Boston Married
@bostonmarried.bsky.social
No fixed address feminist.
Made account for housing, renter, homeless auspol posting, now general democracy anti fa stuff to
Thinking things through, applied #feminist, #abolitionist #PWD.
Interested in politics of networks and physical space
Made account for housing, renter, homeless auspol posting, now general democracy anti fa stuff to
Thinking things through, applied #feminist, #abolitionist #PWD.
Interested in politics of networks and physical space
2 days until it's officially summer.
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
2 days until it's officially summer.
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
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New from my phd student @joshgoddard98.bsky.social: he shows, using many election and panel studies across the advanced democracies, that housing status has replaced occupational class as a key predictor of voting. Class voting is now about assets, not income www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Housing and electoral behaviour: The changing face of class voting in advanced democracies
Scholarship on the relationship between social structure and electoral behaviour has traditionally operationalised voters’ economic or class situation…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
New from my phd student @joshgoddard98.bsky.social: he shows, using many election and panel studies across the advanced democracies, that housing status has replaced occupational class as a key predictor of voting. Class voting is now about assets, not income www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Lincoln, Nebraska has a very cool program where landlords get money to upgrade decrepit apartment buildings — including by installing climate-friendly heat pumps! — and they have to keep rents low. Everybody wins. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c... via @carabuckley.bsky.social
In Nebraska, Makeovers for Buildings That Don’t Price Out the Locals
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Lincoln, Nebraska has a very cool program where landlords get money to upgrade decrepit apartment buildings — including by installing climate-friendly heat pumps! — and they have to keep rents low. Everybody wins. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c... via @carabuckley.bsky.social
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Nannas standing with First Nations, Tiwi, & Timor Leste in their battle to protect country (land & sea) to stop gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope @ the People’s Blockade.
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Nannas standing with First Nations, Tiwi, & Timor Leste in their battle to protect country (land & sea) to stop gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope @ the People’s Blockade.
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
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Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
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First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago.
Having excluded independent global media access inside Gaza, leaving us all to rely on local journalists to bear witness to the devastating effect of Israel’s bombardment on the civilian population of Gaza and the famine that has accompanied it, Israel has failed dismally to explain with any credibility why so many journalists have been killed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
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“People don’t understand what it does to you,” she tells me over the phone, her voice careful, measured. “It’s not just the money. It’s knowing that at any moment, the thing keeping you alive can just… stop. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
The Invisible Casualties: How Australia's Debt Machine Targets Its Most Vulnerable
Over 2.6 million welfare payment suspensions in 13 months—more than five every minute. This feature investigation reveals the psychological toll on people with disabilities and Indigenous Australians ...
www.kingaroy.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“People don’t understand what it does to you,” she tells me over the phone, her voice careful, measured. “It’s not just the money. It’s knowing that at any moment, the thing keeping you alive can just… stop. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
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Natalie had to inspect and apply for a minimum of one to four private rental properties every day while staying in temporary accommodation with her kids.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Constant threat': DV victim-survivors recount temp accommodation ordeals
Two women who fled their violent partners say their efforts to stay in emergency accommodation via state government housing offices left them "deeply traumatised".
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Natalie had to inspect and apply for a minimum of one to four private rental properties every day while staying in temporary accommodation with her kids.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Thank you everyone who contacted MPs and Senator offices in the campaign to make the new nature laws stronger. We now have a new national environment law which has some important improvements but still fails the climate test. Incredulously climate pollution won't be taken into account in decisions.
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Thank you everyone who contacted MPs and Senator offices in the campaign to make the new nature laws stronger. We now have a new national environment law which has some important improvements but still fails the climate test. Incredulously climate pollution won't be taken into account in decisions.
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The @greens.org.au have secured a restriction on #PayToDestroy on “protected matters” that'll be "determined by the Minister at a future date, with the advice of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee"
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
Introducing ‘payments to destroy’ under national nature laws – lessons ignored from the NSW scheme
Everyone agrees the current laws are failing, but that doesn’t mean any change is an improvement. When it comes to offsets, it’s clear things are going to get worse not better.
thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The @greens.org.au have secured a restriction on #PayToDestroy on “protected matters” that'll be "determined by the Minister at a future date, with the advice of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee"
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
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#OtD 27 Nov 1981 300 mostly migrant women at Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia, went on strike after union officials missed a meeting about their pay claim. They organised a mass picket, spread the strike, fought police, and won a pay rise stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9952...
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#OtD 27 Nov 1981 300 mostly migrant women at Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia, went on strike after union officials missed a meeting about their pay claim. They organised a mass picket, spread the strike, fought police, and won a pay rise stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9952...
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"Noah Jones argued the government's policy was "lazy". "We are the true digital natives and we want to remain educated, robust, and savvy in our digital world... They should protect kids with safeguards, not silence.""
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.
Social median ban: teens challenge law before High Court www.bbc.com/news/article...
