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Dad on Kulin land Bit of football, bit of politics, bit of sake and beer
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Australian White Guys Who Can Speak A Bit In An Asian Language Stop Pretending You’re A Miracle Like A Talking Horse Or Something Challenge.

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

#BREAKING 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Victorian Socialists to expand into every state and territory www.6newsau.com/post/victori...

haven't been paying too close attention in the last couple of months, but some of the rhetoric from the Starmer Government and media around immigration lately is wild.

this is not an exaggeration

Quite a headline.

A gas exploration drilling rig has appeared within sight of one of Australia’s most loved natural wonders, the 12 Apostles. We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports. @emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️

BREAKING: The EU's former top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has accused Israel of perpetrating genocide in Palestine, and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Albanese just endlessly shuffling Plibersek from portfolio she wanted (education) to ones where she has to use her progressive cred to protect his left flank while getting little done (environment, social services).

Yeah no this person should have the NACC in their portfolio, absolutely. Really good stuff and exactly what everyone voted for one fucking week ago

Appalling interview. Jillian Segal accuses The Greens of "extremism" and Adam Bandt of antisemitic comments, with no evidence. Says the election was a rejection of extremism. But is not referring to Dutton's dog-whistling, or commitment to breach international law. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Not sinister at all www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It has been over 9 weeks of siege on #Gaza, with the State of Israel banning the entry of all humanitarian aid, medical, and commercial supplies. UNRWA has thousands of trucks ready to enter and our teams in Gaza are ready to scale up the delivery. The siege must be lifted.

(It's incredibly rare for an AFL player to say anything about the world around them.)

Sacking or disciplining an employee for expressing a political opinion can breach anti-discrimination laws. Organisations lobbying for that sort of outcome may also be acting unlawfully.

‘You can’t celebrate diversity and then expect it to sit in the corner silent’ - Ed Husic

VAR-less competitions rule, btw.

Ed Husic on #insiders “you can’t support diversity and then leave it to sit quietly in the corner.”

Labor MP Ed Husic has hit out at deputy PM Richard Marles, telling the ABC most people “expect to see a statesman, not a factional assassin” Husic, a NSW Right faction member, was dumped from the cabinet to make room for the Victorian Right (which is led by Marles)

I suspect part of why it occurred is that Liberal decision making circles aren’t culturally diverse so they really don’t get what’s casually racist. Jane Hume said it because she thought it was funny line that reinforced national security cred www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... #auspol #ausvotes

Never forget how many of those advising the ALP are patting themselves on the back for ensuring the govt did nothing in this. “Not an issue/we made sure it hurt the Greens” Those doing so are truly putrid. At best excusing murder, at worst cheering for it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Sydney and Melbourne are similar sizes. But at most Sydney stations, at most times of the week, they have more trains more often. The result is a more convenient service that gets far more people on board.

“Israeli soldiers are using slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s face for target practice” - more reporting from our Zeteo documentary whokilledshireen.com

Staj, hahahahahaha! Up the Vuck!

Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

this pitch in Parramatta is an absolute disgrace.

It would absolutely be Australian media all over if the first we heard of a major regional war between nuclear powers in the subcontinent was a bunch of Australian cricketers getting killed in it

Anybody claiming #Melbourne CBD is dead doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Commuting has changed but it’s busier than ever on weekends. What hasn’t changed is the public transport timetables, despite huge demand.

shoutout to these Melbourne Victory fans who have hung a combo of banners and flags for the ages. stunning day for some semi-finals football! I hope there is chaos!!!! #MVCvADL #ALW

NEW: How a little-known Japanese American battalion freed Jews from a Nazi death march 80 years ago. Some of the soldiers had been in relocation camps in the U.S. In Europe, they helped liberate prisoners on a Dachau death march. Their example resonates today. wapo.st/44x0Ig6

The Victorian Aboriginal Health Service severs ties with the Melbourne Storm after the NRL club's decision to cancel a Welcome to Country before its Anzac Day game.

This kid runs circles around the reporter

Native vegetation returns in abundance to Victoria's Barmah National Park in an "amazing" rebound an ecologist says has never been witnessed before.

The expansion of the World Cup field will be the big headline of the day, but also super important: FIFA has sanctioned the establishment of an Afghanistan women’s refugee team. www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...

From before the campaign began, mainstream media has been trying to engineer an image of young men as being more far right than ever before — culminating in SBS interviewing two right-wing agitators to make its point. No leftist Gen Z men were ever included in the selective framing. SO I DID IT:

Teens & 20-somethings think 30-40 year olds are uncool? Wow this is a brand new phenomenon.

So depressing listening to Nick McKim talk about Gaza on RN Breakfast this morning and hearing Sally Sara jump in to say the Israeli government denies accusations of genocide. Do the ABC say “Russia denies war crimes” everytime someone accuses them of it? Of course they don’t.

Sally Sitou lashes Jane Hume’s attack on Chinese Australians & referring to them as ‘Chinese spies’ “When it’s convenient for them to sidle up to Chinese Australians to try to gain their vote, they do that. When it’s convenient to kick them, they seem to do that as well” youtu.be/4vnwXR4JWV8?...

"The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals." do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

You expect this from The Aus, it’s 100x more embarrassing the ABC story about “what went wrong in Melbourne” quoted two analysis: both ex Labor officials.

I reckon about 6 months after starting my blog in 2008 I had more contacts in the Greens that most of the press gallery. It really is astonishing how little the gallery bothers to cover and understand a party that holds the balance of power in the Senate.