Mike Funnell

Police watchdog issues extraordinary apology to family violence victim IBAC's public apology to Jana Katerinskaja is a sharp reminder of the struggle for accountability victims of police-perpetrated family violence too often face.

Oh @hayleygleeson.bsky.social
My heart 🥹 , finally!

“IBAC apologises to #familyviolence victim for mishandling complaints about Victoria Police”

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

Aus Guardian Australian media US news site Politico to launch in Australia, aiming to bring policy focus and 'new angles' to Canberra

Just a note of caution for #Auspol
Politico was bought by Axel Springer 2021, Germany’s equivalent to the Murdoch brand. The CEO is deeply invested in free market truthiness & Zionism. (Not sure if he’s think tank connected on a cursory search but he speaks the same language.
🇩🇪 tanks built AfD.)

Rum, brandy or whisky might help.

For medicinal purposes only 😇

The only times I’ve been worried about being shot have been while living in the USA (with reason, too 😬) and once in the Middle East (which was a false alarm).

Hope it’s no worse than that 😬

🤞🤞🤞

This is a beautifully silly mapping exercise by @mattsurelee. He typed the first three letter of every US state and took the first autocorrect option as the new state name. Only two states got to keep their name!

Jen: you might be interested in Dan..

@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social

I wish property owners would read this and understand that the purpose of ownership at its core, is supposed to be an altruistic, community-minded endeavour, *not* a self-interested play at amassing obscene amounts of passive income, at the expense of a large proportion of society.

The gap between what Australians need & what their government funds.

Between the billions for submarines & the crumbs for housing.

Between the million-dollar salaries for political appointees & the women dying because domestic violence services are stretched beyond breaking point.

#Auspol

Ms Haussegger is always worth reading. She always has been.

❤️

She’ll come around.

She’s a smart girl.

She will!

I’ve had quite a ride (ups and downs both) with unions. Still: “join your union” is my overall take-out.

I sure thought so.

Also: join your union. That wasn’t incidental here.

I’ll also say: most of my luck has been good people. Excellent people. Wonderful people.

All I can hope to do is try to help others as those marvellous people helped me.

I take that as a serious obligation.

This is why I utterly detest the attitude that says things like “you should have worked harder”; “you should have been better”.

Many couldn’t have worked harder nor been better: they were and are excellent and hard-working.

They just haven’t been lucky. (I hope that has a: ‘yet’ to it 🤞🙏)

That helps. But: I’ve come to realise that luck is often more helpful.

The “being good at your job” part has allowed me to take advantage from the “good luck” part.

In an ideal world (we’re far from that) “good at your job” should be sufficient.

In the world we have, both are needed. 🤷‍♂️😢

“organised crazy person” 🤔

How is it that this rings true? 😂

(In the nicest possible way, of course ❤️)

I knew them from the US. They “hid out” here in Oz until their bankruptcies (mostly) expired off their credit records (you never completely escape).

Would have stayed, too, except for moving back to be near their (his) grandkids.

Reestablished now 🤞

(I have stories, though, from here in Oz. 🤫)

I wasn’t shocked, just puzzled.

I figured it would be something like what Jen has clarified. Just a missing word like ‘friend’ or ‘colleague’.

IMO: no big deal. More a giggle.

Good friends of mine resolved to *never* work for the same company again. They’re a great team: reinforcing each other’s strengths, covering each other’s weaknesses.

It’s how they met.

They were going great - until the company they worked for went broke.

Which meant they did too 🤬

Resolved: no.

The BOM also catastrophises: they’ve been criticised for not predicting things (though they have, at low probability) so they now (IMO deliberately) overstate likelihood of the worst case to avoid criticism afterwards.

Yeah, right 🙄

Way too much of this is luck of the draw. I’ve been lucky, unlucky, lucky .. on repeat.

I was just lucky that I was on the upswing when I (at least partly) was able to (somewhat) step off.

It doesn’t always swing that way 😢

You’ll be great. Again. 👍

And it is shit.

It happened to me only twice - but both were feckin’ bad. 🤬💩🤬

Do read the book though. It is a good book.

As her Mum explained it, she stood up for herself - and her crew stood with her (she’s about the most junior member).

“We could always stop work, and picket, if you’d prefer. Your call.” 🤔

I doubt head office would have approved if the centre manager called it the wrong way 🤣

Glad you clarified that 😂

I was 🤯 trying to make statements and timelines add up 🤣