Thank you very much Gavin. Thought it might be useful. Onward we press. Sue x
Gavin Miller
@glmiller.bsky.social
Scientist, student of the Anthropocene, skeptic/sceptic, 'dump the duopoly 2025'
This is a phenomenal article - succinct & cogent.
Sue Barrett - Onward We Press@suebarrett.bsky.social · 6d agoEvery MP represents their whole electorate. That's the promise. Here's the practice. What an MP can fight for inside Parliament is bounded by what their party has already cleared as acceptable. Every constituent gets a hearing. Not every issue gets acted on. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
def worth reading: @suebarrett.bsky.social @timdunlop.bsky.social @nickbryantoz.bsky.social stories.uq.edu.au/contact-maga...
Gen Z at work: it's not working
The 'lazy generation’ accusation gets thrown at every new cohort entering the workforce, and Gen Z have been no exception. But when we look at what the research has to say about young people in the wo...
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another in a 'you've got read this' series. 👍
Sue Barrett - Onward We Press@suebarrett.bsky.social · last wk.400 delegates debated & voted on VAD telehealth rules at Labor's national conference. Zero delegates voted on Ed Husic's #Gaza amendment. Not because it lost. Bc Maritime Union withdrew as seconder. Who decides what you get to vote on? Your Vote. Your Future. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Andy Burnham says our generation of politicians needs to raise its game. He’s absolutely right. But successive political generations have screwed up, and Baby Boomers are too reluctant to leave the stage. A weekend read from me: open.substack.com/pub/historyn...
What if the reason nothing gets fixed isn't that we're picking the wrong side-it's that we keep trying to pick a side at all? Try Polarity Mgt: Most of what's broken isn't a problem with 1 answer. It's tension-like breathing-you have to hold both sides of, forever open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
What A Country That Works For Everyone Could Actually Look Like
The policy platform and the philosophical foundation held together by a way of thinking that took a workshop this week to properly name. One Nation Is The Wrong Answer To The Right Question, Part Ten.
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In 2024, Govt proposed 10 guardrails to protect people from AI decisions, including the right to challenge one made about you. Dec 2025, those guardrails were shelved. Last week's new AI standards cover data centres/energy/water/copyright. They don't cover you. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Data centres get new rules. The people affected by AI decisions are still waiting for theirs.
BYV: The new AI standards cover energy, water and copyright. The right to challenge an automated decision is not in them.
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The real divide in this country was never cultural. It's economic. And the culture wars are the distraction built to keep it that way. So what can we do about it? Plenty. New piece, link below. 👇 Every solution begins with a conversation. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre... #auspol
What My 88-Year-Old Mother and My Gen Z Sons Actually Agree On
Common ground was never about sameness. It's about noticing which floor is actually cracking, and which one never was. Part Nine: One Nation Is The Wrong Answer To The Right Question.
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briliant explainer SB
Sue Barrett - Onward We Press@suebarrett.bsky.social · 3w agoA royal commission can compel testimony under oath. Lying to it is a crime. But most scrutiny happens after it reports. The Royal Commission on Antisemitism & Social Cohesion is running now, reporting by Dec 2026. So what should you be watching for? open.substack.com/pub/suebarre... #auspol
Thank you Gavin. More to come as we keep unravelling this quest. Onward we press. Sue x
I nearly didn't write this one. I caught myself grieving my ageing exterior & felt ashamed for it. Vain, I thought. Turns out it isn't vanity. It's a double standard I never agreed to, & a false split between body & spirit I'm done performing. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Two Standards, One Body
There Is No Such Word as Can't: Why the grief I felt over my ageing exterior had nothing to do with vanity, and everything to do with a rule I never agreed to.
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For a few weeks, half the country stood in pubs, backyards & Federation Square, in every colour and background imaginable, and roared as one for the Socceroos. Nobody had to stop being who they were to be part of it. So what is culture? This week's article. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
The Culture We Keep Forgetting We Already Have
One Nation is the wrong answer to the right question. Part 8: The wake-up call we didn't choose, but needed: sometimes it takes the wrong answer to make us finally find the correct one.
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Bougainville here sails into a trade winds trap* against the south coast of PNG, tacks very slowly up-wind for days, and eventually escapes via 'Cape de la Deliverance' (probably on Sundest or Rossel, well east of Milne Bay). * South-easterly. Cook did similar, 2 years later, bit further the south.
Glen@gergyl.bsky.social · 4w agoBut it's odd that this well documented encounter with the Great Barrier Reef goes so little mentioned in Australian history, especially since Cook's disasters right about there get so much coverage.
A gambling ad complaint doesn't go straight to the regulator. You complain to the broadcaster first, deadlines vary: 30 days commercial TV/radio, 30 days SBS, 90 days ABC. Only then does ACMA step in. An SBS breach finding turned on a single line in one ad. #auspol open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
How to make a regulator actually enforce the rules
BYV: A single complaint about one advertisement produced a formal finding against a national broadcaster. Here is how that process actually works, and how to use it yourself.
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👏👏👏 thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
House prices hit a blip and it’s all media panic. Please, let’s have some perspective
Of all the stupidity Australians have accepted as “normal”, our relationship with house prices may be among the most ridiculous. This nation is in the grips of a media panic over a small blip in hous...
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“It is very rare that we see these numbers put into context” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social “A fall usually follows a rapid rise in prices and Australia has seen more of a rapid rise than most.” Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
"We can't treat this as a normal election cycle. "It is astonishing to me how much, particularly the Australian media, wants to do that." @emmashortis.bsky.social on the big tests facing American democracy at the midterms & the 2028 presidential election. 🎧 theaus.in/4gIf6Zd
Exactly - and major party politicians put us in these highly vulnerable positions - because they are incapable of putting our needs and interests ahead of their own #auspol
Chris Pomfret@chrispomfret.bsky.social · 4w agoThe more private satellites we rely on the more susceptible we become too.
Australia Institute research shows that almost one in three 12-17 year-olds gamble. In fact, Australian teenagers are more likely to gamble than to play soccer, basketball, cricket or any other sport. ✍️ Add your name now to join the call for gambling reform: https://theaus.in/4vg4wvS
Invaluable information in this fab article👏
Sue Barrett - Onward We Press@suebarrett.bsky.social · last mo.Most people don't know they can make a submission to a parliamentary committee, request gov docs or track exactly how their MP voted. These tools are free to every citizen. This week a committee recommended exactly what ordinary people told it to. Friday's piece 👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Excellent article by Julie Hare 'The true hypocrisy over university fees' @yungenchee.bsky.social is Ms Hare on bsky? open.substack.com/pub/theharer...
The true hypocrisy over university fees
Would Anthony Albanese's cabinet have gone to university if they had to pay the same fees as the students of today?
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@nickbryantoz.bsky.social - writes a damn good article: The history glut & if you don't already catch Nick on ABC Saturday Extra - journalism par excellance open.substack.com/pub/historyn...
The history glut
Monthly marginalia for June
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@nickbryantoz.bsky.social - writes a damn good article: The history glut & if you don't already catch Nick on ABC Saturday Extra - journalism par excellance open.substack.com/pub/historyn...
The history glut
Monthly marginalia for June
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The NACC held zero public hearings in nearly 3 years. On Friday, it was the one being questioned. Experts who built the case for a federal integrity body said the problem isn't the law. It's leadership & culture. A new commissioner is being chosen now. This matters. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Culture, not law: what Friday's NACC hearing revealed
BYV: On Friday the National Anti-Corruption Commission faced its first real parliamentary examination. The witnesses agreed on more than you might expect, and on what it would take to fix the watchdog
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Thank you Gavin. Onward we press Sue x