Marsh Robinson @melaleuca1000.bsky.social Retired music teacher. Grandparent. Compassion rather than competition. Detest LNP. Right Wing=me, me, me; Left Wing=we, we, we. Science is the process of discovering truth. On unceded Butchulla land.
Cartoons From Iffland @edmundiffland.bsky.social Stanley Award winning cartoonist. Storyboard artist, illustrator and political cartoonist.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social Former Senator NSW. Life member AMWU.
Bronwen Davies @bronwendavies01.bsky.social Art administrator ~ living and working on Gayamaygal land, Sydney. 🌏🌿
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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social One of Australia’s leading literary magazines. We publish reviews, essays, commentary, and creative writing, and offer several prizes and fellowships. Home to the Jolley, Porter, and Calibre prizes.
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Amanda Meade @meadea.bsky.social Guardian Australia media correspondent
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Jon Brock @drbrocktagon.bsky.social Sydney based science writer
John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social Artist living on Yorta Yorta country.
The banner photo is of Palestinian women confronting the occupation forces in illegally occupied Jerusalem.
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Mark Johnson @markjohnson.bsky.social Advocacy Lead at Asylum Seekers Centre Sydney | Human rights & civil liberties enthusiast | Brit in Australia | Views here are my own
Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social AUSTRALIA. Former editor Cosmos science news. Ex ABC News, Mgr ABC Local Radio 2002-2017, mgr ABC Emergency broadcasting. Worked in PNG, Timor-Leste, Myanmar. Books: Best Australian Bushfire Stories, Best Aust Flood Stories. Kaurna country.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social Australian journalist, author.
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Dr jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social An Antipodean disciple of Brandolini's Law trying not to succumb to it. It’s a pity we’re so bad at the whole ‘equitable distribution’ thing. Social scientist. Personal account, etc.
Le Mears @lemears.bsky.social Ex Tertiary Ed. Homo. Gardener. Science guy.
Jo MacD @jomacd.bsky.social Retired psychologist. Quite neurodivergent. Mum of 3 neurowild tall people, cat & dog. CBR
Circe's Kid Sister @circeskidsister.bsky.social I read stuff & lift heavy things
Fiona Kelly McGregor @fionakellymcgregor.bsky.social Novelist, essayist, art writer based on Gadigal country in Sydney, Australia.
Out now: The Trap, follow up to Iris. Set Sydney 1942-43, The Trap is about an entrapment scandal that went all the way to the top.
No generative AI pls.
Bruce Topperwien @btopperwien.bsky.social Legal practitioner - health law, veterans law, administrative law. Musician. Conductor of ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble. Canberra, Australia.
Richard Watts @richardthewatts.bsky.social Arts writer, 3RRR broadcaster, RPG writer and player, Doctor Who watcher, Melburnian, OAM recipient, Hibernophile and habitual wearer of black.
Esther Linder @estherlinder.bsky.social photojournalist & writer in australia
Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social Scholar activist & writer | Human rights & social justice | Higher ed | Advisor for Rainbow Futures WA | LGBTIQA+ law reform 🏳️🌈 | 📍 Whadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social art-architecture-food-theatre-history-delight and other pleasing things
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social Science and health journalist at AFP
(@en.afp.com), based in Paris
Tom McIlroy @tommcilroy.bsky.social Guardian Australia’s political editor and author
Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social art – tenacity – democracy
Writer. Strategy and policy, Test Pattern. Curator, Frameworks for Practice. Adj Industry Prof, RMIT. Cultural Policy, NIDA. Council, National Museum of Australia. CoChair, Australian Republic Movement
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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social Writing about history and culture. ‘The Butterfly Thief’ (2025) and ‘Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire’ (2023) out now in Aus/UK/US via Scribe.
James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social Deputy Books and Ideas Editor, The Conversation. Contributing Editor, Sydney Review of Books. Author of The Critic in the Modern World. Words in various other places.
Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social Writer in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Author of What Fear Was, Lithosphere. Walkley winner. Former Fiction Editor, Island. Words in The Kenyon Review, 3:AM Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review.
Experiments | Stories | Essays | Nature writing
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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social On the move again. Some settling of the content may occur during transit.
Kerrie O’Brien @kobrienwriterau.bsky.social Senior writer, culture, for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald
Andrew @boatie.bsky.social I’m a bass playing, boat building grandad. I follow the ‘train-wreck’ that is AusPol with a macabre interest. Born, lived worked Bunurong all my life. Wish we had more than the last 200yrs of history folded into our culture.
