“This is not the act of a friend”. In 2005 Australia extended copyright as an act of good will to the USA. This transferred income from Australians to Americans and was bad policy. As the good will is not being reciprocated, the extension of copyright should be reversed.

Hi J.K. Rowling, a couple of weeks ago Graham Linehan tweeted that if you saw someone who you thought was trans in a woman's toilet you should punch them. That tweet got 5000 likes. This is what violence against women who don't conform to cishet standards looks like. Comment?

Build Woollahra station, and a big TOD next to it supporthousingcode.good.do/station/woolla…

Australian political logic: We're going to FORCE YOU to give 11.5% of your pay every week and 'save it' for 50-odd years. No you can't touch it. You irresponsible peasants. Oh yeah but rich politicians will get their super as EXTRA MONEY while you have it taken out of your

Amazing that ABC News is able to somehow contort a story about increasing Australian pedestrian deaths into banning e-scooters, without once mentioning the most important trends identified in research. Reading list to help them in thread [1/n] abc.net.au/news/2025-08-2…

An INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety…it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people. etsc.eu/etsc-mutual-re…

I'm told that since 5% of people ride bicycles, we can't do anything for them. ...and... I'm told 5% of people drive electric cars, so we're planning a national charging network.

SMH EDITORIAL ON POLICE COMMISSIONER: "This is, without question, one of the most flawed decisions made by the NSW government since it came to power in March 2023. When the Herald’s chief reporter Jordan Baker asked Minns on Wednesday where the line on standards actually is for

Incredible view from Melbourne, Australia ❤️

This is policy failure happening in real time. afr.com/property/resid…

So - let me get this straight… They’ll ban social media for under 16s even though most experts say it WON’T work But they won’t ban gambling advertising & other key recommendations even though most experts say it WILL work What? #4corners #auspol

This train station in China cost A$12 billion to build. Australia could have built 10 of these across the country — and then spent A$240 billion for 10 new decentralised cities (to ease the housing crisis), all linked by high speed rail — for less than the cost of the AUKUS

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) work well as a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

NAB doesn’t let you transfer anything over 50k without being at a desktop. Zoomers are never gonna be able to buy property

It just occurred to me that in the next 10-15 years the vast majority of Australian Vietnamese bakery owners will retire & now that their kids are all pharmacists or investment bankers or plasterers or whatever we’re going to face an absolutely catastrophic Bánh mì supply crisis.

JFC. He killed her. The kid was on the footpath. He's fucking killed her in his stupid oversized ute He killed a child at her school.

During the 4-day Eras tour in Sydney, Sydney Transport moved 196,000 people by train and 43,000 by bus to and from the concert venue. Cars are not an efficient mass transit system.

Missed the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on the weekend. I remember feeling elated that the hateful DDR regime was finally over and hoped that the Soviet bloc would fall, which it did. And yet in 2025 we have young people simping for this failed ideology. 🤦

14 year olds : too mentally immature to follow someone on YouTube, but mentally mature enough to be given a life sentence for a crime they commit.

me and my neighbours are in unanimous agreement that the area around our houses should be turned into a national park we wouldn't want anything to ruin the view, erm, I mean the ecosystem, the ecosystem of course