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Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either The Tory media establishment has gone nuclear on the BBC for daring to upset the right on its favourite issues: Trump, Gaza and trans people.

The Tolerant vs the Intolerants. The latter's need to eradicate difference continues to stun, corrupt and cobble the former.
Hoists and petards.

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either   www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/b...

What is the purpose of Barnaby Joyce? Barnaby Joyce has always talked a story about himself bigger than the brim on his Hopalong Cassidy hat. He is a one-man plot line, but his achievements for the people he professes to represent are sli...

What is the purpose of Barnaby Joyce? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

What indeed?

A part of my soul shatters to think that a small group can be so inconceivably callous, vile and morally corrupt. The destruction was a monumentally arrogant crime that said 'FU - because we can & did get off Scott free.' Shameful

So too, will Chris McIntosh 👏👏 @chrismcintosh.bsky.social

Ditto 😊

#crimewriting #AustralianAuthors

The return of Israeli hostages was clearly and understandably deeply moving for Israeli families. Given the extremes of circumstances between 'coming home' for Israelis and Gazans, the 'celebrations' per media, upped by the US President's repugnant grandstanding, were unwatchable.

YouTube video by AJ+ Palestinians Are Starting to Rebuild Amid Gaza’s Ruins

They tried to bury them but they are seeds… youtube.com/shorts/ei02R...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
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screenshot of ABC article. text captured says Timor-Leste scraps lifetime pensions after student-led protests Topic:Activism and Lobbying Fri 26 Sep Friday 26 September Police officers in the street usher crowds. Police appeal to students to clear the road to await the result of the parliamentary vote. (AFP: Valentino Dariell de Sousa) In short Protests broke out last week in Timor-Leste, with thousands of demonstrators demanding parliament cancel a $4.2 million plan to purchase SUVs for lawmakers and lifetime pension for MPs and public officials. Sixty-two members of parliament voted unanimously on Friday to pass a new law that scrapped the pensions for MPs, former presidents, prime ministers and cabinet ministers.

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests.

But sure — protest doesn’t work.
#auspol

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Corruption watchdog head 'consulted' for ADF inspector general 11 times Paul Brereton and Labor politicians had previously stated he had stepped away from the body and resigned as assistant inspector-general of the ADF prior to taking on the top integrity job.

Ludicrous. The NACC is supposed to be independent but Brereton keeps working for the ADF while overseeing potential corruption investigations about it?
The Kathryn Campbell conflict wasn't enough to demonstrate how costly and damaging this is? That mistake already cost the NACC $1.2m to rectify.

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy! Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/a8WdJvUOOVFz...

Democracy Defenders Slam Trump DOJ's Indictment of NY AG James "This isn't justice," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "It's revenge. And it should horrify every American who believes no one is above the law.”

"This isn't justice," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "It's revenge. And it should horrify every American who believes no one is above the law.”​

Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

Does Australia supply weapons to Israel? The government has consistently denied the claim and criticised “misinformation” surrounding exports, arguing it has “raised tensions in this country”.

So what do we know about Australia’s role in the F-35 jet's supply chain, and what constitutes a weapon?

This speech will be pass to posterity as one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking...😪😪😪😪💔

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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

Scientists create food for honey bees that increases their numbers. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Source: ScienceDaily

We have started the week with a debate on the "Defence Housing Australia Amendment Bill 2025" - a bill that seeks to build public housing for US troops. How on earth can this be Labor's priority this week!?

Words under occupation In our post-truth world, the art of messing with words has been perfected. When the Ramallah-based Ashtar Theatre issued a global call to creatives of all disciplines to join the cultural intifada in ...

Words under occupation johnmenadue.com/post/2025/03...
Spartan. Sublime. Excruciating.

Roundtable warning: When they say ‘modelling’ grab your bulldust detector The warm-up for next month’s three-day economic roundtable has begun, and this week we’ll start hearing from worthies who know exactly what we should do to improve our productivity. What’s more, they have the modelling to prove it.

The great contradiction of modelling is that you have to be really good at maths to run a model, let alone build one, and really good at economics to build one that makes sense in an economy is so grossly oversimplified. #auspol #economy #modelling

Why are we, the people, not enraged by this appalling and corrupt abuse of power by the 'majors'? How easily we ignore or at best forget the Federals outrageous collaborative 1st and last tactics in last term. Now SA! These are abominably corrupt acts of democratic bastardry.

Book Review: Diving Into Deep Water - Glen Innes News Squirrelled away in everyday corners of Australia, people pen stories to intrigue, to uplift or to edify. It’s no different in the New England area of New S ...

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Local Publishing Company Takes High Dive - Glen Innes News The High Country Writers group is an informal gathering of wordsmiths who started meeting at The Makers Shed in Glen Innes. Now, the results of their labour ...

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Bears out there Memory, empathy and resistance in the age of the oligarchs

Anna Funder's delicious and yet chillingly poignant closing address at 2025's Sydney Writers Festival, 'Bears out there' www.themonthly.com.au/july-2025/es...

Excoriating and though tragic to have to write it, it's beautiful, not least for expressing but proxy the passionate fury that so many feel. Thank you.

Local Publishing Company Takes High Dive - Glen Innes News The High Country Writers group is an informal gathering of wordsmiths who started meeting at The Makers Shed in Glen Innes. Now, the results of their labour ...

Local Publishing Company Takes High Dive gleninnesnews.com.au/2025/07/loca...

Netanyahu has deliberately conflated criticism of him & his government’s policies with antisemitism & many worldwide have fallen for it #r4today

Time will tell 🫣

The pervasive, negative, toxic, anti-democratic effects of lobbying on Australian media.

Much of it never exposed, so we the people, remain unaware.

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We can restrict gas exports and save the Tomago smelter It is Australian gas exports that are causing the high energy prices that threaten the Tomago aluminium smelter.

As billions in public money is used to prop up up the Tomago aluminium smelter, it’s important to know the source of its strife: gas exports pushing Australia's energy prices through the roof.

@rodcampbell.bsky.social explains ⤵️

I-MED now asking to use patients' scans to train AI — after already handing over 100,000s of chest x-rays without consent

Australia's biggest radiology clinic says it can't remove your data from AI models trained using your data, even if you withdraw consent.