Sandy Rendel

Louise Adler sets the record straight on Adelaide Writers' Week The Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) debacle might have served as a “life lesson” to politicians and lobbyists about the risks involved in interfering with the independence of arts organisations. But as w...

Powerful and important article by the wonderful Louise Adler. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

Evening Rob.

Between your Grace Tame "difficult" comment and your "contempt" for the mothers in Syria refugee camps...you've had a rough week @albomp.bsky.social

Time to get into the Hall of Mirrors and have a long, hard look at yourself.

Do you recognise the person you are now ?

All true ... & truly demeaning for Australia

I wish Tony had his replies switched on. I’d tell him how great this is. #Auspol.

Okay,USA.

Your turn.

#Epstein.

Great to see the judges calling out unconscionable conduct by the big banks - normally so protected by their size & intimidatory conduct.
How many other such cases of bullying & standover?
Hopefully big damages payout to this victimised customer

Please get him off LinkedIn...

Morning Rob.

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot Cohesion, Division and State Violence - February 15 - Crystal Andrews, Antoun Issa

youtu.be/xqTY_SeyM7s

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

Grace Tame, free speech and the return of political punishment Calls to strip Grace Tame of her Australian of the Year award over her protest speech highlight a troubling slide towards political punishment and selective free speech.

“Grace Tame should be congratulated on using her privileged position in the community to support Palestinians.”
Greg Barns SC

And at mine too!

A reminder to the mainstream media: in order for the Opposition to serve as a check to the Government, it would really serve Australians if you paid some attention to the Government and not to the Opposition. #auspol

Two frames. 1. Lib Party Room, members huddled around table, one says “We have no policies, no principles, no vision, no credibility, no gravitas, no consistency, no popular appeal…” 2. Same scene, another says, “You’re right - Angus Taylor is the leader who best represents us.”

If the cap fits.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Morning Rob,Sir!

It is a great essay.

Ha!

If the NSW government has any interest in maintaining faith with its own public, it will ask the DPP to investigate police actions on Monday night without NSW Police involvement, with a view to prosecuting the cops who committed assaults. Or it can carry on blaming the victims; Minns' choice.

Albanese claims he has always been underestimated… but hasn’t he always been a careerist apparatchik?

Now he’s become one of what TS Elliot described as the Hollow Men;
“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow”

Proud to be a signatory.
This open letter is in SMH and Age.

The Jewish community speaks:

David Leser in the Nine papers #auspol

Summary of Peter Hartcher article in Nine

There is something very odd happening to Labor leaders. They seem to think that inviting the President of Israel to Australia will help heal trauma while inviting an Australian of Palestinian descent to a literary festival will cause division. Is this stupidity or capture?

If there is an attempt to rewrite Zionist history during this visit, it/they will fail dramatically. Australians won't forget Israel's #GazaHolocaust & our government's profiting from it & silence during the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians.

#ZomiFrankcom RIP

Preparing for a Royal Commission on social cohesion with a delinquently partisan parliament After the Bondi massacre, Parliament briefly found moral clarity, then lost it in haste and distrust. Rushed antisemitism laws exposed constitutional risk and procedural decay. Can a Royal Commission ...

I find Frank Brennan is always worth reading.