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Tie: red vs blue
Footy team: South Sydney vs Cronulla
Can't think of anything else off the top of my head

Anthony Albanese take note: Human rights apply to all Australians – not just those deemed to be worthy | Daniela Gavshon The political rhetoric surrounding the Australian women and children seeking to return from Syria ignores this fundamental principle * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Human rights are not applicable only to some people. They apply to everyone. One of my first forays into the world of human rights was a university internship at a human rights organisation. We received a letter from a man whose name I recognised from a notorious murder case. He described ill treatment of other prisoners by prison guards. The prisoners he named were among Australia’s most notorious convicted serial killers. I took the matter to my supervisor, who gave me my first fundamental lesson in human rights: protecting rights does not depend on whether a person is perceived as good or deserving. If a person’s rights are violated, their rights should be defended – even if they may have violated the rights of others. Continue reading...

Anthony Albanese take note: Human rights apply to all Australians – not just those deemed to be worthy | Daniela Gavshon

I first saw her in Lovecraft Country and GOOD LORD

Cockatoos! Everyone loves cockatoos (except property developers) | First Dog on the Moon Developers in Western Australia are planning to bulldoze an endangered banskia ecosystem to build some overpriced homes

Cockatoos! I hate property developers because they will not leave the cockatoos alone. I hate them with my life. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zero for me, smdh

Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners — Supporting Actress

Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs Pearson: “You put AI on a leash and you let it run. If it starts to get away from you, then you look at trying to say, ‘We need to intervene.’” Where’s the enviro impact report? Where’s the water/energy impact reports? The lack of detail is irresponsible

After 24hrs frantic reading I can say with confidence that the last British royal to be arrested was….

William IV

As a young man he got in a drunken brawl in Gibraltar, he was locked up, revealed his identity & was released.

This & other parallels on the pod now:

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Big hugs to you, gentle hugs for Jockie 🫂

JFC. What the actual fuck?

Dog, this is a truly lovely tribute 🫂

😢

The cop riot So, first things first, a big congrats to Angus Taylor.

Because I grew up in QLD in the ‘80s, I’m more often surprised when police *don’t* attack demonstrators. So I’ve had that familiar feeling this week of watching people come to a difficult truth: when you see a demo turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go.

Do we really need this much reporting on the internal machinations of a fringe party that has like 3 MPs?

Homer Simpson’s bobbing bird toy the presses the “Y” key for him, but instead its pressing “N”

“Do you want to use AI in your [anything]?”

I appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

I appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon

Jon Kudelka, white ink on black canvas, enormous whale below water with a tiny human paddling a canoe above its head

#ValeJonKudelka

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53 Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by the Australian, the Saturday Paper and the Hobart Mercury

i can’t help but think how much he would hate all the fuss but guess what you grumpy bastard you are so incredibly loved by so many people. rest in power jon ♥️

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Worst possible news. Love & strength to Jon's family 💔

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

Albo is just ScoMo with a different coloured tie &/or footy scarf

This is who runs this account

Buy a pattern, support a persecuted community. Pretty good deal.

At today's exchange rate & including gst, this comes out at less than A$9

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

😱

The evangelical creepshow returns. I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo.

I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo. Yet somehow Scott Morrison came back from the dead this week.

Politics is about choices.

This government is choosing to spend more on tax breaks for landlords than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined.

While you're getting smashed by unlimited rent increases and massive mortgage repayments.

tim cook, i swear to god if i wake up in the morning and that fucking melania movie shows up on my ipod with the U2 album...

Jesus wept, even in the body of the text:
"The authors note that *mothers* frequently label gender-neutral animal characters as male when reading with their children..."

[my emphasis, but did the authors really find that only mothers read with their children, or is it another gendered assumption?]