Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 2h

Indeed…and I agree…but the denial of humanity required to signal ‘seriousness’ in this age is utterly self defeating…

1 1

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 2h

Yes…we are doomed indeed…

1

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my goodness…what a quote…it’s as if to say…we are making it perfectly clear that we aren’t speaking from a position of ethics, or care, or humanity…🤯

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing from the CEO of Aviva insurance: “We are not talking about this because we are waving a flag about climate or sustainability – it’s nothing to do with that, our business is totally correlated with what happens in the environment” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

4 1 5

Reposted by Laura Harding

Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 3h

genius

6 29

Reposted by Laura Harding

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 14h

The lights on the hill.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Parliament House Canberra by night - with bright neon signs saying “AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS CLUB” “PLAY TO WIN - ACCESS” “TRY YOUR LUCK” “PAY TO PLAY” “‘RESPONSIBLE’ LOBBYING AUSTRALIA”

10 130 320

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 1d

Report from ACOSS

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au/poverty_in_a...

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

1 3

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 1d

1 in 7 in this country living in poverty.

Let’s see that statistic breathlessly quoted across all types of media - instead of house prices, AI stocks and bitcoin idiocy.

Every single one of us should be ashamed that this is Australia 2025.

1 4 6

Reposted by Laura Harding

Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

This is a choice we make as a society. What does that say about you and me?

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

16 35 100

Reposted by Laura Harding

Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects @hillthalisaup.bsky.social · 3d

Shading the streets so important to help combat urban heat.
Every city needs a street tree master plan - plant them wherever they shade the footpaths & especially the asphalt roadway.
Good in nature strips, but best in parking lanes or medians

2 9

Reposted by Laura Harding

Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 3d

Barcelona

1 4 56

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 3d

“A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a man who led the country to go and shill for a foreign military.” via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The one-man super scheme

Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

1 2

Reposted by Laura Harding

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

59 1.1K 3.8K

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 8d

Alan Ramsay…from 1988. So much of our contemporary dilemma…latent in a paragraph from a quarter of a century ago…

5

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 9d

Wonderful! I saw a butterfly in the street last week and it stopped me in my tracks. I haven’t seen one just idling about the street in the longest time!

1

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 9d

$819 a week to rent an 18sqm studio through Scape near campus, or $400 to rent in the Regiment where this student is living. The student experience in Sydney appears to be one of high cost exploitation.

1 1 4

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 9d

“The rent is favourable compared to Scape properties nearby, he says, but warned any new housing should not be run by a private provider…noting the building was intensely hot in summer, some kitchen appliances did not work, and the water temperature in the showers was temperamental.”

‘Can’t afford Sydney’: The uni with a problem (and a plan that might fix it)

Sydney University ranks worst in NSW for student experience. Can this plan fix it?

www.smh.com.au

2 1 7

Reposted by Laura Harding

Carl_Greywolf @carl-greywolf.bsky.social · 9d

The unprecedented use of unprecedented, especially in news reports where 2 seconds of research would find it is definitely not without precedent.

Looking at you BBC news. 👀

1 6 50

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 10d

I particularly love that the sign starts with what you are ALLOWED to do. So many voluminous lists of things you can’t do now the first experience in too many parks!

3

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 10d

Here for the next 12 months I believe! So great!

2

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 10d

Me too - it’s brilliant!

1

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 10d

Mike Hewson’s The Key is Under the Mat - occupying the Tank at AGNSW for the next year - water, play, steam, sauna, bbq…in the gallery…

4 2 8

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 10d

The crazy, joyous world of Mike Hewson …The Key is Under the Mat #AGNSW

Recycled pavers and found rocks and pebbles making hidden creatures

Slippers and towels outside the steam punk ham man

Chemical tubs repurposed as ceiling lights

7

Reposted by Laura Harding

Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 11d

Cats by Shou Xin

2 66 300

Reposted by Laura Harding

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 12d

‘The housing revolution that both the planet and its inhabitants urgently require will not be provided by the private sector,’ writes Eleanor Beaumont on social housing in Barcelona by Urbanitree; the tallest timber building in Spain.1/

1 2 3

Reposted by Laura Harding

Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 14d

Urban tree canopy has never been more important - for shade, microclimate, biodiversity, character & beauty.
All cities need massive urban greening initiatives - cut the asphalt & space lost to cars, plant the streets!

4 11