Planning/place/inflexible yogi. Settler | PhD @msdsocial | Director - Sage Leaf Place. Works best round edges. What would Joe Strummer do? He/him
Unceded Kulin Nations land
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The first journal article from my #placemaking PhD research has just landed - and it’s open access in @UPRJournal! Some musings on the post-colonial possibilities of placemaking, written with/on unceded Kulin Nations land: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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I’m sick of the scapegoating of migrants and international students to divert from successive governments relying on “the market” to house Australians. Abandoning govt responsibility to provide public and community housing and have a housing strategy has been a national disgrace.
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Found an old picture I took of the same section of La Trobe Street in 2013. It was the same congested and dangerous mess every morning I rode to work, as were all the other streets in and around the CBD. People have very short memories.
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Astounding the number of vice chancellors earning over $1M in Australia. Try our Rank the VCs pay game: betterunis.com/paid-more-tha…
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The key problem which hasn’t been highlighted wrt Universities is that they’ve become businesses through covert privatisation. That’s why VC salaries have grown. Higher Ed has become a commodity. This is value extraction and has weakened society @InsidersABC
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Academics: "students, don't forget a clear title"
Also academics: "Imaginaries and counterimaginaries
of crisis-induced polycrisis in an age of crisis"
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A new report reveals Australia’s fossil fuel exports threaten the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C , writes @BillHareClimate (@MurdochUni )
theconversation.com/dug-up-i…
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another day ending in Y, and another factory spontaneously combusting in Melbourne’s west 🤷🏼♂️
This Watch and Act message is being issued for Footscray.
There is a factory fire in Ballarat Rd Footscray.
Anyone located in the area near Ballarat road Footscray should take shelter indoors immediately.
For more info: emergency.vic.gov.au/respond…
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Me this morning: “JUST missed the train.”
My boys: “No problem, Dad. Next one’s in 2 minutes.”
My boys understand that with good public transit, Frequency Is Freedom.
#FrequencyIsFreedom HT @Translink @humantransit
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Just watching I Was Actually There on @ABCTV on Nicky Winmar. The history of racial abuse in AFL is long and deep. My earliest understanding of racism in Australia was at a football match with the great Polly Farmer (me a Geelong supporter) against Richmond at Punt Road
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🚨BREAKING Resource Minister @MadeleineMHKing approves a whole raft of new gas & CCS exploration licences!
In the middle of a climate emergency @AustralianLabor is choosing profits for @WoodsideEnergy @Chevron & others over a safe future for our kids. Shame!
#NoNewFossilFuels
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The first published results from #Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal #heritage was destroyed in mining blast theconversation.com/the-firs… via @ConversationEDU
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What a contrast. In Norway the Govt taxes oil companies, pays the billions into a sovereign wealth fund, and university degrees are free. In Australia we give away much energy wealth and our students pay more into Treasury than the mining giants 🤦♂️ #auspol theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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I spoke with @UniMelb medical student Kareem & science student Zara (who is Jewish) just before their disciplinary hearing & potential expulsion over student sit in. Now the uni is being investigated for potential data & security breaches
WATCH interview
youtu.be/8RCPq1MqPEk?si=tyb1…
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Half of Melbourne doesn’t have access to all-day, frequent public transport, according to a new report from @climatecouncil. And what we do have isn’t distributed equitably, with less-advantaged suburbs having 27% worse access than wealthier suburbs.
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why has Laporta's main advisor @enricmasip5 been sharing racist anti-immigrants tweets for a week now ? it doesn't seem like his account been hacked since there are Barça related tweets from time to time. @FCBarcelona is this normal ? this is not what our club stands for.
