Denise Difficult-Shrivell

More the voices the more the understanding

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Okay Bluesky hivemind- got a q for a possible cartoon (not sure yet what I'll do for tomorrow):
What are the ways Albanese has been a disappointment as PM?

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Independent news media are excelling in their coverage & commentary of the US attack on Iran. You won't see this in MSM!

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Best review ever! So chuffed. Thanks, David.

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Important piece by Thomas Mayo (if you can get past the paywall). I feel culpable in this myself. This begs the question of the Royal Commission being called into one kind of racism alone, while we blithely walk by another so common as to be almost banal. themonthly-admin/march-2026/n...

Watching #SundayShot late again today - great to listen to Prof Anne Twomey calling BS on the protest "ban" laws in NSW and especially as related to "police powers" in relation to them. Thanks to @instanterudite.bsky.social, @deniseshrivell.bsky.social & @davemilbo.bsky.social! #BeDifficult!

For anyone else in Australia, John Lyons has been doing an amazing job summarising what's happening in the Middle East in a fair and reasonable way on ABC.

His knowledge and experience is invaluable.

Extreme rhetoric in right-wing political circles deserves more attention The rhetoric in Australia's right-wing political circles is getting more extreme and the media should be paying more attention.

Extreme rhetoric
Advance
Holocaust minimisation
Margaret Thatcher and the International Democracy Union (IDU)

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

He was, he spoke like he actually knows what’s going on, raising the issues that count. Sadly journos like him are few and far between.

Also Ms Shrivell thank you for being Difficult!😀

Propaganda.

The Albanese Labor Govt is pushing propaganda at us.

What a betrayal 😞😞 #auspol

probably should have waited a bit at least before being an absolute moron

John Lyons is a national treasure. Grateful to have his experienced and fearless commentary on the ABC tonight #auspol

I haven't seen many people talk about why Iran was attacked in broad daylight.

It's probably worth a few neurons.

Dear mainstream politicians, media and business.

None of us are immune from what’s about to happen. Our children and grandchildren are especially not immune.

PLEASE - do your job.

All we ask. #auspol

The UK govt of Keir ‘island of strangers’ Starmer lost a safe Labour seat at a by-election this week, halving its vote & running third.

In that context here’s Ian Warden’s column in the Canberra Times today on PM Anthony ‘nothing but contempt’ Albanese.

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/918295...

You are SO good! 🙏🙏

Some advice for the PM: there are many, many of us ″⁣difficult women″⁣ ... and we all vote.
Michelle Goldsmith, Eaglehawk
The Age letters

The government claimed it was monitoring dodgy job service providers using an app. It doesn't exist 'What this exposes is just how little the department is prepared to do, even after two bootings from the Ombudsman.'

I'm at it again: great ontological debate about welfare 'compliance' app govt told Ombudsman it built to monitor dodgy job service providers but which doesn't exist. No documents point to it. Instead they use 'existing processes'. And haven't they been so effective. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/27/r...

The Grammar of Comfort Thirty years on, the mainstream John Howard defined continues to frame the nation’s limits.

Next week marks 30 years since John Howard was thrust into power. His influence is still being felt by all of us. One way or another. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/the-gramma...

This job ad for a new Woodside CEO is surprisingly honest

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

ICYMI

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Bunch of difficult if not impossible women at NSW Parliament House today to hear NSW Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism Yasmin Catley being asked a few questions. We are used to knitting under all conditions and just about anywhere but this was hard going! www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

I've again today been extremely difficult - and there's still hours to go #auspol

Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy.

Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

Putting that together was less fun than calling various Prime Ministers dickheads. We are being overwhelmed with authoritarian creep, by authoritarian creeps, and I felt it valuable to have it all linked in a single place. The patterns are more important than isolated incidents.

A screen shot of Amazon Best Sellers where Where it all went wrong: The case against John Howard is number one. Thank you from a very grateful Amy Remeikis

Holy fkn shizballs!!!! Thank you to everyone who has embraced this. You’re incredible - and also - not alone. It’s a mess, no one has fixed what he helped break and if anything comes from this, it’s a reminder of what we need to do to fix this

Betrayed!!

We’ve been betrayed 😞😞 #auspol