Claire Connelly
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Journalist / researcher / do-er of things. Wash your hands.
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David Milner
about 13 hours ago
i just want to live in a world where paying attention to things isn't this annoying
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Nick Feik
about 10 hours ago
ABC MD Hugh Marks had clearly been recruiting his new director of news before Justin Stevens even resigned. Job wasnāt advertised, there was no open, merit-based process, and internal staff had no chance to apply. The whole thing stinks.
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Grosdoriane
about 15 hours ago
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
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Rami Ismail (Ų±Ų§Ł Ł)
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Time to delete your Linktree!
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Jo Dyer
1 day ago
Ah AUKUS. Here we are, reduced to obsequiously accepting - and paying top dollar - for the US's offcasts.
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Ben Eltham
1 day ago
Itās scarcely believable just how bad the National Anti-Corruption Commission is at doing its one and only job
nickfeik.substack.com/p/inside-the...
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Inside the black box of the NACC under Brereton
By Nick Feik, Michelle Fahy and Elizabeth Minter
https://nickfeik.substack.com/p/inside-the-black-box-of-the-nacc
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Nick Feik
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The NACC is in crisis, thanks to the leadership of Brereton. The Albanese govt owns a large share of the responsibiliity too, and now has a serious mess to clean up. By Michelle Fahy and Elizabeth Minter and I. ICYMI:
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Inside the black box of the NACC under Brereton
By Nick Feik, Michelle Fahy and Elizabeth Minter
https://nickfeik.substack.com/p/inside-the-black-box-of-the-nacc
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āThese elder boomers who run these sparsely populated towns and counties, they do not want thriving rural communities. They want a quiet little tomb to die inā
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Greg Jericho
3 days ago
The AFR has spent the past couple weeks actively campaigning against the budget changes. So donāt let anyone tell you the conservative media just want to report the news with balance.
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hannah gais
3 days ago
The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...
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Nick Feik
3 days ago
"At a moment when support for Israel has never been so controversial, the Commission could not find time to hear a single anti-Zionist Jew or Palestine supporter in its first forty-five hours of public sessions."
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Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion - Overland literary journal
While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of...
https://overland.org.au/2026/05/zionism-in-real-time-insights-from-the-royal-commission-on-antisemitism-and-social-cohesion/
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Greg Jericho
3 days ago
This AFR editorial might be the most ignorant thing Iāve read for a long while. Pure bullshit fantasy. Written by a paper desperate to simp for rich people rather than defend democracy.
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Michael Hobbes
3 days ago
Itās remarkable how this administration has done every single thing conservatives pretended liberals were doing when Biden was in charge.
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Ben Eltham
3 days ago
Another big consultancy scandal, this time at KPMG
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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KPMG boss quits amid auditing scandal
KPMG Australia chief executive Andrew Yates has stepped down amid a scandal involving audit partners accessing confidential client documents.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/kpmg-boss-resigns-over-mishandled-whistleblower-allegations/106737180
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Jo Dyer
4 days ago
After
@news.abc.net.au
revelations on this week's 4 Corners about BHP quietly walking away from its climate commitments, it covers itself in further glory with its pursuit of
@michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy
& now seeking a suppression order over its own lawsuit.
michaelwest.com.au/bhp-urgent-s...
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BHP seeks urgent suppression orders in trial against coal miner and MWM publisher - Michael West
BHP and MinterEllison sought urgent court orders last night to suppress their lawsuit against coal miner Simon Turner and Michael West Media
https://michaelwest.com.au/bhp-urgent-suppression-trial-against-coalminer-publisher/
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Kent Parkstreet
4 days ago
If only our NACC worked, it could look into this.
#AusPol
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Hanson and Joyce bill taxpayers for flights to private events on luxury cruise ship hosted by Rinehart
Exclusive: Parliamentary records show the One Nation MPs claimed travel expenses for fundraising events on exclusive cruise liner where mining billionaire owns an apartment
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/28/pauline-hanson-barnaby-joyce-one-nation-bill-taxpayers-flights-private-events-gina-rinehart-ntwnfb
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stranger
4 days ago
Deb OāNeill unloads on ASICās Sarah Court for continuing to let PwC & KPMG ārun ASIC round & roundā at taxpayer expense after Court says itāll be hard to investigate KPMGās latest tender-rigging scandal coz they hire expensive lawyers āItās an outrageous propositionāš„
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Jonn Elledge
4 days ago
guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here
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Bryan Quinn
4 days ago
I remember when I could just mistype half the words of a half remembered misheard quote and the most powerful search engine on earth got the movie exactly right in a list, and I just read the answer. Now I get to play stupid games to make IT stop playing stupid games or use B-tier DDG. Oh, what fun.
