Not ABC bias, Ms Segal? Exactly is.

ABC Media Watch, tonight...

Just finished 'The Golden Age' by Joan London (no relation). It's about the 1950s polio epidemic in Perth. Has 'nice' detail, some of which did not know: the 'onset stories', the isolation ward. Get vaccinated.

Hate hate hate the BS term 'affordable housing'. 'Social and affordable housing' is worse. Whatever happened to *public housing*.

Curious idea. People have been applying 'unsustainable' to the Japanese economy for almost as long as I can remember; decades. So far, yeah-nah.

People do not 'pass', they die, like every creature on the planet eventually dies. The sky fairy term, even euphemism, is unworthy of a country where 'no religion' will be the majority at this year's census.

By the way, the Crimea Bridge has reopened for traffic. There are over 1,000 vehicles waiting on both sides of the bridge. Incidentally authorities now permit carriage of up to 200 litres in each vehicle - clearly designed to alleviate the fuel crisis in occupied Crimea.

If you don’t let us steal everything we’re not going to build our massive theft-recycling machines in your backyard

Time we stopped calling violent murderers, 'settlers'.

No, it should end now. Today. What even is this shit.

Jewish Australian Yasmin Johnson, organiser of pro-Palestinian Uni encampments, rejects claim that calling out Israel for ‘genocide’ is antisemitic & calls out Jillian Segal for engaging in “genocide denial and racism” after she spread false facts on the Gaza death toll.💥🔥 #auspol

@jasonclaremp.bsky.social—say what you mean, Jason. "There is no place for opposition to genocide or apartheid or any type of hurting the feelings of Zionists in our unis or anywhere else." As a Whitlam voter, I can't begin to express how much I have grown to despise @australianlabor.bsky.social.

What a disturbing, illustrative read. "The trips have attained almost legendary status in media circles. On my trip, last week, there were seven journalists and one academic. We flew business class and graced the VIP lane at Ben Gurion Airport."

The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation has announced serious concerns about AHPRA adopting the IHRA definition of anti‑antisemitism.

It's absolutely outrageous that the vital habitat for a critically endangered species (swift parrots) is still being logged. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Most viral: Prof Tim Stephens exposed Tommy Robinson flying to Moscow with Musk family backing—then befriending Hanson in UK. Australian far-right now openly coordinating internationally. Major red flag. 🧵2/3

#NotTelstra.

The most depressing thing about swift parrots is that this same story has been told repeatedly for the entire 16 years I’ve been working on them - same terrible conservation outcomes again and again with no changes to Tasmanian forest management www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Yeah, the nasty Iranian regime "overplayed its hand" by bombing Washinton, ~unprovoked, and murdering the vile US leadership ... except, wait up, that wasn't it. It's a decent piece, with a shit both-sides headline:

Oo lookie, the school air conditioning story again, this time from globally-heated Pommyland.

New RSPB Report: Rapid Anthropogenic Global Warming Could Wipe Out 80% of a lot of species.. we are in a rapid mass extinction event 😞 youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5y...

When elected POLITICAL representatives do not understand politics they should resign in embarrassment. It's like calling an electrician and they tell you it must be the 'water pressure' #auspol #DumbAsANaziOhWait

"Claims it..." Seems to me it did strike the vessel, and the route was unauthorised ... by Iran. Maybe try "says it..."?

Big call, Tom. I noted: 1. Huge Viking pushes over graspy Pom defender in box, so it's no goal ... despite no influence on play 2. Later, graspy Pom defender pushes over Norwegian attacker going for ball, in box. No action from VAR. It has become a ridiculous game, played by cheats. Diving Mbappé.

Not homogenous of course, when viewed as a proxy for incidence, but a very nice graph. The lab testing frequency increased greatly over this interval; maybe still is(?)

Of those around, most flu viruses are A(H3N2), with some B and A(H1N1) (hospital data). A reminder that last year finished with A(H3N2) subclade K wrapping up 2025 and driving a big & unusual summer surge into this year. Heaps of immunity & no dramatically new variant so far in 2026.

@news.abc.net.au Doesn’t favour Israel huh?

An ABC story we probably *won't* get: 'What the royal commission revealed about Jillian Segal's continuing role as a lobbyist for Israel'. They'd be worried about being accused of antisemitism. #auspol

It's mad that we place pedestrians on a small strip of concrete with no protection next to 4000lbs vehicles travelling 80kph. And drivers kill pedestrians all the time so it's clearly not working. How many killed this week alone in the GTA? A dozen?? But yep let's just keep on keepin on. FFS.

Under Lula, Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level in a decade https://aje.news/4aer73

The Maine secretary of state says Graham Platner *has* formally withdrawn from the Senate race. This is ahead of the Monday deadline, and so the Democratic party will be authorized to replace him, by July 27th.

Just short of 40% of Yanks still reckon Trump is doing a good job. You're welcome. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NPR: “The US brokered a cease fire between Israel and Hamas 9 months ago, the terms of which called for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Instead, Israel continued its attack into Gaza and now controls 70% of it, and inflicted another 1,000 deaths. Another Trump “peace deal” for his Nobel Peace Prize.”

Bougainville here sails into a trade winds trap* against the south coast of PNG, tacks very slowly up-wind for days, and eventually escapes via 'Cape de la Deliverance' (probably on Sundest or Rossel, well east of Milne Bay). * South-easterly. Cook did similar, 2 years later, bit further the south.

'Tech' enough reporter for you?

The Chinese electronic payments systems (2) are now universal, and they only work mobile-online. There is no backup; cash is all-but unknown. Guess how reliable its mobile phone system is, and how widespread coverage is. And it runs on Huawei gear.

Copper, mostly, and yes the problem there is serious. But it's certainly not boron, a common mineral. Nor, imo, will it be cobalt, nickel, aluminium or graphite. This story is another silly 'critical minerals' beat-up.

The questions here aren't for Telstra, they're for V/Line. What a shit system design.

Anyone who thinks that a planet with 8,300,000,000 humans on it is not overpopulated is either ignorant or a cgaf Yank.

@windjunky.bsky.social, of course.

'It's an isolated case' ... in a fking crested tern! More 'scientific reticence' (graded lying) from government science, South Australian and/or federal? Sure feels like it. Crested terns are common gregarious *coastal* birds, right around Australia. (BTW, hardly anyone calls them *greater*.)

Bluesky glitching again?

Did Cook know about Bougainville's encounter with the Queensland 'coast' 2 years before he arrived there? No, that wasn't published until after Cook had returned, and anyway Cook sailed in May 1768, and Bougainville didn't return until March 1769.

The black smoke is for wind tracking?

Labor in the UK are starting to apologise for their response to the genocide in Gaza. Years later, after over 70,000 Palestinians were killed, now they say they have realised they should have done more to hold Israel to account. How long before Labor in Australia does the same?

"Instead, the likely cause was a hardware failure that returned the clock to factory settings." And guess whose hardware, and whose reset behaviour. Oops.

I hope the Australian taxpayer is not funding this trip of Pauline Hanson’s to be interviewed by this racist pig and Nazi in the UK #auspol

Humans conspire. It's a feature of the species. Pretending that they don't because a few folk choose to make up silly stories is almost as irrational as those people are. It's also potentially dangerous, where the ones secretly conspiring are up to serious no good.

Why is the taxpayer-funded Antisemitism Envoy worried about Australians forming a negative impression of Israel's conduct in Gaza? Why is she floating censorship boards to screen stories about Israel?