I could feel something in my mouth, an uncomfortable taste. It started to make me cough and splutter. Some sort of gas or spray had been let off into the crowd, and panic began to set in at the Herzog rally at Town Hall Square.

They call it a square, but it really only has three sides you can leave from. Police had lined up shoulder to shoulder along Geo…

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I had a bad dream last night. There was Anthony Albanese in a smoking jacket, a cigar in one corner of his mouth and a smirk in the other, twirling a scotch on the rocks in his hand. “Difficult!” he declared, his word for women who refuse to stay silent in the face of abuse. The men in the room chuckled as the dulcet tones of my sleep tracker woke me. F…

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Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and we don’t even need a prescription or a number to get it. Just a few swipes on socials and you’ll get a hit for free. A quick little trip of longing for a time that never really existed.

Why is it so alluring? Is it the power we get to have over our fo…

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So, here’s the tea. A handful of trillion-dollar multinational corporations wrote algorithms using the same behavioural science as pokie machines to hook billions of us to pocket mirrors with more compute than the machines that landed men on the moon. Their lines of code learn what makes each of us angry, afraid, and addicted, then flood our feeds with …

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Buried well beneath the fold, under headlines about Tesla approving a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk, Liberal party infighting, and sports drama, tucked under a tab marked “more news,” sat this headline: “Missing 1.5°C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells COP30 summit.”

It was just sitting there. The thing the world agreed would be ca…

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Last week, I (somewhat belatedly) launched Better Things Are Possible in Naarm/Melbourne at Think Forward Kiosk in Brunswick with comrades whose advocacy work I deeply respect: Tegan Lerm (co-founder of Project Planet and Build a Ballot) and Thomas Walker (CEO of Think Forward).

Tom pushed the desks aside, gathered whatever chairs he could find, and we a…

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“I fight Tories, that’s what I do,” Albanese once proudly declared. Now he beams beside a man who makes Tories look like woke soy-boys. A rapist who shouldn’t be within 500 metres of a school assembly, let alone the UN General Assembly.

A fascist funding genocide and sending innocent people to foreign gulags, while building concentration camps in America…

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I wrote this chapter of Better Things Are Possible before Charlie Kirk’s murder. But the way his death is now being used to rally around Christo-fascist “traditional family values,” makes it feel particularly timely to share.

Better Things Are Possible, Chapter 15

While ‘not all men’ actively perpetuate the harmful behaviours it [patriarchy] breeds, we do…

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[An edit of a comment on an X post I found, which complained about “leftists creators” calling people fascists]

For as long as I've had a public profile (and long before Charlie Kirk's murder), I've received threats of violence, death threats, and messages telling me to kill myself. Violent rhetoric has always been the rule, not the exception, for anyone…

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It's been a big week of pinching. First, it was a pinch and a punch for the first of the month, and on the second, I was pinching myself. Yesterday was a day I've been dreaming about for almost two years. I spent the day visiting local Sydney bookstores, meeting the incredible staff, and signing copies of "Better Things Are Possible." Seeing my book sit…

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That 2% figure comes from the CIA World Factbook, which isn’t based on an actual headcount. The US Census Bureau made the projections in Aug 2023.

Their model assumed Gaza would keep growing at its normal pace of around 2% annually. No one plugged in "mass killing," "starvation," or "complete infrastructure collapse" as variables into the spreadsheet. Th…

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If migration really drove house prices, the two lines would move together.

During COVID, our population shrank by 88,000 people (↓ demand) while construction stayed relatively high (↑ supply). By basic supply and demand logic, homes should have gotten cheaper or at least stabilised. Instead, prices increased by 25%.

Then a few years later, migration hit r…

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Andrew Hastie (former SAS soldier, now Liberal MP) stood in front of a camera this week and said that Australians marching to stop a genocide were "importing hatred." That if we really want to "contest this stuff" we should "do it in the Middle East." This stuff? A genocide perpetrated by our so-called ally.

This, from a loyal servant of the military-ind…

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“Better Things Are Possible is a beacon of light in a dark political landscape.”

— Hannah Ferguson, author of Bite Back

📗 Better Things Are Possible is available here for pre-order.

What started as me condensing big issues into little videos quickly snowballed into something I never expected. My suddenly viral reels (20 million views and almost 1 million likes wtaf) took me from editing my bedroom to the couches of morning TV, the halls of Parliament, and (inevitably) into the rags of The Daily Mail.

In the decade prior, I had built a business and a career as a Creative Director, making short-form content for international brands. But as I got older, I started learning more about the injustices in the world. About the climate crisis. About how poorly our economic system was delivering for everyday people.

And I began to feel increasingly guilty about the role I was playing, effectively using my skills to help market a system I knew was doing immense harm. I had a growing urge to use what I’d learnt throughout my career for some kind of social good. And I genuinely relished the challenge of condensing big issues into little videos.

These little videos opened doors I could have never imagined, and one of them was the chance to write a book with Allen & Unwin. I’d always wanted to write a kids’ book! They had something a little longer in mind, and after a very long coffee meeting it was clear I had plenty to say.

Writing Better Things Are Possible has been one of the hardest, most rewarding things I've ever done. My book (still doesn't feel real to say that) delves into the housing crisis, neoliberal economics, consent education, gender identity, mental health, climate change, and the state of media and politics. It's been nearly two years in the making, and I've had the privilege of travelling the country, speaking with experts, activists, community leaders, politicians, farmers and everyday people to put it together.

