UNION WIN! Over 150 ABC staff on rolling contracts have been converted to ongoing employment after MEAA took action in the federal court to enforce the law.

All the book on my top 10 that were in the preloaded list got into the top 100, and none of my other picks did. www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...

would love to know the backstory here

Liberal senator says she is ‘too fond of good coffee’ to join Nationals where she’d ‘have to talk a lot slower’

Good news for ABC staff thanks to their union @withmeaa.bsky.social and a brave producer willing to stand up - over 100 staff who've spent years on insecure successive contracts (the column is incorrectly says they were casual) have some much needed job security. www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Truly unhinged ad from Transperth reminding kids to do their free travel properly or take a donkey to school

Truly unhinged ad from Transperth reminding kids to do their free travel properly or take a donkey to school

The number of cars on WA roads has exploded – and so has congestion. Perth people actually love living like this, that's why we're holding a parliamentary inquiry into e-bikes and scooters that only focusses on why they are bad. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

I feel like the worst kind of old crank asking this but... do kids genuinely not know how to make phone calls or email now?

The number of cars on WA roads has exploded – and so has congestion. Perth people actually love living like this, that's why we're holding a parliamentary inquiry into e-bikes and scooters that only focusses on why they are bad. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Metronet leaving Carlisle this weekend in signature style - blocking a footpath outside a primary school with signage for drivers

Why wouldn’t you know who needs to hear this?

this should be good @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social 's report on Donald Trump's billions - www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The ABC is up to $2.5 million in external legal costs over sacking Antoinette Lattouf illegally, Senate Estimates heard this evening. That's not including penalties or any future costs order.

“You are really saying you want development in other people‘s backyards for you to live in” This person is so close to getting it.

My cousin couldn’t remember the word eclair so just told he bought a hot dog with cream from the bakery.

ABC mgmt seems to love going the federal court. Mediation in this matter was today and it’s headed to trial next year mumbrella.com.au/abc-sued-ove...

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.

In my dictatorship every wheelchair and buggy would come with a free circular saw for this very purpose

Interesting chart on Alan Kohler’s finance segment last night

Pedro Sanchez pronounces Ardern's first name as "Hath-inda", which would please me enormously if I was her.

Watching #ThePeopleVsRobodebt and Kathryn Campbell is just.. something else. Terrifying to contemplate public servants like this and the power they have over ordinary lives.

Luckily for my mum I answered an unknown number a few weeks ago, as it was the driver of a taxi she’d just left all her luggage behind in.

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Journalists need to be very very careful reporting on the paracetamol story. This is no time for straw man reporting or headlining Trump's statement without commentary, because all most people will see is the headline and take it as gospel. 1/

I remember this is one of the things I really liked about Lantana

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

Reporter Rakan and camera operator Salah have spent the past two years risking their lives to report the truth for Australian audiences on SBS — surviving bombings, displacement and famine.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

I’ve managed to put together a small budget of about 12,000 shekels (around $3,600) to buy a tent, cover transportation, and set up a tiny bathroom—just so I can have a place to live, even if it’s on the street 🥹 Every bit of support truly makes a difference ❤️ chuffed.org/project/help...

The MEAA News Corp house committee stands with its members and condemns the targeting of workers doing their job. The abuse hurled at News Corp photographer Alison Wynd on Wednesday by Geelong's Bailey Smith is unacceptable. meaa.io/47J5gSl

I hadn't heard of him. Just asked a 32yo colleague and she said "yeah little face big head".

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

This might be the Frenchest thing I’ve ever read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bossnap...

What the fuck’s been going on in my backyard? (I don’t have a cat)

Police not having much luck finding that Porepunkah bloke hey?

"Does the ABC know why this particular email campaign precipitated a chain of events which led to the ABC breaking the law?" "No," Ms Amorelli replied. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

First pair of hand knit socks complete

When your “superpower” as a country is self-delusion about upward mobility it enables the status quo. Because nobody is demanding substantive change if the majority believe they’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires, as the saying goes.

I'm sure WA trained teachers are dying to work in Victoria, where the kids are taught to read by vibes www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

A Deutsche Welle team was threatened with weapons and fired on with tear gas by Israeli soldiers while filming in #Ramallah earlier this week. We strongly condemn any targeting of journalists. This is the second attack of this kind against DW in the West Bank. @djv.de @verdi-medien.bsky.social

Canary Mission has created hundreds of dossiers on students, professors, health professionals and organisations, accusing them of promoting "hatred of the US, Israel and Jews" on college campuses.

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

the conservative vision for america: life should be as painful as possible until somebody shoots you to death

It is never acceptable to physically threaten a journalist — it is particularly unsettling that Mr Katter would invite journalists to attend a press conference and then threaten them for simply asking a reasonable question. #MEAAmedia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Bob Katter gives newsworthy soundbites (repeated threats of violence against a reporter, crocs eating people vs same sex marriage) but what does he achieve? The one time he had any chance at power with Gillard in 2010 he just dealt himself out, meanwhile Armidale has fibre to every home.

Linda Reynolds seems to have won her defamation case against Brittany Higgins

Perth teens in move down the carriage rather than crushing near the doors so it’s really hard to get off challenge (impossible)