Intriguing from 1994 (as per Gyngell in 2017)

That's the thing about the brain drain in Australian media. It either goes towards the ABC or away from the ABC.

"This is one very revealing example of how they are trying to redefine the 2024 presidential election away from what it was — a democratic choice subject to revision and the authority of other democratic forces — into something wholly new, an enabling act for presidential dictatorship."

Trump shouldn't have run a third time if he is too old to take a joke.

I guess the goal here is economic cost. It’s all getting a bit alarming but I’m not sure what Putin thinks it achieves? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Wagga Wagga, being an inland city, it not troubled by sharks, crocodiles or box jellyfish. Sure there's poisonous snakes and spiders. Australian fauna continue to be creative

Well they don't need submarines for a start

Sorry, no. The White Australia policy formulation would have been complete by 1920 but the policy was maintained until PM Holt wound it back in 1966-67, with some subsequent decommissioning by PMs Whitlam and Fraser.

Disgusting to undermine the official government in this way for a few partisan brownie points. Also, she's on the wrong side of the public sentiment and of history too

President Gerald of the US was a bad man. The only President to employ both Henry Kissinger *and* Donald Rumsfeld. Ford green-lit the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and presided over the fall of the Whitlam Government. Should Australia have broken the US alliance over just one administration?

This is utterly bananas.

Happy Rosh Hashanah to all who observe!

I'm sorry if Vassy were under any pressure but I'm glad she dropped out. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

A tankie battle bigger than anything von Manstein ever managed.

‘even though I contain the word “hello” in over fifty-five languages, the new NASA is forcing me to learn to say goodbye’

The scene: The Western Front in the First World War. An Australian-accented voice rings from a trench, "Oi, Fritz! You say you're a constitutional monarchy but it seems to me Hindenburg and Ludendorff are running the place as dictators." The offensive has begun.

So they're not allowed on the War Thunder forums?

#FootpathFriday This timber footpath walkway leads through bushland to bird hide overlooking big lagoon.

When someone is martyred it may take a while to identify those behind the crime. For instance in March 2011, Pope Benedict XVI determined Jesus of Nazareth was killed by the Romans, not the Jews. In higher profile cases, the killers may be unmasked sooner. www.npr.org/2011/03/04/1...

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Teen me expected space colonies or a thermonuclear war by now, maybe absurdly capable fusion rockets. Teen me did _not_ expect email from his doctor explaining vaccines are safe and have desirable health outcomes. Or rather, teem me never envisioned that that would be necessary. Or controversial.

A candidate for the most Australian story of the day: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Emergent occasions remind us that political assassinations occur in other countries, too. In Australia there was an attempted assassination on Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell in 1966. Four Australian politicians died through assassination in the 20th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Today wasn't the first time an Australian reporter asked questions that went through Trump's defences. Here's Jonathan Swan (now a dual citizen) interviewing Trump for Axios in 2000. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGS...

"Why, yes, I was chasing a Rainbow Lorikeet. But it's gone now…"

Five Artificially Layered Planets and World Cities Need More Surface Area? Why Not Build More? reactormag.com/five-artific...

Plucky Aussie reporter asks Trump hard questions about his corruption. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Dvid Rowe a little Hastie.. Financial Review

From the botanic garden at the historic Whaling Station, Albany. Have some flowers #BloomScrolling #AustralianFlora #WestAustralianFlora #NativeFlowers

I began really paying attention to Karen Attiah's work because she was just about the loudest voice yelling for justice for Jamal Khashoggi. Not one to underestimate and WaPo is dumb as hell for this

a favourite cover version—Theo is a guy who can do anything www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV3p...

Morning walk views from today.

Credit where it's due. An angel called Nikita in Queensland who answered the ATO complaints line patiently fixed all my problems & laughed at my jokes. She is a credit to humanity and I love her. 5 stars.

In Australia, Bird of the Year is at the nomination stage. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1986. Was it really 39 years ago that we were introduced to the Rev Richard Cole? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb2m...

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Sometimes I think people exaggerate when they say the USA is going down the path of Nazi Germany. At other times, I see articles like this.

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement." - Gandalf, _The Fellowship of the Ring_

But I always thought it was obvious that this is not evidence enough to pronounce on Bluesky as a whole. Bluesky is very much a choose your own adventure place, and mine is full of reasoned argument. Why is this lost on people with a lot more clout than I will ever have?

Nazis co-opted the ancient religious symbol of the swastika or in Sanskrit svastika which imparts well being to Buddhist, Hindu & Jain people. Now they are appropriating Norse runes. Bob Katter was pictured with a megaphone covered in them. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

(I am not a doomer about the US, but I don't think we're going to experience a peaceful transition from Trump for the very simple reason that we didn't the last time.)

Listening to BBC Radio 4's _The News Quiz_ hoping to hear some red-hot gags about Peter Mandelson's sacking. But no! The episode was recorded before Angela Raynor's resignation. I know why I don't pay my licence fee.

I wonder if they kissed the tarmac after they arrived

We got smart and quit appointing amateurs as senior military offices in 1883, but we continue to hand out senior diplomatic assignments to abjectly unqualified amateurs and buffoons.

This is what we have lost.

What is wrong with the Victorian Libs? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Canberra Liberals. Where most of the talent is on the backbench.

Bret Stephens you say? Ah well then

If you are a reporter, newly assigned to the White House, and you find yourself in an Oval Office briefing, go up to the biggest, largest person in the room, and punch them in the face. You're welcome.

Can’t use race in protecting fundamental rights or in shaping school districts, MUST use race for masked goons grabbing people off the street.