No. Grew up in an agricultural family so two brothers were favoured in many ways as they were expected to take over the business. They did. My older sister and I went to uni, moved to Sydney and lived very different lives.
The coolest thing about solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to go get it. GREENPEACE
Cathy Wilcox might have added a third empty box to her cartoon:
"What successive Australian governments have done to address the legalised, largely tax-free theft of an Australian resource".
#gastax #auspol
Same.
Loved his radio show. Such a funny, clever man. So sad.
James Valentine signs a copy of the models 12 inch.
Vale to one of the greatest. The joyous, irrepressible & unbelievably sharp James Valentine has left us. What a wonderful human to have worked with. Thanks for all the laughs James. Godspeed.X
Yep. Spot on. Having taught English to newly arrived students, I have witnessed how hard they work to learn English - both social English and academic English. They are motivated to learn and contribute to society. More so than bloody Angus!
The Pogues 1980’s- enmore theatre (Shane McGown passed out after 1st song- drunk)
Violent Femmes- 1980’s
Nick Cave with Warren Ellis etc - 2017?
Billy Bragg- numerous times
My Friend the Chocolate Cake- numerous times
Best wishes to you and the doggos, EBK.
Why oh why have I been sucked into watching the Waratahs play the Chiefs in NZ (Super Rugby Pacific) on TV? F.M.D. Mission impossible.
Outrageous that an artist in Australia, who makes a living from his creative output, can be threatened with arrest and imprisonment for using a phrase with - at best - contested meaning.
This is normal under authoritarian regimes.
Here's me. "Only morons and ghouls could possibly believe the Israeli Ambassador’s Press Club narrative"
Can I just say @nordacious.bsky.social that you look especially hot in that photo in the Guardian. May it result in so many more sales for you. ❤️🤞🦋💐
But the gas industry’s peak representative body, Australian Energy Producers, said a 25% levy against its exports would come at the “worst possible time for Australia’s economy and energy security”. “Imposing higher taxes on Australian gas producers would stop investment in new gas supply, leading to gas shortfalls, higher energy prices, and the closure of Australian industries that rely on reliable and affordable gas,” AEP’s chief executive officer, Samantha McCulloch, said.
Chart showing in 2023-24 9,951PJ of gas was exported or used in LNG plants to convert gas to LNG 1,034PJ was used in Australia
The Gas industry now saying a 25% export tax would "stop investment in new gas supply, leading to gas shortfalls"
Bullshit.
Utter bullshit.
83% of Australia's gas is exported.
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE
A friend shared this with me last week. Very interesting.
Screenshot of the article which reads: There is a certain duality to Kilgour’s failure of imagination; it only fails sometimes. The former deputy secretary of the Department of Social Services Serena Wilson was found, correctly, to have engaged in serious corrupt conduct for her role in misleading the Commonwealth Ombudsman about the legality of the robodebt program in 2017, two years after it began. In whacking Wilson, Kilgour appealed to matters of “common sense and ordinary human experience” as well as quite correct observations about the role of senior public servants. “But it is only to be expected that Ms Wilson, as a deputy secretary, would have had systems, procedures and assistance in place to isolate more important communications from the dross, and thus to devote to the former the time and attention they deserved,” she writes. Fair. Not so for Campbell, though. Campbell, Kilgour says, was far too busy to be across the detail even though it was Campbell who first briefed the concepts of robodebt to Scott Morrison — not the more senior DSS secretary — and who directed that the briefs be prepared, and who was so intimately involved in the development of the policy that later became the cabinet submission. Kilgour states as fact something that could only have come from Campbell’s testimony about the development in 2015: “Ms Campbell’s focus was elsewhere on the Welfare Payments Infrastructure Transformation program (WPIT)1397 which was a vast program involving the establishment of new arrangements and IT upgrades with multiple other agencies.” Her focus was elsewhere. Says who? Campbell.
Whole chunks of Campbell's evidence are taken at pure face value. Not even in the 'I've weighed this and considered it' sense but in the 'just state it as fact in passing' sense. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
Screenshot of part of the article which reads: Morrison was the cabinet minister responsible for both Social Services and Human Services matters, and if he was a "junior" minister in the Coalition government, then he was also seen as its biggest conservative rising star, fresh from having so infamously "stopped the boats" with a stop-at-nothing approach to border security. He was a man on the make in private and championed as such in most of the mainstream press. Campbell had a preternatural talent for managing politics. It's what made her so effective at the job and her own survival. In any event, what transpired was that both Morrison's and Campbell's career prospects took off after robodebt. Campbell was promoted to lead the senior policy department in DSS and then, by Scott Morrison himself as prime minister, handpicked to lead the Department of Foreign Affairs in a move seen as cronyism and widely considered to have been a disaster. One does not need to prove beyond doubt that these could be conceived as rewards for her loyalty and fervour, only to recognise the mind-boggling folly of a deputy commissioner of the NACC writing — in ink! — that the potential rewards for Campbell in her hypothetical reconstruction of motive "could never have been more than an unprovoked hope" that this "junior minister" of another department could "determine, and be able, to secure the public servant's career advancement". His motives aside, that is in fact exactly what happened. For Kilgour to argue in this manner casts serious doubt over the rest of her findings.
I mean, come on. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
For Albanese, joining a global atrocity is far less “difficult” than Grace Tame theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Wallace and Gromit, meet Naughty Prince Andy. The line of toys can only be sold at adult bookstores.
Remember this next time anyone in the govt says they can’t afford to raise the rate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I live in Orange and definitely felt/heard something. Thought a plane was landing on my roof!
Robodebt was the worst failure of public administration in Australian history. It raised est. $1.73 bn of illegitimate debts from over 430,000 vulnerable Australians and plunged thousands of families into distress and grief. And still no real consequences.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Timeless.
It is a debacle. Having said that, the FB comments from local people (I live in Orange) are entertaining.
Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/03/11/n...
Just reading about how the ASRC was robbed over the weekend and their power shut off, meaning they have had to throw out a dumpster's-worth of food. If people could chip in a buck or two to help them recover, it would be good:
donate.asrc.org.au/thrive
Well said.
Outrageous comment from such a little man - little compassion, little understanding, little.....
I just read what he said about the Iranian women seeking asylum - bloody outrageous comment.
