People say your older working class blokes can’t adapt or multitask with modern technology, but John Setka managing to (allegedly) text abuse to ex partners and business rivals shows how wrong this is.

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

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

Your midweek reminder there's a playlist looking for you. It has Sierra Ferrell twice (with Lukas Nelson & with Chaparelle) & pre-Mac Lindsey Buckingham+Stevie Nicks. There's Smiths, Wilco & Stella Donnelly, Models, Margo Price & Jenny Lewis +14 more songs open.spotify.com/playlist/6f9...

Hello world, it's John Laws ... via two men who know you can make silk's purse out of a sow's ear for poetry with some tunes, and there's none more sow than J. Laws. Brought to you by WindBackWednesday. www.bernardzuel.net/post/are-you...

I missed that Communications Minister Anika Wells said that kids talking on social media about plans to get around the teen ban will be picked up by the platforms as a signal that they are under 16.

If they can give John Laws a state funeral with a straight face, WindBackWednesday feels no shame in finding a link to the old (dead) bastard via a duo who put his "poetry" to music & got kinda trippy. You know what I mean. www.bernardzuel.net/post/are-you...

Somewhere west of Nashville. #morningpop #lylelovett #naturalforces

Tonk. #morningpop #wednesdayvinyl #brucespringsteen #somewherenorthofnashville

I'll entertain technical arguments about the Summary Offences Act (NSW) when someone can explain how Police can kettle and move on small groups protesting climate issues but somehow this out front of state parliament renders them powerless. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Not for the first time, heads have rolled at the BBC following a puffed-up scandal pushed by the UK's Tory press. Will the ABC learn the lessons of its British compatriot?

Wait forever to see @gillianwelchmusic.bsky.social+Dave Rawlings come back, then 2 tours in a year! They're in Aus in 2026. QPAC 13/2; HOTA 14/2; Empire 15/2; State 17/2; Civic 19/2; Canberra Theatre 20/2; Thebarton 22/2; Forum 24/2; Palais 27/2; Coal Creek 28/2; Costa Hall 1/3. On sale 14/11.

Kim Davis can go back to being a MISERABLE BITCH!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Birthday party starter in olden times. #morningpop #2005

Thank god, a corrective to the mealymouth good bloke/bit of a rascal shit as Kate McClymont lays out the trail of corruption to & from Graham Richardson. No way does he deserve a state funeral. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

This week's playlist offers Lukas Nelson+Sierra Ferrell & Chaparelle+Sierra Ferrell; Jenny Lewis & Travis Tritt, Wilco & Orville Peck, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets & The Smiths x2, Courtney Marie Andrews & Margo Price, Nick Shoulders & Gwenno +11 more open.spotify.com/playlist/6f9...

We are at end times again, a minute to midnight on society’s doomsday clock, when a newspaper devotes a full page to “superfood” cottage cheese. The food for people who don’t actually like eating.

A hot times playlist for you. Listen to Margo Price, Billy Joe Shaver & Gwenno; Emma Swift, Stella Donnelly & Nathan Seeckts; Roy Orbison, Novatone & Nick Shoulders; DZ Deathrays, The Smiths & Buckingham/Nicks; Wilco, Rob Snarski & The Models + more good stuff. www.bernardzuel.net/post/dancing...

Unseasonal. #morningpop #mondayvinyl #thevalerytrails #winterpalace

After charming last night at Red House, some sunny day real estate from Mr “brooding machismo” Walsh. #morningpop #mondayvinyl #theapartments #thatswhatthemusicisfor

You took me in, and you didn’t even know me or my games. #morningpop #bonnieraitt #homeplate

And don’t worry that you won’t, you will. You’ve got an empty cup to fill. #morningpop #bonnieraitt #streetlights

Going dirt-first. @redeyerecords.bsky.social coming through as usual. #morningpop #saturdayvinyl #brucespringsteen #nebraska #boxset #outtakes

Doubling the glitter, halving the pretties. #morningpop #alicecooper #easyaction

Go ask Alice … feed your head. #morningpop #alicecooper #prettiesforyou

Saturday read (& listen) #5. A playlist brings all the styles to the yard, from Exciters to Thundercat, Valerie June to Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Bud Rokesky to The Avalanches, Obongjayar to The Models, Bob Dylan to Little Simz, Oumou Sangare to Tristen +16 more. open.spotify.com/playlist/5Fw...

