Australia must cut trade with Israel.

@auspol if you're not already following the Sunday Shot, today's episode was a cracker. Get onto it: youtu.be/vI8mAq7J1dk?...

Sunday Shot this morning is me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social and @mrdtjames.bsky.social. We unpack some huge stories out of the indie media space this week, an ABC host unloading on GT & Uncle Robbie Thorpe's case against King Charles. Join us

“People approaching the end of life should not be left navigating gaps between systems while trying to manage serious illness, disability and distress” thepoint.com.au/news/260605-...

This is good news and an excellent time fot covid cautious to relax somewhat- though I’ll still be getting my booster next winter and masking in health settings/ public transport open.substack.com/pub/christin...

A friend discovered this fungus in her garden today! She thinks it’s a ‘Dryads saddle fungus?’ What an incredible thing. Looks like a ceramic teapot! #Fungi #Nature #Norwich #Fungus

#NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements) are used to silence women. National reform is needed so that they can only be used when the person who was harmed actually wants one. Not to protect employers or perpetrators. #OurSilenceIsNotForSale campaign #sexualharrassment www.wwc.org.au/campaigns/nd...

Here are some nice mushrooms

Letters to regional newspaper #BorderMail show compassion has not disappeared despite ON vote. Let’s see if the new parliamentarian can rise to the challenge and find solutions. #auspol #farrer worth noting at least one letter writer was alternative candidate.

"There is something that governments care far more for than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy." —Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"

“At One Nation our anti-abortion, anti-trans and anti-family court stances are us protecting the ladies. Trust me.” chaser.com.au/national/eve...

I own property and I want house prices to fall

When you pay off a credit card or mortgage, the bank can’t charge you interest on repayments you’ve already made. That would be illegal. But when the government does it, it’s fine and normal. Sign my petition today to fix HECS. We've done it before, let's do it again.

New details on the Australians that were on the US submarine that sunk the Iranian frigate. Defence is claiming they were not in their bunks as previously thought, but where "assigned to damage control activity."

This is just sitting in a park in Holbrook on the way to Sydney.

The government has admitted it illegally cancelled hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments because of a glitch in the automated system that runs the controversial mutual obligations scheme, it has been revealed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A broken system that breaks people

Of course they all knew. Being generous, accepting that some weren’t involved and didn’t approve, they all knew. If they didn’t know they weren’t competent. #AusPol

Some absolutely brutal figures from the ABS on tobacco consumption - figures that really should have those arguing that the higher excise is working to really have a long think...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “Minister Watt needs to do his job and ensure that Santos’ largest ever fracking plan is assessed under our federal environment laws,”

Waives desperately at the Australian government

feeling uneasy about how we’re remembering the pandemic, our collective memory it’s referred to as a period of inconvenience to most people (may be biased here as we had the most time under lockdowns in the world) instead of a mass casualty event where we had excess global deaths of 15 million.

Morel season is done in my neck of the woods and it wasn't very good. Too dry and cold than intense heat with no rain. Oh well looking forward to what comes up next. A nice dryads saddle I picked today, perfect size for good eating. #fungifriends

Penguins, birds, not cats. #environment www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

I said love, I said pet. I said pet, I said love. I said no. Ive had an absolute gutful of your questions. I am ready to be Prime Minister, but I’m not ready to drag myself down to Canberra 12 weeks a year to sit in Parliament. I’ve got Gina’s monthly do to attend. When am I going to find the time?

When Barnaby Joyce was deputy prime minister and transport minister in 2021, his assistant minister Kevin Hogan made a quiet, but hugely significant change to the Road Vehicle Standards Act. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

#DV #MWAWG #femicide #rape Australians, have your say on the next Govt Action Plan. All the content you/we put online, submit here

The decision to abandon our sovereignty, blindly support US aggression and spend at least $368b on second hand submarines beggars belief. Labor’s desperate attempt to avoid being wedged on AUKUS is proving to be politically,militarily, strategically and economically incompetent.

“For America, Aukus is about gaining forward operating bases against China for nuclear weapons-capable subs and bombers – and forcing Canberra to pay billions in tribute for the privilege,” - @marcusstrom.bsky.social Major Aukus switch to buy only secondhand subs from US.

Clare O'Neil calls out the Coalition’s “huge mistake” in 1999 to change CGT & gift investors taxpayer handouts, saying it turned residential property into the country’s “most lucrative, low-risk investment”💥 “The tax system should not drive investment decisions”💯 #auspol

I found bird's nest fungi! 😁💚

So while we are sharing stories about how utterly useless JSPs are let me share a few anecdotes. I'm currently under-employed & still required to deal with these fuckers. I've had 2 appointments. First impression - I'm sat in a waiting room with stained carpet & chairs.

Just playing 😂 It’s one of the reasons I enjoy watching these birds and I am guessing is where the expression came from when people are described as “acting the galah” or told to “stop being a galah”

Circus skills.

Persimmons in stormy weather #nature #orange These old fruit trees are glowing in the grey weather in green paddocks.

more diabolical things in this new NDIS legislation - in Schedule 2, they propose fines up to $20K of disabled people and families for making admin errors in a notoriously complex administrative system

No fliter with both photos, one without the sun yesterday and one with the sun today. What a grown up 😆

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

The Albanese Labor Government has just given the Federal police $200 million, as part of the new 'AUKUS Command' force. Today we learnt this is solely to protect US and UK submarines. Australians paying for the protection of the US military, that's AUKUS.

Abolish Mutual Obligations and urgently #RaiseTheRate #auspol

witness intimidation is a crime " Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has become a special target for One Nation over his willingness to give evidence against Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith, who has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder."

MMT Job guarantee better. Federally funded, locally designed/administered job for anybody who wants one at a living wage. Price anchor and automatic stabiliser. gimms.org.uk/job-guarantee/

Bring in Universal Basic Income and we can get rid of the private provider grifters. #UBI #auspol

Unemployed Australians are Australians. There’s no reason for their government to bully them, other than perpetuating the bludger myth. Unemployment is a feature of our economic system, essential, not an accidental by-product. Our government should acknowledge this and offer dignity and respect.

Right now, organised anti-abortion activists are working to wind back access to abortion access across Australia and the debate is getting uglier, just like we have seen in the US. womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-fig…

'Speaking on Sorry Day, Professor Dodson said the government's lack of action indicated two things: "I don't think they care, and secondly, maybe they're just waiting for all the survivors to die out so the problem goes away," the Yawuru elder said.' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

My weekend plans did not involve becoming the proud mother of a baby magpie but anyway here I am.

If you're wondering how the recently resigned #NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, spent his time in his $800,000 p.a job, at least some of it was dedicated to writing to the Inspector General about some individual called, Ronni Salt's, twitter activities. Seriously - I kid you not #auspol

Be kind. Be helpful. Be careful. Use the skills we learned during C19.