Some stories need more space and depth than a 90-second video can offer.

Plus, I kind of hate social media

I’ve been creating content for social media, pretty much since it came into existence. I’ve always loved connecting with communities and being creative online. But it’s pretty clear these apps are doing more harm than good.

The way algorithms now decide what we think and feel every day is f*cked up. Add to that the fact that they’re owned by billionaire megalomaniacs who care only about profit, once again, I started questioning my involvement in a system doing so much harm.

During my time at Teach Us Consent, where I led creative and production for hundreds of education social media assets aimed at young Aussies, I once again got to see both sides of the coin.

Our content reached over 2 million young Australians organically (and counting), with hundreds of thousands of interactions, and millions more views through strategic boosting. It proved that when you speak to young people with clarity, care, and honesty, they show up. But at the same time, our content is one hose on a raging fire of algorithmic misogyny. Rape culture is being amplified by these social media giants, who show no sign of changing without widespread public pressure and government intervention.

When the opportunity arose to write this book, I knew it was a chance to create something that couldn’t be buried by the algorithm. Something that would last longer than the 24-hour news cycle. Something that exists in the real world — as a real thing.

I still believe social media can be a force for good, but there's a lot of bad that algorithms and their architects must answer for.

Writing a book is like really hard but…

It gave me the privilege of travelling the country, speaking with experts, activists, community leaders, politicians, farmers, and everyday people to put this together.

The book features conversations with Professor David Karoly (The Climate Council), Dr Kate Charlesworth (The Climate Council), Dr Richard Denniss (The Australia Institute), Adam Bandt (Former Greens Leader), Zali Steggall(Independent MP), Max Chandler-Mather (Former Greens MP), David Pocock (Independent Senator), Rose Jackson(NSW Labor MP), Chanel Contos (Teach Us Consent), Damon Gameau (Filmmaker, 2040), Thomas Walker (Think Forward), Tarang Chawla (Activist, Not One More Niki), Anjali Sharma (Climate activist, Duty of Care), Leo Puglisi(Journalist, 6 News Australia), and many more.

It’s also deeply shaped by hundreds of other conversations with everyday people across the country. Each one reinforced something I truly believe: better things are possible.

Today, a majority of young people don’t believe that. That's who I wrote this book for, young people who feel disconnected and disaffected from our social, political and economic systems. Who are shut out from the housing market and see their natural world crumbling around them. Who are struggling with their sense of self and a lack of community. Who choose apathy over hope, when hope is exactly what we need to create a fairer, kinder, safer world where all life has the opportunity to thrive.

It's so easy to sink into apathy and to feel like none of us can do anything to change the world we're living in. But I truly believe that we can, and this book is my argument for that. It outlines the problems, but importantly, it outlines solutions. It just takes us coming together with a willingness to face our challenges, armed with a belief that we can fix them.

We created these systems, and so we can re-create them.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world but aren't ready to give up on making it better, this book is for you. And if you have friends and family that might need a little nudge of hope, this book is for them too (so please share!)

📗 Better Things Are Possible is available here for pre-order.

You have a name. You have a face.

In an era where the most powerful brands aren’t companies but people, what are you using yours for?

You don’t have to be an ~influencer~ to be a brand. If you post on socials, whether you have two million followers, two hundred, or twenty on your finsta. You’re participating in a system that turns your profile into a prod…

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These leaders consistently fail to address rising poverty, stagnant wages, or crumbling infrastructure. They double down on corporate handouts, let billionaires extract every last drop of profit from workers and the planet, and then blame migrants, minorities, and activists for the continued decline.

Neoliberalism made life unaffordable. Fascism weaponises that hardship.

Instead of questioning who truly benefits from economic collapse, people are directed to blame asylum seekers, trans youth, or "woke culture." It's deceptive, it's ridiculous, it's a scam that keeps working. Meanwhile, those who caused the crisis—the mining magnates, corporate landlords, the lobbyists, the media barons, the broligarchs and the uber-rich—keep getting richer.

No matter who wins, their wealth & power remain untouched. The only change? More division, more policing, more control. As society slides into fascism, we face three responses: The apathetic masses who never engage, the centrists who claim being "less bad" than the bad guys is a valid policy agenda, and the left offering genuine solutions. Both apathy and centrism serve the right's agenda—one through silence, the other through "pragmatic" compromise with forces of destruction.

Centrists refuse to take responsibility. Instead of fighting for better, they blame the left and accept declining conditions as "what's possible." They'd rather be deadweights in this struggle than support meaningful change. Meanwhile, the apathetic majority watch democracy erode, convinced nothing can improve.

Better things are possible! But no one is coming to save us but us.

We've done it before—stronger public services, fairer wealth distribution, environmental protection. But that requires breaking free from both centrist paralysis and mass resignation. These "radical" solutions are our best hope for survival. We have to stop dismissing better futures as unrealistic and start demanding a world that works for everyone—not just the privileged few. That begins with naming what's happening and choosing to resist.

(It's fascism xoxo)

These musings are brought to you by news of the AfD (Germany's far-right neonazi party) getting more votes than the Greens and the Left combined in the German election. A cautionary tale? 🤪

We wouldn't silently pass by someone shouting racist or sexist abuse in a physical town square, Twitter twists our natural instinct to confront bigotry against us. Algorithms turn our outrage into engagement and engagement into amplification. Every tweet denouncing hatred inadvertently fuels its spread. Every well-meaning reply becomes another boost to …

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