Anthony Eaton
@anthonyeaton.bsky.social
Full-time academic, sometime writer, drinker of coffee, reluctant cat owner.
Very pleased to hear confirmation today that the Australian govt is standing by creators and not making changes to copyright. It’s time for big tech to accept the facts and come to the table. Our rights as creators must be respected in practice, as well as in principle. @asauthors.bsky.social
This week, we're celebrating Australian fantasy, by drawing attention to a unique set of teaching resources published on AustLit. We've highlighted Anthony Eaton below, but there's more to explore! Check out the full list at: www.austlit.edu.au/teachingwith... #AustLit25
What do we tell a young person asking why their favourite book has disappeared – or why it hasn’t? A children’s writer wrestles with how to handle Craig Silvey’s books.
Craig Silvey has pled guilty to child exploitation. What do we do with his books?
theconversation.com
Really, ABC? This clown driving an unnecessary 130km to a charging station he didn't bother downloading the app for first is like a petrol owner vehicle whinging because they didn't learn how to pump petrol or how to open the fuel cap. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
I drove an EV for three days. It saved me money but cost me time
With no end in sight to soaring fuel prices, 7.30 decided to take an EV for a test drive to see how far it could take our reporter, and if Australia's EV charging network stacks up.
abc.net.au
Just felt something very much like a small earthquake in #canberra #cbr #earthquake
Sheikh Wesam Charkawi who was leading the sunset prayer at yesterday’s events in Sydney. Please watch.
The good thing about being insomniac at this point in history is that you can always jump online in the middle of the night and find a plethora of very justifiable reasons to lie there wide awake.
Quick reality check: there are less than 1.5 million under-16 teens (that is 13-15yos) in Australia. If Inman is right (and assuming most pre-teens didn't have accounts), they've had an average of three accounts blocked each. Doesn't pass the laugh test.
Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month
Global regulators are closely watching the implementation of the world-first ban for users under 16, with some U.S. states considering whether to follow suit.
nbcnews.com
www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/09/p...
Decision to disinvite Palestinian-Australian writer from Adelaide Festival is pure, ugly politics
The moral spinelessness in not only seeking to silence Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, but to link the cancellation to the abhorrent terrorist attack in Bondi, speaks volumes over who is allowed to have a voic...
crikey.com.au
“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/LL2wwbN
Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector
satpa.pe
A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).
Michelle Arrow@michellearrow.bsky.social · last yr.More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People, Volume Three includes, 'Beyond the Binary: Shapeshifting and Nonbinary Identity in Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction' by Candice Lemon-Scott. Available: ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/v... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky #lgbtq
“The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades.” https://trib.al/bTIvynH
How to fix university funding
Now the election is finally over and the parties and candidates have settled down to their new realities, national priorities must be afforded their proper place. The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades. Specifically, no one was talking
trib.al
I have never voted liberal in my life, but tbh any party willing to make serious policy commitments along the lines suggested by John Hewson here would be a serious contender for my support. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How to fix university funding
Now the election is finally over and the parties and candidates have settled down to their new realities, national priorities must be afforded their proper place. The election campaign focused too muc...
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
A message for @australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social from the Australian people 🇦🇺🦘🐨👇🏻
Anthony Eaton@anthonyeaton.bsky.social · last yr.Seriously though Labor, this isn’t the Australian people saying ‘well done Labor’ this is us saying ‘take your Trumpian bullshit and fuck off’. Don’t lose sight of that. #auspol #ausvotes #binnight
One of the lessons of Liberal Party over my lifetime is that the next leader will be worse than you thought the last one was.
Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?” 😂
Anti-Trumpism, in Australia and Canada at least, has become a more powerful political force than anti-incumbency.
So fucking sick of the LNP claiming to be the natural guardians of national security. Because they are totally fucking NOT.