Paul Karp
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Journalist. NSW political correspondent for Australian Financial Review. He/him
Angus Taylor's leadership is about avoiding extinction not winning government
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Angus Taylor's leadership is about avoiding extinction not winning government
If Angus Taylor is the answer then what the hell is the question?
https://paulkarp.substack.com/p/angus-taylors-leadership-is-about
3 days ago
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Dave Earley
6 days ago
In sad, breaking news,
@lenoret.bsky.social
is leaving after 10 years as editor of Guardian Australia â
@australia.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/guardian-aus...
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Pictured: ferrymaxxing brutally commutemogs terrestrial transport.
7 days ago
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Amy Remeikis
9 days ago
'Disunity is death' â but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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'Disunity is death' â but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too
"Disunity is death" is a phrase often used in Labor circles, but itâs rarely discussed how government unity at all costs fragments society.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/02/07/labor-caucus-solidarity-remeikis#google_vignette
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fesshole đ§»
12 days ago
Was considering two candidates for promotion at work. One let slip they, a grown adult in their mid-30s, were having a full-blown Harry Potter themed wedding with real owls etc. Straight into the bin and now on the potential redundancy list to boot.
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Just sent flurry of FOI requests demanding documents relevant to a date in 2025 * * Please amend scope it is 2026 my bad!!! Life comes at you fast.
13 days ago
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Greg Jericho
14 days ago
Parliament is back, and while you were sleeping
@amyremeikis.bsky.social
was two coffees into the day already
live.thepoint.com.au
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The Point Live: Liberals, Nationals abort leadership moves amid talent deficit, reserve bank tipped to raise rates.
Parliament officially returns for 2026 with the Nationals and Liberals still in turmoil and unable to agree on a new leader, while One Nation continues to establish itself as the new conservative forc...
https://live.thepoint.com.au/
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Greg Jericho
15 days ago
Alcaraz has a long way to go, but he's started bloody well
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Maybe Novak should have gone to bed instead of a 3am victory lap acting like the semi was the grand final.
15 days ago
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People are so used to professional sport being a hellscape where only grindcore psychos survive, they can't fathom someone approaching every point with genuine joy. WHY IS CARLOS SMILING?!?
www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis...
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Why one smile makes Carlos Alcaraz the most dangerous man in tennis
It is reasonable to surmise that Alcaraz is somehow unbothered by the mounting expectation around him.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/why-one-smile-makes-carlos-alcaraz-the-most-dangerous-man-in-tennis-20260131-p5nyij.html
16 days ago
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The most interesting thing about this ABC Challenger long read (to me) is that the five engineers who warned it was unsafe then became "lepers". Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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'They're gonna die': How five people tried to stop the Challenger tragedy
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-01-28/space-shuttle-challenger-disaster-nasa-explosion-video-engineers/106162902
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Time to line the kitty litter with another year's worth of takes: * Demon is jacked now * Entrenched in the top 10 * Not just making up the numbers * Has the weapons to win * Did you see him against Bublik? Oh boy!
20 days ago
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I've seen enough
20 days ago
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My advice to Carlos Alcaraz would be De Minaur only eats when you feed him errors. Slightly more safety on the shots, Alex goes for his own winners and misses.
20 days ago
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De Minaur broken first service game.
#AustralianOpen
20 days ago
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I'm so concerned that because this wasn't spelled Ke$ha it's not really her.
20 days ago
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Love that everything even the net posts lights up red when you hit out at AO. As if to say: Damn, even the chair hates you!!
20 days ago
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Asher Wolf
20 days ago
Fortnightly pension rates are calculated using automated IT systems, but the auditor-general found Services Australia had not fully assessed the risks associated with its reliance on automation
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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$5bn of incorrect age pension payments revealed as seniors left waiting
There were $5 billion in incorrect payments made in three years, with more than 70 per cent overpayments, according to a scathing auditor-generalâs report.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/audit-exposes-5b-of-incorrect-age-pension-payments-as-seniors-left-waiting-20260127-p5nxfo.html
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Caroline Gardam
22 days ago
Top marks to Gareth Hutchens and the ABC for publishing this.
