Jackie Cooper
@jackiecooper.bsky.social
Architectural writing/editing. Stepwells of India Origins and Evolution, an Indian-Australian research team, with Haig Beck, Snehal Shah, Sunaina Shah, John Gollings — 4 volumes in production. On Quandamooka land. www.umemagazine.com
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This draconian political overreach is provocative and does nothing to foster social cohesion.
When government masquerades as the thought police, it is an attack on human rights.
Wake up!
#auspol
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
This draconian political overreach is provocative and does nothing to foster social cohesion.
When government masquerades as the thought police, it is an attack on human rights.
Wake up!
#auspol
February 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
See what YOU have started @albomp.bsky.social
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
This draconian political overreach is provocative and does nothing to foster social cohesion.
When government masquerades as the thought police, it is an attack on human rights.
Wake up!
#auspol
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
This draconian political overreach is provocative and does nothing to foster social cohesion.
When government masquerades as the thought police, it is an attack on human rights.
Wake up!
#auspol
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I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo. Yet somehow Scott Morrison came back from the dead this week.
The evangelical creepshow returns.
I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo. Yet somehow Scott Morrison came back from the dead this week.
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"The #AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point."
And yet, here we are, explains @grogsgamut.bsky.social . #auspol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
And yet, here we are, explains @grogsgamut.bsky.social . #auspol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
All the money, none of the submarines: AUKUS deal paying upfront for hopes and dreams
When Kerry Packer bought Channel 9 back from Allan Bond for effectively half the price Bond had sold it to him, Packer famously said “You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime, and I’ve had mine”.
thepoint.com.au
January 28, 2026 at 2:25 AM
"The #AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point."
And yet, here we are, explains @grogsgamut.bsky.social . #auspol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
And yet, here we are, explains @grogsgamut.bsky.social . #auspol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Called it right
With the RWNJ domino effect in full swing further right, now perfect timing for Richard Marles to assume Lib leadership…
January 26, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Called it right
Are we listening to this, Australia
.@gideonrachman is right. This would be the flex. Europe has cards to play. But will it choose to play them?
January 13, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Are we listening to this, Australia
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This is what all EU countries (AND the UK) should do …
January 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
This is what all EU countries (AND the UK) should do …
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SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why
Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.
www.theage.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Australia’s sales of big cars are out of control
Australia has a big “big car” problem; we have too many SUVs and utes, and we keep getting lots more of them.
thepoint.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?
But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Australia has been 30 years without a mass shooting. Gun control works, and needs to go further.
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Australia has been 30 years without a mass shooting. Gun control works, and needs to go further.
Ghost of Joh
The Crisafulli government has officially dropped all renewable energy targets. The LNP is promising Queenslanders an energy system cost reduction of $26b to 2035 with coal generated power. Qld is no longer committed to national emissions abatement. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au?p=242212
reneweconomy.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Ghost of Joh
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We should not ally with the US. This is piracy, and frankly a casus belli. Will Oz send troops to support this extra-judicial action? Sorry, guys, the US is not to be trusted.
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
We should not ally with the US. This is piracy, and frankly a casus belli. Will Oz send troops to support this extra-judicial action? Sorry, guys, the US is not to be trusted.
On Frank Gehry: as architectural editors and publishers Haig and I also hit our stride in our 50s. We published Gehry buildings in UME and asked Paolo Tombesi to write critiques. In UME 12, 2000, Building ‘B’, der Neue Zollhof, Düsseldorf. Lots of drawings. Paolo wrote ‘Boundaries of Expression’.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
On Frank Gehry: as architectural editors and publishers Haig and I also hit our stride in our 50s. We published Gehry buildings in UME and asked Paolo Tombesi to write critiques. In UME 12, 2000, Building ‘B’, der Neue Zollhof, Düsseldorf. Lots of drawings. Paolo wrote ‘Boundaries of Expression’.
Noticing a few posts on Frank Gehry. We published the house in International Architect, 2, 1978. 13 pp, drawings and photographs. He was almost 50 when he designed this house, an age when most great architects are hitting their stride. But he was a relatively unknown ‘commercial’ architect, and /3
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Noticing a few posts on Frank Gehry. We published the house in International Architect, 2, 1978. 13 pp, drawings and photographs. He was almost 50 when he designed this house, an age when most great architects are hitting their stride. But he was a relatively unknown ‘commercial’ architect, and /3
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Mr Gideon Haigh on why the ongoing, incompetent and dull-witted enshittification of the State Library of Victoria is so heartbreaking, so stupid, and so dangerous. Please share. www.cricketetal.com/p/an-institu...
An Institution Betrayed
GH on the State Library's post-literate plans
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December 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Mr Gideon Haigh on why the ongoing, incompetent and dull-witted enshittification of the State Library of Victoria is so heartbreaking, so stupid, and so dangerous. Please share. www.cricketetal.com/p/an-institu...
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Greenpeace activists have scaled and blocked a second coal ship during the #RisingTide People’s Blockade. Australian musicians Oli and Louis Leimbach from Lime Cordiale joined the action‼️
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
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Our beloved and trusted AUKUS ally
President Donald Trump says he has agreed to sell the nation's most advanced fighter jet to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane's vaunted American technology. n.pr/4pmJ4D2
What to know about the F-35 fighter jet that Trump is selling to Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump says he has agreed to sell the nation's most advanced fighter jet to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane's vaunted American technology.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Our beloved and trusted AUKUS ally
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So now Australia will be making F35 fighter jet parts for Saudi Arabia. A country that Amnesty says ignores people’s basic human rights, restricts their freedoms and inflicts severe punishment. The regime also kills dissenters. No one even asked us.
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So now Australia will be making F35 fighter jet parts for Saudi Arabia. A country that Amnesty says ignores people’s basic human rights, restricts their freedoms and inflicts severe punishment. The regime also kills dissenters. No one even asked us.
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Australia’s greatest ally
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Australia’s greatest ally
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I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."
Nice one, Philip.
The challenges of how to upgrade characterful but dilapidated apartment buildings.
Our work with the owners of this Maroubra Beach front apartment building - long a personal favourite - trying to navigate;
1 planning (DA lodged)
2 documentation, consultant coord, regulations
3 construction
…
Our work with the owners of this Maroubra Beach front apartment building - long a personal favourite - trying to navigate;
1 planning (DA lodged)
2 documentation, consultant coord, regulations
3 construction
…
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Nice one, Philip.
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An erratum of editors.
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
An erratum of editors.
Same
Watched A House of Dynamite. It was good. But now I’m not.
October 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Same
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The Far Right Contagion
It’s not a Trump thing. It’s not a politics thing.
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM