JayDoyle.

You know when your order’s coming. This guy moves to your table.

@MmarianneJoseph He should have received a Cross of Valour for that.

Tony Rokov, who died saving a teenager on a tandem skydiving jump 2015, when a freak wind caused a parachute collapse. Tony took steps to absorb the impact himself. Tony’s wife said of the former Aust soldier: “It would have been out of character if he did anything different.”

@ModernAnzacs Go the big hairy spiders.

The first Royal Australian Artillery gun battery is in the final phase of Operational Conversion to the advanced new 155mm Huntsman Self Propelled Artillery System. Details, units, new artillery capability, 155mm munitions, pix australiandefender.com.au

Bystanders work together to prevent teens from stealing alcohol from Australian liquor store, without resorting to physical violence

@Peter_Fitz Read the audio book yourself. It adds strength to the listen.

Hurrah! Very strong cover. Congrats.

@MmarianneJoseph They were bored and under-utilised in a shit hole, and some had been away from home for five years.

@JPDoyle8 Interesting, I am still finding out about it, it seems a very unusual episode for Australian forces from what I can tell. I wonder whether the personalities of the mutineers was a factor.

This is quite a niche historical issue but if anyone can recommend a reputable book or article on this mutiny it would be greatly appreciated! From what I can tell so far it has perhaps only been covered tangentially. Relevant to an article I am planning.

@TroyBramston @NSWLabor …And corrupt as fvck. In a subtle way that later Labor fat-cats could never emulate.

It’s 50 years since Neville Wran led NSW Labor to power on 1 May 1976. It took 10 days before the result was clear. He won three more elections and was hugely popular. Urbane, witty, shrewd, he left a big legacy. He showed Labor how to win and govern. #auspol #nswpol #onthisday

@ModernAnzacs How vulnerable is it to a $10k drone? Or 100 x $10k drones. Or 43,333 x $10k drones. Which equates to the cost of each aircraft. Large expensive military platforms are redundant.

The Royal Australian Air Force's final Poseidon has rolled off the Boeing production line and taken its first contractor flight. Details, background, program, units, timeline, pix @LookTheA380/planespotters.net

@Peter_Fitz Yeah. Old news Pete. If you stated on BlueSky you’ve known this 2 weeks ago. The Saudis need cash to pay stipends to the clans to hold their coalition together. They’re also cashing in US treasury bonds and selling gold, which is why gold is going down instead of up.

Listen, I think I mentioned, yes, "I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO~!"?? It was a disgrace from the beginning, and a complete and utter failure as an alternative comp. Nice work, Greg. Saudis to end LIV golf funding after pouring in $5 billion smh.com.au/sport/saudis-t…

@VolodyaTretyak Oligarchism

What is the name of such interior style? 🤔

Our Embassy in Canberra is expanding. We’ve welcomed a new batch of cockatoos to the team — highly vocal, well connected, and never shy to make a statement. Natural diplomats 🇺🇦🇦🇺

A 7-year-old boy slept under a bridge in London. No shoes. No food. No one who knew his name. A young stranger stopped and asked him a simple question — and what the child said next changed history forever. His name was Jim. The year was 1866. London was choking under black factory smoke, and the East End was a maze of sewers, starvation, and invisible children. Jim was one of them — filthy clothes, matted hair, eyes that held pain no child should ever know. Thomas Barnardo was just a 21-year-old medical student, quietly preparing to travel to China as a missionary. Then he met Jim crouched in a doorway, shivering. "Are there more like you?" Thomas asked. "Heaps of 'em, sir," Jim whispered. "More than I can count. We sleep where the dogs won't go." A few days later, Jim was dead. He died alone in the cold, another child the city had simply forgotten to notice. Thomas Barnardo never boarded that ship to China. Instead, in 1870, he opened a small home for abandoned boys in East London. Above the door, he hung a sign that read: "No destitute child will ever be refused admission." One night, the home was full and he turned a boy away. Two days later, that same child was found dead from hunger and cold. Thomas wept. He made a vow he never broke: the door would always open. When critics told him he was crazy and would run out of money, he kept building. More homes. Foster families. Vocational training. He gave street children — children people called "rats" — a trade, a name, and a future. He didn't ask for papers. He didn't ask for backgrounds. He simply opened the door. By the time Thomas Barnardo died in 1905, he had rescued more than 60,000 children from the streets of Britain. Today, Barnardo's is still one of the UK's largest children's charities — still keeping a dead boy's whispered words alive, 160 years later. Everything began with one man who stopped walking, looked down, and truly saw a child that the rest of the world had decided wasn't worth seeing. Tag someone who still believes one person can change everything. 💙

@SandraEckersley @MargaretHollin1 What’s wrong with this bloke?

THiS is what Kerry Stokes chooses for #AnzacDay in The West Australian. A man charged with murdering unarmed civilians and condemned by the witness statements of more than 20 fellow soldiers. Pathological support for war crimes. #auspol

@Billbrowder The EU could apply enough pressure to dissuade Orban from going down a despotic path. No such oversight exists in the USA. Trump and his cartel WILL attempt to nullify election results. The only question is how successful he’ll be.

Same was true in Hungary and look what happened to Orban. Not a good omen for Trump if he continues to throw his lot in with Putin.

Perhaps, then, you could restore the graves of Australian diggers you bulldozed in Gaza. The hypocrisy is next level.

@RoyalFamily Your Majesty. This is a letter from your Grandfather to my Grandmother. Lest we forget.

Today is #ANZACDay – which honours the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served and died in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.

@Billbrowder Business as usual for Switzerland. They’re all crooks. It’s what they do. Don’t believe otherwise and you won’t be disappointed.

Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a damning resolution on Switzerland’s mishandling of the Magnitsky money laundering investigation and handing millions back to the Russian perpetrators. An ugly chapter in Swiss history pace.coe.int/en/files/36010…

@PeterCronau He’s a Colonel, not a General, and always will be because he’s been passed over more than once. He’s in a dead-end posting making a pest of himself as passed-over colonels are want to do. He’s saying stupid shit because there’s no ambassador to tell him to shut the fuck up.

Another visiting American General bullies and orders Australia around again. Americans come here demanding we become a war-fighting base for the planned US war on China. Are we just another proxy? #thetargetischina thenightly.com.au/politics/visit…

⚡️ Prince Harry has arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit

@Tendar @IanMT492 Everything burns in hydrocarbon plants, but they’re a bit like gum trees, designed for that contingency. What you see in a refinery fire 🔥 is often just product burning rather than infrastructure. Still it’s good.

The latest video coming from the refinery in Tuapse, Krasnodar region, in Russia shows that basically the entire facility is burning. I’m saying that this facility is a total loss.