While the ODI series will be mostly a celebration of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill is set to emerge into prominence in Australia. Gill's cut a relaxed figure so far on tour as he becomes the poster child of Indian cricket www.espncricinfo.com/story/shubma...

The ‘messy’ trend behind Australia’s rising unemployment is worrying economists

A potentially “catastrophic” breach of US-based cybersecurity provider F5 has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China bloom.bg/3WG36Mk 📷: Chris Ratcliffe

Editorial: A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a man who led the country to go and shill for a foreign military. Decency and clearance would have restrained it. AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme. satpa.pe/IDekko9

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

EXCLUSIVE: Our friends at @lighthousereports.com obtained a secret data trove. It revealed a vast global surveillance empire whose tech has been used to target politicians, journalists, tech execs, and Jared Leto. The story only gets wilder from there.

"'Pocock said CSIRO's “value to our nation’s productivity, innovation & overall wellbeing cannot be overstated...(& gov must)once again invest in the kind of research that made us the lucky country back when CSIRO was first established'." #news #auspol #science www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#mytwocents Knowing who the #robodebt 6 are IS in the public interest, esp after the gov backtracked on its promise to release the sealed Royal Commission chapter earlier this year. #auspol #news #nacc #corruption www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908769...

The deputy chief executive of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), Jana Favero, said the centre had also seen an increase in the number of people from the US calling its helplines for advice on how to claim protection. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"InfinitUs Marketing Solutions waged a cyber campaign paid for by China to weaken support for Philippine gov policy & to sow discord over Manila’s security alliance with the US." #news #foreigninterference #AsiaPacific #security #theGreatGame www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Under Australian capitalism, big, concentrated companies run by lazy boards and managers make large profits. Where does that money go? In many cases, back to us.

Any member who doesn’t resign from the Australian Parliament Sports Club in protest over this should be viewed as irretrievably tainted and having a conflict of interest on any legislative matters pertaining to gambling.

#news #ageism #agediscrimination #discrimination #jobs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

“ #socialmedia is not #journalism. (It's) a great place to do journalism but the platforms themselves are not replacing the craft', Heinzinger said. 'Journalism is different than sharing the raw feed' (bc) the raw feed can be incomplete or completely false." #news edition.cnn.com/2025/10/07/b...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Some of our biggest companies pay little or no tax despite colossal earnings, while others pay full freight. The latest data on company tax is now out — Bernard Keane makes sense of the numers.

Seven's merger with Southern Cross shows the legacy media industry is now so cash-poor it can't offer shareholders money for mergers any more, writes Glenn Dyer.

"Trump’s suggestion that 'we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military' is in tension with a core principle - that the #military should be nonpartisan." So, should we expect another American revolution? #uspol #news #mytwocents www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

At least 29 Americans have sought asylum in Australia since second Trump presidency began

So its a purge of the US military as well as the federal gov workforce. Never waste a good crisis - real or imagined - to consolidate power, right? Unfortunately this is no surprise - ppl voted for Project 2025 when they voted for Trump. #uspol #news #mytwocents

The political career of Scott Morrison was built on punching down at welfare recipients. Yet, in a bitter twist of irony, the architect of the pernicious Robodebt scheme was himself the beneficiary of a massive, secret overpayment when sacked as managing director of Tourism Australia in 2006.

"(The) speeches appeared to confirm suspicions... that the country’s top #military commanders were being forced from their posts around the world in order to attend what essentially boiled down to a #MAGA pep rally-absent the cheering crowds." #news #uspol www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“We Christians are calling on our beloved President Trump and his team to aggressively remove all barriers to Israel’s sovereignty over all the land.” Evangelicals have become Israel’s most important American allies.

#mytwocents Harrowing viewing but this needs to be told. Bravo SBS for airing this 👏 Bring on ep 2 & 3. Unfort injustice continues bc of the #robodebt RC report sealed chapter. ALP should've kept their promise instead of dumping Dreyfuss after the election. #auspol www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

Search engines will soon be forced to check your age. According to new polling, about half of Australians have no idea this new regulation is coming.

"This blatant double standard reveals that the GOP’s crackdown on Kirk’s detractors has nothing to do with decorum or respect for the dead, and everything to do with political retribution against their rivals."

China's Xi Jinping is drawing inspiration from 19th century US in his anti-involution campaign (via Bloomberg Opinion)

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February 4 1939 - Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Column: The systematic effort to censor American media isn’t exactly subtle. President Trump has not disguised his intentions or his reasons. He has gone through some trouble to emphasize that he wants to control who’s on television and what they say.

Australian journalist John Lyons asked a valid question of Donald Trump. Now, the ABC’s press credentials have been revoked. It should come as no surprise, @daanysaeed.bsky.social writes.

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

“The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome." Streaming star Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he’s warning of a “Reichstag fire moment.”

Australia to deploy fleet of "Ghost Shark" underwater strike drones u.afp.com/SdHr

Hugh White on what was – and wasn’t – discussed during Richard Marles’ trip to Washington, DC: satpa.pe/fPGgfZ7

China is set to show off new military hardware at a big parade. A sweeping purge raises questions over the actual quality of the armed forces.

Israeli government representatives will not be invited to attend a major London arms fair next month, a UK government spokesperson said Friday, amid worsening diplomatic relations between Britain and Israel over the Gaza conflict. u.afp.com/SA2J

This Morrison brainfart was too little, too late 4 #covid but perfect 4 #election2022 & a pathetic attempt 2 save Christian Porter's seat of Pearce. Jandakot was the better choice bc it was in the metro area. A reminder of Aus lost decade. #auspol #housing #mytwocents www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

A Western Australian company hopes its newly opened pilot plant in Kwinana will prove the economic viability & scalability of #hydrogen by making it safe to store & transport, overcoming a significant #industry bottleneck. #news #energy #technology themelancholicseeker.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/p...

Exclusive: A long-hidden report by Deloitte into Australia’s private job service providers found the government would be “significantly constrained” in trying to defend individual decisions made before a court, tribunal or indeed the Commonwealth Ombudsman. satpa.pe/dOZLmtO

Qantas has been fined $90m for illegally firing 1,820 baggage handlers and other ground staff in 2020. The judge said he had “hesitation in reaching a conclusion” as to whether Qantas was “truly contrite or rather engaging in performative remorse”. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/austral...

Exclusive: New documents reveal senior leaders of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations have known that private employment contractors have been on the brink of collapse since the Coalition created the Targeted Compliance Framework in 2018. satpa.pe/PD4prsz

Australia has engineers driving Uber – migrants’ skills and qualifications need to be recognised now | Violet Roumeliotis

Only 73 of 226 federal pollies get a gold star from Crikey for declaring their private interests

A China Coast Guard ship barreled into a Chinese navy destroyer on Monday as the two vessels chased a Philippine coast guard ship in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. wapo.st/45yJk9D

Simulated Chinese blockade of Taiwan reveals Singapore as lifeline reut.rs/3UStjGw

Now this is interesting. #SolarForRenters

A growing number of civilians in Taiwan are spending their weekends firing pellet guns on urban warfare courses. It’s part of a push to improve civil resilience amid the threat of a Chinese invasion.

"The process of wrestling with an argument, organizing one’s thoughts & finding the right words is foundational to #criticalthinking... If #students b/c accustomed to outsourcing (these) aspects of thinking and writing, they lose the capacity 2 do it themselves." #AI nationalpost.com/opinion/paul...