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David Peetz
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Researcher, FASSA. Employment relations; labour markets; economics; pol science; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Carmichael Fellow at Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute, but views mine. Meanjin (Brisbane) & Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). .. more

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 18h
When the local Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and Jewish Federation oppose actions taken in the name of combating anti-semitism, you’ve got to ask yourself “is this Administration really attacking universities because the *universities* are anti-semitic?

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18h
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."

An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com

Reposted by David Johnson, David Peetz

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d
Is this 2025 United States or 1938 Germany?
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com

Reposted by David Peetz, Brett Christophers, Nick Clarke

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 1d
Harvey at 90: A @versobooks.bsky.social series of short essays

davidharvey.org/2025/11/harv...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey’s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled contribution on urban ge…
davidharvey.org

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 1d
If you’re thinking “I really should use a search engine other than Google, but it usually gives me good enough results”, read this.

Then you’ll finally do something about it.

pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/o...
Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into “junk insurance” (25 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 1d
One for our times.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 5d
Time for heads to roll, roll, roll.
picketer.bsky.social Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 5d
$100 million for a failed website (that has no registered users / password access / consumer data / paywall / ecommerce etc etc etc) is truly insane. $78 million for "design"!?!?! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million
In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.
www.smh.com.au

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 5d
$100 million for a failed website (that has no registered users / password access / consumer data / paywall / ecommerce etc etc etc) is truly insane. $78 million for "design"!?!?! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million
In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.
www.smh.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 7d
I was once a senior public servant. FOI laws don’t discourage frank, fearless advice. They discourage BAD advice.

Bureaucrats mostly hate them (a lot) because they take up so much time. But it’s nothing to do with not wanting to be seen giving frank, fearless advice.
crikey.com.au Crikey @crikey.com.au · 7d
Labor is using robodebt to justify curtailing freedom of information laws. It's grubby, self-interested — and easily disproven.
Behind Labor's Big Lie about FOI
www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 7d
Labor is using robodebt to justify curtailing freedom of information laws. It's grubby, self-interested — and easily disproven.
Behind Labor's Big Lie about FOI
www.crikey.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 9d
Unbelievable that it’s STILL malfunctioning, after all these months of failure.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d
Correct.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d
Attention current and potential PhD students in industrial relations and WHS.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 17d
Hurry! Applications close this weekend.

teacho.com.au/2025/09/29/a...
Dr Daryll Hull Memorial Fellowship In Industrial Relations 2026-2027 | Teacho
teacho.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 21d
Excellent news for Uni of Canberra. I hope they can deliver in properly supporting this great initiative.

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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 21d
Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...
UC launches newly established Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas and appointment of inaugural director
UC to establish the Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas, and Prof Frank Bongiorno AM to take up Donald Horne Professorship as Centre director.
www.canberra.edu.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 29
As our dependence on digital technology increases, so does our vulnerability (in the deadliest meaning of the term) to a Carrington event.

theconversation.com/solar-storms...
Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future
From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped human history.
theconversation.com

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · Oct 29
A better start to a journal book review? Fight me.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 28
Chances are a fair bit of the training is on “how not to…"

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 27
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davidpeetz.bsky.social David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 26
The old site will only be available for a few weeks/days, I presume.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 27
AFAIK it’s only on the legacy site, to which there are no obvious links, and which will presumably be decommissioned in the fullness of time.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 27
Exxon Sues California, saying that requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws
www.nytimes.com

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 26
@barbarapocock.bsky.social Is this consultants (Deloitte I presume) getting BOM to charge for previously free weather services?
davidpeetz.bsky.social David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 26
It’s not a cock-up. It’s a deliberate strategy to get you to pay (something between $174 and $4037 pa, plus a $1699 start-up charge) for things that they used to provide to everybody regardless of capacity to pay.

Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".
picketer.bsky.social Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · Oct 26
The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 26
The old site will only be available for a few weeks/days, I presume.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 26
But whatever you do, don’t call them BOM!

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 26
It’s not a cock-up. It’s a deliberate strategy to get you to pay (something between $174 and $4037 pa, plus a $1699 start-up charge) for things that they used to provide to everybody regardless of capacity to pay.

Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".
picketer.bsky.social Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · Oct 26
The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · Oct 26
The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · Oct 25
The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
‘Absurdist leaps of logic’: Robodebt misused in FOI reforms
I am furious. Angry, certainly, about the federal government’s proposed freedom of information laws, which mock the very idea of transparency, but seething especially about the justification for them,...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 25
“I don’t like you either, and I never will. In fact, I’ll tell your organisation about you, and they’ll be very sorry and you’ll be very sorry and it will be a sorry day for everyone except me. Next."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 25
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.