How Journalists Created Sympathy for a Rapist. This superb piece by @sherelemoody.bsky.social is essential reading. Australia has a sexist & misogynistic custom: defending & excusing horrific acts by men against women & children. #DV #VAW #journalism australianfemicidewatch.org/2025/12/06/h...

I’m not the first and won’t be the last but this hit the nail right on the head. We talk a lot about how upsetting and bewildering it is to see people who should know better acting like this, unapologetically. I don’t get it and maybe, like my Bluesky mates, that’s a good thing. Great read as always

Thank you for this. Thank you to everyone here. Including the lawyers 😉

I work as a casual roady and it leads to me being on hold with Centrelink for about 2 hours a month. I don't have set hours. Whatever I report for one week, they always assume will be the same for ever more. I tell them that my hours are random, and they literally cannot record this fact.

Our public museums & libraries now staggering to survive under boards forcing disastrous cuts, full of ex-politicians & rich business mates, taking spaces of experienced, dedicated people. Fed ALP suppresses official report on how bad it is - then, arrogant & peevish, refuses to stop doing it.

Trump's America.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

Torrential rains are lashing northern #Algeria. Severe flooding has been reported in several cities.

The rapist 'hung his head', his mum 'sobbed', his girlfriend 'fainted in shock'. ALL today's news reports humanise the rapist and his family. I have no idea how the victim responded. Do you know how hard it is to get a rape conviction? And media sympathy is STILL with the rapist. WTF?

Shocking wrong decision to proceed with Hobart stadium. So many reasons why not to proceed. Stop! Go back! Wrong! Crazy!

Antarctica had their 3rd warmest September on record, then their warmest October on record, and then had their warmest November on record. Overall is was easily the warmest Spring (Sep-Nov) on record. What could go wrong?!?

Definitely not the preferred outcome of the Trump admin, so we will see what the reaction is from the government.

For those paying mind, as we discussed on @pivotpodcastofficial recently, there has been a definite fuck that guy feel to this deal related to the threat of Trump blocking anyone but his cronies like the Ellisons from owning all the juicy bits. You could feel the spines growing again. bit.ly/44NVrQs

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

“If a house is uninsurable, it is unmortgageable.” – Dr Richard Denniss Fossil fuels are making climate change worse – and ordinary Australians are paying the price. ✍️ Add your name to the call for a national climate disaster levy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

More context. A: NACC expedited on 18 Jan 2024, based on HA request. B: Corrupt COS punted from Foster's office on 6 February 2024...timing based on the NACC request. All very circular!

#TaxTheRich #EndOligarchy #RestorePublicPower #USA

This is a very curious post.

‘Doctorow’s proposals for recreating a good internet – one that combines the autonomy and choice of the old internet with the mass scale of the current shit internet – are fourfold: competition, regulation, interoperability and tech-worker power.’ theconversation.com/how-the-inte...

‘Advocates have been sounding the alarm for years about the increasingly brazen activities of IRGC affiliates on Australian soil, including … intimidation of dissidents and threats to family members in Iran as a result of Australia-based political activism.’ www.theage.com.au/national/fiv...

How about some robo-credit then, centrelink

📢 Around 880 people could be owed more than $5,000 for debts that stretch back to 2007.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

‘When describing the far right, some media outlets reach for softening descriptors such as “populist”, “controversial” or “anti-establishment”, avoiding more accurate terms like “racist” or “authoritarian”.’ www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

‘… recommend reforming the library’s governance, following common practice overseas, to incorporate the views of stakeholders including scholars and other public users, whose interests have not been considered in the proposal.”’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How weird…one minute we are supposed to have a gas shortage (hint: we didn’t) and now we are going to let AI data centres build new gas fired electricity generators to ensure they have enough electricity… Its as if everything the government says about gas is BS #climate

#wentworth #auspol

I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh

What Dr Liz said. And also: what a stupid framing of the story to focus on whether the Coalition thinks Labor's social media ban will work. Has this [ex-Murdoch] ABC reporter ever heard of assessing the evidence? #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol

The ACT’s restorative justice program isn’t “soft” – it works. New evidence shows better outcomes for victims and sharply reduced reoffending in domestic and sexual violence cases, writes Andrew Fraser. #RestorativeJustice #DomesticViolence #CriminalJustice #ACT #JusticeReform #EvidenceBasedPolicy

I think I see why UBI has so much resistance...

after seeing the same patch of the western highway turned into swiss cheese every winter for the last decade, my theory is that the contractors have no idea how to properly build a road and/or the VIC standards are not fit for purpose

Hey Albo tell us again about our shared values with this white supremacist

Funny how we can have a seemingly endless 'debate' about renewable energy technologies, and yet with AI there's no debate allowed. It's just imposed on everyone by corporates and governments no matter how absolutely shit it is

BREAKING Leaked secret section of report on why the Liberal Party lost the federal election blames over reliance on outdated Abbott Intelligence (AI) to develop policy ‘This unreliable technology hadn’t ingested any new information since 2016. Prompting it via fax was also problematic’ #auspol

How to wave off a problem: - Commission a review - Ignore key recommendations - Don’t enshrine anything in legislation - Keep giving jobs to the boys 🤙

The Australian government could force AI companies to boost our power grid and build new wind and solar projects to help supply their energy-intensive data centres, amid concerns the booming industry could suck up vast amounts of electricity and water www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Morton wins Walkley for “Mean Streak” www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

ICYMI 🧵 "This is the kind of 'criminal' Republicans want to remove from our country. Hard working nurses who will be tortured and potentially killed once forced back into the arms of their persecutors." The Trump regime is depraved and evil.

"the ability to eliminate poverty and needless human suffering is a far more significant than flight or the internet. But because it doesn’t generate value for shareholders, we cruised right past it going 'Let’s make a chatbot that can generate an Alvin & the Chipmunks version of any song!'”

It just got a bit safer to go out for dinner in Melbourne

Brace for impacts. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

India freedom struggle: The hidden heroines found in long-lost photographs

in other news, water is wet

This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.

Every accusation is a confession