Judy King

It's impossible to take the government's talk of spending restraint seriously while it insists on handing tens of billions of dollars to the US for submarines we'll never see.

We should get the time back that we have spent in our lives dealing with printers!

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

A lot has been written about the Epstein files lately, but I think this is the best piece. Marina Hyde asks what has anyone in power done to attack the structures and attitudes that allowed the abuse to happen? The answer: pretty much nothing at all.
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Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).

Screenshot of the word theatrical

I’ll take this as an invitation to the theatre!

So sorry this has been done to you and your work. Is there any other method to report this to #FamilySearch? Perhaps someone here can suggest an advocate or escalation?

The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi So many teenagers learn about the big stories through TikTok and Instagram. They won’t suddenly turn to newspapers and TV bulletins The social media ban for under-16s is going to stop teenagers from watching a lot of things: clips from their favourite shows, sports highlights, gaming reviews and just about anything else you can imagine. What hasn’t been discussed much is the impact it will have on young people’s ability to access news and information. Continue reading...

The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi

Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.

Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

I really admire you for doing this. It also applies to other instances where we might be sticking with a name or spelling and forgetting to cast a wider net in our family history searches

Coalition sours over proposed reform to 'broken' environment laws Optimism that a deal can be found to amend Australia's environment laws fades, as the Coalition raises concerns over details just days after parts of the legislation were shared with stakeholders.

Here's an idea, Minister Watt, activate your heart and spine, respect the advice of environment, climate and conservation experts, and work with the Greens to get the EPBC Act reform package passed. Your job is to be Minister 'for' the environment, remember?

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What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers The winner for the Top 100 Books has been announced. What do the votes behind it say about us?

What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/top-100-books-radio-national-trent-dalton-numbers/105876550

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

Archives in the news!

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Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social

#archives #digipres

Hastie taunted over claim that Australians are 'strangers in our own home' The home affairs minister says Andrew Hastie should name which visa classes he would cut after the shadow home affairs minister suggested "unsustainable" immigration was making Australians "feel like ...

Nah, you just feel like a stranger in contemporary Australia because of your own outdated dinosaur Liberal views, Andrew Hastie. They have no place here. We’re not afraid of migrants, because they are us. #auspol

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Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now We want to hear which Australian birds you think should be shortlisted for the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll next month Which of the 830 bird species that call Australia home (or at least one of their homes) should make it into the 2025 Australian bird of the year poll? Australia has the greatest diversity of avian life in the world, home to nearly one in 10 of the world’s 10,000 living bird species. And we love to celebrate it. Australians are renowned for admiring our beautiful, bountiful and boisterous birds. And nothing highlights that more than the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll, held every two years, when birdlovers around the country battle it out to see their favourite feathered friend take the crown as best bird. Continue reading...

Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now

Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing.

“If the most prestigious university in Australia will not fund our most prestigious literary journal, then it makes you question whether or not universities actually care about Australian culture.”
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A and yes please can we have polls @pfrazee.com

And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.

🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!):

1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.

Beyond Dutton's loss, this is a chance for a new type of politics in Australia The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.

"It has been so long since we have not had culture wars or grievances dominating our politics — or its undertones — it is hard to imagine what it might look like.
It opens up the scope for rational discussion about policy at a time when we need it."
– Laura Tingle

#AusVotes
#AusPol

Thank you Antony Green, for teaching me about Australian politics, and the importance of preferences. Thank you also for introducing my kids to the joy that is the voting geekdom.

Can't wait to see your analysis in the coming days. Happy retirement!

#thankyouAntonyGreen #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025

If you or someone you know needs a refresher on how the Australian preferential voting system works, now is the time to check out Dennis the Election Koala! #auspol www.chickennation.com/voting/

It’s a week till election night. Next Saturday also marks a huge end of an era with the last election for @antonygreenelec.bsky.social. What a marvellous service he has done for the nation. I propose a minute’s silence from politics nerds around the country to give him thanks. #auspol ⭐️

Albanese won't do a deal with the Greens. He doesn't need to.

Minority govt just means having to negotiate on every bit of legislation. It doesn't mean you need to have some deal in place. Some of the independents might try to get something for their support. Big whoop. So they should.

Delayed Gratification could scratch that itch? @dgquarterly.bsky.social

Given how much more fucked up the world is about to get, the question isn't are you better off than you were three years ago - it's what do you think the next three years are going to be like and who do you want making the decisions? And that's not just about a PM, but the whole parliament.

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"

"That theory has been debunked"

"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

Crushed by rabbits, bolting horses and childhood illness: the stories buried in outback NSW cemeteries Historians have shared research on 106 gravestones to a mobile heritage app covering the far west towns of Menindee, Wilcannia, Ivanhoe and White Cliffs

This is a brilliant online resource, a guided tour in the Central Outback, featured in the Guardian article cdht.stqry.app #genealogy #familyhistory

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Numbers don’t lie: $0 for nuclear, $1.3bn for polluting gas and bucketloads of climate harm in Opposition’s budget reply | Climate Council Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s budget reply details the Liberal-National Party’s polluting policies on energy and climate change.

Dutton mentioned the word 'nuclear' just twice in his budget reply speech. Wasn't nuclear meant to be the fix for all of Australia's woes? Now it's left in the back cupboard. He's a snake oil salesman jumping from one 'miracle cure' to another. #auspol

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