NEW: The Guardian plans to create around 55 new jobs in the UK, US and Australia over the next year The jobs are part of a multi-million pound investment designed to make The Guardian "more visual, digital, global and experimental" pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Usman Khawaja helps launch Islamophobia awareness campaign as anti-Muslim rhetoric ramps up across Australia

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheArtOfSurvival Birds finding food, avoiding predators, enduring weather or raising young. Cassowary Dad keeping a close eye on his one of his chicks & teaching it how to forage 🖤 #birds #birdphotography #BirdsOfAustralia #ProtectBirdHabitat #BirdsSeenIn2026

The gun-toting senator might be able to mimic the language of the far-right, jumping on podcasts to defend “masculinity”... But McKenzie is one of the very elites she is trying to rail against, a politician best known for her role in one of Australia's most memorable pork-barrelling exercises.

This bird and I had a battle of wills..... He had a long drawn out altercation with his reflection in our trucks window. Despite my brilliant attempts at diverting him, I lost the battle!🤣 #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany #CrazyBirds #Birds

This is what I’ve been saying to people who say “I just don’t get how so many people have suddenly decided to support Pauline.” It’s not her policies. It’s not what we hear in the mainstream media. There’s an entire ecosystem funded by Gina/Advance, modelled on mAgA. Direct marketing. Foreign op.

Guess. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

How lucky are we?

"Now that Stefanovic is freed up...expect more straight-up far-right propaganda and One Nation boosting. This isn’t benign 'sharing of perspectives', it’s a co-ordinated and well-funded political operation." @scottmitchell.bsky.social #auspol www.lamestream.com.au/karl-stefano...

Double Delight® This rose stands out with her beautiful double blooms with an eye-catching color combination and fantastic, strong fragrance. Her old-fashioned blooms are a rich, creamy white with strawberry-red edges making her A noticeable scent, ranging from light and fresh to spicy.

“An Imperial Flying Boat”! - A cutaway of an Imperial/Qantas Short Empire flying boat c.1939. Only 5 days from Southampton to South Africa, 6 days to Hong Kong & 10 days to Australia!

On the same 🇺🇸fundraising trip PHON pitched to oil megacorp Koch Industries: if they gave OneNation enough 💵💵they could “change the electoral system in Australia”. Charles Koch one of the original board chairs and biggest funders of the 🇺🇸 #AtlasNetwork #FossilFascism #Auspol @nickmckim.bsky.social

Say hello to Australia's newest mammal species: Planigale petrophila. Known only from the rocky plateaus of the Arnhem Escarpment from specimens hidden in museum collections since the 1970s. Photographed here by the inimitable Pat Woolley doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Just a reminder to encourage everyone to wear a high-quality, well-fitting mask properly at all times in public spaces to protect yourself and vulnerable others from deadly and disabling airborne biohazards. This means you, Darling, you'll be glad you did. 😷🫰

Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

A few of the native wildflowers seen in the Perth Hills over the last week. It’s so nice to see the local bush beginning to burst with colour ❤️💛💜🤍🌿 Styphelia foliosa Cristonia biloba biloba Hovea chorizemifolia Drosera hirsuta #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #inaturalist

Oh dear, how sad, policy working as intended!

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

That question might be interesting, but the answer isn't. Half the population's information consumption is almost entirely negative - because that is what is fed to them. It's the media model, the algorithm model, the social model. Conflict First.

It never ceases to amaze how the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism is so regularly absent from the discourse when it comes to Nazis doing actual, hate filled, violent antisemitism. If you can't do your job etc www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...?

Hanson witnesses a terrible accident where a glass panel falls from a highrise building and crushes a bloke walking along the footpath. She goes over to him, places her hand gently on his shoulder and whispers "I am the real victim"

Applies to Australia too. Once you accept the trade offs between the size of your house to stick stuff in, the length of your commute to the city, and the size of your wallet - there's nothing to argue about. You just have to accept those rational trade-offs and stop living in fantasyland

Analysis from Treasury of new ATO data for 2023-24 shows that 0.2% of tax filers earned around 60% of all the net capital gains income, while 99% of tax filers earned only 13%. We are making the tax system fairer for workers, first home buyers and young Australians.

"Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields. Researchers are now discussing how to preserve important human expertise in the age of AI."

Ha, only photo that turned out of the king parrots that descended to eat our ripe olives.

Look at this wonderful tree I discovered last weekend! You may be seeing more of it… (Accompanied by chiffchaff, my new favourite birdsong since using Merlin!). #treeporn #berko #localphotography #iphone15pro

Exclusive: Documents obtained under FOI show Catholic bishops lobbied the prime minister over the census’s “no religion” question and succeeded in having changes scrapped. trib.al/n8pZktI

Less than 2 hours left to get this incredible certified #Socceroos framed jersey signed by entire current World Cup team while they were training in the USA for the #WorldCup. The framing alone cost $600 and it’s just at $1,250 now! Bid here: asrc.org.au/auction closes 10pm. Correct link now.

This lifer that wasn’t on my list today. A Black-breasted Buzzard flying over the railway station at Beltana. Also notice his next meal clenched in his claws. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

Male superb fairywren in the garden with his black and blue breeding plumage nearing completion. #Australia #Canberra #autumn #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #nature #naturephotography #Birding #Ornithology #bird #blue #fairy #wren

Hugely important story from Queensland where Indigenous people are being dropped from any positions of influence. This is just the start. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Lively demolition of Hanson & her rabble by #malcomknox in SMH. She uses her stupidity as a shield, & Aust public far too forgiving of fools, & too anti the more able. A history of anti-intellectualism keeps hindering us

Wiped off mainland Australia by the introduction of cats and foxes, burrowing bettongs are making a triumphant comeback in outback NSW.

Today I cleared several paths other people were afraid to walk down, because geese protecting their babies. I just kept walking, didn't bother the birbs, other folks then followed. One couple asked why I wasn't scared, I replied that I'm Australian. Both said, ohhhh, and nodded knowingly. 😂

#Australia #Socceroos www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

"The Socceroos are the best representation right now of what Australia is" - Defender Jason Geria.

Apologies for the destination of this link but some long-awaited good news: www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

Good morning! Have a great Monday! 🌞🤍 🌿 (This is the same bee from the previous post. It's alive; I moved it to a flower. The bee has rested and regained its strength.) 🌻🐝 #MacroMonday #macrophotography #bee #InsectThursday #thelittlethings #savebees #wildflowers #nature #mobilephotography #ECK

The reason why the Everald Compton Community Champion Medal is awarded every year is because there are many senior Australians who make a wonderful contribution to Australian life without seeking any payment nor thanks. They are magnificent and they are Australia.

I hope we're going to see many charges for incitement to racial hatred, incitement to violence and incitement to riot, all of which have been happening blatantly and prolifically on social media. Or will two-tier policing in the UK, favouring the right and the far right, prevail yet again?

I wrote about St Kilda and Collingwood standing at the same crossroads, facing different directions. What do you do when it feels like your future revolves around a single superstar? www.onepercenters.net.au/p/standing-a...

Growth has failed to eradicate poverty or to promote wellbeing. Poverty is not inevitable. It is manufactured. Our op-ed with @deschuttero.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A 10% fall in house prices would take affordability back to 2023 levels. So let's stop the fricking scare campaigns that the CGT changes will destroy the economy. They are the start of a very long road to recovery www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Oscar Wilde described the dawn as "a frightened girl" who crept along the street "in silver sandalled feet". So British. “In Australia the dawn is an arsonist who pours petrol along the horizon and sets it on fire”. ~ Dr Julia Baird

"The Australian's slogan is 'Welcome to the contest of ideas'. How much contest is going on? It yells and screams at you. It doesn't engage in debate." trib.al/asfiqQq

Misinformation has exploded since the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in distrust of medicine, falling vaccination rates and resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases throughout the world. trib.al/GDHYiuj

While she won’t provide an answer when she speaks at the NPC, I have listed the immigration policy questions i would ask her. independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...