US enters war with Iran, bombing sites Trump says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

It Was Just An Accident: an amazing balance of light and shade, demonstrating how not to labour a point while making one precisely, and such a chilling soundscape…cool as well to see how the city turned out in droves for Sydney Film Fest 🎬

The Metro is great but just makes it more obvious how unreliable some of the other Sydney train lines are, and how incomprehensible it is that so much of those lines have no mobile internet 🤪🤯

PUNCHBOWL: “.. The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.” $AMZN punchbowl.news/archive/4292...

On the thin, and often non-existent, margins for small+independent hospitality businesses under higher rates www.afr.com/politics/fed...

The US letting go of leadership on press freedom would be a terrible outcome for the world, interesting to see who is enabling that… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

Stunning and shocking account of Ethiopia's Tigray war which possibly left over 600,000 dead in 2020-22 and hardly registered in the west: magazine.atavist.com/there-will-b...

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

When an actually good musician’s only Sydney show is at Qudos Bank Arena.

Australia’s major security and economic partner has fundamentally changed course and yet all we’re talking about is the port of Darwin. Ok.

There are few things a certain type of Australian loves more than telling people off in public

So good how Bluesky just takes you straight to the linked website instead of trapping you in its platform

A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.

Why warming oceans are a big problem for Australia www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Interesting...China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office posted a commentary in state media criticising the company's recent port sale as a betrayal of China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The SEC raised concerns about the fund's liquidity and State Street's ability to comply with SEC valuation rules" www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Australia is home to 76 per cent of the world’s non-gaming venue poker machines, and 93 per cent of these machines are in pubs and clubs. So why are they regulated differently to casinos? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...

new Jason Isbell is sounding really beautiful

Always interesting which billionaires and business people pump $$ into shifting critical news articles about them onto the 2nd page of Google 😂

Expired licences, unrealistic valuations to pump fees🤑, writing loans just to find someone “dumber” to refinance them... “It’s the Wild West”: our deep dive out today on the turmoil in private credit and why it’s in the headlights of regulators👇 www.afr.com/property/com...

The secretive billionaire who has had Wisetech's Richard White’s back for 20 years www.afr.com/technology/t... $WTC

Seems pretty significant for Australia www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

Interesting development: billionaire Ed Craven's gambling company Stake, the key sponsor of English Premier League football club Everton, to exit the UK over social media videos by an adult content creator www.afr.com/companies/ga...

The way the nyt audio app has recordings of long reads from a variety of magazines is really useful, audio is a great format for those pieces

I was ready not to like A Complete Unknown, but is there a film more perfectly cast?

Jon Adgemis - whose companies were refinanced by Deutsche Bank - fails in his attempt to conceal a bankruptcy notice just as another pops up. Also administrators have submitted a report about him to ASIC over possible corporate law breaches www.afr.com/companies/fi...

This is very sad. David Webb’s collection of data has been a treasure trove for journalists and HongKongers alike. Thank you, Mr Webb, for all your hard work. Godspeed! webb-site.com/articles/shu...?

Messages reveal Andrew Forrest blasting his own executives over a ‘most stupid’ deal: www.afr.com/companies/mi...

The Federal Court has secretly suppressed Channel Seven’s workplace dirty laundry as it makes it increasingly difficult for major news outlets to report on matters before the court: www.afr.com/companies/me...

Great interview but so interesting and alarming to see the rising levels of self-censorship now seem as necessary to protect one’s organisation/business etc etc open.spotify.com/episode/4rbV...

This is such a big story. One take on its ultimate meaning:

Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait on AI and journalism making some interesting points about how it will impact editing and expand the possibilities of research as opposed to underming the value of reporting: pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

Tis the time for searching out more non-US global media outlets, podcasts and magazines...

This is an interesting listen but closer to the end where they discuss the dilemma for journalists in covering the Trump years vs getting caught in the Trump attention vortex, I feel there is no good answers to that question yet open.spotify.com/episode/3kD2...

Someone needs to invent a seamless way to go between audiobooks and kindle 🙏

Interesting to see some reflection here on what work takes away from us. But it does feel like it also speaks to the market's current relationship with reality/critical thinking www.afr.com/markets/equi...

This seems like the most under emphasised point in this anti-DEI debate that zuck has made himself the poster boy of so far -> “many of the policy reversals seemed to be aimed at alleviating political scrutiny rather than substantive policy changes” www.ft.com/content/cf87...

Also Linkedin needs a auto-delete function for visibility-seekers who comment "great insight" or "thanks for sharing"☠️

Interesting how FinTwit is stuck to X still...

Magellan co-founder Chris Mackay has attacked the fast-growing private credit sector, saying regulatory failures and unfettered investor euphoria have allowed such markets to thrive outside the scrutiny of public markets www.afr.com/markets/equi...

More reporting on the costs of Saudi’s development boom:

Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds - Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"Essential to that power, too, is what women – what all of us – are expected to ignore?" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

Such a wild situation going on it South Korea right now www.smh.com.au/world/asia/s...

A country which knows how to frozen meal

Exclusive: Apollo-backed private credit firm MaxCap warns of return slump and asset fire sales in real estate fund🏘️ as deals go sour🏗️⛈️ www.afr.com/companies/fi...

John Howard can't remember if he or other cabinet ministers discussed the spying operation on Timor-Leste “I can’t remember the detail of the discussions … I would have to have a look at the papers again. I have a good memory but not that good"🤔 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The director of the hospital alleges IDF troops have been burning operating theatres in the facility, which Israel says is a 'Hamas terrorist stronghold'.