Strong suggestion to the PM, Penny Wong, and Richard Marles: choose your words very carefully when communicating to us about the joint Israel/US attacks on Iran. You cannot afford to get this wrong. #auspol

Im no fan of Iran (an awful regime ruling over mainly lovely people) but it is less of a threat to world peace right now than the United States and Israel.

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

this is another absolutely brutal read. but a critical one, particularly for academics.

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This is the very question I put to the Aged Care Minister in Question Time two weeks ago. Isn’t a computerised assessment system which cuts support for vulnerable Australians, causing distress and suffering, just another form of Robodebt?

It's unusual for the Secretary of Defense to spend this much time obsessing about children's genitalia, but I guess that's sort of the main theme of the second Trump administration.

History is full of world-changing ‘difficult’ women: Saint Mary MacKillop was a ‘troublemaker,’ Thea Proctor was ‘dangerously modern’, Millicent Preston Stanley - the first female member of NSW Parliament - was a ‘battleaxe.’ Here is an illustrated map I did for our She Shapes History walking tour!

When women demand safety, economic parity and structural reform, they are often labelled “difficult”. That word shifts attention from inequality to temperament – and protects power from scrutiny, Janine Hendry writes. #PearlsAndIrritations #auspol #GenderEquality #WomensSafety #PoliticalCulture

Some advice for the PM: there are many, many of us ″⁣difficult women″⁣ ... and we all vote. Michelle Goldsmith, Eaglehawk The Age letters

Red-tailed black cockatoo. Sunset Strip, New South Wales.

Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of the intervention by SA Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board minutes reveal. The new Adelaide Festival board had tried to hide the docs until after the March 21 SA election… theklaxon.com.au/tipx

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Goodnight all And, thank you. And may we remember our shared humanity & contribute in whatever ways we can to living together peacefully. 🕊️ 🌿 🕊️

Painting by Valerie Greerley

theconversation.com/australian-l... You wouldn’t know it from all the garbage being talked

Not history at all, but an institutionally-constructed work of disingenuous propaganda, created with the IPA, promoted by the IPA and lauded by the IPA. A comprehensive and damning review of Abbott's "Australia: A History" by @timdunlop.bsky.social. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.

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

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.

John Curtice is now reporting that this is the Conservative's worst performance in a by-election in the party's history...

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Very true - but that’s what happens when you ain’t doing anything else worth talking about. Labor’s complete lack of meaningful activity is why we spend every week talking about immigration, Hanson and whatever dumb shit Albanese also said to Karl Stefanovic

Woodside is looking for a new CEO, so we thought we'd lend them a hand 🙌

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

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK. The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party. Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

Take note, @albomp.bsky.social

Note to @albomp.bluesky.social if this week’s been ‘difficult’. Here’s what the ABC’s Kim W learned. ‘Be very precise in what you say. Be terribly thoughtful before you take action … And always look outwards in terms of how this will appear.’ ~ Kim Williams in SMH Good Weekend profile.

Am getting *very* worried that the govt will do the smallest fricken thing on capital gains tax and negative gearing. Probably will end up changing the policy so little that it will have next to bugger all impact. Sigh. If you want to change the country, CHANGE. THE. F*CKING. COUNTRY.

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Magda posted that she's done with chemotherapy and is in remission 😭 amazing news to kick off mardi gras weekend 😭

Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?" Me: "It's that he's lying."

Good news for all of us Gittins fans : after a long surgery & months in hospital he’ll be back soon. 👏🎉🥂 “I got an infection that spread to my heart, and really started wrecking the joint - I mean that fairly literally,” Gittins said. www.smh.com.au/national/her...

🎭 The Bard's crew dissects a modern grift. @dieworkwear.bsky.social Falstaff: "I'd pay thrice that sum to hear the constable's ballad played on hold." Lady Macbeth: "A cunning toll upon the common spite." 🧵👇

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Just finished excellent long read in SMH Good Weekend by Jaqueline Maley on ABC chair Kim Williams. Seems to cover all the bases. Recommend.

The local pink flowering gum is in fine festive form for Mardi Gras tomorrow. 😎💃

By the way, Albo could have avoided all this drama but simply not agreeing to participate in a word association game during an event hosted by the Herald Sun

I continue to be baffled how every single scientist, journalist, communicator and researcher isn't screaming at the top of their lungs at the collapse of a survivable future for billions of people www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

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

State of the Union

Funny how nobody is advocating that AI replace tech CEO jobs, given how adept AI bots seem to be at making shit up and sprouting rubbish

Difficult. My @smh @theage cartoon.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...