John Gildea

@spacelander4 Agree, six agains have really changed the game

Just when you start to get excited about a tight contest, the referee awards another few 6 agains and before you know it, it's yet another blowout. #nrl #6again #blowout #nrlsharkstigers

@Mon4Kooyong @JaneCaro Like the US Tele evangelists they need their private planes to speed up the good work….

Nothing says ‘there for Aussie battlers’ like accepting a $1m jet from Gina Rinehart because you don't want to have to talk to normal people on normal planes. Another day, another headline about Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson spending their time and taxpayers’ money slavering at the feet of Gina Rinehart and Donald Trump. abc.net.au/news/2026-04-3…

@JaneCaro He is a very good speaker; calm and knowledgeable

James Talarico is so impressive.

@Peter_Fitz Although taken and run with by Angus in fear of ON….

An excellent point.

@spacelander4 @AndrewRLP Surely it must be close.

@andrewrlp is this Dragons side the worst ever side in NRL /NSWRL history since 1908 after 8 rounds based on losses and for and against? #redv #redl #dragons #stgeorgeillawarra #nrl #nrlroostersdragons #diabolical

@atrupar @JaneCaro The US is in safe hands…..

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

@pmacpher3 @HendoWest @centralNRL I agree, he knows the KOE squad well and has had success with lower grade sides. Would have experienced assistants in Ennis and Young

@HendoWest @centralNRL Willie Talau is exactly the right call for interim.

St George Illawarra cancelled a scheduled training session as the club scrambles to appoint an interim coach following Shane Flanagan’s exit, with board disagreement delaying a decision. Dean Young remains the frontrunner but faces resistance, leaving other internal options in the mix. (CODE Sports, @MCarayannis) Full link: codesports.com.au/nrl/dragons-ca…

@JamesTate121 @JaneCaro Birth rates in SK have been declining for many years. Principal reason seems to be the cost of education ( cram schools) and access to the top three Unis.

Yup, the ladies do have the power!

@plzcallmechrist I love hardbacks but default to softbacks when travelling or reading in bed; god forbid, I even use a Kindle…..

@Baumann_Mac Some posts suggested he was told by his advisers to say it was doctored…. he just didn’t get it….

@spacelander4 @ProfJoannaHowe @HoytsAustralia @RitaPanahi @PaulineHansonOz @SenatorAntic @mattjcan Yes, Penrith has one

@ProfJoannaHowe @HoytsAustralia @RitaPanahi @PaulineHansonOz @SenatorAntic @mattjcan Hoyts is still around?

BREAKING: @HoytsAustralia has banned our screening of award-winning documentary It's A Girl which exposes female infanticide & strangulation and sex selective abortion, at its cinemas because it "does not align with its brand". Sign our petition exposing this shocking decision by Hoyts and stand with the 100 million girls missing worldwide, including in Australia. 🔗drjoannahowe.com.au/screenitsagirl

@MikeCarlton01 Seems they have decided the only way to combat the odious One Nation is to morph into their own version of them. Very sad but not unexpected

So it’s not the dog whistle from Taylor. It’s the full-on, racist brass band. He’s desperate to catch and overtake the odious Hanson. theguardian.com/australia-news…

@spacelander4 @athleticsregion On the radio one commentator said that time would have got him the Bronze medal at the last Olympics. He is a gun!

@athleticsregion And Gout is still only 18! 🙂🇦🇺

Men's 200m U20 All Time 🇺🇸 Erriyon Knighton - 19.49 🇦🇺 Gout Gout - 19.67 🆕 🇯🇲 Usain Bolt - 19.93 🇮🇱 Blessing Afrifah - 19.96 🇧🇼 Letsile Tebogo - 19.96 🇺🇸 Issamade Asinga - 19.97 🇺🇸 Xavier Butler - 20.02 🇦🇿 Ramil Guliyev - 20.04 🇺🇸 Lorenzo Daniel - 20.07 🇹🇭 P. Boonson - 20.07

@MikeCarlton01 The hubris seems limitless

Trump’s latest erection. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

@WildcatsMark Bludging on the blind side

Can someone please give me some NRL phrases or terms that make me sound like I know something about rugby? Asking for a friend…

@JaneCaro Yes, theocratic zealots not just the burden of Iran

The narcissism of theocrats is off the scale.

