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Endorsement Without Participation: The Voice to Parliament (unpublished)

Adam Bandt, Pashkuanis and Ecological Opportunism

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The Ideological History of Encircling Ecocide TL;DR

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I never change, it’s true

Don’t say bad things about cancel politics around the Australian left

Ideological enabling of fossil extractivism through Othering and performativity

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Ideological enabling of fossil extractivism through Othering and performativity

June 22, 2024

Rising above the thinking behind Climate Change: World-Ecology and Worker’s Control

Rising above the thinking behind Climate Change: World-Ecology and Worker’s Control

January 29, 2022

Challenging the entrepreneurial discourse around women home-based workers’ empowerment

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Challenging the entrepreneurial discourse around women home-based workers’ empowerment

January 19, 2022

The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020)

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The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020)

July 12, 2020

New screeds are going on Substack

New screeds are going on Substack

August 14, 2025

The optics of imperialism are ghoulish, but opportunities are ripe

The optics of imperialism are ghoulish, but opportunities are ripe

May 23, 2025

ALP deflection from complicity in crimes against humanity

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ALP deflection from complicity in crimes against humanity

September 3, 2024

Zionist Conspiracism Shares Self-Fulfilling Prophecies With Kindergarten Sandpits

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Zionist Conspiracism Shares Self-Fulfilling Prophecies With Kindergarten Sandpits

June 1, 2024

Everything is a terrorism, just for something different

Everything is a terrorism, just for something different

August 15, 2025

Culture war and conspiracism as election strategy

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Moral Panics

Culture war and conspiracism as election strategy

May 24, 2022

Murdoch and the IPA Politicise Freedom in Battlelines for Next Year’s Elections

Murdoch and the IPA Politicise Freedom in Battlelines for Next Year’s Elections

January 19, 2022

Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve

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Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve

July 9, 2019

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 9 hours

Urgh it's the apocalypse of infantile regression. Dog help us. At least it's not just yours truly campers innit
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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 9 hours

I got Adam Bandt's thesis on ILL while I was at WSU. I started it. It's a bit dry old son, you can see what the humanities are good for. Gonna have to finish that one.
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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 11 hours

Hahahahahahahaha

#auspol

‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel as new rules require social media to be declared

Visitors will have to reveal at the border all social media activity over the past five years

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 12 hours

Maybe this is the kind of thing you would want to clarify before invading Poland idk

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Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 821. Apparently Hitler's hot take on imperialist tendencies in the US was to ask if they wanted to annex Canada and if this would create a rift with the Brits.

You know they fought a revolutionary war ~150 prior already and got over it numbnuts lol
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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 12 hours

Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 821. Apparently Hitler's hot take on imperialist tendencies in the US was to ask if they wanted to annex Canada and if this would create a rift with the Brits.

You know they fought a revolutionary war ~150 prior already and got over it numbnuts lol