The Mayor of Muswellbrook announced their approval a data centre for their council area last week. When asked that very question by abc newcastle his response was: I'm not across all the details were still working that out. " Fans are an option" 😬😬😬

Our underground water is NOT up for grabs. Humans need that water to live, not some artificial brain. 🤯🤬

One question. Only one. Where the fuck is the water going to come from?

Voting is open in the #MarcHunterClarkMedal. We want to know your top three songs by Dragon. Give us your 3-2-1

What this means for marine heat waves, coral collapse and terrestrial flow on affects is hard to contemplate. It is alarming Burning fossil fuels is driving this. Its time we phase out fossil fuels!

Hard to believe that in 2026, the Minns Government has created a "Faith Committee." I thought we were a secular country? And of course, the people are paying for it. rationalist.com.au/faith-commit...

Meanwhile, here’s a report card on the performance of the UK shipbuilding industry our Defence Dept ‘geniuses’ chose to partner with to design our SSN #AUKUS subs 🤦‍♂️. It would be hard to make this stuff up! #auspol

Political allegiances aside; this is pure misogyny AUS is in the midst of a Femicide epidemic. Fact that this abhorrent vitriol towards yet another female leader is tolerated at all explains why too many women still live in fear here every day This is completely intolerable

Spokesperson for Richard Marles: "To achieve sea control, you need to be able to project force through the maritime domain, in a resilient way that reduces the vulnerability to your assets." Australia's maritime "force" via #aukus:

The underlying absurdity is that of treating universities as independent non-profit businesses, rather than part of a national post-school education system. Until the Commonwealth government takes resposbility, disasters like this will keep happening

Where does this leave vassal state Australia? #auspol #USPolitics responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-mi...

Earlier this year the Parliament stopped @albomp.bsky.social expanding Govt secrecy. So, he’s got a new tactic. When there’s a transparency win, his Govt appeals to the Federal Court and threatens the #FOI’er with ($150K) costs, so they can’t fight. More soon at Michael West Media. #auspol

It is a disgrace how this contract was mishandled by Federal Court bureaucrats. They failed to do any ongoing due diligence, failed to check if Australian data was being offshored and allowed themselves to be at the mercy of a foreign monopoly provider for an essential public good.

The Govt was ordered to disclose politically sensitive #AUKUS nuclear waste site info, but @albomp.bsky.social has instead launched a nuclear strike on transparency with significant #FOI fallout. Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social has called it an “ugly precedent in secrecy”. #auspol

" a deeply misogynist Ditch the Witch campaign is in full swing. Billboards are being ferried across Melbourne depicting Premier Jacinta Allen as a witch. the campaign has the support of the Liberal Party and it is the work of Liveable Victoria –"

teacher: what is an example of a paradox? me: a broken vending machine is indispensable teacher: that is — you know what, just go to the principal’s office

‘I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress.’ Ed Begley, Jr. #ecologicalemergency

In March 2025, I put in an FOI request: Segal's secret US trip. The request was denied, but I did get 70 pages of completely redacted docs. A question was asked at a subsequent Senate Estimates. Last week Tony Bourke lodged a Public Interest Immunity claim #transparencyfail

I just don't understand this stuff. Labour isn't in opposition. It's not writing for an essay competition. So don't whine, legislate: "X com has become a tool by which malignant foreign actors spread disinformation and we will bring before Parliament legislation to block it."

Australia had the potential to right decades of conservative backward steps and take some sold forward steps to fix a lot that is wrong with this country. But we got what is possibly the weakest Labor government in history. Happy to coast along. Doing the bare minimum.

The WA government made a tourism ad for the Kimberley, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! 👉 Write to Environment Minister Murray Watt 🥧 www.environskimberley.org.au/minister_watt

The perpetrators of the 2004 spying on #TimorLeste’s maritime boundary negotiating team have asked Attorney-General Michelle Rowland to issue a ‘secrecy certificate’ over why they say they shouldn’t have to confess to the sordid gas theft crime everyone knows they facilitated. #auspol #NoTruth

I'm in NSW, and since Sarah MacDonald was removed from her fabulous morning show on ABC702 and replaced by Hamish McDonald ( already well used on RN ) the number of female announcers is almost zero. Beginning to believe the decision makers really dislike women.

