Look he is a very, very special player but runs here against Marnus bowling seam up and Trav's nude nuts here.........

Terrible to see this happen to someone so young.

Bastinado for any bowler who oversteps with the front foot. Aim to put your instep on the line. There's absolutely no point in trying to get closer. 🏏 #Ashes

Joe Root scoring in a series missing Hazlewood and Cummins (got him 13 times each) is like watching a kid celebrate riding a bike with their training wheels on.

Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman (our national labour inspectorate) has an account on there that someone posts to.

For reference, Airbus built about 800 planes last year and Boeing about 600. Meanwhile Starship has had about a dozen launches with a 50% failure rate. But sure, thousands of 'em.

Whenever I see someone getting out over their skis on a foreign policy take I remember Caitlin Flanagan confusing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khomeini and then claiming she was actually expressing a profound truth.

2-minute comic

We believe in nothing, Lebowski

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top

Appeal pending. It's not over till the feta man sings. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Play stopped for bad light at 3pm. Get rid of this venue. Not fit for purpose. #ashes

Meanwhile some grifter is making United Socialist Party of Venezuela most-wanted playing cards

Don't call him "the big boss of MicroSlop" he doesn't like it.

You're telling me that Anthony Koutoufides AND Sam Newman want an RC? Well that settles it..........

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Bit of good news www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The US bombing a country that is about 50% bigger than France by area. Seems fine.

Some of us are smart. Some are occasionally funny or insightful. Then there is Rafe. Get on this.

Someone in Australian publishing should be reaching out to Rafe. This is raw but astonishingly good.

I cannot hit a LLM with a car therefore a LLM must never be in a position of power

This is a really lovely piece.

"In this Ohio Diner, nobody has heard of the long-run equilibrium interest rate or the Rapid Support Forces or even Sudan - but they do have strong views."

Move the 5th Test to Hobart, you fucking cowards.

Solidarity to Ms. Thompson here - incredible strength to get through this. (Slow hand-clap for the District Court taking 13 months after the case (!!!!) to render a criminal verdict.)

Chief political commentator at The Independent, folks.

The Condor is whack looking, but it's still no Nimrod.

Old m8 looks like he'd eat a couple of the Iron Chef's assistants.

This photo of sparklers igniting acoustic foam in a bar full of people who'd been on the grog for hours is utterly horrifying. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

See also Government Departments, Agencies, the Emergency Services and the Courts. (And the number of real active Australian users must be incredibly tiny.)

This up there with dumbest argument I have ever heard - and also plain offensive when you think about it for even a moment.

Hated by who though Daniella? Not the people moving here in huge numbers. Not people living here who keep voting for them. Maybe, just maybe, its a small core of irrelevant rich sooks who hate affordable housing?

Google AI should be put back into testing for a decade, so embarrassing. The wombats in the Swan St Park are sculptures.

When taking office it is “important to search the popular knapsack with many different locations for something as simple as a crack pipe.”

Sussan gets the Dril out.............

Right-wing grifters: 'slavery was only a marginal part of English history, stop making such a big deal out of it!' John Hawkins in 1565 after his first slave voyage: add an enslaved African man to my coat of arms please. Stick him at the top. Make it really big and obvious. I love slavery.

Why is Steven Pinker up the back on drums?

BREAKING: 30 'ish person gets some nice shoes to wear for their spouse's Very, Very, Very Big Important Day.

The Australian yelling about *business* groups and *business leaders* wanting a political thing to happen but I thought that was "woke" and not their role?

100%. She's lower house in Tas (MLA) so under PR and with Robson rotation so no ticket voting but even still. All of these people elected under a party banner should have the decency to resign if they can't support the show they got elected from.

NYC’s Mamdani follows that great democratic socialist Chris Minns and the famously revolutionary NSW ALP

day one in mamdani’s new york

In the late 1960s, the Dutch Secret Service set up a fake Maoist party to gather intelligence and then kept the party running until the early 1990s.

This is a Government Department wanting to "deport" roughly 1/3 of population. Madness. Equivalent in Australia is someone suggesting to remove the entire population of NSW.

Today I am, perhaps, an Australian outlaw. (Re-painted the front picket fence without planning permission in a heritage overlay zone - the council website helpfully said I "may need a permit.")

I can’t find it, but my “long 1980s” is from Thatcher’s election to Gorbachev’s resignation (viewed politically) or from the Sex Pistols to Nevermind (viewed culturally).