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Pearls and Irritations
johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > one-nations-student-visa-plan-would-kill-a-55-billion-export-industry

One Nation’s student visa plan would kill a $55 billion export industry

13+ hour, 55+ min ago   (438+ words) One Nation’s proposed visa cap and threat to deport students would devastate international education, put tens of thousands of jobs at risk and leave universities facing financial crisis. In an article by Luke Kinsella for the Australian Financial Review, One…...

Pearls and Irritations
johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > after-berlins-deadly-pride-attack-grief-needs-empathy-not-islamophobia

After Berlin’s deadly Pride attack, grief needs empathy not Islamophobia

14+ hour, 26+ min ago   (537+ words) In the aftermath of the deadly Berlin Pride attack, grief is being pulled between silence, scapegoating and political recruitment – when what communities need is empathy, leadership and difficult conversation. The attack in Berlin is the moment that brings me to…...

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johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > the-senate-could-leave-labor-managing-not-governing

The Senate could leave Labor managing, not governing

14+ hour, 5+ min ago   (655+ words) One Nation’s rise may not stop Labor winning the House of Representatives, but it could reshape Senate preferences and leave a future Labor government unable to legislate. Since the recent rise of One Nation, pollsters have had to deduce not…...

Pearls and Irritations
johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > renewables-powered-data-centres-to-revive-australias-regions

Renewables-powered data centres could revive Australia’s regions

14+ hour, 46+ min ago   (929+ words) Renewable energy, data centres and energy-intensive industries could shift economic growth towards regional Australia, where power can be generated and used closer to source. Australia has been a nation of cities pullulating on our shores, but the new industries emerging…...

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johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > australia-should-not-copy-americas-china-research-retreat

Australia should not copy America’s China research retreat

14+ hour, 41+ min ago   (929+ words) Australia’s most influential STEM research increasingly depends on collaboration with China, yet excessive security settings risk pushing universities and researchers away from work that serves the public good. News that the National Science Foundation – the US counterpart to the Australian…...

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johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > students-courage-v-managers-cowardice-issues-for-the-anti-semitism-commission

Campus free speech on Palestine was the real casualty

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (928+ words) A people’s tribunal has found that Australian universities restricted free speech and academic freedom on Palestine, even as vice chancellors apologised for not doing more to police protest. Reports of university Vice Chancellors’ submissions to the Royal Commission on antisemitism…...

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johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > the-cockroach-that-bit-modi

The cockroach that bit Modi

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (284+ words) A satirical youth movement built on memes and a cockroach mascot has done what no opposition party managed in a decade: it has cracked Narendra Modi’s grip on India’s national story, and taken a cabinet minister with it. Every long…...

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johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > trump-infantino-and-the-politics-of-patronage

Trump, Infantino and the politics of patronage

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1046+ words) The World Cup presentation with Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino revealed how FIFA converts football’s collective wealth into patronage, reducing supporters to customers and participation to spectacle. There was something revealing in the way FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended to…...

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johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > albanese-sees-the-problem-labor-still-cannot-name-the-system

Albanese sees the problem. Labor still cannot name the system

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (722+ words) Anthony Albanese acknowledged structural problems in the economy at its National Conference, but Labor still treats capitalism as a system to be repaired rather than transformed. Anthony Albanese came tantalisingly close to saying something profound at Labor’s 50th National Conference. Australians,…...

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johnmenadue.com > post > 2026 > 07 > protection-for-some-pedagogy-for-others

Protection for some, pedagogy for others

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1015+ words) The racial hierarchy of the Australian government’s response to its envoys’ recommendations leaves Muslims unprotected by the law. Ten months after Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, released his report and its 54 recommendations, the Albanese government has finally…...