Jack M Davenport
@jackmdavenport.bsky.social
Social worker, Survivor, neurodivergent, and advocate for children’s rights reform in lutruwita/Tasmania. Father, husband and wine lover 🍷
Trying to fathom this, and now I need to switch my brain off and switch it back on.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Trying to fathom this, and now I need to switch my brain off and switch it back on.
Woolcott Review Part B - examining #politas government actions in response to COI - was released earlier this week. Looks like this flew under the radar, as Tasmanian Stadium shenanigans were at their height. I can’t find a single media article about it.
www.premier.tas.gov.au/latest-news/...
www.premier.tas.gov.au/latest-news/...
Final part of Woolcott Review released
www.premier.tas.gov.au
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Woolcott Review Part B - examining #politas government actions in response to COI - was released earlier this week. Looks like this flew under the radar, as Tasmanian Stadium shenanigans were at their height. I can’t find a single media article about it.
www.premier.tas.gov.au/latest-news/...
www.premier.tas.gov.au/latest-news/...
He also spoke praise for George Pell. Pinch/literally tons of salt people. #auspol
“In his speech Tony Abbott said conservative parties should adopt the Trump position that “there is no climate crisis” and abandon the pursuit of net zero emissions.”
It’s 2025 and Abbott, Australia’s worst ever PM,
is still waging a culture war against physics.
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
It’s 2025 and Abbott, Australia’s worst ever PM,
is still waging a culture war against physics.
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
It’s your own fault you are losing, Abbott tells world’s conservatives
The former prime minister also met privately with US Vice President J.D. Vance during his trip to Washington.
www.smh.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
He also spoke praise for George Pell. Pinch/literally tons of salt people. #auspol
On the other hand, “The Catwoman actress” is a succinct way of writing “the Oscar and Emmy award-winning black actress whose career I couldn’t be bothered to spend ten seconds looking up on IMDB” 🤷🏻♂️
Though I'm not sure "The Catwoman actress" is the best way to refer to her?
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
On the other hand, “The Catwoman actress” is a succinct way of writing “the Oscar and Emmy award-winning black actress whose career I couldn’t be bothered to spend ten seconds looking up on IMDB” 🤷🏻♂️
Holy moley! Meg Webb is a trooper.
This line caught my eye though:
‘Dean Harriss secured commitments from the government on budget repair before confirming his support.’
Commitments attached to the budget wrecking ball that is the stadium? Seriously?
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
This line caught my eye though:
‘Dean Harriss secured commitments from the government on budget repair before confirming his support.’
Commitments attached to the budget wrecking ball that is the stadium? Seriously?
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
Stadium debate goes until nearly 3am after Meg Webb’s marathon speech
Pro-stadium MLCs blocked Meg Webb’s attempt to adjourn until the next sitting…
pulsetasmania.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Holy moley! Meg Webb is a trooper.
This line caught my eye though:
‘Dean Harriss secured commitments from the government on budget repair before confirming his support.’
Commitments attached to the budget wrecking ball that is the stadium? Seriously?
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
This line caught my eye though:
‘Dean Harriss secured commitments from the government on budget repair before confirming his support.’
Commitments attached to the budget wrecking ball that is the stadium? Seriously?
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
Please stop using the passive voice for this sort of issue. It is not some subconscious shift in behaviour. The limits on reading stem from deliberate restriction on education access, & emphasis on narrow application to business needs. We’re being pushed.
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | The Global Story | The death of reading
What do we lose when screens replace books?
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Please stop using the passive voice for this sort of issue. It is not some subconscious shift in behaviour. The limits on reading stem from deliberate restriction on education access, & emphasis on narrow application to business needs. We’re being pushed.
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
As a social worker, I am totally here for the balance of probabilities. #auspol
Bruce Lehrmann has lost his appeal against the judgement in his defamation claim against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson.
Read the full story here. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Read the full story here. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
As a social worker, I am totally here for the balance of probabilities. #auspol
Also known as the Rogues’ Gallery of Tax Dodgers.
