PlaceMatt

Planning/place/inflexible yogi. Settler | PhD @msdsocial | Director - Sage Leaf Place. Works best round edges. What would Joe Strummer do? He/him

[PlaceMatt @places_calling]

The first journal article from my #placemaking PhD research has just landed - and it’s open access in @UPRJournal! Some musings on the post-colonial possibilities of placemaking, written with/on unceded Kulin Nations land: https://t.co/uyTRXQnaA9

[PlaceMatt @places_calling]

@GeelongCats Thanks! How many spots are free on our rookie list?

[PlaceMatt @places_calling]

@FCBarcelona Que jugador tan grande 😍

[PlaceMatt @places_calling]

@GeelongCats Immensely proud to be Geelong 💙 🐈‍⬛

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

I’m sick of the scapegoating of migrants and international students to divert from successive governments relying on “the market” to house Australians. Abandoning govt responsibility to provide public and community housing and have a housing strategy has been a national disgrace.

[Stephen B @BicycleAdagio]

Found an old picture I took of the same section of La Trobe Street in 2013. It was the same congested and dangerous mess every morning I rode to work, as were all the other streets in and around the CBD. People have very short memories.

[NTEU @NTEUnion]

Astounding the number of vice chancellors earning over $1M in Australia. Try our Rank the VCs pay game: https://t.co/teKVXQdovv

[Patrick McGorry @PatMcGorry]

The key problem which hasn’t been highlighted wrt Universities is that they’ve become businesses through covert privatisation. That’s why VC salaries have grown. Higher Ed has become a commodity. This is value extraction and has weakened society @InsidersABC

[PlaceMatt @places_calling]

@kinokofry Thanks for the opportunity! Deeply grateful!

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics: "students, don't forget a clear title"

Also academics: "Imaginaries and counterimaginaries
of crisis-induced polycrisis in an age of crisis"

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

A new report reveals Australia’s fossil fuel exports threaten the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C , writes @BillHareClimate (@MurdochUni )
https://t.co/iVMJsTKOPE

[PlaceMatt @places_calling]

@walshcee @GeelongCats Great piece too @walshcee - thank you!

[ham 🪴 @hamhammer27]

another day ending in Y, and another factory spontaneously combusting in Melbourne’s west 🤷🏼‍♂️

[PlaceMatt @places_calling]

@maximum_chips Very damn impressive!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Me this morning: “JUST missed the train.”

My boys: “No problem, Dad. Next one’s in 2 minutes.”

My boys understand that with good public transit, Frequency Is Freedom.

#FrequencyIsFreedom HT @Translink @humantransit

[Anne Bright @ac_brite]

Just watching I Was Actually There on @ABCTV on Nicky Winmar. The history of racial abuse in AFL is long and deep. My earliest understanding of racism in Australia was at a football match with the great Polly Farmer (me a Geelong supporter) against Richmond at Punt Road

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Our research found that tax breaks for luxury utes cost Australians $250 million in 2023.

Large vehicles impose considerable costs on society, from their higher carbon emissions & rates of road damage to serious safety concerns. #auspol #climate

[Sophie McNeill @Sophiemcneill]

🚨BREAKING Resource Minister @MadeleineMHKing approves a whole raft of new gas & CCS exploration licences!

In the middle of a climate emergency @AustralianLabor is choosing profits for @WoodsideEnergy @Chevron & others over a safe future for our kids. Shame!

#NoNewFossilFuels

[Sally Forsstrom @MalurusSally]

The first published results from #Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal #heritage was destroyed in mining blast https://t.co/WbCJpiPNDP via @ConversationEDU