www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Emma Rowe, associate professor in education Deakin University, says this largely the consequence of govts not meeting funding targets for public schools over a long period of time, while simultaneously funnelling large amounts of money to private schools

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...

This video is well worth watching. It's a balanced, real-world look at the effectiveness of AI (across many disciplines, not just software dev) and its impact on work, substantiated by a well-designed study that actually compares UI to human workers. www.youtube.com/watc... 2/2

Does anyone in the US know whether any of the info in this article is being published by major US media? @prune602.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.substack.com @realjakebroe.bsky.social @unftr.com

“It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us.” Jane Goodall #AusPol

“She just doesn’t have the spinlessness needed for politics,” said Albanese chaser.com.au/national/spi...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

then and now

The Wayland-Yutani Corporation wishes to acknowledge President Trump's support for biotechnology research vital to the national defence

1/ Donald Trump isn't the first person to be given someone else's Nobel Prize medal. The last recipient of an unearned Nobel medal was none other than Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, at the instigation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. ⬇️

When Trump takes Greenland with no major repercussions, he won't stop there. This doesn't mean invading Europe. But it does mean destroying European social democracy. 🧵

Looks like there’s interest so Let’s talk about some things to consider about a ceasefire in Russia’s 3 Day War.

"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This

Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi. 🫡 to those on the list

Four of the five new officially extinct animals globally were *Australian*.

So a CNN journalist describes Trump at a recent rally as being ‘as incorrigible as ever’. Really? It’s this sort of pathetic reporting that trivialises his behaviour that drives people away from legacy media.

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

The Albanese Government’s First Home Buyers Scheme will add $55 billion to property prices over the next 6 years. We’re in the middle of a housing crisis and Labor’s solution is to add billions to property prices.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Re Kirk, what nobody has said that is more salient than the shooter’s political leanings, is that it was almost certainly a man. Because it’s nearly always a man. The fact that this is never addressed is more shocking to me.

A personal favourite story - as I like bears and dislike libertarians newrepublic.com/article/1596...

“Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

Oh look, Env Minister Murray Watt just tripled the area of native habitat that tax-shy gas company Arrow Energy can destroy! When LNP's Greg Hunt approved this, he imposed "some of the strictest env conditions in Aus history" Not so strict anymore...1/4 @australiainstitute.org.au

This is an outstanding interview, so many pieces of wisdom:

Saw some astroturfer responding to a post about Israel being an apartheid state the other day saying that Israeli resident Palestinians were treated exactly the same as everyone else. Yeah, nah.

A photo recently emerged online showing a “Glory to Russia” scar on the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. A Ukrainian doctor shared a photo of the soldier’s mutilated abdomen, taken not long after his release from Russian captivity. The photo was verified by Ukraine's military intelligence.

Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food aid in Gaza, health officials say

This. And I'm sick of people saying to "keep it peaceful" when we're fighting a regime who is kidnapping people and weaponizing the National Guard.

Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Political Cartoon 23 May 2025 by @mluckovich.bsky.social

Why does the @nytimes.com have a Russian journalist, with obvious pro-Russian biases, reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

Just try to process this.

🇨🇳❗️🇺🇸 Chinese “kill switches” capable of crippling power grids have been found in equipment at US solar farms, - The Times The devices, including hidden cellular radios, were discovered in Chinese inverters used to connect solar panels and wind turbines to grids worldwide.

At a certain point, a tax on a good is so high it becomes effectively a prohibition... and that's when the black market comes out to play... and that's when the policy begins to fail. The last thing any policy should do is make breaking the law socially acceptable.

Rosstat has classified detailed data on birth rates, death rates, marriages, divorces and corresponding coefficients in Russia. Instead of 6 files, 1 file is now published. Regional data is completely classified! Monthly data has also been closed! (screenshot - all that remains!) 1/

If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux

Out of touch. My @smh cartoon.

It's good Dutton is gone and Liberal got smashed. But this is not an election result to celebrate. Where's the pressure on ALP to stop supporting a genocidal apartheid regime? What incentive do they have to call for the end of massacres, starvations, and targeted murder of Palestinian children? Zero

ICYMI- Yesterday's #Gaza #ausvotes cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall

Denied citizenship by the country he died for, this Anzac Day Aboriginal war hero Bill Allen is being honoured in France. The Australian who rushed four German machine-gun nests has been named an honorary citizen of the Somme. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

Very cool data visual work by ABC on the changing way we vote www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Thanks to preferential voting, you can't waste your vote. Along with compulsory voting, it's a proud contribution to our electoral system from Australia's conservative parties. australiainstitute.org.au/post/full-pr...

Tariffs nicely explained #Fascism #DuttonTheDivider