Danny Bowerin

Two years on from the Voice referendum, I’m never going to forgive the Liberal Party for their cruel destruction of hopes of reconciliation for political point scoring. Dutton, Price, Hastie, Abbott, Credlin, and all weak, cowardly moderates who stood by and said nothing. A dark stain on Australia.

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

Losing Streak Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

Amazingly good 4Corners - holding the Duopoly to account. Well done ABC: Losing Streak, reported by Steve Cannane and produced by Mayeta Clark
@gergyl.bsky.social @gekko.bsky.social
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Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth The magic of Pub Choir and event founder Astrid Jorgensen | Australian Story

Lovely doco on the amazing @pubchoir.bsky.social and @astridjorgensen.bsky.social: youtu.be/1GtH-ALEEOo?....

I went to a Feb 2020 Pub Choir in Melbourne, so seeing the COVID impact section of this was pretty wild!

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

History repeats.

Trump's terrifying speech to military leaders was straight from the authoritarian playbook.

Would enjoy watching Europe spank the US in the Ryder Cup at the best of times, but it's been particularly satisfying this year watching them do it in front of that obnoxious MAGA crowd

The Race to Save America’s Democracy Trump’s administration may seem chaotic, but Americans should not take the integrity of next year’s elections for granted.

The Race to Save America’s Democracy

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Monday's cartoon for The Mercury Newspaper: Balmorally compromised

The U.S. clearly needs help in the Ryder Cup. So they should add players from countries with similar views politically. Am thinking North Korea, china and Russia 😃

It’s almost like standards of behaviour have become markedly worse in the US since a particular escalator journey in 2015.

So utterly bereft of class.

"This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this" - Jimmy Kimmel

Hear hear

The front page of the @nytimes.com
website right now shows the Trump administration’s quickening steps toward fascism.

Opinion: In the Trump 2.0 era in financial markets, the dollar is taking the strain. The stock rally is masking deep anxiety from investors about the path forward for the world’s biggest economy. on.ft.com/4pubDza

This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.

UPDATE:
GEEL has not beaten HAW in a knockout final since 2025

#AFLCatsHawks #AFLFinals #AFL

Good point.

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

This is not OK

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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office...

"On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..."

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UK officially recognises Palestine as a state Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK has officially recognised Palestine as a state.

A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.

BREAKING: The governments of Canada, Australia and the UK have formally recognised the Palestinian state.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lcqb2s

Time to get past the idea that you have to play in a winning Grand Final to be a premiership player.

What about a common sense approach? 12 home and away appearances and one finals appearance for a premiership-winning club might be optimal.

(Scott Carson has two Champions League winners’ medals)

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.