Janet.

People in their 70’s are capable of voting for the good of society. They don’t need a ‘stake’ of longevity to do so

What if we just gave people money? The economics of time and freedom The idea that there’s only so much money to go around makes a bastard kind of sense to the poor. If impossible decisions abound in their lives, it must be true of governments, too. Certainly, that’s h...

Excellent article in @thepointau.bsky.social by @squigglyrick.bsky.social
"What if we just gave people money? The economics of time and freedom"
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Senator Kelly, “It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.”

I just watched the most appalling speech in Senate by Hanson on closing the gap, dripping with racism, dog whistling to white supremacists, full of lies & misinformation. No wonder senator Thorpe loses her shit when she sits there and listens to the garbage from Hanson‘s mouth.

#auspol #senate #aph

But I like Niki Sava…Speers tho, tries to turn interviews into a clownshow.

'Crime Scene' Declared Over Canberra Bar's Satirical Posters YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

Interview with owner of Canberra bar that was raided by Federal Police over satirical posters. I'm trying 'authoritarian creep' as a hashtag. Let's see if we can get it trending.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL3K...
#SundayShot #AusPol #authoritarianism #AuthoritarianCreep

Oil and gas lobbyist in line for Angus Taylor’s lead role The Australian Energy Producers advisor Sam Riordan appears odds-on to head the opposition leader’s office.

"Angus Taylor is preparing his new opposition leader’s office, with oil and gas lobbyist Sam Riordan set to be made his chief of staff.

Riordan has been with the Australian Energy Producers since August last year."

“Consider when recently the Commonwealth Bank recorded a boom in profits [on the back of increased lending and deposit volumes]. If they are making profits out of those two things it means the people doing well out of the deal ain’t you."

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3ZJVPwI

7/ From Anomander.
So what does "social cohesion" actually mean today?

Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/12/l...

I prefer the values of the Enlightenment. Other value systems exist apart from Christian ones, people forget .

Subsidised aircon and power for all pensioners might save a few hundred lives but hey who cares, only old people.

Lancet: Plastics Could Cost Humanity 83 Million Years of Healthy Life A study published in the Lancet Planetary Health highlights how humanity's continued reliance on plastics—which are primarily derived from planet-heating fossil fuels—is expected to harm global health over the next couple of decades.

"Systemic change is needed 'from the cradle to the grave' of plastic production, use, and disposal," said one expert. "Much more ambitious action from governments and industry transparency is needed to curb this growing global plastics public health crisis."

I’ve seen too many Americans talk about how the USA used to be an example to other nations. Let me just tell you, yes it has been. It has been an example of what not to be.

Healthcare, education, law enforcement, military use, gun laws, social security etc…

But yeah you make some good movies.

Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark Teachers who attended ‘compulsory’ creationist conference run by US-based fundamentalist group told radiometric dating techniques were flawed * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Teachers employed by a large group of Queensland Christian schools were told to teach creationism in science classes, including that vegetarian baby dinosaurs would have been taken aboard Noah’s Ark. Last year, the Open Brethren organisation Christian Community Ministries (CCM) hosted a Christian science conference by the US-based fundamentalist group Answers in Genesis, which once built a replica of Noah’s Ark – with model dinosaurs included. Continue reading...

Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark

Mourning Bondi. Australia's hierarchy of grief - Michael West Australia suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who can mourn.

"Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. .. nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn"

Andrew Brown on #Bondi #indigenous
#auspol #antisemitism
michaelwest.com.au/mourning-bon...

The US president has withdrawn an invitation for the Canadian prime minister to join the 'Board of Peace' just days after Mark Carney warned that the rules-based international order was over. ft.trib.al/ksNejda

#vaccines

He says he will meet with Trump on Wednesday, accompanied by the Belgian monarch Philippe: "But it will have a different character than we had planned. It will probably be the message that we have to send: you're crossing red lines here. We either stand together or we will stand divided, and if we are divided, there is the end of an era, of 80 years of atlanticism, really drawing to a close. And you know, as Gramsci said, 'if the old is dying and the new is not yet born, you live in a time of monsters, and it's up to him to decide if he wants to be a monster - yes or no."

waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Not sure why an explanation required for ‘two dudes kissing’🤷‍♀️

"Verily, I say unto thee: Blessed is any money set aside to feed the lazy freeloading hungry and heal the lazy freeloading sick for it may be used instead for tax breaks so that you might buy your third or fourth homes and more luxurious transportation. Glory!"

17 Gospel of Republican Jesus 11-14

Price of poverty hurts us all, yet research reveals an easy fix In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the mora...

‘…lifting people out of poverty (by giving them more money) is a policy choice…’ Successive governments instead choose to give $4 Billion a year ‘…to force people to do compulsory activities that don't get them jobs, cause harm and are operating unlawfully.’

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Heartless. Victor Chang Cardiac Institute and the Israel lobby - Michael West Professor Peter Macdonald returned to St Vincent’s Hospital, but the Victor Chang Laboratory is still excluding him from doing his research.

Why are a small group of pro- Israel players at Victor Chang research institute being allowed to weaponise antisemitism in a way that stops researcher working on a publicly funded project? Wendy Bacon

michaelwest.com.au/heartless-vi...

When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.

End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.

Not just another flu, COVID-19 complacency risks lives By Katelyn Catanzariti Updated October 25 2025 - 7:31am, first published 7:30am Two healthcare workers in full protective gear, including gowns, gloves, and masks, wheel a patient on a stretcher into a hospital. The image accompanies a headline warning that COVID-19 complacency is dangerous and that the virus is not “just another flu.”

Not just another flu, COVID-19 complacency risks lives

Former ABC medical reporter Sophie Scott warns that complacency about COVID has set in. Public health messaging has faded, yet large numbers are still catching COVID, being hospitalised, or dying — COVID hasn’t gone away.

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What is humanity's purpose, if not its collective knowledge, collective creativity, and our capacity for both?

It's astonishing and devastating to watch our species destroy what make us unique as we mainline the predigested pap of AI, convinced by snake oil billionaires that it's good for us.

When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000s “Now there’s a girl who’s comfortable in her own skin,” my father-in-law said about my daughter, his granddaughter. She was about one year old and we were watching her bounce happily in her high chair, egg smeared across both cheeks as she shoved pieces of fritter into her mouth. I realised with pride it was true: she was comfortable. My pride was followed quickly by unease. How long had it been since I could say I was comfortable with myself? Continue reading...

When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny

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