One of the many devastating things about making this video was that we had to update it about three times during the making to account for further killings of journalists, including (you'll see at the end) a special mention of the 6 Al Jazeera journalists targeted by Israel. Please watch to the end.

Preferences, where do they go!! Cool charts from @joshnicholas.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Very good from Lorena Allam earlier this week www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please take the time to read this piece. The mother who gave so much of her time to make it possible deserves it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How are politicians trying to appeal to younger voters? Dan and Matilda are talking it through RIGHT NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka7w...

Police remove homophobic banners hung over Melbourne highway targeting Labor MP Julian Hill (story with @henrybelot.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

oh my god what could be causing this, so hard to explain

'This isn’t a minor political backtrack …This is a great honking about-face.' Great analysis of the Coalition's mid-campaign mea culpa from @joshbutler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A fantastic (and worrying) story from @caitlinecassidy.bsky.social : www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I really love this, @joshnicholas.com !! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We ( @joshnicholas.com and I ) have just finished a big re-design of our poll tracking page. The redesign had two goals 1) improve the clarity of the summary charts and 2) de-emphasise the mean, and add emphasis on the credibility range/uncertainty of the modelling...

The principal lawyer at Territory Criminal Lawyers has told Ella Archibald-Binge conditions in NT police watch houses are “appalling”. “That’s going to traumatise people … and it’s not going to make us any safer.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Last week, Annie Werner told me about her living wake, and how normalising the processes around death 'makes it easier to face it, and to grieve'. Her grace and generosity will stay with me for a long time, as will the joy of her 'Ultimate Celebration'. www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

The weekend's edition of Five Great Reads featured a series of diaries from Gaza, which give one window on to what it's like to be there at the moment (and, on a completely different note, a story about sleeping in seperate beds) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I once left a party to finish THE MAGPIE WING. Up now on the Guardian, I've reviewed PARADISE ESTATE, a sort-of sequel : www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Today’s five great reads has a scathing view of Netanyahu, advice for the ‘punctually challenged’, and a tour of the hotel that stands over Kabul ‘like a castle’ – a nerve centre for power in Afghanistan : www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... (And some nice Thomas Boivin shots of Paris: )

I went for a walk with Charlotte Wood : to have a conversation with such a writer about mortality, bodies and art was a real pleasure The new interview series launches today on the Guardian >> www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Not mad about this, well done to all birds

I reviewed Melissa Lucashenko's EDENGLASSIE for the Guardian : www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Winner of #birdoftheyear announced at 12.30pm today - tune in at theguardian.com/au from 11.30pm for all the excitement. Also - get your own beautiful bird poster here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vote for the peregrine! Every day!! Do your duty !! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vote vote (for the peregrine)

'I’m not rich. If I was rich, I wouldn’t have to rent my properties out.'

Wrote about my fave bird, fave book, and the language created by its author – ('instinctive, sudden and aerial', to take Robert's Macfarlane's gorgeous words) www.theguardian.com/environment/...