Truth is, we have some algae in our National reflecting pool but we don’t hire con artists who make it worse. It’s also why we respect the bidding process and best value approach to contracts. It curtails corruption and provides the taxpayer the best chance to see superior performance.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026... “ And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in Space ,cos there’s bugger all down here on Earth 🌏 !” @ericidle.bsky.social

Michelle and I had fun surprising the first group of visitors to the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth. Come check it out!

Global warming is accelerating, extreme heat is already endangering lives in India, and Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism is failing to deliver meaningful emissions cuts from the country’s biggest industrial polluters, Peter Sainsbury writes. #auspol #Climate

Birds on our balcony # 976 of an occasional series, A friendly butcher bird.The Betty Carter of songbirds

Time for a new October Revolution in Russia…the last one was in 1917

On ya bike 🚲 Trump !

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... Good, just cancel AUKUS instead and tax the gas companies and tax the rich

youtu.be/WjnmzljtREk?... Pretty much 3/4 of the ABC’s and Sadly a lot of SBS‘s programming lately is exactly this😱

Every Single Attempt To See What UBI Does Proves UBI Works But instead of using this information to do something, we keep repeating the test hoping for a different outcome.

"Reclaiming UBI: Work and Values in the Age of AI," a three-part podcast documentary exploring one of the defining questions of our time: if AI is transforming how wealth is created, what does that mean for work, income and economic security? kairos.fm/reclaimingubi/ @kairos.fm #UBI #AI #work #tech

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... The SMH has turned into Hanson apologists…rather than going after her racists philosophy. Time to stop calling her populist and just call her fascist

René Magritte with Loulou ~ Lee Miller, Lady Penrose, American photographer and photojournalist. During World War II, the former NY fashion model became a war photographer and correspondent for Vogue magazine. #RenéMagritte #LeeMiller #Photography #Loulou #Dogs

More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak

All those idiotic One Nation typs saying we should be “ monocultural “will have to give up eating at McDonald’s because that’s Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 food…not Australian

www.beatlesbible.com/1964/06/18/l... It was more than 20 years ago today…..here in Sydney.

The latest tax stats show 90 millionaires paid no tax (1 poor sucker got their total income from $1m to below $18,200, but still had to pay... err $769 in tax) thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Do go on.

Australia fans pre-USA clash bring their 'A' Game: “Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald #Trump is a sex offender.” Should play well in bright blue Seattle ... 😅 #WorldCup

Last night my dinner table was full of family, with English and Cantonese sprinkled together. That's not a problem to be fixed, it’s the best of this country. Pauline Hanson wants you scared of dinner tables like this so you never ask why her billionaire mates get richer while your rent goes up.

youtu.be/lV5dbcOmw6I?... After he Pauline Hanson on the radio ,I felt the need to play this, loudly !

Disgraceful

An entirely new level of weird reserved for the wealthiest and yet highly deranged sociopaths.

"At a time of surging anti-migrant rhetoric, the longtime friends who met playing school sport and their teammates — the Socceroos' 26-man squad come from at least 15 cultural and ethnic backgrounds — are a reflection of modern Australia where nearly one in three are born overseas." #auspol

Just saw this on FB

Definitely one of the greatest @thebeatlesbible.bsky.social covers 👏👏🥂

Pauline couldn't give a toss about the ordinary folk. She's there to implement Gina's agenda. Never forget that.

Well done to the demonstrators who turned out in their masses to counter the far right in Brighton. Good people outnumber these hateful little nobodies and always will.

The long history of vaccine hesitancy | MIT News https://www.byteseu.com/2099720/ Debates about vaccines are a recurring feature of contemporary politics. It turns out they actually date back more than 200 years, since the development of the first smallpox vaccine. MIT Professor Thomas …

This Performance Art project is fantasti! 👏👏👏🥂 @adaspota.bsky.social

Opinion: You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet he has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking up racial hatred in Britain on his social media site. ft.trib.al/B4elnzv

How wonderful 👏👏🥂

Totally misremembered David Hockney as being part of this episode of Monitor, but it is so well worth watching anyway. Not least for the wonder of Pauline Boty and her work www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Sad news …

2/ Also new location... bsky.app/profile/emer...

youtu.be/O3rmnhfbfZ8?... They just don’t make Australian movies like this anymore @enigmafilm.bsky.social @feathersofoz.bsky.social !

"Australia’s wealthiest individual, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, has made no secret of her growing investment in Pauline Hanson’s far-right One Nation party. But recent revelations have raised questions about the use of public money to service a billionaire’s political project"

The 100-year-old D-Day veteran Joe Picard is one of few people left with a memory of the greatest military operation of the 20th century—and his stories are a marker against which to measure how much he, and the country, has changed, Kevin Maurer writes:

Open letter from Professor Richard Scolyer released following death

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... I’m with Ed….Ed for PM !

@kaseygifford.bsky.social from Halloween 2025. bsky.app/profile/kase...

www.environskimberley.org.au/murray_watt_... Thanks to @thejuicemedia.com ..for hipping us all to this …please @albomp.bsky.social dont let Murray Watt do this to our country!

The WA government made a tourism ad for the Kimberley, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! 👉 Write to Environment Minister Murray Watt 🥧 www.environskimberley.org.au/minister_watt

www.smh.com.au/goodfood/syd... Once, many years ago I told my gal we‘d been invited to eat at Beppi’s…she said “ isn’t that the cheap Italian place in Darlinghurst?”