Chris Lewis

#hotfix - “Can you write and test a software fix in 2 hours? We’re orbiting the moon, can’t descend, kind of a wasted trip otherwise. Oh, and the end users have to deploy it.”

@Marwadi99 @mufaddal_vohra Hard to disagree with that - despite the result! 😄

@chris_analyst @mufaddal_vohra Edgbaston 2005 Probably the greatest test match of all time

Ben Stokes encouraging Siraj who was in tears after the defeat. 💔

@Marwadi99 @mufaddal_vohra I scrolled down looking for this photo. Freddie Flintoff and Brett Lee 👍 Cricket the winner on both occasions

@mufaddal_vohra Same to Same No difference

@RicFinlay Was this the year Qld chose to not enforce the follow-on in a late-season game, failed to win outright, and just missed the right to host the final?

The NSW Sheffield Shield champs for 1984-85 recently reunited for a 40th anniversary bash…

@australian This relies on the fuel companies cutting their prices by 25c. Will that happen? 🤨

Opinion: The Opposition Leader’s answer to Jim Chalmers’ $5-a-week tax cuts for 2026 will grab even more attention than Labor’s budget tax surprise and cost less than half as much: bit.ly/41JCL3s

@PeterDutton_MP But will the fuel companies pass on the price cut? Or just line their pockets?

Families and small businesses are doing it tough — and one of the biggest pressures is fuel. If elected, we’ll halve the tax on fuel for 12 months — saving families around $750 a year, or $1,500 for those with two cars.

@JeffBezos “You can trust the internet” says man who will only publish one side of the story.

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job. I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction. I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void. Jeff

@andrewckeith @plalor Ha ha!

@plalor I am sure he said “safe” or “over”.

@abcsport If a tree falls in the forest, and no-one hears it, the tree is not out.

What do you make of this, from the vice-president of the BCCI? 🤔 India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed on review in the second innings, but Rajeev Shukla says it shouldn't have happened. 🏏 #AUSvIND on ABC listen: ab.co/ABCListenApp

@_shortarmjab_ @MarkEMarkAU It was the end of the over. Konstas was batting, not Khawaja. Konstas is right handed. Kohli did the wrong thing - should have kept walking straight towards second slip.

@MarkEMarkAU He was going to second slip. Khawaja was batting. Konstas should have gone to his left

For those of you still thinking it was Konstas who initiated the impact, let me put it into cricket terms for you. #AUSvIND #konstas #kholi

@RicFinlay And hot… x.com/chris_analyst/…

Playing cricket in Brisbane in mid-December is risky…

@australian Nuclear energy in Australia: too little, too late, too risky, too expensive.

Opinion: The climate war is no longer a dispute between the left and the right. It is now an economic war. An ideological contest over how to get to where most people now accept is desirable: bit.ly/3ZOI8x3

As day 3 at Adelaide starts, the dew point is a comfortable 12.8 degrees C. At the same time at The Gabba, the dew point is 25.5 C. Anything above 24 is oppressive/possible heat stress. Pls, no criticism of the Gabba crowds next week. @CricketAus @plalor @qldcricket #AUSvIND

@matt_hudson @davefarley77 Ok, I lol’ed at that :-)

@davefarley77 Timing! What do comedy and race conditions have in common?

Give us your best software engineer's joke...

@australian So, just the right amount of government spending to avoid going into recession?

Economists have panned Labor’s record public spending, as economic growth in Australia slows to its lowest annual rate outside the pandemic since the early 1990s recession: bit.ly/3VjruTK

@australian The article criticises batteries and hydro as energy storers, not sources, without realising so too are coal and gas. The energy in fossil fuels also came from the sun. Coal is just a really inefficient, slow, polluting, single-use store of solar power.

Australians were given a glimpse of the future this week when the call went out for NSW consumers to cut their electricity use to stop the grid from collapsing: bit.ly/4i8Wv6L

@australian If only the Coalition had started taking climate change seriously years ago. No point complaining about “virtue-signaling feedback loops” while ignoring the fact that if we keep burning fossil fuels, we’ll need to work that aircon even harder… that’s an actual feedback loop.

On hot days a decade ago we would crank up our airconditioners, and now we are told to turn them down or face blackouts. Wouldn’t you love to see Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s thermostat? bit.ly/3AYGWOh

@samuelbarry04 @simonahac If only wealthy people, or only city people, can afford to go to uni, then the gap between wealthy and poor, and the gap between city and country, will get larger.

wonder if anyone cares.

@australian Greg Sheridan holds western democracy dearly, but doesn’t address how Trump will trash it. So much attacking of the “left” but the damage will be done by the right. So much railing against the progressives only to release the revolutionary.

There’s always the chance Donald Trump will make such a mess of things that his revolution is short-lived … but he has the opportunity, if he governs well, to produce permanent change: bit.ly/4hGUuyj

@QLDLabor Tough on crime, but shutting down an inquiry of historical wrongs? Sounds a bit like a double-standard

Crisafulli’s cuts have started ✂️✂️✂️

@ChrisWh53353405 @terkey76 A *monthly* bill, no less!

@terkey76 So lets get this right - people are deserting the ALP because of in large part - Cost of Living worries. Only to vote in Dutton - who has a nuclear policy that uses exactly the same reactor models that is currently resulting in a US monthly power bill of over $600 US dollars.

Ted O’Brien on nuclear power - “when Australians put their mind to something they can get it done.” From the government that couldn’t get a carpark built in nine years in office. #4corners