Saturday read #4. Past & present imperfect - sonically, historically, personally - intersect in a dark-inflected new album from @ruthhazleton.bsky.social. It's a reminder how far folk can go when it's done well. www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...

Saturday read #3. A Stuart Spence photo is the spark to check in with some wacked out memories. It's the Radiators, but it's so much more in What Comes To Mind. A tale of trains, buses, mullets & missed opportunities. www.bernardzuel.net/post/what-co...

Saturday read #2. Pop isn't ever perfect, but it can be sublime. Like in an Icecream Hands album. And lo, what have we here but an Icecream Hands album with strings & things, high tunes & low moods, harmonies & heartaches. www.bernardzuel.net/post/icecrea...

Saturday read #1. Morning cow milking, evening folk fiddling (yes, it's a fiddle not a violin he says) & in between being a bridge between cultures, languages & formalities. It's been a hectic life for Martin Hayes, a modern giant & a modest Irishman. www.bernardzuel.net/post/blessed...

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.

"The bar room-meets-living room buoyancy of Here And Now’s guide to life, the choppy, almost Chinn/Chapman drive of Don’t Let The Party Fade Out, the way Leaving Nobody Out brings Vanda & Young, Richard Clapton, & Paul Hewson to some perfect ‘70s moment." www.bernardzuel.net/post/icecrea...

Andrew should thumb his nose at the relatives wanting him to use Mountbatten-Windsor and revert to the family's real name, Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Now THAT'S princely.

Strings adding lustre not weight, guitars with punch not attack, keys with soul not dominance, harmonies on the ear not in your face, tempos slowed but still with energy. Icecream Hands show "You can make a full-service album while still sounding nimble." www.bernardzuel.net/post/icecrea...

Tied myself to the tides, starting with disc 2 today. #morningpop #jefftweedy #twilightoverride

"There's even more space in The Heron (Two Sisters) which is airy, almost flighty, even as the murdering sibling ploughs through the ringing tone & marching banjo - 'Love does not make women free/Nor does murder bring peace to thee'." New @ruthhazleton.bsky.social www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...

The train line don't get that far but 3 New Zealanders (+1 Australian & American) will travel to Bondi Beach in 2026 to play. @crowdedhouse.com headline a Golden Hour show at Far Southern Ireland, aka Bondi Beach, 26/2, with Thelma Plum warming up the stage. On sale 13/11.

Have you been reminded to start questioning your Spotify use, Bernard? Read the full story here: themusicnetwork.com/massive-atta...

It's not that time is irrelevant with @ruthhazleton.bsky.social's gripping new album, it's that it stretches & bends to accommodate stories & sounds that remake your view of folk, & folks. www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...

When I come home, all I want is revelation. #morningpop #thursdayvinyl #paulkellyandthecolouredgirls #gossip

thanks Emma Swift for this

Have you been reminded to check out this week's mega playlist, with its Models, Talking Heads & Oumou Sangare, its Valerie June, Little Simz & Ruby Jones, its Dylan, Springsteen & Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, its Thundercat, Avalanches & more? Now you have. open.spotify.com/playlist/5Fw...

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

What comes to mind when I look at Stuart Spence’s 1979 photo of The Radiators? No, not that song ya grot, but a bus never taken, a Sydney divide never bridged. Was it really down to a mullet? Say it ain’t so Fess. www.bernardzuel.net/post/what-co...

Gift horse. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Why did that girl from Oatley not want to know? Sometimes the truth is staring you right in the (barber's) mirror. In What Comes To Mind, a new series spurred by Stuart Spence photos, a look at how The Radiators made one suburban boy in & then very out. www.bernardzuel.net/post/what-co...

Staying in that pocket. #morningpop #wednesdayvinyl #reneegeyer #itsamansmansmansworld