Let's get this straight.
Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.
After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
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Bummed to learn today that @percivaleverett.bsky.social has cancelled his Australian tour. Hope it wasnt connected to the Adelaide Writers Week fiasco.
The Bastard from the Bush (Henry Lawson*, circa 1900) except it's about Barnaby Joyce and the National Party.
(*attribution disputed)
Can somebody tell me what I have to do to finally get invited to join the left wing network of paid agitators?
Vale Chris. A wonderful poet and teacher as well as a kind and considerate man.
A flame tree with brilliant red blossoms surrounded by greener trees in a Melbourne park.
Flame tree out in force today in Naarm.
Strange that they don't mention the classic 1976 fim version starring Peter O'Toole.
#Melbourne #streetart
Persuasion, Jane Austrn
Ulysses, James Joyce
Silhouette of a dragonfly on a leaf.
That does look incredible.
What a nice apartment. And such stylish furniture. Very New York chic.
This is literally the plot line to Venomous Lumpsucker by @nedbeauman.bsky.social
"Love like Kafka"? What???
I remember these guys.
Catalogue.
It is very good. Thanks for sharing.
Brutal, but I suppose it tracks. Ironic that seeking a community where they're not ignored or bashed for their writing is probably what attracted a lot of them to Melbourne in the first place.
I need Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social to tell me what "the Melbourne voice" is, and what those afflicted with it can do to get rid of it.
Excellent and timely editorial in @science.org by #URI President Marc Parlange on the damage already being caused by attacks on American universities to local communities and regional innovation.
They need to research what Zoomers are watching, instead.
Anyway, I can live with this.
An absolute slaughter. Wild.
All right, people. I want a good, clean election leading to a minority government controlled by the Greens in the House and Senate.
Lest we forget.
"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor."
Great piece by George Monbiot
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Did @jessetylerferguson.bsky.social just sit down next to me at Starbucks in Melbourne? That would be very unlikely, surely?
To the Melbourne tram driver who stopped to spare the life of the injured bird on Bourke Street today: Thank you for being an excellent human.
After tonight's 4 Corners episode, might we hope for @abcaustralia.bsky.social to find a way to stream or provide a channel for Australians to watch the proceedings of the Yoorook Commission?
What are Australian universities doing to court US scientists keen to leave Trump's America?
