Bronwyn Clark

Single frame. Parliament House in Canberra, with King Kong (marked AI) stepping over the building, holding a woman, looking menacing. Speech bubble from Parliament House: “Look, apparently it has a huge appetite, will put thousands out of work, steal copyright, dumb down education and facilitate abuse. But rather than try to regulate it, we’ll just see how it goes…”

What could go wrong?
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Imagine calling someone found by two courts to be a rapist an inspiration.

FRO

Suppression order lifted on High Country killer's past police run-ins Victoria's Supreme Court lifts a suppression order that prohibited reporting on convicted murderer Greg Lynn's past interactions with police and the death of his first wife.

police took out a five year intervention order after Lynne used a sledgehammer to break into Lisa’s house. After she was found dead, police accepted Lynn’s claim that his death threats were “not serious” and decided they found no “suspicious circumstances”.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Who’d have thunk it?

YouTube video by ClarkeAndDawe Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

the front fell off...god I miss these guys...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5q...

Kenneth Eagle “we didn’t have the data in the form you requested it”
David Shoebridge “was it in some other form?”
KE “not in the form you asked”
DS “…was it in some other form?”
KE “No”
DS “So you just didn’t have the data”
KE “No”🙄 #Estimates comedy skit.🎭

More importantly why aren’t people nicer to each other?

New Zealand had a wonderful scheme to stop young people taking up smoking. Of course their new government ditched it. There's no reason for Australia not to implement the same kind of policy ... except that our gov is owned by its sponsors.

Indeed. The same "small government" and "no nanny state" people need to put their money where their mouth is.

If adults want to start smoking, let them.

The problem is that people start as children.

Prohibitively expensive tax will increase this risk, as you say, due to the growing black market.

Actually they’re kind of your assumptions that people have responded to…but hey, you do you.

Yes and when they reshape the tax base they need to lower the taxes on tobacco. They’ve gone too far and spawned a massive illegal trade.

Medicare funded quit aids for the poor and a massive tax hike for the rich is what's needed.

So if you break your leg playing footy, or falling off a mountain, or skiing down it: no help for you, eh? 🤔

To the contrary, we should develop a society where people are respected, have the social services they need, have an affordable roof over their head, access to free education at all levels and universally free healthcare. If they don't, we all suffer the consequences.

Totally they should. They can start by paying tax.

Zionist power is running the world right now

Also I’d assume by your own logic that the billionaires of this world should be paying for every billion dollar fuck up they do that costs the rest of us money…or our children their future.

So you don’t believe in helping people who are addicted to anything? Because it’s their fault?

Even though it’s so not their fault, but the fault of society that wants to blame them for the addiction their society made them a part of. Cool.

Many people get sick for no reason having never drunk alcohol or smoked cigarettes. Why do so many people feel the need to find blame in other people’s health issues?

People buying”illegal tobacco” do so bc they’re addicted to something legal…even though all the rich people can drink their Chivas Regal or actual Champagne or get coked up all weekend or whatever.

Seriously, stop penalising poor people whilst letting rich people get away with whatever they want.

Mark Dreyfus appointed as Special Envoy for International Human Rights ... must be quite on the backbench

This is as vile as it gets and if you still think he’s on anyone’s side but his own you’re probably as vile as he is.

Barnaby Joyce’s exit from the Nationals ‘almost a Greek tragedy’, Michael McCormack says – as it happened This blog is now closed

I think that he means Shakespearean tragedy. There are no clowns in Greek tragedy.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I had to google Whamaggedon and now I’m horrified 😳

I don’t reckon you are but if you actually are, at least know that everyone else is too 😉💜

And in almost 30 years of public life, in parliament, she has failed to reflect and learn, appreciate the privilege she has and make positive contributions to society. Her reaction to the suspension was atrocious and if she holds such contempt for the place, she should resign.

*Last Christmas*, my dear sister gave me this…obviously I love exactly half of it. Some days I come out and it’s been turned around to the half I don’t love by at least one of my children. So I lovingly turn it back and this is the only Christmas decoration anyone needs… 💜

Cheers my friend 🥂💜

And if we ever end up in the kind of Australia either of them wish for, may the god I don’t believe in help us all.