It's hard to lock down the govt on how they're measuring success of the ban, it seems more vibish. The eSafety commissioner told me they'll be looking at ABS data, PBS data and Naplan scores as part of figuring out whether the ban is having a positive effect. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Must the military disobey unlawful orders? Pam Bondi has said yes. As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Bondi filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes. "Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders."

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.

🤬 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Photo of two absolute gullible gits with no care of Australian foreign and defence policy, and Hegseth and Rubio

Men targeting Women again with coded controlling language

Stephen Miller's agenda of cruelty and chaos is literally disappearing people. These are real families and real children torn apart. This is Donald Trump's reign of terror.

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launches bid for U.S. Senate in Texas, looking to flip a Republican-held seat.

#TravelExpenses ain’t got nothin on the cost of #AUKUS

Richard Marles gives us the new version of “All the way with LBJ.” #auspol

Wong and Marles meet US counterparts in Washington after AUKUS review: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/marles-wong-hegseth-rubio-hold-ausmin-talks-aukus-defence/106118088

Sydney greyhound track to be bulldozed to make way for parkland: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/wentworth-park-greyhound-track-to-go-making-way-parkland/106116584

JUST IN: Trump's former personal lawyer Alina Habba steps down as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey

I liked it better when Barnaby was passed out and not speaking

'Ketamine Queen' spiralled before Matthew Perry death, friends tell BBC

The Albanese govt is considering an East Coast gas reservation policy. And ok... but how about putting a 25% tax of gas exports so we stop giving it away for free?

The Washington Post is determined to put The Onion out of business.

Notorious childcare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith ‘could have been stopped’ five times during decades of offending

Just a reminder that Pauline Hanson has fallen out with every ambitious man she has ever worked with other than Ashby, and Barnaby Joyce has fallen out with everyone he's ever met. This is going to be *exquisite*.

Australia’s social media ban comes out of the cult of self-help books. Dodgy research and rich false gods preaching about the ills of contemporary society. Yet structural issues aren’t addressed. Australia, this is embarrassing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

My sewing machine is so progressive, the reverse feature has stopped working 😳

The only way politicians can pass the pub test is to never travel or spend money while in office, and to become unemployed and homeless afterwards. Anything else is an outrage to decency.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

There were absolutely no mental health issues or bullying or any negative issues of any kind before #socialmedia

A whole lot of not thinking things through with this policy. Pretty much assumes everyone is a middle-upper class white, straight teenager with no issues living in a city www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Press gallery in strong "thank fuck we don't have to worry about policy" mode with it's coverage of Wells' travel. Oh you found a travel thing from 2022? So why didn't you note it when it was first reported? It's not like it was only just announced.

Everything is actually worse than what I think 😩

And that story from last week: "the inaugural chair and a founding backer… personally advocating against Brisbane’s Tattersall’s Club admitting women… Advance [campaigns] against the 2050 net zero emissions targets, and recently backed hardline anti-immigration…" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Museums play a powerful role in educating children as well as the general public. Their cultural authority and integrity should never be for sale.

Just days after learning that the Queensland government has replaced teacher representatives on its curriculum authority with the founding chair and funder of Advance, we now learn that a fossil fuel company is paying its museum to distort climate crisis education www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

James Talarico: Trump is gerrymandering Texas because his policies are unpopular. They’re kicking millions off their health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires. So they're trying to rig the results of the next election. We cannot allow this to become normal

Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."

More of this !!

This is so wrong in a wealthy country like Australia @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social 350 Australians a day: What happens to those on the edge of a housing crisis www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

A Melbourne council is under fire for scrubbing a teenager from its magazine and website after receiving complaints about the child's Palestine-flag necklace www.deepcutnews.com/p/melbourne-...

“Australians lose close to $32 billion a year from gambling” but “Labor's leadership decided it was not worth acting on gambling advertising and upsetting the powerful lobby”. Pure ALP.

UK Labour is what happens when a party flushes its soul down the toilet. A party of bigots.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

Nothing like a summer in the electorate to bring a dose of reality www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."

Findings set to reveal dysfunction that led to WA's first youth detention death: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-07/coroner-to-hand-down-cleveland-dodd-inquest-findings-/106105718

A Melbourne bakery found TikTok fame, before trolls began harassing its young staff. How the owners responded went viral

'Asked what risks Labor faced if it failed to evolve at an organisational level and with its policies, Swan was blunt. “We end up looking like the Democrats in the US or any number of once large, proud, centre-right parties around the world that have collapsed,” he said.'

People who “drop in” because they were free to do so should be jailed imho #introvertsaysno

It did not take long after Donald Trump was awarded a "peace prize" from FIFA, the governing body for international soccer responsible for World Cup events, when the glitter started to come off the gold.

Almost as good as getting one out of a cereal packet. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"shared values", @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social ? #AUKUS #auspol www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...