Bryan McGinty

Victoria loses MotoGP after almost 30 years at Phillip Island Victoria loses the rights to host the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, ending a three-decade association with the event.

I haven't watched any traditional motorsports for a while. Every time I saw the Aramco advertising it would turn me off. However, this will be a bitter disappointment for MotoGP followers. Phillip Island always provided close and exciting racing.

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It is a good piece, and if one reads the byline one may believe that this person has encountered a few immigration issues...

After the election that nearly wiped them out, they still appear to be running with the same (Dutton) policies.

Trump is definitely working to collapse trust in the voting system in the US. Of course, anyone advocating against preferential voting is doing the same here (Pauline, for example).

You should have seen Sara interview Abbott on 7:30. Abbott reminisced about the '50s, '60, and 70s where migrants were more integrated into Australia. Later on Sara (correctly) assumed he was talking about the White Australia policy.

Thanks for posting this video. I had heard the snippet you quoted on the radio while driving and that was all.

Excellent editorial today as well.

The awful Labor government that caused such a crisis in the Coalition by winning so many seats in parliament.

Thanks, I was waiting for that...

Why was the informal vote so high: 10,234 or 9%?

I heard him say that [Angus] is the most qualified idiot we have.

Amy Remeikis :-)

That is what I immediately thought.

You can really write a great article.

Angus Meatloaf appears to have forgotten he was part of the leadership team that lead to the election defeat. He didn't have much to say except that Liberals were better economic managers. Then you have Liberace the leader of the tail that wags the dog. Sussan has things stacked against her.

Nice wave.

I suspect that Angus as leader would see a further slide in the polls. I wonder how Albo's polls are going to go after the visit...

Jon Kudelka, cartoonist and 'national treasure', dies aged 53 Award-winning Tasmanian cartoonist Jon Kudelka dies after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2024.

We all knew it was coming, but that really doesn't prepare one for when it happens. I thought this article by the ABC was very good.
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It ticks all of the boxes.

I am devastated. He was brilliant. I really liked one of his in The Saturday Paper that he later showed how he had developed it. He posted the development on Twitter, prior to the bad days...

The not-yet coup: ‘Everything Angus touches turns to shit’ As Liberal leadership tensions spill into a third week, Sussan Ley’s camp says a challenge is ‘baked in’ and may help the party reset.

I will just leave this here: www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22540/...

It also blew out the HECS debt of students that did enrol. @albomp.bsky.social still has done nothing to change this flawed Morrison policy.

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Littleproud is definitely trying to steer the bike.

It was great to see Chalmers not let Speers speak over him. That was the thing that pissed me off with Speers and it is why I stopped watching Insiders.

Given Jews are around 0.6% of the population why is it they have such sway over the government?

I remember a work colleague from the US had left his "fanny pack" in a restaurant. He said he knew he had said something wrong when he asked if it had been handed in by the way the woman's eyes widened.

"*I will buy a coffee to ANYONE who can tell the class what this ‘serious, credible, compelling’ agenda is. The party has no policies."

Right on the money. That is why they were crushed at the last election. I cannot understand how Angus could a credible leader when he was a policy free zone then.

From what I understand "fanny" doesn't have the same meaning with English speakers outside of (north?) America.

My conspiracy theory is starting to sound correct! I thought Mossad must have known (from Egypt, etc.) and Bibi chose to make a political decision.