Lindsay Parry

It’s a dumb and naiive question, but how is it that our governments act in their interests, not ours?
What do we do about that?

The strikes on Iran could precipitate a big oil price spike if the Islamic Republic is able to make the Strait of Hormuz unsafe for commercial traffic. More than 14 million barrels per day of oil passed through the strait in 2025, about a third of total worldwide oil exports transported by sea.

"Pre-emptive strike" is and always has been propaganda speak for "we started another war"

probably should have waited a bit at least before being an absolute moron

There’s always a tweet

Combining my bird photography and ruins photography - a magpie with a ruin as a backdrop 😊
A photo from last year from the southern Flinders Ranges.

Algorithm denies high level care for Melbourne man with advanced MND Graham Crossan cannot eat, talk or breathe unassisted but he's been denied funding for high-level care due to a new way of assessing aged care funding.

Advocates fear My Aged Care funding algorithm could become Australia's next robodebt www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Aussie urged to claim $475 million payout with deadline days away Hundreds of thousands of Aussies will lose out on compensation of between $1,000 and $50,000 if they miss this deadline.

Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

The attack on Iran will not liberate its brutally-oppressed people, but make matters worse. It could be a trigger for major conflagration.

“They could bring in someone who actually knew him, someone who Epstein called his closest friend,” Kimmel said, rolling a clip of Trump at a party with Epstein years ago.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

This conduct is identical to much of the worst departmental conduct in Robodebt, and the only difference is the Ombudsman is actually doing their job now instead of re-writing those reports on the basis of these departments' lies. There must be zero tolerance for this behaviour.

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Despite the government firing the Secretary responsible for DEWR misleading the Ombudsman, the Department has decided to continue to lie to the public, despite separately telling @jeremypoxon.bsky.social there were no documents on any app because it's actually more of a Qlik dashboard.

Failure to tax extreme wealth will fuel far-right surge, warns Gary Stevenson British economist Gary Stevenson, known as 'the People's Economist' has delivered blunt advice to Australian politicians during his tour of Australia, warning that living standards will continue to de...

"Failure to tax extreme wealth will fuel far-right surge, warns Gary Stevenson"
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‘They flooded the live comment stream with support for One Nation, mass deportations and disdain for the government.‘
There were also [dozens of antisemitic] and pro neo-Nazi comments, from third-party commenters, although they were later deleted
Podcast Video titled “‘Australians aren’t far right…”

Why are we spending $130 million on a Royal Commission into antisemitism, but nothing to tackle Islamophobia or any other form of racism? Do some lives matter more than others? #auspol

The government claimed it was monitoring dodgy job service providers using an app. It doesn't exist 'What this exposes is just how little the department is prepared to do, even after two bootings from the Ombudsman.'

I'm at it again: great ontological debate about welfare 'compliance' app govt told Ombudsman it built to monitor dodgy job service providers but which doesn't exist. No documents point to it. Instead they use 'existing processes'. And haven't they been so effective. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/27/r...

Tim Wilson smashed for failing to answer on his party’s lack of housing policy, says “we’ve just had an election”🤔
Ferguson “the election was some time ago…”
“We can’t ignore the fact that viewers would have heard No actual answer…”💥
No, we can’t ignore that fact. 🙄 #auspol

I mean, Jim Chalmers has to be an upgrade on 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, am I right?
#GraceTame #auspol

• I loathed John Howard.
• I despised Tony Abbott.
• I was disgusted by Morrison.
• I was horrified by Dutton.
• I feel utterly irrevocably betrayed by Albo. ScoMo 2.0 😔 🤬 #auspol

Paul Erickson correctly pointing out Labor's biggest weaknesses for three years & everyone including him concluding the way to address them is just to bullshit voters about those issues even harder. Wayne Swan warning their majority is very fragile once his term as President was up. They know!!!!!

And now we know the initial contract value $6.7m :

Contrary to Albanese’s word association games with the Murdoch press, I don't think Grace Tame is "difficult". She just doesn’t like dickheads and pedophiles, it's really quite simple.

Really sick of the misogynist language. Women aren't "ambitious" - they are "driven". They aren't "forthright" - they are "difficult". Bah!
Pollies need to remember that women make up half of the voting public.

Pity it's too hot today to wear this, otherwise I would. Might wear it when I vote next month 😄

Cartoon worm behaviour

Why isn’t Australian media covering the fact that Donald Trump’s blockade is creating a humanitarian crisis in Cuba?

ABC gave Trump hours of coverage yesterday, but an entire nation suffering from his actions gets nothing.

Just gaging interest (no promises and I would want it to be a free event which can be difficult to arrange for obvious reasons) - but to my beloved Brisbane-ites - would there be any interest in me having an event there to talk Where it all went wrong; the case against John Howard? 🩷

I know some of you like my ruin photos so here's one from the vault. This cute little stone cottage is near Balaklava, South Australia.