Oh yeahhhh it's my friend Inclusive Gregory and why he urgently needs to gain some weight (this will make sense if you read the piece)

That satisfying moment when you click transfer on the last tranche of marks for the semester

This party was one of the worst examples of a deceptive name that I've ever seen in the Aus micro-party scene; it was a front for the racing industry. This name is still opportunistic and not fully mask off (that would be the Thrashing Racehorses for Money Is Good Party) but a bit closer to reality

Pfft, they're not trying hard enough. Give us a name in the finest global traditions of Marxist left-wing naming conventions. I propose: Australian Socialist Party—Purplepingerist (Saltie Tendency)

This was a pleasure to edit. The papers come from the wonderful histories of northern and regional Australia stream at the AHA conference this year. Thanks to all the talented contributors.

Amused to view an academic article and see that the journal it's in abbreviates its own name to "New Global Stud" (it's New Global Studies. The abbreviation barely saves any space at all! But it's funny so I'll allow it)

If I ever write a history of Melbourne's public transport (which is unlikely tbh), I would totally lift from this Clive Turnbull quote in titling the book: Electric Juggernauts and Grinding Buses

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

Two things on this. First, it makes perfect sense a flat city like Melbourne chose cable trams, despite them emerging in a hilly city: cable trams thrived in relatively flat cities with long, straight streets. Melbourne and Chicago joined San Francisco as having the largest networks for good reason

Love to pay $37 for something I can read for free from the Federal Court's own website: www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...

You can't deny the Canberra Libs would at least get some name recognition if they chose this guy to be their new leader (I suppose the fact their leadership is a revolving door means he'll get his opportunity eventually)

Mark Parton is the new leader of the Canberra Liberals, which means 44 per cent of the current party room members (4 out of 9) have now served as leader

Might be time to revise my ranking of the most dysfunctional oppositions in Australia

Do the Canberra Liberals have any MLAs left who haven't had party leadership at this point?

Really powerful writing from @cathfeely.bsky.social - an interesting #FamilyHistory story, but so much more than that. The interweaving of the personal & professional is complex, and makes this even more salient.

John Laws is dead, so as well as remembering him for outrageous on-air statements and the cash-for-comment affair, let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that in 1976 he released an album of country music covers called You've Never Been Trucked Like This Before It reached 69 on the charts

Anne Twomey is turning into a YouTube machine with her series on the dismissal of the Whitlam government—and now she's promising "a special video in a unique location" for the 50th anniversary on Tuesday. Constitutional and political history fans lesssgoooooo

Crazy that this happened again. Windies looked toast at 88/8 needing another 90 to win, then Romario Shepherd and Shamar Springer made sure of another tense ending, falling short by 9. Hard to believe Springer came in at tenth because he sure wasn’t batting like it! Cracking series, this.

Never mind where I grew up; nothing from there can beat Canberra's Bus Safe Rap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV9_...

Latest update: Richo is currently being refused admission to hell, lest he do the numbers against the devil’s infernal reign

Look, this sucks. One misfortune of rugby lacking a World Cup until 1987 is Wales is yet to win one, despite NZ vs Wales being the unofficial World Cup for much of the 20th century My Nan is old enough that any match vs Wales makes her nervous. We'd both be delighted to see a resurgent Welsh team

My life has felt so empty but now I know why: I do not yet own this mug

Gonna tell future generations this is just what Chris Bowen looked like, anything else is Photoshopped

Alexander Kerensky 🤝 some of the more forgettable lecturers and visiting speakers during my undergrad degree "He later travelled to Melbourne, giving lectures at the University of Melbourne, which were poorly received."

My father and uncle happened to see 3 of the new DM class locomotives being unloaded at Lyttelton last weekend and they sent me these pics. I thought they’d interest other railway nerds too. The DMs will gradually replace decades-old locos and be the core of the South Island fleet for years to come

Come on man, you’ve got a job for life and you’re not even halfway to Tommy Playford’s record term as an Aus head of government (SA premier for over 26 years, 1938–65)

Curious if “4 Year Terms Australia” presents any quantifiable measures that 4yr terms lead to better governance than 3yr or if it’s more of the usual vibes-based analysis NSW, SA, VIC, WA adopted 4yr terms in the 80s after decades of 3yr; if it leads to better governance it should be easy to prove

And now basically the same thing in reverse! Heroic batting by Rovman Powell and Matthew Forde could not quite get the Windies over the line. Two days, two great finales in matches that halfway through the second innings looked like they were fizzing out

If they're not rating bakeries then they shouldn't even bother, the people are crying out to know where they can get a Michelin-starred pie

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Centrist: Very sad to hear about _____. Growing up in suburban Melbourne in the eighties, their music taught me that it was OK to be weird

Superb T20I, that. Looked like the Windies were going to humiliate NZ, then Mitchell Santner played one of the knocks of his life—but couldn’t quite do it! Romario Shepherd’s fours off the last two balls of the Windies’ innings were all the difference in the end. Well deserved win for the visitors!

RIP Dick Cheney. Remember him the way he lived: spruik a whole bunch of whopping lies about your rivals and then shoot a friend in the face

Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.

I’ve met @davejac.bsky.social and that profile pic is actually him so you all better do what he says

If anyone needs to quit TPM, it's you mate

I am now trying to envisage the 1999 NSW Legislative Council ballot paper in this format, and can't stop laughing

Cracking myself up imagining how dizzy you'd get trying to vote below the line for a Senate double dissolution

Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team. Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.

Confusion in her eyes that says it all She's lost the poll And she's clinging to the nearest staffer-by She's lost the poll And she gave away the secrets to her past And said "I've lost a poll again" And to the voice that told her when and where to act She said "I've lost a poll again"

The sound of knives being sharpened echoes across Perth from somewhere down Mandurah way

Message in a bottle from first world war soldier found on remote Australian beach

This is what happens when you don’t have a metadata policy and you don’t enforce whatever you have.

Made one of these for the house so I know when to leave to catch a train. There are live train data apis you can just use. Pretty neat of them

This is proper "that's not the prime minister" "he never said he was, he said he's John Howard" areas from The Games (2000)

Delighted to learn that a bloke born in December 1986, a month older than me, made his Test cricket debut for Pakistan last week. He took 6 wickets in the first innings too! You are still young if there are professional sportspeople on debut who are older than you

I'm not 100% sure but I think Newsroom may have omitted a 'f*cking' from my phrase "Do these people read the news?"

Anglophone media learn the difference between obtaining a plurality and winning an election challenge 2025 (IMPOSSIBLE!!!)

Great to see Blair Tickner back in New Zealand colours and taking wickets