Latest episode of ‘Back to Back Barries’ shows what a normal political debate looks like. Not the rubbish from MSM. #AusPol youtu.be/ENyvFPlA7Jw?...

I've been assured that this is purely a humanities issues, & will never bedevil STEM. Hmm. As Shel Silverstein put it: The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea. He may catch all the others, but he won’t catch me. No you won’t catch me, old Slithergadee, you may catch all the others, but you wo-

Albo shreds Angus who admits his door is open to One Nation “The door isn’t open, there’s no door. They’re in the same policy room”🔥 Tells Angus he should “go into any hospital & ask what would happen if we got rid of everyone who works but wasn’t born in Australia”💥 #auspol

Interesting article on how vaccines might prevent dementia. It’s fun when new scientific techniques are able to sort of upend some of our ideas about how immunity works.

Be Afraid - my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This would be more welcome if the same government hadn’t just ripped the heart out of several creative courses at TAFE - you can’t have a good industry without foundation courses like those offered at TAFE #politas

Pollster.

We have a saying: If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they're not a nice person. 2026 says: If someone is nice to you & also nice to nazis, they're not a nice person. Stop defending your "nice MAGA neighbor" who's ok with ICE Schutzstaffel kidnapping people from the streets. Enough.

it's real support from actual racists

Just a lazy half billion more for the poorest state in Australia to mop up the government’s mess.

This is the first ever video footage of the larval stage of an extremely rare Groenveld’s Stingfish (Minous groeneveldi). Shot on scuba, over very deep water, far offshore, while drifting with the plankton, at night. #groenveldsstingfish #blackwaterdiving #larvalfish #tulamben #stonefish

Giving the gentry class something arts and crafty to do. 👨‍🎨 #auspol @friendlyjordies.bsky.social

Don't listen to Angus, read us! live.thepoint.com.au

Opinion | Are Labor's tax changes bad for young people, as some in the media would have you believe? No. Obviously not. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/14/2...

Eric Trump is visiting China this week "in a personal capacity as a supportive son." Hunter earned $6,027/day. The Trump family earns $8.75 million/day. That is 1,451 times Hunter's rate. They earn his entire five-year scandal every thirty hours. gothburz.substack.com/p/eric-trump...

In a crowded field, "Coalition's policy would allow net migration to grow at a ratio of one person to one home built" might well be the dumbest policy fart in aÜşPøL history. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

For decades, older people used their political muscle to skew the tax system. Now, the rising power of young people is changing that, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/13/b...

Despite the pearl clutching by the Rich Boomers Lobby, there are good things in the Budget as Jim, Albo & co finally move to address inequality via CGT & negative gearing #auspol #budget youtu.be/rWpde4FHoX4?...

The rumours were true, the budget brought big changes for negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount! "For the first time in forever, I'm actually optimistic about housing affordability." - @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol #Budget2026

Devising a budget that eases cost of living pressures and fights inflation sure is exhausting! #auspol #politas #budget2026

Coincidentally this is the Murray Darling Basin Plan that One Nation took to the Farrer By-election

Two weeks to go until we publish #Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment by @maddypelling.bsky.social. Join Maddy in conversation with Anthony Delaney at @conwayhall.bsky.social on publication day to hear more about her new book! 📅 Thurs 7th May 🕖 7–8:30pm 🎟️ tinyurl.com/HoaxConwayHall

Budgets are hundreds of decisions about how the government will tax and spend — but how many people will actually be affected? Grattan’s 2026 Budget cheat sheet breaks it down, read more here: grattan.edu.au/news/grattan...

The article was updated five hours after publication to add information identifying the report as self-interested lobbying propaganda, and some actual content from the report. This means the ABC initially published an industry lobby press release largely unmolested. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

One Nation might win Farrer, but it won’t grow any bigger nor become a major party. That doesn’t mean the party and its supporters can be ignored, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/05/o...

How much ability lies dormant because a child grew up in unstable housing, poor health, or a neighbourhood cut off from jobs? satpa.pe/HQCHVsU

Under a cloud: the growing resentment against the massive datacentres sprouting across Australian cities

Want some fun weekend reading? here’s something we wrote!!

So .. this is a gift and not a bribe? Can someone please explain the difference? #auspol #corruption www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol Stark warning from ex-PM on rise of the ‘manosphere’. Australia's only female prime minister will address a major gender-equality conference where attendees will discuss how to combat threats to women's... michaelwest.com.au/stark-warnin...

This is pretty amazing, since as far as I know, there's only ever been one wild population, which can't reproduce, only clone itself (for thousands of years).

Got to say "one enema away from solving world hunger" on cable news' most watched show last night. InfoWars is already paying off.

So today on Gone Medieval I have that rare thing - a medievalist emergency - wherein I had to explain the Avignon Papacy because a lot of people know the phrase *cough* the Trump administration *cough* but they don't actually know what it means. Don't let it be you. open.spotify.com/episode/7bsa...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do...

TV program looking at appalling mining practices in #Congo says it is a blight on the #renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.

Great to see this from Paul Keating. Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating has accused Angus Taylor of cowardice and racism over his plans to overhaul the nation’s migration system, saying the Liberal Party is simply copying the “dumb bigotry” of Pauline Hanson. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Liam Bartlett needs to be called out for his conflict of interest! He’s unable to interview Labor’s Energy Minister in good conscience. #Auspol ‘Bartlett – who was global head of TV, creative visual at Shell International in London from 2013-2015 – is no fan of the green energy transition.’

🚨Australia's MAGA movement –– run by a handful of billionaires –– is preparing to launch an attack ad over surging fuel prices....While failing to mention the cause is MAGA US President Donald Trump's invasion of Iran. Funded by... guess who? theklaxon.com.au/7j6m

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

#fuckcapitalism #fuckTheOnePercentClub

Chris Bowen fires back, schools & embarrasses Anti-renewables journo on importance of Renewables during a crisis & for refusing to let other journos ask questions “Solar energy has to travel 150 mill km from the sun, it doesn’t have to travel the 150km of the Strait of Hormuz”🔥

Masterful work, Mr Trump. You've smashed the Middle East, the global economy, cost thousands of lives and spent a billion dollars a day - all to give your enemy a toll both on the most important shipping lane in the world

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

All I know is that whoever replaces Marco Rubio has big shoes to fill boom tish

AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction. The 10th annual International Fact-Checking Day provides a good opportunity to look at these evolving challenges.

well, that was weird

This speech is insane. Our President is a lunatic. Also, he sounds like a moron. A real low IQ individual. Don’t be numb to how crazy this is.