This young woman lost her mum to lung cancer last year. Centrelink is requesting she pay back her mum’s debt tiktok.com/@seagooseeee/v…

Right-wing Australian media adores figures like Avi Yemini &, before him, Blair Cottrell. The thug accompanying Yeminem University of Melbourne today is licenced security guard Daniel Jones. Mr Jones is one of those who attended Cottrell's organising session @ The Lads Society >

“The same people who have overseen $170m in wage theft are getting their already outrageous salaries increased. This is wildly out of step with community expectations [and] international comparisons.’ - ⁦Alison Barnes⁩ on obscene uni VC pay packets theguardian.com/australia-news…

Spanish street with a design illegal in most of America. Sometimes laws make our lives distinctly worse.

This ABC report on Melbourne's buses highlights how the chronic neglect of suburban public transport creates mobility conditions described by one resident as 'like a prison'.

Yet after 10 years, the Vic govt still hasn't produced an integrated transport plan to fix the problem.

An aging marine biologist inspects a giant old coral that’s fighting for its life due to anthropogenic heating.

Surrounding it are stands of recently dead and dying staghorn corals, for as far as the eye can see.

This is what mass-mortality looks like. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Our Australian Conservation Foundation study released today shows exactly why nature offsets are a high-risk policy mechanism that the Govt should not be banking on. And it shows how the fossil fuel industry is much worse than others when it comes to offsets, in important ways. 🧵

'An investigation by The Pacific has found nearly 1,500 Pacific ancestors are held in 13 institutions across the country.

For the most part, Australia's institutions are not repatriating remains.'

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

A militarized, black-hooded police officer dragging away the Chair of this university's Philosophy Department is like a scene from a dystopian movie about fascism. But it is real.

Do listen to the audio. The calm and the fear in her voice...

I'm a bit rusty on the US constitution but ... something about free speech and the right to peaceably assemble.

Had a look at exploding HECS-HELP debts. It’s bad! It’s also the obvious outcome of years of underfunding. We’ve forced students and families to pay the cost of expanding higher education

UniSuper members please read, sign and share this petition:

End complicity in genocide. Free Palestine🇵🇸

megaphone.org.au/petitions/stop…

Palestinian parents declare Gaza a 'comedy show' in hopes to get Aussie media demanding protection for their babies

Heartbreaking. The climate crisis is here now. 😭

this is unacceptable. everyone, and academics especially, raise your voices in the call to #FreeNadera

Must read: “Over a 17-year period, the US Defense funding to Australian universities has jumped from $1.7 million in 2007 to $60 million annually by 2022”

Absolutely. Same goes for Australia. This should also impact how we think about ownership, revenue, reparations etc., today. Who (should) profit from building the infrastructure of our racial capitalist societies? 🤔

Anger as 'great browning' spreads along 1,000km of West Aust. coast

“It’s really tragic. The southwest of the state has always been a sanctuary – it’s the place you go to when it’s too bloody hot everywhere else. It’s just devastating…”

Piers Verstegen au.news.yahoo.com/anger-as-great…

Libertarians being in support of something when it disadvantages indigenous people but against the same thing when it disadvantages white people means that they’re really just a bunch of racists.