The rainbow lorikeets dropped by this morning. #Australia #Canberra #summer #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #nature #naturephotography #Birding #Ornithology #bird #rainbow #lorikeet

The rainbow lorikeets visited this morning. There are a pair that drop by from time to time. #Australia #Canberra #summer #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #nature #naturephotography #Birding #Ornithology #bird #rainbow #lorikeet

I'm at it again: great ontological debate about welfare 'compliance' app govt told Ombudsman it built to monitor dodgy job service providers but which doesn't exist. No documents point to it. Instead they use 'existing processes'. And haven't they been so effective. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/27/r...

Ah man. That last line should be on the book blurb. Truth.

Utterly weird right now how it seems like only neurodiverse, Indigenous peoples, and communists have any fucking idea what's going on. Normies seem more gormless and stalling on their own programing than usual.

Grace Tame is right, yet again, @albomp.bsky.social. Must be _difficult_ for you to accept.

And there he was during the 2022 election campaign - not finding her difficult then. What changed? OH that's right - she wasn't co-opted by the Australian Zionist lobby, or the Fossil Fuel industry, or the Defence Industry.

He was happy enough to bask in her glow when she was Australian of the Year - what a fake and opportunist he is! He lapped up the "By Association" boost it gave him.

Contrary to Albanese’s word association games with the Murdoch press, I don't think Grace Tame is "difficult". She just doesn’t like dickheads and pedophiles, it's really quite simple.

❤️Grace Tame

A very generous review in the @theconversation.com for Where it all went wrong: theconversation.com/blame-john-h...

Revolution in British #politics. Greens won by-election in Britain that #Farage Reform Party expected to win. Labour Party of #KeirStarmer came third & Conservatives lost their deposit. Great news. Green Party defeats Labour in U.K Special Election in blow to Starmer www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/w...

Brilliant article, a must read. “In every case, what he delivered was a cage. That’s not a “few bad apples” problem. That’s a world that keeps handing men the keys.”

In Sydney’s Newtown, Scott Marsh’s mural Island Boys depicts Jeffrey Epstein alongside figures named in the latest file releases, including Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell. #USANEEDSFREEDOM, #DUMPTRUMP

“The results are now visible: aging oilfields and an accumulation of low-producing, marginal assets in need of retirement, creating public health and safety risks.” - Rob Schuwerk Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kT9cUU

Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549

#auspol #misogyny #difficultwomen

To think about…

This is untrue and nobody's buying it. Scott Morrison-level gaslighting.

Word games with Albo. #AusPol #GraceTame

Holy fkn shizballs!!!! Thank you to everyone who has embraced this. You’re incredible - and also - not alone. It’s a mess, no one has fixed what he helped break and if anything comes from this, it’s a reminder of what we need to do to fix this

Between your Grace Tame "difficult" comment and your "contempt" for the mothers in Syria refugee camps...you've had a rough week @albomp.bsky.social Time to get into the Hall of Mirrors and have a long, hard look at yourself. Do you recognise the person you are now ?

This right here got me 🤬...

Here's me, and @boganintel.bsky.social. "Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia"

Opinion | Anthony Albanese can throw the “difficult woman” stereotype at Grace Tame, but the deep disappointment about his leadership is starting to hurt, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/26/g...

Love reading Arthur.C. Brooks in @theatlantic.com He's always challenging, counter-intuitive: "Thinking about yourself all the time makes you miserable over the long term." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

If you were looking for difficult this would be something more important to focus on.. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Honestly - this book/fever was so easy to spot as being fraudulent from the start. This sort of pretend progressivism only ever benefits the worst people australiainstitute.org.au/post/gripped...

Foreign fighters for Israel – beyond the reach of Australian law? johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Albo was asked to apply one word to various prominent people (Trump, Barnaby, Pauline etc). Grace Tame he labelled "difficult". Unconscious misogyny, which says quite a lot more than he apparently intended.

Really sick of the misogynist language. Women aren't "ambitious" - they are "driven". They aren't "forthright" - they are "difficult". Bah! Pollies need to remember that women make up half of the voting public.

Yes, but the LNP would've bulldozed 3001 hectares of tropical savanna, so it's a win!

Angus Taylor gets called a leader and Grace Tame gets called difficult. In misogyny speak that’s the same thing 💪

Anthony Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult” in a News Corp word game. Donald Trump was merely “president”. Throughout history women who fight to better society get punished and labelled problems Men who are convicted criminals and whose policies kill are more likely to get a pat on the back

If polls are correct #Trump Republicans will get thrashed in mid term elections in November. But USA is no longer a #democracy & it is doubtful that Trump will allow elections to be held freely and fairly.

State of the Union. My @smh cartoon.

The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.  Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.  Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.

#albo many more difficult women than Grace Tame out here. You’ve lost me completely now. #GraceTame = legend and I’m 70 never voting for Labor again after that quip.

Truth bombs being dropped

Pleasing to see report in Canberra Times that police have dropped the investigation into the satirical posters in the Civic bar Dissent. When will pple learn to be sceptical of AJA troublemaking?

I am pleased that they are planning to do so in this term, rather than delaying the move until the next parliament, but I am disappointed that they are signalling that they will simply expand from 12 to 14 senators per state. These changes don't happen often and it's just not a big enough increase.

Australia, you are being scammed! #IEEFA shows Japanese export 40% of Aussie gas exports. Yep, they on-sell our gas for a profit while the corporations cry poor about tax and royalties and gas shortages @kimwingerei.bsky.social #auspol #whatsthescam michaelwest.com.au/australian-g...

wtf is this mess. They got their Royal Commission - which will presumably identify intelligence failures - are they going to shoot the antisemitism now🤡

Aka IDF service

“We’re in this ridiculous situation where as one of the biggest gas exporters in the world, we have the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax collecting less revenue than beer tax,” Senator David Pocock said. “This needs to change." Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qTWA14

Water scarcity is no longer a passing crisis. In many regions demand now permanently exceeds supply – a condition experts call water bankruptcy, @JulianCribb writes. #climate #water #environment #population #sustainability

"Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits" @adammorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia Institute research shows a 25% gas export tax could raise $17 billion a year, cutting energy bills and funding healthcare and education. Meanwhile, Aussies pay more tax on beer than the gas industry pays on exports. Sign our petition to end the gas export scam: https://theaus.in/3P0dk9D

Independent Senator David Pocock has added his voice to calls for a 25% tax on gas exports. Polling from RedBridge shows reveals that One Nation and Greens voters strongly support the idea. Sign our petition to stop the gas export scam: https://theaus.in/4aPjUr4