@stevevladeck.bsky.social writes about why Jackson issued a 48 hour stay. bsky.app/profile/stev...

"It's not rural people speaking these myths." Do these polls ask the world's largest single landholder for industrial agriculture her opinion on renewables? Where's reality when they don't? www.netimes.com.au/2025/05/26/i... #colonialism #Australia #firstnations #renewables

It's not rural people speaking these myths. We want renewables. We don't want mines in our food bowls and we want an inhabitable earth.

Trump administration urgently litigates in the Supreme Court to prevent a previous deadline requiring it to feed in full 40 million people through November's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

A cold front & surface trough meet in Queensland today generating unsettled weather. Areas of concern extend from the Gulf of Carpentaria through the Channel Country & into the southern interior. Take care in Maranoa, Warrego & Darling Downs. Heatwave for FNQ. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Stock theft is still a problem in Australia & pops up in the news. Sometimes called rustling, duffing or as in this case, fleecing. Unusual to have so many sheep stolen in Queensland; the police stock crime squad mostly deals with cattle. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Former Neighbours star Damien Richardson wanted to find out what would happen if he performed a Nazi salute under Victorian law. #springst www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Pay dispute between the Crisafulli government & Queensland teachers rolls on. After school rallies scheduled with strike action dates to be decided. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Cyclone watch underway in northern Australia. During Nov-Apr there are usually 9-10 with 3-5 becoming severe Cat3 or higher. Abnormally warm oceans off the coast raise the risk of more this season. Water temperature of 26.5°C is required to form. #qldpol www.weatherzone.com.au/news/tropica...

Trump administration ordered to ensure funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are delivered in full to all states by Friday. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

In 2018 Sussan Ley & Sarah Henderson broke ranks to oppose live sheep export. Scott Morrison replaced Malcolm Turnbull & they had a change of heart. Now with Net Zero splitting the Coalition, Henderson is no longer supportive of Ley's leadership. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Queensland's dingoes are not dogs & are not an invasive species. Deeming them the latter meant they'd fall under the same biosecurity regulations as rabbits & foxes; they cannot be distributed, sold, released into the environment, moved, fed or kept. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

A year on from Queensland's four-word slogan election. The Crisafulli government changed penalties for youth crimes but Labor OL Steven Miles says there isn't the focus on early intervention, rehabilitation & schooling. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Arrest warrant for Bruce Lehrmann is with the court. A medical certificate must be presented. Both he & Zali Burrows must be present for the contest mention (a Tasmanian court process where evidence tested prior to a proper hearing). Returns 4 Dec. #auspol www.news.com.au/national/tas...

& yet he still craves a peace prize.

No doubt parts of Nigeria are dangerous to all people. Groups like Boko Haram & Fulani are active. Trump's "guns-a-blazing" charge will cause multiple casualties; US forces won't know who they're fighting. It's a holy war guise to grab Nigeria's Dangote refinery. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigeria's new Dangote Petroleum Refinery commenced in September 2024. It's now producing more than the country needs and it can further increase output to supply other nations. It's placed a 15% import tariff on fuel. Donald Trump wants to invade. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Update on Bruce Lehrmann & the Mountain River case. A suspended warrant for his arrest has been issued after he didn't appear in Hobart Magistrates Court today. He must supply a medical certificate to court & attend a 4 December hearing. #auspol www.9news.com.au/national/bru...

Bruce Lehrmann did not front Hobart Magistrates Court today in the Mountain River case. Attempts to reach his lawyer Zali Burrows were unsuccessful. He's accused of a Toyota Prado theft. #auspol www.9news.com.au/national/bru...

A feature of the mid-2020s, the factory is now pumping out 5-word slogans (5WS) for youth crime campaigning. South Australia OL Vincent Tarzia following David Crisafulli's election efforts. A few days later, a similar pledge from Qld Hinchinbrook byelection LNP candidate, Wayde Chiesa. #qldpol

This organisation has become a joke. Infantino will embarrass himself even more if he awards Trump with any prize - but seems suspicious that they’ve created this ‘peace prize’ just before this event.

