Also HECS is a debt that you are roundly encouraged to get by dint of being encouraged to pursue higher education as far as possible so you can get a halfway decent job. Shaming people within that system for the consequences of that system - which they have to bear - is fucked.

'bad news for skiers'

‘Scope for exploitation’: investors eye rooming house conversions amid Melbourne rental crisis theguardian.com/australia-news… via Stephanie H Convery and Nino Bucci

Sydney and Melbourne friends, the absolutely lovely sam wallman and Jeff Sparrow wrote and drew a book together called 12 Rules for Strife, it's the political manifesto you actually need, and they're launching it in both these cities, and you should go along

Poland's foreign minister on Israel's strike on the aid convoy which killed 7 aid workers (and Israel's subsequent excuse for the strike): smh.com.au/politics/feder…

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I hoped my 'anatomy of a genocide' report to the United Nations Human Rights Council would be a wake-up call for States who are aiding/abetting Israel's genocide in Gaza. Instead,despite several UNGA res +one UNSC res ordering a ceasefire, & CIJ_ICJ provisional measures, this genocide seems unstoppable.

government and Home Affairs department giving a very strange appearance in a hastily-convened Senate committee on the deportation laws - saying it's urgent that parliament pass the laws, but can't say why, or exactly who it'd apply to, or which countries they'll be deported to

We are hiring Guardian Australia.
Are you the next live news editor (evenings)
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or assistant news editor???
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Media release: Editorial staff at the ABC have again registered a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson and senior managers over the broadcaster’s handling of complaints. meaa.io/3IKbun7 #MEAAmedia

An anti-genocide protester is removed from parliament by police

📸 Mike Bowers (Mikearoo)

Sociologist Randa Abdel-Fattah says there are journalists who share their grievances with media coverage of Gaza in private, but are too scared to speak out in public.

She says that’s no longer acceptable.

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I spoke to Coles workers this week about an offer from the supermarket giant of in-store gift cards if they vote to accept a new EBA. They said it was “insulting” as the agreement doesn’t give them a meaningful pay rise despite the company’s huge profits.

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Just a small sample of the casual #racism I sometimes cop as an Arab Australian journalist 🤌🏽

Notice how polite I was to him before he declared immigrants are the root of all problems.

I was covering a hit and run by the way…but I guess the culprit is always “immigrants”.

Shane Danielsen’s piece on the Berlin Film Festival was commissioned but rejected by the Australian magazine 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘺, for which he had served as film critic since 2017.

‘It would, she implied, be unwise for the Berlin Film Festival, funded primarily by the state, to make an enemy of Alternative für Deutschland.’

Shane Danielsen with an update on the state of the cultural sector in Germany:
lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/marc…

Same. Perhaps one thinks that after seeing scores of dead babies and gunshot wounds, the girl hanging mutilated on the side of the building, the man burning himself to death in protest, that one might become inured to the horror. But every day there’s another atrocity.

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Or have you wished you could, but can’t for reasons out of your control?

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a mysterious right-wing think-tank takes an abrupt interest in Parkrun. useful idiots in the media do their bidding. now, this thing that hardly anyone cared about before has grown into a sinister campaign. this week’s column, on how to start a culture war theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb…