Graham Perrett

A journalist with honesty and credibility. “Only 5% of Australians will be affected”. @JoshButler

Today we’ve taken the decision to list the Neo-Nazis as a prohibited hate group.

Until last week Australia was the only developed country with endemic trachoma, a devastating eye disease which often causes blindness. Many thousands of people have lost their sight to trachoma, which is much more common in indigenous communities. It’s been eradicated here after decades of work by doctors, nurses, medical researchers, and aid workers - with government support and sustained community involvement. Massive congratulations to all involved in this historic effort. theage.com.au/healthcare/fif…

Only three votes from the UK for Australia?! Republic NOW #Eurovisión2026

Also in the SMH report on the elimination of trachoma is the fact that the Hollows team would prescribe lenses and the "OPSM (the retailer) would deliver the glasses a few weeks later to the local clinic, at no cost". A quiet act of generosity.

This is no longer the party of Howard, Costello, Abbott, Morrison, Dutton, Rennick, Bernardi, Hanson,

@amazingmap I had no idea Australia was so far away from Antarctica. Thanks

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

Australian vehicle sales Apr 2026 VFACTs + EV Council - 5May2026 BEV share 17% Hybrid (inc PHEV) 30.5% ICE only drive train share 52.5% Country of origin: China number one car supplier in Australia again April 2026 China 28% of sales Jan-Apr 2026, Japan 24%

On this day in 1980, the South African government banned Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” after Black students embraced it as an anthem against apartheid’s unequal education system. Music speaks—and sometimes, it shouts for justice.

48 years ago Eternally Yours is the second album by Australian punk rock band The Saints, released in May 1978 #punk #punks #punkrock #thesaints #eternallyyours #history #punkrockhistory

Journalism as generous as the story told by Tony Wright in Saturday’s @smh

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows. Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold. Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away. Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other. One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018. By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like remnant prairie. Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil. Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold. This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space. The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050. The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground, which is ecologically dead. The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain. It's just a different seed mix.

Love seeing clips and reports from this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival which continues this weekend. Always one of my favorite gigs and towns-- played it 14 times since ‘77!

48 years ago today Paul Simonon from The Clash playing in front of a crowd at Rock Against Racism -> 'Carnival Against the Nazis' concert, April 30, 1978. Photo by Syd Shelton #punkrock #paulsimonon #theclash #fightracism #fucknazis #history #punkrockhistory #otd

@mattyhoran Maybe distance clouds her understanding that the nearly two hour long service is all about commemorating our veterans. Including the one who delivered the welcome to country aka local welcome.

I have no energy for this today, I don’t know this old fulla but I have support him and all veterans today. Sending love Ray xx

@DrCraigEmerson Not to mention the Diggers who actually organise and run the service!

Booing at the Dawn Service on ANZAC Day during the Acknowledgement of Country is not only disrespectful of First Nations people it is disrespectful of all those who fought for our country - including my father. He would have been appalled.

The passing of David Malouf reminds us of all that his genius gave to Australia and the world. In both poetry and prose, David dealt in hard truths and deep insights. He captured the harsh, vast and intense beauty of our land and the lives it shaped. His creativity breathed new life into ancient classics and brought him international acclaim in the process. Throughout it all, he remained a figure of great gentleness, profound strength and unwavering humanity. Today, generations of writers and readers will be mourning an inspiration. For as long as David Malouf's words are read, the power of his work will endure. May he rest in peace.

Melbourne, don’t listen to Sydney, you’re gorgeous.