Laura Harding

Should I use my super to buy a $100k car….

Hats off to the expert satirist - who will one day be revealed to have been behind this column all along…

Those Sydney radio hacks have finally been consumed by their own egos.

Or they’re staging another PR stunt.

I’ll wait for the PM to release a statement before we can be sure.

Alain Bertaud - Order without Design -
I went…
sceptical…

Was surprised to hear him say the first task of planning is to determine what is public and private and to set a structure of streets and open spaces.

Sounds like design…he uses the word quite differently.

International design competition…🤔Draw a line down the middle - give half to Lend Lease and half to
Mirvac - take out all the social/affordable housing and build deep floor office plates and throw in a casino! Fixed it for you - and saved you 15 years…

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

So many things….not raising the rate, AUKUS - but the recent comments about the Isis mothers, and Grace Tame have landed super heavily. Echoes of Abbott and Morrison, from someone who purports to be better…

And where all so very surprised, not

#WoodsideWatty has served them very well

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

I won’t remain silent on this cynical war | The Observer Israelis overwhelmingly back the strikes on Iran, but the most patriotic thing to do is to ask ‘to what end?’

This is good.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Ok folks the #SydneySkeetup is on!!

11 April 2026.

3pm till whenever.

Come one, Come all

Aurora Hotel Rooftop Bar
324 Elizabeth Street
Sydney.

Across the road from Central Station

Be there or be square!!

😊🤞🦋

I am 5 years old and the US is bombing the middle east.
I am 15 years old and the US is bombing the middle east.
I am 28 years old and the US is bombing the middle east.
I am 35 years old and the US is bombing the middle east.
I am 50 years old and the US is bombing the middle east.

Yes…but that it ‘slipped out’ is still concerning enough…

Bob Dylan - Masters of War Listen to Masters of War on TIDAL

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

tidal.com/track/168071...

Declaring war in a baseball cap. Adding insult to intellectual and moral injury.

This was all approved, and above board, and likely the building I am in did similar when it was built- but gosh it hurts. Hope the replacements are numerous and well tended. Vale lovely euc.

Algorithm denies high level care for Melbourne man with advanced MND Graham Crossan cannot eat, talk or breathe unassisted but he's been denied funding for high-level care due to a new way of assessing aged care funding.

This is the very question I put to the Aged Care Minister in Question Time two weeks ago.

Isn’t a computerised assessment system which cuts support for vulnerable Australians, causing distress and suffering, just another form of Robodebt?

Get fucked. Sorry but just get fucked.

I’m old enough to remember why I saved up $100 to buy a ticket to the Big Day Out — now I’m paying $100 to leave Woolworths.

Single frame. Title “Grace under fire?” Reporter stands beside PM Albanese who is tied into a knot. Albo says; “What I meant to say is, being me can be difficult.”

Difficult.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

All the circles!!

Jacinda Ardern living and working in Australia after move from US Exclusive: Former New Zealand PM ‘based out of Australia’, according to spokesperson, after rumours she was looking for houses in Sydney

Eligible for citizenship after 4 years, then Australia might actually be able to elect its favourite politician ... #auspol #nzpol

I cannot think of a funnier or more appropriate summary of the state of the news industry in 2026 than “the Onion has more subscribers than the Washington Post”

please help make it happen

“The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers” - Clive James

Yes! That was the one! The idea for a square has merit - but many urban challenges (particularly underground) but if it was decided to retain buildings instead - I would prefer they were put to a good purpose (public housing?!) instead of a compromised urban space.

Did have a chuckle at the architect describing their project as being experienced, ‘in three dimensions’ this morning.