Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social (@fafner100) 's Twitter Profile
Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social

@fafner100

Prof of Politics and International studies, Murdoch University. Tweets are in my personal capacity.

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calendar_today31-01-2008 11:06:13

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Branko Marcetic (@bmarchetich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This will be a powerful rejection of bigotry by New York. Mamdani was against one of the most racist smear campaigns a candidate's faced since Obama '08. And it came from within the Democratic Party.

Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s cool how Europe, right now cooking in its own juices thanks to unabated global heating, has decided to boost defense spending to 5% of GDP in the face of notional future threats

Patrick Condon (@pmcondon2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If the problem is the same world wide - unaffordable housing - then the cause can’t be local zoning. I wish it was that simple but it’s not.

If the problem is the same world wide - unaffordable housing - then the cause can’t be local zoning.  I wish it was that simple but it’s not.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is not business as usual. My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today. It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine. Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must

This is not business as usual.
My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today.
It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine.
Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must
Amanda Wise (@amandaywise) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My thoughts are with all our impacted colleagues at ANU this evening. I know many of you will be reeling with the news you received today and some will go home this evening facing the grim prospect of a career cut short, worried about how you will survive, pay rents or

David Edgerton (@dehedgerton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My thoughts on why Starmer's government is best thought of not as a Labour government, but something else ... newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

Massimo (@rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Five African grey parrots were removed from public view at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in the UK after repeatedly swearing at visitors and laughing together. The parrots—Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade, and Elsie—were donated by different owners but quickly bonded.

Five African grey parrots were removed from public view at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in the UK after repeatedly swearing at visitors and laughing together. 

The parrots—Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade, and Elsie—were donated by different owners but quickly bonded.
peter davidson (@pagdavidson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exactly Alan Kohler Need to slow growth in investor demand via tax breaks & use the proceeds for public investment in new homes doe the poorest. The market won’t do it on its own.

Amanda Wise (@amandaywise) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The attention is on ANU but the cuts are happening elsewhere. At Macquarie there is a proposal to cut the sociology and politics majors from the BA, along with the jobs of 11 of 14 in sociology and several staff in politics. Our retired former head of department has started a

Josep Borrell Fontelles (@josepborrellf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An alleged war criminal wanted by the international justice proposes for the Nobel Peace Prize his largest supplier of weapons, and with which he is causing the greatest ethnic cleansing in the region since the end of World War II.

Oliver Stuenkel šŸ‡§šŸ‡· (@oliverstuenkel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If Lula plays this right — and manages to frame the Bolsonaro family, who instigated Trump to impose these tariffs, as fundamentally unpatriotic and anti-Brazil — his chances of reelection next year may have just increased substantially.

Jewish Council of Australia (@jewishcouncilau) 's Twitter Profile Photo

MEDIA RELEASE: Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms, inflaming community divisions, and

James B (@piercepenniless) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Huw Lemmey has written a profound and brilliant piece on Palestine Action, protest and proscription for the next issue of the LRB. You should read it now: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…