What game were the Norm Smith panel watching? No votes for Charlie Cameron? He broke the game open

I met someone yesterday in a public place and had to recommend that they not visit the USA. #SoSad What have we become?

Australians can’t get best practice care for brain tumours. It’s been around for 30y, but proton therapy is not available in Australia.

The Vic govt abandoned plans for proton therapy at Peter Mac - the SA govt has failed to finish a facility.

The federal govt must step in.

A predatory industry is targeting our kids and the government is staying silent Gambling is a public health crisis.

The gambling industry is targeting our kids. The govt said it doesn't want to put platforms before people when it banned children's access to social media, but it is failing to protect young people being preyed on by sports gambling companies.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904002...

Why Australia Says Cricket Scores Backwards YouTube video by Cricket Machine

Fascinating but really it should be titled “How Australia developed a superior way of scaring cricket”

10 places named after John Batman
- Batman's Hill
- John Batman Gardens
- 1 railway station
- 7 roads: Ave, St (3), Rd (2), Drive
Let's remember our history and those shaped it and all their strengths & weaknesses. Let's commemorate 9 other people who shaped Melbourne including indigenous people!

The truth about John Batman: Melbourne’s founder and ‘murderer of the blacks’ John Batman, the beloved founder of Melbourne, is widely considered to have been sympathetic towards Aboriginal people. This reputation stems largely from his famous attempt (unique in Australian hist...

wondering if it is time to stop putting the name of a man who killed indigenous people all over the city of Melbourne. theconversation.com/the-truth-ab...
John Batman is historic figure in Melbourne, so I am OK with having his name on 1 location, but 10!

Latest joint statement on Treaty negotiations Negotiations for Victoria’s first Statewide Treaty are well advanced and in the final stages of drafting an agreement. The Victorian Government will introduce the Statewide Treaty Bill to Parliament o...

really excited about Treaty and I need to learn more!

U.S. citizen detained by Border Patrol captured arrest on video

I heard that psychopaths are not affected by punishment, and only respond to rewards. This may not be related...

Birds of a feather…..
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.

Australia is a sucker for giving miners such low taxes

Oh hell no! The Weagles should not be rewarded for such poor management with all the resources they have. Give them a 2nd round pick at most

If we want to fix our democracy, we NEED ranked choice voting.

Find out more at fairvoteillinois.org.

Over the weekend, musical satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer died at his home in Massachusetts, according to a longtime friend. He was 97.

Health Insurers Are Hiking Premiums as Their Profits Balloon The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and divid

UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year.

Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.

This is why we need Medicare for All.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump

Richard Marles’ chief of staff disclosed long-term relationship with lobbyist from firm with defence clients Exclusive: News of relationship comes amid pressure to toughen regulation of political lobbying to ensure trust in democracy

Under my private member’s bill - the Clean Up Politics Act - we’d know in real time when, where, and why Ministers and senior public servants meet with lobbyists.

Trust in government is at an all time low. I’ll keep putting the Bill before Parliament until we get progress.

The government must stand up for affordable healthcare YouTube video by Dr Monique Ryan MP

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no wonder Test cricket is struggling! Look at this match in Grenada - finishing early with so few overs bowled today

The allegations about children being preyed on by a paedophile in Melbourne childcare centres are horribly distressing.

Oversight and regulation of childcare varies between states and territories. The regulators are under-funded and they're not transparent enough.

Key climate change reports removed from US government websites The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming world

Just because you pretend climate change is not real doesn’t mean it’s not happening

Are you a student in Kooyong who’s struggled with an unpaid prac placement? YouTube video by Dr Monique Ryan MP

Work is work and should be paid!
End Placement Poverty

It’s time, Sussan Ley: What Gough Whitlam can teach her about saving a lost party Labor was reduced to a rump in 1966. Here’s how it came back to win the 1972 election.

Very smart analysis

It's great to see Jim Chalmers commit to meaningful tax reform. We must lower the burden of income tax, increase productivity, and lessen intergenerational inequity.

Should play have extended so long in the Test match in Barbados? Seems unfair to me. Just come back for a 4th day

Australians lose while our government fails to ban gambling ads The Albanese government has failed to respond to the Murphy Report on gambling for two years - while Australians lost more than $50 billion.

Gambling doesn’t just cost money. It costs lives.

Read my article in the new daily today.

It is OK that NY voters are a little confused: it takes time to adjust to change.
A lot of Aussies did not understand preferential voting before Gilliard's minority government of 2010, and we started using it in 1922!

How many voters gave Mamdani their 2st choice because they knew they could give their 2nd to a more established candidate?
Preferential voting removes FOMO. It is a better system for singe-representative elections.