Collette Snowden

Yes, so we see them clearly already. They will also throw her under the bus despite everything she does for them, but that still doesn't make me want to go into bat with her. Sorry if that upsets you. I have my own boundaries.

FOR HER BENEFIT?

We only have so much time in a day - any time spent defending Bondi - even laterally takes time from the real problems for women - that SHE CAUSES!

but as an educated woman and a lawyer who has actually lived through debates about gender rights she should know better, that makes her worse. I don't want to have defend her in order to defend other women - it's an ethical dilemma.

Yep but having to defend them from sexism feels like a betrayal when they refuse to do anything to defend women's rights

I asked why the Albanese Government hasn't rejected Trump's invitation to join his so-called "Board of Peace."

The UK, France, New Zealand, Germany & others have refused to join, because it is cooked.

Minister Wong says Labor is still considering the invite. What's to consider?

Two frames. (Like two pages of a picture book.) 1. Scene of PM Albanese at his desk, looking embattled, holding a phone that is shouting at him, pen in other hand. IN tray stacked full of papers on one side of him, OUT tray empty. Waste paper basket overflowing one side of desk, fire extinguisher other side. Text: “He used to wish he could just get on with his job, instead of spending all his time pandering to special interest groups…” 2. Zoom in on PM in same position, now looking at us, text continues: “Until one day he realised that *was* his job.”

The job.
My @smh cartoon.

That's a fair point, but I still would like to put the crumb maidens in a whole category of their own - Bondi, Noem, Leavitt, Lake, all Trump women. They claim "independent woman" status while serving the patriarchy and undermining other women. Absolutely despicable.

Generally I'd agree but Bondi's gender is relevant as one of Trump's "crumb maidens" and a leader of the appalling cabal of right-wing, conservative women who've benefited from every feminist gain over more than a century.
She's a gender traitor.

She sure lacks gravitas and control.
Watching USA politics is the worst High School movie ever!
She won't ever be school president.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Funny how he had no problem with Gallup when it showed him riding high

After nearly 9 decades of tracking presidential approval ratings, Gallup has decided to end their poll measuring following threats from the orange felon after showing his historically low approval ratings.

This is what cowardice and bending the knee to a tyrant looks like.

‘The elderly & people with disabilities were fair game.

The NSW premier & senior NSW police have been saturating the media in the wake of the most brutal 🥷 show of 🥷 force in recent memory, waxing lyrical about how it was justified. Their premise is all protest participants warranted a beating.’

this was the inevitable outcome of the normalisation of the brutal incarceration culture of the USA - now every other country can scoff at anything it says about "human rights" and "the rule of law"

Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 1,520 times (as of Feb. 1, 2026).

What Albanese could learn from Mark Carney

Canada has announced it will buy up to a dozen conventionally-powered subs for around $CAD60 billion ($63 billion) – a fraction of what Australia has already begun paying for fewer nuclear subs – despite having a much longer coastline to patrol. satpa.pe/e784ucf

Journalist: Mainstream Media Complicit in Normalizing Epstein File Revelations Journalist Carole Cadwalladr says the “self-censorship” happening in the United States is “deeply worrying.”…

Journalist: Mainstream Media Complicit in Normalizing Epstein File Revelations truthout.org/video/journa...

The "heat it up like a stick of sealing wax and drip directly on to bandage or wound" was also eye-raising. So it seems as well as an injury you could get second or third degree burns!!

just to = used to ( damn autocorrect)

Curiosity drove me to look it up - 22% lead oxide!!!

Surprise!!!
(said no-one).

Remember when Americans just to make fun of and ridicule dictators and the whole cult of personality - instead of electing them.

The tragedy is that there was no prosecution - whereas people died for #Robodebt - and they had done nothing wrong!

Not just restrained but having his head forced into the light rails!

bsky.app/profile/thel...

Exactly. "Mum, he called me bad names."

BOOM! 💥

Our reporters were at the protest. This is the moment it turned violent There were violent clashes between protesters and police in Sydney's CBD as punches were thrown, capsicum spray used, and 27 people arrested. Our reporters were in the thick of it.

“We saw officers throwing punches at protesters, largely unprovoked for the most part” — SMH reporters

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

... and we know that despite supposedly being professionals trained to handle conflict the ill-disciplined NSW police cannot manage their own behaviour or contain their emotional outbursts, so people have to surrender their civil and democratic rights