Prof Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation & Citizenship (ADI) Deakin U, Melbourne, Aust. Views expressed are entirely personal
@na_dirs
An 11% margin in a two party contest is truly remarkable result! Mandates don’t come much stronger than this. Let’s hope that Jokowi makes the very best use of his strong mandate for a productive second term with substantial reforms.
#JokowiGaspol
“The longer the debate ran, the darker Prabowo's vision grew.
On Saturday night Indonesia's president emerged as more of a multilateralist and internationalist while his challenger offered a more isolationist vision for the nation.”
via
@smh
"And I have never forgotten this simple thought: if the 1967 referendum had happened three years later, I wouldn’t have been able to leave Australia without permission; maybe I wouldn’t have won Wimbledon."
Lone-actor attackers are very often (Sydney Lindt Cafe, Nice, Orlando, Westminster, Pittsburgh ...) driven by a toxic cocktail of personality disorders, substance abuse and rage. The justifying ‘political cause’ that they cling too covers an ugly mess of personal demons
ABC Melb reports Somali community says the man was fearful of people coming after him with “spears” before the attack. And he was on drugs. If so, I think there’s much more than radical Islam at play.
Leigh Sales is right. Sadly, this interview does not inspire confidence that the reality of vaccinations will match the rhetoric of announcements anytime soon
Australians were told at the start they would be front of the queue for vaccines. So far, only two per cent of the population is vaccinated.
@leighsales
asks Dr Brendan Murphy: "How can the public judge this as anything other than amateur hour?"
#abc730
@FatherBob
Indeed! A Christian PM, from whatever party, should be concerned about the people & core issues the Father Bob is concerned about - women, children, senior citizens, the poor, the powerless and the oppressed. God's work is all about love, compassion, justice and generous giving
“At Melb U, science faculty staff have been told that “low enrolment subjects” would be deleted including quantum field theory, physical cosmology & advanced environmental computation.
Senior teaching positions inc in genetics, biosciences and chemistry will be made redundant...”
Melbourne University is bracing for reputational damage as it culls science subjects and senior academic positions in the latest response by the state’s higher education sector to tumbling revenue. Internal documents reveal 11 science units are marked f...
“The Voice ad, by contrast, is a statement of progressive patriotism. It counters the notion that the Yes campaign is driven by a loathing of Australia and feelings of elite white guilt. Voting Yes, it suggests, is an expression of national pride. “Morning in Australia” …”
@samanthamaiden
“According to the NSW Premier, that’s all completely legal in NSW… a sitting MP taking a commission for a property deal? Totally fine, as long as he declares it...What sort of madness is NSW pol that the Premier, her entire fbench & MPs don’t know this is wrong?
Why
@GladysB
‘bad boyfriend’ survival strategy, which rests on casting a 50-year-old woman as a lovesick teenager in an episode of DeGrassi Junior High, should be sickening to feminists
@mjrowland68
@ScottMorrisonMP
@ScottMorrisonMP
is being deeply disingenuous. He knows that federal funding to universities has been consistently and deliberately run done (to bottom of G20 levels) over the past two decades - forcing them to rely on international students. They are not regular big corporates!
“Australian women are among the best-educated in the world according to the World Economic Forum, but we have fallen from 13th to 70th for women’s workplace participation and achievement. Surely such a criminal waste of talent ought to be cause for radical action (hello quotas),”
"On May 8 2018 Trump made wht could turn out to be the definng mistake of his life: He fired the top WH offcl in charge of plannng for a global disease pandemic, Adm Ziemer & disbandd his global health sec team...
I don’t like havng 1000s of pple around when you don’t need them”
"Prejudice slips in under a cloak of ignorance and self-affirmation, through normalising and legitimating anti-Islamic views, and then denying the prejudice that these views authorise towards Muslims and its real-world effects"
Love JAUKUS? Hate the idea of JAUKUS? Sick of acronyms? Come to our event tomorrow for the launch of the La Trobe Asia Brief: Enhancing Global and Regional Maritime Order. The brief is the result of a series of workshops in Japan with Australian, Japanese and UK maritime experts
“We just recently published a comprehensive report where we surveyed 32 studies that look at racism in Australia. We looked at all the evidence & there is no doubt that racism hasn’t gone away. In fact, it’s actually becoming more entrenched & difficult to dislodge from society.”
