The day the music died The death of an institution

Jacinta Parsons on the fall of another literary institution- Meanjin.

Dianne Masri (@thesynchronicityofthings) Vernon Ah Kee is a contemporary Australian artist and a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples. Here’s his statement on “misconceptions circulating around Hoda Afshar’...

On Vernon Ah Kee’s statement on “misconceptions circulating around Hoda Afshar’s award winning image for the 2025 Australian National Portrait Gallery prize. “Firstly, I wish to make clear that this is an Aboriginal led project.
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#art #photography

Untitled #01 (from the series Code Black/Riot), 2024 Hoda Afshar

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Winner

Untitled #01 (from the series Code Black/Riot), 2024
Hoda Afshar

Sherry Quiambao received the First Time Finalist Award, and George Fetting won the Art Handlers' Award.

#photography #photocontest
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Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND The threat AI poses to writers and the art of writing seems to have arisen swiftly. Who threw open those doors? What is an entry? A door is an aperture to possibility. These are important concerns for...

My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...

Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia’s cultural landscape and the nation’s second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support. www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Have you registered for the Indigenous Literacy Day Livestream celebrating this year's theme: Strength in our Stories: For now and future generations...

Starts 10.30am on Wednesday, Sept 3, and can be watched on demand from 12pm onwards.

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A Thousand Fibres Connect Us You don’t always remember clearly where and when your path crossed with a favourite book, but the day I started reading Moby Dick, so many moons ago, is still vivid in my mind.

As always Elif Shafak weaves memory, art, literature and the everyday to awaken us to the magic of our humanity - to care and know we are all “beyond all borders and beyond all boxes.

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Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names (available 01 October 2025) - Gazebo Books In this richly woven tapestry of stories, nine Arab women share their deeply personal journeys of migration to Australia, each reflecting on the legacies of their homelands and the complexities of for...

Don’t Ask the Trees for Their Names Pre order Now In this richly woven tapestry of stories, nine Arab women share their deeply personal journeys of migration to Australia, each reflecting on the legacies of their homelands and the complexities of forging new lives

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Sydney! Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW - Naala Buda is a must see, guided tour a bonus! On extraordinary artists of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land, NT and the power of their art from the 1940s to now.Ends 6 October

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