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It's weeks like this I realise how much poorer we are for not having Katharine Murphy in the gallery. But thanks to The New Daily and Australia Institute we still have fabulous
@amyremeikis.bsky.social
who this morning already predicted curtains for Ley
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Why weâre all the losers from the hate speech fracas
The biggest losers in the political brinkmanship Anthony Albanese and Labor lured Sussan Ley and the Liberals into with the hate group legislation no one wanted, is as always the public.
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260122-play-stupid-games-win-stupid-prizes-why-were-all-the-losers-from-the-hate-speech-fracas
25 days ago
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De Minaur already being outhit by a Serbian youngster and down a set. Time to shred another summer's worth of "Demon is jacked now, he's not making up the numbers, he's earned his top 6/8/10 place now" articles
26 days ago
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John McEnroe and Jim Courier are breaking the fourth wall by doubting the longevity of
#MAFS
marriages! Heresy!!
27 days ago
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I bet my friend who said "wouldn't it be great if you could be a cab driver but only one day a year" in 2006 would like a cut of Uber's revenue as well
bsky.app/profile/busi...
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28 days ago
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The Australia Institute
28 days ago
LIVE NOW: The Point Live with Amy Remeikis, Chief Political Analyst at
@australiainstitute.org.au
, is live now. All the dayâs parliamentary events, live as it happens on The Point âĄïž
https://theaus.in/4jIqDH2
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Beginning to think this climate change bizo may not be the best of ideas
about 1 month ago
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I will show I have the world's MOST POWERFUL SCISSORS by cutting my nose off to spite my face. BEHOLD!! The era of the nose-less face has arrived mwahahaha.
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about 1 month ago
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If you read the philosophy books, nor can I.
about 1 month ago
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Hi I'm Woolworths and there's not a single usable avocado in the joint. Hi I'm Aldi and you must build a time machine and eat these avocados before the queen died.
about 1 month ago
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Tim Lyons
about 1 month ago
Some of us are smart. Some are occasionally funny or insightful. Then there is Rafe. Get on this.
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When you're 20, Spotify will ask you if you want to listen to the music of Marcus Whale or the meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It's very important that you choose Marcus Whale.
about 2 months ago
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Contrary to what the Oz says, the head of the AHRC is the president Hugh de Kretser not the human rights cmr Lorraine Finlay.
about 2 months ago
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The ABC has introduced the Boomers to Don West and they think this Fabio cum Elvis is nothing but a hound dog.
about 2 months ago
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Fake ending before extra drop. Classic.
about 2 months ago
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Everyone frothing over this personal essay but it doesn't say that much about AI. It says a lot more about the US having no social safety net and a crippling opioid crisis. The AI gave him good advice (buy a chainsaw) and it was all fine til he was injured at work.
bsky.app/profile/lint...
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about 2 months ago
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Whatever it was, they don't teach it in law school
youtu.be/bAQv6KTfQow?...
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The Wire - Clay Davis Takes the Stand
YouTube video by WireLover2
https://youtu.be/bAQv6KTfQow?si=J3zXpUpssYnf0MqW
about 2 months ago
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That's generally how public space works ...until you put your pagoda thing on it.
about 2 months ago
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Zoomed up likeability ladder!! Yes...but still behind every teal MP, almost the entire Labor and Liberal frontbench, Greens Larissa Waters and Sarah Hanson-Young, and Bob Katter.
about 2 months ago
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Gillian Gower, PhD
about 2 months ago
I do not like your AI slop I do not like it, make it stop I do not want an AI house I do not want an AI mouse No AI box. No AI foxâ That AI slop can go kick rocks I would not AI here or there I would not AI anywhere No AI car, no AI czar Your AI slop is killing trees I do not like it, let me be!
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Too bad so sad better luck next time
www.skynews.com.au/insights-and...
