Christ on a bike - Dan Tehan just managed to tether nuclear power to AI and the US government. What could possibly go wrong with that combo?

Manuscript's gone to the publisher. Every living witness interviewed, every rabbit chased down each burrow. And then... 'oh, would this box of 250 Kodachrome slides be any use?' Unseen for sixty, seventy years. A treasure trove...

It’s fascinating that, given a clear choice, Americans have binned the first amendment and not the second.

A thousand speechwriters couldn’t come up with a better endorsement of a policy

Got to say, the universities are really excelling themselves at supporting Aus lit right now

And here’s me thinking Drax was the bad guy on an Arctic whaler

If you don't want to surrender to AI's relentless enshittification, never refer to yourself as a 'content creator.' Or a 'creative.' You're a writer. Take some fucking pride in it.

Rummaging for other things, I found a photo I took in 1997 at the Wittenoom asbestos mine. The sign was meant as a workplace speed limit, but it stands as an unintended confession.

"Publishers are in the business of stories, so they must be fluent in numbers, but they need at least ostensibly to give primacy to words, or they may as well be in the far more lucrative business of shoes or weapons manufacturing." Grim realities, beautifully woven, by @radiomoderation.bsky.social

Well there you go. Bendigo Writers Festival has been absolutely played, forced to do the dirty work of lobbyists by their sponsor. When these threats come knocking, academic institutions should be doing everything to protect and defend this country’s cultural events, not become Israel’s enforcer.

Absolutely right. It’s one thing to grossly misread the room. It’s quite another to lie about it. Never seen a single instance of a “code of conduct” anywhere, ever.

So disappointed to discover the Bendigo Writers Festival thinks our words are just ‘content,’ to be forced into alignment with corporate values. Writers are there to pursue difficult conversations. That’s the job. If that makes you nervous, you may as well play pre-recorded music out of a speaker.

Murray Watt's got a knack for doing mournful face when asked about disasters like SA's algal bloom. "Terrible," "tragic," yada yada. Someone bloody PUSH HIM on the link between these events and his ongoing approval of fossil fuel projects.

External journalists aren’t allowed into Gaza and the entire @aljazeera.com team in Gaza has been murdered by Israel with the killing of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal today Every day they try to hide the truth of the genocide they are committing

“Food insecurity” rapidly becoming the pre-eminent gutless euphemism of our age. Take a bow, Dave Sharma.

adventure.com/first-nation... Adventure have done a beautiful job presenting this story - really proud of it.

'Imagine grabbing the keys for a rental car and just driving around for a while without paying to hire it or filling in any paperwork .... and the government changed the law to make [it] rental car legal.' @alicektg.bsky.social on Productivity Commission & AI 👏 theconversation.com/the-producti...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a... I’d read Barney Ronay on any subject, but especially cricket: “Cricket is made out of things nobody wants to do” is a perfect summation.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... I love the tone of bewilderment: what? They turned out to be crooks? Did anyone seriously think they were here to do the right thing?

Hard agree. This book is a wonder.

'Adani pledged just over a decade ago to plough $22bn in taxes and royalties into the Australian economy. Industry groups supporting the coal company had also claimed Adani’s plans would fund schools, hospitals and other infrastructure for “almost a century”.' As if that was ever going to happen.

Just heard Nasser Mashni on ABC radio - rational, compassionate and urgent. Everything our Prime Minister refuses to be on Gaza. Got online and joined apan.org.au If you don’t want to feel helpless, it’s a start…

Entire Aus media in a lather about mushroom woman - a verdict that is no one’s business beyond victims’ families. Meanwhile, Yuendumu coroner’s findings, 600 pages of vital commentary on policing and race, pass almost unnoticed.

There’s a certain lyrical quality to Ep.3…

A treat for anyone feeling a bit nostalgic for the creative genius and humanity of John Clarke. Sadly, I had to cut the video in two for BlueSky ... 1/2 #auspol #TheGames #JohnHoward #SorrySpeech #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

It’s been a precipitous fall for wooden speedboats. Camelot to vulgarian cliche in the space of a week.

Surely the most wearying spectacle in Australian politics is watching Malcolm Turnbull lay siege to the bleedingly obvious, absolutely yonks after that might have been a useful thing to do.

Murujuga is one of Australia's most precious heritage sites. But it's being slowly destroyed by gas industry emissons. Our new must-watch video report from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social covers the threat to some of the oldest rock art in the world 📺 youtu.be/Bj9VOMKYxSI #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... So staggered by this charlatan’s hypocrisy that I couldn’t arrange my thoughts in response. Hannah’s take-down totally nails it.

www.patagonia.com.au/blogs/roarin... Part 2 of my series for Patagonia on the salmon cartels is up today - a stark example of how voting for either major party won’t change policy outcomes

www.pisra.com.au/events/autho... this Friday at the beautiful Phillip Island Winery: Lia’s an outstanding writer and this book’s well worth supporting.

G’day mate, I’ll have a Cloudstreet, ah, a Juice chardonnay and a shiraz Breath

Hi there. First post, and where better to start than a lengthy polemic about an industrialised meat protein that harms you, the ocean and democracy. I'll post parts 2 and 3, via Patagonia's Roaring Journals, once they're published. www.patagonia.com.au/blogs/roarin...