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I was born in Cbr too. But in winter you’ll find me rugged up in layers, with uggies, and sitting very close to a heater.

Poor Prince Edward, taking the blame for brother Andrew. I’m sure he has many failings but being handsy and liking teen girls too much, isn’t among them.

The outsourcing of education to taxpayer funded religious organisations is hardly ever discussed and never questioned

Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?

For reference, @senatorwong.bsky.social.

96% of Australians believe that more action is needed to look after the environment

86% of Australians have expressed concern over the decline of native plants and animals

biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20...

Satire!

Australia’s $20m ‘iron fist’ deal with Israel’s largest arms company signed two weeks before UN genocide finding Experts criticise federal government’s contract with Elbit Systems as ‘troubling acceptance’ of Israel’s conduct in Gaza

More details here www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’ve been to arms fairs where companies like Elbit sell their weapons as “battle tested” on people in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. They show snuff videos as a sales pitch to the Australian Government, and to their shame the Albanese seems to be convinced.

Artists rejoice as Labor rules out copyright carve-out for AI Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works, after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists...

Australian artists, journalists, authors and researchers create the stories and knowledge that shapes who we are as a nation.

If AI companies want access to their work, they should have to negotiate with copyright holders like anyone else.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Democrats sat on their hands during Biden's term. Left it too late to prosecute him for Jan 6.

How is this bloke not in prison is staggering to me..

The Newman government was also a big fan of this kind of stuff over a decade ago. There are no new ideas

Why does it seem they always pick on women?

Yes, I tried zooming, in several different browsers on PC. Names are there in the phone app.
But they seem to have fixed it since I wrote my OP - it's now working in browsers too. I put in a complaint but of course it wasn't acted upon over weekend. How stupid to launch a new site on a Friday.

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US spelling always a hazard for me.

Crimson chat.

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Linda Reynolds’ defamation war Linda Reynolds is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the events that followed Brittany Higgins’s rape in her office. The following is a precis of the former minister’s actions over that time.

For never was a story of more woe than this Victim Linda and her "poor me" show.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

An Open Letter to Jason Koutsoukis on Barnaby Joyce Dear Jason, I read your Saturday Paper piece on Barnaby Joyce with growing frustration; not at Joyce, who is at least consistently what he is, but at your framing of his potential defection as primari...

“I see a different Barnaby to you.”

theaimn.net/an-open-lett...

Here comes the reputation management!

Female Mallard duck in green lake water, backlit by golden hour sun, flashing that one deep blue feather at the base of her wing - TN

Good morning, butterflies!
This little sweat heart followed me to shore as the sun was setting

#BirdOfTheDay #Sunlit #EastCoastKin

Interesting article. But disappointing to get to the end and find the recipe is inaccessible.

Very brave of her to tell the truth. Toxic patriarchy is baked into soo many and too many professions.

Koala 🐨 A heat-stricken koala near Adelaide, struggling to cope with soaring temperatures, approached a group of cyclists and was offered water, if providing a Koala water you must let the Koala drink rather than pour water into their mouth as you could inadvertently pour it into their lungs.. 🐨💦

‘Absurdist leaps of logic’: Robodebt misused in FOI reforms I am furious. Angry, certainly, about the federal government’s proposed freedom of information laws, which mock the very idea of transparency, but seething especially about the justification for them,...

The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

Yep. When I left Murdoch and became a (then) unemployed freelancer, yes, I went on 'the dole' for a while.

I had to sign up for a Sarina Russo job agency and meet the mutual obligations crap. So we saw an opportunity to both 'flip the script' and continue being a journo.
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The role of the United States in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government In 1975, Australia lost more than a Prime Minister — it lost its independence. The CIA’s hidden hand in Whitlam’s dismissal still echoes today.

In 1975, Australia lost more than a Prime Minister — it lost its independence. The CIA’s hidden hand in Whitlam’s dismissal still echoes today.
~ Bevan Ramsden

The role of the United States in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...

After my 3rd guess I twigged it was going to be sneaky. Proved right.
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Burke gets Netflixed. Secret lobbying did the trick for the big streamers - Michael West Arts Minister Tony Burke promised we'd have Aussie content on our streamed TV services like Netflix. But he’s done nothing except block FOIs

Good story from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy on the Government's broken promises on Australian content quotas & the diabolical impact on our local screen industry.

Are there any multi-nationals to which this Govt won't capitulate?

michaelwest.com.au/burke-gets-n...

End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.