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White doves and a luxury suite: The media demands of Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed
The man hailed as the "Hero of Bondi"Â shuffled out of the bedroom of his $6,000-a-night villa at Crown in Sydney to meet me.
https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/white-doves-a-luxury-suite-and-broken-promises-the-inside-story-of-a-day-in-the-life-of-bondi-hero-ahmed-al-ahmed/news-story/c994c1642ee0ae6a0677bf6a71ade568
about 2 months ago
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Dr Liz Allen
about 2 months ago
Calling out bad behaviour often leads to enormous adverse consequences for whistleblowers who might already be vulnerable. Those actually committing wrongdoing appear to be protected by power + privilege afforded by wealth and connections. It must change.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Why exposing wrongdoing in Australia isn't as easy as blowing the whistle
Proposed reforms would expand whistleblower protections, but advocates say they don't go far enough.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whistleblower-laws-australia/nn5hkuxjy
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This level of musculature wouldn't get you on the Grindr favourite grid it's not going to overcome the difference with Sinner and Alcaraz
about 2 months ago
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Brigid Delaney
about 2 months ago
Long read for the ABC
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Forget brat summer, the vibe shift is here and it's terrifying
From the rise of misinformation and AI to escalating political tensions, vast economic disparity, and the erosion of social bonds, the vibe shift is now understood as a deep, unsettling change in our ...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-28/vibe-shift-ai-misinformation-reality-future/106098002
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#breaking
two Labor MPs - Ed Husic and Mike Freelander - have broken ranks with Anthony Albanese to call for a federal royal commission into the Bondi terror attack.
#auspol
www.afr.com//politics/la...
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Second Labor MP backs federal royal commission into Bondi massacre
Anthony Albanese is facing growing calls for a federal royal commission into the Bondi terror attack, including from Labor MPs Ed Husic and Mike Freelander.
https://www.afr.com//politics/labor-mp-breaks-ranks-backs-federal-royal-commission-on-bondi-attack-20251222-p5npeq?btis
about 2 months ago
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ABC News Bot (unofficial)
about 2 months ago
While Albanese will forever struggle to shed the perception that he was too slow to recognise the threat to Australia's Jewish community â he is taking action.
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Albanese has become the nation's lightning rod for Bondi accountability
While Albanese will forever struggle to shed the perception that he was too slow to recognise the threat to Australia's Jewish community â he is taking action.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-20/anthony-albanese-bondi-terror-attack-jewish-community-safety/106156710
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I can't see any evidence in this piece beyond vibes, and the Coalition and rest of media said it. Author says Albo has shown obvious empathy, would be heckled at funerals and criticises Segal report. Doesn't say what he should've done differently.
about 2 months ago
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Rachel Maddow
2 months ago
"Today, the Trump meme coin has lost 88% of its value... "First Lady Melania Trumpâs meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today itâs worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...
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These Trump bets boomed. Now theyâre huge busts | CNN Business
Donald Trumpâs return to the White House set off a gold rush on Wall Street and in the crypto world.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/business/trump-stocks-bitcoin-crypto
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Great to see that among the changes is that employers now have a defence where reasonable management action is a "significant" (rather than the predominant) cause of an injury. Bullies should not scurry from a disciplinary meeting onto workers comp.
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Sloane ends workersâ comp stalemate with deal to freeze premiums
The NSW Coalition will help Labor pass cuts to psychological injury claims in return for an 18-month premium freeze and a âreturn-to-workâ year with benefits.
https://www.afr.com//politics/sloane-ends-workers-comp-stalemate-with-deal-to-freeze-premiums-20251211-p5nmsf?btis
2 months ago
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Saw an U16 on social media this morning so I smacked the phone outta his hand into the icy cold waters of Port Jackson. Just doing my part.
2 months ago
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Tribes pay tribute to Richo, a deal maker who âgave voice to the mobâ
www.afr.com//politics/tr...
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Tribes pay tribute to Richo, a deal maker who âgave voice to the mobâ
The countryâs political and media elite gathered to celebrate the âcolourfulâ powerbroker, with Anthony Albanese acknowledging his service and controversies.
https://www.afr.com//politics/tribes-pay-tribute-to-richo-a-deal-maker-who-gave-voice-to-the-mob-20251208-p5nlqo?btis
2 months ago
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Starting the day at Graham Richardson's state funeral and concluding with a Rebecca Black concert at the Metro theatre. Tops of 31 degrees. The Sydneyest day to ever Sydney.
2 months ago
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