The Guardian

• The election is a fight over who is disliked the least - there is a clear and growing destabilisation in our politics.

• Belittling the Canberra Convoy protesters will just push ostracised people further into their bunkers.

The Owl

• How to spot misinformation in the Federal Election campaign: a Q&A with Simon Copland.

The Shot

• Why most politicians have been so shit this election.

The Canberra Times

• Nothing to lose: Convoy splinters as protestors ponder next steps.

• Leadership tussles within Convoy to Canberra’s anti-mandate protestors play out like ‘reality TV’.

The Atlantic

• How the smug politics of COVID-19 empowers the far-right.

The Conversation

• 30-50 feral hogs? Why Twitter memes are more positive (and much faster) than you think.

The Guardian

• Sky News Australia is tapping into the global conspiracy set – and it’s paying off

The Canberra Times

• Trump’s Twitter ban could worsen online extremism.

• Reporting on QAnon has fallen victim to conspiracy thinking

ABC Online

• Mum of nine urges social media. companies crack down on trolls

• Canberra family inundated with death threats after being doxxed online in case of mistaken identity

Inside Story

• Australia’s manosphere: a prehistory

The New Daily

• ‘Peddlers of hate’: Australia’s growing legion of far-right extremists hail US Capitol invaders

• Questions over ASIO’s language change for far-right extremism.

Triple J’s Hack

• Reddit tried to stop the spread of hateful material. New research shows it may have made things worse

The Conversation

• Reddit removes millions of pro-Trump posts. But advertisers, not values rule the day (with Dr. Jenny Davis).

Rendezview.

• Governments can do more to tackle domestic violence. So why aren’t they?

Like I’m a Six Year Old

• Podcast interview with Comedian Tom Ballard.

Cyborgology

• How Reddit’s r/coronavirus has become the place to go for information on COVID-19

Contexts Magazine

• A crowdsourced sociology of COVID-19 (lead by Dr Jenny Davis).

Start Making Sense (2ser)

• r/Regulation with Simon Copland (interview with Start Making Sense radio program on 2ser).

Rendezview.

• El Paso tells an uncomfortable truth about mass shootings

• Talking about male violence means nothing without action

• Liam Neeson shouldn’t be ‘cancelled’

BBC Online.

• How do you prevent extremism?

The Overland Journal.

• Racists on speaking tour: rethinking our response

All articles available here.

Rendezview.

• Gay or straight, acting is acting

• How identity politics is shutting people up

SBS Sexuality.

• Why George Michael’s ‘Faith’ is one of the most important queer albums of our time

• Estrangement from friends and family is very real for many transgender Australians

• The long-lasting impact of being estranged from your family due to your sexuality

• The criminalisation of unintentional HIV transmission, and why it doesn’t work

• Nature vs. Nurture: when it comes to gendered behaviour it’s more complex than we thought

• Is non-monogamy the new sexual frontier?

• History lesson: the first queer venues?

• Threats, violence, hope: what it’s like to be a gay activist in Indonesia.

• First, do no harm: new report denounces human rights violations against intersex people

• History lesson: Why saunas remain important to gay culture

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The Guardian Online.

• Marriage equality has passed but there’s more to be done for a fairer society

• Underlying the celebrations is an immense feeling of hurt and pain

• We didn’t want the postal survey, but let’s focus on the positives following it

• Anxiety is a way of life for Gen Y. In an insecure world, is it any surprise?

• Bride and Prejudice: why does reality TV continue to disappoint us?

All articles available here.

The Overland Journal.

• Otto Warmbier was a victim of capitalism

• Ending the ‘criminal class’

• A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics

• How to get out of this mess

All articles available here.

BBC Online.

• The many reasons people are having less sex?

• What if the state provided everyone with a basic income?

Junkee.

• Why I’m celebrating LGBTIQ progress and letting go of the pain

• Is ‘Common Sense’ the news and politics show Australia needs right now?

SBS Sexuality.

• 11 big wins LGBT+ Aussies celebrated in 2016

• The medical community’s approach to intersex people is still primarily focused on ‘normalising ‘ surgeries

• Will Russia’s backlash against LGBT+ people be replicated in the USA under Trump?

• Indigenous HIV infection rates requires new preventative strategies

• Is it time to replace the ‘Alphabet Soup’?

• Should we mandate condoms in porn?

• Stop trashing the Irish Referendum

• In defence (sort of) of gay conservatives

• The history and importance of gay beats

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The Guardian Online.

• Screen bites: can a show like You Can’t Ask That change the conversation?

• Attacks against queer people have a long history. It’s time we changed our defence.

• In challenging homophobia gay men have become our own oppressors

All articles available here.

Junkee.

• Why The Secret Life of US meant so much to a generation of LGBTQI Australians

The Rumpus.

• K(Ink): writing while deviant

SBS News.

• On the verge of a post-antibiotic world

• Can we have a sensible debate about sharks?

• Don’t be too excited over Malcolm Turnbull’s newfound love for science

• When is it okay to boo the Prime Minister?

• ‘New Atheism’ takes on a boy and his clock

• Abbott is gone, forgive me for not being excited

• Will Serena Williams make US Open history — on her own terms?

• Abbott, Turnbull or Morrison? Who cares? It doesn’t matter.

• Calais ‘crisis’ a product of the failures of our political class.

• As Barack Obama moves on justice reform is it time for Australia to follow?

• If the Labor Left can’t get boat turn backs right, then why do they exist?

• What role can unions play when we have role models like this?

• The end is in sight for the coal industry

• Same-sex marriage has been won

• Bring on the marriage equality referendum

• Sex, guys and video games

• We were unable to save them, but we can remember them

• Let’s not rush to judge Billy Gordon

• The sharing economy — how another technological ‘savior’ is failing us

• Why is the ALP negotiating on the Renewable Energy Target?

