My husband lost his long and brutal fight against prostate cancer. I am broken. Please, please all of you men out there get your prostate checked. For Martin’s sake

'Rosaries off our ovaries': Coalition MPs face growing criticism over abortion claims Suggestion that ensuring maternity leave for women who experience stillbirths could have "unintended consequences" has raised eyebrows.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
The usual suspects. How dare they. Late term abortions in Australia are rare and represent no more than 2% of all abortions. It's politicking. These men should sit down and shut up. #auspol

Get around this beautiful caravan restoration Melbourne friends, I'm sure that if you made it yours you would be very happy ☺️

I’m so sorry

Australian banks ignore thousands of customers’ hardship requests Exclusive: Automated systems have generated ‘cookie cutter’ responses that fail to account for individual circumstances, according to financial watchdog

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Banks are outright ignoring or offering “cookie cutter” responses to a rising number of hardship requests from struggling customers, despite repeated regulatory crackdowns.

My good God, reading about USA politics is both exhausting and scary.
Here in Australia, we should be both alert and alarmed.
Protect our precious and fragile democracy - with its checks and balances- to stop the contagion.

A koala sighting halted a new suburb. Now, one's been found dead The construction of new homes in Canberra's north remains on hold after a koala was spotted. Now, a dead koala has been found nearby.

The death of a koala in our city's Nth is a stark reminder of how fragile the future of the species has become.

Planning must put protection of our environment at the centre & there needs to be more transparency around how these decisions are being made.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Yep
Thank childless Julia Gillard

Career politician

I’m sorry what? They’re no longer gonna pay doctors for senior citizens Medicare anyone over 65?

Sports gambling is a complete economic and social disaster and I don’t think we have seen such a bad move recently

I feel sure that every animal species that becomes extinct under our watch also takes a part of our humanity with it.

Heartbreaking.
Vale.

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

Vote now, if you haven't already, for the Guardian's Bird of the Year 2025

It helps to nominate a bird that's endangered, giving it a much higher profile - like Baudin's black cockatoo for example

Please vote - this is a wonderful environmental exercise

🙏🏽 🦜

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ffs people! Don’t do this! There is no antidote! If you’re bitten you will die! There is no alternative. Only constant CPR for up to 12 hours is any there any chance at survival!
Second reason is I shit myself every time I see photos like this and I’m running out of undies! 🤬

Happy Birthday Ian!!!!!😀

Happy Birthday Minnie!!!

The one-time strategy wealthy Australians use to get more into super Colin Lewis Contributor Sep 25, 2025 – 5.00am If you sell a property resulting in surplus cash to invest, there’s no better place than the low/no-tax environment of superannuation.

Little tip: if you want to know what is wrong with Australia's tax system, just read the wealth advice column in the AFR:

"If you sell a property resulting in surplus cash to invest, there’s no better place than the low/no-tax environment of superannuation."

Crisafulli insists on more shark nets to protect human lives despite trapped mother and baby whale Queensland premier says he won’t protect whales ‘at the expense of one single human’

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prick. Humans make a choice to enter the ocean with all the risks that entails. Whales don't get to make that choice. The ocean is their home. Human selfishness prevails.

We're going backward case number 2.

Gympie Regional Council votes to remove fluoride from town's water supply

Royal Parks responds to Farage's claim that swans are being eaten by eastern Europeans in the UK The Reform leader had accused migrants living in the UK of taking both carp and swans - a protected species - from ponds in Britain's Royal Parks and killing them.

The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.

The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago

news.sky.com/story/royal-...

Australians too dependent on government, says Sussan Ley In her first major economic speech, the opposition leader hits out at universal subsidies and says "dependency" has affected Australia's "national character".

Australians are too dependent on welfare and universal government subsidies.

I suggest she includes Medicare & the PBS in "universal govt subsidies". They tried to gut our health system before, they'll do it again.

DO NOT VOTE for these ratbags, #auspol

People hate “red tape” until their house floods, their roof flies off in a storm, plumbing bursts in their walls, their baby dies in an unsafe cot, they get food poisoning from a restaurant, their rooftop PV catches on fire, their old gran dies in a heatwave or from the cold.

Red tape saves lives.

Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group.

You're being played.

All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.

For a project I am working on - how do you think John Howard fundamentally changed Australia - what did he do that we are still feeling the effects of? (Housing, immigration debates, loss of workers rights, black arm band of history, jingoism etc)

Really interested in your takes.

I’m sorry Rob.