Australia social media ban: Teens challenge law before High Court
They argue the law - which will block users under 16 from having social media accounts - is unconstitutional.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Noah Jones argued the government's policy was "lazy". "We are the true digital natives and we want to remain educated, robust, and savvy in our digital world... They should protect kids with safeguards, not silence.""
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.
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One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
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The banking regulator will impose restrictions on home loans from early next year to limit the number of "high-risk" large loans being issued to customers, which could have major implications for home prices.
Banking regulator APRA to impose home loan caps amid housing boom
The banking regulator will impose restrictions on home loans from early next year to limit the number of "high-risk" large loans being issued to customers, which could have major implications for home prices.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The banking regulator will impose restrictions on home loans from early next year to limit the number of "high-risk" large loans being issued to customers, which could have major implications for home prices.
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Withholding housing supply at a time when increasing numbers are dying on the streets is a form of social murder. Those engaging in this practice should face more serious consequences than just a bit of extra tax.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Withholding housing supply at a time when increasing numbers are dying on the streets is a form of social murder. Those engaging in this practice should face more serious consequences than just a bit of extra tax.
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When it comes to the housing crisis, supply is only part of the picture. The system is currently so rigged for wealthy investors and developers that it's often profitable for them to keep properties empty, rather than sell them or rent them out. This urgently needs to change!
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
When it comes to the housing crisis, supply is only part of the picture. The system is currently so rigged for wealthy investors and developers that it's often profitable for them to keep properties empty, rather than sell them or rent them out. This urgently needs to change!
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Rents rose by 4.2% annually, accelerating from 3.8% in September.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Rents rose by 4.2% annually, accelerating from 3.8% in September.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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This is a huge issue for First Nations women. The qld death review found that 100% of First Nations women murdered by their partners had previously been misidentified as perpetrators by police.
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This is a huge issue for First Nations women. The qld death review found that 100% of First Nations women murdered by their partners had previously been misidentified as perpetrators by police.
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Please read. When police respond to a report of #DV & decide that the woman victim is a perpetrator 😥.
Can lead to her being removed from home & children being left with violent man until courts sort it out.
#misidentification is a significant issue
womensagenda.com.au/latest/jacqu...
Can lead to her being removed from home & children being left with violent man until courts sort it out.
#misidentification is a significant issue
womensagenda.com.au/latest/jacqu...
Jacquie Thomson was brutally attacked and then misidentified as the aggressor. She's working to hold police accountable
Jacquie Thomson is one of a large number of women who police continue to misidentify as primary aggressors instead of as victim/survivors.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Please read. When police respond to a report of #DV & decide that the woman victim is a perpetrator 😥.
Can lead to her being removed from home & children being left with violent man until courts sort it out.
#misidentification is a significant issue
womensagenda.com.au/latest/jacqu...
Can lead to her being removed from home & children being left with violent man until courts sort it out.
#misidentification is a significant issue
womensagenda.com.au/latest/jacqu...
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Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing current president David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ but still signed the $2.5bn deportation deal, v @australia.theguardian.com w Ben Doherty.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Nauru president accused in parliament of corruption siphoning off millions of Australian funding
Senate told Albanese government knew current president David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ but still signed the $2.5bn deportation deal
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing current president David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ but still signed the $2.5bn deportation deal, v @australia.theguardian.com w Ben Doherty.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW police say DFV is 40% of calls. NSW Police cost $5 billion per year. NSW Police are the worst responders - survivors attest police are a last or non resort, saying the reasons are fear and mistrust of police, who regularly criminalise and endanger victims.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis, writes Katherine Berney.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
NSW police say DFV is 40% of calls. NSW Police cost $5 billion per year. NSW Police are the worst responders - survivors attest police are a last or non resort, saying the reasons are fear and mistrust of police, who regularly criminalise and endanger victims.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
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This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis, writes Katherine Berney.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
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Youth also face challenges competing for public and community housing where rents are calculated as a percentage of income.
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Rental market making it harder to help young people 'out of crisis homelessness'
Youth homelessness support services say the pandemic and an associated surge in real estate prices have made it even harder to secure accommodation.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Youth also face challenges competing for public and community housing where rents are calculated as a percentage of income.
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Excellent article by @jacktoohey.bsky.social in @smhaustralia.nzcow.com on our obsession with real estate & its many negative consequences;
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Excellent article by @jacktoohey.bsky.social in @smhaustralia.nzcow.com on our obsession with real estate & its many negative consequences;
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
If Europeans increasingly see the USA as a) fascist b) a Russian asset c) an enemy...
then how will they see us in Australia, if we remain in AUKUS?
then how will they see us in Australia, if we remain in AUKUS?
Italian Senator Carlo Calenda:
“The President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin… Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies - one to the East and one to the West.”
“The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe.”
“The President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin… Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies - one to the East and one to the West.”
“The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If Europeans increasingly see the USA as a) fascist b) a Russian asset c) an enemy...
then how will they see us in Australia, if we remain in AUKUS?
then how will they see us in Australia, if we remain in AUKUS?