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George Galloway: “I have been assailed all day by a “children’s book community” so vile and vicious I’m amazed they even let them near kids #redmolucca”. He was retweeted five times. An account named @winnie_the_pooh, not believed to be connected either to the Disney corporation or the estate of A A Milne, responded with one word: “Tosser.” and was RTed 213 times by the time this well-worn screenshot was taken, perhaps more afterwards
Well, if it’s 14 March, that can only mean... naturally: the ninth anniversary of one of the finest exchanges from The Old Place
Judge Barbra Streisand presiding.
You could argue Melbourne didn't warm to the the duo's shock jock style but I think the answer is much simpler.
A migrant centre in Melbourne says people are coming to its classes after the federally-funded Adult Migrant English Program left them unable to hold day-to-day conversations.
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New song idea: America the pathetic
Screenshot of part of the article which reads: Morrison was the cabinet minister responsible for both Social Services and Human Services matters, and if he was a "junior" minister in the Coalition government, then he was also seen as its biggest conservative rising star, fresh from having so infamously "stopped the boats" with a stop-at-nothing approach to border security. He was a man on the make in private and championed as such in most of the mainstream press. Campbell had a preternatural talent for managing politics. It's what made her so effective at the job and her own survival. In any event, what transpired was that both Morrison's and Campbell's career prospects took off after robodebt. Campbell was promoted to lead the senior policy department in DSS and then, by Scott Morrison himself as prime minister, handpicked to lead the Department of Foreign Affairs in a move seen as cronyism and widely considered to have been a disaster. One does not need to prove beyond doubt that these could be conceived as rewards for her loyalty and fervour, only to recognise the mind-boggling folly of a deputy commissioner of the NACC writing — in ink! — that the potential rewards for Campbell in her hypothetical reconstruction of motive "could never have been more than an unprovoked hope" that this "junior minister" of another department could "determine, and be able, to secure the public servant's career advancement". His motives aside, that is in fact exactly what happened. For Kilgour to argue in this manner casts serious doubt over the rest of her findings.
I mean, come on. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
I’m currently watching the whole thing in instalments at lunchtimes. Glorious stuff
Two photos of white-footed dunnarts being held in someone’s hand from the article linked in the post. In the top photo the dunnart is biting the hand ferociously, in the second photo the dunnart is peering over the top of the person’s thumb with enormous, endearing eyes. The dunnart is about the same size and colour as a mouse, but with large bulging eyes, sharp teeth, and a pointed snout. The caption of the first photo says “A white-footed dunnart is a carnivore, feeding mainly on insects, pictured here at Murramarang National Park on the NSW south coast. (WWF: Vivianna Miritis)”. The caption of the second photo says “The white-footed dunnart is found in several states, pictured here on the NSW South Coast. (WWF: Vivianna Miritis)”.
Inside you there are two dunnarts
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
"Maria is reliant on JobSeeker. She pays more than 90% of this allowance on rent, leaving her with less than $50 a fortnight to live on..
Maria patches food relief together from a range of organisations.. Trying to get help can take an entire day and doesn’t always deliver."
Just RAISE. The RATE.
Mission accomplished
Writing exclusively for Crikey today, Rick Morton tears into the NACC's long-awaited robodebt report that exonerated Scott Morrison and Kathryn Campbell.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
Damn that unemployment rate for being too low! Why can't more people take one for the team and quit their jobs!
Lois McMaster Bujold
Kate Atkinson
Martha Wells
Jane Austen
Dorothy L Sayers
Penny Wong has reminded me that it's time to dip back into that timeless classic by Leo Tolstoy:
"Collective Self Defence and Peace".
Labor is already targeting disabled people with drastic NDIS cuts and eligibility changes. Right now is the time for us all to be looking towards how we will care for each other in our communities for as long governments continue to inflict harm on people who need support.
The Albanese government cannot pretend to care about poor people while it continues to force people to live in poverty, refuse to act on Robodebt royal commission recommendations, and inflict millions of penalties a year – many unlawful – on people with compulsory activities.
From my trip in January - a pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.
You'd pay good money for that hairdo at a city salon 😆
One thing I have learned from spending time in Brompton cemetery is that if you want your name visible on your grave stone for more than 5 minutes after you're gone, use a really hard stone like granite. Otherwise it will erode away/get covered by moss and lichens.
If you're looking for a way to do good but short on means... From a Japanese mate: If you even just search “ 3.11 “ on Yahoo! Japan today, 10 JPY will be donated to support the tsunami disaster. It’s easy and anyone can do from outside of Japan too 🙏🏻
I cannot believe we're reading another article where the Labor caucus are acting like they're hostages. Shut the fuck up and do some politics. Break something. I have zero sympathy for any of you.
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
And, obviously, someone's going to say "But human writers read and are inspired by other writers" - yes, of course they are, but that blends with human experiences, struggles, sensory inputs and emotions to create *novel* novels. This is where all those previous books came from!!!
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Burn Shein clothes and you're warm for 3 min.
Burn the rich and you'll stay warm all winter.
