What this Royal Commission will achieve: 1) Embolden Labor’s political foe. 2) Increase Albo’s reputation for being gutless and spineless. 3) Increase antisemitism. And of course, like most Royal Commissions before it, hardly anything will change as a result if it. 🤷‍♂️🙄

Cathy Wilcox in SMH

Glen Le Lievre on AFR

Megan Herbert in SMH

Glen Le Lievre inAFR

Glen Le Lievre in AFR

Laura Tingle on #ABC has slammed Trump’s actions in Venezuela as an “extraordinary breach of international law.” Says if this is about oil, “well, actually, natural resources belong to the country where they come from.” 💥 #Venezuela

They’ve just … kidnapped the leader of a foreign nation (and his wife). What the fuck do they think is going to happen next?

Vintage Cathy Wilcox

Warmly seconded!

Maybe we need to be wary of the “delegitimisation” of legitimate criticism, which is the latest trick.

Happy New Year to you all & as we careen into the GodKnowsWhattery of 2026, remember the words of the late great Kurt Vonnegut: ‘There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.’

It's Wrensday Wednesday! So here's one of my favourite fairywren photos from 2025. Not one, but four white-winged fairywrens at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta. #wrensday #bestof2025

Megan Herbert in SMH

A kind person has sent this working ink to the Jenna Price piece I referred to in an earlier post

‘We must stand against bigotry and racism – but we aren’t doing that. Now members of the Liberal Party claim to be experts on antisemitism but it was just five minutes ago they defended the right to be a bigot.’

Please , please read Jenna Price's searingly honest words of love and wisdom www.smh.com.au/national/our...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Broken. Not broken. Today’s Sunday Age cartoon

Now I can post this one. The evidence/not evidence.

David Pope Canberra Times

Dave Rowe apologies Max Dupain Financial Review

Your correspondent (Letters, ″⁣Not only in America″⁣, 16/12) should point out to his American friends that when they can count the number of mass shootings in 30 years on one hand, they can discuss the complexities of Australian gun violence. I do. Peter McGill, Lancefield The Age, letters

Could the politicians, and aspiring politicians, show some respect, by reserving their views, at least until after mourners have been able to farewell their loved ones. Matthew Hamilton, Kew The Age letters

Bondi tears. My @smh @theage cartoon.

David Pope in Canberra Times

Dave Rowe vale Rob Reiner. Financial Review

I wish Shaun Carney's thoughtful measured words were accessible to all. They are sorely needed, in this crisis, where those, who n should know better, are prepared to use their microphones to divide rather than unite the community.

Shaun Carney : The Coalition needs to be careful as it uses this rotten situation to score political points. I doubt that most Australians want to see it. Or live through it. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

If I deliver a speech with fury does that make it righteous?

A man who has abjectedly failed the test of leadership at the first hurdle. In the past, trying to revive your political career off the back of a massacre might be viewed as tasteless... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If the last three days demonstrate one thing, it's that the right (via the media) controls the narrative in this country. Or, as Matt Golding puts it: #bondibeach #auspol

Bondi politic. My @smh @theage cartoon.

The conservatives forces using the Bondi Massacre to instigate a crackdown of freedoms of speech and the right to assembly are completely disgusting. Protesting genocide and the actions of the Netanyahu Israeli govt are not antisemitic.

David Pope in Canberra Times

Anyway, never again let any right winger criticise anyone for “politicising a tragedy”. This has been the most shameless, gross stuff.

“Fellow Australians. If you are watching this videotape, I’m in Sydney hoping to make political mileage from people who have been murdered”

Vultures (Rough)

Dave Rowe dropping in.. Financial Review

Two men. My @smh cartoon.

David Pope in Canberra Times

Dave Rowe lifesavers.. Financial Review

Tony Wright notes the political blame gaming in responses of Sussan Lee et al to the horrendous Bondi tragedy and recalls the Port Arthur massacre, where leaders of all Australia’s major political parties mourned together and took Australia with them. www.smh.com.au/national/aus...

Extinguished. (Bondi massacre). My @smh @theage cartoon.

Israel’s PM Netanyahu heralded Ahmed al-Ahmed for showing “Jewish heroism” before learning the Bondi Beach “hero” is Muslim. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/th4zuo