Liberals: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good Me: yeah fair ok, show me the good Liberals: this isn't the time for fucking purity tests you little shit

Another fantastic day to be a property owner. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Statement in support of Meanjin’s future by RMIT’s Professional writing and editing staff & friends

now this is comedy

The phrase "if not now, when" springs most readily to mind. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Didn't we use to have a public health system? Docs at the local hospital recommended I undergo a test to rule out possible causes of an abnormal blood test. But then the private provider phoned me to tell me it's not funded and could I give them $645 please. What the fuck?

When did Hipkins define women as biologically female? I feel like that would have been pretty big news if he'd gone down the NZ First transphobic track www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Tomorrow we're all going to see Carmina Burana at the Michael Fowler Centre, but before that we'll be stopping at a cafè for a round of delicious o fortuna melts.

Someone is going to have to pay to keep the country's finances in order, says Treasury, and since it obviously can't be landlords or tobacco companies or the wealthy, we're afraid it's going to have to be you.

Counterpoint: I'm glad this property speculator lost this much money. I wish it was more. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Okay I'm going to need a minute.

It took me *two* diagnosed children, the second one identical to little me in almost every way, and still when I saw the check list used for his diagnosis I went "oh". Like I was fucking surprised.

What are Eve's financial credentials though?

People will blame anything for their kid's autism before they admit they fucked a nerd

Maybe it’s capitalism that causes autism

Exclusive: distinguished Prof Fiona Stanley was ‘ashamed’ after the hospital named after her abruptly cancelled an event featuring Palestinian-Australian doctors speaking about their experiences in Gaza, and says she even considered asking the hospital to remove her name

Disney blinked.

"Denazification will be long and all-encompassing, touching every aspect of our collective life. ... But the process must begin now, with the refusal to commit the horrors taking place daily in Gaza, and the refusal to let them pass as normal."

Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide. Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

An ever-so-casual reminder that the bill for the leaky buildings deregulation fiasco is around fifteen to twenty times larger than all Tiriti settlements either finalised or in progress put together. www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/m...

“I do not need to name all the names of poets doing this in “Australia”, because Australia doesn’t exist.” A brand new, extended essay on geography and poetry by John Kinsella.

That's worse than one of those Weta sculptures in Wellington.

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.” Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

Global conditions for me but not for thee.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

Sara Cheikh examines the envoy’s report on Islamophobia and finds that it “does not chart a path toward justice simply because it failed to place Australian Muslims’ grievances within the power mechanisms that created them in the first place”.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

I'm just relieved his last line in a movie didn't turn out to be "Hail, Hydra!", which was a distinct possibility for a while.

Kinda weird thing for his *literal second son* to say?

This morning 8 o'clock RNZ news bulletin (the abridged one on Concert) said that the UN had found that Israel was committing genocide "in its war against Hamas". Which is like saying it isn't, because its war is against Hamas, and not against Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank.

Breaking — just as the ground offensive begins.

Me too, I'll break doors to get into that library. Hell, I'll queue on re-opening day. If only to erase the shameful regional memory of all those people queuing to walk on Transmission Gully when it opened.

“Historian Bill Gammage’s warning that “fences on the ground make fences in the mind” ring in the ears as shark nets are erected along Australia's coastlines each year.” For @copower.bsky.social, our own Natasha Seymour on Australia’s neverending “shark era”. overland.org.au/2025/09/fenc...

One of the curses I inherited from my father is "dio santissimo sculacciatopi" (most holy god, spanker of rats) and I'm never going to stop finding it useful in life.

It's more than embarrassing. To a lot of people who heard the news and will never hear the correction, it will remain fact, with predictable and appalling consequences.

“you know it's about to get gnarly when the lichen is fused with the asphalt” Our latest #fridaypoem is EFFORT by Eliana Gray.

The dumbest motherfuckers in government are running this investigation, and I wouldn't be surprised if the "search" on the markings was asking grok. News outlets need to refuse to report anything these complete and utter dipshit ideologues tell them without photographic proof.

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

Top news on the utterly Listenerized RNZ: but my homies (see what I did there) the falling price of your house makes no difference whatsoever to you if you bought it to actually live there. You knew the size of the mortgage going in. If you have to move, you'll sell and buy in the same market.

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

Tetris: is there anything it cannot do?

The Platform continues to ruin careers besides Plunket's own and I low-key love it for it. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

“A name once whispered across the industrial north, Jenny Greenteeth has declined into print, into kitsch.” David Renton on the history of a cautionary creature of folklore, pointing “to the world we have made and could yet unmake.” overland.org.au/2025/09/jenn...

Nobody teaches journalists about dangling modifiers anymore.

An open letter by GPs for Palestine to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Piss-poor is no exaggeration. It's a fucking horrendous piece of writing.

Image caption: when you've definitely won the battle for hearts and minds.