Disrupting Stages @disruptingstages.bsky.social Theatre reviews of some of the things I see (often published elsewhere)
https://www.disruptingstages.com/
Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work ✦ narrm's fat/queer culture critic ✦
theatre’s gonna save the world (i reckon)
reviews | recommendations | yaps
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social Journalist. Author of The Death of Holden (2016) and Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (2024).
For more me: https://www.roycekurmelovs.com/
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Karen Jane Barlow @kjbar.bsky.social Meddling journalist. Chief political correspondent at @thesaturdaypaper.com.au #ausvotes
karenb@thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Heather Croall @heathercroall.bsky.social I love arts, innovation and collaboration. I make large scale immersive experiences and documentaries: 🎥 Yer Old Faither, From the Sea to the Land Beyond. Paradise Bent.
Kentoonist @kentoonist.bsky.social Human rights educator, LGBTIQA+ advocate (for many decades) and cartoonist/creative type.
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social Artistic Director/CEO Byron Writers Festival | Melburnian in Byron Bay
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Mandy Stefanakis @mstefanakis.bsky.social Writer, composer, researcher(PhD in Music). Climate Choir Melbourne. 🕊️
Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social Correspondent in Paris for The Observer.
Writing a book about feminism and football.
Author of DESIRE PATHS, a memoir (2025).
Co-founder of The Gender Beat.
Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social I do one thing very well and therefore assume all of my opinions are impeccable, no matter the subject.
Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer.
Against: fascism, corporate rule, AI boosting, cynicism. For: old movies, ideas for the future & pretzels.
Tasmanian & citizen of the world.
Cara Anderson @caraanderson.bsky.social CEO/Managing Editor of Limelight Arts Media, publishers of Limelight 
Sky Kirkham @skykirkham.bsky.social The Music Show at Radio National. Photos by me. All opinions my own.
Clive Paget @clivepaget.bsky.social Writer on classical music, opera, theatre, anything really. Guardian, Musical America and Limelight reviewer. Proud Border Terrier owner (sorry, co-parent)
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au Writer, reader. On Kaurna land.
Books incl SALVAGE, A Concise Compendium of Wonder, The Airways, Dyschronia &c
Chair @asauthors.bsky.social, opinions my own
Beau Donelly @beaudonelly.bsky.social Editor @bellingcat.com. Previously @thetimes.com, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald. Author: The Woman Who Fooled The World.
beaudonelly.com
Nancy Cato @nancycato.bsky.social Hosted TV Shows #MagicCircleClub #AdventureIsland,
Founder: Chapel-Off-Chapel;
Social Justice; Arts; Politics; Writing; #Tigers #YES #homage #LoveistheHealer; The Beach Vic Australia
Born 3 December 1939
Sam Elk @samhellkin.bsky.social 🎙️🏳️⚧️📚🍉Author of Detachable Penis (Upswell) and co-host of Queer View Mirror (Triple R). Living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Samelkin.com
Nicole Hayes @nicolehayes.bsky.social PhD. YA author (Penguin Random) jnr fiction (Hardie Grant) non-fiction (Black Inc / The Guardian). Podcaster with The Outer Sanctum / The Writers' Retreat. Living on Wurundjeri land with 2 humans & 1 dog. She/her. https://linktr.ee/nicolehayes
Ross Mueller @themuellername.bsky.social Screenwriter | Playwright | Columnist | Australian Writers Theatre | Pleased to be here
Kate Gaul @kategaul.bsky.social Theatre & Opera director. Artistic Director/Producer Siren Theatre Co. I love making things.
www.kategaul.com
Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social Co-host of @theshot.net.au's The Sunday Shot, 9am AEST on Sundays at https://www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot.
Theatre and film producer. Writer. Literary curator. Avid consumer of news, politics, wine & AFL. And gin.
In Ya Face, LGBTIQA+ radio show & podcast @3crinyaface.bsky.social Fridays, 4 to 5 pm on 3CR or listen any time at
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Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com freelancer emeritum | senior media advisor at economicmediacentre.org | words & shenanigans at jinghuaqian.com | work and also nsfw | ey/eir/em 伊
Emily Barrett @emilysky.bsky.social Managing editor at The Saturday Paper. Australian–American and vice versa. Admirer of well-constructed sentences.
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social Writer / Art writing, cultural criticism & fiction in Art Guide, Vault, Apollo, Sydney Review of Books, Island, Adroit Journal, Flash Frog & Okay Donkey / Secret 🪡 habit
janeosullivan.com.au
Australian Arts Review @artsreviewau.bsky.social Australian Arts Review (AAR) features the best of Australia’s performing and visual arts sector. Free to access and only featuring professional and independent artistic practice, the website provides up-to-date and relevant editorial content.
