So high time for all Councils to be out planting the streets with shade trees Maybe Fed Govt could even help - such a tangible project better than a fake ‘offset’ scheme!

@chriswallace.bsky.social on everything wrong with 2party duopoly cartel party system. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21802/...

‘Beijing’s central planners, having underestimated the country’s swift adoption of solar and wind energy, are building the world’s first nationwide grid of ultrahigh-voltage power transmission lines.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b...

Nice to be acknowledged on me actual 70th birfdee! (you have to scroll down a bit) www.news.com.au/entertainmen...

My workplace has a social club. We go bowling. We don’t need corporate sponsors cos we all pay $5 once a fortnight

Yes it does 😞😡 #auspol

Two former high-powered public servants – who had been charged with ensuring integrity in the federal bureaucracy – have slammed as a threat to transparency the Albanese government’s move to crack down on freedom of information laws www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/forme...

"All that the law requires is for someone to claim they’re offended, and off to court we go" #whatsthescam with the zionist case against @marykostakidis.bsky.social #18C #freespeech #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social wingerei michaelwest.com.au/kostakidis-w...

DJ @robbieb.bsky.social in da house for my birthday 🎉

OMG You cannot know how much this means to me … my two radio husbands @robbieb.bsky.social and Paul Holmes (2DayFM Morning Crew) meet for the very first time ❤️

New Australia Institute analysis reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University. Audited accounts show the ANU made a $90 million surplus in 2024 and increased the value of its net assets. #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

Australia's new generation of gun control advocates led by Stephen Bendle doing a fantastic job undermining the relentless fantasies of our local Dad's Army gun lobby www.croakey.org/why-we-must-...

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽 Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club. That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group. Just utterly unbelievable.

Wow Dave this is a seriously great discussion. Well done. @davemilbo.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtE...

Um. Richard Robson has lived in Australia for decades.

Come & hear me talk! Discussing how historians deviate from well-trodden paths of the past. How do they reveal larger stories that've been ignored? And how do historians correct the record? State Library NSW, Wed 26 Nov, 6pm. Free event but bookings essential. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/fello...

So - let me get this straight… They’ll ban social media for under 16s even though most experts say it WON’T work But they won’t ban gambling advertising & other key recommendations even though most experts say it WILL work What? #4corners #auspol

Save the date #AusArts day is coming up! So many fabulous creative arts activities worthy of support - including the ASA backing book creators. Check them out on the wwe.creative.gov.au/ausartday (search for literature). And Save the Date - 23 October - for making your donations. #writers #arts

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. Education is likely to be one of the great battlegrounds upon which is waged an intense and desperate struggle for power." —John Dewey and Goodwin Watson, “The Forward View”

There is no democracy without transparency

Steve Cannane's brilliant 4 Corners expose of Australia's gambling reform hiatus highlighted imminent collapse of sport without gambling $$$. Exact same line used by BigTobacco when they fought as bans. Guess what? All sport survived & grew. 25 years ago!

Department of Defence emails show that a website dedicated to Australia's role in the global F-35 supply chain used by Israel to maintain its jet fighters was removed at the start of the war in Gaza.

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

Australia’s National Press Club is spineless johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Transparency warrior @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social takes the long handle to the claim by public servants that not enough govt secrecy caused #Robodebt #auspol michaelwest.com.au/too-much-tra...

Offensive, manipulative, corrosive, destructive, moronic, disgusting.

South Australia permanently shuts down 71 illegal tobacco shops, seizes >$4.2m of stock. Qld doing similar. NSW to start on Nov 5 when new 💥 🏋️‍♂️ legislation kicks in www.2firsts.com/news/operati...

My latest article in The Shot "The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club" #pffft theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Add another name to the LNP rabble. And this one a bible clutching son of an Anglican minister. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Excellent editorial review of the incoherent nonsense promoted by down-in-last-shower experts on how to curb Australia's rampant illegal tobacco trade. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

John &*%$ing Howard is what done this: @amyremeikis.bsky.social 7.30 last night iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2501...

The ATO has gone after another batch of Robotax victims www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Stephen Colbert rips into anti-windfarm wingnuts' claims about bizarre diseases & symptoms they reckon are caused by wind turbines. Item based on my research. youtu.be/VVcYpXKNGiE Our free book on it all here open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174...

RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This is disinformation - brought to you by the fossil fuel sector. #auspol

You won't read a better summation of the Hesgeth/Trump show than this one... (From my subscription for you) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The PM is having a bet each way — strong rhetoric at the UN while still approving projects that put fuel on the fire. A 62–70% target is fence-sitting, not leadership. We need ambition that keeps Australians safe and seizes the economic opportunities that clean energy presents.

Another dimension of McLuhan’s ‘the medium is the message / massage’; television was the ‘idiot box’ is now the digital window in bunkers. The consumer, marketing and buying merge at the point of sale. Life is interesting, exciting and satisfying with intention not just attention (Tim Berners-Lee).

All wondering when NSW will enact the weapons-grade penalties (closures, seizures, massive on-the-spot fines for illegal tobacco & vape sales, Nov 5 is armageddon day when the Act is proclaimed after assent of parliament on 11 Sept www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/... Expect many closures

After a 4 year FOI battle, @jommytee.bsky.social finally has the facts on Scott Morrison's sacking from Tourism Australia & the brawl behind the scenes is fascinating #auspol michaelwest.com.au/brawl-over-s...

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“Some of the people responsible for robo-debt are working outside the public service and not sanctioned by legal boards as far as I know, and some who designed robo-debt are still in the public service in compliance and audit roles. How can that be?”

America needs more Dolly Partons - my latest column www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

…and former senator Rex Patrick said he was willing to back a test case

Here’s a list to follow! Already 50% of world’s people live in cities, soon it will be 70% So their design, environmental performance, energy use, social equity & resilience matter - to us all. & risks of climate change, societal dislocation & conflict will be most felt in our cities. It matters!

An important piece... What if it's not social media? What if it's global warming/cost of living/ unaffordable housing and the steady erosion of the job market for young people? As the mother of two 20-somethings with a wide circle of friends ... I see it first-hand. www.smh.com.au/national/wha...

A reminder …

I'm not sure the fact that pharmaceutical companies rort the hell out of the US health system should be a justification for letting them do so elsewhere. A lot of medical innovation is from publicly funded research. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...