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'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.

“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.”
So pathetic. Backbenchers scared of taking a moral position, Albanese scared of any reform.

hey Bluesky whatever you’re doing to pick the thumbnails for videos……. Keep doing that Shit

Enraged ink blotty dubious rendition of Shakespeare in a ruff stabbing a malfunctioning robot in the eye with a giant quill. Ink is spurting from the robot's eye. Shakespeare's teeth are very large.

I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.

#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI

Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests

The Razzle Dazzle Restoration Project Readings, Music and More for Robert Skinner Help Robert get his razzle-dazzle back after his bike accident! With readings from Andy...

One month to go until this banger of an event. Get your tickets now.

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Cover of 'The Age of Innocence Illustrated' by Edith Wharton, featuring a manga-style drawing of a modern young Asian woman in a stripy green top and glasses, standing in front of a Japanese(?) landscape with an electric train, lots of power lines, etc

Just how I always pictured it

Can’t wait for the next election so we can vote out the Morrison government
#Auspol

Most daring novel I've read in months. Published 1969.

Thank you, forced-on-us google AI overview.
140145kmh is very fast indeed.

No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.

Turning Grief Into Art With Unusual Wit

I somehow missed the alert when this went up yesterday but I’m very proud of this review, of a moving and extremely strange new book by Carol Tyler.

Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system.
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

The Australian moment is now History, it could be convincingly argued, is a series of pivot points. It is rarely a progression of a sequence of events, but rather a series of critical moments where multiple pathways are made avai...

A lot to like here.

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There's scum, there's sludge, and then somewhere way down below that there's these rotten bastards.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Great moments in courtroom art

Not now, widening gyre

The Age Opinion I wrote a book and no one read it. It's time to face up to what we have lost Chip Le Grand October 30, 2024

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 🥳

Impossibly smug ginger root guy on the front of the GIN GINS bag

Someone needs to take this guy down a peg

I celebrate you, Julie!

This Fascist Groove Thing: Sussan Ley, Albo's Joy Division T-shirt and the politics of punk The faux outrage over Albanese's band shirt calls to mind the early battles for the soul (and politics) of punk music.

Got into the one bit of the faux outrage over Albanese’s Joy Division shirt that I do find interesting -- the ideas behind early Punk's flirtation with the symbols of extreme right politics, and the battles over racism in rock at the time:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/a...

Chris Andrews | Sydney Review of Books In Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory, Yumna Kassab presents a personal catalogue of the institutions, sites, experiences, and people making up the cultural life of a city for which she has ...

And then you check out Yumna Kassab's cool Parramatta Dictionary and see this:
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/dictionary/c...

What's the best thing to do when you're still whirring from Jen Calleja's book on translation? Reread this mighty collection from poet-translator Chris Andrews. It deserves all the awards.

Cover of Jen Calleja's Fair: The Life-Art of Translation

The inventive, antic, justice-fighting spirit of Jen Calleja is something to behold, bent here to an exploration of translation and the role of the literary translator. A ripper.

This is going to be a heck of a night. See you there!

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I've just got an ordinary crush. But yeah, the writing goes alright too.

The best!

Save the date - 6th December - if you can get to Coburg RSL, a riotous evening dedicated to restoring the razzle dazzle to the great Robert Skinner. It's going to be fab, just like him. Will post booking link etc once available.

- Future Campus After being invaded, hunted by Russians, and forced to flee, Ukrainian academic Yana Sychikova is helping rebuild her workplace as a University Without Walls.

Great story (by my brother) about the remarkable people running a displaced Ukrainian university, sometimes from bomb shelters.

futurecampus.com.au/home/inside-...

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN