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Bree (she/they). White settler on stolen land, Australia. Researcher/lecturer (Phd Anthropology), antifascist, queer 🏳️‍🌈.

Bright yellow, whimsical lamp on display in an IKEA store, featuring a long curved neck and rounded head atop a soft, footed base; its playful, organic shape resembles an oversized clitoris. A sign behind it reads “GREJIMOJS” with pricing and branding visible.
A small tortoiseshell kitten sits on a windowsill looking out.
Counter-Protest: no room for racism and fascism. No white Australia. Counter the far-right. Sunday 11am, Oct 19. National Library Lawns.
Poster: ‘Racism isn’t welcome in Canberra! Counter protest the fascist ‘March for Australia’. August 31st 12pm. Australian War Memorial.
A tweet from El*n M*sk that reads: ‘We need to shift people from low to negative productivity jobs in government to high productivity jobs in manufacturing (as well as mining and refining of materials).’
A hand-picked posey of flowers in a small ceramic vase, looking very beautiful and cosy in an otherwise very corporate looking office.
A rally of people on the grass of Kambri at ANU
A Monstera and a bunch of other indoor plants sit on an office window sill looking very happy and iridescent.
A TikTok parody video of a woman ‘gentle parenting’ US leaders about National Security after the Signal Chat group fiasco.
A black, white and tan Kelpie lies in the dirt peering under a railing.
A young male water buffalo stands close to a fence. He has chonky legs and a big wet cute nose.
A young water buffalo runs along the road and then towards the photographer who is behind a fence. The setting is a small community in a tropical location with red dirt.
A photo looking down out of a small plane. Through the window you can see a huge, winding river system in a lush green landscape.
A large cardboard box, turned on its side, in the middle of a room. In a child’s handwriting, the words ‘Do not enter’ appears on the flap of box entrance, with a hand-drawn skull (which looks like a jellyfish). Unrelated, a cat walks past in the foreground.
Picture of the sun rising over eucalyptus trees at the end of a dirt road.
A tuxedo cat lying under a wooden stool on a jute mat. He’s super relaxed and is lying half on his back, half on his side, with his body lazily twisted. There’s a Kelpie sitting in the background next to a small yellow ball.
The sun rising behind eucalyptus and pine trees. It’s a rural setting with a dirt road and in the foreground a dog is eagerly pulling at the lead.
One person trying to fast walk away from another person, who is closely behind in pursuit of them. The first person is labelled ‘person with ADD/autism trying to regulate their nervous system’. The person pushing them is labelled ‘American politics’.
Recipe for basil pesto: Ingredients Basic Basil Pesto: ½ cup toasted pine nuts 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 small garlic clove ¼ teaspoon sea salt freshly ground black pepper 2 cups basil leaves ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for a smoother pesto ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, optional
Close up of a blue-grey chihuahua’s face. It has a tiny little goofy smile going on.
A small blue-grey chihuahua sitting in someone’s lap and looking back up at them towards the camera with a small doggy-smile.
A black and white cat lounges on a large bed, mostly asleep but with his eyes cracked open, on a grey and white doona cover. He’s snuggled up to a small blue blanket
In the foreground is someone’s hand, palm facing up with a a bunch of yellow cherry tomatoes. In the background is a vegetable patch with a blur of green plants.
‘It is now unlawful to perform the Nazi salute in public or to publicly display, or trade in, Nazi hate symbols, with the Albanese Government’s landmark legislation coming into force today (Monday, 8 January). The new laws also ensure that glorifying and praising acts of terrorism are criminal offences under Commonwealth law. The passage of the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Bill 2023 through the Federal Parliament last month sent a clear message: there is no place in Australia for acts and symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust and terrorist acts. This is the first legislation of its kind and will ensure no one in Australia will be allowed to glorify or profit from acts and symbols that celebrate the Nazis and their evil ideology.’
Anti-fascist symbol: a black circle with two flags within it - one red flag and behind it a black flag.
A large trifle dessert in a trifle dish sitting on a bench top.
A fire truck decorated in Christmas decorations parked on the side of a rural Australian road. It looks like a hot and dry Australian Summer with a gum tree o no the foreground. A man dressed as Santa is near the Fire-truck shaking the hand of a young g boy who has come to greet him.
A tropical landscape of open eucalypt woodland with a lot of pandanus trees and very green grass. A blue sky above.
Two people on a video call with a frog filters. They look like happy silly green frogs with big mouths.
A medium sized black and tan dog curled up asleep on a comforter like a kangaroo joey. A tiny blue chihuahua is snuggled up against its back.
Text from Saturday Paper article reads: ‘The VC has no doubt, though, about the political imperative that drove it. “It came from the anxiety about cost of living and housing, which were political issues that were hurting the government,” they say. In the 12 months to September 2023, net overseas migration hit a record of almost 550,000, largely driven by overseas student numbers. The opposition was hammering the government, claiming Labor had lost control of immigration. It was blaming migrants, and overseas students in particular, for steep rises in rents and the cost of homes.’
Text from Saturday Paper article reads: ‘The way it worked was by assessing the risk profile of their student bodies and making it harder for potential students to get visas. The intent was to shut off the flow of non-genuine students coming to Australia for work rather than education, to close down fraudulent providers and cut the number of people claiming asylum. The Group of Eight – the “sandstone” universities that drew wealthier students, heavily skewed to those from China – were deemed to be at low risk, so MD 107 did not trouble them. At the other end of the spectrum was a growing number of education establishments, mostly private providers of short courses, many of them essentially fraudulent operations that brought people in to work on the pretext of education. They were the real target of the policy.’
A chihuahua lying on its back asleep, nestled in between the fold of a comforter and someone’s leg asleep.
A black and white cat sits atop a tall step-ladder. The cat has a fluorescent clown collar on.
A little blue chihuahua asleep in a person’s arms.
Two dogs sit on a couch looking a the camera. One is a black, white and tan Kelpie x, the other is a little blue Chihuahua.