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Beck
@beckjoinyourunion.bsky.social
Aussie politics & journalism junkie; trade unionist. Lefty. Tory free zone (broadly defined). Ally in Meanjin.
Our government in Australia used to provide all of these as nationalised services. They’ve all been sold off and we are so much worse off.
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It’s fair to say I was there more recently, and it was when the undergraduate degrees had been introduced and the department renamed as Science and Technology Studies. I was always interested in the previous incarnations of the department and grateful it was saved by Sir Derek Roberts.
December 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How long ago? I was Departmental Administrator to the department for 11 years. I also regularly said hi to Jeremy.
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Which book will you be taking? Beats having to worry about a date.
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Welcome to the Northside! Inner city north, at that. I hope the move goes smoothly.
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Good luck with the rest of the move to wonderful BrisVegas! Are you north or south of the river, and has it been explained to you that this is the question you will now be asked most, second only to where did you go to school? (I don’t make the rules.)
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Exactly. Why take Robert Redford and leave Trump here??
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
He seemed more interested in making it clear that he has no desire to explain why his salary is sooooo much higher than that of the Prime Minister. There’s no justification possible.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Also a better main stream media, which would help with educating people instead of feeding people lies about how immigrants and a lack of nuclear energy are ruining all our lives and it’s all Labor and the Greens fault.
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Especially given how dangerous they are 😇😉
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Exactly, that’s much more accurate, no more difficult to understand and a great deal more helpful.
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
If the government would concentrate on alleviating poverty and making life affordable again, a lot of other problems would go away, including the kind of impotent rage that One Nation exploits.
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I don’t know. I lurch between wishing this government would do more and being horrified by some of what they ARE doing. What we WANTED was a traditional Labor government, not whatever the hell neoliberal, dehumanised 🐂💩 this is. #auspol
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reposted by Beck
One of the more interesting questions raised I've seen given who he has pardoned is is he building his own drug corridor.

This is not an anti-drug admin after all.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's White House Was 'Awash in Speed' -- and Xanax
Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources say.
www.rollingstone.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM