All it needs is Gretel Killeen putting eye masks on the participants and asking them who are the “traitors”
A fascinating and compelling interview with writer and critic Merve Emre by @suzygracias.bsky.social at Kill Your Darlings. It seriously has you reconsidering how you approach reading, writing and thinking
The New Yorker Critic with Her Eye on Australia
An interview with Merve Emre
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My defo/unconscionable termination streams are getting crossed
Text of Opening Address by counsel assisting the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption in Operation Rosny, examining the links between Liberal Party operatives, a developer and a hotelier and whether they procured/made prohibited donations #nswpol www.icac.nsw.gov.au/ArticleDocum...
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Judgment of the Full Federal Court dismissing One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson’s appeal, seeking to overturn finding she racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi in a tweet telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan” #auspol #auslaw www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...
Hanson v Faruqi [2026] FCAFC 96
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Federal Court judgment in MacInnes v Wilson: Charlotte MacInnes has lost a defamation action against the director of her movie debut, Rebel Wilson, over claims MacInnes walked back allegations of sexual harassment by a producer #auslaw #defamation #defo www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...
Actor Charlotte MacInnes has lost her defamation action and breach of confidence claim against actor and director Rebel Wilson after Justice Elizabeth Raper found only one imputation conveyed but was not defamatory #auslaw #defamation
The new NSW District Court defamation list judge Penelope Wass SC is channelling her inner Hamill J in her case catchwords #auslaw #defo www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19e...
Somebody needs to introduce the Canberra Times news bot to the ABC News bot for a tutorial on how not to intrude on the timeline
Judgment of the NSW Court of Appeal declaring that anti-protest laws introduced by the NSW Government in the wake of the Bondi Massacre impermissibly burden the implied freedom of political communication #auslaw #nswpol www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19d...
While far from being an academic, I feel seen …
John Attridge@johnattridge.bsky.social · 4mo ago(Entering an academic's office) Wow. Have you read all these tabs?
The machine may be more eloquent, it may generate far more dazzling images than we could ever draw, but it will never experience human truths. And so in art, literature and all other creative processes it is a cuckoo, pushing out the human to consume resources and generate hoarded wealth
It’s not sparkling populism but instead a regional Bernardi
It is very difficult to defeat the government on any terrorism judicial review It is also very difficult to defeat the government when challenging a statutory instrument, terrorism or otherwise. Legally this is a *huge* achievement for the applicants.
The UK High Court judgment ruling that the UK government’s proscription of the Palestine Action Group was unlawful www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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“‘How do you build a project around someone who doesn’t have any politics and hates the very idea of a larger project?’ asks [one defining] Starmerism.” A 3500 word epitaph for Starmerism, and a salutary lesson for those whose capacity exceeds their ambitions app.spectator.com.au/2026/02/11/a...
‘Authority is like virginity. Once it’s gone, it’s gone’: Inside Keir Starmer’s downfall
Years ago, Peter Mandelson shared a key lesson with his protégé Morgan McSweeney. Reminiscing about his involvement in Labour’s 1987 general election campaign, he called it the ‘spray-paint election’....
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As a recent subscriber to Meanjin, I hope it prospers under QUT’s aegis, but I wonder how it will fare pitted against the distinct identity already secured by Griffith Review - how to balance a hometown sensibility with the needs of a broader audience
Was going to bristle at $13 for a sausage in a bun (ok, onion and red cabbage too) at an Ed Sheeran adjacent Olympic Park hostelry But then I remembered last night’s estimate of £19 postage for a book of lectures on Marx from Verso (I’m here for muscle to navigate a way through to the train home)
There were so many Jon Kudelkas one could enjoy and appreciate: the sheer wheeze of him and First Dog on that crowd sourced whisky tour; the whimsy of his penguins in the Southerly; his insistence that you not trouble Tasmania with your presence …
An essay on Yeats, Auden and Eliot from Colm Toibin in the @lrb.co.uk had me dwelling on Yeats penning: Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
For weeks since Christmas, I’ve been devoted to my two year old niece who’s fighting a rare form of childhood leukaemia - and her not much older brother who’s doing his best to navigate this unsettling world. They’ve given me a sense of perspective I’ve never had to now, calling on all my sinews
I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?