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Had a great conversation with Martin McKenzie-Murray about first responders (paramedics, police, firies) and his brilliant new book Sirens. Listen here:

Also, this is proof if proof were needed that Gaiman is a monster. Because while it's theoretically possible, if extremely implausible, that all the accusations were false, this is him proving, in public, that he is a vindictive bully who will destroy the life of any woman who angers him.

It might just be me, but if I didn't want people talking about really heinous, unforgivable, shit I'd been accused of, I wouldn't sue my accuser for life-ruining sums of money right when a TV show based on my work premiered, thus reminding people of her accusations and all the other ones.

how do you fuck up a vital ferry monopoly HOW

Just a lazy half billion more for the poorest state in Australia to mop up the government’s mess.

my nan’s recipe ❤️

It takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that you alone are right and thousands of independent experts - comprising an entire sector of the economy - have all failed the highly contestable standard you're policing.

Maybe the problem is that Greg Craven is a fucking idiot who doesn’t understand that ideas and language aren’t fixed

Very happy to report the Senate has just supported the Greens move to force Commissioner Brereton and the Deputy NACC Commissioners to appear at the upcoming Senate Estimates hearings - accountability has to include everyone at the NACC even at the top!

Absolute discrimination; “Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (Apan) made detailed submissions on issues of antisemitism – including how it’s defined – as well as on racism & social cohesion, but was told it did not have a “direct & substantial” interest in the public hearings under way in Sydney..

CGT and Neg gearing changes don’t go far enough.

Absolutely ridiculous. Social cohesion in Australia means attacking people who oppose genocide, accusing them of antisemitism, then silencing them.

“one person per new house built”. In Taylor’s imaginary world, everyone lives alone in their own house. And he is prime minister.

Obvs not gaining his income from journalism if he’s driving a Porsche

Albanese and Chalmers say that they are standing up for young people, but their failure to reverse the disastrous job-ready graduates fee hikes and funding cuts tells a different story.

Can someone pls explain how allowing the older wealthy types to keep their existing negative gearing and CGT arrangements, while not allowing anyone else to have the same, is addressing generational inquality?? The headlines are utterly ridiculous.

How about climate change? We've barely spent anything, for years, on climate. Let's see how much extra the govt has committed... . . Oh wtf they've CUT funding how is that even possible? "Savings of $2.2 bil over 14 years (from) across the Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio"

*Looking up education and universities for funding boosts...* Oh, look they've CUT funding

Do the arts even exist? No. Nada. #budget

Whole bunch of climate funding being cut and redirected.

If you oppose antisemitism from the left but don’t oppose antisemitism from the right, you don’t oppose antisemitism. You oppose the left.

we worked very hard to get over a dozen Labor MPs to break ranks in the lead up to the 2023 budget, but since then have heard from MPs that they're not allowed to bring it up anymore

The #SundayShot is up! @rachelwithers.bsky.social and I discuss the results of last night's #Farrer by-election, plus @nickfeik.bsky.social on the failing NACC and @davemilbo.bsky.social interviews Surya McEwen from aboard the #Sumud Global Flotilla. youtu.be/5lOmyVETzLE?...

Unless there are some other serious budget measures to help younger people, grandfathered CGT/neg gearing reforms absolutely cannot be regarded as helping the next generation. Instead they’re letting wealthy investors keep their tax breaks while not allowing the next generation to enjoy the same.

If the repeated pattern holds, we'll get 1) Over the top threats, desperately hoping they'll get Iran to change its stance 2) A military plan to force open the Strait of Hormuz that won't work but will be covered as a plausible success 3) Lie of progress in peace talks, which will be covered as real

Grandfathering all negative gearing and CGT changes (ie allowing those who have it to keep it) is just locking in the generational inequality, surely

Seems my sister has just launched a leadership challenge to Keir Starmer #gocath

Given that the National Anti-Corruption Commission's objective was apparently to 'make sure that no corruption is ever uncovered', you'd have to say it's been a roaring success. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Can’t underestimate the significance of this. First EVER Green mayor in England, taking a Labor stronghold. Running unashamedly as an advocate for Palestinian rights (nb the full colour scheme here)

truly a master negotiator. sophistication, respect and nuance.

Good.

Every headline:

But wait you’ve been reporting for weeks that Trump says the war is virtually over. You don’t mean… he’s been bullshitting?!

“Long-time supporters of Israel have turned away in revulsion at the actions of the Israeli military. It will take many years for Israel to clear its name, assuming that it wishes to do so, and to re-establish itself in the international community.” JM Coetzee

Integrity bodies live or die on public confidence. Early resignations, opaque appointments and slow investigations don’t exactly scream “trust us.”!

In which I make some pointed criticisms of the NACC, and hope that it lifts its game

Without drawing any conclusions, the timing of Rose’s resignation is certainly interesting...

I don’t understand how the Albanese government can morally justify keeping the jobseeker rate way below poverty level, when their economy requires that some people need to be unemployed bc “labour market”. I guess morality doesn’t come into it.

This again is one of the problems of this whole thing. The Iranian leadership is not "insane." They're fairly rational actors that seem to behave in rational ways, but if you keep saying they're insane there's no way you can talk to them.

Nobel Prize-winning author John Maxwell Coetzee refused to attend the 14th International Writers’ Festival in Israel. His decision came citing the “disproportionate genocide” carried out by Israel in Gaza since October 2023.

Someone should look into those corruption allegations

In 942 days Israel has killed 363 journalists across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Syria. That’s roughly one journalist killed every three days across 5 countries. stopmurderingjournalists.com

Three Tasmanian police charged in the space of 6 days, over separate incidents. Two involved stealing! The other was "charged with common assault and issued with a Police Family Violence Order".

A brief reply to Michael Gawenda's slander overland.org.au/2026/05/jour...

UPDATE: Nine days after the publication of this investigation, the NACC announced that deputy commissioner Nicole Rose has resigned.

Wow. NACC deputy commissioner Nicole Rose has resigned www.nacc.gov.au/news-and-med...

God forbid that someone from his administration would get on a plane for 18 whole hours to save the global economy

I can't emphasise enough how important the submission by my brother @timhollo.bsky.social to the ill-conceived Royal Commission on Antisemitism is. The lateral antisemitism from fellow Jews is something Tim & I have dealt with for a long time, even before either of us used the term "anti-Zionist".