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Pat McCaffrie
4 days ago
The AFR is taking "saying the quiet part out loud" to new heights...
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stranger
4 days ago
BREAKING: KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates has resigned. Follows explosive Senate evidence revealed by Senator Deborah OāNeill of an internal whistleblower being suppressed after exposing KPMG Partners accessing secret Lendlease files to rig multi-million dollar tenders.
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Jay Willis
4 days ago
Extremely funny to issue an indignant denial of a story that's been reported by at least three different outlets when you are also maybe the single least credible lawyer in the entire country right now
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stranger
4 days ago
Jillian Segal canāt explain any services provided by co of ScoMoās fmr sec Yaron Finkelstein who she contracted without tender. Says itās an āadvisory contractā Pocock ā$200k for ad-hoc advice?" Segal āI didnāt say that" Then whatās the $200k for? Peak integrity.š
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Changing the sheets at midnight because our elderly dog pissed in the bed. Cool. Good. Excellent.
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Chris Farley in Billy Madison: Great Grand!
ALT: Chris Farley in Billy Madison: Great Grand!
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stranger
4 days ago
David Shoebridge slams Jillian Segal who refuses to release conflict of interest docs claiming theyāre āprivateā Segal, stumbling, then claims her conflicts are actually āpublicā Shoebridge āif itās public, why do you object to them being published?āš„ Trainwreckš„
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Tim Onion
5 days ago
The same Trump-appointee who fucked with the Broadview 6 grand jury is the one going after E. Jean Carroll.
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Patrick Chovanec
4 days ago
A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.
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Greg Jericho
5 days ago
Better to hurt the lives of people with disabilities than upset Santos, I guess.
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Greg Jericho
5 days ago
@markbutlermp.bsky.social
this is a true invitation. Come on my Dollars and Sense podcast. I'll bring my daughter and you can explain why she needs her funding cut 25% like this eg in your bill's explanatory memorandum
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Greg Jericho
5 days ago
Hey
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- I am giving you an open invitation to come see my daughter with Down Syndrome and then you can tell me to my face that it will be good to cut her social, economic and community participation funding by 25% (heck the explanatory memorandum gives an eg of 50%).
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Phil Lewis
7 days ago
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
6 days ago
sure, these cowards will allow steroids. but they still refuse to give Gun Boxing a proper chance.
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Ed Zitron
6 days ago
Uberās COO has said that itās getting āharder to justifyā its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time Iāve seen a company say this directly.
www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
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Ronniš§Salt
7 days ago
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
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Rick Morton
7 days ago
Having thoroughly trashed the reputation of the organisation by refusing to resign when it first became obvious that he should, Brereton has managed to do even more damage. He lasted until just after the Robodebt findings, too. Shocked I say.
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Michael Hobbes
8 days ago
I love the implication that it takes a nobel-prize winning economist to reach this conclusion. "I've crunched the numbers and I've discovered that Democrats will win if they choose the candidate who is most likely to win."
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Michael Hobbes
8 days ago
It's time for the Democrats, at long last, to consider electability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/o...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
8 days ago
I am struck that the one time I wrote for The Atlantic, they had a fact-checker who demanded I include links for even quite minor claims in the piece or at least substantiate those claims to him, whereas when TCW writes for them, there isn't a single link or example to be found.
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Nick Feik
8 days ago
So to clarify: There's no agreement on nuclear enrichment or arms; or on the $25 bil of Iranian funds under sanction; or who will control Hormuz or if it'll be tolled; or on Israel's invasion and attacks in Lebanon (which Iran says are integral). Other than that, it's virtually a done deal.
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Adam Rose
8 days ago
A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 𤣠CBS would hate it if you watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
8 days ago
from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.
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Mehdi Hasan
9 days ago
How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &⦠his island. Canāt make this stuff up.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
9 days ago
Imagine missing your own sonās wedding so you could go surrender to Iran
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Evan Sutton
10 days ago
Absolute King shit.
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Nick Evershed!?
10 days ago
this is slightly earlier than expected tbh
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nationās rapid national expansion in disarray as āsignificant risksā force dissolution of new branches
Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia also show new branches and members will be subject to strict gag orders
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/22/one-nation-australia-national-expansion-risks-dissolution-of-branches-pauline-hanson-ntwnfb
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Mallory Moore
10 days ago
A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.
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David Benedict
10 days ago
There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
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Real weird decision by NYT to even create a PR account in the first place, imho
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Acyn
11 days ago
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Micah
11 days ago
every one of these folks should be primaried unconscionable betrayal of their constituents
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