I reckon there's lots of immigrants working in health and aged care in Farrer who would be alarmed with what they're hearing right now #Farrer #Insiders

Mum of Aus Doctor Bianca Webb-Pullman detained by Israel for attempting to deliver aid to Gaza on flotilla blasts “Albo & Wong” calling on them to “roll up your sleeves” & intervene to ensure the “unobstructed & continued passage to Gaza of my daughter & all who are with her”🔥 #auspol

We're thrilled to announce Josh Bornstein will be joining the Australia Institute as Director of Corporate Regulation! Josh will work alongside our existing research team, developing bold new proposals to rebalance power in Australia’s economy! @joshbornstein.bsky.social #auspol

Every antisemitism recommendation accepted federally. Bringing Them Home Report thirty years ago still majority of it, ignored! Fuck this bullshit!!!

Am hearing that Albanese is very worried about the gas companies at this tough time. And look, the Iran War really has hit them... in the arse with a rainbow

CAR T-cell therapy is amazing stuff. For patients with certain leukemias and relapsed/refractory B-cell lymphomas, it can put years on your life and life in your years. 3 year survival goes from: 10% in historical controls to 59% in CAR-T patients.

Angus Taylor’s migration plan doesn’t just have a safe country list, but now also a bad country list for non-liberal democracies. Not sure what’s worse, not admitting he regards China & Vietnam as bad? Or thinking all liberal democracies are good?🙄 Total trainwreck🔥 #auspol

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

#ANZACday It's great to see Vietnamese Veterans marching in Canberra. I only just learnt whilst watching our ABC they have a Vietnamese Branch in the RSL. I guess many came to Australia after the Communists won.

Israel destroyed the graves of ANZACs www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Reminder: Israel bulldozed the Gaza War Cemetery in Al-Tuffah, Gaza City, destroying graves of British, Australian, and other allied soldiers from World War I and II. The war cemetery had been cared for by a Palestinian family for several generations. #AnzacDay #LestWeForget #FreePalestine #auspol

nobody in my house likes broccoli stems, so i stir fried them with some soy sauce and red pepper flakes and omg so good

David Pocock asking Chevron how much they pay for the gas they use to convert gas to LNG. The answer is $0, but they want to say they pay for it by the investment they make. But IT IS NOT THEIR GAS IT IS AUSTRALIANS AND THEY GET IT FOR FREE! live.thepoint.com.au

I ain't wearin that sweater!

Observations from my visit to north western NSW this week: It’s really really dry or there. Farmers saying they won’t plant winter crops unless there’s heaps of rain before mid-May. Diesel and fertiliser are too expensive to waste to bet on rain post-sowing; they’re happy to rest the soil this year.

it’s so great how where i live in tassie the tax-dodging, internationally-owned salmon companies ruin summer w diseased, dead and rotting salmon + antibiotics pumped into the water right off the beaches we love, which are calm sheltered waters with huge dead zones full of shit under the fish pens…

Australia's next national anthem...

only just got exposed to this fuckin’ banger

Amazing work over a half century by numerous scientists to figure out how bacteria move (Spoiler to the title question: it’s the proton motive force)

Some good fire from Greg Bourne of the Climate Council live.thepoint.com.au

There’s not 20,000 LNP and Labor MPs and staffers surely

My favourite line so far from the Gas Tax committee is Susan McDonald "I probably know more than 20,000 people who work directly and fairly closely directly with the gas industry." C'mon Susan, the Santos corporate box for the Wallabies vs Argentina Rugby Test Match wasn't that big

I've heard they do up to three inspections a year in Sydney? I get two a year, plus the 9V battery installer! Every four months, a random stranger gets to inspect me. I hate it. It's unnecessary and denigrating.

Could be good. "New Zealand Spy effectively takes place in the same universe as Flight of the Conchords – one in which NZ is a bit crap, Australians are evil and the decor, like the country, is stranded in mid-century limbo." - Russell Brown, The New Zealand Listener

Rose Jackson, NSW Min for Water, because the Labor 'left' is so much better at getting things right and done.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

FINGERS CROSSED! DO IT UNSW!

The University of Technology in Sydney is poised to close community radio station 2SER-FM. Here's my opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, arguing that it would be pure folly to do so.

Found a name for my punk band (should I ever be in one): Earthmover Fits Hetero

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Is the success in the room with us now?

Parents of the 168 children murdered by the US government have written to Pope Leo. They wrote of their children and their deep grief. They thanked him for being a voice for peace. Meanwhile silence from the White House. But there is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

I actually think Minns is worse than Dom was.

"Minns’ repeated attempts to weaponise the tools of democracy against the community has become a pattern of abuse" But no surprise from a premier who sees his job as protecting Zionists from dissent, says @suehigginson.bsky.social @deepcutnews.bsky.social #nswpol www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...

A march took place in Seoul today to show solidarity with Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran against the US-Israeli attacks. Via: mo.alriashi

What is wrong with NSW and its government? Regressive, moronic and beholden to genocidal maniacs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thumping house music after every goal at the AFL 😕

"These politicians demonstrated that it is they who are incompatible with the system of representative and responsible government entrenched by the constitution. They should admit it, apologise, and do better, or join their stupid law in the bin."

Trump: I’m not happy with Australia. Australia:

"The whole NSW government, from Minns down, as well as the Coalition which voted with it, should hang its collective head in shame at having been party to attempting such a disgraceful assault on one of our most fundamental freedoms — to assemble and exchange views." @marquelawyers.com.au #nswpol

Anthony Whealy KC, Chair of the Centre for Public Integrity: "Right from the start, the state government enacted this legislation too quickly. This was legislation that didn't ban protests but it did very effectively discourage them." 1/ #auspol

NSW Greens MP Sue Higginson said the ruling raised serious questions... “What we saw was police brutality on a scale we have not seen for decades in this state” “I hold Chris Minns responsible for that violence because it was his unconstitutional laws upon which the police acted.” #NSWpol #auspol

Nonsense. Of course he understands. It's this: "[This] is the second time in six months an anti-protest law passed by the Minns government has been... " used as a convenience by NSW PC Mal Lanyon to release The Dogs - thugs whose viciousness is expected, condoned & protected by NSW Police.

As we'll be arguing in Crikey today, the real upshot of the NSW Court of Appeal's judgment yesterday invalidating those ridiculous anti-protest laws, it is Premier Chris Minns who is incompatible with democracy. He clearly doesn't understand his responsibility as a leader of elected government.

Imagine if politicians in Australia had the guts to say this to Murdoch, Stokes and Costello. So impressive.

The Premier doth make laws against protests too much, methinks NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... NSW Treasurer: look what the nurses and midwives made me do...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... Umm...for RNs, this is not a major pay rise at all 😕

Solidarity from Qld with NSW nurses & midwives on pay conditions. As it is in Qld & worldwide, you pick us up when we're on our knees. Essential service workers should not have to fight like this, they have enough to do. Governments must ensure credible, budgeted programs. #nswpol

These are getting funnier. #DrDonaldJChrist