Great news for 75+ year olds who have had a numerous flu vaccines over a lifetime.

"chilling to think our strategic and military future is so hocked to Trump and Hegseth (a Crusader fetishist with an empathy bypass and a contorted view of male identity) who publicly prays for his enemies to be smitten, much to the chagrin of an American pope." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"around seven in 10 children remain on major platforms. What’s more, the eSafety report also shows that there has been no notable change in cyberbullying or image-based abuse reported by children." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Billions lost in revenue from the gas cartel, billions sent to two G7 nations to boost their submarine industrial capability, while we sabotage our future by starving CSIRO of funds. A 'dumb present' denying our children a 'smart future'. #auspol

Bridget Archer asserts: "Antibiotics, whether they are in veterinary use or in industry use in the salmon industry, are heavily regulated. And they are regulated with regard to their public health use as well." Quite evidently that is not the case. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

"We should all by now have worked out that AI is about as sentient as an abacus, and only truly mirrors the human mind in its capacity to lie to humans, telling them what it “thinks” they want to hear." [Martin Rowson]. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Summary of Peter Hartcher article in Nine

Says the man not listening to advice on climate change "as it comes through."

"Savings" made from underfunding Aged Care are apparently something to be pleased about. #AusPol

Save the CSIRO Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro

Karvelas: "Authenticity is a leader's greatest political asset, and Ley's moves to please the conservatives in her party are likely to do massive brand damage to her individually. She's risking the one advantage she has — her reputation as a moderate woman who is in touch with "modern" Australia."

Alan Kohler this morning explains the LNP's climate policy, (given that Matt Canavan is now running the Coalition's policy): 'Real men eat meat and drive noisy cars, quickly' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

another utter failure of private delivery of public services “It’s hard to think of another government-funded industry allowed to operate in this way … to continue soaking up so much public money and to spit out so few results.” @jeremypoxon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Professor Lindesay says global heating means more energy in the atmosphere, which fuels supercell thunderstorms. "We're looking at a lot of extra heat out there, a lot of evaporated moisture, with all of this energy in it," she said. But Qld scraps renewables anyway. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Australians pay 4 times more in HECS repayments than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax! Australia Institute analysis shows replacing the PRRT with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise over $17 billion a year. #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

ABC 'balance' please take note.

Fun fact: Santos has paid $0 in corporate tax in the last 10y while selling $48bn of Australian gas. Santos buys gas domestically and sells it overseas, increasing the price of Australian gas in our own market. Our govt must reserve gas for our domestic industries and homes.

"Opting to negotiate with the Coalition on the environment is opting to work with the very climate sceptics Australians just rejected." From co-CEO Leanne Minshull in The New Daily @leanneminshull.bsky.social #auspol

Dr Strangelove remake: “Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room!”

🎅🎄🎁🤶🎄🎁🧑‍🎄🎄🎁

This was from Jane Goodall’s Facebook. It doesn’t require explanation, it’s just a beautiful thing.

Hang on… The Albanese Labor Govt is saying that elderly Australians have to pay more for basic at home care - as spending needs to be reigned in. But - they give over $200b of our public money to the US & UK for submarines we’ll never see. What a betrayal #auspol

Everything is on the table. Our sovereignty?

I love this concept. Use solar energy to lift incredibly heavy weights during the day, then drive turbines via the weights dropping during peak times. Apart from maintenance and updating tech it’s essentially free power forever.

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

I'd feel sorry for them but their pigheaded ignorance, despite clear and urgent warnings, inflicted Trump on America and consequent chaos in the global economy. Now Arkansas will replay Grapes of Wrath as corporations snap up bankrupt the family farms. www.tiktok.com/@nowthisimpa...

David Pope in Canberra Times

Why not for sale in here? Great for the elderly and widowed who just want to go to the local cafe or supermarket. Great for young singles and incels who want to be mobile and weather-proof but can't afford a car.

Study “…found the wool from sheep grazing under solar panels was stronger and grew faster. Scientists attribute this to the year-round nutrition provided by the vegetation growing in the micro-habitats created by the shade of solar panels. 1/2

BREAKING: The Senate has just voted YES to our inquiry into the social media age ban & search engine age verification codes! This isn't just about kids - it's a national age verification and identification system masquerading as being about online safety for children. 🧵

No one should be surprised by this news It has been obvious to anyone but the salmon farmers & Govt that the warming shallow waters off Tas are not suitable for salmon farming & industrial scale intensive farming is fertile for disease outbreak #politas pulsetasmania.com.au/news/reports...

Huge

Incredible.

He has a point! #AUKUS #auspol

Marles: "the review that’s been announced is not a surprise, we’ve been aware of this for some time. We welcome it, it’s something which is perfectly natural for an incoming administration to do" And yet the ALP govt itself DID NOT DO IT. Absolute maladministration.

Tasmania to have a referendum on the billion dollar AFL stadium. The pulp mill deposed a Premier. The stadium will too. Tasmanians will just not wear being railroaded by bullying MPs for their vanity project while ED and ramping queues grow ever longer.

Going out the way he came in (high off his ass)

Sad news re Magda.

In approving Woodside's North West Shelf gas export plant extension, the Government has put big gas ahead of Australians. “This expansion will do vast damage and deliver almost no benefit to Australia or Australians," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social #climate #auspol

Exactly, there's 24 regional seats & 38 rural seats. The Nationals have 15 of them. They barely represent a quarter of regional/rural seats & even in the seats they have, not everyone votes Nats. Media never bothers to mention that. Nats are barely relevant to 'the bush'. #SundayShot #auspol

Yes indeed, why? Regardless which governments made the original dud deal, why is no government today doing anything to fix this absurdity?

Wonder how this kid is coping

Via @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social ♥ 🎯 #auspol #ausvotes #FreePalestine 🍉🇵🇸

Australia said 'NO'. We are sick of the narrowminded scare mongering. We are tired of the constant stoking of racial divisions. We are sick of the hectoring and bullying.

Signs of desperation @theage