“Numerous current and former staff, students and parents from St Kevin's College told Four Corners the school had a history of failing to adequately deal with complaints of inappropriate behaviour.”
BREAKING: New legal proceeding following our
@4corners
investigation about a counsellor making allegations of inappropriate sexual misconduct involving a current teacher and a boy at
#StKevins
. And pressure from deputy head not to make mandatory report.
“He is a Trumpian figure who lives in a self-created bubble of imagined greatness," said Marcus Mietzner, from the ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific.
"Any disturbances to that fantasy world are met with further manipulative additions to his own reality."”
“The Djojohadikusomos have always imagined that one of them should eventually govern Indonesia,”
@ConnellyAL
tells
@AnneABarker
of Prabowo’s refusal to concede defeat
#Pilpres2019
“Northern Ireland internment taught us that a disproportionate response by the state can serve as a terrorist organisation’s best recruiting sergeant. For many, watching the events in Gaza unfold each day makes us more and more uncomfortable.”
Wow, that's quite something! Ben Wallace, who just left his job as UK Defence Secretary, writes a scathing (and extremely unusual for a UK politician) rebuke of Israel:
He says its "collective punishment" of civilians and "killing rage" is making Israel
@AndrewBGreene
@davidlipson
Four is a good start but the Ukrainians need many more. Could we not arrange a swap and backfill with the Dutch so that their Bushmasters could be driven to Ukraine and the Dutch later resupplied?
"Cranbrook, a school on Sydney Harbour that just completed a $125 million building redevelopment and receives more than $6.5 million in taxpayer funding a year is threatening an investigative journalist for asking questions about probity.
Is this what those fees...up to $46,000"
BREAKING: Analysis by me. “A fish rots from the head.” What lies in the body? Reasons
#Cranbrook
legally threatened us (again). Read to end.
“What is the culture of a school supposed to be about, first and foremost?
The care & safety of children. For some, that got lost here.”
@jokowi
Javanese proverb:
“Even though you may be righteous don’t try to bring others down
Even though you may be fast don’t try to cut in front of others
Even though you may be intelligent don’t try to show off your intellect before others”
“This essential feature of the No campaign is operating like an oil well on the Australian political landscape: drilling into community anxiety, hitting a reservoir of discontent and bringing an ugly fury gushing to the surface.”
"The falsehood holds a real power in this referendum and will stain the landscape long after the vote. Does the Voice really divide Australians by race? No. It is the big lie that just won’t die."
““Brave people who speak up about wrongdoing – whether it be human rights violations, government misconduct or corporate misdeeds – make this country a better place. They need to be protected and empowered, not prosecuted.”
Former SAS Soldier Oliver Schulz has been charged with war crime, but the man who helped expose those crimes, whistleblower David McBride will face trial before him
@MurdochCadell
“If you are only just hearing this story, you may be shocked. But the arbitrary and ongoing detention of people, including children, indefinitely is tolerated and normalized in Australia.”
This is not about religion, this about politics. Erdogan, like many ME dictators, uses 'religion' to shore-up unchecked personal power, persecuting millions of ordinary Muslims he denounces as terrorists whilst utilising real AQ & IS linked terrorists
When
#PhilCoorey
calls out cynical, negative, politicking in words that echo, say,
#PhillipAdams
, then you know that the LNP leadership has really lost the plot!
@MikeCarlton01
Hopefully ICAC is keeping a list, and checking it twice, of who has been naughty and who has been nice. Some surprises coming down the chimney!
“We Israelis must begin to finally confront the delusion that we have been living for decades with almost total acceptance. It should become clear to us all that you cannot occupy another people for 56 yrs & expect to have peace. You cannot lock more than 2m &expect to have quiet
This is a very long piece , it contains most of what I have been thinking about Hamas over the last years, about our conflict, about peace and about our way forward. I believe that is has a lot of wisdom that has been generated over a very long period.
