Jock Serong

And I thought it was bad when it was just stealing novels.

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

That’s Albanese vertebrata, as opposed to the local form, Albanese gelatinus
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There's somethin happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear...

So right. He’s this covetous Smaug atop a giant pile of political capital. Do one difficult thing, just once, or pipe down.

Okay class, who can give me an example of cognitive dissonance?

I have a feeling Clarke would have made merry hell with the idea of redactions.

Amazing how it just erupted.

The cultural persistence of Devo

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Muppet conquers other muppet for job of Alternative Muppet.
#libspill

The #libspill is educational, like when a grassfire teaches you the names of obscure towns. I had no idea all these people were even on a shadow frontbench.

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Marty Robbins knew all about shootin first and askin questions later in El Paso www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5...

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Great satirists seem to die at a rate that's disproportionate to their odious subjects.

Interesting test for Aus media. Will someone ask our apparent 'friend' Hertzog, to his face, why his military are bulldozing our war dead?

It’s truly astonishing, when the level of athleticism has been so high, how much of this tournament’s coverage has been about Novak and his delicate feelings.

It says everything about these grubs and their relationship to culture that you pretty much have to be a Pulitzer winner to make forty bucks an hour.

She may have done all sorts of brilliant things, but Catherine O’Hara will always be Cookie Fleck to me.

Yes, in the sense that the glass case is my belly and I am its curator.

Phew. VB neenish tarts are superior, politics aside.

I’m away, but terrified to think my favourite might’ve been the flag-waver.

Nope, can confirm only two. Loyalty to each has split the town on sectarian lines for a century.

Trying to get a sense of what 238 years means in the context of 65,000.
This table's 2400mm long. There's a pen balanced at the far end - it's 8.7mm wide.
That's the relationship between the two numbers.
Colonisation, for all its destructive power, happened moments ago. It's nothing to celebrate.

Aurora Australis over Wybalenna chapel, Flinders island.

Dr Gary Foley, Melbourne/Naarm, Jan 11

"A small group of Zionists demanding a royal commission are the same people cheering on the genocide of Palestine."

"Aboriginal people had our own royal commission 30 years ago. Nothing was done. 600 of us have died in prison since"

Big props to Ch.7 for having a grown-up conversation about Usman and racism. That's reaching all sorts of Australian ears that need to hear it. #Ashes

Somehow Susssan Ley has managed to combine the confident vacuity of Liz Truss with the wounded spite of Pauline Hanson. That's no small feat.

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.

Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

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This is why we have test cricket, KL. It matters so much because it doesn’t matter.