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Albanese is a manager, not a leader, and it's inflicting real damage on the country Anthony Albanese is all about political management, not genuine leadership. And his instinct merely to manage and not lead is inflicting serious harm on our social fabric.

Anthony Albanese is a political manager, not a leader — and his managerial choices have led Australia into growing social division, writes Bernard Keane. buff.ly/n7qwV33

a map of southern south America showing the location of burning fires with lots of red dots.

Patagonian wildfires show how denying climate change & pushing environmental destruction make the reality of climate change much worse. Threatening the destruction of trees that have been alive when the bronze age collapsed. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Fresh video shows police pushing protester before fight broke out A new video filmed by a bystander and shared with ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute before two police officers began punching a protester, shedding light on the beginning of the altercation.

Incredible footage - a new video shows a full minute before an incident where an protest attendee was repeatedly punched by police. Both the Premier and NSW Police have told us not to judge 30 second videos because we don't know what preceeded them. Well...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened

No more protesting thanks, that's it wrap it up it's not cohesive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As a Black Saturday survivor and reporter, I take nothing more seriously than emergency broadcasting. We're doing so now and switching to emergency coverage.

If youlive in or around Clarkefield, you need to shelter indoors NOW. It is too late to leave.

Helitacks departing Essendon Airport.

Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show Elon Musk’s younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013

big thanks to @theguardian.com for making my Musk-Epstein blogging workload a little lighter with this fantastic rundown of Kimbal Musk's sordid involvement with Epstein

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The annual change in GDP topped 15% in only five years since 1929 -- four times under FDR and once under Truman.

Conservatives at the time, and since, denounced those presidents for practicing "socialism," which Trump claims is the top problem constricting the economy today.

NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights

Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’ The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.

Trump, who says he had "no idea" at the time that Epstein sexually molested girls, told the police in 2006 that "everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That's according to an FBI interview with the then-Palm Beach police chief.
Here's a gift link to Julie K. Brown's article in the Miami Herald.

Not very Christian of him.

What would Jesus do?

BYD outsells Tesla 10-to-1 in Australia as Chinese EVs dominate January sales BYD sold 5,001 vehicles in Australia in January, a staggering 641% increase year-over-year, while Tesla managed just 501, leaving the...

BYD sold 5,001 vehicles in Australia in January, a staggering 641% increase year-over-year, while Tesla managed just 501, leaving the American automaker in 24th place as Chinese brands continue their takeover of the Australian EV market.

#BYD #Tesla

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1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction.
Read on.🧵

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Kudelka's 2016 cartoon about Pauline Hanson's return to federal politics. (Jon Kudelka) A giant dinasoar with the head of Pauline Hanson is stomping over Parliament House. There are laser beams coming out of her eyes setting fire to the building.

Kudelka's 2016 cartoon about Pauline Hanson's return to federal politics. (Jon Kudelka)

Can't believe I forgot this classic. This will continue to be relevant analysis of Australian political discourse for another decade I reckon #kudelka #auspol

RIP Jon Kudelka. One of the fiercest, funniest truth tellers Australia has ever known. A comic warrior for decency and justice. Devastating news.

I’m old enough to remember when people called Barnaby Australia’s best retail politician.

He was a prophet who will be sorely missed.

Jon's dinosaurs complaining the Asteroid Mitigation Program will cost a fortune

And this one from 2019 #kudelka #auspol

kudelka.com.au/tag/dinosaurs/

Jon Kudelka’s seminal cartoon of a scientist standing behind an IPCC lectern at every AR cycle waiting for the world to listen. Published in 2013.

Jon Kudelka was one of the best. A true prophet who understood us all. (This was from 2013). #auspol #kudelka

kudelka.com.au/tag/ipcc/

Very sad to share the news of this legend of Australian political cartooning, and art. Dear Jon Kudelka has died, and we will be the poorer and more dull for his passing.
Sending love and condolences to his family.
What a legacy of scorching wit and joyful capturing of life he leaves.

Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb. Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

#kudelka

Jon Kudelka: ... SO I SAID TO THE PM "THE GAS INDUSTRY WILL HAVE VENGEANCE!" AND HE SAID "WORSE THAN ACTIVELY BRINGING ABOUT THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE?' AND TO BE FAIR, HE HAD A POINT.

Australia's global share of corruption small, wouldn't change the world if we ignored it
And, poverty? A small share, so let's not worry
The housing crisis, too. Not most of us, so let's keep negative gearing
Aus share of global CO2 emissions minor

Action on these issues benefits Australians

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

Lots of this energy

Bar chart showing the rapid increase in water related violence in recent years and an increasing trend since 2010. Each bar is also separated into categories trigger, casualty, and weapon.

Water-related violence has dramatically increased in recent years. We track it in the Water Conflict Chronology.
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

Do we congratulate NewsCorp on destroying the Liberal Party?

Also funny that the party on 15% is on 15% because they've been led around by the nose like a stupid bull by a party on 3% that is looking to be wiped out. The Qld LNP makes it even worse. People should be encouraged to leave an abusive relationship.