Ben Davison

I hope you enjoy this artwork as much as I did.
Arcangelo Sassolino’s “in the end, the beginning” is truly spectacular.
Currently on display at MONA.

The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]

I’m over delusional “free market” Americans claiming “capitalism is the only political ideology that doesn’t kill people!”

Comrade, your capitalism is killing 45,000 citizens every year just to allow corporations to profit from medical treatments

Who knows how many die for profit in other areas?

James Packer - he’s filthy rich and still filthy on Dan Andrews for daring to tax the money laundering Crown Casino when Packer was at the helm.

We venture inside the head of the billionaire ex media mogul this week on “Truth Lies & Media!”💥

Apple & Spotify 🎙️

Promo Match Frame Editing

#auspol

I’m serving classic Hoodoos today and you really should leave this record lying around for your teenagers to discover, it will get them through a lot.

Brilliant reappraisal of the amazing “Stoneage Romeos” here: www.theguardian.com/music/articl... #ausmusictshirtday

Xania Monet’s music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI ‘clankers’ will be limited to this cultural moment | Van Badham - United Kingdom Xania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from a hellscape of AI content production. No wonder she’s popular … but how long will it last?

Xania Monet’s music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI ‘clankers’ will be limited to this cultural moment | Van Badham

https://www.europesays.com/uk/583687/

Xania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from a hellscape of AI content production. No wonder…

👇🏻Van Badham, right on the money as usual

Authentic Voices | An Australian Perspective on Neurodiversity in the This book explores neurodiversity in the performing arts through personal stories of artists navigating training and industry pressures. Drawing on interviews

contributions from Van Badham, Christopher Bryant, Ryan Enniss, Oliver Hetherington-Page, Daniel R Nixon, Robert Reid, Oliver Ross, Marissa Saroca, Sophie Smyth, Rhen Soggee, Michael Theo, Axle Whitehead.

Westpac’s work-from-home complaint was a cultural miff that doesn’t resonate in today’s Australia | Van Badham Women who manage to perform their jobs well while caring for children should get a bloody medal, not a trip to Fair Work * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A decision made by the Fair Work Commission in a work-from-home judgment last week has established a potentially transformational precedent for the Australian workplace. Friends, Fair Work has recognised that the Australian workplace of 2025 is not the workplace of 1980s and, oh boy, some corporate types sure are wetting their pants about it. Continue reading...

Westpac’s work-from-home complaint was a cultural miff that doesn’t resonate in today’s Australia | Van Badham

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!

Authoritarians fear only one thing: DEFIANCE‼️

(Downtown Portland)

This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.

Is anyone else getting pitched lots of “Putin is kind to dogs” vids in their other feeds/timelines?

Do the bots think I’ll trade basic democracy for more dogs?

Because if that’s their offer then they can…get out of my dream journal.

Judith from Mosman is spending $500k to stop four-storey apartments near public transport. Not to fix the housing crisis, just to keep it out of her postcode. The problem isn’t migrants. It’s people like Judith deciding who gets to live near a train and who gets to commute for two hours.

Having dealt with Americans on planes before I cannot see how this is a remotely good idea

Instead of this Howard gave our mineral wealth to Gina & Clive who used that wealth to pay for right wing political campaigns & animatronic dinosaurs

And they still want Australians to work on “African wages” & be able to deny workers their entitlements

This 👇is soooo much better

Believe it or not this is an improvement from where it was under former Coalition Energy Minister, Angus Taylor, who allowed us to have as little as “19 to 24” days of petrol while outsourcing our strategic reserves to THE UNITED STATES

Literally half a world away, on the other side of the PACIFIC!

Super is about making sure retirement is super for everyone.

And sustainable economic development means Australians have a stable democracy while working and in retirement.

Unionised workers delivering the goods once again….

The only surprise is that it’s taken this long for the UK to begin raising taxes after Brexit

TBF the Tory Party was never going to raise taxes after promising Brexit would lower taxes (which was a total lie)

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Albanese to drive down emissions | Clear Air Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

People say Australia has a “productivity problem” when in reality we have “mining dependency”

A simple Google search returned the below information

We have a problem with capital not being invested in the diversity of industries needed to weather downturns in mining demand

Tariffs haven’t helped…

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Trump’s Republicans expect air traffic controllers to work for free while they keep the government shut down

Air traffic controllers were already working excessive overtime, under staffed & struggle to get people to stay in the job

Seems dangerous to me…

If your company CEO is this politically naive then I hate to think how bad your products and service would be…another executive who needs proper board intervention

I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Shocked to learn that the screaming man waving a chainsaw who promised to smash the very government he wanted to be President over is having an economic crisis & that the orange coloured man who shut down the government he presides over is bailing him out.

Shocked.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Labor retains big lead in Newspoll and all other federal polls

The latest federal opinion polling has put Labor clearly ahead of the struggling Liberals. Support for One Nation is stronger than for the Greens in some results.

In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate | Van Badham Could courage be contagious? Let’s hope so, because in the absence of powerful regulation, the normalisation of awful blooms A man who posted non-consensual, pornified “deepfake” images of Australian women has been ordered to pay $343,500 in civil penalties for doing so by a federal court. Everyone, everywhere, should be thrilled by this decision. What Anthony Rotondo did by uploading these images was perpetrate “image-based abuse” against his victims. It’s a wanton, wilful act of cruelty intended to harm and humiliate its targets, and it is against Australian law. Continue reading...

In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate | Van Badham

FDR. Elected four times.