Well there’s one thing #AI will never be able to do, scape as it might, and that’s political cartoons. An AI David Rowe? I don’t think so! #abcinsiders #insiders #talkingpictures

Did the overseas (English) born Tony Abbott really say that #multiculturalism” hasn’t worked? Well, he can always go back to where he came from if he’s not happy here! #insiders #abcinsiders

“Not one dollar cost to the taxpayer” #PaulineHanson says? So Gina is paying for all of Hanson’s overseas working holiday? Nothing from her taxpayer funded senator’s salary? #abcinsiders #insiders #onenation

The only policy #PaulineHanson and her #OneNation have is chaos, and she hasn’t costed that either. #abcinsiders #insiders

Just started watching #insiders, who is the f*cking LNP idiot? Ahh, the shadow minister for housing. Did he actually just say the “communist Albanese government”? Sounds very Trumpian. #abcinsiders

GP clinic network hit by major cyber breach: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-15/partnered-health-medical-clinics-hit-by-major-cyber-breach/106920156

A winter harvest from lavenders which flower all year, now hanging up to dry.

“Many journeys, one jersey” !

One interesting aspect of the heatwave in Europe is that in Switzerland the water needed to cool a nuclear plant is too hot to use, so nuclear power (supposedly always available) is then not viable. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/energy-t... #insiders

Dan Tehan on #insiders, asked if he, HE, would be willing to be in a coalition with One Nation. “We’re not talking about that”. Says he’s only interested in being in a coalition with the Nats. Does the equivalent of putting fingers in ears and going “LaLaLaLa”.

“So when someone tells you multiculturalism has failed, ask them to be specific”. Rather than the dumb ravings of Hanson & her downright stupid idea of “monoculturalism”, here are some statistics which demonstrate the success of Australia’s multiculturalism:

“Every sentence was three words longer than she expected it to be. Each idea was read as if for the first time.”

Here's my piece on the misogynistic intent of calling women a witch in @theconversation.com! "Calling a woman a “witch” reinforces the idea that women who seek or have political power are not to be trusted. They are cast as inherently deceitful, dangerous, and diabolical." #AusPol

“The real issue is not Brereton. If he is a distraction it is not from the commission’s good works but from its flaws. The legislation that established the NACC was a neutering instrument. It was designed through compromise to give only the appearance of transparency.” How true, how predictable!

Used to have Gang Gangs visiting our deck, up 15 at a time. Hardly even seen them now and only as a couple flying by when you might hear them calling to each other - they have a very distinctive call, like a rusty gate.

Are #OneNation candidates always reject candidates from other parties? And do One Nation voters actually put any effort into thinking about its policies? Or have they just “had a gut full”, or various gut fulls, or many many gut fulls? #ABCinsiders #insiders #Farrer

And just whose fault was the failure of #TheVoice vote Matt Canavan? Seem to remember that your LNP opposed it, virtually guaranteeing its failure. #ABCinsiders #insiders

Well, Matt Canavan, back in the 70s, at UNSW, Asian students, predominantly Chinese, were sometimes in the majority in engineering lectures and tutorials. Those who stayed on in Australia after finishing their degrees enriched our nation and society. #ABCinsiders #insiders

Seems that government policy or governments’ policies on indigenous affairs has, like health, education etc etc, fallen through the cracks between federal, state and local government responsibilities. Just another “Failure of Federalism”. #insiders #ABCinsiders

Bloody hell, Matt Canavan spent 15 nights in a swag and KNOWS the electorate of Farrer? #insiders #ABCinsiders

Can’t imagine a “formal” request for defence assets to assist the US to get out of the mess Trump has created would come to Australia from the US without “informal” discussions/negotiations about what “help” Australia could/would be able to supply happening first. #ABCinsiders #insiders

Def Min Marles on #ABCinsiders: the situation [ie US vs Iran etc] is in flux. Flux??? Translation: we haven’t a clue

Angus Taylor’s ‘Australian Values’ policy is either absolutely desperate or absolutely hopeless…oh, WTF, it’s both!

