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Tipping point: The chilling escalation of violence against women in the public sphere This publication explores the growing surge of online abuse faced by women in the public sphere—and how digital attacks are increasingly leading to real-world harm. Drawing on global survey findings, ...

"Online violence is part of a broader pattern of shrinking civic space and rising backlash against women’s rights."

This will be a particular focus of @goodlawproject.bsky.social's work in 2026 and beyond. Do please get in touch if you'd like to work with us. www.unwomen.org/en/digital-l...

Αυτή είναι η ΕΡΤ Και όσο σκεφτόμαστε ότι αγωνιστήκαμε για την ΕΡΤ όταν την έκλεισαν ο Σαμαράς και ο Βενιζέλος. Για να γίνει μία ΕΡΤ φερέφωνο της Νέας Δημοκρατίας, του κόμματος που ψήφισε τον ξαφνικό θάνατο της Δημόσια...

Και όσο σκεφτόμαστε ότι αγωνιστήκαμε για την ΕΡΤ όταν την έκλεισαν ο Σαμαράς και ο Βενιζέλος. Για να γίνει μία ΕΡΤ φερέφωνο της Νέας Δημοκρατίας, του κόμματος που ψήφισε τον ξαφνικό θάνατο της Δημόσιας Ραδιοτηλεόρασης.

[του Δημήτρη Κανελλόπουλου]

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NT corrections workers not to speak to UN human rights officials Canberra watchers are eyeing the NT after it blocked a UN detention inspection, adding fresh tension to Australia’s stalled OPCAT work.

The Northern Territory blocked UN detention inspectors from speaking to corrections workers, adding fresh tension to Australia’s stalled OPCAT work www.themandarin.com.au/304681-nt-co...

Depraved, the US our friend and ally in ‘shared values’

'Obscene': More spent on removing kids than intervening early, report finds Only 15.6 per cent of national child protection funding goes towards family support services aimed at keeping families intact, a report has found. Advocates are urging the government to "invest in fam...

“report by the peak body for First Nations children revealed that only 15.6% of child protection spending goes towards family support services..more than 50%!of children in out-of-home care are Indigenous..advocates say early intervention is crucial to closing the gap”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Definitely the silly season

😂 While sipping my soy iced latte via paper straw I quickly checked in on the Fonts via comparison type test and was terrifyingly reminded of the threat Calibri poses to manbabykind

Great photo David, I’m embarrassed to say until meeting Hop and other bunnies on here I didn’t appreciate what delightful pet companions they make

Good read, agree with overarching argument/criticisms, system no longer fit for purpose, national purpose may also need to be revisited in these perilous times alongside say becoming a republic, not entirely confident increasing federal power overcomes federal parochialism, governance & corruption

Wow indeed

Honduran authorities abiding by their laws while the US devolves into a narco terrorist haven

🚨🚨Witkoff & Kushner represent profound corruption: "They are using the tools of the American state in a manner that happens to benefit their friends & business partners, even while they do terrible damage to American allies, American alliances & America’s reputation." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

US attack on Venezuela risks ‘Vietnam-style’ regional conflict, warns Lula adviser Brazil aide says Trump’s closure of Venezuelan airspace amounts to an ‘act of war’ that could escalate

"The last thing we want is for South America to become a war zone – and a war zone that would inevitably not just be a war between the US and Venezuela. It would end up having global involvement and this would be really unfortunate" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Not sure describing One Nation as a place that is efficacious is well… an efficacious use of the word, but I digress from the hilarity of this unserious political moment

Jared after stopping in to Israel and Moscow sends Musk, Thiel and all the Palantir villains a note: hold my Cristal boys I’m the Antichrist… Freud on this occasion also gets a shout out, just waiting for Ivanka to nominate her young Daddy for some kind of peace award, I hear you can order them now

More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis

“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"

Not sure I’m naively nostalgic or it was my idealism but the first decade of my public service life felt like there was less of the bad improvisation or extreme politicisation, but in the last few years of the second decade it was more Kafka than even an evolving idealist like me could handle 😂

