A quiet reminder that when Justice Kenneth Hayne, head of royal commission into banking misconduct, refused to smile or even shake the hand of the Treasurer during a photo op in 2019, it was not considered the stuff of national calamity. George is making a similar point.

#OnThisDay in 1972, Euahlayi man Ghillar Michael Anderson, Gamilaraay man Billy Craigie, Wiradjuri man Bertie Williams & Tony Coorey, set up an umbrella on the lawns of what was then Parliament House. A sign identified the site as the ‘Aboriginal Embassy’. Photo courtesy National Museum of Australia

wanted to show y'all this panel Spiegelman made for his retrospective on Maus. every time I look at it, I see myself in the mask, and feel the whole corpus of the story flooding back in a fraction of a second that resolves in a blurry maelstrom of futures that never got to happen

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Important read for #istoryteachers #hasschat

I hope PVO tells Kyle Sandilands that if he couldn’t be polite at work this morning, he should have just not shown up

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8. Noise Bottlenecks: Consuming online content makes us feel like we're learning, but 90% of the content is useless junk: small talk, clickbait, marketing. We're filling our heads with noise, which is drowning out signal. As such, we feel we're getting smarter as we get stupider.

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Most Australians think they can't do anything about Russia's invasion of Ukraine other than sit at home doomscrolling. Not true. Here are 5 productive things you can do.

Residents in Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton Bay and the Lockyer Valley are being urged to conserve water. This extreme weather and heavy rain has impacted the Mt Crosby & North Pine Water Treatment Plants which both went offline in the early hours of this morning.

When a federal government minister responds to a natural disaster with a Gofundme rather than, say, deploying the disaster relief funding his government controls, would it be unkind to wonder if he sees this catastrophe as a nifty pre-election data harvesting opportunity? #auspol

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Memo to Dutton: So you think that, as one of the most senior ministers in this shambolic excuse for a govt, that launching a GoFundMe for local flood victims is appropriate? It’s the role of govt to act in natural disasters you fool. Not just subcontract out to the community.

Sigh. Yes, you can draw on your ballot paper. You can even draw the one picture EVERYONE asks us about. Should you, though?

I feel this in my bones.

A bit of a thread about costings. Journalists love to write stories about costings, especially in election campaigns. But costings are almost always meaningless. Let me explain. 1/n

Was just talking about election at a cafe & a guy said to me “they’re both as bad as each other, doesn’t matter how you vote.” This couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s that attitude that will get us 3 more years of this nightmare Please take your vote seriously #ausvotes