Sat on, or shat in? The great Australian cultural questions.

Anyone remember that famous image of Liberal MPs celebrating the passage of the carbon tax repeal bill? 2014. Today's pre meeting 'power walk' by the conservatives had the same vibes.

The 1975 “dismissal” of Australian Labor PM Gough Whitlam is often seen as a constitutional crisis initiated by an old British-led establishment. In reality, it was a bloodless analog of other US-orchestrated coups against reforming left governments.

Breaking: ineffectual political grouping does something asinine with zero real world impact. More in our main bulletin.

Those Betoota boys break me up … very funny.

The obsessive focus by political media on coalition policy deliberations … maybe talk about something that has a real world impact? This constant propping of a two-party formula just because it suits your notion of horse race politics is beyond dull. Think. Talk issues not numbers. Do better.

Oh. Good oh.

World’s best pub dog :)

This has increasingly been my feeling. I try not to despair but greed is such a powerful motivator and it’s too easy for a lot of folks to be wilfully ignorant and/or apathetic. We have so much potential. This world is a gift. But self-interest seems to be hard-wired into too many people.

Sussan Ley in 2021 … her electorate of Farrer is a renewables powerhouse. www.themonthly.com.au/september-20...

All that said it’s hard not to watch this without a sense of weary despair… we won’t save this world will we. Somehow the momentary needs and greed of vested interest will win out. A tiny self-absorbed few will do for the rest of us… they’ll blight the future to line their pockets. Sod ‘em.

At least this makes sense…

Important context as one of Australia's major political parties readies to abandon its commitment to net zero emissions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

After marathon partyroom session, Liberals determine to revert to horse-drawn night soil collection, citing importance of ‘Aussie jobs’.

Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us. This is politics today. We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.

“We’re afraid of walkable distances now?” I was one of the first to go after the liars & conspiracy theorists who targeted the “15 Minute Cities” message. Here’s my interview with Aussie National Radio with @greenj.bsky.social — give it a listen, and think about how we should push back on ALL lies.

Just sit with this sentence for a moment. What planet are they on?

Only just discovered Linda Reynolds's middle name and well yes, very

Random thought: can you imagine Alistair Cooke’s Letter From America in the time of Trump?

What are the actual mathematics of this? What is the electoral promise? Who runs Advance? Wile E. Coyote?

losing it that these were the best pics of John Howard that AAP could get today

A cold war coup. guy rundle on 1975… open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...

We live in a Thomas Pynchon novel …

Was a cold wet walk this morning.

"Bipartisanship and political ease are not things that occur when you are trying to change the country to help those without power." thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Listenjng to a favourite from what was Tom now Tammy Adams and feeling a little wonder at a world that can be simultaneously so grotesque yet lovingly hopeful. May we all find the simple truth of ourselves within it. open.spotify.com/track/5FQrhe...

I’m sorry, but iview sucks.

Trump at Mar-a-Lago this weekend without his orange makeup

Further revelations that NSW Police knew exactly how antisemitic the National Socialist Network's rally at Parliament House on the weekend was going to be. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I'm a joke and you're the punchline

After several decades of monitoring their activities, it's still odd, even if explicable, to witness public figures express shock & surprise at the existence of nazis in AUS, & almost invariably only when it's thrust in their/our faces. So too, immediate calls for more laws & more police. Anyway.

A group of men gathered outside of the NSW Parliament in Sydney yesterday to call for the inclusion of erectile dysfunction medication on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Not fond of digging.

Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate

In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him

Gosh. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Put out your Valvolines.

Not helping

Stealth terrier

OK, that seals it – he’s got my vote.

Hehehe, there’s a Zohran generator homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

Scattered thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/greenwor...

Like coming home … www.instagram.com/reel/DQwZOZ6...

Bunch.

Maybe don’t. But please read this … lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Spoke to ABC chair Kim Williams on his thoughts on AI. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

If only we had some form of envoy or such tasked with, say, combatting antisemitism, maybe they could let us know their thoughts on this

Who gilded it better?