Blakandblack
@blakandblack.bsky.social
Enemy of the establishment. Friend to everyone else. Business owner. Rugby and boxing enthusiast. My view on life: party hard today, because tomorrow might never come 🇪🇺🇦🇺✡️
Pinned
Major Oak
Vita longa et felix
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Vita longa et felix
For centuries I lifted my branches into the weather –
No god stole my life.
Perhaps the gods, who had watched me witness so much death, so much destruction, so much hoarding of what was never anyone’s, offered death instead as a final kindness
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
For centuries I lifted my branches into the weather –
No god stole my life.
Perhaps the gods, who had watched me witness so much death, so much destruction, so much hoarding of what was never anyone’s, offered death instead as a final kindness
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
I watched two mustaches rise beneath the banners of nations.
One turned his own people into kindling for his ambition.
The other built a machine for erasing names, and fed it a whole people, children first.
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One turned his own people into kindling for his ambition.
The other built a machine for erasing names, and fed it a whole people, children first.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
September 18, 2026 at 12:39 AM
I watched two mustaches rise beneath the banners of nations.
One turned his own people into kindling for his ambition.
The other built a machine for erasing names, and fed it a whole people, children first.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
One turned his own people into kindling for his ambition.
The other built a machine for erasing names, and fed it a whole people, children first.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 12:37 AM
U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
WORDS THAT ARM
"He did not cite a psychology textbook's account of the justification-suppression model. He cited the actual politician, by name, as his actual justification, to actual witnesses. "
BAKCHOS, WORDS THAT ARM
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"He did not cite a psychology textbook's account of the justification-suppression model. He cited the actual politician, by name, as his actual justification, to actual witnesses. "
BAKCHOS, WORDS THAT ARM
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September 17, 2026 at 11:47 PM
WORDS THAT ARM
"He did not cite a psychology textbook's account of the justification-suppression model. He cited the actual politician, by name, as his actual justification, to actual witnesses. "
BAKCHOS, WORDS THAT ARM
blakandblack.com/2026/09/16/w...
"He did not cite a psychology textbook's account of the justification-suppression model. He cited the actual politician, by name, as his actual justification, to actual witnesses. "
BAKCHOS, WORDS THAT ARM
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Vita longa et felix
For centuries I lifted my branches into the weather –
No god stole my life.
Perhaps the gods, who had watched me witness so much death, so much destruction, so much hoarding of what was never anyone’s, offered death instead as a final kindness
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
For centuries I lifted my branches into the weather –
No god stole my life.
Perhaps the gods, who had watched me witness so much death, so much destruction, so much hoarding of what was never anyone’s, offered death instead as a final kindness
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
Major Oak
Vita longa et felix
blakandblack.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Vita longa et felix
For centuries I lifted my branches into the weather –
No god stole my life.
Perhaps the gods, who had watched me witness so much death, so much destruction, so much hoarding of what was never anyone’s, offered death instead as a final kindness
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
For centuries I lifted my branches into the weather –
No god stole my life.
Perhaps the gods, who had watched me witness so much death, so much destruction, so much hoarding of what was never anyone’s, offered death instead as a final kindness
blakandblack.com/2026/09/18/m...
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Government now clear to hack your phone. No warrant. Israel group Cellebrite paid to do it.
Is this not fascist?
@michaelsainsbury.bsky.social
#cellebrite #auspol #nswpol
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Is this not fascist?
@michaelsainsbury.bsky.social
#cellebrite #auspol #nswpol
michaelwest.com.au/cellebrite-g...
Cellebrite gets Government blessing to share your phone - Michael West
Cellebrite has government clearance for use by law enforcement agencies to pry into your personal life, and you can't stop them.
michaelwest.com.au
September 17, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Government now clear to hack your phone. No warrant. Israel group Cellebrite paid to do it.
Is this not fascist?
@michaelsainsbury.bsky.social
#cellebrite #auspol #nswpol
michaelwest.com.au/cellebrite-g...
Is this not fascist?
@michaelsainsbury.bsky.social
#cellebrite #auspol #nswpol
michaelwest.com.au/cellebrite-g...
The International Monetary Fund has called on Australia’s federal and state governments to cut spending as it warns the Reserve Bank may have to hike interest rates further to get price pressures back under control.
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IMF urges Australian government to cut spending as another interest rate hike looms — Guardian Australia
Warning comes as forecast for nation’s economic growth downgraded amid concerns over rising debt and inflation
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September 17, 2026 at 3:40 AM
The International Monetary Fund has called on Australia’s federal and state governments to cut spending as it warns the Reserve Bank may have to hike interest rates further to get price pressures back under control.
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Such an amazing piece of writing. A long read but so worthwhile
The Major Oak didn't wake up this spring. No single villain — just centuries of ordinary human affection, each act forgivable, together lethal. A new essay on what that tree's death has to say about wealth, institutions, extraction, and scapegoating.
