It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.

Be aware - pretty much everyone in the press gallery calling for a Royal Commission into antisemitism is doing it because they are completely annoyed the government is not "listen to meeeeeeeeee".

In absolutely no way, shape or form should anything resembling or approaching a private militia be allowed to operate in Australia with any government imprimatur. This is kicked in the head by a donkey stuff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Brigitte Bardot has died, her foundation has said reut.rs/4b88lg8

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

A weekend of packed shops... and packed buses, many running only hourly. Meanwhile scores of buses that could cut waiting times and add capacity sit idle in depots, doing nothing.😠

Oh no Australia's weirdest niche sports stat is back! Boxing Day Test* finishes before first Sydney-Hobart yacht: 1986 ENG d AUS 1991 AUS d IND 1996 WI d AUS 2006 AUS d ENG 2021 AUS d ENG 2025 ENG d AUS *Must start 26/12 Cricket 6 - Yachts 39

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)

by this time next year ai will be capable of opening presents with your family, freeing you up to finish those spreadsheets your boss has been waiting on

The iconic Volcanic Ashes trophy sits proudly in our cricket museum in Reykjavík, stuffed full of real ash from our eruptions. It is a symbol of history and an inspiration to our players. We learn from the best.

If you like this level of airline history and passenger experience detail, you'll LOVE @theupfront.media, which @garius.bsky.social and I launched in May — our 7-month anniversary is this week! For more history, read his incredible story of the California Clipper: theupfront.media/the-long-way...

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.

It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Just try to contemplate that those who marched in protest of such murders occurring (in much greater numbers) are now being blamed by the Liberal Party for the Bondi Massacre.

I just became aware of an astronomy paper from a large collaboration where the lead author appears* to have asked an LLM to help inputting all co-author names in the arXiv metadata ... ... and guess what, the LLM made up a bunch of names. Out there on the arXiv with fictitious authors 😬 🧪🔭

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

"A white supremacist flyer doing the rounds of Canberra letterboxes breaks no laws, police say " Yep, it's protests against genocide they are cracking down on, not actual hate! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/913797...

It's only a ceasefire when Hamas stops firing. Otherwise it's just sparking settler-terrorism.

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this shit (from the Lindt café siege) blew my fucking mind man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindt_C...

No I think the consultants fees are really reasonable actually. Just covering costs I’m sure.

Having been born on this day in 1957, I am somewhat susceptible to tv adverts we see at this time of year, ones that use the festivities of the 1970s as a means of evoking nostalgia for Christmases gone by. I think this one may have gone a bit too far however.

The bridge that is militarily, economically, and politically essential to the Kremlin: The Trans-Siberian Railway Bridge in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, which connects the European and Asian parts of the Russian Federation.

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

If you want to know what Trump released from the Epstein Files tonight I am happy to summarize it for you in one image:

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

The Basque Government/Biscay provincial government have just agreed to finance the FIFTH new Bilbao metro line covering a population of roughly that of Leeds and Bradford. Every station and platform is fully accessible and the current maximum fare is 0.76€ per journey.

Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career

Bluesky use KWS to do age verification if you "Chat" in Australia. If you select the credit card option to allow KWS to use Stripe to authorise payment of 10c be aware that NAB will probably flag that as suspicious and send you a SMS and if you take the legit path they will block your card anyway.

Man with no ideas attempts to lead the herd from behind.

⚡️ Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows. Less than one-tenth of Ukrainians support holding immediate elections, even in the absence of a ceasefire with Russia, according to a recent poll.

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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind

Morrison set the bar so low they had to dig it out of the dirt so Albo could see it. Yet he has still tripped over that bar at every turn; hopeless.

BREAKING US Navy seizes tanker full of Peace Prizes off the coast of Sweden

Sometimes, someone writes something so brilliant all you can do is weep in frustration that you will never write something half as brilliant. So it is with this paragraph by @jysexton.bsky.social exploring the mind of Trump. You must read his latest. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...

Proposed US entry visa list is really something. Reading the document (further down in thread), they also state that the ESTA website will no longer handle the visa applications and that everyone must use the new mobile app for visa applications. *Doesn't say what data they'll collect via mobile*

Albanese does have people he listens to. They're just... not you.

So to summarise the week’s news, Australians under 16 will have the best chance of completing an American holiday.

'That's not neutrality': Protesters call on SBS to boycott Eurovision