@Raf_Epstein
If only we had some sort of federal agency with a dedicated professional force - say a ‘border force’ - that could be responsible for manageing international arrivals and quarantine arrangements, in accordance with the federal quarantine act
“Some political commentators are always quick to stereotype multicultural Australians. They overlook the reality that we empathise with First Nation Australians. We empathise with their tragedy, their loss of lands, and the killing of their ancestors.”
As a Greek I am compelled by my own history to vote Yes. So are many other migrants and children of migrants.
My ancestral land is no longer my home, it’s no longer the home of my relatives. It’s a reality that the No campaign completely overlooked.
“Yet if recent days have proved anything, it’s that we’ve underestimated how deeply his slippery and scandal-prone politics have infected and emptied basic democratic conventions of much of their content across the nation.”
"Never before has the nation been led by a moral degenerate so hopelessly mendacious, so unserious, so full of righteous incompetence, and so brazen in his sly contempt for political norms and the pleasure he derived in debasing them"
“Senator Anning said at the rally: “I think this is the start of something bigger. The revolution will eventually start. People have had enough of these people and they have got to be sent back to where they came from.”
“Every centre-right opportunist in modern western political history has cynically believed they can maintain control of an unleashed far right flank. This delusion may, in fact, be the greatest disinformationist triumph of them all.”
When Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia, Bungaree was with him all the way
“In his book detailing his journey, Flinders described Bungaree as a "worthy and brave fellow" who saved the expedition multiple times.”
“…In more than 20 years of reporting from Canberra, I’ve never seen a prime minister less interested in the foundational processes of Australia’s democratic system than the current incumbent. Morrison sees these things as constraints. He chafes against them.”
Excellent
@murpharoo
column: ‘Scott Morrison has a lot to say about democratic values. Here’s how he could actually enact them’ | Katharine Murphy
#auspol
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"As Twomey says, all that is important at the referendum is to know the scope of the power being enshrined. This leaves the function in the hands of the parliament, with the oversight of democratic process. “It puts democracy, not the devil, in charge of the detail.”
The Voice is a vision for
“.. .a reconciled Australia in which First Peoples are constitutionally part of the fabric of our nation”
Yet it’s Opponents insist on a fight we shouldn’t have to have
Powerful piece by Marcia Langton
@SatPaper
@ariel_heryanto
speaking at the launch of the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre. Herb would surely have been surprised by the naming of the centre but encouraged by its vision and mission
“Your smartphone was tracking you. The grocery store got your location data and paid a shadowy group of marketers to use that information to target you with ads. ..:But the location data industry has a much more precise, and unobtrusive, tool: Bluetooth beacons.”
Apple, Google and Facebook built a secret surveillance system. It’s one you probably don’t know about, and it tracks your movement throughout retail stores, gyms, transit centers, and more. Michael Kwet of
@yaleisp
for
@nytopinion
's
@PrivacyProject
“More than half of Afghanistan’s 39 million people do not have enough to eat and are “marching to starvation,” in the haunting words of the World Food Program. By next year, the United Nations warns, 95 percent of the country could be plunged into poverty.”
@vanOnselenP
No doubt true enough - but exactly how would it have changed voting patterns in Victoria? Dutton looks more like the problem than the solution
“Sympathy for either white supremacy or white nationalism is far greater in our Western societies than any kind of ideology sympathetic to ISIS. Indeed, I would argue that even when we compare to the lure that ISIS-style ideology has in Muslim majority societies ...”
“Despite meticulous training & contingency plans for a host of scenarios from terrorist attacks to biohazards, the Capitol Police seemed unprepared...law enforcement had apparently ignored the seriousness of the threat of domestic far-right extremists, as they’ve done for years.”