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Autopsy of the Major Oak: How Care Becomes Harm at Scale
Major Oak has died, succumbing to the ravages of too much love from the well meaning and ignorant.
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September 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Such an amazing piece of writing. A long read but so worthwhile
The Major Oak didn't wake up this spring. No single villain — just centuries of ordinary human affection, each act forgivable, together lethal. A new essay on what that tree's death has to say about wealth, institutions, extraction, and scapegoating.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/17/a...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/17/a...
Autopsy of the Major Oak: How Care Becomes Harm at Scale
Major Oak has died, succumbing to the ravages of too much love from the well meaning and ignorant.
blakandblack.com
September 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
The Major Oak didn't wake up this spring. No single villain — just centuries of ordinary human affection, each act forgivable, together lethal. A new essay on what that tree's death has to say about wealth, institutions, extraction, and scapegoating.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/17/a...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/17/a...
A senator with a national platform who describes Indigenous Australians as "the most primitive race on Earth" is not merely expressing a view. She is issuing a permission slip, and the size of her audience determines how many people redeem it.
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September 16, 2026 at 7:05 AM
A senator with a national platform who describes Indigenous Australians as "the most primitive race on Earth" is not merely expressing a view. She is issuing a permission slip, and the size of her audience determines how many people redeem it.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/16/w...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/16/w...
Labor will release a contentious migration crackdown before Anthony Albanese departs to the United Nations in New York on Friday, but it will struggle to enact the strongest measures aimed at cutting back bogus asylum claims and visa-hopping graduates.
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Burke to reveal migration overhaul at Press Club on Thursday, ending weeks of confusion — The Age
His initial speech was cancelled early last month, leaving a void that has led to weeks of speculation and allowed One Nation and the Coalition to highlight more drastic cuts.
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September 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Labor will release a contentious migration crackdown before Anthony Albanese departs to the United Nations in New York on Friday, but it will struggle to enact the strongest measures aimed at cutting back bogus asylum claims and visa-hopping graduates.
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A senator's words move the boundary of what can be said without cost. In 2002, Angel Marina said Pauline Hanson's rhetoric was why his racist campaign against a colleague wasn't racist. 24 years later, the same permission structure is running on a new generation
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Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters
Failure to address racist comments made by Pauline Hanson embolden other white supremacists, resulting in real harms.
blakandblack.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
A senator's words move the boundary of what can be said without cost. In 2002, Angel Marina said Pauline Hanson's rhetoric was why his racist campaign against a colleague wasn't racist. 24 years later, the same permission structure is running on a new generation
blakandblack.com/2026/09/16/w...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/16/w...
“A political figure whose platform is shot through with policies that target people by race, religion and country of origin is simultaneously the beneficiary of what looks like a genuine, broad-based protest movement."
BLAK AND BLACK
The Hanson Paradox: Popularity
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BLAK AND BLACK
The Hanson Paradox: Popularity
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September 15, 2026 at 10:52 AM
“A political figure whose platform is shot through with policies that target people by race, religion and country of origin is simultaneously the beneficiary of what looks like a genuine, broad-based protest movement."
BLAK AND BLACK
The Hanson Paradox: Popularity
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BLAK AND BLACK
The Hanson Paradox: Popularity
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One Nation has come under fire for quietly shelving support for a new domestic gas reservation policy in preference for a policy that favours the party’s billionaire patron, Gina Rinehart.
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One Nation under fire for abandoning gas reservation plan in favour of policy benefiting Gina Rinehart — Guardian Australia
Pauline Hanson’s gas policy and the party’s relationship with Rinehart is examined in a new Guardian podcast series, The Populist
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September 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
One Nation has come under fire for quietly shelving support for a new domestic gas reservation policy in preference for a policy that favours the party’s billionaire patron, Gina Rinehart.
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Catastrophe rarely announces itself as rupture. It arrives instead as accretion — a string of small, defensible exceptions, each justified by the last, until the exception has quietly become the rule.
JUSTICE WITHIN INJUSTICE, FIFTEEN YEARS ON
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JUSTICE WITHIN INJUSTICE, FIFTEEN YEARS ON
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September 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Catastrophe rarely announces itself as rupture. It arrives instead as accretion — a string of small, defensible exceptions, each justified by the last, until the exception has quietly become the rule.
JUSTICE WITHIN INJUSTICE, FIFTEEN YEARS ON
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JUSTICE WITHIN INJUSTICE, FIFTEEN YEARS ON
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Hanson's rhetoric is straightforwardly racialised. One Nation is also polling within reach of Labor. Both things are true, and neither one explains the other on its own. The trust collapse, the Coalition's implosion, and the housing lag actually driving the surge
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The Hanson Paradox: Popularity Despite the Racism
Hanson and One Nation's seemingly rampant popularity is a symptom of an electorate jaded by the poor performance of past and incumbent governments.