These are the 10 richest people in the world right now.
The Top 10 Richest People In The World | December 2025
There’s a new No. 2 on Forbes’ ranking of the world’s wealthiest people.
www.forbes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Also known as the Rogues’ Gallery of Tax Dodgers.
This should be one of easiest decisions. Like, a no brainer, but instead we get subjected to hand-wringing performative BS such as this to rationalise a poor choice. #politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-...
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-...
Hobart stadium one step closer as key independent Bec Thomas declares support
‘This has been the hardest decision of my political career’…
pulsetasmania.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This should be one of easiest decisions. Like, a no brainer, but instead we get subjected to hand-wringing performative BS such as this to rationalise a poor choice. #politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-...
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-...
If attendance figures are to be believed, this is less than $1 per participant. Cheapskates.
Also, celebrating $10,000 raised for charity at an event calling for $1bn+ taxpayer-funded white elephant. #politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
Also, celebrating $10,000 raised for charity at an event calling for $1bn+ taxpayer-funded white elephant. #politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
Stadium rally raises nearly $10,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Tasmania
The protest has been described as one of Tasmania’s biggest of the century…
pulsetasmania.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If attendance figures are to be believed, this is less than $1 per participant. Cheapskates.
Also, celebrating $10,000 raised for charity at an event calling for $1bn+ taxpayer-funded white elephant. #politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
Also, celebrating $10,000 raised for charity at an event calling for $1bn+ taxpayer-funded white elephant. #politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/stadium...
Or…stop electing pro-fossil fuel politicians, ban corporate political donations and restrict lobbying. 🤷🏻♂️ #auspol #sapol
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Get shucking: South Australians urged to eat oysters and donate shells for reef restoration project
Shrimp soundtrack will be played under water to lure baby oysters in program aimed at fighting algal blooms
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Or…stop electing pro-fossil fuel politicians, ban corporate political donations and restrict lobbying. 🤷🏻♂️ #auspol #sapol
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The article neatly showcases male privilege; talking about disagreeing with a (female) senior about a leadership decision; whitewashing the sheer stupidity of what was said; failing to engage with the valid questions about attitude. But the person in question still has career progression 🤷🏻♂️ #auspol
After a man set fire to his wife and children, Det Insp Mark Thompson: “Is this an issue of a woman suffering significant domestic violence and her and her children perishing at the hands of the husband? Or is this an instance of a husband being driven too far?”
He was promoted to superintendent.
He was promoted to superintendent.
‘Victim blaming’ comments after Hannah Clarke murders were part of botched police media strategy
Documents reveal comments by Det Insp Mark Thompson were attempt to flush out killer’s supporters
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The article neatly showcases male privilege; talking about disagreeing with a (female) senior about a leadership decision; whitewashing the sheer stupidity of what was said; failing to engage with the valid questions about attitude. But the person in question still has career progression 🤷🏻♂️ #auspol
Nothing says ‘I’m completely innocent and these accusations are unfounded’ like asking for a pardon for a crime that you haven’t been found guilty of yet.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Benjamin Netanyahu seeks pardon from Israel's president
He denies any wrongdoing in three ongoing trials over allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Nothing says ‘I’m completely innocent and these accusations are unfounded’ like asking for a pardon for a crime that you haven’t been found guilty of yet.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“This was a coronial investigation, not a criminal one,” she said. “There was no person of interest. It makes no sense that there was a need for a covert strategy.”
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Victim blaming’ comments after Hannah Clarke murders were part of botched police media strategy
Documents reveal comments by Det Insp Mark Thompson were attempt to flush out killer’s supporters
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“This was a coronial investigation, not a criminal one,” she said. “There was no person of interest. It makes no sense that there was a need for a covert strategy.”
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘You see, it’s not the fact that the boat was broken up in three parts over 100 years ago and lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it’s that the 21st Century Titantic Trans-Atlantic Cruise Company couldn’t make a good sales pitch.’
