An essay on Yeats, Auden and Eliot from Colm Toibin in the @lrb.co.uk had me dwelling on Yeats penning: Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

For weeks since Christmas, I’ve been devoted to my two year old niece who’s fighting a rare form of childhood leukaemia - and her not much older brother who’s doing his best to navigate this unsettling world. They’ve given me a sense of perspective I’ve never had to now, calling on all my sinews

Any yarns?

I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?

Objections to former High Court judge Virginia Bell seemingly raise her judgment in Brown v Tasmania concerning the right to protest but neglect to mention her upholding the constitutional validity of the criminal laws used against Lindt siege gunman Man Haron Monis www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Happy Release of the Commonwealth Government Cabinet Papers Under the Twenty Year Rule to all those who celebrate www.naa.gov.au/explore-coll... #archives #cabinet #HowardGovernment

Ok, Netflix you already have my money, but if you need more, take it …

On the passing of Sir Tom Stoppard, an occasion to revisit Kenneth Tynan's 1977 New Yorker profile which did as much as anything to create the image of Stoppard we have to this day, but came well before many of the works that made his reputation www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...

“We bonded over Habermas’ treatment of Kierkegaard and Marx in Volume III of “Also a History of Philosophy” - in the original German

Full text of Western Australian Supreme Court judgment in Reynolds v Higgins #auslaw ecourts.justice.wa.gov.au/eCourtsPorta...

High profile surgeon Munjed Al Muderis has lost a Federal Court defamation action against the Nine Network and newspapers after the respondents made out defences of contextual truth and public interest journalism #auslaw

Member for Kiama and convicted rapist Gareth Ward loses his bid to prevent the NSW Legsilative Assembly from moving to expel him from Parliament after the Court of Appeal ruled against him #nswpol

The SMH and The Age, and senior editors, lawyers and journalists have avoided referral to the Federal Court Registrar for contempt over its reporting of the Antoinette Lattouf case against the ABC #auslaw

I can read this, even though my primary school learning was largely Cuisenaire rods, Behind the News, Roald Dahl and penmanship But then again, I can hold my own on the 1% Club www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ahead of a NSW Supreme Court trial which had significant implications for media use of images posted on social media, the family of Westfields Bondi Junction victim, Dawn Singleton, agree to judgment in favour of Nine, reports @mwhitbourn.bsky.social #auslaw www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Lions at play

Lions at rest

I don’t always have control of the remote - and in recent weeks, Paddington and Secret Life of Pets might have secured preferences

Come on!

Rachael Patterson Collins pens a reckoning with former High Court justice Dyson Heydon and his defenders over claims of sexual harassment - and has the receipts #auslaw #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...

Bill Moyers, press secretary for LBJ who fell out with him, and subsequently a stalwart of public television, dies aged 91. Famously declined to be interviewed by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, holding out to the end www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

Breaking: Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah finds ABC unfairly dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf for her expression of political opinions and awards her $70,000 in damages

It’s really funny to say that cameras aren’t allowed in courtrooms but that someone can paint a little picture of what happened

Between Damir Dokic, Frederick Forsyth and Sly Stone, now’s the time to approach Births, Deaths and Marriages about a name change if yours alliterates

Shared the news of the passing of Frederick Forsyth to a colleague, who was quite taken aback. Then we shared memories of the time when Alan Jones wrote a column in the Sun-Herald on the future of petro-politics in the Middle East based on insights passed on lifted from a Forsyth novel

There’s a frisson to knowing someone recognised with an Order of Australia. Congratulations to @katgallow.bsky.social on a richly deserved honour for her contributions to the law and education!

“IT’S THE VIBE OF IT. IT’S THE CONSTITUTION. IT’S MABO. IT’S JUSTICE. IT’S LAW. IT’S THE VIBE AND AH, NO THAT’S IT. IT’S THE VIBE. I REST MY CASE.”

Fifteen days and nights of warm liquids in sippy cups, Minecraft on tablets, steady acquisition of stuffed toys, and vocal performances of farm animals in various acts of congress

Big enthusiast for the endorphin rush of shouting “Morning!” to another dog walker who is up way too early over here

Just priming my alerts for Anne Twomey and #politas and #taspol #kermitarms

"If New Labour learned how to win from Hawke and Keating, Albanese taught Starmer how not to lose." tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...

Seriously, BlueSky autocorrects to give you “Abetz”

Quoting Enoch Powell, I await my job offer from Eric Abetz #politas

Jeremy Rockliff’s predicament has me reaching for Enoch Powell’s observation; “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” #politas

Reposted for the #politas audience

Oh Graun!

I decided to stay off social media. Here’s why i went on a 30 skeet bender tonight by me

On the rare occasion I end a tweet/skeet with #taspol I have to avoid typing #tassalmon

Jeremy Rockliff’s predicament has me reaching for Enoch Powell’s observation; “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” #taspol

"Dhoombak Goobgoowana is the most important history of higher education in Australia to date." @hannahforsyth.bsky.social reviews the new book by Ross Jones, James Waghorne & Marcia Langton on Indigenous Australia and Melbourne University for @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I decided to stay off social media. Here’s why i went on a 30 skeet bender last week. by me

Seriously, is there not an endorphin rush from the most basic of human interactions in thanking your driver - bus, taxi, Uber?

The Graun: Thank the bus driver? Whatever next - re-nationalisation of public transport?

A reminder that I am always looking for more to add to this list of online and open access collections of radical historical documents. Over 900 collections now listed (and more on the way). hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

Has anyone done Slow Horses on Hard Quiz? That’s my back up if I can’t get Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister up. Hello SBS! Mastermind you say?

Can I what? Hello, Hard Quiz?

Monster!

Monster!

Today’s Wordle? Oh my!

Tim Wilson’s spirit animal