@franbaum.bsky.social
Professor of Health Equity, University of Adelaide Activist with People's Health Movement & Academics for Palestine A4P
I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.
Following up from last night's shocking Four Corners, great analysis from Dr @marijataflaga.bsky.social, Dr Francis Markham and Distinguished Professor Keith Dowding on the broken governance structures that lead to these scandals. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Lessons from ANU for Australia’s university governance crisis
The Australian National University (ANU) has spent the past eighteen months in a state of rolling crisis. The headline issues are now familiar. In October 2024, a large projected deficit was announce...
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Revisiting Robert Crawford's ‘Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life’ Clare Herrick, Kirsten Bell onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Revisiting Robert Crawford's ‘Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life’
This special issue revisits Robert Crawford's influential 1980 paper ‘Healthism and the medicalization of everyday life’ to reassess its conceptual value for contemporary medical sociology. We show h...
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Always enjoy being told that the private sector is a more efficient and productive way to deliver public services
Calling for urgent action to better address the needs of Stolen Generations survivors – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/calling-for-... By Professor Steve Larkin, a Kungarakan man from Darwin and chair of The Healing Foundation board #AusPol
Calling for urgent action to better address the needs of Stolen Generations survivors
Stolen Generations survivors from across Australia gathered in Canberra this week, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands, attending a series of
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Paying tribute to a leader for health justice – “comrade, colleague, teacher and friend to many” – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/paying-tribu... @franbaum.bsky.social writes about the legacy of her dear friend & colleague, David Legge.
Paying tribute to a leader for health justice – “comrade, colleague, teacher and friend to many”
Introduction by Croakey: Many people have shared tributes and memories of health justice scholar and activist Emeritus Associate Professor David
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Let's get this straight. Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election. After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties. Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/advice-to-go... By Prof @franbaum.bsky.social
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This is what happens when you have an antivaxer as Secretary of State for Health @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 7mo ago“Measles in South Carolina has spread to at least 789 people, surpassing the 2025 West Texas outbreak that sickened 762 people and killed two young girls. The majority of cases remain centered in Spartanburg County, mostly among people who were either unvaccinated or didn't know their status”
Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis www.croakey.org/advice-to-go...
Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis
Introduction by Croakey: Governments were ill-prepared for the harmful algal bloom that began in South Australia almost a year ago,
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Consider contribuing to Randa Abdel Fattah's Legal Fund chuffed.org/project/rand...
Randa Abdel Fattah Legal Fund
This fundraiser is being run for Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah by Readers and Writers Against the Genocide. RWAG is a community of readers and writers who believe in the power of literature to enable us to sp...
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Great cartoon, nothing to apologise for
The Cathy Wilcox@cathywilcox.bsky.social · 8mo agoGrass roots. My @smh cartoon.
No comment necessary: "I cannot be party to silencing writers so, with a heavy heart, I am resigning from my role as the director of the AWW.... Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you." Louise Adler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
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Louise says Adelaide is now "Moscow on the Torrens" Sad so sad! www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week
Exclusive: Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to appear
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Please don’t tell me that a single letter was behind the Adelaide Festival board’s decision
Writers festivals used to be about dangerous ideas. Now they are about ensuring that their program of speakers and topics has been pre-approved by a foreign power, and/or their local agents. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Adelaide festival dumps prominent academic Randa Abdel-Fattah over ‘cultural sensitivity’ concerns after Bondi attack
Abdel-Fattah accuses the board of ‘blatant and shameless’ anti-Palestinian racism and censorship, as other authors pull out in solidarity
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The unconscionable outcome of outsourcing human services to corporations. Fund the Australian Public Service to keep its critical work in-house for the public good.
Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years
Telco Services Australia generated more than $185m in revenue in 2024-25 and $130m the year before but paid zero tax
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Please don't resign Louise Adler - we need you to restore Adelaide Writers Week reputation A new Board and a reset, a letter to all writers saying Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has been re-invited with an apology for the actions of previous Board www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
'Wickedness thrives in darkness': Former Adelaide Festival leaders pen scathing letter on Writers' Week - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Eleven SA art directors pen a scathing letter criticising Adelaide Festival Board's decision to drop a Palestinian author from Writers’ Week.
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Hearing the amazing Stan Grant first speaker at The Equity Co-Lab Fair by Design National Summit #Equity #healthequity
The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽 Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club. That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group. Just utterly unbelievable.
JobSeeker: Shame, and now with added AI slop www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop
The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.
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Every billionaire is proof millions of people, somewhere, are being robbed of a life worth living. #SocialistSunday
IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.
" We can build a better, enshittification-resistant digital nervous system, one fit to coordinate the mass movements we will need to fight fascism, end genocide and save our planet and our species". @franbaum.bsky.social @gilanaf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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Be in front of the curve - support phase out of fossil fuels!! nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...
✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels
Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.
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Ιsrael Is Trying to Smear the Gaza Aid Flotilla As ‘Terrorists’. We Must Not Let It novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/i...
Israel Is Trying to Smear the Gaza Aid Flotilla As ‘Terrorists’. We Must Not Let It | Novara Media
Hundreds of brave doctors, lawyers, journalists and parliamentarians are sailing to Gaza to break Israel's illegal blockade. By smearing them as 'Hamas', Israel is preparing to attack, writes Yanis Va...
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