"We don't need farmers because I buy my food at the store"

Voting for the ourANU Council election is now open! Vote at apollo.anu.edu.au/apollo/default… It's more important than ever to have people willing to hold University Executive to account. Vote for Dr Francis Markham! Francis is the NTEU endorsed candidate. ✊

Let me state a fundamental democratic problem as starkly as possible: if you want to build a career in political journalism you can't meaningfully describe what's actually happening in the political system.

One of my favourite linguistic facts is that Australian English has no word for ‘lake’

I was sitting in an economics seminar yesterday and had to defend Keynesians from the blanket accusation that they only ever engage in short term thinking. It really is a counterrevolution as Mike Beggs says jacobin.com/2018/02/keynes…

One of the doctors once explained that the reason the most killed are between 6-12 year olds is because they run less fast than the older kids but they’re also too big for an adult to carry while running.

The English language has a new most beautiful sentence

Sharp point from Thomas Piketty in his book of dialogues with Michael Sandel ("Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters"):

NSW Council of Civil Liberties on the expanding scope of political repression at USyd: "The adoption of this policy is a continuation of an alarming trend of political repression and the loss of academic freedom at the University of Sydney." @nswccl nswccl.org.au/media_release_…

‘…Vice Chancellors’ millions aren’t the only millions that should be ringing alarm bells. There are also the millions that their institutions have failed to pay their staff to (among other things) teach their students.’ indailysa.com.au/news/opinion/2…

Statement on the Zionist lawfare attack on John Keane and me by Joseph Toltz, Ariel Eisner, Suzanne Rutland and Yaniv Levy. Specious claims by Zionists that opposing genocide is antisemitic, and that redressing their alleged victimhood should be a priority, don't bear scrutiny.

1/ The outcome of the Antoinette Lattouf Lattouf case needs to prompt a much wider conversation that extends beyond the media to academia. Why is it that managers so easily cave in to lobbying campaigns instead of protecting academic and press freedom?

‘It’s hard to keep defending yourself against a false accusation’, says m. gessen ‘It’s logically impossible to prove an absence..[and] it hurts.’ Yes, but Nick Riemer and I won’t be backing down in our high-stakes legal battle against weaponised lies nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opi…

Here's a new essay of mine on socialism and innovation, in the latest Jacobin issue: jacobin.com/2025/06/a-soci…

The $800,000 hoovered up by the Chancellor would pay the salaries of all staff in three centres that the ANU is proposing to abolish- the Humanities Research Centre, the Europe Centre and the Australian National Dictionary Centre.

Grateful to be awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in the discipline of Political Economy. My thesis, 'The Financialisation of Residential Capitalism in Australia', is now publicly available: ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/33…

She criticised ceasefire calls in Gaza & defended Israel bombing hospitals. And now, Jillian Segal is giving the PM instructions on how to silence all criticism of the lawless lunatic state. #abc730 share.google/mKRERP9PmRiEpv…

lol crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/ant…

So the unelected envoy to combat antisemitism is doing an event with a woman who retweeted posts calling for Muslims to be eradicated.

The racist assault against Aboriginal & Arab peoples is donning the shallow garb of "opposition" to antisemitism. This is no different than transphobic feminism parading as for womens rights. Absolutely reactionary politics that deserve to be stamped out theklaxon.com.au/jillian-segal-…