@iainmarlow
@siobhanheanue
Populist politics can be literally a matter of life and death during a pandemic, or other crisis! The populist politics of Trump, Bolsonaro, Erdogan and Modi (and previously Johnson) have tragically seen many 100,000s of lives lost that could have been saved
“In at least 46 countries across four continents, Turkey has pursued an aggressive policy to silence its perceived enemies &has allegedly used Interpol as a political tool ...achieved the arrest, deportation, or rendition of hundreds of Turkish citizens from at least 16 countries
“The Notre Dame fire had up to 9 times more search interest than the bombings in Sri Lanka, within 24 hrs of each event.
So why does the Western world care more about a fire where no one died, than it does the gruesome killing of hundreds...
... it's apparently 'closer to home'”
As I grieve for the atrocities in Sri Lanka, I wonder why my social media isn’t flooded with as much support and solidarity for the victims. The reaction has been markedly different to that of the Notre Dame fire. But we should all be mourning.
My piece:
“They had been warned: about the conditions on Nauru and Manus…
It would be wrong to say they were indifferent. The decisions are too deliberate for that. What they are is callous and barbarous and, on the evidence of three straight elections, successful.”
Editorial: At least 15 detainees in Melbourne's Park Hotel now have coronavirus. All of these people have health conditions: it is the reason they were brought back to Australia from offshore detention.
#SatPaper
“The resignation of Nour Haydar follows a pattern that has seen Stan Grant quit the ABC and Antoinette Latouff sacked at the alleged direction of the managing director. In each case, management has failed to back their staff when they have come under attack from outside the ABC.”
“Morrison prepared for the last election by stashing $5 billion in a series of war chests in the April 2019 budget, such as the urban congestion fund, the safer communities fund and a plan to pay for sporting facilities.
“Netanyahu critics in Israel saw it as a sign of what appears to be his growing suspicion about Israel's intelligence, military and security establishment, which hold divergent views about how the prime minister is carrying out the war.”
🤯🇺🇸🇮🇱Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has banned Israel's intelligence and security chiefs from meeting with U.S. officials and lawmakers multiple times since the war in Gaza began. My story on
@axios
“In Bali, spirituality merges with crypto-capitalism in a montage of flapping linen. The island has become a magnet for 20-something digital nomads, life coaches and wellnesspreneurs,
…But even in famously tolerant Bali, the welcome has worn thin.”
"Turkey has suspended or dismissed mr than 150,000 judges, teachers, police & civ servants since July 15 T’s Justice Min annced on July 13 that 50,510 people have been arrested & 169,013 hv been the subject of legal procdngs..also seized to at least 1,068 companies & 4,888 props
Discussing the prosecution of alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and why attempting to achieve justice matters, even with only one case in a thousand able to be addressed.
@Deakin_ADI
@gregjamesbarton
“Anti-Semitic hate crimes surged in 2017, the first full year of Trump’s presidency, by 57%, representing the largest year-on-year increase since the Anti-Defamation League began collecting data in 1979, while hate crimes against Muslims rose 44% in the same 12 month period.”
It’s no wonder then that in the age of President Trump, a figure who has leveraged both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism to mobilise his base, hate crimes against Jews and Muslims have spiked precipitously.
My latest for Sydney Morning Herald:
“Public health officials say a big proportion of cases are likely going undetected and Professor Kaldor said it would be not too wild a guess to suggest that there at least were three to five times as many cases as the officially notified.”
Not only will hospitals buckle if anything close to this number of cases eventuate. Ambulance service won’t be able to cope. Both
#Covid
and non Covid patients at high risk. Hospitalised COVID patients double since Christmas, 100,000 daily cases on horizon
@JaneCaro
@ABCthedrum
Indeed, arriving by boat driven by desperate circumstances to seek asylum is not illegal. This falsehood of 'illegal arrivals' has been repeated so often, by people who (should) know better, that it has become an Orwellian 'truth'
“According to World Health Org (WHO) data, Indonesia has just 4.65 doctors per 10,000 people — compared with 37.6 in Australia.
