Albanese telling people to reconsider driving is incredible optics.
Mate, you built a country where driving is mandatory. A country where cyclists, pedestrians, and anyone not using a car is treated as a second-class citizen.
Car-dependence is baked into every major policy you have architected.
Catch the train rather than drive you say, mmh the train drivers are saying they're not paid enough and they don't feel safe a work though.
Ah the please use public transport speech, delivered on a day where one of Australia's capital cities train network was disrupted by industrial action.
A statement on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association regarding James Hillier aka Nordacious and the QLD Government:
Australia where inheritance is not something people use to buy a home, but something used to have long overdue dental treatments
And why not? It’s Friday
Albo has the quite likely what will be the biggest ostensibly left wing majority this country will have in our lifetime and he's pissing it away supporting genocide, illegal wars, and banning kids from the internet while doing nothing about life affordability, climate change, or class disparity.
A reminder - the opposite of doomscrolling is gleefreshing
It is quite something to talk of social cohesion on one hand, the need to turn down the temperature, and then on the other endorse the needless bloodshed and aggression of war. Australians have been told not to "import foreign conflicts" while our government does just that.
valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.
Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.
Australian Census on University Staff Wellbeing results are out. Every uni recorded scores indicating high/very high psych risk.
And in news surprising no one, "only senior execs and deans rated their workplaces as medium or low risk while all other staff groups reported high-risk conditions."
Illustrated political poster showing the silhouette of QLD in bold blood red, textured like a lino print. Large hand-lettered text across the state reads, “From Brisbane River to Moreton Bay, I’ll decide what you can say!” A caricature of Queensland Premier David Crisafulli looms from the top right, looking down at the map. His finger presses into the lower part of Queensland, denting the surface and breaking a placard in half.
Up to 2 years in prison for saying “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” - that’s the legislation currently before Queensland Parliament under the Crisafulli government. They’re going to have to build more prisons before we choose to be silent about genocide.
Thinking of all those professions where people may get bitten in their workplace who are able to de-escalate without punching someone pinned down... many of who have asked for pay rises and safer workplaces.
I very genuinely do not think that Australia's media industry can be classified as any other than fully supportive of police violence, because you have to actively, consciously and knowingly work to frame what happened as general "violence mars protests" rather than "police violently attack protest"
We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
Is there anything better than getting into bed? No, there is not. I will not be taking answers at this time.
I’ve had such an epic summer of reading. Did you know you can acquire a book, a work of pure fiction even, and you can simply read it until the end? No further technologies are required, although I do like a lamp
Here we are again. January 26. The date on which British colonisation of Australia officially commenced. It’s a poor excuse for a national day. We could do a lot better if only we allowed our imaginations free, for once, from the dark shadows of colonialism. #ChangeTheDate.
As a former tap kid this warms my heart ❤️
If you play your cards right your phd gets a split decision and boom you get a third reader!
Abdel-Fattah disputed Berg's claims that she, along with Adler, led the charge to cancel Friedman. "I was one of 10 Indigenous and academics of colour who wrote a researched letter with references and footnotes about the harm of racial tropes," she said in a statement to Guardian Australia. "What is missing in this is the question of power. We write letters on Google Docs to boards. The people who want to cancel us have premiers intervening."
Randa Abdel-Fattah on all the conservative outrage of her signing a letter two years ago and why it can't be compared to the last week. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Creative writing post-doc! I can't even remember the last time I saw one of these advertised, so if it sounds like you, jump on it.
A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about
No really - where is he?
Nearly 100 writers have now pulled out, so the festival obvs cannot proceed…
The govt said it wouldn't be perfect from day 1. It's opportunistic for those that called for the policy to declare it is a failure so early.
The only way it would be perfect is a full ID check situation which the opposition (rightly) forced the govt to exclude. This is the mess you all made.
Melissa Mcintosh MP Shadow Minister for Communications Shadow Minister for Women Federal Member for Lindsay 10 January 2026 The kids are still on social media The Albanese Labor Government's implementation of the under 16's social media ban has fallen flat, with reports very few kids have been kicked off their accounts one month on. Despite an expensive PR trip to New York to promote the ban's success before it had even started, even the kids have heckled the PM on his own social media about its failure. "Many under-16 accounts have not been deactivated, while others that were initially removed have since become active again. New accounts are being created and the age-verification tools that the Government assured Australians would be effective, have proven laughably easy to bypass with some makeup and good lighting," said Shadow Minister for Communications, Melissa Mcintosh.
The opposition is claiming the social media ban is a failure because kids have bypassed it and also they haven't put in enough mental health funding to support kids.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
with Bluey taking off in America there will be a whole future generation hungry for more a Brisbane-centric pop culture. They will listen to Regurgitator. They will read Praise by Andrew McGahan.
