Australia is an abused partner in an abusive relationship.

All health advice suggests urgently leaving abusive relationships.

So the obvious question:

When will Anthony Albanese stop the stupid secrecy,
start treating the Australian people with respect, and
advise the nation how his government is handling a situation in which our 'closest ally' cannot be trusted diplomatically, militarily, financially or morally? #auspol

Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on Australian drugs – but with caveats Australia’s largest biotech firm, CSL, could be exempt from the new tariffs, which will not apply to therapies derived from blood plasma in certain circumstances.

For the life of me, I can’t work out why Australia just doesn’t use the US bases here as leverage. Hit us with tariffs? We close Pine Gap. Oh, and shove your non-existent subs where the sun don’t shine. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Instead of relying on traditional streetlights that remain fully lit all night, many Scandinavian cities have adopted motion-activated lighting systems that automatically brighten as pedestrians, cyclists, or vehicles approach #energyefficiency #ActOnClimate

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

Really interesting

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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) I’m grateful for the interest in my article “The No World Order”. Many topics in it are covered in depth in my books HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) and THEY KNEW (2022.) These include Trump and transnat...

Sarah Kendzior is an American author and journalist whose 2020 book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, is a truly relevatory, thoroughly investigated explanation of the 40+ years of political machinations that today threaten US democracy & the world.

Israeli ambassador says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ to question legal basis for war on Iran Israel’s new ambassador says Australia was on the “right side of history” by backing strikes against Iran as he warned against calls for a ceasefire.

"Israel’s new ambassador to Australia says it is mind-boggling anyone would question the legality of the US-Israeli strikes against Iran"

it is mind-boggling that this propagandist for a genocidal apartheid rogue state is cited as an authority on international law.
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Aarrghhh!

A helpful overview of the Straight of Hormuz and the global ripple effect of an Iranian blockade.

See what YOU have started @albomp.bsky.social
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
This draconian political overreach is provocative and does nothing to foster social cohesion.
When government masquerades as the thought police, it is an attack on human rights.
Wake up!
#auspol

The evangelical creepshow returns. I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo.

I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo. Yet somehow Scott Morrison came back from the dead this week.

All the money, none of the submarines: AUKUS deal paying upfront for hopes and dreams When Kerry Packer bought Channel 9 back from Allan Bond for effectively half the price Bond had sold it to him, Packer famously said “You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime, and I’ve had mine”.

"The #AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point."

And yet, here we are, explains @grogsgamut.bsky.social . #auspol
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Called it right

Are we listening to this, Australia

This is what all EU countries (AND the UK) should do …

Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people

did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?

But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
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Australia has been 30 years without a mass shooting. Gun control works, and needs to go further.

Ghost of Joh

We should not ally with the US. This is piracy, and frankly a casus belli. Will Oz send troops to support this extra-judicial action? Sorry, guys, the US is not to be trusted.

In UME 19, the Disney Concert Hall, LA, 2005. We write critical captions, and Paolo Tombesi goes backstage with ‘Precisely Loose: On Disney Hall and the Technology of the Curtain’. Revelatory. To see, go to Umemagazine.com home page and click on articles to download as pdfs. Free.

On Frank Gehry: as architectural editors and publishers Haig and I also hit our stride in our 50s. We published Gehry buildings in UME and asked Paolo Tombesi to write critiques. In UME 12, 2000, Building ‘B’, der Neue Zollhof, Düsseldorf. Lots of drawings. Paolo wrote ‘Boundaries of Expression’.

To see this article, and read Frank Gehry in his own words, go to the home page of Umemagazine.com And click on International Architect, and then download the article as a pdf. Free. BTW It’s our favourite building of his.
Jackie Cooper and Haig Beck

he could only experiment on the renovation of his own house. We we fortunate as young editors to spend a day with him during which he candidly explained his intentions and working method, which we published in International Architect. 2/3

Noticing a few posts on Frank Gehry. We published the house in International Architect, 2, 1978. 13 pp, drawings and photographs. He was almost 50 when he designed this house, an age when most great architects are hitting their stride. But he was a relatively unknown ‘commercial’ architect, and /3

An Institution Betrayed GH on the State Library's post-literate plans

Mr Gideon Haigh on why the ongoing, incompetent and dull-witted enshittification of the State Library of Victoria is so heartbreaking, so stupid, and so dangerous. Please share. www.cricketetal.com/p/an-institu...

#RealHeroes Vs #ClimateCriminals, #Australia - #auspol.

BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.

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