"Indonesia can't control the pandemic like in Singapore, Thailand, where they have good health systems," Jane Soepardi, a Jakarta-based epidemiologist”
“It cannot be right that, with Australia having participated as one of just eight nations in the creation of the Universal Dec of Human Rights over 70 years ago, we are prepared to put people seeking asylum at risk of physical and psychological harm in order to deter others.”
Dear Scott & Bill, we've strayed from our values. Letter to
@ScottMorrisonMP
@billshortenmp
calling for Australia’s treatment of refugees to abide by international obligations we demanded of others. We saved Hakeem now let’s save ourselves
“ revealed on Sunday the former Prime Minister swore himself in as resources minister and ultimately used the power to roll his own frontbencher, Keith Pitt, over a plan to drill for gas off the New South Wales coast.”
BREAKING: Former Finance Minister Matthias Cormann was NEVER told PM has sworn himself into his portfolio. Only found out when read it in paper this weekend
“Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. Without agreement about some basic facts, citizens cannot form the civil society that ...”
@smh
@clementine_ford
"No, not all men hurt women. But all women have good reason to fear that a man or men might hurt us one day - either for the first time or again. And while it may not be all men who do, it is at least any man who could. It’s men who have done that to women, not "misandry".
“It was only a decade or two ago that anti-Muslim & anti-immigrant extremists ... existed only on the fringe of the media landscape or the corners of the dark web, but today, particularly in the age of Trump ...they have moved to the mainstream, enjoying platforms on major TV...”
These attacks are being carried out in increased frequency & ferocity in mosques, synagogues & black churches thru-out the Western world, with a notable common denominator: gunmen are always white, male & fuelled by consumption of right-wing media
#auspol
The PM has flagged the indefinite detention of terrrorists convicted of more minor offences today on Sunrise - surely the most likely challenge to Labor’s bipartisanship on terror
“We know that Aboriginal people travelled to Makassar on a regular basis, and some of them stayed there and had families.
"So I think it's highly likely that there are descendants of those mixed families still living in Makassar."
“Morrison is fundamentally confused about the role of the PM. He remains a state party director at heart …This has been the fundamental failure of the pandemic. He never believed himself responsible for the country as a whole. Now he has failed even those who put him in charge.”
“While the department does not collect data on the cause for death in these cases, nearly a third - 663 people - were classified as "vulnerable", which means they had complex needs like mental illness, drug use or were victims of domestic violence.”
"More than 2030 people died after receiving a Centrelink debt notice, also known as robo-debt, according to new data released by the Department of Human Services."
“But whatever their differences when it comes to the proper behavior of men, Trump and his evangelical backers are united by a common desire to constrain the behavior of women. That alliance was consecrated during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing...”
“Cam Smith, an Australian podcaster and radio host who has been hosting discussions on conspiracy theorists and the far-right for more than six years, said lockdown protests supercharged the movement, acting as 'face-to-face networking events'.”
Robert Sudy was lured into the Sovereign Citizens movement with a simple online search to contest a fine. Months later, he managed to wade out of the black hole of misinformation.
@TheFeedSBS
“what Santos did goes beyond that. He fabricated a new persona, that of a meritocratic superman. He claims to be a populist who hates the elites, but he wanted you to think he once worked at Goldman Sachs. Imagine how much inadequacy you’d have to feel to go to all that trouble.
“In a sense Santos is a sad, farcical version of where Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party — into the land of unreality, the continent of lies,” writes
@nytdavidbrooks
.
“Under Xi’s leadership, China is currently giving the world a masterclass in how alienate and alarm even those of us who aren’t instinctively hostile toward the People’s Republic.”
"Morrison’s inner circle is now convinced the Com gov is a victim of hostile Labor premiers intent on shredding its credibility ahead of the upcomng fed electn. But this paranoia is merely blindng them to the reality of their own failures, more often than not born of incompetence
“Therefore, the sooner everyday Australians, particularly young people, are brought into closer contact with Indonesians, the sooner Australians will understand that Indonesia is not a threat, and in fact can contribute significantly to local economic growth.”