The ‘National Defence Strategy’ is not a strategy. It is an ideology. An ideology that firmly ties Australia’s future to that of the United States. A horrifying thought. Cameron Leckie#auspol #NDS
johnmenadue.com/australias-nat…

'How many homicides might be prevented by lifting social welfare?
By [ensuring] easily accessible social housing?
By better funding public education and services to support mental health?...'

Some solutions to #VAW lie in routine policy, says Jonathan Green.
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And this my friends, is why we have so many women being killed. Disrespect for women is a key driver of violence against women. When men in power demean women it normalises this behaviour.

‘And there’s the rub in finding political solutions to men’s violence: that violence is an endemic and inimitable component of the social structure of which our politics is also a part. ‘

Me at The Politics

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Some news of the personal variety.

Not much else to say, other than thank you to the readers here on X who always engaged with such passion.

I'll start looking for freelance work from next week - editors who haven't blocked me (cough PVO cough), please get in touch 🤗

Trees & their hollows are homes for wildlife, including threatened species such as the Gouldian finch, black-footed tree-rat & northern brushtail possum. Today they're being destroyed at Lee Point in Darwin, after @Tanya_Plibersek's approval. Ecocide in action. Environment laws?

Why Ben Fordham is shedding his audience…

We don't know what the International Criminal Court prosecutor plans, but Netanyahu has good reason to fear war-crime charges for his starvation strategy in Gaza. I explain: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Except 30.7% of Australia's population in 2023 was born overseas according to the ABS.

So if Ben’s numbers are right, foreign born Australians (of which I am one) are proportionally underrepresented in NSW social housing.

But hey, dog whistles are fun.

sbs.com.au/news/article/a…

I'm tracking a new inflation measure I call 'CPI excluding food; alcohol and tobacco; clothing; housing; furnishings; health; transport; communication; recreation; education; insurance and financial services.'

Currently running at 0% year-on-year

Monet's dining room at Giverny
hung with Japanese woodblock
prints. He collected over 200 of them during his lifetime.

We can’t normalize this. This isn’t normal. A group of students were sitting on the lawn of their own school. Daring to ask for peace in Gaza.

Bulldozing Lee Point is unnecessary, bloody- minded, shortsighted vandalism

Please, Tanya Plibersek, you can STOP this madness, today.

Please, don’t let something so precious be destroyed.

Save Lee Point, it’s an urban biodiversity gem that all should be able to enjoy!

Astonishingly, we have just learned more about Plato's last evening. Battling a fever, he listened to a Thracian slave girl play the flute and criticised her lack of rhythm. theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

A bit of a public treasure …

A pretty important issue in our built world…

How dare a middle aged man speak to a younger staff member like this 🔽
In any other workplace instant dismissal at the very least.
What do you think Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns - both regular guests on the show ????

‘It’s intriguing, this jostle in life between self-interest and the self, and the way in which we seem acculturated to be a slave to one and unheeding of the other.’

A Common Good. Me for The Monthly on the better part of all of us …

themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/may…

Several State Library staff... told this masthead that Sakr’s social media commentary was specifically mentioned by library chief executive Paul Duldig as the reason for the cancellations in meetings with staff. theage.com.au/culture/books/…