Look, this is simple and I am typing this slowly. Anthony Albanese unless your mate Mark does something about reducing COVID transmission in the community, your mate Chalmers is going to have a whopping blowout in his health budget, more people will die and your government will be toast.

Universities Australia, wide of the mark as always:

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What will this mean for Kooyong?

I dont want to be lumped in with Toorak and Malvern 🤯🤯🤢

Can't wait to read this, it will be globally influential. Thanks not just for writing this Josh, but for living the fight for fair treatment of workers -- both on and off the job. 🙏✊

Wait, let me get this straight- in the USA, land of the free, a convicted felon can still run for president even if incarcerated... but can't vote except in states where re-enfranchisement has overcome Republican actions aimed at getting stricter on crime?

✨Publication day!✨

Excited to share the first paper (open access) from my PhD! It draws on 32 interviews with bi+ individuals, exploring their positive experiences of negotiating sex through a queer phenomenological framework of comfort and discomfort.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Failing upwards again 🫠🫠🫠🫠

Why do execs always seem to fail upwards in Australia?

Whether in the public service or academia, we seem to love hiring the candidates with the worst history!

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Mister Gumby : Lost for words Yes we’ve drawn attention to her record at CSIRO. But executives only ever fail upwards in Australia

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The neoliberal university on steroids

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This is huge.

300 public servants risk their jobs to sign open letter.

“As public servants whose work is to serve our communities, it is our obligation to voice our deep concern that you are leading Australia to be complicit in an additional genocide”

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Possibly controversial opinion - if health agencies and governments had implemented highly quality respirator mandates in all public indoor spaces from the very beginning, together with providing clean air infrastructure- we would never have needed any lockdowns

'As is often the case in Australia, the person who calls out racism faces far more scrutiny than the racism itself. This is partly why our media is so timid in addressing racism – because powerful voices try to shut down conversations that challenge the status quo.'

The disturbing state of research funding in the latest Federal Budget
By Lesley Russell Wolpe
croakey.org/the-disturbing…
#Budget2024 #HealthBudget2024 #Research #AusPol

We are living in an age of denial. Denial of a genocide. Denial of an ongoing pandemic. Denial of a climate crisis.

Acknowledging reality is an act of rebellion.

This is unbelievably shortsighted. This Centre houses some of the sharpest minds in Oz political science, and their efforts have have seen Griffith punch enormously above its weight as a non-G8 in the discipline. Why on earth would you can one of your core strengths as a uni?

🎉Publication day! 🎉

Really pleased to share this link to the special relaunch issue of Humanities Research, marking the 50th anniversary of Humanities Research Centre, ANU ourANU and featuring a whopping 23 open-access articles - including my own, on the 'post-normal museum'

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RE: the current mask debate: the lone maskers in otherwise dangerous unmasked crowds can be ambassadors. By that I mean: a lot of people think “no one else is masking so I won’t” because that’s what they see in certain spaces. Survivorship bias. (1/