Ruth Hazleton

@ruthhazleton.bsky.social

Award-winning Australian Folk Musician | Trad Songs | Electronic Influences | Sound Design | Banjo | Oral Historian | Indie Folklorist | Published | Arts & Culture Advocate | Unionist ✊🏼 | Broccoli ~ Views My Own

"There's even more space in The Heron (Two Sisters) which is airy, almost flighty, even as the murdering sibling ploughs through the ringing tone & marching banjo - 'Love does not make women free/Nor does murder bring peace to thee'." New @ruthhazleton.bsky.social www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...

RUTH HAZLETON – HERONBONES: REVIEW

RUTH HAZLETONHeronbones (independent) SOMEWHERE IN THE ELDTRITCH environs of Tri-Coloured House, between Ruth Hazleton’s questioning voice and the displaced-from-this-realm one of Aoife Nic Dhiarmada,...

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If the Albanese government wanted a trade policy retaliation for the Trump tariffs, I’ve got just the thing: local content requirements for American content companies. Force Netflix to carry 25% Australian content for local audiences, or pay a big levy

Have come to the conclusion that grant-writing is essentially a task in being able to reformat templates to answer hideously-worded questions, over-complicate simple project ideas and over-simplify complex creative process. I swore I’d not do this again, but here I am. #independentmusic

Sage advice, though we’re still waiting for Australia’s first confirmed witch bottle, and that becomes less and less likely with the passing of time. Apotropaic markings and concealed shoes, however, we have a wealth of these! #folklore #concealedshoes #witchbottle #Hexafoil

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · last yr.

Urine bottles... If you find a bottle of urine in your building it may not be magical or a "witch bottle". Builders did, and still do, pee in bottles and conceal them when it is too difficult to leave the site.

My excellent brilliant partner, Lorana Bartels, writes today that mandatory minimum sentences are bad policy. Applying this bad policy to the real problem of antisemitism and other hate crimes is particularly ironically stupid, as it undermines the rule of law. This shit will only make shit worse.

Mandatory minimum sentencing is proven to be bad policy. It won’t stop hate crimes

Extensive evidence shows the government’s plan to legislate mandatory minimum sentences for hate crimes, including antisemitic acts, won’t be effective. Here’s why.

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Meta blues: The cognitive dissonance in reading about Trump, Musk, the state of Gaza, the brooding hysteria of an upcoming Australian election, reading about the appalling plight of arts workers and musicians… then being urged to buy a whisk-wiper. A. WHISK. WIPER.