My latest in Inside Story

The Courier-Mail (no link) is running a #Brisbane airport propaganda line that a curfew would disrupt flights for a million people a year (8 flights per night*pax/flight*365). Using the same basis of calculation, and assuming 500k people under the flight path, they are disturbing about 100 million people a year. #auspol #greens #auspol

I wrote this for the Guardian last week, Events have already moved on, with the snap resignation of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, but the anomalous status of a “national flag carrier” with no interest in the welfare of the nation remains unresolved.

We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen

My latest in The Conversation #auspol

My latest in The Conversation

Today, I signed up for Bluesky and Threads, taking a brief look at each of them, and announced my final departure from Twitter, to take place when Musk removes the Block feature[1]. Meanwhile I’m still using Mastodon as my main microblog along with this blog and Crooked Timber for long-form blogging. I’m trying to maintain a couple of Substack newsletters and commenting on Substack Notes. And I still post occasionally on Facebook.

This is clearly too much, but it reflects the transition from the Facebook-Twitter era of “social media” (with blogs as a holdover from a more optimistic past) to whatever comes next. I’m going to make the case for a combination of Mastodon and Substack as the way forward.