I saw a lot of land clearing in central Queensland only two weeks ago, David Littleproud. #Insiders

A sobering read from Kerry O’Brien on the value of quality journalism. www.smh.com.au/national/jou...

Good read on Kevin Muscat at #Shanghai Port from @vincerugari.com www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer... #ChineseSuperLeague

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Remarkable and sad read via @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Is the USA a pariah state? #Ukraine

The 2007 Uruguayan "murga" song by the late Canario Luna which Marcelo Bielsa described in the extraordinary press conference he gave yesterday as "one of the best songs about football" he had ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysp...

< opened the door to a richer culture of storytelling, history, and memory in the game. Here’s a look at some of the titles born from that passion. #Socceroos #20YearsOn #Australia2006 #FootballWriting #FairPlayPublishing

20 years ago today — 16 November 2005 — Australia finally broke the 32-year drought and qualified for the 2006 World Cup. Those of us who lived it will never forget it. Moments like that are why so many of our football books exist. They didn’t just celebrate a qualification — they

I made more or less the same points in an interview with France1 earlier in the week. Here is @theguardian.com view on #Infantino’s ridiculous geopolitical wannabe power play. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #FIFA

Everything old is truly new again when you read that the #ALeague would be better at suburban grounds. football360.com.au/a-league-opi... From Mike Tuckerman in Football360.

Surprise www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

What if the love you needed most never arrived? Natalie Scott’s A Secret Grief is a lyrical memoir of memory, exile, and a mother–daughter bond that never quite connected. buff.ly/3o9Kvyc #NewBook #Memoir (Pic: @gleebooks.bsky.social)

A follow-up to an earliernpost the protahnosymisneyeslmdokdjhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/why-trump-s-mirabella-moment-is-going-viral-20251108-p5n8p8.html

Some books are written in a season. Some are written in a lifetime. At 97, Natalie Scott finally shares hers. 'A Secret Grief' is here. #AuthorLife #Memoir #AusBooks buff.ly/3o9Kvyc

'Tony Abbot's history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him' via @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/tony-abbotts... 🙅‍♀️

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

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📘 #NewRelease : LIGHT AND SHADOW by Candida Baker. When history leaves gaps, fiction steps in. A richly imagined novel tracing the scandalous life of Eadweard Muybridge & the legacy left to his granddaughter. 🔗 www.fairplaypublishing.com.au/products/lig... #HistoricalFiction #AustralianAuthors

Looks like they are taking it well.

Gina Hancock & Pauline Hanson spotted at the Halloween Extravaganza hosted by Trump. 😬 www.smh.com.au/cbd/pauline-...

I lived in Fishermen’s Bend as a kid, Norman Hermant. #ABC730

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

A good read on #NewYork, a city that gives us Mamdani-and Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

Is the USA sliding into autocracy? From the @nytimes.com Editorial Board. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No Joy, only Division: Just the stupidest stupid of all www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

The likes of Jack Warner would be proud of a scheme like this. So disappointing. www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer... Report from @vincerugari.com #WorldCup2026

GET IT from tomorrow! Our latest #fiction—'Rosemary Boy'. Told with honesty and heart, Amy Coomer’s latest novel is a deeply moving exploration of identity, grief, and belonging. buff.ly/jHTfrCh

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Hear about Australia's unknown #soccer pioneer. A Hall of Famer in British Columbia; unheard of here. Trevor Thompson is in conversation about his latest book, 'Big Con' with crime writer, Tim Ayliffe.

🤦‍♀️ Another lightweight Opposition spokesperson on ABC RN Breakfast.

#Insiders. Still on about the Trump meeting and Rudd. 🥱🥱🥱

These kids are incredible. #ALeague #NEWMVC

The only people concerned about Kevin Rudd’s old tweets are certain journalists trying to make something sensational out of their journey to the US. That includes the ABC’s reporter who travelled to join her multiple colleagues already there.

“Albanese has been right in keeping Rudd in Washington, and right in bringing him to the meeting. That showed strength of character – and strength and power are the only things Trump respects….

Doozy of an interview on #ABC730 with Barnaby Joyce. 😳

One of our fabulous reads from two years ago to celebrate women's football, 'Hear Us Roar', an anthology of emerging women football writers from around the world. buff.ly/YEG8vs9

No-one will comment according to this report. I will. Very disappointed. @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social should be there @albomp.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/business/com...

A great piece (in French) by @romain-molina.bsky.social on how Gianni Infantino's old university friend Véron Mosengo-Omba, now accused of bullying his staff, was parachuted from Fifa to become CAF's GenSec and "appropriated" the African Confederation. sportnewsafrica.com/articles/le-...

‘The deadly war raging on Australia’s doorstep that Trump won’t touch’. Myanmar. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/t...

Andrew Wallace MP really should not go on live radio with the likes of Sally Sara unless & until he knows what he is talking about. Shocker. Embarrassing. Brett Worthington’s analysis spot-on. #ABCRNBreakfast

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

“The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions, but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust.” via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

The nth example of how the sports betting/gambling lobby bullies and tries to silence those who dare question their nefarious industry; in Australia, this time. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Our next #novel is a #youngadult fiction that is a powerful Gen Z coming-of-age story about identity, loss, and belonging. 'Rosemary Boy' by Amy Coomer.

A badge of honour for @davidpocock.bsky.social 🙌🏼 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The French have such a long history of turmoil and bloody-mindedness in domestic politics. Yet from afar, on the international stage, the world needs #Macron. www.smh.com.au/world/europe... ⚖️

‘Trump’s Louis XIV Moment’ via @nytimes.com It took approximately 140 years from the start of the reign of Louis XIV to the French Revolution… www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

From Africa to Russia via Qatar. What some unemployed migrant workers do in desperation when no longer employed and not able to get home. From @samindrakunti.bsky.social & @bobbyperu.bsky.social.

4 years, 4 books. Lots of people to thank, including @hamishcarton.bsky.social @sked21.bsky.social @mcpartlin.bsky.social @fairplaybooks.bsky.social @bonitamersiades.bsky.social and many more not on BlueSky 😆

Let me get this straight: someone with a family name of ‘Chavura’ believes “…multiculturalism (is) a cancer and a poison.” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...