As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor. theshot.net.au/news/opinion...

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

The “context” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Not us. We’re built different.

Absolutely sick of the reframing of anti-genocide protests as being pro-Hamas. And despicable that mainstream media is not willing to push back against that. #AusPol

Watching Schitt’s Creek again out of love for Catherine O’Hara only to realize that it is a view of the USA from Canada.

Let's see if our panel on censorship gets censored by the government/lobbyist alliance. NSW government has already made contact with Newcastle Writers Festival board about including Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, ABC reports When will the bullying & intimidation stop ?

To lose one minister maybe regarded as happenstance, to lose two is coincidence, to lose three is enemy action. www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

The folly of inviting Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, to Australia. My column for the ABC.

We are mourning those killed by our government -- Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and at least 53 others in immigration custody. We demand justice and accountability, not terror. www.fcnl.org/updates/2026...

Who would have known that Orwell would turn out to be a great prophet?

“We are making this call together, as elders from the Labor and Liberal parties, wishing for the bipartisanship that was once our experience and is increasingly rare.” John Hewson and Barry Jones on the need for a minister for social cohesion: ​​satpa.pe/BjOh6oO

Incredible

@albomp.bsky.social is this hate speech? www.facebook.com/share/r/1LFn...

CX - Steve Jobs discovered that the customer experience (CX) was the most critical factor in determining the success of commodity. It is therefore quite astonishing that in the current corporate era of treating everything as a commodity, customers are now treated as just consumers.

Hi @albomp.bsky.social Will your new "hate laws" be retrospective? Asking for a former leader. #auspol

“The government is expecting me to vote on huge changes to hate speech laws at 10.30 tonight and they haven’t even provided it to us to read and we have asked and asked to see it” - Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social on ABC Radio Canberra.

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To continue our funny little campaign to support good people, we are having Danish butter biscuits with our tea this afternoon.

“Eddy was angry at how much his brigade was asked to do with so little resources.” Maybe @albomp.bsky.social would like to explain to Eddy & all of us why there’s > $300 billion for AUKUS but volunteer firefighters put their lives at risk with insufficient resources! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

In the words of a world-renowned cardiologist, Australia’s young medical researchers are “left to flounder with total job insecurity and family pressures. It’s the best recipe we have for raiding our future, in terms of a medical research workforce and the benefits of medical research”

As ever, the letter-writers bring the wisdom. We have a crisis of leadership at so many levels, and you only need to look at theocratic and repressive states to see that harsh, arbitrary rules and punishment do not make a society safe or harmonious.

“When failure rates sit this high, we’re not just losing good ideas—we’re draining time, energy & morale from a workforce we can’t afford to waste.” Success rates @ 8% the #nhmrc Ideas Grants scheme = a lottery! The MREA must be increased! #auspol www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.

One can email the SA premier at [email protected] and call for his resignation. I have.

The Adelaide Festival Corporation, which oversees Adelaide Writers' Week, has apologised to Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah and says she will be invited to speak at its next event in 2027.

This is the really awful thing about this Malinaukas debacle. Lost opportunity for people who have done nothing wrong.

“The Adelaide Festival’s 2025 Impact Report showed it generated $62.6 million in gross expenditure for South Australia” www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

‘If it was the board’s decision, why did all its members resign?’ www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

Well, well, well. A new board and hopefully substantial improvement. www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Thank you Louise Adler. We are certainly blessed to have such care and love for our community. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

spineless..

One can email the SA premier at [email protected] and call for his resignation. I have.

This theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

"Real reason you're so much sicker than before: No, you're not going mad, your immune system's struggling to cope with everyday bugs." "When a peer-reviewed article in the BMJ suggested last summer that Covid may have been quietly weakening our immune systems, it passed largely unnoticed."

So, Louise Adler has resigned as Director of AWW. I don't blame her. What a mess Mali has made. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Source: the Guardian This week Peter Malinauskas said Tesla was welcome in South Australia, according to the Advertiser. the premier said. “Mr Musk’s politics, while I violently disagree with them … that’s his prerogative.”

PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week: www.readings.com.au/collections/...

Under the Adelaide Festival Corporation Act, the board must "consist of not more than eight members" and "quorum of the board consists of one half the total number of its members plus one." "A decision carried by a majority of the votes cast by members at a meeting is a decision of the board."

You see Adelaide Festival board, we still live in a country where silencing voices is wrong and won’t be tolerated especially when the voices you’re trying to silence merely have a problem with genocide. Racism is intolerance towards any race/culture…not just the one that you support/agree with.

At last

Nearly a dozen former leaders of the Adelaide Festival are calling for Randa Abdel-Fattah to be reinvited to Writers' Week, adding to a mounting crisis over the Palestinian-Australian author's exclusion from the literary festival.

Former leaders of the Adelaide Festival have written to the board. They call it a grave mistake which brings the Festival and Writers Week into disrepute and which may have far-reaching consequences for both the Festival and Writers Week well into the future."

@adlfrin.ge would you folks consider hosting a writers week? Asking for a former friend.

#AdelaideFestival has shuttered until Monday. Good luck with finding an email address to contact them with your concerns.