Mike Funnell

Yep: things you personally approve of.

Or is this down to things you, personally, approve or disapprove of? 🤔

With others not allowed to differ on such matters?🤷‍♂️

So if you break your leg playing footy, or falling off a mountain, or skiing down it: no help for you, eh? 🤔

I seriously doubt that.

No - 🤬 that - I *know* you are not ❤️❤️❤️

He’s now performing “The Dance of the Seven Burkas” in his desperation to stay in the headlines for as long as possible 👰‍♂️

Don’t know - but I saw a couple of ambulances - lights and sirens - heading towards Civic on the Barton Highway just now..

I wasn’t sure (especially about Swan) — until they squibbed their “whitewash report”.

🤬

Albo, though... My friends would tell you "don't get him started about Albo!" 🙄

I was never convinced, but did hope: until my hopes were dashed ☹️

IMO, he learned *all* the utterly wrong "lessons" from Bill's 2019 loss: not helped by the Emmo/Swanny whitewash internal report: a missed opportunity 😢

I think that's a tad harsh. I'd guess that Kevin had that motivation .. yet, we "needed to talk about Kevin": his micromanaging (among other things) always seemed to overwhelm his objectives.

Julia: well-motivated, couldn't restrain her ambition.

Bill: OK, but too welded to factionalism. Etc.

🤔😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Jacquie Thomson was brutally attacked and then misidentified as the aggressor. She's working to hold police accountable Jacquie Thomson is one of a large number of women who police continue to misidentify as primary aggressors instead of as victim/survivors.

Please read. When police respond to a report of #DV & decide that the woman victim is a perpetrator 😥.
Can lead to her being removed from home & children being left with violent man until courts sort it out.
#misidentification is a significant issue
womensagenda.com.au/latest/jacqu...

Dr Adams is, quite correctly, calling ‘BS’ on such obvious cow 🐂 output 💩

But: I would conjecture that’s more to do with clickbait media rubbish that the genuine attitudes of real-world men and women 🤷‍♂️

I hope I’m not wrong about that 🤞

Congratulations there are well-deserved ❤️

That's a wonderful photo!

(I'm also very glad there was no avian impact.)

Nonetheless - criminal punishment in the absence of criminal conviction is wrong. Just plain wrong.

It would be an ethical violation for a prosecutor to proceed against someone they thought to be actually innocent..

..and a miscarriage of justice for a judge or magistrate to allow a trial against the demonstrably innocent to proceed.

It's only *inside* proceedings that the presumption prevails.

Understand, though, that "innocent until proven guilty" is a valid concept only inside the context of a criminal trial.

Once it's got there.

It would be a waste of police resources to investigate if they thought someone *genuniely*, actually, innocent..

But: mere suspicion and nothing else seems way, way, too low a standard. Not "reasonable cause to suspect" (too low), not "reasonable cause to believe" (I think also probably too low) and certainly *not* because "the police consider them a suspect, and the Minister has signed off".

That is horse 💩

The concept *might* be redeemable if, for example, the government had to prove, to the civil standard, in a real court, that a crime had been committed so payment could be *suspended* pending criminal conviction.

Maybe.

I'd have to think about that. 🤔🤷‍♂️

I have to say that I find this a "tricky one" in that the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is often badly misused.

Nonetheless, I find the idea that a *government* might institute *punishment* for a merely alleged crime in the absence of criminal conviction, distasteful at the very least.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

“I stumbled on this reasonable train journey on the ‘Royal Scotsman’ train. A five day trip around Scotland from Edinburgh and return is only a measly A$31,500 PER PERSON twin share! Any takers?”

It won’t cover you for the full period, but this might help (🤭):

If their immediate boss is a politician they will be expected to lie.

If they don’t lie in those circumstances they will probably be fired.

But, still, they don’t have to lie. That’s their choice.

Is it worth it? 🤔

It never even occurs to them that they don’t have to lie 🙄🤷‍♂️

The opposition has been allowed to set the agenda. It’s an absurd situation that is debasing national politics | Julianne Schultz The emerging ‘debate’ about immigration is a cruel example. It’s distracting us from addressing the issues that would improve lives The Liberal-National Coalition, a political “party” that has almost no chance of assuming office before the 2030s, is being allowed to set the Australian political agenda. From a short-term tactical perspective, you can see why this may be attractive to the government. Let them squabble. If the attention is on the opposition, there is less focus on what those with their hands on the levers of power are actually doing. Continue reading...

The opposition has been allowed to set the agenda. It’s an absurd situation that is debasing national politics | Julianne Schultz

Exactly! 🤣

I met a friend for breakfast this morning who commented on something I’d sent him earlier this week: “Speako is deado..”

(Context being the Australian political “killing season”.)

He said I should write headlines for The Daily Terror 😳

I’m still not sure if I’ve been flattered or insulted 🤔🤭

Your writing might not change the world, per se, but it has helped me understand things I’d have known a whole lot less about.

That might be a small ripple, initially, but it does spread more widely. 🤞

George Packer: ‘I’ve Stopped Being a Prig About Beautiful Writing’

““Poetry makes nothing happen” — Auden. I think that’s true of all writing, with few exceptions. We shouldn’t expect to change the world. Witnessing, recording, protesting, affirming should be enough.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...

Cutting red tape shows that when we ‘trust the market’ taxpayers usually end up footing the bill The point.com.au

Good regulation is good for productivity growth. Lack of regulation is driving inefficiency.

Poorly regulated building markets led to debacles like the cracking in Opal Towers and flammable cladding being expensively replaced across the country

My column

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

AlboMP would claim otherwise 🤔

Yet: don’t listen to what they say: look at what they do (or, too often in his case: don’t) 😬