Chris Salisbury
@chrissalisbury.bsky.social
the boy from the outer Barcoo
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In Crikey today, I have a long read on Canberra’s endearment with AI and the dubious promise of data centre riches. While Australia’s creatives are being sold down the river, you don’t need to fire up Claude to spot some cracks in the hype-doom sales pitch ($) www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/08/a...
Canberra is 'drinking the Kool-Aid' on AI. Where will it take us?
The Albanese government is treating the promises of AI and data centre investment like a digital mining boom. How does it sit within Labor's broader social project?
www.crikey.com.au
October 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
In Crikey today, I have a long read on Canberra’s endearment with AI and the dubious promise of data centre riches. While Australia’s creatives are being sold down the river, you don’t need to fire up Claude to spot some cracks in the hype-doom sales pitch ($) www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/08/a...
Remembering (yes, remembering) that time 40 years ago this month when Queensland Museum carted replica dinosaurs through busy inner city Brisbane streets to new museum digs at South Bank/Kurilpa
![A flat bed truck carrying a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex through traffic in inner Brisbane/Magandjin in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtipxjdan2luoo22ah2k4oyk/bafkreidu2klfwy3z2ohu4cv56w5dj3e7m6qsogzgtxztpojtocz5o4yuaq)
![A truck arriving with a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex at Grey St, South Brisbane where Queensland Museum opened on its new site in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtipxjdan2luoo22ah2k4oyk/bafkreifx3qljbu3c6hagxjvovilawg52z763thesmk6ctz6nddila2gh4e)
October 8, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Remembering (yes, remembering) that time 40 years ago this month when Queensland Museum carted replica dinosaurs through busy inner city Brisbane streets to new museum digs at South Bank/Kurilpa
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Today I’m starting something new with the Tally Room podcast: a three-part history podcast looking at the history of OPV in Australia, rolling out over the next 3 weeks. This first episode looks at early debates on preferential voting and how it worked up to 1951. www.tallyroom.com.au/68638
Podcast #168 – Just Vote 1: The rise of preferential voting
In the first in a three-party election history series about Optional Preferential Voting called ‘Just Vote 1’, Ben explores the rise of preferential voting – how it happened, who …
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October 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Today I’m starting something new with the Tally Room podcast: a three-part history podcast looking at the history of OPV in Australia, rolling out over the next 3 weeks. This first episode looks at early debates on preferential voting and how it worked up to 1951. www.tallyroom.com.au/68638
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"The Eastern Kuku Yalanji people are celebrating a historic native title determination recognising their rights over more than 200,000 hectares of land on Cape York Peninsula. 1/2
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Cape York traditional owners celebrate end to decades-long native title struggle
Far North Queensland's Eastern Kuku Yalanji people celebrate an historic native title determination recognising their rights over more than 200,000 hectares of Cape York.
www.abc.net.au
October 5, 2026 at 6:16 AM
"The Eastern Kuku Yalanji people are celebrating a historic native title determination recognising their rights over more than 200,000 hectares of land on Cape York Peninsula. 1/2
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Seeing this guy in Fantasia taught me Disney films were not always your friend
October 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Seeing this guy in Fantasia taught me Disney films were not always your friend
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that to wake in Queensland on an October Sunday morning comfortable in the knowledge that the dairy cows have not turned off their milk and the curtains have not faded is one of the more sublime stages on the path to enlightenment
October 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that to wake in Queensland on an October Sunday morning comfortable in the knowledge that the dairy cows have not turned off their milk and the curtains have not faded is one of the more sublime stages on the path to enlightenment
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It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig
October 3, 2026 at 11:25 AM
It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig
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64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
September 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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47 years ago today
Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979.
She made one of the most famous images in music history.
#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979.
She made one of the most famous images in music history.
#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
September 20, 2026 at 3:02 AM
47 years ago today
Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979.
She made one of the most famous images in music history.
#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979.
She made one of the most famous images in music history.
#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Today is the 133rd anniversary of Suffrage Day in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 1993, Flying Nun released Shrew'd: A Compilation Of NZ Women's Music to celebrate a centenary of suffrage; the album featured a cast of FN luminaries including Gill Civil, Frankie Hill... audioculture.co.nz/profile/gill...
Gill Civil - AudioCulture
In New Zealand, Civil is mostly known for her work in Marie and the Atom, an early 80s art-music performance group who released two EPs on Flying Nun and a live cassette EP on Industrial Tapes. Civil’...
