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Writer, reader, surfer, swimmer | on unceded Bundjalung country | author 'What Will Be Worn' 👗 | Co-pilot, stepmum, dogmum, auntie | gardener-in-training | PhD survivor | Sessional academic - creative writing http://melissafagan.com/
A protest on Kaurna Yarta on the steps of parliament. A sign in the foreground quotes Randa Abdel-Fattah: “Please remember that the genocide of Palestinians continues and that all of this is a smokescreen. I am not the story. Palestine is.”
I guess we just don’t find war criminals all that comforting.
Hi Australia. Now we are having a national Day of Mourning today for the victims of the Bondi attack can we, the Aboriginal people, have our day of mourning on Jan 26 back please.
We have mourned on Jan 26 since the first day of Mourning on Jan 26 1938 and we would like it back.
I wrote an essay for Griffith Review about the current swathe of peri/meno-memoirs. In it I ponder what happens when we outsource health advice and advocacy to celebrities, why it’s worth paying attention to who is blurbing whom, and where the footnotes lead. www.griffithreview.com/articles/men...
As the age assurance policies roll in I'm still thinking about this article from AFR: www.afr.com/politics/fed...
It's been two and a half years since the Murphy Report was released, and instead of regulating online gambling advertising, the Albanese govt may use the social media ban as a cover.
Australia is home to many endangered reptiles and frogs. This snapshot shows their numbers have dropped sharply. But it’s possible to reverse this trend.
👉 theconversation.com/new-dat...
Please read this living-breathing essay in SRB by Tegan Bennett Daylight - on re-reading Ruth Park and not writing her biography, motherhood, writerly aspirations versus reality, among other things. It is very very good. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/life-...
It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.” Nice way to use your mandate guys 👏🏽
So true. I thought the first half was pretty good - I was thinking why all the bad reviews? Not so in the second half ... it was like they ran out of time on the script and thought, oh well, this'll do. The scenes of Landau talking to his wife!!
Things keep going from bad to worse for horses in the racing industry yet the media, politicians and their mates in toxic gambling companies continue to pretend everything is okay. This is a stain on our nation.
Wonderful news Anna - congrats!
oh man
I'm writing an essay atm that touches on this, so it's very timely thank you!
What’s this? Yet more research concluding that robust public investment in the arts yields economic benefits?
A great outcome for Ireland, and a rebuke to all those tired cliches about freeloading artists sapping the resources of the state.
But also, art enriches us all, economic benefits or no.
Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf of Donald Trump in the finest tradition of White Settler Colonial projects www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid.
You can't be a centrist under a fascist regime. You're either fighting, or facilitating. There's no secret third thing. Except dead, I suppose.
Sadly “AI is the future” is true in the same way as “gas is a transition fuel”; not because of any science-fictive ability to predict the future, but it can be made true by the billions spent on marketing and the capture of governments.
This is such a good exemplar for the pitfalls of AI! The quick pivot to apology, and the elaborate explanation, is astounding.
I've been on Tidal for a few years for this reason - some weird gaps in the catalogue and usual algorithm gripes, but can otherwise recommend.
We reiterate our stance: freedom of expression is a fundamental right.
Read the full statement from @asauthors.bsky.social on Bendigo Writers Festival and the issue of code of conduct overreach.
www.asauthors.org.au/news/bendigo...
No TISM, Clouds, Falling Joys, Frente, Models, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lucksmiths, Deadstar, Jebediah, Fauves, Hummingbirds, Tumbleweed, Underground Lovers, Died Pretty, Rocket Science, Radio Birdman, Saints, Custard, Cordrazine, Triffids, Sunnyboys, Drones, Eddy Current Suppression Ring… #hottest100
This is not just a strategic undermining of cultural authority, it is also a clear and harmful violation of the sovereignty, self-determination and integrity of black&write!’s fellowship processes which have been successfully delivered every year since the inception of the black&write! fellowships.
In 2016 I was one of the winners of the Black&Write! fellowships/awards. It was a life changing award, leading to the publication of my Terra Nullius and all the awards, accolades, and publications I have achieved since. Without B&W and the SLQ I wouldn't be a writer ... 1/
They can rescind my award, take away my prize money, rip up the contract but I was still one of two winners of the prestigious Blak & Write Fellowship for 2025. A panel of peers read my manuscript, and selected my work as worthy of winning. Haters can not rob me of Blak joy
The unprecedented strike on Khan Younis is profoundly distressing – tens of thousands forced to flee under evacuation orders, while humanitarian zones are bombarded.
Australia must sanction the Netanyahu government.
Graphic showing how vehicle front design affects pedestrian deaths.
“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”
Deadly by design. And they know it.
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