Poor PK: having to sit in for David with Andrew’s obvious body language; on Insiders. #auspol

Does Trump collapse to the floor or is he pushed to the floor? #Trump

Trump said (but you can substitute USA for Iran) “Iran can get themselves on a very good footing, a strong nation, a wonderful nation. They have an incredible people,” he said, before adding:

I love this from David Smith: “Trump’s unique brand of “truthful hyperbole” has collided with the truthful truth. His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall.” #trump #nokings

It’s peak hibiscus flowering time here in the subtropics of Australia. The strange thing is the Camilias are flowering too. #flowers #bloomscrooling

Are you listening: Gina Reinhardt, Pauline Hanson but more importantly @jimchalmers.bsky.social Jim Chalmers? #auspol #housinginequality #taxthesuperrich

“Hold my Chardonnay”, Jim Chalmers burns Angus Taylor stating that Taylor "wants everything handed to him on a silver platter" but claims that Taylor was "born with a silver foot in his mouth". #auspol

It’s fine, just fine. #auspol

Quick grab the popcorn. #birds

Remember, Ley & news.corp et al aren't talking to you, or even about you. They're screaming at each other & mistaking the echo as a response. Most Australians want to honour the victims, have stronger gun laws and to get on with their holidays in peace free of unhinged ranting (relatives excepted).

How is it that people with multiple gun licenses are allowed to be 1. Sovereign citizens or 2. Espouse hateful vilification. Their guns should be seized and their licences revoked. Isn’t ASIO policing this? #auspol

How is it that people with multiple gun licenses are allowed to be 1. Sovereign citizens or 2. Espouse hateful vilification. Their guns should be seized and their licences revoked. Isn’t ASIO policing this? #auspol

If as Mike Burgess says, a terrorist attack is at probable level, why was an outdoor community event allowed to proceed. Where was the risk assessment and communications advice? #auspol

There is nothing remotely normal about the US security strategy. It is all there in black and white. A threat to destabilise European democracies, support for far-right nationalists, withdrawal from Nato, and support for Russia. It is a moment of existential crisis for Europe. It is time to wake up.

Colin reckons we will have a white Christmas. But his ‘snow’ is the petals from the Crepe Myrtle settling on the pond here in the subtropics. #birds #gardens

Spring: under the avocado tree. The juxtaposition of hostas, bromeliads, begonias, aroids, ferns and the deciduous leaves of the recent dry spring fall of the avocado. #gardening #spring #subtropics #australia

They should play this each and every time before they interview the LNP about energy policy, emissions and climate targets. #auspol

Why is NAB CEO lobbying for more gas energy generation? Seems to be outside his remit as banking CEO! Also seems to be a poor excuse for the eye watering profits banks are still making. #auspol #NAB

“Australia has the know-how and the opportunity to help lead the global energy transition to a clean energy future, we have abundant critical minerals, we could export green hydrogen, and we have an endless supply of sun and wind that could power this future.” #auspol

They should dock Buttrose’s bonus for the $2.5 mil the AL case has cost the ABC and the Australian taxpayer. She wouldn’t miss it! #auspol #senateestimates

I don’t know who Andre Whastie is but it sounds like he wants to setup a 1970s style car industry and a new Make Oz Great (Again?) MOG(A?) party to boot. #auspol

Australia can’t be a “gas giant” in the middle of successive global warming climate disasters such as flash floods, crippling droughts, devastating sea algae blooms, huge wildfires, wildlife extinctions etc etc. It’s time to be the wind, solar and battery renewable nation promised. #auspol

The bulbs are starting to pop, and we had a visitor stroll through yesterday sending the noisy minors into a frenzy. A bit of change from the pythons usually traversing our garden! #gardening #wildlife #australia #koala

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

A mixed bag of blooms as we speed into Sprinter (the shoulder season between winter and spring) in the subtropics of the southern hemisphere. #flowers #bloomscrolling

At least someone is addressing the elephant in the room. #whitehouse

It’s the people of Melbourne that make the place. The people of Melbourne have made a wonderful place that is quirky, artsy, funny, loud, colourful and beautiful. #Melbourne #music

Preening cockatoos are just gorgeous to watch. #birds

This last week planting out winter veges in the garden and walking the waterfalls at Springbrook National Park in the sublime winter weather. #gardens

Laura Tingle doing her good thing and gently giving sage advice after 40 years in the press gallery. #auspol

Is that correct, at this time there 92 Labor lower house MPs, 25 Liberals, 15 Nationals and 10 others? Not many Liberals? #auspol

Poor Laura Tingle trying to get her analysis of a badly run LNP campaign dismissed by Senator McGrath and David Speers on ABC TV. #auspol #ausvotes

This last week at MIFAGS. No not a drag artist looking for their ciggies, but the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. #MIFAGS #flowers #garden

Post cyclone Alfred. Last of the dahlias, python on the move, hungry birds and a thorny grasshopper. #nature #flowers #python #cycloneAlfred

Nature looks angry in this photo looking towards Beechmont and Palm Grove section of Tamborine National Park after cyclone Alfred passed 48 hours ago.

Down to the garden to collect the last of summer 2025s dahlias before they are ruined by the impending cyclone Alfred. #cycloneAlfred #flowers #birds

Down to Sydney for Mardi Gras Fair Day and I am always amazed by how nature impacts the city via the Sydney Harbour. Walked 22 kms from Taronga to Manly.

The Liberal Party of Australia has made an ad about its Nuclear Plan, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqV...

Where are all the intelligent people in this? Surely these same people visit their doctor, surely they use mobile phones and the internet and other advances in modern science? Damn, most of them would be vaccinated, too. How do they live in a 2025 world with… theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Summer 2025 in Queensland high up (800m) in the hills behind the Gold Coast at Springbrook Mountain. Waterfalls and wildlife in the National Park all doing fine in these hot summer days. #nature

Gloriously bitchy take-down of Australia’s climate hypocrisy in its bid to host COP31 by the talented satirical @thejuicemedia.bsky.social team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBjy...

Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair. Every journalist needs to read and understand this article by Greg Jericho and prosecute these facts with politicians as the Federal General election looms. Please on our behalf! #auspol

What’s that approaching from the right?

It’s a great reply but has consideration of the cost of dealing with the spent nuclear fuel rods been taken into account? @simonahac.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

They might not be award winning dahlias but our garden sure has a lot blooming this summer. #gardening

We keep getting messages saying climate change is a hoax and the world is flat. Is it 2024?!

ICYMI: Amnesty International's new landmark report concludes that Israel has committed – and is still committing - #genocide against Palestinians in the occupied #Gaza Strip. #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

“First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves,” Corey Doctorow. Don’t let this happen #bluesky #enshittification

The Australien Government has made an ad about our next federal election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol #preferentialvoting #twopartysystem #2025election www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oxQ...

Wow so much rain this week my second flush of roses are taking a hammering. So much for roses in the subtropics. #gardening