Gavin Gatenby

I have nothing to add here. Yes, it’s that bad.

Senile, narcissistic, moron gets dragged into dangerous idiotic war almost everyone advised him against, by mad genocidal Zionist fanatic, then blames everyone else for not getting him out of trouble in said war which he claims he’s won anyway.

“We landed at Salerno
A holiday with pay,
The Jerries brought
The band out
To speed us on our way.
Showed us the sights
And made us tea
We all sang songs,
The beer was free”.

As the bitter song went.

In fact the modern practice of bundling and insulating powerlines is turning what was a death trap for ringtail possums into possum highways, so this species is increasing in the ‘burbs. Wonderful, unless you like rosebuds.

Good. Correct decision. Big thanks to all the activists who made it happen!

"Disappeared" as in: the horses disappeared.I have a c1938 photo of my godfather, a grazier from N of Mudgee, who was in the LH Cassilis Troop, on his horse ... complete with the "new-pattern" cavalry sabre (which they didn't carry in WW1)! But in WW2 he served as a flying boat navigator.

This mouse-sized Pygmy Possum, seen feasting on Banksia nectar is a marsupial of the Eastern Australian forests. My mini-doco on how they, and the tiny Feathertail Glider possums survive catastrophic wildfire here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVM5... (18:24). #WildOz #AustralianWildlife #Possums

At which point “cavalry” was necessarily being transformed into “mounted infantry”. The famous Australian Light Horse fought WW1 as mounted infantry, survived between the wars as a volunteer militia outfit, and was, very sensibly, disappeared just before WW2.

Why can't the U.S. just take over the Strait of Hormuz? | About That YouTube video by CBC News

Why it's not safe to transit the Strait of Hormuz after you start an illegal war with Iran.
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It’s a tribute to the 1830s road builders that this drystone structure has lasted nearly 200 years with countless millions of trucks with heavy loads, let alone the lighter vehicles, passing over it since the advent of the internal combustion engine. I was always amazed when I drove over it!

UK's High Court ruled in favour of independent journalist Owen Jones in a defamation case brought by Raffi Berg, BBC news online's Middle East editor, over an article in which Jones alleged that Berg fostered a culture of 'systemic Israeli propaganda'. BBC is yet to report on this development.

Cat shit.

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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.

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert in which a journalist asks Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, " Have you just committed us to a war?" And the PM responds, " No, I've committed us to a (preemptive retaliatory de-escalation action to protect and defend Australians and other citizens in response to a request by our new strategic partner by sending defensive missiles & surveillance equipment to protect the airspace and assist the region with its collective self-defence against reprisal attacks that come as a result of the ongoing operation launched as an anticipatory response to perceived threats by historical allies acting against the established international rule of law who are too powerful for us to in any meaningful way challenge.) There's a very big difference." The words in brackets are arranged in such a way that they completely fill the word WAR written in a huge, hulking, bold khaki font.

A war by any other name.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

Putin already had copyright on “special military operation”.

Spineless Anthony Albanese is a Jellyfish.

Welcome back to "IS IT WAR?"
#AusPol

Wong couldn’t say it’s a “special military operation” because Putin’s got a copyright on that one.

The NACC has been an utter waste of public money. Its sole achievement so far is to further persuade everyone that consequence-free corruption and bastardry are fixed features of government in this country.

In Moscow, evidence of deep trouble at the top.

A common resident in urban areas of Batemans Bay.

Netanyahu has tried for years to get a US president to go along with his desire for a war with Iran. He finally found one. Then he used chemical weapons on Lebanon. This man is committing war crimes and igniting hatred that will start more killings and destruction everywhere.

Single frame. Soccer field, five Iranian women players in motion, one kicking a goal which is flying past an Iranian Ayatollah goalkeeper.

Goal!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Dangerous!

What he means is, it’s nearly completely near the end of the beginning …

Keep it. It’s the same model Nokia God used to text the 10 Commandments to Moses.

everything was hunky-dory until 1953. that’s when shit truly went sideways, after Mossadegh broke the eleventh commandment — Thou Shalt Not Fuck With Big Oil — by nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. our CIA and Britain’s MI6 got themselves worked into a Big Mad over this, and engineered a coup that overthrew Mossadegh and turned Iran back into a monarchy, restoring Reza Pahlavi as the Shah. the thing about the Shah of Iran is that he was a repressive piece of shit who was hated by his people, and his fuckery led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 — and that’s how Iran went from being a repressive monarchy to being a repressive theocracy. meet the new boss, yadda yadda. that’s why we’re in this mess right now — because we couldn’t leave well enough alone 73 years ago.

did you know Iran used to be a western-style democracy, with an elected prime minister? but then one day in 1953, the CIA ousted him in a coup, and restored the repressive and corrupt Shah to power — that's REALLY how this mess all got started. you can read all about it in my post: bit.ly/4lfWn7c

Six frames. Woman talking to girl. 1. “Sunday was International Women’s Day - the one day of the year when women get to…” (girl looks excited) 2. “…be controlling and violent toward their partners,…” (girl looks less thrilled) 3. “…tell men what to wear and what they can do with their bodies,…” (girl looks a bit stunned) 4. “…make men feel unsafe and blame them if they get attacked,…” (girl looks uncomfortable) 5. “…and curtail men’s liberty and make laws that serve our own interests.” (Girl looks depressed) 6. “Because men deserve a day off.” (Girl looks seriously unconvinced.)

#IWD2026.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Putin’s army on the eastern front is in very poor shape.