Who called it a cow back scratcher and not a broominant

The UN has labelled Israel's move to bulldoze a former UNRWA headquarters a  "serious violation of international law".

I wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

We are shattered and grieving the loss of our brother Rob. For now there are no words but there will always be songs. Love Always from Jim, Martin & Pete.

Schools: download and log into our convenient app so that we can send you web links to PDFs that will require you to log in again manually with your phone browser

Based on the below example, I think we should start calling the Guardian's multi-topic-single-sentence headline style the "Bob Katter semicolon"

Look forward to Australian mainstream media coverage of this story of strong public interest concerning censorship & punishment of a public service worker for views opposing genocide

I maintain that the dril tweet that best encapsulates Trump, and in fact the entire modern right, is this one

"Australia now has 48 billionaires who hold more wealth than the bottom 40 per cent of the population combined, a report from the anti-poverty charity has found." Not only do they hold excessive wealth, several are undermining our democracy (e.g. Rinehart & Palmer). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"Can we take this offline? I have to get to the TAB for race 5"

how anyone can put “more than 100 children killed” and ceasefire into the same headline has me fucking enraged. Use your senses. Christ.

It's now time to thank the Special Envoy into Anti-semitism for her time, and allow her to pursue other opportunities. The project she was disgracefully pursuing has now essentially collapsed when confronted with the first test of the body politic.

*nods in Australian*

Roses are red, Violets revered,

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Jokes aside, anyone who was working in a tech role in their workplace like... 15-20 years ago?... remembers when your boss was like, "I WENT TO A THING THAT SAYS WE NEED AN APP!" Most of those apps died bc they didn't do anything the website didn't do. We are in that era of corporate AI use.

Why does the MSM keep seeking commentary from a man who was sacked from his position as Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs for breaching the public service code of conduct more than 14 times and was stripped of his AO as a result? #auspol

I remember Apple booting games out of the App Store due to pixelated boobs. I recall it kicking off various apps due to porn. Yet GenAI CSAM and other horrors where those depicted haven’t consented? Oh, that’s just fine, apparently. FFS. It’s not just the cowardice. It’s also the hypocrisy.

The Bondi terror attack was not caused by hate speech in the general community, it was caused by ISIS-linked radicalisation. We can and should take the time to get this right rather than having a knee-jerk reaction with potentially harmful ramifications down the line.

super weird how an American regime found so many white supremacists to run things and do their bidding so quickly.

Australia manages to reintegrate, every year, a new cohort of retired rugby league players

Deeply unserious country.

I’m just a person but maybe making your own decisions and not being driven by bad faith right-wing media campaigns might make it easier to avoid such stunning situations idk

Geoblocking implies they *still think it’s ok to do it*. It’s literally a feature, not a bug.

Liberals seem to be working on a new political technology, the boomerang-shaped wedge

It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's "a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.

Under no circumstances do you metaphorically allege that the person who has already sent you legal notice about your previous character assaults upon them, is ISIS adjacent. My kingdom for a fully functioning adult in politics! 😂

Wow. SA Premier Malinauskas, triples down on interfering with the Adelaide Writers Festival which then self imploded and was cancelled. Can you imagine linking an award-winning author who opposed genocide to two hateful, murderous men? Racism game is strong. 👇🏼

If I had just destroyed one of the key cultural institutions in my state through defamatory and racist statements about an author, I would probably not make any more of those defamatory and racist statements. But that's just me.

It’s true, writers tend to be politically progressive because writing involves thinking about things, and that’s where thinking takes you

But remember, we can’t call them fascists because they haven’t labelled themselves that, so it would be unbiased to do so.

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

Shout out to @boontavista.com whose latest episode "Cum Ass Beer Pump" came up as the top suggestion on the car's display at the start of our family holiday drive ...the soundtrack of summer

yes hello can we help you

Maybe the most fascinating belief among the billionaire class, especially the Silicon Valley set, has been their confidence that if they blow up the specific conditions and institutions that put them on top, they will certainly come out even higher on top

“The moral spinelessness in not only seeking to silence Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, but to link the cancellation to the abhorrent terrorist attack in Bondi, speaks volumes over who is allowed to have a voice in Australia." Read more on The Australia Institute's response: thepoint.com.au/news/260109-...

Astonishingly gutless from a masthead not swimming in courage of late.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

can you image an arts festival not guided by a real estate agent and an airport manager? makes me sick just to think about

Even as someone who researches the right, I can’t abide this ‘I have to do it for my work’ argument. There’s observing and there’s keeping it alive through continued engagement. Everyone who claims to oppose Musk’s vision should get off there and let it virtually die.

The claim this fossil fuel wouldn't be subsidized is as stupid as the rest of what Trump says; military protection for exploitation is a huge expense and therefore subsidy that you and I and the people of Venezuela will pay.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

CSAM for money is even worse? Its not a retreat, its Musk saying I have something you want, pay me for it. And what they want is crime

If the NSW ALP executive/Premier charges members who oppose Israeli genocide, apartheid and war crimes with antisemitism the National Executive must intervene and place the branch in administration. Starmer style attacks on ALP opponents of Israeli genocide have no place here.

Unfortunately for Malinauskas, the internet remembers. Instagram user beccilove dug out this quote from a few years ago.

The cost of a fully-fitted out water bomber fleet suited to Australia’s needs is around $25m. We could fund that for 30 years with just one AUKUS sub down payment. Would come in handy on days like these.

I am only now catching up with the theory that Trump's fixation on Greenland is because of its enormous size on Mercator Projection maps

Stay in school, kids, or else one day you might be President.

No Adelaide Writers Week for me. I can’t in any good conscience now appear at a festival seeking to mute a very necessary public conversation … Randa Abdel-Fattah is an important voice. Here’s something I published from her on, guess what, Palestinian marginalisation. meanjin.com.au/latest/the-g...