#politas
#politas
Stadium or no stadium, young Tasmanians will still leave the state. They'll leave to pursue better and more varied higher education, better paid jobs, for adventure and travel, for warmer climates. They always have and they always will. A stadium won't stop that happening. #politas
Former premier says Tasmania's stadium proposal has been 'poorly' sold
Peter Gutwein initiated the push for a stadium in Hobart, but he has had to watch the drama unfold from the sidelines. He says rejecting the proposal would be the biggest "lost opportunity" in the sta...
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
‘You see, it’s not the fact that the boat was broken up in three parts over 100 years ago and lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it’s that the 21st Century Titantic Trans-Atlantic Cruise Company couldn’t make a good sales pitch.’
#politas
#politas
I’ll take the win, but this is a great example of how system failures are characterised as individual failures instead. In this case, pointing out there were two independent reviewers. Doesn’t change issues of philosophy, idea, design, review, publication - that’s systemic failure. #neoliberalism
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’ll take the win, but this is a great example of how system failures are characterised as individual failures instead. In this case, pointing out there were two independent reviewers. Doesn’t change issues of philosophy, idea, design, review, publication - that’s systemic failure. #neoliberalism
This is dystopian. Setting aside the gobbledygook, the assertion that cases of #autism are increasing is a flawed statement. Identification is becoming clearer, hence greater numbers, but I reckon we are way off seriously determining actual prevalence & growth patterns. This AI nonsense won’t help.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is dystopian. Setting aside the gobbledygook, the assertion that cases of #autism are increasing is a flawed statement. Identification is becoming clearer, hence greater numbers, but I reckon we are way off seriously determining actual prevalence & growth patterns. This AI nonsense won’t help.
Zelenskyy walks into negotiations, dumps a bag of soil in front of Putin and says ‘Surrendered from my own garden. That’s all you’re getting. Can we get started now?’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Putin insists Ukraine has to surrender territory for any deal to be possible
Russian president says latest draft peace plan ‘can be basis for future agreements’ if Kyiv gives up unspecified areas
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Zelenskyy walks into negotiations, dumps a bag of soil in front of Putin and says ‘Surrendered from my own garden. That’s all you’re getting. Can we get started now?’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Haemorrhaging votes to the UK Green Party like blood from a lacerated arm, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social decides the best approach is to gut themselves with a meat cleaver, because that will get the undecideds on board.
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Haemorrhaging votes to the UK Green Party like blood from a lacerated arm, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social decides the best approach is to gut themselves with a meat cleaver, because that will get the undecideds on board.
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
Women & children face significant dangers from the promotion of gun use, even if not immediately obvious. Many violent offenders access firearms because they have friends or family that hunt. Every time I hear ‘but she let him in’ my first question is ‘does he have access to a gun?’ #auspol
“There is no public interest in this Bill. It is not about conservation or environmental protection - it is simply a blatant push by vested interests that will unwind the bipartisan legacy of the National Firearms Agreement and make all Australians less safe,” Walter Mikac AM said
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Women & children face significant dangers from the promotion of gun use, even if not immediately obvious. Many violent offenders access firearms because they have friends or family that hunt. Every time I hear ‘but she let him in’ my first question is ‘does he have access to a gun?’ #auspol
If you feel you can’t protect enough people without state-enforced heavy-handedness and rolling back basic rights, then you can’t protect anyone. #Springst
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
If you feel you can’t protect enough people without state-enforced heavy-handedness and rolling back basic rights, then you can’t protect anyone. #Springst
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Cheers @wikipedia.org but the distance is not unknown. Lancashire is always in my heart ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Cheers @wikipedia.org but the distance is not unknown. Lancashire is always in my heart ❤️
Lots of questions here:
- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/fast-fo...
- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/fast-fo...
Fast food supervisor fined for sending nude photo to teenage colleague
The 15-year-old colleague was sent the picture on Snapchat…
pulsetasmania.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Lots of questions here:
- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/fast-fo...
- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/fast-fo...