So silly. The only way to ban kids from social media is to take away all of their devices. (And stop them from spending any time with friends who have them.) Now they will be using it under the radar (plus pretending to be older) and in much more danger

Trevor Cobbold: Administrative staffing Australia’s public education system has grown faster than student enrolments or teacher numbers. Unless govts act, promised school funding risks being absorbed by bureaucracy rather than improving learning and wellbeing. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12....

The Liberals are going to dump Ley and put a man in charge (again) for sure. Because they are stupid. And with Angus or Andrew in charge they will shift more to the right and further away from ever getting back into government

Maiden is at it again - dump on Albo. It’s her job. Tedious #insiders

What kids will learn is how to skip around the rules. It’s already happening

Poor Phil has to concede Albo did well with the low profile wedding

And mumbling bumbling Phil Coorey. Spare us

Oh groan Samantha Maiden is on - here we go. Whinge and dump on Albo

Jacob’s got his Xmas shirt on. Looks great

Speers is doing his damnedest to trip up Albanese but none of it is working. Albo is on the ball and full of confidence- giving us lists of what his government has achieved so far

For profit schools growing ways to tap into public funding in the US. Bloody awful. Learning from Australia where dying churches have long had their fingers into public coffers via school funding

Honestly ABC Sydney Radio. Phil Coorey we can do without.

Women Photographers 1900 to 1975: A Legacy of Light – in pictures

Gawd Littleproud is boring

Australia's social media age ban is being challenged in the High Court on the grounds it restricts young teens' implied right to freedom of political communication.

ABC Radio Sydney should never have sacked Sarah Macdonald or given us the sad line up we’ve had since Glover et al. left us. Sack the person in charge - they obviously have no idea what ABC listeners want

Niki Savva is right (again) Dutton was not up to the job. (I’ve ordered her book Earthquake.) She has such a clear insight into our political world

So funny. No one knows what ‘Coalition’s ‘Affordable Energy Plan’ is. Even though Ley keeps waving around her brochure

Gawd Andrew Hastie is making noises about there being another conservative Party. Any party Hastie leads will be the very worst choice for Australia

Haha What does it mean to be a Liberal* today? Niki Savva: I don’t think anyone knows *Liberal Party in Australia

The kids have ready their plans to beat the social media ban. It’s a fizzer. In fact it puts them in more danger off the radar - agree with Sarah Hanson Young

Chris Bowen in any extra role would be a plus. Of course he can do the job

Jeez the podcast ad blocked the name of the pollie speaking. What a bloody mess. Leave the ads to later people!!!

Very good - ‘Greens would be a more reliable partner for the Government’. There’s a new corner we’ve turned!

Niki Savva on Insiders. Always good value.

Of course Ley is being undermined. Andrew and Angus are so very sure they could do a better job than any woman. Their egos are off and running

"The average mortgage pays $200,000 in profit over its life to the banks," says Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute. You can read more on good ideas for economic reform on The Point. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Ah the Libs think their numbers are low now - just wait ‘til they put Angus or Andrew in charge ! Spiral

US President Donald Trump has removed tariffs on a range of food products, including beef, which is Australia’s largest export to the US. satpa.pe/8D49JX8

The pope is suffering relevancy deprivation- getting involved with the use of AI by Hollywood. Spare us

= inertia

Good grief. What on earth is Dan Tehan talking about? ‘Technology neutral approach’? What TF is that? Can the Coalition get any more loopy?

Hmm Mel Clarke hosting the podcast - might be worth watching then

Fell off my chair - just agreed with Jennifer over university funding !

So true we ordinary Australians know so little about Indonesia- our most powerful nearest neighbour with a population nearing 300,000 million!

Yes indeed it is big news to have a security treaty with Indonesia. Great work from Albo and team

Indonesia is absolutely vitally important to us - but aside from the weather in Bali - it is seldom discussed in our politics

Of course climate change is the number one concern in the Pacific. Yes indeed. Wong is so right. The Coalition’s views are disrespectful

So true. ‘The Liberal Party has been overrun by the fringes’. Penny Wong is clear eyed about it all

Jennifer doesn’t like Susssan ! I guess it’s Andrew or Angus for her

Erk Jennifer Hewett Let’s see how long before a dump on Albo

Ah great - Penny Wong is today’s guest

Angus and James congratulating each other over dumping net zero. Gawd Hopefully we’ll never let these two dumbos make decisions for our nation’s future

‘a brave move’ from the Liberal’s to dump net zero? Ahahaha Insiders really?

This a great submission by ‘non religious people’ in Australia to the UN Human Rights Council. (So we wear the ‘non religious’ label obviously - hmmm a negative way to describe the majority of Australians these days. I’d prefer ‘religion free’.)

End all funding every single private employment services provider. Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country. Get rid of mutual obligations Bring back the CES Raise the fricken rate Ain’t hard.

May the Libs wander in the wilderness for a very very long time. They will need to shed the dinosaurs before they have any possibility of attracting voters again.

Female NSW MPs Allegra Spender and Kellie Sloane report death and rape threats after condemning neo-Nazi rally in Sydney

From the Gluepot Reserve FB account: Solar powered kangaroos! These thirsty roos know where to come after a sprinkle of rain on a hot day. They also clean our solar panels for us! 😂

A group of men gathered outside of the NSW Parliament in Sydney yesterday to call for the inclusion of erectile dysfunction medication on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.