Jan Chamberlain

Always worth remembering when we are complaining about being stuck in traffic...

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert divided into 5 panels. The first shows a multicultural, interfaith, intergenerational group of Australians in a moment of mourning outside the Bondi Pavilion. In the second and third panels, we see the tears of those Australians fall to the ground, and then intermingle in a crack in the concrete. A close up of that crack shows a tiny, fragile plant sprouting in that place, with the words "social cohesion" on the leaves. In the final panel, a heavy red carpet is rolled out, and a swarm of police in riot gear charges over it in pursuit of an unseen protester who has fled, dropping a protest sign saying "Not in our name". Beneath the carpet and the stampeding boots, the tiny plant and its white flower have been crushed.

A fragile, organic thing.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

I sent my aunt, the doctor,
an article with a headline
that read: “More Americans
Are Dealing With
Memory Decline at Work,”
and in response
my aunt, the doctor, sent me
an article with a headline
that read: “Long COVID
may be triggering
Alzheimer’s-like changes
in the brain.”

Charts showing annual growth (%) of Australians travel to the top 12 destinations: Annnual Total 8.2 Indonesia 4.3 NZ 6.5 N-W Europe 5.0 Japan 19.2 S-E Europe 5.6 USA -3.1 China 19.3 Thailand 8.8 UK 2.7 India 9.1 Vietnam 18.9 Fiji 1.0

Latest figures show that Australians still hate the thought of travelling to the USA - me in #PointLive

live.thepoint.com.au

Highway filled with car congestion

If you widen that highway

you won’t reduce emissions

or congestion.

What you WILL do

is spend a lot of public money

to induce even more cars

emitting even more GHGs and pollution

in the same or worse congestion

with people still demanding that you widen the highway.

Period.

Graph shows FOI decisions were much higher in 2016-17 than under the Albanese Government.

Crisis? What crisis?

Govt's own docs prove that there was no "swarm" of FOI requests that required Australians' FOI rights to be restricted.

No wonder govt delayed 150 days before releasing.

@skyelark.bsky.social on @thepointau.bsky.social live blog: live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...

Yet another visual that rather impressively makes the point that the Chinese economy grew like crazy over the last decades. Also shows just how insanely powerful the US is. Source: buff.ly/2qvMMm5

every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor

From: Madeline Schizas Sat 2/7/2026 5:15 AM Hi Prof. I am a student in your Sociology 2FF3 course and am wondering if I could get a short extension on this week's reflection. I was competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday, not Friday. Here is the Canadian Olympic Committee press release to confirm my participation: https://olympic.ca/2026/02/06/team-canada-in-top-five-after-first-day=of-olympic-figure: skating-team-event/ Thanks for your consideration Madeline Schizas To Madeline Schizas ... Sat 2/7/2026 11:24 AM Hi Madeline. Wow! What a special moment. Yes, in the circumstances, an extension is perfectly fine. I'd say focus on the competion right now, and submit it directly to me when it is done. The triple lutz triple toe combo is a pretty hard move to master, but you've got this. Good luck-the whole country is rooting for you and your teammates. PS, When I was ten, I scored a goal in hockey and that was challenging enough for me.

Here’s some kindness from Canada..

When Olympian Maddie Schizas requested an extension to submit her assignment, her professor replied this ⬇️🥹

Go Maddie 🇨🇦!

Field with war crimes monument "Lest we find out"

2021

I can’t express how outrageous this whole thing is, but I’ve given it a go! #auspol

For shame @albomp.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

Brilliant from Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social

The kindness of strangers: my teenage son was on a date at a fancy restaurant when a fellow diner helped pay the bill She made a special night even more special for these two young people – and gave me something special too * Read more in the kindness of strangers series Adolescence leaves its mark on everyone but for my son the marks have been particularly obvious. I’ve lost track of how many casts he’s had. He loves electric bikes and at various times this has led to a broken arm, a broken hand, a broken leg, a wide variety of cuts and grazes, and terrifyingly close calls with much worse. It also led to him getting a job as a delivery rider for the local Domino’s Pizza, which valued him for his speed (another broken wrist) and his ability to be cheerful in the face of unhinged customers. Once, after getting no answer when he buzzed a flat and phoned, he left a woman’s pizza on her doorstep. She called him “the scum of the earth” and promised he would lose his job and never get another one. Continue reading...

The kindness of strangers: my teenage son was on a date at a fancy restaurant when a fellow diner helped pay the bill

Good grief. Is there a single politician, not being manipulated by others, out there? Is there any media, other than Byline Times, out there that is honest and truthful?

Thanks to your support, our full-page ad is in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Over 1,000 Jews and thousands of allies have signed our open letter to say that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not welcome here.

Help us spread the word!

The image shows a cartoon by Guardian cartoonist First Dog on the Moon. It depicts a missile with the words 'social cohesion' written on it with a sharpie.

Brilliant as usual from First Dog on the Moon. Wherever you are across Australia, get to your local rally to oppose the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog - one of the central figures in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Naarm/Melbourne: 5:30pm at Flinders St Station. ✊ 🇵🇸

You know who’s not in the Epstein files?

Undocumented immigrants
Drag queens
Trans people
The poor, unhoused, marginalized and disabled

The people you’ve been taught to hate weren’t involved in the sex trafficking ring.

The billionaires were. The wealthy. The ruling class.

“Stop asking candidates if they “believe in” climate change and start asking if they understand it. It’s science, not Santa Claus.”

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Trying to get a sense of what 238 years means in the context of 65,000.
This table's 2400mm long. There's a pen balanced at the far end - it's 8.7mm wide.
That's the relationship between the two numbers.
Colonisation, for all its destructive power, happened moments ago. It's nothing to celebrate.

If you think coal and gas corporates like Woodside, Chervron, INPEX and Glencore, who are fuelling these disasters should pay the costs…instead of YOU!

Support @ausinstitutearchi.bsky.social call for a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports👇

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

It is staggering how many welfare systems and process are operating unlawfully, and how little coverage there is about it bsky.app/profile/jere...

Cannot reccomend this strongly enough. For me personally so many elements of fascism whenever it emerges in the world seem to have a seed in the fossil fuel economy, the outrageous lies of climate denial.

Fighting against fossil fuels = fighting against the tools of fascism.

A shockingly large area of the Surf Coast and Otways is under emergency evacuate immediately orders right now.

Fossil fuels pushers and their enablers are destroying everything we cherish about summer.

Stay safe friends, get out now if you are in the impacted areas.

emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/

Just a heads up you don't have to be in a warning zone to self evacuate today from the Great Ocean Road or The Great Ottway National Park.

A lot of tree and sea changers should look at their options today.

Today there are plenty of open roads.

Tomorrow might be very different.

#VicFires

AFR screenshot 3 ways to beat the new super tax With the new super tax slated to start in less than six months, we asked the experts for the strategies you can put in place now to limit potential liability.

Looking forward to the AFR's column on how people on Newstart can avoid mutual obligations

Four pictures of huge crowds on the streets of Melbourne/Naarm

Invasion Day, 2026

We should start naming heatwaves after fossil companies

The Santos Heatwave
The Woodside Heatwave

etc

I think of this long history every time 26 January rolls around #invasionday #notadatetocelebrate

Just remember that right now the Albanese Govt is spending billions to the fund the USA military.