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September 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Hanson's rhetoric is straightforwardly racialised. One Nation is also polling within reach of Labor. Both things are true, and neither one explains the other on its own. The trust collapse, the Coalition's implosion, and the housing lag actually driving the surge
blakandblack.com/2026/09/15/t...
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There's no slippery slope she won't tryout.
Fluffing around on a billionaire's plane, going here going there, insulting everyones intelligence wherever she goes, provoking good people with her incoherent jibes, expressing racial hatred towards First Nations people.
Aren't there laws against that?
Fluffing around on a billionaire's plane, going here going there, insulting everyones intelligence wherever she goes, provoking good people with her incoherent jibes, expressing racial hatred towards First Nations people.
Aren't there laws against that?
September 14, 2026 at 11:24 AM
There's no slippery slope she won't tryout.
Fluffing around on a billionaire's plane, going here going there, insulting everyones intelligence wherever she goes, provoking good people with her incoherent jibes, expressing racial hatred towards First Nations people.
Aren't there laws against that?
Fluffing around on a billionaire's plane, going here going there, insulting everyones intelligence wherever she goes, provoking good people with her incoherent jibes, expressing racial hatred towards First Nations people.
Aren't there laws against that?
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Indigenous Australians are widely recognised by history and science as being the oldest continuous living culture on earth. Sadly thats not what the salty, bitter old ranga tried to say tho 😒
September 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Indigenous Australians are widely recognised by history and science as being the oldest continuous living culture on earth. Sadly thats not what the salty, bitter old ranga tried to say tho 😒
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has branded Indigenous Australians “the most primitive race on Earth” in a newly surfaced interview.
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Pauline Hanson calls Indigenous Australians ‘most primitive race’ — Courier Mail
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has branded Indigenous Australians “the most primitive race on Earth” in a newly surfaced interview.
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September 14, 2026 at 10:48 AM
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has branded Indigenous Australians “the most primitive race on Earth” in a newly surfaced interview.
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15 yrs on from my first essay on Stolleis's theory of legal erosion by accretion, I've gone back through the AFP, NACC's turbulent first three years, immigration detention after NZYQ, the Commissioner for ACT Revenue case. The pattern hasn't slowed. It's metastasised
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Justice Within Injustice, Fifteen Years On
In the fifteen years since Blak and Black spoke of the erosion of civil liberties, much of what was forewarned has been realised.
blakandblack.com
September 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
15 yrs on from my first essay on Stolleis's theory of legal erosion by accretion, I've gone back through the AFP, NACC's turbulent first three years, immigration detention after NZYQ, the Commissioner for ACT Revenue case. The pattern hasn't slowed. It's metastasised
blakandblack.com/2026/09/14/j...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/14/j...
15 yrs on from my first essay on Stolleis's theory of legal erosion by accretion, I've gone back through the AFP, NACC's turbulent first three years, immigration detention after NZYQ, the Commissioner for ACT Revenue case. The pattern hasn't slowed. It's metastasised
blakandblack.com/2026/09/14/j...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/14/j...
Justice Within Injustice, Fifteen Years On
In the fifteen years since Blak and Black spoke of the erosion of civil liberties, much of what was forewarned has been realised.
blakandblack.com
September 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
15 yrs on from my first essay on Stolleis's theory of legal erosion by accretion, I've gone back through the AFP, NACC's turbulent first three years, immigration detention after NZYQ, the Commissioner for ACT Revenue case. The pattern hasn't slowed. It's metastasised
blakandblack.com/2026/09/14/j...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/14/j...
Flags imply unity through the respect and acceptance of a plurality of ideals. Those who seek to exclude and act aggressively corrupt the meanings attributable to a flag.
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Flags and Fury – When Ideals Fail to Align
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks on the United States of America, recalled most vividly by the destruction of the Twin Towers, has stoked a wave of patriotism and reflection rippling across...
blakandblack.com
September 13, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Flags imply unity through the respect and acceptance of a plurality of ideals. Those who seek to exclude and act aggressively corrupt the meanings attributable to a flag.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/13/f...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/13/f...
Flags imply unity through the respect and acceptance of a plurality of ideals. Those who seek to exclude and act aggressively corrupt the meanings attributable to a flag.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/13/f...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/13/f...
Flags and Fury – When Ideals Fail to Align
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks on the United States of America, recalled most vividly by the destruction of the Twin Towers, has stoked a wave of patriotism and reflection rippling across...
blakandblack.com
September 13, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Flags imply unity through the respect and acceptance of a plurality of ideals. Those who seek to exclude and act aggressively corrupt the meanings attributable to a flag.
blakandblack.com/2026/09/13/f...
blakandblack.com/2026/09/13/f...