@holland_tom I would have preferred the bunny to deliver the address. At least he has credibility

Excited to contemplate what it will be like for historians of 21st century America, excavating the ruins of Washington in AD 4500, & coming across this footage preserved in the ruins. “Only with the blessing of the sacred rabbit would the American people go to war.”

@Peter_Fitz @Raymartin55 Essentially a MAGA theme transposed to here. Also he finished with making Australia great again!

The Opposition Leader says "we must dig, and we must drill," as in, dig for coal and drill for oil, I guess. For what it's worth, this was not the view of Professor Ty Christopher, serious energy expert, who I interviewed last week. #auspol

The Strait of Hormuz is not closed. It is sorted. Iran has built a three-tier access system for the most important waterway on earth. Tier one: allies transit free. Malaysia cleared seven vessels through diplomacy at zero cost. India negotiated zero-fee passage. Pakistan secured clearance for 20 ships. Iraq transits without charge. These countries proved geopolitical alignment and the IRGC waved them through the Larak corridor without collecting a rial. Tier two: compliant neutrals pay. At least two tankers, likely Chinese-linked, paid up to two million dollars each in yuan through Kunlun Bank intermediaries. COSCO container ships attempted the corridor, were turned back on first approach when documentation was incomplete, then succeeded days later with revised paperwork. These are the vessels that prove the system works. They submit IMO numbers, ownership chains, cargo manifests, and crew lists to the IRGC’s Hormozgan Command. They receive clearance codes. They are escorted by pilot boats through the five-nautical-mile channel between Qeshm and Larak. They pay in a currency that does not route through SWIFT. Every successful yuan transit is a live proof-of-concept for non-dollar energy settlement. Tier three: adversaries are denied entirely. The committee plan bans American vessels, Israeli vessels, and vessels from any country participating in sanctions against Iran. These ships do not get vetting. They do not get codes. They do not get escorts. They get the AL SALMI, burning off Dubai, as illustration of what the corridor looks like without permission. But the toll is not the real cost. War-risk insurance is. Premiums have surged from $40,000 per VLCC transit before the war to $600,000 to $1.2 million today, a 30-fold increase, now running five to ten percent of hull value. A VLCC carrying $50 million in crude oil can absorb a combined $3 million in toll and insurance as a fraction of cargo value. A container ship carrying $5 million in manufactured goods cannot. The insurance premium alone exceeds the profit margin on non-oil cargo. The strait has become an oil-only VIP lane. Crude flows selectively for those who can pay the combined cost. Everything else waits, reroutes around the Cape of Good Hope, or does not move at all. And the US Navy is not inside the strait. The Abraham Lincoln strike group operates from standoff in the Arabian Sea. Three Littoral Combat Ships sit in the Persian Gulf. Marine expeditionary units are positioned for contingency. But zero American warships have transited the strait or escorted commercial traffic since the war began. The Navy told the shipping industry it has “no availability” for Hormuz escorts. The world’s most powerful fleet keeps respectful distance from a waterway controlled by a country whose navy is 92 percent destroyed because the mines, drones, and shore missiles that remain make close-in presence prohibitively risky. The result is a geopolitical sorting algorithm operating at the molecular level. One hundred and eighty-one vessels transited in all of March. Pre-war traffic was 138 per day. Of those 181, roughly 70 percent were Iranian-affiliated. The remaining 30 percent were vetted allies or yuan-paying neutrals. The 20 percent of global oil that once flowed freely through this strait now flows selectively, conditionally, and in currencies chosen by Tehran. Iran lost its air force. It lost its navy. It lost two thirds of its production capacity. It retained the only thing that matters: 39 kilometres of coastline on both sides of the narrowest point. The US Navy will not enter. Chinese tankers will. And the sorting algorithm processes another vessel, collects another yuan payment, and demonstrates once more that geography is the one military asset that cannot be degraded by precision strikes. The strait is not closed. It is under new management. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@dcsandbrook @bookclubpodhq Loving the podcast and, perhaps best of all, Tabby has your measure! 😀

In today‘s episode of @bookclubpodhq, we explore one of the most influential novels ever written - Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. What inspired Mary to write the book? What are the ideas behind it? And who’s the real villain - Victor, or his monster? 🧌 linktr.ee/thebookclub