Soli Middleby🌺🌼🌿
@SoliMiddleby
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Lover of family and friends, the night sky, melancholy 🎶, stories that connect & playing with 📸s. Former 🇦🇺 diplomat & CEO, current author & PHD Candidate.
Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country
Joined May 2010
Stimulating article by former Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Dame Meg Taylor, Soli Middleby and Suli Vunibola on “recent disruptions in international aid, including geopolitics, technological innovation, and budget cuts.” https://t.co/Phq7ORZ7wy
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Aid in the Age of Amazon: Imperial Logics, Pacific Resistance and an Alternate Paradigm - Taylor - 2025 - Development Policy Review - Wiley Online Library
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Recent disruptions in international aid, including geopolitics, technological innovation, and budget cuts, have prompted debate about paradigm shift. Drawing on critical Pacific scholarship and...
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All the seats that have definately changed party, all Labor gains.
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“Andor” is a political thriller about living under a fascist state—one built on casual brutality, quota-driven slave labor, the destruction of minority culture, and the needs of endless war.
foreignpolicy.com
The acclaimed “Star Wars” show is rooted in British political dramas.
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It's a once in a eight-generation chance to return a sacred unceded Site to its traditional owners. 🙏
The sale of Ginninderra Falls is a once-in-a-generation chance to create a national park & protect this iconic place forever. This is a long-standing local ambition, with deep community support. https://t.co/Bk1sQIvemn
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The impact of an unpopular American president on a foreign election is stunning. We’ve never seen anything like the seismic political shift Trump triggered in Canada to deliver a stunning Liberal win. Trump’s toxicity is rewriting global politics.
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one of the few benefits of Musk giving me the blue-check without having asked for it is that I can post long videos, so here's the full Louis Theroux documentary on the genocidal Zionist Israeli settlers and their pathological death-cult mania:
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96% of Australians want more done to protect nature. Meanwhile, just 0.06% of the budget went to on-ground biodiversity programs. We’re losing species we love & major parties are sleepwalking through it. Australians care. It’s time politicians did too. https://t.co/LFcoup9Z3G
theguardian.com
Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?
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Meanwhile in the AI-corner of the internet something Ghibli seems to be going on, which is quite dark since Miyasaki has called AI art 'an insult to life itself'. There is something creepy about the whole thing...
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David Lynch’s “most uncanny talent,” Howard Fishman writes, was his “ability to plug into the socket of our collective unconscious, generating sparks that light up the dark of our waking lives, offering glimpses of the great unknown we carry within.”
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Checking in with the director as he turns seventy-five.
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Check out this sobering and pointed reflection by @SoliMiddleby on the state of aid in the #Pacific.
lowyinstitute.org
The task for Western aid is not to rebuild what existed before, but to reduce dependency altogether.
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"Reduce dependency altogether"
Is this the end of aid as we know it? | Soli Middleby
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“If there is a lesson in the collapse of #USAID, it is this: the Western aid-industrial complex is inherently fragile, self-serving and unpredictable,” writes @SoliMiddleby 👇🏽 #rethinkdevelopment
Is this the end of aid as we know it? | Soli Middleby
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Is this the end of aid as we know it? | Soli Middleby
lowyinstitute.org
The task for Western aid is not to rebuild what existed before, but to reduce dependency altogether.
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JD Vance, a Yale-educated lawyer and sitting VP, claims judges can’t check executive power. That’s literally their job. Courts overturned Nixon, Bush, and Trump. If judges couldn’t rule on executive actions, presidents would be kings.
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The call for papers for the AAPS 2025 conference themed "Pacific Discourses and Destinies" at University of Sydney (3-6 June 2025) is now open. The deadline for submissions is Friday 28 February 2025. See link for details of the open sessions: https://t.co/VlqnfwAVv0
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Performance of #DeepSeek raises questions about the unintended consequences of #USA #traderestrictions. "Controls forced researchers in #China to get creative with a wide range of tools that are freely available on the internet."
nytimes.com
How did a little-known Chinese start-up cause the markets and U.S. tech giants to quake? Here’s what to know.
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All this.
As a member of the Multicultural Council of Australia, this is a disgrace. Australia has over 300 different cultural ancestries and backgrounds, is multi-faith and secular, a model for multicultural integration and the power and beauty of diversity. Our friends, colleagues,
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