Ali Brookes

Glad to hear you - and the darling puppers - are being well cared for. Every best wish for the remainder of your stay (and beyond).

Might free up the housing market a bit

That silly tiny fist wave... like a plastic kitty on a shop counter. But not cute. Or good luck.

If students are not going to notice any difference, are the targetted positions research-based? This smacks of the trumpian efforts to undermine research seen in the US. But, you know, with a prettier veneer. The article raises more questions than answers (or, the questions were just not asked?)

That is a winner! Congrats on the big ticket achievements 👏

That weird little fist wave always looks like some unfortunate maneki-neko that has melted in a shop window.

Almost without words to respond to the headlines and descriptions used to diminish the horror of adults trading kids for sexual abuse. Fark, even trying to make it sound like a slumber party here...

Never a sound a parent wants to hear. I hope the worst is over and you can both get some rest.

No time zones on a flat earth? (Also, who in Australia is in the market for overseas beef??)

Good luck with the projects!

In a sick world, centrism makes monsters of us  - The Shot Existential problems do not simply go away because incrementalist, captured governments commit to ignoring them.

Here's me. 'In a sick world, centrism makes monsters of us'

If only he had access to the internet, and staff to help him get in touch with people who could explain things.

The #Queensland government deliberately brutalises Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children and damages them physically & mentally, in concrete cells, contravening human rights. Out of sight, removed from conscience.

Love the Nanas!

So the Australian doesn't like private education now? I am so confused!

Three kangaroos clouded in the mist.

Small mob of kangaroos in the mist.

Roos in the mist.

Local CFAs have been (often) working hard to ensure the local culture is welcoming and inclusive. Battin and Marshall have just undermined all that work.

It makes no more sense to label criticism of the state of Israel as inherently antisemetic as it is to label criticism of the state of Iraq as inherently Islamophobic.

#auspol

"Albanese explicitly said he did not want the report to be politicised" as if it could be anything else with choice of authors.

Must read from @ronnisalt.bsky.social

I heard on ABC today that a celebrity chef is distraught about her beef welly recipe being used as a vehicle for the mushrooms. I was caught between marvelling at how desperate people are to be involved (as in the chef and doctor) and how desperate the ABC is to keep trivialising the 3 deaths.

"Combat" is having to do a lot of heavy lifting here.

I keep reading that Barron Trump was associated with Epstein and mentioned in the Schroedinger files (they both exist and do not exist all at once). Not one to dig in on behalf of anyone associated with Trump, but given BT is only 19, any association would have been while he was a child himself.

I am not an economist's toenail, but noone has ever been able to explain to me why instead of paying banks extra, we can't have a system where we pay a changing percentage into super. Spread more evenly, crudely means tested, relieve pressure on retirement support, can access in emergencies...

At this stage if I was looking to leave and saw this I would assume I was just alerting the Gestapo to my location. How would anybody know if it was legitimate?

Australia has an opportunity to get out of the AUKUS security pact. We should take it.

AUKUS ties Australia ever closer to an increasingly volatile and aggressive America.

Sign our open letter, published today in the Canberra Times:
✍️ theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Hope puss gets a good report from the vet

Perfect.