Chris Karakaltsas @hristaki.bsky.social A Life Loosely Based on True Events
Reads a few books 📚
Watches a bit of tv 📺
Takes some photos 📸
Gets way too excited about spreadsheets 📈
🏠 Naarm / Melbourne / Μελβούρνης / мелбурн
Rohan Spong @rohanspong.bsky.social Yes Sir, I can boogie. But I need a certain song…
Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social Queer Muslim. Author of five books. Father of two boys. Latest: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr 🇱🇧🇹🇷2170
Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social Twitter escapee. Lecturer and researcher in communication, media and its influence on democracy. Post in my personal capacity.
David Roach @wodiwodi498.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, e-bike rider, community builder. Making is thinking. Generally curious. Red Obsession, Beneath Hill 60. Living on Wodi Wodi Country on the South East Coast of Australia.
Debbie Zhou @debbiezhou.bsky.social Small but loud. Film & TV producer / usually with opinions (and locked out of my Twitter acct RIP). Ocean baby transplanted in London.
Jim McDermott @jimmcd.bsky.social Writer, Fan, Part-Time Imaginary Tiger. 🏳️🌈
I write about theater, TV, comics, Australia, nicknames for God and other fun stuff.
Sometimes I write for film and TV too.
James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social Author of Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species. Editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean. New book, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, coming 2024. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jamesbradley
Cara Waters @carawaters.bsky.social City editor, The Age. I write about all things Melbourne, planning, councils, housing, architecture, art, events, urbanism, travel and food. Contact me: cara.waters@theage.com.au
benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social Life is thundering blissful towards death
Mireille Juchau @mireillejuchau.bsky.social Writer, Critic. The World Without Us (Bloomsbury), Burning In (Giramondo). Essays here and there. Researching archives, dreams and war.
www.mireillejuchau.com
Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social Author (Pig City, Something to Believe In), journalist. Views own. Content: music, wildlife/biodiversity, AFL, cats. patreon.com/andrewstafford
Jenny Valentish @jennyvalentish.bsky.social Journalist + author of The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House // I really only make an effort on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jennyvalentish_public
Jenny Sinclair @jennysinclair.bsky.social Wait, what?
https://jennysinclair.substack.com
Research and higher ed skeets at: @jsResearchPro.bsky.social
@melbournebitter.bsky.social @melbournebitter.bsky.social Trained observer.
Nigel Giles @number96bks.bsky.social Two doors down they're laughin' and drinkin' and having a party
Roslyn Grundy @onetui.bsky.social Food writer and editor based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Warning: may contain traces of football.
Cassie @cassietongue.bsky.social theatre critic & arts/culture writer living on unceded gadigal land. ask me about the x-men.
Stephen A Russell @stephenarussell.bsky.social Glasgow-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based arts journalist and award-winning critic obsessed with film, theatre and a whole lot more. Live on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. Snorts generally included. He/him, quite gay.
Substack: Orion's Shoulder
Sophie Black @sophieblackwords.bsky.social Associate editor, features @ The Guardian. Formerly a superb fairy wren.
Murray Bramwell @muzzb.bsky.social Concerned Adelaide citizen. Former uni teacher. Arts writer. Ex-X.
Justinian @justiniannews.bsky.social richardackland.com.au ... justinian.com.au ... glj.com.au 
Benjamin Clark @benjamin-clark.bsky.social Head of Digital Audience @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Columnist, @crikey.com.au
Andrew Gillespie @andrewgillespie69.bsky.social Broadcaster • MC • Speaker • Award-winning Social Entrepreneur • Australia Day Ambassador • Neighbour Day founder • 🌈
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MDifficultColvinMcKenzie @mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social Fmr film ed/ Greens Cllr 12 years, sons Nic and Will & doggies. Phil Hons University of London. Psych Macquarie. Married to the great @colvinius, ABC foreign corro, broadcaster, genius. Prefer living in other possible world for next four years.
Rhiannon Stevens @ransos.bsky.social features reporter abc news
Jason Whittaker @jasonawhittaker.bsky.social Journalist type. I guess we're doing this now ...?
https://linktr.ee/jasonawhittaker
Paul Austin @paulnaustin.bsky.social Media professional. Politics, economics, sport, culture, society, the lot. paul.austin@grattan.edu.au
Peter Donoughue @peterdonoughue.bsky.social Former MD of publisher John Wiley Australia. Now retired but still engaged.
Book reader and reviewer.