‘Summer is coming sooner and it’s lasting longer’: what has the weather got in store for Australia? Abnormal heat is expected, especially in Tasmania, but a ‘tug of war’ between climate drivers means the rainfall and fire forecast is uncertain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

John Hewson on the task ahead for the Coalition: "Surely if they’ve learned anything from the last couple of election losses, they must know it’s impossible to win by just criticising from an extreme position." satpa.pe/15XoLqT

Horse racing is cruel. The racing of any animal for human entertainment is cruel. It’s just a matter of time before horse racing, like dog racing, is banned.

Good Food Chef of the year Lauren Eldridge - photographed with desserts wiped on her check and forehead. This type of image infantilises women. Eldridge has won a significant award. I bet if the winner had been a man he wouldn’t have been photographed in such a way.

Why doesn’t #ABCnews on tv have subtitles? What’s gone wrong? #ABCtv #ABCSydney

Fun fact: Santos has paid $0 in corporate tax in the last 10y while selling $48bn of Australian gas. Santos buys gas domestically and sells it overseas, increasing the price of Australian gas in our own market. Our govt must reserve gas for our domestic industries and homes.

Ah gawd Samantha Maiden on Sydney702 dumping in Albo. So tedious. She’s on repeat - always dumping on Albo. And telling it as if she’s got a little snicker snicker secret. Spare us

Well the Liberals need to find more women like Melissa McIntosh if they want to convince voters they should, one day, get back into power. (And dump blokes like Hastie and Taylor.)

I won’t be the least surprised if Trump gets the Nobel Peace prize next year - if the hostages return and peace holds. Mind you, Netanyahu will try as hard as he can to restart the conflict before the election in Israel

You’d better trademark that name pronto!

Arty Ficial- my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can AI really replace humans when it comes to the arts? | Fiona Katauskas

Geez another puff piece on Hastie in the SMH. Someone there really wants us to warm to him. Not a chance in hell in this household. He’s a religious misogynist, not a leader with a vision for future for all of us.

I put this together for LinkedIn, but it is just as good here. I know it is a rather superficial bling exercise, but the "Australian Bird of the Year" does highlight some species in dire straits across this country. 1/ #AustralianBirdOfTheYear2025 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

$1.5 million of 🇦🇺 taxpayer💰per head but asylum seekers still going without food. Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good grief, Hastie might also be a creationist - believing that the world is only several thousand years old. (He won’t admit or, tellingly, deny it, but his father is apparently.) The Libs would be mad to ever make him their leader

Public schools will be heavily underfunded in each year until 2034. The cumulative underfunding is estimated at a massive $34.6 billion. #auspol #schoolfunding

It’s time for government regulation of the billion dollar tutoring industry in Australia. Parents are being ripped off and children can be wasting their time

📣 Opportunity for early career researchers from developing countries who work on climate change. IPCC is calling for chapter scientists for assessment round 7. Successful applicants will receive a stipend for 48 months. 🧪🌎 www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

Yuk. Samantha Maiden talking up Andrew Hastie on Sydney 702. No thanks to both of them. One a Murdoch lackey the other a religious misogynist

Hastie driven by (heretical) "religious" zealotry. Heightened by hyper-masculine (read sexist, racist) view of the world polished up by his years in the military. End-times fundamentalism is ANYTHING but Christian. Bears NO relationship to the radically inclusive teachings of Jesus. Appalling.

Good grief - ‘use a lot of words but not make much sense’ - Maiden’s criticism of Larissa Waters. A bit of projection happening there

Hastie isn’t interested in any middle role. He is full of himself and believes he could do a better leadership job than Ley ( or any woman probably).

Maiden lives Hastie - no surprise, Hastie is a Murdoch type through and through

Good for Ley - trying to reign in the boys, especially those (many) with leader ambitions

Speers keeps asking the same questions. Waters is loving it

Speers is on his toes trying to do a Gotcha on Larissa Waters. Hasn’t landed one yet. She has answers

Larissa Waters is right - we shouldn’t be selling weapon parts to Israel. It’s downright wrong

No surprise that Trump doesn’t know how to pronounce Qatar

Good to see Jacob Greber on #Insiders. But Samantha Maiden not so much

Here’s hoping the result of elections in Israel next year will get rid of Netanyahu. That would probably be the very best move towards peace in the region

If Trump can pull off a peace deal in Gaza he absolutely deserves (very reluctantly in this household) some respect

If Hastie ever becomes leader of the Liberals they will never get back into government. His views are misogynistic and outdated. Australians have long moved on from having men like him as our leaders.

Andrew Hastie will never be leader of our nation. He belongs back in the fifties. Even the fact he stuck his head up shows his true colours - disloyal, egotistical, dumb and misogynistic

Speers is trying hard but can’t find any chinks in Albo’s views. Albo is giving such thoughtful, calm snswers

I think Albo is becoming quite the statesman. Makes me proud to be Australian

Jeez Coorey is actually waxing lyrical about Albo. Amazing stuff

‘Lefty love in’ and ‘lefty leaders’ - these are experienced journalists using this language. Says it all about the rags they write for

And fmd did Phil Corey also say something positive about Albo ? What are they on over there?

Good heavens - Speers is being positive about Albo on #Insiders

Renewables supply record 77.9% of power in Australia’s main grid www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/22/r...

With Hastie in charge there’s no way the Liberals will find their way back. His ideas are regressive. Totally. Rebooted” all right - rebooted out again and again

My latest on the ever-deepening inequity in our school system. You know, the one we hate to talk about. In today’s The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

We paid millions for Mathias Cormann to become secretary general of the OECD (remember). So why not millions for a seat at the United Nations top table?

Wake up, America, or I fear we may not have elections in 2028.

Farmers have the most to lose from climate change and the National Party betrays them.

No one would notice or care if Hastie resigned from the front bench.

Very confusing stuff from Ley. But hey, would Angus be any better? Nup Oh ever in the wilderness will they wander