The FIFA Peace Prize? An award to be treasured up with the Catholic Church Award for Good Dentistry.

Whatever happened to the Independent Review on Homelessness Response in Queensland? "The final report will be delivered by January 2025." #qldpol qldhomelessnessreview.com.au/independent-...

Just who will be the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize winner on 5 December at the World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC? The world holds its breath... www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The ban on US President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Oregon extended until November 7. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Costa Rican man Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel arrested in Feb 2025 for re-entering the US. Contact with family suddenly ceases Jun. Family notified of psychosis in Aug. Deported by air-ambulance in Sep. Dead in Oct with encephalopathy & rhabdomyolysis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Note the trend of less coal exports.

Take it easy. Take a train.

A Fox News segment on Christians targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria pre-empted US President Donald Trump's threats of invasion. He also raised it in 2018. Large oil extraction facilities there. US troops have just withdrawn from neighbouring Niger. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

The Halloween horror. Gina showing Trump Australia's angriest and most devout MAGA Trumpian for future ambassador. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Farmers carbon capturing, tackling of weeds/feral pests, building groynes/levees/sea walls, nuclear energy & cheaper power bills; Qld LNP Senator Susan McDonald's national dream. The LNP believe they are representative not only of Qld but of Aus. #auspol www.northwestweekly.com.au/cheaper-elec...

Same arguments against climate change action heard during the Howard era; rest-of-world problem. It's driven by the Qld LNP who charged David Littleproud with a state conference vote. David Crisafulli's energy non-policy is what it manifests as. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Man with neural incontinence again shouts at imaginary clouds.

Angry man yells at Peter Dutton. #SkiteNews

This is the David Crisafulli government's Queensland energy roadblock. With his Qld LNP colleagues David Littleproud & Matt Canavan wiping out Net Zero, Queensland is a snapshot of what the Coalition wants the country to look like. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Australia's wholesale electricity prices in the national electricity market fell 27% in the September quarter. Wholesale prices make up 38% of household bills. The bills of 4.2 million solar homes are 18% lower than non-solar. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No substantive response from the Crisafulli government. Legislative request to deter copper theft. Ban scrap metal sales to unlicensed dealers, prohibit cash sales, require reporting of suspicious transactions to police & better maintenance of records. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Queensland. We have Weather. It's best to be polite to Weather. That means prepared. (You think I'm joking? I lost my rental to a freaking cyclone 6 months ago. On Gold Coast where cyclones don't usually happen. House unfit to live in, yr out. Insanely lucky, we were only homeless for 9 weeks. 😳)

Alternative benchmarks. One year on & the Crisafulli govt has begun its victory lap on Qld hospital waiting lists. However, it's using the planned surgery metric from overall patients waitlisted. Numbers of those waiting longer than recommended has surged. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Storms trip Callide. Queensland's coal power station C3 unit has been offline since August for maintenance. The overhaul will cost taxpayers $80m funded out of the Crisafulli government's $1.5b Electricity Maintenance Guarantee allocation. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au/units-at-tro...

Central & south-east Queensland preparing for another day of wild weather. Tornadoes are possible from South Burnett down through the Sunshine Coast, inland from the coast to Brisbane's western suburbs, to the Lockyer Valley & the Scenic Rim. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

A year on & David Crisafulli is still chanting his election mantra of youth crime, health, housing & cost of living. Qld's high sexual assault & DV rate hasn't registered.The old payroll tax carrot dangles & he's still campaigning for Trump in Qld. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If I made a minty necklace at work, when I was supposed to be working, I'd get sacked.

don't be silly.... they aren't hiring mintie wrapper necklace makers anymore...... and i'm not sure there's a maccas where she lives..

Must have forgotten to wear her pearls

That Mintie model of the Hume Highway seems to be quite representative of the potholes that plague the real version.

Time for Senator Jane Hume to call it a day on politics? #auspol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

More rough weather for Queensland. Damaging storms from the New South Wales border, west to the Darling Downs & north along the coast to Capricornia, Mackay & the Central Highlands. Heatwaves for Cairns & west into the Channel Country. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The internet remembers. www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/15/a...