Stephen O'Sullivan

‘I can’t cope with this shit’: Liberals confront Taylor’s chequered past As the Liberal Party refuses to release its election review, which is believed to damn its new leader, members worry about a track record of scandal and misjudgement.

‘I can’t cope with this shit’: Liberals confront Taylor’s chequered past www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Yep, I agree

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

Brooke Nichols… estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Inside the battle for Kooyong It’s a truism that independents, once re-elected, are hard to shift. Parliamentary stalwarts such as Bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie are testament to the fact that once entrenched, independents tend to s...

‘I’m told that half the Victorian Liberal Party’s membership lives in Kooyong…. Their unsuccessful fight for that seat reflected many of the existential issues they face as a political party.‘ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Photo of a cavoodle sitting on a chair

Coco on her 12th birthday (today) waiting patiently to be pampered #dogs

Gotta be polite 🍸

Me too, and I have the same tendency not to mention it. But some of the passages, including whole chapters, are just extraordinary. A novel that stays with you

Wait, Trump’s numbskulls used AI to create the tariff list? I thought they used a sketchy excel formula, but this is even worse than that!

Dutton’s LNP are Australia’s Far Right.

It’s as simple, and sickening, as that
#FuckMAGA
#LNPNeverAgain

The LNP don't like their own words repeated back to them, which is why they're infuriated by this ad.

Which is also why you should share it.

Andrew Robb takes role with Chinese company that operates Darwin port Former trade minister accepts position as consultant to the Landbridge Group, whose takeover of the port last year aroused controversy

a Liberal Party NT government gave a 99 year lease for the port of Darwin to foreign investors and then-Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said meh and the Liberal Party politician who was trade minister and member for Goldstein took a lobbying job with the lessee.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just done a phone poll (newcom?) - one of the questions: "If Peter Dutton were to reverse his position on nuclear, would you be more likely to vote for him?" LNP U-turn coming up in 3...2....1.... #auspol

If you are new here, yes we’re technically an Australian territory, but we prefer the term Antarctic Nudist colony. Australia with freezer burn if you will.

David Pope in Canberra Times

Shouting it out for those at the back

International students not to blame for rising rents, Australian study finds

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Small dog with toilet paper in mouth

When Coco thinks she’s earned a treat and we don’t comply she likes to self-reward with toilet paper

Agreed, but think (hope) it’s only a matter of time: ‘asked if they were confident about a Dutton-led Coalition government… 55 per cent (said) no’ #auspol

There was an amazing turnout at the Astor Theatre last Thursday for the premiere of Climate 200’s No Safe Seat.

Big thank you to Julia Zemiro for hosting this event, and to everyone who worked on this film.

Pic: Me, Julia and Dr Monique Ryan

#NoSafeSeat #IndependenceWorks

Freshly picked red apples

Tarte tatin

Managed to protect some apples on our trees from the possums long enough for them to ripen. Made tarte tatin with some of them

The macho men who bootlick Trump show us what weakness looks like Some of the richest men in the world are genuflecting to the re-elected US president. It’s a pathetic parade of toadyism.

‘It is difficult to grapple with the hypocrisy of a newspaper owner who cancels certain opinions from his opinion pages in the name of freedom - put it down on the list of Trump-era outrages that would be funny if they weren't so scary.’
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

...and Australia. #auspol

‘Trumpet of Parrots’ 😂. When party as personal brand doesn’t work, try someone else’s brand. Clive Palmer so wants to be Australia’s Trump, but changing his party name to mimic his idol seems to me to undermine his whole intent. #auspol

‘Ghastly Tony Abbott’: Leaks reveal Murdoch family feud A trove of court documents on Rupert Murdoch’s failed attempt to give Lachlan control of the media empire exposes fears that his siblings would make it less right-wing.

‘Right now (Elon Musk) is helping Trump dismantle the architecture of American democracy and global stability that Rupert Murdoch, silly old man, thought he was defending.’ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

They’re just Nazis

proposal to rename the US dollar to the dunning-krugerrand

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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

Really thought the neural implant would be smaller and less noticeable

A weathered blue door recessed in the white stone wall of a small house. Cracks feather the wall & there's a glimpse of a sloping roof with heavy tiles.

Greek doors, an occasional series.

Ikaria🇬🇷

The art of the steal. David Pope in Canberra Times. #Gaza