Yesterday my property manager called me. My landlord intends to sell my home and turf me and my family out in the middle of a pandemic. It appears that despite taking half of my income for three years, they're having cashflow issues. thread

Major news out of NSW. Parl just passed Greens amendment to create powers to ban rental evictions during COVID crisis. Minister can stop evictions w. stroke of a pen. No one should be kicked out during a pandemic. Now pushing to ban evictions nationwide greens.org.au/protect-homes

This is genuinely terrifying

Public sector wage freezes don't help "share the economic burden" - they make the burden worse now and the recovery longer and harder

' Our political-economic system failed to create the material incentives and the popular narrative for this kind of global safety net—the same failure that has generated climate crisis.' New Pathogen, Old Politics bostonreview.net/science-nature…

Aboriginal rough-sleepers issued move-on notices and given 10-minutes to pack belongings and leave, but WA police say they are doing all they can and acting with compassion to support homeless people in Perth. sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news… writes Rangi Hirini.

NITV's WA correspondent Rangi Hirini has an exclusive special report as police moved in to disband an Aboriginal camp of rough sleepers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lots of worried questions from my second year Geography at Durham dissertation students in recent weeks. This is a great help blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Hundreds of supporters turned out for #BLMPerth I have attended every Blak Death in Custody rally and every Invasion Day protest for 3 years and I haven’t seen crowds like tonight, EVER. #BLM

University announcement looks like a re-introduction of full fees for arts students. Commonwealth contribution to will fall to 7% ($1,100 per year) and students will pay 93% ($14,500).

Both HASS students *and* STEM teaching will suffer under the government’s university package. My piece in today’s The Sydney Morning Herald on why the changes are really about reducing the role of base funding in the system and shifting overall costs onto young people smh.com.au/national/it-do…

My first (ever) article is out in EPA: Economy and Space! I examine how actors justified the adoption of Australian social impact bonds and link their proliferation to conditions of 'fast policy'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…