Your annual reminder that an old white man like me can savage and mock Anzac Day and no one will say boo, but if a person of colour, especially a woman of colour, says anything faintly critical, they'll be hounded out of Australia

abc.net.au/news/2022-05-3…

crikey.com.au/2015/04/24/kea…

#BREAKING

Celebrating Earth Day with this image of the sun rising in the middle of the North Pacific during the 2019 Transpac #EarthDay

Make America paralysed again.

‘It could be the death of the museum’: why research cuts at a South Australian institution have scientists up in arms theconversation.com/it-could-be-th… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Choosing to read this very ominously

'It is only if men take the burden of male violence away from always being a problem for women, if they look into their hearts and acknowledge that there is a problem, that we will ever move forward.' | Louise Milligan satpa.pe/YHgnV8W

Some gross rape myths were aired this week after the Lehrmann decision. The good news is these myths are eroding. The bad news is, they are doing so very slowly – and this is not doing enough to prevent sexual assault. Now what?

My The Sydney Morning Herald The Age column

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Statement about the Lee Judgement. 🙏

These guys. And how was the data generated on which you trained your very clever machines?

Was it billions of hours of PhD students time, perchance?

“Is targeting someone for being a woman somehow less serious than targeting someone for their religious views?” abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

It has been estimated that the anti-vaccine online industry accumulates annual revenues of $35 million, and that their audience of 62 million followers may be worth upward of a billion dollars a year for the big social media platforms.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… By John Cook

Huge if true

'I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other.' Silence. slate.com/business/2024/…

The power of grey
💥 ⁦Annabel Crabb⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

“The small figure at the centre of all of this is a woman who, a civil judge found, was raped and left exposed, her dress around her waist, on a couch in her boss's office.”

We’d all do well to keep reminding ourselves of this 💥Dr💥 Julia Baird

‘Teen girls post artwork in Melbourne's Hosier Lane, documenting classroom sexism, misogyny’ - good on them! abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

Men in the manosphere can’t imagine a world where sex isn’t a transaction, done, subtly or openly, but always a transaction. Yet, seeing all other men’s actions as also being some version of that is their go-to insult. Talk about zero self-reflection.

I still have my copy of “Stryer”. A text that struck fear and wonder with equal measure in biochemistry undergrads everywhere.

Just thinking how great it would be to have The Drum on tonight, 💥Dr💥 Julia Baird Ellen Fanning:Journo