Brett Nicholls@minorpolitics

Australian knowledge worker living in Aotearoa/New Zealand and toiling at the ideological coal face.

Joined December 2010
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My Voice referendum and the communist empty signifier article is now published online. This is the first in a series I’m writing on the Australian League of Rights. @KkatieElliss @cIDA_essex @Reid_Kleinberg @muzaken @ContinuumJMCS doi.org/10.1080/10304312.202…

The communist empty signifier: the Australian League of Rights and the Voice to Parliament refere...

In 2023, voters across Australia resoundingly rejected the Constitu-tional institution of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Among several claims made by vote no campaigners against this institutio...

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Latest publication: ‘“All that from two symbols?!”: an Adolescence Roundtable’ co-written w colleagues Brett @minorpolitics Rachel; Michael & Cathy @netflix #Adolescence @otago tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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If paying for a subscription for the Sky Sport Now app, why the advertising???! What’s the subscription for if you are selling audiences to advertisers???! @skysportnz #SkySportNZ
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Sign the petition: Love Humanities and Social Sciences together.org.nz/love_humanit… @seanphelan8 @minorpolitics @OJutel
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Great 50 by Jurel. Came in at 4/11. He looks the real deal. Excellent batter #AUSAvINDA
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Brilliant off-cutter by Webster knocks over Kotian #AUSAvINDA
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Awful shot from Reddy. #AUSAvINDA
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Stunning shot from Jurel. Classy #AUSAvINDA
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Much needed 50 partnership for India broken with a rip snorter from Neser. Brilliant bowling. #AUSAvINDA
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Australia A dudded there. That LBW looked plum #AUSAvINDA
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Replying to @UberKierk
He's a good scientist. Somewhere along the line we acquired the notion that scientists are qualified to participate in other forms of discourse. He's a casualty of that assumption.
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RT @otagomfco: Check out Dr Rosemary Overell’s insightful media release on nostalgia and cinema. John Hughes lives on! @muzaken https://t.c…

Why 'Sixteen Candles' is still lit at 40

Footloose. Sixteen Candles. Gremlins. Ghostbusters. What do all of these movies have in common? They turn 40 this year.

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Come work with @minorpolitics @OJutel and the rest of the Media, Film & Comms crew at @otago We are hiring ongoing L / SL in Comms Click link 🔗 and search 🔍 DM for more deets. thoroughly recommend - excellent work life balance, lively research culture otago.taleo.net/careersectio…
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On Trump and Musk. No better take than Marx’s on money in bourgeois society. “The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power … I am stupid, but money is the real mind of all things and how then should its possessor be stupid?”
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So good to be working with this crew -University of Otago, Dept of Media, Film and Communication. @otago @muzaken @OJutel
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As we struggle with the corrosive effects of AI in education, we would do well to remember that libertarianism was formed to attack left critical thinking. With AI, tech-libertarians have intensified this attack. We need to resist.
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Emphatic West Australia 377 run Shield win. Hats off! #WAvTAS
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Love the look of Freeman, classic offie #WAvTAS
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Brilliant win. Great to see Carey step up with some runs. #NZvAUS
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