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The Guardian Online.

• Telling people not to shop at Christmas is nothing more than snobbery

• Review: is our search for genetic answers cultural rather than scientific

• Born this way: society, sexuality and the search for the gay gene

• CIA torture is only part of medical sciences’ modern dark history

• I have two boyfriends. It’s time polyamory became socially acceptable

• Dating two people at the same time: why I’m polyamorous and proud

• Equality and polyamory: why early humans weren’t the Flintstones

• Is really good sex what happens at a sex festival? I went to find out.

All articles available here.

Junkee.

• If Bill Shorten really wants to achieve marriage equality he’s going about it the wrong way

• The SCOTUS decision was a win for marriage, not a win for love

• Australia might actually win Eurovision 2015 this weekend. Here’s why.

• Tony Abbott’s no jab no pay policy is misdirected and won’t work

• Mardi Gras is a celebration we need to be having, but it’s losing its political core

SBS Sexuality.

• Why the ‘gay gene’ doesn’t fit modern sexuality

• A queer guide to the 2016 US presidential election

• Time for CHOGM to address LGBTI rights abuses

All articles available here.

How We Get To Next.

• The global race is on to replace roads with more sustainable materials

• Food sharing Apps may reduce billions of pounds of waste

• Could seeds planted by fleets of gardening drones save the world’s forests

• France Mandates that its roofs be covered in solar panels and garden — should we too?

The Advocate.

• Remembering LGBT history didn’t begin with Stonewall

SBS News.

• Nuclear power: there is no magical solution to climate change

• Will Lambie be the new Palmer?

• The environment movement shouldn’t have supported Direct Action

• We cannot expect another Gough, nor should we want one

• The Bachelor highlights our confused relationship with love

• I’m glad Abbott didn’t attend the NY Climate Summit

• A conversation can change a life on R U OK Day

• United by rugby, but a long road ahead to end discrimination

• A sense of community in Helsinki, while our car culture continues

• Royal Commission or political munition?

• Coalition losing its grip on carbon tax mandate

• What on earth is going on with Australian climate politics?

• LGBTIQ youth biggest winners of the High Court’s chaplaincy ruling

• You’re wrong, Mr Hockey: class warfare is precisely what we need

• Are broken promises that important?

• Who pays for selling off social services?

• It’s time for some real direct action

• A. Political culture of power and influence rotten to the core

• Wake up and smell the coal smoke

• Bordering on silence

• Why do we hate asylum seekers?

• What cutting environmental regulations will do

• Ali Choundhry’s problems are far from over

All articles available here.

The Guardian Online.

• The Block: Our renovation nation is chipping away at the Australian dream

• Jackie Lambie is the whole package: politicians are humans too

• Could the men of roller derby become sport’s first male feminists?

• Is libertarianism good for LGBTI rights?

• Rocky Horror Show: 40 years on - where is its world of absolute pleasure?

• What’s wrong with choosing to be gay, anyway?

• March in March doesn’t offer credible alternatives

All articles available here.

Junkee.

• How taking naked photos of yourself in the shower can help fight stigma around HIV/AIDS

• We need a Scotland-style national debate in Australia

• This while Mike Carlton mess is terrible for our freedom of press. Here’s why.

• Idolising our sports ‘stars’ and the nasty, dangerous mindset it creates

• Junk explained: why is everyone tweeting about the Great Barrier Reef?

• How to write a dirty song

• Why Eurovision might be the most important show on TV

The Overland Journal.

• Against experts

• The anti-Abbott movement: time to rethink

All articles available here.

Mammamia.

• I’m not sorry you might have to talk to your kids about condoms today

• Should we have boycotted the Sochi Olympics?

SBS News.

• Coalition versus the Opposition — losing, but not winning

• It’s not just about jobs

• Pyne was right, let’s go back to the drawing board on Gonski

• Abbott’s own history wars

• ‘Just deal with it, Indonesia’ isn’t real foreign policy

• The reinvention of Julia Gillard

• Clive and Tony are no joke

• Some lessons for the ALP on climate messaging

• Time to drop the ‘marriage equality’ tagline

• What will same-sex marriage actually mean?

• How to stop the repeal of the carbon tax

• The logic of Gillard’s opposition to same-sex marriage

All articles available here.

The Guardian Online.

• Keep our coal in the ground

• A Malcolm Turnbull Comeback would not be good for the left

• Australia should show more respect to its public servants

• Green tape should be strengthened, not cut

All articles available here.

The Overland Journal.

• Men’s roles in women’s spaces

• Against equality

• Wikileak’s ideology problem

• Turkey and the fight for space

• The debate we should be having

All articles available here.

Mammamia.

• I won’t be praising anything the Pope has to say

• Howard Sattler’s comments are why we need to tackle homophobia

• Do we only care about trolling when celebrities are victims?

The Drum Online.

• Surplus debate is a problem of leadership

Crikey.

• Dennis Altman’s The End of the Homosexual

Crikey.

• Murdoch paradox: bias in climate reporting

• Fact check: coral reefs will not ‘bloom’ under climate change

• Murray-Darling health dependent on water extraction plans

• Global warming may not cause drought

• Food prices soaring due to global warming

• Antarctic melt alarm as scientist find ‘very unusual’ warming

The Drum Online.

• Reality check: some jobs will have to go

• End the cynicism and start demanding better

• The war against renewable energy

• A good year for climate campaigners

The Drum Online.

• New approach needed to tackle population problem

• Without society change, law change is useless

• Is science sascrosanct?