There are 3 reasons why I think Adelaide Writers’ Week is way better than what I saw of Brisbane Writers Festival. drdee-drdeethinkingoutloud.b…

He says he's not a hyprocrite ... "Senior public servants repeatedly queried why NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman was charging taxpayers for hotels, trips and restaurant bills, including a $7791 dinner with a Japanese trade delegation which included 71 beers and 23 bottles of wine. Documents released through parliament on Thursday show senior bureaucrats rebuked Newman for his spending habits during his 28-month stint as a senior trade commissioner in Japan, with one executive rejecting a $211 bill for lunch and telling the now-One Nation leader it was “not how the NSW government does business”." smh.com.au/politics/nsw/one-…

For the first time in 34 years, a cassowary laid an egg at Australia's Adelaide Zoo. 10-year-old Martha has been mating with 13-year-old Jeffrey. Dad will takeover incubating the neon green egg and, hopefully, it will hatch.

RT @rohan_connolly: Male violence against women is a stain on this country's soul, and the scourge continues to a backdrop of apathy from p…

Yet another attack on yet another female reporter - White House reporters should defend their colleagues and then walk away.

We are still the lucky country piped.video/Xj5dej2LCK8?si=RinI… via @YouTube

More than 1,000 people gathered at WA's Parliament House on Tuesday, calling on Premier Roger Cook to ban hydraulic fracturing in the Kimberley as decisions on Canning Basin gas projects approach. #FirstNations #IndigenousAustralia #Kimberly nit.com.au/22-10-2026/27085/…

Ohio GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy is facing bipartisan criticism of an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton. Ana Navarro says the ad, "is the most disgusting, sleaziest, cowardly, inhumane ad I could possibly imagine."

First a #StripSearch goes too far, then a boy is isolated in a cell … the former detainees who tell all-too-similar stories #CSA Child Sexual Abuse #SexualAssault #Rape #AbuseInCare #InstitutionalAbuse #MaleSurvivor(s) Australia theguardian.com/australia-ne…

RT @TheRealPBarry: Sanjeev Gupta says Whyalla’s blast furnace did not fail on his watch. Tell that to the brave workers who sweated blood f…

Ben Roberts-Smith’s reputation will ultimately turn on whether he is convicted - or exonerated - on war crimes charges. His publicity strategy is to that end. smh.com.au/national/ben-robe…

A shocking image showing a 16-year-old Noongar mother shackled to a hospital bed while in police custody in Joondalup has prompted condemnation from her family and a national advocacy group. nit.com.au/21-10-2026/27092/…

Labor's health minister has repeatedly claimed the coalition hiked the tobacco excise and pocketed the revenue without spending more on enforcement, but that's not correct. bit.ly/4z7UPCI

Wow. 😍 Abdul El-Sayed is a Democratic candidate for US senator in Michigan.

The irony or the English complaining about them being 'Invaded' when they themselves have invaded 171 countries. Makes me laugh.

" .. presenting an artificially impoverished “underlying deficit” to staff, unions, public, VCs on their $1m+ salaries build the political cover needed to justify job cuts" James Guthrie & Adam Lucas #auspol michaelwest.com.au/ringfenci…

Oh the irony, an American ad calling a Democrat candidate a liar when the US Republican president routinely lies. That aside, the ad is appalling & Michael Koziol rightly draws links between it & the @onenation cartoon mocking Jackie Lambie. "In Australia, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson belatedly apologised for, and took down, a cartoon video that mocked Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie over her vaginal prolapse. She had initially defended the clip, telling Lambie to “get over it”. Coalition frontbencher Andrew Hastie – who was himself targeted as a “traitor” by a One Nation cartoon – rightly identified Hanson’s importation of US campaign tactics. “This is the MAGA-style politics we can expect from One Nation if they are elected to government,” he told Politico. To that, we can add the attack on independent MP Helen Haines, which police allege was intentional. No reminder is needed about the long-standing but worsening problem with political violence in the US, and how much Australia does not want to import that tradition." smh.com.au/world/north-ameri…

Guyana's President has described slavery as “as the worst indignity to humankind” ahead of King Charles’ visit to the Caribbean. “As a country, we will continue to champion the issue of reparation because slavery was the worst indignity to humankind,” Dr Ali said during an interview with ITV news. King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit the Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas and Guyana from 27 October to 4 November. Caribbean in October, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Yet another Christian giving Christians a bad name.

This is the most modest, Australian sentence in regards to helping to save the life of an MP: “Lucky the equipment was there. Anyone else who knew how to use it would’ve had the same effect. We were just the silly buggers with the equipment,” smh.com.au/national/victoria…

Disturbingly I'm not surprised by these accounts, especially since I've received many abusive ones usually from ON supporters as I've often pointed out to @SenatorSeanBell @PaulineHansonOz @OneNationAus "Just this week, Plibersek made a social media post defending Senator Jacqui Lambie against a One Nation cartoon that mocked her experience of vaginal prolapse. “Someone wrote under that post, defending Jacqui Lambie, that ‘she deserves to meet a LandCruiser’.” This abuse is often compounded by racism. Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi said two instances of online harassment against her had led to criminal charges in the past year, while a handful of other threats were being investigated by the AFP. The latest example was referred to law enforcement just this week. The email in question, seen by this masthead, said: “Go back to your own country you c--- or you’ll cop a bullet some time soon. You’re the only f------ invasive species here in Australia. You don’t belong here you c--- dog.”" smh.com.au/politics/federal/…