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September 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Today is the 133rd anniversary of Suffrage Day in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 1993, Flying Nun released Shrew'd: A Compilation Of NZ Women's Music to celebrate a centenary of suffrage; the album featured a cast of FN luminaries including Gill Civil, Frankie Hill... audioculture.co.nz/profile/gill...
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Love this; reminiscent of the West Wing's Cartographers for Social Equality, but real!
www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Love this; reminiscent of the West Wing's Cartographers for Social Equality, but real!
www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% In the 70 years after the British invaded.
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September 15, 2026 at 10:34 AM
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
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Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds
Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds
Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.
www.abc.net.au
September 15, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds
Wishing all who celebrate a happy international day of democracy from fair Queensland, the cradle of democratic norms and traditions ⚖️
September 15, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Wishing all who celebrate a happy international day of democracy from fair Queensland, the cradle of democratic norms and traditions ⚖️
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developer wankspeak: ’…unmatched exposure…the flexibility to capitalise on planning parameters…a rare chance to secure a strategic landholding with both immediate income & long-term growth potential’
ended up at the beat often after a night out in the valley 80/90s
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ended up at the beat often after a night out in the valley 80/90s
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Brisbane's Iconic Beat Megaclub Sold To Construction Company
The Beat Megaclub went up for auction last November and recently sold for $13 million.
themusic.com.au
September 15, 2026 at 6:29 AM
developer wankspeak: ’…unmatched exposure…the flexibility to capitalise on planning parameters…a rare chance to secure a strategic landholding with both immediate income & long-term growth potential’
ended up at the beat often after a night out in the valley 80/90s
themusic.com.au/industry/bri...
ended up at the beat often after a night out in the valley 80/90s
themusic.com.au/industry/bri...
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For much of this century, while Australia changed, federal parliament was stuck in a “white-bloke past”.
Shocks, alchemy and John Howard’s ‘long shadow’ have shaped 21st century Australian politics
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September 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
For much of this century, while Australia changed, federal parliament was stuck in a “white-bloke past”.
Pouring one out for the now demolished Roxy, there was a real one (lovable shithole venue) 😔
September 13, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Pouring one out for the now demolished Roxy, there was a real one (lovable shithole venue) 😔
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in which i take a lot of words and quoted wwi diaries to say i like vegemite better than marmite: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #149: Vegemite
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, an...
buttondown.com
September 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
in which i take a lot of words and quoted wwi diaries to say i like vegemite better than marmite: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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TEQSA’s intervention is yet another damning indictment of the leadership and governance of ANU under former chancellor Julie Bishop, writes Julie Hare.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/07/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/07/a...
ANU smacked with conditions to continue operating after governance failures
The conditions set by TEQSA illustrate how far the ANU council had drifted from normal expectations of probity, accountability and transparency.
www.crikey.com.au
September 7, 2026 at 11:26 PM
TEQSA’s intervention is yet another damning indictment of the leadership and governance of ANU under former chancellor Julie Bishop, writes Julie Hare.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/07/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/07/a...
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Anti-apartheid protesters climb the goalposts during South Africa's rugby match against a North of Scotland District side in Aberdeen in 1969.
96 protesters were each charged £15, with their fines being paid by John Lennon.
96 protesters were each charged £15, with their fines being paid by John Lennon.
September 5, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Anti-apartheid protesters climb the goalposts during South Africa's rugby match against a North of Scotland District side in Aberdeen in 1969.
96 protesters were each charged £15, with their fines being paid by John Lennon.
96 protesters were each charged £15, with their fines being paid by John Lennon.
We’re only two-thirds through the year but the US being alone in choosing the Mercator projection as a hill to die on might be peak 2026
The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe, which, for 5 centuries, has depicted European countries disproportionately larger than they really are www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
We’re only two-thirds through the year but the US being alone in choosing the Mercator projection as a hill to die on might be peak 2026
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It’s the 39th anniversary of this splendid Far Side cartoon. Why, though, has it been signed by Jane Goodall...? 🧵
August 26, 2026 at 9:04 AM
It’s the 39th anniversary of this splendid Far Side cartoon. Why, though, has it been signed by Jane Goodall...? 🧵
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Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library.
Here's what the charity does ⬇️
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Here's what the charity does ⬇️
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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August 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library.
Here's what the charity does ⬇️
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Here's what the charity does ⬇️
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...