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Howard's disturbing legacy: Fear and misdirected compassion Howard’s legacy is the constant fear of asking people to think beyond themselves to what we could be, rather than enforcing what we were.

Wrote this Friday. Beyond furious today.

Howard's disturbing legacy: Fear and misdirected compassion

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

This article is so spot on Amy. Howard is at the genesis of so much of the things that resulted in our rapidly widening inequality, and our mean-spirited beliefs. I loathe him so much.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

When my uncle was diagnosed with schizophrenia, the prevailing wisdom from the medical profession was that cold, unemotional “refrigerator” mothers caused it. I think about that sometimes and think it’s one of the cruelest things ever. Why are mothers always blamed!?

Still true

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

I don’t want to hear Australian leaders bullshitting us about the importance of a rules based world order. You can’t support illegal invasions and attacks and bang on about “rules” with a straight face.

Really? We’re Fucking Doing This Again? — The Shovel The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to claims it has no fucking idea what it...

“You have got to be fucking kidding,” the Rest of the World has remarked, as the US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing.

Absolutely, these are all great.

“Pachinko” is excellent, and why we first got Apple +. “Silo” has been a family favourite and “Dark Matter” (Joel Edgerton) is also fabulous if you like sci-fi. Enjoy!

This needs to be posted regularly so the world won’t easily forget what pathetic, stupid arseholes most of the USA Ice Hockey team is

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

Explicitly capitalist media is telling you that getting/continuing to get COVID is really bad for you and is, mortifyingly, still doing more to warn you than most public health leaders are.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

🎁 Link below

So many bad drivers of inequality were born from his initiatives. He was so regressive. I will always give him his due on his gun laws, but if I give him his due for that, I have to do the same for all the things he fucked up. E.g. He let the for profit industry write the Aged care policy!

Australia Weekly COVID Update, 20 Feb 2026. SA up +36.5% (weekly update; 5 deaths). WA up +34.3% (weekly update; avg 18/day in hospital). VIC up +29.0% (fortnightly/weekly update). QLD up +15.8% (weekly update; 37 in hospital). NSW up +13.0% (weekly update). TAS monthly reporting, next update 6 March. ACT Health ended weekly reporting for 2025; will resume in autumn/winter 2026. NT no longer publishes data. Aged care: Australian Government no longer publishes weekly COVID-19 case data.

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 20 Feb 2026

🔹SA: ⬆️ (+36.5%) 5 deaths reported
🔹WA: ⬆️ (+34.3%) Avg 18/day in hospital
🔹VIC: ⬆️ (+29.0%)
🔹QLD: ⬆️ (+15.8%) 37 in hospital
🔹NSW: ⬆️ (+13.0%)

🔸TAS: Next update: 6 Mar

🔹Aged Care: The Australian government ended weekly COVID-19 reporting.

Couldn’t agree more. David P is one of the best politicians we have!

The Australian values test :

Congratulations, that’s fantastic! 💚🧶

‘They’re gaslighting us’: More disability homes close as state funding ends More than 80 group homes for disabled residents have closed, upending the lives of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable people.

84 disability group homes in Victoria have closed since the state government privatised their operation to five providers in 2019. These are highly specialised homes and staff are not easily replaced www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

A naked admission that their investment model relies upon renting substandard residences.

Nikki Savva is adding some much needed wisdom here. ‘ISIS brides are citizens, most have not committed a crime, especially the children. Are we as a nation going to punish them for the rest of their lives?’ #insiders

“People are mad at how much energy and water our digital pollution machines use, but did you ever think about how much energy and water YOU use?” is an actual argument Sam Altman is making.

Read this as a warning if you're still using Facebook and want to create an event using it.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

This is heartbreaking, and not surprising all at the same time. Yet podcast bro’s like to whine that feminism has gone too far. Elise* is a very brave woman and deserves nothing but solidarity and respect.

Photo ISTAND WITH GRACE TAME! THE RED HEART MOVEMENT 📷 AustralianFemicideWatch.org

Grace Tame has spent yrs standing up to abusers, while supporting victims & survivors. She exchanged a safe, quiet existence for one of consequence & impact.

Right now she is being vilified by journalists, politicians, organisations.

I stand with Grace - I hope you'll stand with her too!
#Auspol

Pop art illustration of Australian politician Angus Taylor standing at a bathroom sink, seen both directly and in the mirror. He gives two exaggerated thumbs up to his reflection while red lipstick text scrawled across the mirror reads, “FANTASTIC. GREAT MOVE. WELL DONE, ANGUS.” The bathroom is clean and clinical, with pale tiles, a chrome faucet, and a pink towel hanging on a chrome rack.

If you can't congratulate yourself, how in the HELL are you gonna congratulate somebody else!!? Well done, Angus 🏆

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right