📢 Please join CPJP and MinterEllison to mark the 20th #WorldDayAgainstDeathPenalty: In Conversation with Kylie Moore-Gilbert & Sally Warhaft. 🗓️Thursday 13 October 6.00pm (5.30pm arrive) 🌎 In person (Melbourne - limited spots) & Online. ✏️Register here: eventbrite.com/e/cpjp-world-d…

If you’re in Melbourne CBD and want to avoid this evening’s apocalyptic commute come and have a drink and hear ⁦Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert⁩ speak about her remarkable experience in Iran. And support ending the Death Penalty. Everywhere.

Well, the lettuce lasted longer,

Thrilling news to end the week with the announcement of ⁦Kate Torney⁩ as the new Chair of ⁦The Wheeler Centre⁩. An inspired appointment! wheelercentre.com/wlr-articles/w…

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Edward Hopper drew this in 1932 to express his jealousy of his wife’s cat.

Wheeler Ctr March 28: the liberation of decolonisation, emancipating Australia from the chains of 1788 with a truthful history, severing the legacies of racism, dispossession & hereditary entitlement & standing together, alone. As ⁦Australian Republic Movement⁩ wheelercentre.com/events/craig-f…

The great Gideon Haigh on the ever-deepening bond between cricket and politics in India (behind a paywall): theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news…

Not one Indian writer, cricket or otherwise, has shown the appropriate level of anger / contempt for the sickening worship of Modi at the Ahmedabad Test. Fortunately, there's Gideon Haigh.

.@CaroLlewellyn has been an outstanding CEO at Wheeler. She is a force of nature with a tremendous intellect and curiosity and I will miss her beyond words. Thank you Caro.

Livestream tickets are still available for tonight's Fifth Estate event. Join journalists Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters as they take a deep dive into the case brought by Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most revered soldier, against Fairfax Media. bit.ly/3O1H5nG

Tomorrow Singapore will execute two prisoners on death row, including the first woman in almost 20 years, for ‘trafficking’ 30g of heroin, a minuscule amount. 25 July 2023. cpjp.org.au/news/joint-sta…

Coming up next Thursday, renowned American author and climate commentator Jeff Goodell travels to Australia to meet with Sally Warhaft for a clear-eyed, urgent conversation about the climate crisis. Grab your tickets now. tinyurl.com/44533hkc

Good to see ⁦The Age⁩ and The Sydney Morning Herald publishing this excellent review of Chris Masters’ book given ⁦Nick McKenzie⁩ Nick McKenzie’s (also excellent) rival publication. I’ve read them both. They’re like fraternal twins. smh.com.au/culture/books/…

The very cool Jeff Goodell is talking about his new book Heat with me tomorrow night The Wheeler Centre. When he’s not writing for Rolling Stone he hangs out with polar bears.

'What I really worry about is not just the gap between the cooled & the damned, but that there will simply be more tolerance of death & suffering, that we will normalise it, forget we created these extremes' Jeff Goodell great convo Sally Warhaft The Wheeler Centre #ClimateBoiling

Hang it in the Louvre 🖼️ #Matildas #FIFAWWC #TilitsDone

You will not read a nobler or more heart-felt expression of loss for the felled sycamore of Hadrian’s Wall than this, by the great laureate of the history of the north-east, ⁦Dan Jackson⁩ unherd.com/thepost/the-fe…

Liza Minnelli sings Click Go the Shears