Too true, Roy.

'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...

“Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu." - PM Carney

Inconvenient truths from our PM that will, no doubt, resonate with many other nations.

#cdnpoli #worldeconomicforum #davos

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International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better Doing more with less may not be sustainable for an exhausted workforce over the long term.

The Trump Administration’s decimation of international aid could result in more than 14 million deaths by 2030, including over 4 million children under 5.

Aid groups are scrambling to find new funding buff.ly/AmcnKcj

Australian Femicide Watch journalist @sherelemoody.bsky.social: Australian men have murdered 10 women in the last 22 days. Then asked "I wonder what would happen if women murdered 10 men in three weeks." 🤔 #DV #VAW

#auspol news media list

Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector.

Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

📚Top 5 of 2025📚books I read this year in no particular order are:

The Burrow by Melanie Cheng

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

My Friends by Frederick Blackman

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

#booksky

STICK IT ON YOUR FRIDGE, GIVE THANKS EVERY DAY. #auspol

Delivering the truth, in spades

Doctors should prescribe reading, the benefits are so good…

www.smh.com.au/national/a-t... @gregcal.bsky.social

You know that thing where you want to be aware of what’s happening in the world yet hide from it all for the sake of your own mental health? Yeah that.

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

Australia’s ‘inconvenient’ women writers blazed a trail through the 20th century

Each of these writers, in their own way, modelled what it is to be an ‘inconvenient’ woman – something we need now, perhaps more than ever.

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Powerful story for Labor Party.
"Women empowering women. Women legislating for women. Women working for women."
#auspol

Do those who scorn Welcome to Country actually understand what it is?

The form the politicians' derision takes shows they are either ignorant or lying. And neither is a qualification for government.

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Emergency department trial reduces number of elderly people taking up ward beds Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

Sensible idea to have an embedded geriatrician in the ED
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Really enjoyed watching this. So good to see this generation of engaged Australians debate in an intelligent and considered manner. Also, feel for them, the system seems to be so stacked against them right now.

Absolutely

Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns Launched on Thursday, The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples exposes a stark imbalance: while Indigenous Peoples make up just six per cent of the global population, they safeguard 80 per cent of the planet’s remaining biodiversity – yet receive...

Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns
->UN News | #IndigenousPeople #Climate | More info from EcoSearch

These should be plastered everywhere.

How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web.

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU

#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek

Richard Dawkins most famous reply to: "What if you're wrong?"

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.

YouGov: 53-47 to Labor (open thread) - The Poll Bludger Labor up again in the weekly campaign poll, though the movement is in the other direction on leaders' ratings.

YouGov: 53-47 to Labor www.pollbludger.net/2025/04/17/y...

"We've had political leaders of both persuasions...that have tied us tighter and tighter to the Anglosphere."

"If we are to reset ourselves...then we need to recognise where we are geographically."

@mrdtjames.bsky.social @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

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