Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands is now available for download as a free epub link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I’m at my beloved @3rrrfm.bsky.social this evening for the Spin Cycle special Who Killed Journalism? recorded before a very full-house live studio audience. Listen live right here: www.rrr.org.au

Who Killed Jounalism? Tonight’s special edition of Spin Cycle is all yours live before a studio audience at @3rrrfm.bsky.social – listen now: www.rrr.org.au

What I’ve seen reported so far reflects an approach of great ambition, with @albomp.bsky.social bringing AI policy into the prime minister’s office and approaching it comprehensively. We’re also seeing strong statements in unequivocal support of artists. Superb. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Many World Cup moons ago I covered the Fed Square live site for SBS Radio Melbourne and, can I just say, nothing bursts those seams quite like the beautiful game

In the olden days, electronic infrastructure embedded into residential areas was subject to sensitive design principles, blending into communities effectively regardless of scale. Art deco former substations are real estate gold! So how are data centres getting away with looking just like prisons?

👑🚫🇦🇺❓I've just spent two years co-chairing the Australian Republic Movement: reframing the national conversation, getting the house in order, hitting global headlines with an unexpectedly rock'n'roll campaign (happy birthday, king!) and plotting the future. 🗳️ Let's go: republic.org.au/ncstatements26

Great big congrats to all the arts people honoured today – including Bianca Beetson, Janice Florence, Elaine Chia, and the great Gerald Murnane, who's now an AO. Here's Eli McLean's superb interview with Gerald: lnkd.in/gpMCpwvG And here's everyone who's been honoured today: lnkd.in/g7TzvUiw

If even Washington DC can’t tell the difference between the Australian flag and that of any other generic union-jacked colony or coloniser, we’re really not looking too great in the eyes of the world. Republic now! And at least dump the flag. Photos via the eagle-eyed @palaceletters.bsky.social 👏

Tomorrow 3:30-5:30pm at Blindside I’m presenting an INDEX-SYSTEM workshop – come join? Be sure to bring your favourite notebook and pen/s! It’s the final session of a big workshop day at Blindside’s A Library of Libraries, in which I’m also showing work: blindside.org.au/program/a-li...

Apple will not rest until their iThing can do this—

All The Colours of the Rainbow was one of my ABR Books of the Year – don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear @raewhite.bsky.social’s storytime reading plus book signing! www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/a...

Speaking of! Just popped down to Dymocks to buy the nephling a gift and look who I spotted in the impulse buys queue 👀🥰

Then, an “apology” – with all the ChatGPT hallmarks. As for the idea that an author would hand over “a 15min video greeting”? Huge lol no. Again, @asauthors.bsky.social makes it clear that reusable digital IP is subject to a license fee. So ends today’s case study in How Not to Approach an Author.

Beyond that sideshow, here’s what the Australian Republic Movement’s interested in: the future. Our 2026 Republic Youth Series, led and facilitated by @yasminpoole.bsky.social, will culminate in a co-designed Youth Charter on why young people demand a republic republic.org.au/youth-series26

The future of art, culture and technology and the future of humanity are intertwined—but that’s not how most people in the field understand their influence. My latest for @thepointau.bsky.social is on @acmimuseum.bsky.social #FACT2026 (i.e. REMIX for the real world): thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Nick talks investment, not funding. A “save us” approach never works. I don’t know why it keeps happening. It turns decision-makers off. It’s a deficit and loss mindset. We need to emphasise the multiplier effect. What we unlock. We have massive social capital. We are loved by communities. #FACT2026

Asteroids are coming at our industry from all directions, says Nick. But our industry has a great deal of social capital. How do we transform that into political capital? That’s my focus. Even in a polarised political environment, we need to be impactful with all sides of politics. #FACT2026

Missed opportunities in this session: real actions, tangible outcomes, being specific. Slido ftw! #FACT2026

Rather than build yet another database, Jen says, as we were asked to do, we rejected hoarding knowledge. Instead the Centre for Reworlding has created Bilya, with thanks to our collaborator @clairegcoleman.bsky.social for this name. Bilya maps the relationships so you find who you need #FACT2026

From primary school to the UN, we’re all humans in a climate crisis, says Jen. It addresses our reptilian brain. Colonialism, capitalism, all of the -isms sever our relationshoos. How do we proceed without being maladapted? Fundamentalism? Nihilism? No: activism. Know where the joy is. Go. #FACT2026

The knowledge is not all in books, says Troy; we walk through the knowledge. Led by Boonwurrung Elder Parbin-ata Dr Carolyn Briggs AM – the “Queen of Melbourne, and in Planetary Civics at RMIT, we spend ten days together every year in the Posthuman Summer Lab #FACT2026

Some quality questions coming through on the Slido. Will Ra bust a move? Plus there’s one and possibly two marriage proposals. Well ok that was unexpected #FACT2026

Wasan, the all-too-lost art of Japanese mathematics – reaching Western breakthroughs years before Leibniz – was as honoured as haiku and the tea ceremony, says Ryuka. This work is a musical instrument created by wassan-led quantum computing: a microcosm like the tea ceremony’s tatami mat. #FACT2026

Of course, we deploy technology all the time to shift our sense of presence and create a shared context, says Ryuka. Here’s some work made of hundreds of thousands of QR codes. The final work is located between computation and efficiency, drawing on traditional Japanese mathematics. #FACT2026

The Japanese tea ceremony is a journey, explains Ryuta (use your device to translate the image!), through a highly structured garden. The final threshold has a doorframe deliberately low so as to bow the head of all classes and privilege status. Ritual creates a shared context #FACT2026

Ryuta Aoki next up. Based in Japan but having spent some time growing up in Perth, he’d been sensitive to bushfire response work. Shaping his practice, he’s spiritually guided by the Japanese tea ceremony and its quest for that higher plane. Imagination as mental centring. #FACT2026

I am *aching* to visit M+ …have you been? Sewon’s role is massive inside and out, as well as broadcasting on a commercial-free screen across Hong Kong! #FACT2026

And now here’s a reminder from Creative Australia to do the Creative Workplaces survey so that they’re best placed to address the dire issues we’ve been discussing today. Head to creativeworkplaces.org and contribute to making arts workplaces safe, respectful and healthy. It’s urgent. #FACT2026

Many thanks to Caitlin McGrane & Jacina Leong (RMIT University) for taking us through their toolkit for qualitative audience engagement. That’s the one so few of us have time for, but of course it’s the richest! Very useful. Launching in May, feedback needed now, you know what to do! #FACT2026