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Four frames. Title: “The rules”. Albo and Penny Wong at a lectern. 1. Albo: “Some of you have asked if rules still apply, so we’d like to clear things up.” Wong: “Obviously we shouldn’t kill!” 2. Albo: “However, if you hurt or kill someone and enough people agree they were bad, then the rules aren’t up to us.” Wong: “It’s a ‘matter for them’” 3. Albo : “Also, if you get someone else to do the killing for you and someone accuses you of it, that’s ‘a conspiracy’” Wong: “Against the rules!” 4. Plus, if thousands of innocent people get killed when you kill the bad person, you must focus on the six people you saved.” Wong: “That’s the rule!”

The rules.
My @smh cartoon.

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Wow.

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

How the fuck do we live in a place where 60+ women are killed every year including 4 in just the past few days yet there’s no National Day of Mourning or prominent lapel pins or sobbing politician speeches or Special Envoy or Royal Commission or endless media commentary for THEM?

#NewsCorpse

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

"Board of Peace" at Davos

It's wild how much Orwell got right

Morten Morland at his finest.

This is where we are at. For what? For nothing. For stupidity. For ego. For an old, demented malignant narcissist who expects the world to jump at his every whim. Well, when you follow international news you can see that the world has pretty much had enough of his bullshit.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”

- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman

"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."

Review of the Exposure Draft Legislation: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 The Minister for Home Affairs, Hon Tony Burke MP, wrote to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (the Committee) on 12 January 2026 to refer an Exposure Draft of the Combattin...

Want to make a submission into the inquiry on the "Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill that was released yesterday?

You got till 4pm Thursday (ie TOMORROW)

That is quite disgraceful
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Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

Sarah Wilkinson—

"The names of the Palestinian babies one year-old & under murdered by the israelis in Gaza in 2025: we didn’t save even one | via @gazanotice"

The PALM visa scheme gives people from Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste the opportunity to work in Australia.

But the scheme's strict restrictions are leading to concerns it's facilitating modern slavery in Australia.
@mhharrington.bsky.social #auspol

Your mum is a beautiful soul and the polar opposite of greedy. 💞

✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...

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No price too great for our punitive treatment of asylum seekers. Only the finest covert cruelty from us.
#insiders

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

Thou shalt not complain that Gavin Newsom’s imitation posts are “childish” when you’ve never had any criticism for Donald’s actual insane posts.

I'm loving me some Netflix K-dramas. Crash Landing on You; Hyde, Jeckyl & Me. Over the top soppy, sappy, mushy, but great storylines, characters, and they are genuinely funny. And a bit sad. Watch with subtitles as I don't think they'd work in the dubbed versions. Lots of episodes too.

Famine kills nearly 200 in Gaza amid ‘apocalyptic’ battle for survival Two children died of starvation on Thursday, as WHO warns 12,000 children aged under five suffering acute malnutrition.

Gaza health authorities say nearly 200 people, including 96 children, have died of hunger, as the WHO warns that 12,000 children under five are suffering from acute malnutrition due to Israel's blockade aje.io/lev0jv

For any Aussies missing the context here, Loomer is referring to 'Alligator Alcatraz', a new concentration camp in Florida (that has its own merch, of all things. American fascism is going to churn some depraved products for posterity)

Mr. Abrego's Account of Torture at CECOT in El Salvador Mr. Abrego has filed an amended complaint asking the court to declare the government's actions unlawful and to order his release. He describes his torture in El Salvador in the complaint.

NEW: Read Mr Abrego's account of unthinkable torture inside CECOT prison in El Salvador. My latest: content warning: www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos...

Who’d have thought that the first priority for the new term of @australianlabor.bsky.social government would to give away $200+ billion of Australia’s gas to a multinational gas exporter

…and trash indigenous heritage and add 4 billion tonnes of emissions

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How rogue jumping genes can spur Alzheimer’s, ALS Our genomes are peppered with DNA segments called retrotransposons that can move from place to place. When unleashed, some can kill nerves and promote inflammation — a discovery that may inspire treat...

Nice write up on @joshdubnau.bsky.social's "transposon storm" hypothesis: Alzheimer’s and ALS may be triggered by reawakened viral-like jumping genes that spark inflammation and kill neurons. Antiviral drugs could stop the storm.

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I wonder will Donald Trump pardon those arrested ″⁣unlawful demonstrators″⁣ in Los Angeles as he did the unlawful rioters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Rosie Elsass, Brighton East
@theage letters