Category Archives: State / Politics

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Where have all the second-hand bookshops in regional Victoria gone?

A few years ago I asked What happened to Melbourne’s second-hand bookshops?. I gotta update that list, but in the meantime here’s another (I presume incomplete) list of second-hand bookshops in ‘regional’ Victoria. Albury* Books on Dean ‘Our bookshop is … Continue reading

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Oh noes! A cwankypants made me remove some tweets!

I could be wrogn, but it looks like I’ve made some body mAd! FTR: ‘Kill The Poor’ (1980) is a Dead Kennedys song; I don’t remember who miamiaman is (their account deaded several years ago), but ‘kill all the jews’ … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #057 w Vincent Bevins on The Jakarta Method : February 25, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Vincent Bevins [Twitter]. Vincent is a journalist and the author of The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (PublicAffairs, 2020). The hidden … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #056 w Michael Colborne on The Azov Battalion : February 18, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Michael Colborne [Twitter]. Michael is a journalist, a research fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and the author of a forthcoming book on the Azov Battalion … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #055 w Ashton Kingdon on AI, alt-tech, & occult nazis : February 11, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Ashton Kingdon [Twitter]. Ashton researches far right extremism, radicalisation, alt-tech, AI … aND TeH nazi 0CCuLt! … @ (among others) the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right: Ashton is … Continue reading

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A note on the Proud Boys in Australia

[Update (February 11, 2021) : TLDR : In Albury-Wodonga, Jarrad Searby and a few other Boys paid a visit to some fella’s workplace and another fella’s home. Searby was mAd because they made Facebook comments he didn’t like. Neither were … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #054 w Sabine Volk on PEGIDA, Fortress Europe & populism : February 4, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Sabine Volk [Twitter] about PEGIDA (‘Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident’) and right-wing populism in Europe. Sabine is a doctoral fellow of the Centre for the Analysis of … Continue reading

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Nazis Go Camping in The Grampians

Oh hai! As you may have read, last weekend some neo-Nazis went camping in The Grampians. See : Neo-Nazis go bush: Grampians gathering highlights rise of Australia’s far right, Nick McKenzie and Joel Tozer, The Age, January 27, 2021 | … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #053 w Megan Kelly on Incels, Red Pills & Black Pills : January 28, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Megan Kelly. Megan is a PhD student who researches radicalization narratives in online misogynist movements and is also a fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. See : … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #052 w Marc-André Argentino on QAnon & The End of Trump : January 21, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Marc-André Argentino [Twitter] about LMNOP Q Anon and the end of the Trump regime. Marc-André Argentino is a PhD candidate whose research examines how extremist groups leverage technology to create … Continue reading

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