Martin Dusk

Sam Harris is 💯right.
It will take us years—decades—to repair our reputation on the global stage.

I hope by abolishing the electoral college and other reforms, we can join the sane nations of the world as a trustworthy partner.

The US should be part of an interconnected world, not the boss of it.

WTF 🤬

A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

Must read.
Seems that the Albanese government has learned nothing from #robodebt.

And #robodole is the perfect moniker for this cruel farce. #auspol

Earlier this year (January 2025) Special Envoy Jillian Segal confirms the US govt lobbied and convinced the Aust Govt to get her position established.

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A report by the Centre for Public Integrity, found the culture of withholding information had intensified under the Albanese govt.
“Now the govt is using its mega majority not to strengthen our FOI laws but to make it even harder for voters to know what their elected representatives are up to,

This officer is a hero

More centrist weak sauce. Such a lame “if wishes were horses” response

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

Australia’s National Press Club is spineless johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
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The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
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Seriously. I don't share if there's no citation link to show you're not an engagement farmer.

Judgment - Raya Meredith v State of NSW (Music Festival Searches Class Action) - 30 September 2025 Tuesday 30 September at 10:00am - Court 9D - Law Courts Building - Queens Square Sydney

The judgement in the NSW music festival strip searches class action will be handed down at 10am. It's being streamed: www.youtube.com/live/OdnyHnk...

ASIC Chair Joe Longo explains why ASIC didn’t punish fmr ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott

“In Aus we don’t lightly ban ppl from their employment, we don’t lightly send them to jail, we don’t lightly impose penalties on them or ruin their reputation”

Unless you’re a whistleblower, then you’re screwed

History repeats itself. #RoyalFamily #NaziGermany #UKPolitics #USPolitics #DonaldTrump

Flawed Hero, flawed decision: The War Memorial’s institutional cowardice The Australian War Memorial remains one of Australia’s most cherished national institutions, attracting a million visitors, mainly tourists, to Canberra each year.

“It seems inescapable that [Chris] Masters has been denied the recognition of the value of his book (which the judging panel acknowledged) because it honestly challenged the falsity of the claims made by, and on behalf of, Roberts-Smith.”
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Has meritocracy gotten the better of our universities? Why events at ANU are grounds for hope - ABC Religion & Ethics It’s not every day that the students and staff of a university succeed in forcing a vice-chancellor from office — that’s what happened last week at ANU, but why did change take so long when it was cle...

This hits hard.

‘Social inferiors might offer guidance…but that would be the extent of it. Their role would be to work, not to deliberate…Eugenics and an attitude of deservingness would set meritocrats apart from their social inferiors.’ www.abc.net.au/religion/anu...

No wonder I was excluded. ANU Council voted on so-called renewal, that paved the way for forced redundancies. I would never have supported this. Shame on the Council. This is shocking governance. www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-educa...

What's happening at ANU? Forced redundancies are proceeding on current change plans. Major restructuring is ongoing. Transparency is utterly lacking. Please check out the ⁦‪‬⁩ @nteuact.bsky.social petition and sign. ANU needs you. 🙏🏼 www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

My adulty response: and you can suck it too, Kerry Stokes & Gina, you wannabe oligarchs!

His only skill is being a Labor factional apparatchik. His only value is making other frontbenchers look good in comparison to his mediocrity. His ambition is to do a Scott Morrison, and become a well paid defence consultant

#auspol

Congratulations to Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social for the most genuine (and appropriate) reaction to a question time answer that I’ve seen in a long while. #FOI #auspol

The whiplash from how quickly Aussie media will label any pro-Palestine protest as ‘antisemitic’ but when actual Neo-Nazis are protesting on some white supremacist shit the media is like ‘woah woah woah. let’s not go throwing any labels around’

A photo of snow dusting the Brindabellas the mountains which border Canberra to our west

#snow on the Brindabellas #Canberra last of #winter

Arts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2027 despite Albanese reform promises, vice-chancellor says Government mustn’t lose sight of need for critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts

The cost of kicking real reform down the road.

For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench.

If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start.
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Senator Gallagher has just torpedoed Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social attempts to bring transparency to ANU governance through Order for Production of ANU budget Documents

Very disappointing to see Senator Gallagher abandoning the ANU community.

Yeah, I don’t even want to imagine what Ghislaine Maxwell’s definition of “behaving inappropriately” might be …

Justice Jackson used “Calvinball” in an official Supreme Court dissent.

It really is the best term for the unprincipled, inconsistent, sometimes contradictory, frequently un-American bullshit the Roberts court has foisted upon us, unsubtly putting ideology and partisan outcomes over facts and law.

Tasmanian Liberals are leading by example. Labor remains rusted on to old thinking

Opinion | Tasmanian Labor has excluded itself from power — yet again — by demanding that everyone pretend it won the state election. Bernard Keane on the sulky ALP.

Exclusive: Government warned over ‘legal basis’ of welfare system Despite being warned in 2018 that jobseekers were being exposed to unfair and excessive decisions, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations ‘chose to continue with the status quo’.

Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...