This live performance is definitionally Australian and perhaps my favourite. It was recorded in 1988 at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds as part of a celebration of the Bicentenary of Captain Cook sailing around the Indian and Pacific oceans and accidentally ‘finding’ Australia when it had never […]

Golding #Nuclear #auspol #LNPSplits

I made a loaf of bread today - I must have mucked up the balance between the sides as one side rose higher than the other. Oh well, at least it didn’t have air bubbles in the loaf (unlike some recent Baker’s Delight loaves I have bought). #baking #bread #thisbakinglife

via Crickey worm: Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar wrote on social media on Thursday: “We expect more than words from the Starmer government. We expect and demand a change of course, effective action, and enforcement against the rampant antisemitic and anti-Israeli incitement in Britain.” […]

This week, Amy Remeikis is (correctly) linking the housing crisis facing #australia with the #howard Government, quite susinctly. I have said before that every major challenge facing Australia goes back to the Howard Government. ————— Quote: And just like Howard, who was told by the […]

Who are the worst companies? So many to choose from. https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/award-for-corporate-misconduct-australias-worst-company/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

An Audit of the #anu accounts show … surprise, surprise … that there is no black hole and the ANU in fact made a $90m profit in 2023-24. ————— Quote: To be clear, as a government owned, not-for-profit entity, the ANU is under no pressure to maximise its profits so that it can maximise […]

A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering […]

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on #ai: > [T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain […]

Set your music player of choice to random play, share the first 10 #songs and add the hashtag #mondayrandom10 My ten random songs are: 1. Country by Empire Of The Sun 2. Conquest by The White Stripes 3. Back On The Boarderline by Midnight Oil 4. I See Red by Split Enz 5. Sorry Seems To Be The […]

Wot’s going on here? We left some stuff wrapped up in a *blue* tarp on the back paved area for a bit over a year. We have some medium sized back birds who live in our garden and spend most of their time digging up the mulch and making a general mess of the garden […] [Original post on aus.social]

It's time our politicians kicked their US habit www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Amy nails it again - she certainly has a wonderful way with words #auspol https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2025/09/24/trump-albanese-us-meeting

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Apparently the Rapture is supposed to be happening today. If we are really lucky, all the right wing religious loonies will leave the planet. If you are wondering what this would be like … imagine you lived in the UK and Europe around the 1600s and all the religious loonies that no one wanted […]

Kellie Tranter: ‘Australia is breaching its international obligations on weapons to Israel’ https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/kellie-tranter-australia-breaching-its-international-obligations-weapons-israel #auspol

The stars suggest Albo should stay at home https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/the-stars-suggest-albo-should-stay-at-home #auspol

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/the-australian-prime-minister-has-little-time-left-to-salvage-his-place-in-history #auspol

Pacific nations have just delivered Australia two smackdowns. That’s a big deal […]

I recently spoke to the Canberra Times about Living Streets Canberra's disapointment regarding the delayed introduction of fees for footpath closures. The government delayed the fees after being lobbied by the ACT Property Council […]

Set your music player of choice to random play, share the first 10 #songs and add the hashtag #mondayrandom10 My ten random songs are: 1. Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Live with MSO) - by Elton John 2. (I Used To Couldn’t Dance) Tight Pants by Eagles Of Death Metal 3. Dearest Helpless by […]

Could Amy Remeikis be any clearer in her commentary - the #coalition is utterly irrelevant and #labor is doing ‘the least it can do’ on every front. Worth reading ————- Quote: Labor continues to use the nonsensical mutterings of Coalition bobbleheads desperate for relevancy as proof its hands […]

#israel killed 31 #journalists & media workers in airstrikes on a newspaper complex in #yemen last week, according to a report released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The attack was the deadliest against journalists since the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines 16 years ago […]

As it happens, I was reminiscing about seeing an Elton John concert in the mid-1980s where he opened with Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding … The stage was completely dark and about 10 really tight spotlights were set in the scaffolding above the stage in a circle around him and his piano […]

Australia has imposed 1,600 sanctions in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. 1,600. And Israel? About a dozen, against individuals and groups - but not on trade. It’s not that we can’t act against a genocide, it’s that we are choosing not to.

David Pope captures it beautifully.

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Boycotting the Eurovision is cool (especially because Israelis *really* care about the Eurovision) but this, right here, is another level

Thomas Emerson's office had reached out to Conservation Council to advice that the office believes that the Property Council did lobby the government, and that Thomas will be moving a motion to disallow the Public Unleased Land (fees) Determination 2025 (No 2). This come off the back of […]

If path closures is an impact to you in Canberra, it is worth noting that it would appears that the Property Council had lobbied ACT Government and Chris Steel to either delay or not proceed with the fees for path closures in the ACT. Their […] [Original post on mstdn.matthewmcgranahan.me]

Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/why-keatings-greatest-speeches-still-matter-after-the-voice-failed,20163?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol

220,000 Palestinians killed in #gaza, unsurprisingly. #auspol https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/we-took-the-gloves-off-former-israeli-military-chief-admits-220000-gaza-casualties/

”Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the real-world impact of cycle lanes, found businesses on streets with separated bike routes grew on average more quickly than those without.” Remember, bike-lanes mean business. 10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You remember the iconic picture of a black hole from the @ehtelescope? Now there are three - a mini-movie so to speak. The structure of magnetic fields changes, the brightness wobbles, but the ring remains rock solid. That seals the case for it being a black […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

History would say the Liberal party that we’ve known since Menzies is done. Centre right politics will continue but this incarnation is over. Hastie didn’t even campaign under traditional Liberal colours/branding at the last election. He used his own name. None of this is new.

Your regular reminder that this doesn’t matter one iota in terms of the big picture and has no impact on policy beyond what Labor allows. It. Does. Not. Matter. What. The. Liberals. Do. On. Net. Zero. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

Set your music player of choice to random play, share the first 10 #songs and add the hashtag #mondayrandom10 My ten random songs are: 1. I Could Say by Lily Allen 2. He’ll Have To Go by Brian Ferry 3. Would I Lie To You by Eurythmics 4. Born At The Right Time by Paul Simon 5. Mouth by Merril […]

‘No safe place left’ as Israel moves to ethnically cleanse nearly 1m Gazans https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/no-safe-place-left-as-israel-moves-to-ethnically-cleanse-nearly-1-million-gazans #auspol

Old people are the victims of neoliberal profiteers https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/old-people-are-the-victims-of-neo-liberal-profiteers #auspol

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

🎨 Out of sight, out of mind? Banksy's maid lifts the wall like a rug, sweeping society’s mess where no one wants to look. Some truths don’t disappear — they just get hidden better.

A clear eyed analysis of Australia’s place in a changing world and some advice for the #Albo Government from Amy Remeikis - worth a read. Quote: ————— The emerging new world order – China, Russia, Indonesia, India and Brazil – was on display, and Australia, still holding on to the ruins of the […]

If you do one thing this day … watch this YouTube clip Have a happy day #song #music #bohemianrhapsody #paris https://youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA?si=oolSeZNdeZPeaA3Gt

Our future prosperity is bright. We’ve hidden an ace up our sleeve https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/our-future-prosperity-is-bright-weve-hidden-an-ace-up-our-sleeve #auspol

Israel and the Palestinians: Just one piece of the American plan https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/israel-and-the-palestinians-just-one-piece-of-the-american-plan #auspol

Does anyone give a rotund rodent’s rear end what failed PM Tony Abbott has to say on any subject? The *only* time I ever want to hear about #abbott again will be as a subject of an article in the obituary section. #auspol

They erased Banksy’s mural in London — just like they erase Gaza’s story every day. 💔