On #insiders some mind blowing cognitive dissonance: @tonyburkemp.bsky.social said that while 33 of the 34 Australian citizens (women and kids) in Syria don’t pose a threat to Australia, but whatever, “we don’t want them to come back”. Presumably including kids who didn’t have a choice?

On #abcinsiders “Intergenerational inequity” seems to mean old people are inconveniently living too long, not politely, quietly dying off! All the tax changes in the world aren’t going to kill off the old just for convenience the government.

On #abcinsiders Speers interviewing the Treasurer. While Speers says he’s aware of the facts that the Treasurer is patiently explaining to him, Speers still wants his gotcha moment.

Read this and weep!

On #abcinsiders @albomp.bsky.social just said that the the then LNP coalition was focussed only on what it was against re the gun laws & hate legislation. The non-Labor conservatives are and have always been focused on what they’re against. They & their donors are against Labor. Simples!

One rather lonely male king parrot, his mate flew straight into our closed windows and couldn’t fly away and is now at the local vet. ☹️

So now @albomp.bsky.social has folded to injudicious & wickedly socially divisive demands for a premature federal royal commission, how to avoid compromising the entirely proper investigations & subsequent legal/court processes that are one of the pillars of our democracy? We can’t.

And criminals don’t care about the rule of law. We’re just not used to a so called democracy and self proclaimed “leader of the free world” being so blatant about it.

The Saturday Paper editorials are the highlight of my Saturday mornings, and this one, on Trump’s so called “Secretary for War”, was brilliant!

“AUKUS is a once-in-a-century folly. It’s a defence policy written by a tourism executive. At great expense, it makes the country less safe. It is to Labor’s immense shame that it lacks the courage or insight to walk away from it and from the cartoon administration that is still pushing it.”

The LNP opposition, having supported the under 16 social media ban, now smells blood in the water esp around Minister Wells and opportunistically is now NOT going to support the implementation of the ban? How desperate is that @sussanley.bsky.social? #abcinsiders

So David Speers on #abcinsiders thinks it is a valuable use of interview time with the PM @albomp.bsky.social to constantly ask pathetic gotcha questions on ministerial travel expenses?

“Our security is in Asia. Our national prosperity and wellbeing are tied to Asia. Our sovereignty and agency are severely degraded by continuing to invest in a self-defeating relationship with the US based on a policy to contain and dominate China”

How pathetic @sussanley.bsky.social looked criticising @albomp.bsky.social’s tee shirt. Did she really think this is what an opposition leader should focus on? Who is advising her?

Listening to Matt Canavan pontificating on #NetZero on #insiders, but am none the wiser about his or the Nats or the Coalition’s policies, apart from he’s “not against all renewable energy”. Welcome to the 20th Century Matt, but you’re still a century or more behind reality. @abc-news.bsky.social

Desperately seeking submariners: why keeping nuclear-powered boats afloat will be Australia’s biggest Aukus challenge

“AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme.”

Of course, the Liberal Party could consider selecting, endorsing and even supporting sane reasonable electable candidates, maybe even, or maybe especially, women. Just a thought, after all, every democracy needs a strong opposition to hold government to account. #insiders

Perfect!

FFS Albo, just don’t invite Trump here! #abcinsiders #insiders @albomp.bsky.social

What do we want from Albanese’s meeting with Trump, asks #insiders? Australia’s sovereignty neither surrendered by us or trashed by any disgusting behaviour of the US “President” or his lickspittle lackeys. Normally not something to worry about in a meeting of two democratic leaders. #abcinsiders

Chaos and unpredictability are Trump’s business models for everyone he has to deal with and every relationship. #insiders

“Lefty loving”?? As a description of a number of leaders of nations who’ve elected maybe more progressive governments than the US? Well, that gives it away, doesn’t it #ABCInsiders? So is this where #insiders is positioning itself?

Here’s a use for AI: replace David Speers on #ABCInsiders with an AI bot which could just as ineffectively ask the same “gotcha” questions again and again and again as Speers is of Chris Bowen. Or replace him with someone who doesn’t waste so much interview time! #insiders

Twenty five years ago, #agedcare packages were relatively easy to get, an assessment within a week or so and then a package. Aged care now seems to be an administrative mess. Why is this so hard now?