Living in a rural area and working with populations facing socioeconomic disadvantage you’d never witness in the city, it doesn’t feel hard to understand why people would outright refuse to vote for either Labor or Liberals

150 billionaires in the UK have £700bn Enough to build 2000 Hospitals Enough to build 7m houses Enough to pay every pension for 6 years 150 greedy little twats have this much money Then they use the Media they own to say your pensions/benefits/healthcare are 'too expensive'

Whitlam: "It's Time" Albanese: "Not the Time"

Utterly shameful failure to meet the moment from Labor - it's not populist it's popular and he's listening to his mining mates instead of the people.

Here's Grace Tame. "Child predators want to work with kids: it’s time to reform the childcare industry"

NZ have had a road user charge system where you buy kms in advance of using them. $76 per 1000km. They are moving to an electronic system where you attach a device to your car that uses GPS to monitor travel and automate paying the RUC. Ofc thieves will try to cheat, thats no reason not to do it.

The rules. My @smh cartoon.

I found it interesting that on Mardi Gras night, channel 9 decided to show a Harry Potter movie.

I appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon

Gutted. DC was my childhood. And I was horrified by the dystopian US healthcare system: ‘In November 2025, Van Der Beek revealed plans to auction off memorabilia and the “treasures” he kept from working on his TV shows and films to fund his cancer treatment.’ www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

THIS 👇 HERE.......

"SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing."

In case you missed it. An ICE Out protest broke out in Milan, Italy on Saturday. Denmark also protested again yesterday, too.

Almost all salmon in Australia is from Tasmania, and the industry there is essentially unregulated - and dangerously unhealthy. Do not eat it.

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

Two men. My @smh cartoon.

The 15-year-old can't use TikTok, but is comforted by the fact he’ll be old enough to watch a thousand ads from Sportsbet about the latest odds at Randwick. theshovel.com.au/2024/11/11/t...

Minister Murray Watt asks Australians to believe we can better protect nature by facilitating faster exploitation with less regulation and less scrutiny. Read Virginia Young’s full op-ed on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.

A smart govt - or even one with a PM who had a desire to do anything - would be using the LNP rabble to put in place every fucking thing they wanted. Problem is Albanese doesn’t seem to want anything other than power.

I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...

Contortions. My @smh cartoon.

OTD in 2014: in your own time Ablo…

‘Symbolically, the meeting was a success. In substance, it revealed that the fundamentals of the relationship have not changed.’ Dr Emma Shortis unpacks Albanese’s meeting with Trump in The Conversation. @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

Bad news days for AI and everyone who slops it. 'If your incredible business idea – key word here, business – is to bake cakes for sale and then you complain that you have to pay for eggs and flour then I have some terrible news about your business idea and also quite possibly your soul and brain.'

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

He’d know. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Finally an economist calling out the ‘productivity’ caper. Don’t they always just mean just profits anyway? #rossgittens sees sense again. Really are the only people who whine about productivity are people who don’t actually do any of the work in question?

Sanctioning Francesca Albanese for trying to stop a holocaust, while funneling a genocidal maniac billions in weapons and diplomatic support, is some heinous evil empire shit. It's an assault on reality.

Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.

You may be thinking "How can an entire political party be organized around the policy of taking from everyone and giving to the rich? No one would vote for them." Well that's where Lying comes in

brilliant

Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "

This is good www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Who wants to tell him?

Aust Council engineers obsessed with excessive & inflexible garbage pick up requirements. It would be so much more efficient to install such a streamed system in the street, or create a reticulated vacuum waste network (Maroochydore has installed one). Here’s one spotted in Bruges!

In which I point out that our Prime Minister might just be stretching the truth a tad when he says that Woodside's North West Shelf extension is needed to firm the Western Australian grid. Did he tell you about how he grew up in social housing?

What do you call it? My @smh @theage cartoon.

I suspect that PTV app, by default, will pretend timetabled bus times are ‘live’ if it can’t get a signal from the bus. I boarded the 624 at Auburn at least four minutes after the app said it was going ‘Now’. The live symbol was showing and was clearly a fiction.