Lisa Nicholson

How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the elevation of ordinary citizens.

If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU

Two years on from the start of Israel’s latest genocidal attacks on Palestinians, nationwide (and worldwide) pro-Palestine rallies are being organised for this Sunday 12th October.
@palaction.bsky.social

Great that @owenjones.bsky.social came to Green Party conference

He could feel the energy and the enthusiasm for a bolder, clearer @greenparty.org.uk

Let's take our essential services back into public ownership and tax the super rich to reduce bills and inequality 💚🌍🙌🏽

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

Happy birthday Ian you legend !

That is amazing free Palestine 🇵🇸

They tried to erase Palestine, but the world has become Palestine.

The outrage is global. The world is rising against genocide.

Thank you Amsterdam.

Melbourne Free Palestine march

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

Seeing lots of posts from Americans complaining that authoritarianism has never been this bad by the government.
Bullshit!
The US government has always been the same, it’s just normally been citizens of other countries that pay the price. What you’re seeing is how your troops act in other places.

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.

More than 2 years after the NACC was established, it hasn’t held a single public hearing. Now we learn the PM pushed to make it harder to hold them.

Public hearings are vital to building trust - the Govt should be making them easier, not harder.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/10...

Let me remind my fellow white people:

BLACK, INDIGENOUS, PEOPLE OF COLOR AND IMMIGRANTS BUILT THIS COUNTRY.

Whether it was through their slave labor or their mass migration after both World Wars, this country rests on the labor of non-white, non-native peoples.

Preaching to the choir. I know.

How can we have democracy,

when journalism is supposed to play the role of the Fourth Estate,

to bring the powerful to account,

but instead our journalist's club caves in and complies,

to a notice from the Israel lobby that discussion of the genocide must be eliminated.

#auspol

So Israel deliberately targets and murders journalists, but other journalists in far-off countries are stopped from speaking about it..

National Press Club shame to censor Israeli atrocities..

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.

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
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Brilliant !

Larissa Waters says the govt must call on the Israel ambassador to “let those 6 Australians” who’ve been illegally detained by Israel from a flotilla “be free and come home” & that if the ambassador is not prepared to do that, he should be expelled.💥 #Abcinsiders

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lol fuck kid rock 😆

👀 @ericswalwell.bsky.social bringing it 👇🏽

Lutnick on Epstein:

Devine: So how come these other people could hang around him and not see it?

Lutnick: They participated. That's what his M.O. was, "Get a massage" And what happened in that massage room, I assume is on video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That's how he had money.

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry.

#Climate #Misinformation #AusPol

https://theconversation.com/pr-firms-are-spreading-climate-misinformation-on-behalf-of-fossil-fuel-companies-could-australia-stop-them-266353

"The ATO said that 28% of firms earning more than $100m paid zero tax, the lowest share in the report’s 11-year history and down from 36% in 2013-14. The highest share of companies paying zero tax were in the mining, energy and water segment, at nearly 40%, which the ATO said was “due to factors such as volatile commodity prices and extended lead times before projects become revenue generating”."

Cool cool cool.

So... why do we bend over backwards for these disgusting eco-killing companies again?? 💁‍♀️

#AusPol #EatTheRich

New ‘This Is Australia, Dickhead’ Option Added To Tip Screen — The Shovel “When I go into pick up my takeaway pizza, it’s nice to know I have the choice to add a little extra … context about what country we’re in"

“I don’t mind giving a tip at all,” one Sydney resident said. “My tip? Don’t push bullshit American practices on Australians."

theshovel.com.au/2025/10/01/t...

Herd immunity protects the babies that are too young to be vaccinated. The person that gave the baby measles was almost certainly unvaccinated. When people decide they are not going to be vaccinated, it affects everyone.

You hit the jackpot when dandy found you what a snuggly bug keeping you warm and cosy

They’ll dismiss the complaint unless you use his full title, Commissioner Major General Paul Brereton, AM, RFD.
The NACC are very particular about these things…

If you wish to complain about NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton, and what looks like (another) huge conflict of interest, you can at the NACC Inspector’s website. You can even complain anonymously if you wish. naccinspector.gov.au/make-complaint

#Democracy requires transparency and the ethical principles. It's our job to hold the #duopoly, which now call themselves the 'parties of government', accountable.
#corruption
#conflictofinterest
#auspol
#wapol