I hope they read the bit about the rich man, the camel and the eye of the needle.

What is the difference between God and Donald Trump? God knows he is not the president.
Michael Brinkman, Ventnor
The Age, letters

Mass Wedding And March To Demand Equal Rights This Saturday May 14, hundreds of equal rights supporters are expected to take to the streets of Adelaide for a mass wedding and march from Victoria Square to Parliament House, opposing homophobia and...

Jason Virgo, was once a member of the Labor Party and a gay activist with Equal Love, campaigning for same sex marriage. Wonder how he reconciles SA ON leader, Cory Bernardi 's views that same sex marriage leads to beastiality?

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Mass Wedding And March To Demand Equal Rights This Saturday May 14, hundreds of equal rights supporters are expected to take to the streets of Adelaide for a mass wedding and march from Victoria Square to Parliament House, opposing homophobia and...

ABC missed part of the story. Wining One Nation candidate for MacKillop, Jason Virgo, was once a gay activist with Equal Love, campaigning for same sex marriage. Wonder how he reconciles SA ON leader, Cory Bernardi 's views that same sex marriage leads to beastiality?

My friend (Aust citizen) said she got an email over night that her parents' visa is on hold for 6 months. This is a shocking blow for my friend and her family when they are so desperately worried about their family in Iran.

What does Australian Labor stand for these days?

Four Corners: S2026 Trump and the Tech Titans Wealthy tech titans Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and David Sacks were instrumental in Trump's rise to power and now hold sway far beyond Silicon Valley. How did they accumulate such unprecedented influence?...

Excellent on the Tech Billionaires controlling the US government and more. Scary stuff.

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Polarisation is a Myth With One Nation ascendant, those with the greatest interest in keeping us divided need us to forget how much we agree. The first progressive party to harness this properly will be unstoppable.

I watch with dismay as people attack One Nation voters: its counter-productive. We need to find a way to engage. Labor especially needs to focus on social justice, return to Labor values, not lurch to the right. The Greens need to re-evaluate strategies.

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Robodebt Six: ‘They continue … I am left with an urn containing the ashes of my beloved son’ For the mother of a robodebt victim, the royal commission brought hopes of accountability and justice. The NACC’s final findings have left her devastated.

"Many of us hoped there would finally be accountability and justice, and real consequences for those responsible for this devastating scheme," writes Rhys Cauzzo's mother, Jenny Miller. "Sadly, that hope has not been realised." satpa.pe/LUNylNm

Why doesn't Western media ever cover West Papua?

Watch: 'The world should see this', say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers Filmmakers behind a new doco on deforestation devastation in Papua say the world should take note.

Watch this film.

West Papua is being cleared right now.

Rainforest flattened.
Soldiers deployed.
2.5 million hectares turned into sugar and palm oil plantations.

Indonesia calls it development.

The world calls it business.

History will call it ecocide.

Jim Chalmers: Make Gas Giants Pay! getup.to/39Y57AS8C2rkFL

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on More than 20,000 sq km of coast has succumbed to Australia’s first ever bloom of toxic Karenia cristata algae – and scientists worry it could explode again

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Must-read thread from Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Cuba Is Next Trump’s campaign to take out long-standing U.S. irritants looks back to the Caribbean.

Seeing regime change as a new way to define his legacy, President Trump is already eyeing his next target: Cuba. Vivian Salama reports:

'Unbelievable' urban bowling green temperature stuns emergency services Drones are measuring the temperatures of common surfaces in regional cities and the results have stunned emergency services, with Mount Gambier's lawn bowls turf recording a temperature of 86 degrees Celsius.

Drones are measuring the temperatures of common surfaces in regional cities and the results have stunned emergency services, with Mount Gambier's lawn bowls turf recording a temperature of 86 degrees Celsius.

'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran YouTube video by MS NOW

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CSIRO funding falling short by ‘at least’ $1 billion Internal correspondence and Senate submissions show the CSIRO is running out of money and may lose its position as a leading research agency.

The CSIRO is nearing the end of a long road of diminishing returns and may not be able to survive without significant intervention, reports Rick Morton. satpa.pe/CeGYR6Z

We also seem to be ok with Australians fighting with the IDF, and mercenaries in United Arab Emirates fighting against Yemeni rebels etc.

Another Friday special

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

If the Liberals thought things were bad before…..

That Jewish Australians look to foreign head of state of a rogue nation for spiritual sustenance tells us all we need to know abt Zionism. Jews from any country can by law, settle in Israel,while Palestinians are being forced off their land, and have been relegated as 2nd class citizens since 1948.

Screenshot of Amy Remeikis book: Where it all went wrong: The Case Against John Howard

For Valentines Day this year, give a copy of @amyremeikis.bsky.social's sure to be best seller "Where It All Went Wrong: The case against John Howard"

Pre-order now.

The code #HowHowardFuckedUs alas gives no discount at all (because Howard fucked us)

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How the hell is Angus Taylor still a thing? - The Shot Angus Taylor a walking Venn Diagram intersection of fossil fuel fervour and cash for the boys.

As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor.

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Sadly amusing that it took Haaretz to pick up on this line by Albanese

Segments: Uncommon Sense: Richard Cooke On Wikipedia's Wild Cultural Impact — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio Richard Cooke is an author, reporter and screenwriter. He has been published by many of the best outlets in the world including the The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, WIRED…

Had a fascinating chat with Richard Cooke about the cultural impact of Wikipedia on its 25th birthday.
Richard wrote the brilliant essay on Wikipedia, "The Last, Best Place on the Internet":

Zali Steggall points out the consequences of inviting Isaac Herzog given the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestine was 'highly foreseeable'
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If we are going to ban symbols and phrases because of 'social cohesion' then we really should start banning some moustaches too.