Great editorial today… www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...

A sport that chooses exclusion as the default have the burden of proof. They have to have the science to show a TW has unfair disparities in strength, speed, endurance &/or physique depending on the sport. The @UCI_cycling just lost a case because they couldn't prove this.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

"Some in Labor worry that the prime minister’s successes are making him overconfident, but Albanese rejects this out of hand." Paul Bongiorno on Albanese's secret wedding and enduring popularity in the polls: satpa.pe/HOer18v

#auspol #robodebt

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Mark Warner: "I hope it would remind folks that J6 was an ugly, awful day, and this administration and president basically pardoned all the perpetrators. It's that kind of picking and choosing of facts from this crowd that makes me a little bit crazy."

A decomposing president who is easily fooled and is only running on his cruel and self-serving instincts is the ideal puppet of the wealth and oligarchical classes interested in dismantling government and requiring widespread oppression to continue hoarding resources.

“Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Blatant corruption on full display.

Qns for the National Anti-Corruption Commission and govt departments about why so many are unwilling to report corruption when they see it or hear of it. Multiple errors by the NACC have undermined confidence. Join the 9,000 calling for improvements. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_the_nacc

Watch ATO’s Rob Heferen panic & go red in the face as Barbara Pocock questions why they pushed Michael O’Neill into a new role, after he was investigating the PwC scandal. Pocock asks if he’s made any complaints. Heferen “You mean about me?” Geezus take a breath - sounds dodgy🚩 #Estimates

David Pocock grills ASIC’s Joe Longo on how as a Regulator they can fob off victims of fin crime & brings up a man whose life is being destroyed Longo insists they don’t have resources to help & only deal in a “fraction” of cases DP “10%. So the other 90%? Unlucky”💥🤨 #Estimates

How weird…one minute we are supposed to have a gas shortage (hint: we didn’t) and now we are going to let AI data centres build new gas fired electricity generators to ensure they have enough electricity… Its as if everything the government says about gas is BS #climate

Can I let you in on a little secret? Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity. It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.

What could possibly go wrong. #auspol #NDIS #FMD

New golden rule. Don’t do as you would be done by, loser.

David Shoebridge doesn’t hold back after Chief of Defence David Johnstone repeatedly refuses to state his salary “You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates

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This is insane.

One of the more interesting questions raised I've seen given who he has pardoned is is he building his own drug corridor. This is not an anti-drug admin after all. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration' Feels like this should have been bigger news... www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...

NSN leader Thomas Sewell vowed to “make an example” of his enemies in Australia that would make the murderous rampage and planned race war of Charles Manson’s cult “look moderate”, in public comments since he was released on bail last month. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Unpaywalled: archive.is/XTc6m

What could go wrong? My @smh @theage cartoon.

But call him racist and the newspaper editors will be "hmmm, not sure we can say that"

How to wave off a problem: - Commission a review - Ignore key recommendations - Don’t enshrine anything in legislation - Keep giving jobs to the boys 🤙

I’ve lost count of the reviews Briggs Murphy etc etc etc…..

Read more: theshovel.com.au/2025/12/03/l...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

THIS!!

Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

trump fucked over the contractors who demolished the East Wing of the White House and his precious ballroom may never be built because he can’t agree with architects about what is feasible to build. So, 123 years of history turned to rubble for NOTHING. 🤬

Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal can’t explain why she releases statements condemning Pro Palestinian protesters but then stayed quiet when Neo Nazis rallied outside NSW parliament Segal “I take your point” Not good enough. She’s failed Jewish people and Australians. #Estimates

It would be hard for anyone to project more contempt and venom in the phrase, “No offence”, than Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest.

One Nation climate denier Malcolm Roberts asks Climate Change Authority Chair Matt Kean in “what year” power prices will come down. Kean “According to the ABS they are already seeing those power prices coming down as a result of Renewables.”🔥 #Estimates

There are 10 – 15 million trans women worldwide, 81,500 Olympians since trans women have been openly allowed to compete as women, and yet not a single Olympic medal of any colour has been won by a trans woman in 11 Olympic Games. youtu.be/B8CzqxhZk7I?...

I think about this a lot.

This is really bad! First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views. This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol

Looking forward, in 2026 Sovereign Text Journal will become THE place for First Nations literarture - academic, fiction, poetry, non fiction + Managed by a dream team of First Nations writers, editors and experts in literature. #AusLit www.sovereigntextsjournal.com/about

Recently MUP quietly released First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today. Co-editors Jeanine Leane & Dan Bourchier selected First Nations pieces published in Meanjin that represented "Writing about us, by us". Meanjin is gone but we're still writing/storytelling www.mup.com.au/books/meanji...

"the ability to eliminate poverty and needless human suffering is a far more significant than flight or the internet. But because it doesn’t generate value for shareholders, we cruised right past it going 'Let’s make a chatbot that can generate an Alvin & the Chipmunks version of any song!'”

The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...