Jan Bow

Digital billboards from environmental groups, targeting Labor MPs attending national conference, cancelled with airport stating they are ‘too political’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...?

Outspoken Labor MP Ed Husic claims the party has become “allergic” to dissent and dispute, warning the unity on show at its tightly controlled national conference could backfire. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Research upon research has shown that Australia’s privatised employment services don’t help people get jobs, it’s punitive and serves only the providers - helping them get rich and richer www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

"The hard-left Labor MP who once took joy in 'fighting Tories' is now studiously, perhaps even performatively respectful of the Coalition prime minister." Crabb gets it half correct. Albanese does not just respect and mirror John Howard. He has become the Tory he once fought. #auspol

“Flagrant”. Court finds Israel activist breached Cairo Takeaway settlement Wendy BaconandStephanie Tran reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/flagrant-court-finds-israel-activist-breached-cairo-takeaway-settlement/

Apartments built to today’s standards could be too hot for future comfort for about four weeks a year in Redfern and more than seven weeks in Penrith.

“They go around the Cabinet table and they all have to offer praise of him, each more effusive than the last. No, you deserve two Nobel Prizes. No, three Nobel Prizes. Four Nobel Prizes and two Pulitzers, sir … It’s just a preposterous situation to be in, in a democratic country.” trib.al/ESBV6RS

ABC NEWS Verify examined 20 overseas Facebook pages, mostly administered from Vietnam, using these tactics to enrage and engage Australian Facebook users. #OneNation www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...?

Critical ‘Meta AI Backdoor’ Flaw Let Hackers Bypass 2FA & Hijack Any Instagram Account In Seconds + Video Introduction: A newly uncovered vulnerability in Meta's AI-powered customer support assistant has exposed a critical failure in automated identity verification, allowing attackers to bypass…

Meta AI Verification Failure Exposed: How AI-Generated Selfies Helped Attackers Reclaim Stolen Instagram Accounts + Video Introduction The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across customer support systems has promised faster resolutions, automated security checks, and improved user…

I need to take Peter Malinauskas birding sometime. He needs to spend some time with the amazing creatures and environments he is trying to bugger up 😠

Agreed. What a joke the Malinauskas government is turning into. Way to destroy an iconic region’s groundwater, environment, natural attractions and primary industries — all for for the failing fossil fuel vultures.

Look, Limestone Coast communities, farmers & environmentalists might think fracking is "disastrous" But more valued constituents like Santos & the South Australian Chamber of Mines & Energy considers it a restoration of “science-based decision-making” & that's what counts for the Malinauskas govt

What is the difference between God and Donald Trump? God knows he is not the president. Michael Brinkman, Ventnor The Age, letters

My friend (Aust citizen) said she got an email over night that her parents' visa is on hold for 6 months. This is a shocking blow for my friend and her family when they are so desperately worried about their family in Iran. What does Australian Labor stand for these days?

Excellent on the Tech Billionaires controlling the US government and more. Scary stuff. iview.abc.net.au/show/four-co...

I watch with dismay as people attack One Nation voters: its counter-productive. We need to find a way to engage. Labor especially needs to focus on social justice, return to Labor values, not lurch to the right. The Greens need to re-evaluate strategies. redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/polarisati...

"Many of us hoped there would finally be accountability and justice, and real consequences for those responsible for this devastating scheme," writes Rhys Cauzzo's mother, Jenny Miller. "Sadly, that hope has not been realised." satpa.pe/LUNylNm

Watch this film. West Papua is being cleared right now. Rainforest flattened. Soldiers deployed. 2.5 million hectares turned into sugar and palm oil plantations. Indonesia calls it development. The world calls it business. History will call it ecocide.

Jim Chalmers: Make Gas Giants Pay! getup.to/39Y57AS8C2rkFL

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Must-read thread from Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Seeing regime change as a new way to define his legacy, President Trump is already eyeing his next target: Cuba. Vivian Salama reports:

Drones are measuring the temperatures of common surfaces in regional cities and the results have stunned emergency services, with Mount Gambier's lawn bowls turf recording a temperature of 86 degrees Celsius.

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The CSIRO is nearing the end of a long road of diminishing returns and may not be able to survive without significant intervention, reports Rick Morton. satpa.pe/CeGYR6Z

Another Friday special

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

If the Liberals thought things were bad before…..

For Valentines Day this year, give a copy of @amyremeikis.bsky.social's sure to be best seller "Where It All Went Wrong: The case against John Howard" Pre-order now. The code #HowHowardFuckedUs alas gives no discount at all (because Howard fucked us) www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Where-...

As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor. theshot.net.au/news/opinion...

Sadly amusing that it took Haaretz to pick up on this line by Albanese

Had a fascinating chat with Richard Cooke about the cultural impact of Wikipedia on its 25th birthday. Richard wrote the brilliant essay on Wikipedia, "The Last, Best Place on the Internet":

Zali Steggall points out the consequences of inviting Isaac Herzog given the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestine was 'highly foreseeable' live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...

If we are going to ban symbols and phrases because of 'social cohesion' then we really should start banning some moustaches too.

This is lovely theconversation.com/as-beautiful...

Senator @barbarapocock.bsky.social pressing the Minister in Estimates today: if the Future Fund already excludes weapons & tobacco, why not companies like Palantir that enable racial profiling & punitive tracking of immigrants?

Oh damn, this was good.

Albanese’s stupid, immoral decision to invite Herzog has inflamed divisions in the local Jewish community too.

'Disunity is death' – but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Bezos shreds Washington Post staff after bending of the knee to #Trump, shelling out millions for that 'Melania' dross. Hope your subscriptions are well and truly cancelled. The paper that gave us Woodward and Bernstein belongs in bird cages these days ...

The more people that choose to walk, bike and ride public transit to get around cities, the better cities work for everyone, including drivers. EVERYONE. There’s no “war on cars,” just an opportunity for more successful cities. You’re being lied to. It’s time we tell #TheTruthAboutTraffic.

NSW Premier compared Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah's skill as a writer with that of Salman Rushdie. A strange comparison indeed given Rushdie is a staunch advocate for free expression, and,prominent opponent of 'cancel culture'. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Just read (listened to) On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle...loved it. Now onto Vol 2.... thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

UK Govt has released a report that should transform how we think about climate, nature & security. www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/nationa...