🎯 One of my great frustrations in govt, short term policy & legislative patchworks; with both parties, most politicians just kept grafting short term legislative fixes onto systems no longer fit for purpose often reactive, instead of long term policy problem solving & substantive legislative reform

The Red face and Red hair come together in an unholy political union as we approach Christmas, thank baby Jesus I’m in Victoria

🎥 Watch | “This so-called peace plan is nothing but a pleasant title hiding a catastrophic reality,” Eyad Amawi, humanitarian aid coordinator in central Gaza tells Drop Site. “There has been no real change in living conditions, except for a small economically privileged segment.” He says 90% of Gaza remains crushed, without work, without an economy, inside total destruction. He also said: ➤ More than 50% of eastern Gaza is now a buffer zone. Rafah is wiped out. The north is devastated. Even the west coast is hit under constant “security” claims. ➤ No schools have resumed. Tent classrooms flood. A full generation is entering its third year without real education. ➤ Israel blocks heavy machinery, rubble removal, winter tents, mobile homes, fuel, sanitation tools, caravans and medical infrastructure. ➤ At the same time, smartphones, traders’ trucks and empty cars are allowed in, while food and humanitarian aid are restricted. ➤ Fishing is dead. Agriculture is crippled. Industry is gone. Waste piles up without fuel. ➤ Decomposing bodies remain trapped under rubble with no machines allowed in to recover them. “This is not peace,” Amawi says. “This is a quiet continuation of genocide—slow killing through hunger, disease, cold and suffocation.” (Audiogram by @samivanderlip )

🎥 Watch | “This so-called peace plan is nothing but a pleasant title hiding a catastrophic reality,” Eyad Amawi, humanitarian aid coordinator in central Gaza tells Drop Site.

“There has been no real change in living conditions, except for a small economically privileged segment.” He says 90% of...

Ashton Hurn elected new leader of South Australian Liberal Party First term MP Ashton Hurn has been confirmed as the new leader of the Liberal Party in South Australia today.

First term MP Ashton Hurn has been confirmed as the new leader of the Liberal Party in South Australia.
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Another young voice we should be listening to along with those who spoke in committee and those bringing legal action, sledgehammer laws when legislative & regulatory scalpels focused on corporate accountability are needed alongside behavioural educational change to protect & support young people

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

“His war of choice in Ukraine is an economic, financial, geopolitical & human calamity for Russia that worsens by the day. For his own murky reasons Trump, another.. menace, offered him a lifeline last week. Yet Putin spurned it. These 2 fools deserve each other”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Student performance decline after shift to online NAPLAN testing - Griffith News Children from low-income groups were disproportionally disadvantaged by online testing, according to a new report from Griffith

New Griffith University research reveals children from low-income groups were disproportionally disadvantaged by online testing. Children in years three and five were most affected, with numeracy showing the largest decline. news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/05/s...

Good, these issues raised at agency, dept & community level for yrs, let’s see how (slow) govt responds this time. Such authorities designed to run with tension & limitations, some necessary, many not. Arguable police oversight should be via separate police misconduct focused body cf some OS models

What's this "one more kind of big, beautiful ship"? Wrong answers only.

A gold plated, gold eagle adorned domed barge combining cutting edge disassembled technology and the golden excess of the 80s like a floating Mar-a-sterno but with lots of nukes and a robot captain… I expect we’ll see a model of it next to the model of the ballroom and arc de trump in about 2 weeks

Have the Bond villains unionised, I mean what’s with this ever growing League of Ordinary Evil Men…

More racist govt abuse of power devastating the lives of black and brown people, I’ve said it before but whatever remains of the international order better start thinking about some condemnation and sanctions although I suspect many ‘liberal’ democracies might like to try this as well just ‘nicely’

Indeed, my recently acquired mindfulness meditation skills are being put to graceful use 😂