1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:

Jeff Sparrow Pretty loud ruckus from the conservatives on what is basically the fundamental idea of their political philosophy: You're free until you break the law, and then the law fairly punishes you, and you are free again.

Asked what he’ll now do for indigenous Australians Peter Dutton said that between now and the next election he’ll take advice from Jacinta Price and then formulate policies. One voice. One. Do you get the irony?

I was explaining to a student recently how we did literature searches in the 1980s and 1990s.

We had to look up articles in a printed copy of Index Medicus, and then pushed a trolley around the library to collect the journals so we could photocopy the articles.

We also had to

A powerful voice saying Yes.

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What will you be doing to celebrate Australian School Library Day? Libraries are made by people. #ASLD2023

Scar Town teaching materials are online now, including:

1. Inspiration & influences
2. Writing style
3. Key study topics (ethical dilemmas, mortality, friendship)
4. Key symbols (scars, the lake)

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#teachers #english #bookstudy #literacy

My book is out today! Scar Town is my longest journey from idea to finished book. It's older than most of its readers. It's almost older than me.

I'd LOVE you to help spread word about the book if you can! Here's the brand new book trailer:
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Tony Abbott caught out in a $30 billion lie!

During a radio interview with 2GB's Ben Fordham this week, former prime minister Tony Abbott also name-checked the NIAA, citing the 'hundreds of people' working for the agency in Canberra as among the reasons a Voice was not needed.

SNSL are running a contest for Australian School Libraries Day. Submit a story about how school libraries and/or staff have had a positive impact on their lives. Winner gets $100 #studentsneedschoollibraries

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2,000 penguins have died off the east coast of Uruguay in the past 10 days. Animal carcasses washed ashore, Uruguay's environment ministry said, according to the Pais newspaper.

The scientists decided to find out what caused their death, and it turned out that they have a very

Are we paying attention yet?

Breaking News!

As of July 22, Antarctic sea ice extent is now six standard deviations below the 1991-2020 mean.

To put this in perspective, without a changing climate the odds of this would be about 1-in-1 billion.

Data: ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent

About the voice: In 1986 as part of my training, I was sent to a remote part of the far north west of Australia, to a town with a hospital, and then to a mission that was even more remote, where a senior medical student had prescribing rights. /2

It was awesome to learn with so many school library staff at the ALIA Schools seminar on Friday! Here is a post reflecting on some of the questions of participants, and also my #podcast with @Elizabethhutch linkinglearning.com.au/ai-ready-how-s…

I'm super excited for the ALIA Schools face to face event next week 'Keeping #SchoolLibraries Relevant'. I'll be speaking about #AI (see below) and there are other great sessions being offered! Check it out at alia.org.au/EventDetail?Ev… - still time to register! #OzTLNet #PLN

Check out our #research for #SchoolLibraries and #TeacherLibrarians on the CSU Libraries Research Group site here: librariesresearchgroup.csu.domains/current-projec…
We are investigating #GenerativeAI , critical evaluation of online video information and #InformationLiteracy . #OzTLNet

Do you believe #StudentsNeedSchoolLibraries ? Come and lead our campaign ♥️

Hate to say it as a labor supporter, but Max Chandler is right.

Katy Gallagher what say you? Is this the real reason that the Greens didn't support the Bill?

Please watch to the end and RT.

#auspol

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EOI – SNSL Campaign Coordinator Role – Students Need School Libraries
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