Maybe there should have been consequences for Robodebt, IDK

RIP to my all time favorite TV dad, and blessed be Anthony Stewart Head.

A piece on the ‘audit’ of higher education overland.org.au/2026/05/behi...

“The country can’t afford any new coal and gas fields. We also need a plan to rapidly phase out fossil fuels” Repugnant thoughts like; this is economically irresponsible, and, technology isn’t yet capable, are as irresponsible as outright climate denial. Also ignoring ‘what do we have to lose?’

"Labor needs to do a better job explaining why one of the most expensive decisions ever taken by an Australian govt should remain in the national interest." No. #AUKUS was *never* in the national interest. And Labor has never explained this 'deal'. Beyond needing to avoid Morrison's wedge. #auspol

Oh, no competition here. Allison Lorenzen and Midwife took "Glycerine" and turned it into their own haunting slice of slowcore perfection: allisonlorenzen.bandcamp.com/album/glycer... I wrote at length about it on RYM: rateyourmusic.com/music-review...

Pavement had the juice hhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcUnzFefns&pp=ygUacGF2ZW1lbnQga2lsbGluZyBtb29uIGxpdmU%3D&ra=m

A person who has used opioid medication without prescription can be charged with drug driving but they are free to go if detected with prescribed medication. The risk is the same but the response completely opposite. This is not about road safety.

One of my best friend’s parents came out as 10 pound poms back in the day. Never applied for citizenship. Had it assumed. Do we kick them out of their house Barnaby?

They are bulldozing forest Active land clearing as the country gets hotter!!! Are they stark raving mad??????

Rachel Bloom on a deeply humanist idea: we don't need the promise of supernatural reward or the threat of punishment to be kind to others. Building a better life and a better society is reason enough.

Staggering more mainstream media outlets are covering a story where an autistic woman is hosting a podcast about autism — than this incredible yarn just sitting there about the silencing of their own industry: www.boganintel.com/p/bhp-tries-...

So is this the only ideological disagreement we have with the US? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Definitely a thing full-time students doing 3 shifts a week in pubs do all the time: take after-tax money they have in the bank and invest it in the sharemarket. This is totally very common and not made up. (And btw the new CGT arrangements means she would be in front anyway!)

The only reason Sharma’s daughter can afford to do this is because she’s living at home. Everything about getting ahead in Australia is balanced on generational wealth. And that’s why it’s got to change, for the many

Died Pretty with ‘ Mirror Blues parts one and two ‘. youtu.be/kt2cNuRKBUg?...

Hedendaagse natuur

Another confusing, incoherent and bewildering interview on the AUKUS fiasco from Richard Marles on ABC 7.30. No straight answers, no final cost, no delivery dates and no guarantees of ever getting a sub. This is a major political and strategic weakness for the ALP government!

Someone needs to put a stop to this shitfuckery www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

ICYMI... Last night the outgoing Inspector-General of Aged Care Natalie Siegel-Brown said what the Greens have been warning about for years: that rationing aged care would create a two-tier system that favoured wealthier people. This is precisely what's happening now.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic (it was quite a short month) 30. With today, yesterday or tomorrow in the title. youtu.be/E-6s9JlNSkU?...

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

OMG "The Court implies that individuals with profound cognitive disabilities cannot be "deprived" of liberty because their condition limits their ability to experience it"

So the USA is selecting squads? Right. This can’t stand?

This cartoon sums the situation up clearly. The media and many Australian citizens should be ashamed. Great message Cathy.

Look, I know the world is on fire and this is very small beans in the scheme of things, but I have just discovered that Twinnings have discontinued Russian Caravan tea, which is maybe the only thing which has stood between me and a complete psychotic break for years and WHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

The #AUKUS plan must be revised, the only chance Australia has to sustain a submarine fleet is with French boats. “The solution being pursued under the AUKUS plan is not going to work,” - Admiral Peter Briggs, former head of Submarine Institute. *But what would he know? #auspol