What's going on in the timeline where Starmer overrules McSweeney and does actually appoint George Osborne as the ambassador to the US

- The BBC "Starmer under pressure"
- RNZ "Luxon under pressure"
- ABC "ceasefire on the brink"
- CBC "BELUGA EXPORT"

Why is this the CBC's top story

but keep in mind i am stupid and tired

basically reworded Australia Institute press releases

I think its kinda dumb that the Australian Institute has made a pseudo newsoutlet in The Point. So far it doesnt really seem to be doing anything interesting like The Interpreter, and doesnt seem like it going to trick people like The Strategist into thinking its a proper news site because its

I hate how i agree with them 95% of the time they just really annoy me

Case in point

and there is continued exploration of natural gas exploitation off of Sado island

Its true that Japan doesnt really mine coal anymore but that had far far more to do with a very Britain like coal miner's strike which led to the government to just decide to shut down the entire industry

They dont have a lot of oil but do actually extract some

Given that the entire report (which accuracy i am not disputing) only cites reports in English and is seemingly basically built off of one (1) lobby group's english language press release i guess i am not all that surprised

Um that is very very wrong?

Hobart’s St David’s Park losing 88-year-old giant sequoias this week Despite treatment, the trees have been in decline since last year…

Comments on this are really funny
Either people making jokes that the passage of the stadium made them die of shame

implying that Anna Reynolds and broader HCC killed the trees with incompetence

and one guy saying he couldve chopped the trees down for free

pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobarts...

I very clearly remember having War Horse as a mandated text in i think grade 5

I mean people constantly talk about the cost of AUKUS and regardless it's cost at its peak across an entire decade is estimated only to be 1 year of NDIS expenditure in that same period? Im not saying the NDIS reforms as proposed are good but i dont think scrapping AUKUS is some magic pudding either

How have we become the democratic anglophone country with probably the most stable premiership

I like how i got sick during the midsem break (sorta convenient, least disruptive it could be) but now im still sick in week 7 and oh boy its real disruptive

Or for that matter the 2026 Victorian premier's prize, hell even the 2024 and 2023 Miles Franklin winners were pretty 'subversive' at least in criticism of the mainstream

I also dont really get the take of "you can't do subversive media in this country anymore" takes. Like, has anyone looked at the 2 most recent winners of the PM's Literature Prize lol

Not to be a Vegetarian for a minute (admittedly cruelty wasnt the reason why i went vego) but you eat beef exc without qualms, why should we stop eating horse then

Also that is a woke act and thats bad

Goddamit

and my absolute favourite
- i went to a brothel and paid for an hour. I however left after 30 minutes because 'it was not working for me'. Am i able to get a refund using the Consumer Law?

- is it illegal for me to wear my aunt's army fatigues for a work casual day?
- ALDI didnt scan my fish fillets and i didnt notice, can i be arrested?

- I got paid to make something and didnt do it properly, basically neglecting 200 dollars of work. They have now posted on GumTree telling everyone that i took their money and didnt do the service. Can I sue them for defamation because it seems malicious, even though i didnt do the work properly?

- there are a bunch of people at my gym who wear ankle monitors, what can i do about this
- is ANZAC day a religious service? If so can protesters recieve harsher punishment

really reccomend going onto r/auslegal and sorting by controversial, some of my favourite questions are
- can i get my neighbour to get rid of their rooster
- can i install bitcoin mining software onto my school computers
- can i steal from a beach in order to make a sand pit

Currently reading Narrow Road to the Deep North and learnt something interesting (have not finished so may need to update)

you make a good point wombat

Anyone ever wanted to see a poorly photoshopped attempt at making Bavarian Premier Markus Soder wear a Melbourne scarf? because here you go