What started as a new office entry - matching in size & scale our #publicsydney drawing with Nolli’s famous 1748 Plan of Rome. Perfect for a design office! So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2

Strong cautionary article by #seankelly in @smh re LNP chaos & Labor risk of complacency… “what matters most over the next few years Is what Labor does” So @albomp.bsky.social overtime for some real action to improve the country www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

It's truly shocking that overseas dark money flooding in from shady groups getting sponsored by billionaires is what's stopping climate action in Australia. The Duopoly politicians are corrupt. Democracy dies here. #auspol

Chris Minns has different standards for protest – lock ’em up for pro-Palestine and climate action protesters, quiet approval for the far right and pleading ignorance about neo-Nazis rallies. It’s not going to end very well for him, NSW Caucus not so happy. #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social

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My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”

Every time there's a COP, there's more highly paid, well connected and determined fossil lobbyists attedning than anyone else. It's a climate conference for sceintists and government officials. Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?

Hell, yes!

I find the words from Attorney-General Michelle Rowland, conflating her religious beliefs with her role as Australia's Attorney-General, to be dangerous, disturbing, shallow and ignorant. #auspol #auslaw #religion

The challenges of how to upgrade characterful but dilapidated apartment buildings. Our work with the owners of this Maroubra Beach front apartment building - long a personal favourite - trying to navigate; 1 planning (DA lodged) 2 documentation, consultant coord, regulations 3 construction …

Australian politics’ rich vein of irony

Hilarious that we have a govt captured by fossil fuel companies and an opposition declaring they will not deliver on our legal obligations under the Paris Agreement and we are gunning to host the next COP meeting.

Substantial discussion on our housing conundrums; cost, supply, affordability, planning, tax & all the rest. Discussions in a public forum held in Perth, listen in & learn … beyond the headlines & shallow polemic. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The intrinsic adaptability of #sydneyterracehouses is too often stymied by overstated heritage. Let them be; -added to vertically -extended forward to the street line -turned into shops & offices -split into flats -opened up internally -opened up to rear No need to be too precious about most

Electrification in Europe and US: slowing down over the last 15 years, and only progressing very slowly in recent years. Electrification in China: chugging along at a much higher speed, well exceeding the level in Europe and US now.

Couldn’t give a flying you-know-what about the party with net-zero between the ears. Stop talking about them. Write thousands and thousands of words about this instead… | www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Memo to forgetful NSW Premier Minns; gambling reform. Thanks #alanmoir

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

Go past clickbait headline, this is important initiative by Govt to buy back flood-affected properties in NSW northern rivers. Test case for the inevitable planned retreat that will have to be rolled out up & down our coast & along our rivers, & bushfire prone edges. At what cost?

Sussan Ssissyphuss. The Age

Sydney’s Surry Hills has an extraordinary range of wackily shaped micro lots. Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan! Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2. Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there… #sydneyterracehouses

Hey @albomp.bsky.social No State Funeral for low-life political thugs & RWF media commentators. You should know better…

Literally read between the lines.. an image of the Fortis development reducing dwelling numbers and affordable housing in Elizabeth Bay…

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

And for Laws’ many sins, dopey NSW Premier Minns accords him a totally unmerited State Funeral - what for services to advertising? Suppose he’ll also lay one on for Alan Jones next… www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...

Great to be reminded by @ABCmediawatch about their expose of John Laws’ Cash for Comment. The self-professed golden tonsils only too happy to indulge himself in trash talk for cash inducements, shown up by #richardackland. Progenitor of a vile congo line of talkback warriors

Speaking ill of the wicked dead; hopefully the tenacious #katemcclymont will dance on his grave, & publish a whole series on that ogre Graham Richardson Should have died in jail www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Australia’s democracy has changed radically since 1975. So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition So many more minor party and independent MPs And each MP now has so many more constituents… Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Something to read, something to watch. "The Palace Letters" by Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social and the documentary "The Search for the Palace Letters". Available to watch on ABC iview: iview.abc.net.au/show/search-... #auspol #Whitlam #Dismissal #RoyalFamily #PalaceLetters

50 years on … It’s still time to fix the faults of the Constitution, abolish the Governor General, become a republic …& have a progressive, reformist government…

Fantasyland in Fassifern; Folk art all along the footpath. Someone clearly has an obsession which they are only too happy to share with any passers-by

Long overdue to have. Truth telling commission on what happened in the Australian Wars, too little acknowledged wars across our continent, almost always to the cost of the Aboriginal people’s Excellent sentiments in letter to @smh

As Bob Dylan said; “stand on his grave & make sure that he’s dead” Richardson such an odious character, zero redeeming features, always for sale or rent, promoter of Obeid, why didn’t he end his days in jail?

Former Labor senator Graham Richardson has died as he lived — surrounded in euphemism, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.

Cartoon by @rubenbolling.bsky.social.

It would be difficult to identify a more unambitious government. Committed to holding onto incumbency rather than doing anything big, bold, and transformational with it. Time Albanese retire to his Central Coast clifftop pad. His mind has already moved there #auspol

A deep commitment to anti-wokeness

Visiting an old friend; Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level. Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site

Outrageous. Tens of millions have been given to a criminal bikie gang - to oversee refugees on Nauru, what other appalling things have happened on Nauru to refugees that we still don’t know about? #60mins #nauru #albanese #auspol #60minutes

More tragic news in Sydney; now 8 pedestrians killed by cars in last fortnight

Always love speaking to my 86 yo Mum in Tassie ... re the proposed AFL stadium: "They love the AFL up north, and a few of them down south do too... so why not put the fucking thing in in Oatlands! Half way. Problem solved!" That woman should be Premier!

All the while all the public housing just nearby in Millers Pt & Thé Rocks was first leased, then sold off outright by NSW Govts….

The economists we hear from so often have a hard time seeing beyond the market and its limited solutions, even when the market is clearly failing to deliver housing for all.

‘Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the PM’s office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.’ Arise, Caucus MPs! You have nothing to lose but your chains! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

At the re-installing of the sculpture Joy in Stanley St Darlinghurst, commemorating all the sex workers & street walkers who were once so common in the area. Put back anew after a 30 year hiatus. #publicsydney

'Prof Donald Rothwell, an expert in international law at... [ANU], said Israeli defence companies like Elbit Systems were “directly implicated in Israel’s alleged acts of genocide in Gaza”. “As such, Australia should not be engaged in any trade that supports that type of activity,” Rothwell said.'

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.

Shocking post by #walksydney - 5 pedestrians killed last week. Look at the types of big vehicles involved Shrink sizes, slow speeds

If economists were serious about boosting housing affordability, they would be strongly advocating for reforms to assist cooperative housing, so challenging bank lending rules, their inflexible& unjustified restrictions on lending on sub 50m2 apartments. Oh & they’ld be pushing for tax reform…