Bondi stabbing: Heroic man wielding bollard to stop attack on children revealed as Silas Despreaux.

A heroic man who held a bollard to stop knifeman Joel Cauchi from getting to a children’s play area has been named as Ukrainian man Silas Despreaux tn.swmdigital.io/clogp94t000020…

Wordle whinge. Bloody Beat the Bot stats blocked by NYT plea for subscriptions.

Important story this one.

Melbourne sex offender with links to legal system walks free and has name suppressed for 20 (!!) years.

And County Court made extraordinary change to the hearing time, but won’t explain why.

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Cannot comprehend why this man didn’t receive a custodial sentence & why his identity has been kept secret.
Two levels of justice, one for the well connected & another for everyone else?
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Weekend bliss. Editing (‘polishing’) a chapter on astronauts in my next book of short stories. Have reached 60,000 words.

Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell and anti-duck hunt campaigner Laurie Levy have been banned from attending all wetlands.

They were caught illegally trying to rescue injured ducks during the first weekend of the shooting season. #springst

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Awful statistic as you get older. You know more dead people than live people.

Derryn Hinch Derryn, I was a copy boy at 2CH at the times of this horrendous murder, I heard some stories I'll never repeat. I was brought up in the Church to believe in redemption, I cannot fathom any redemption for any of the killers of Janine Balding. NDIS support? Hard labour until death.

Gruelling news tonight. I interviewed Janine Balding’s parents after her murder. One of her killers should not get NDIS support.

Derryn Hinch: Having had a lifesaving transplant for liver cancer 13 years ago, I am currently a patient at Peter MacMallum for treatment for skin cancers.
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Great Sunday. Beat the chess.com computer.

Wordle woes. 4 greens on 3 and scraped home in 6.

It must gall republicans that the Australian PM had to seek and receive King Charles’ approval for a new GG.

Still smarting over Wordle yesterday. With 3 greens on 5 -- o r and e -- I went worse instead of force. Ended 142-day streak.

Wordle woes. Too many choices on 3 greens. Busted to end 142 day streak.

Rub it in Wordle. The word yesterday was mayor. The day I announced I was pulling out of the contest for Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

This is a sad practical post. I am withdrawing as a candidate for Lord Mayor of Melbourne. I've concluded a campaign would cost $250,000--$500,000. Money I don’t have and wouldn’t expect to raise. The Justice Party cost me a lot. Would have loved to have given it a shot. Sorry.

Wordle woes. Got home yesterday when I realised that Sally was not only a proper noun but an expression - sally forth.

Why doesn’t the wonderful Good Friday Appeal send $10 million to a needy country hospital?

I find it hard to accept when Grand Prix team bosses tell a driver to let his colleague finish ahead of him.