do i have any writer followers who have read a lot of kerry greenwood books?

The passion – and politics – of Peter Combe: ‘Children are wonderful critics because they’re very intolerant’ Wash Your Face in Orange Juice, Newspaper Mama, Toffee Apple … the children’s entertainer who has sold more than 1m albums and DVDs reflects on his 40-year career, childhood and speaking up

Peter Combe goes hard: “Children are being slaughtered, on a daily basis, for almost two years. Our ability to ignore it astounds me. You can talk to any NGO, they all say the same thing – it’s a genocide ... I hope people aren’t surprised I feel the way I do." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

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ahhh! could you email me? steph.harmon@theguardian.com - that’s very funny and also i am sorry!

hello! we want to speak to authors who have hated their own book covers. you will be anonymous (unless you are feeling brave) - please DM me!

‘Rape is effectively decriminalised’: how did sexual assault become so easy to get away with? Few alleged offenders are found guilty. Many victims are retraumatised. What is getting in the way of the Australian criminal courts providing justice to sexual assault survivors?

Proud to share a story that’s been almost six months in the making, the first in a new series from @australia.theguardian.com exploring the ways our criminal justice system fails victim-survivors of sexual violence and often retraumatises them in the process: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Inside the Century Club, Elite Media’s Watering Hole Why are so many journalists pressing to join?

which absolute shithole of a pub is sydney’s century club? nymag.com/intelligence...

Friday essay: ‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides Paradoxically, the very scale of the crisis in Gaza makes worthwhile even the tiniest gesture of solidarity.

Such a powerful essay by Jeff Sparrow:

theconversation.com/friday-essay...

‘I don’t look like him at all, I’m just tall’: Jacob Elordi lookalike crowned in Melbourne No one actually showed up to compete for the $50 prize. It didn’t really matter

this is just an entirely perfect piece of reportage from @patricklenton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

If Bluesky is the new social media app of record, I thought we should move the Jesse Eisenberg story over here.

Screen shot of headline: 'Germs are not a real thing': Fox News host says he hasn't washed hands in 10 years Pete Hegseth denies existence of germs, saying: ‘I can’t see them, therefore they’re not real’

Welcome to our new AUKUS partner, Trump's nominee as Secretary of Defence

"a glass ceiling in wokeness" www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainmen...

Oh look a starter pack of Guardian Australia journalists... bsky.app/starter-pack...