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Happy birthday Pauline. While you’re partying with another billionaire buddy, the rest of us showed up to Parliament to work for Australians.

Well worth a read. A useful antidote to the howls of rage from all the usual suspects.

The House of Representatives is debating and dividing on important changes to the NDIS. Not a single member of the Coalition has bothered to attend.

From my trip in January, a pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales. These used to be known as Major Mitchell cockatoos. Bird names change all the time and they are gradually removing human names, of which I approve.

Wilcox. #auspol #Sorry

Wilcox does another slammer!!! Love this one!

BREAKING🚨 Trump spent all week bragging that he got Stephen Colbert “fired.” Less than 24 hours later, Colbert was back on TV with Jack White, Eminem, Steve Buscemi, and Jeff Daniels — flipping him the bird from a tiny public access studio in Michigan. Thursday night, after 11 years, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ended on CBS. Trump immediately took a victory lap, posting an AI video of himself grabbing Colbert and throwing him into a dumpster, then dancing on the lid. He ranted that Colbert was “talentless,” celebrated that he was “finally finished,” and basically declared himself the man who got a critic taken off network TV. The party lasted about 23 hours. Friday at 11:30 p.m., Colbert popped back up — not on a major network, but on Monroe Community Media 1 in Monroe, Michigan, hosting the local public‑access show “Only in Monroe.” He read goofy local news, roasted his former bosses at CBS, and welcomed surprise guests Jack White and Jeff Daniels. Then came cameos from Steve Buscemi and hometown legend Eminem, who wandered onto the set just to show they were in on the joke. All that star power, crowding into a community‑access studio, just to send one message: you can’t cancel someone who won’t shut up. “It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,” Colbert deadpanned, before thanking Monroe Community Media for having him “before they get acquired by Paramount.” That’s the whole story in one line: Trump can lean on billionaires and corporate bosses. He can post his little AI cartoons. But he cannot actually make a voice disappear if that person is determined to keep talking — even if it’s from the most bare‑bones cable channel in Michigan. This is what authoritarian types never understand. Censoring a critic doesn’t kill the criticism. It amplifies it. By gloating over Colbert’s finale and literally sharing a fantasy of throwing him in the trash, Trump turned a late‑night host into a free‑speech folk hero. Instead of quietly exiting the stage, Colbert got a new, bigger story: the comic who went from CBS to public access overnight just to prove that comedy doesn’t belong to corporations or presidents. Now the clip that’s going viral isn’t Trump’s AI dumpster video. It’s Colbert sitting in a cramped local studio with Jack White and Eminem, laughing about how fast he bounced back. Everyone’s talking about the comedian Trump tried to erase — and how small, petty, and thin‑skinned the president looks in comparison. Whatever Colbert does next, he’s going to be living rent‑free in Trump’s head the entire time. And the more Trump tries to silence him, the louder that little public‑access studio in Monroe is going to sound.

How in the mind-blowing fuck do we live in a country where we’re constantly so incredibly duped and badly served by our highest-paid public servants who’re meant to work for Australia’s most needy and vulnerable but instead do anything fucking but? #NewsCorpse

I am a card carrying atheist, but I’m increasingly liking this Pope. nytimes.com/2026/05/25/wor… via @NYTimes

Another unforgettable guest on the little wireless program. I can still see this brilliant, beautiful and inspiring woman sitting opposite me in the studio.

Bridget McRorter in hot water & facing calls to resign after slugging taxpayers for flights and accommodation to attend son’s wedding in Tasmania.🙄 The gravy train never stops with McKenzie. As shameless as they come. #auspol

AFL games record broken, one of the greatest comebacks ever & huge game between two flag aspirants...massive Saturday all hidden behind a paywall on a shitty & overpriced app. No FTA AFL on Saturdays might end up being the single worst decision the AFL ever ticked off on IMO.

A fresh, bold, youthful approach for the Liberals ! Out with the tired old ways ! New thinking, exciting new policies ! Onwards… …the 19th century awaits !

RETWEET if you stand with Stephen Colbert against Donald Trump!

Phil Cleary is a VFA legend but far more importantly a tireless campaigner on male violence against women since the murder of his sister Vicki in 1987. Nearly 40 years on, the stats remain horrific & toxic masculinity still a scourge. Vicki Cleary Day is significant. Support it.

Global outrage at Israel’s brutal mistreatment of the western Flotilla activists. Deafening silence when Israeli so-called ‘settlers’ attack Palestinians in the West Bank, killing families, seizing their homes and farms, bulldozing their olive trees. The. hypocrisy is disgusting

NEW: Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, Ariana Debose, Harvey Guillen, Alan Cumming, Sally Field, Yvette Nicole Brown, Connie Britton, Brad Whitfield, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen ahead of Stephen Colbert's final show tonight: "We’re going to carry forward the torch Stephen held so high."

Hi, thankfully, all of the people who sailed with GSF, myself included, were released this morning after extremely severe abuse and mistreatment by the Israelis, from the container ship prison boat to Ashdod port to Kitziot. There is much more to report and say about our detainment, but I can say it's worse than ive experienced across my times in Israeli custody. If they can do these heinous things to us, just imagine what they can and been documented doing to Palestinians---every day and without accountability. GSF participants spent the whole day giving legal testimony, getting full physicals and blood and urine testing, and receiving medical care. More soon. Will be taking and reporting testimonies and sharing more of my experience. ✌️

If a Palestinian person had harmed an Israeli anywhere Australia’s media would be screaming blue bloody murder from the rooftops for days ATM … but an Israeli GOVERNMENT MINISTER joking while harming actual Australians live on camera has been addressed just briefly and ONCE on @ABCaustralia in the entire past hour. The media are not our friends. In fact, they are cunts. #NewsCorpse

Rachel Withers from Crikey and a glossary “to help you navigate the hysterical language being thrown at Labor’s tax reforms” “Claim: New taxes. Reality: A reduction in tax breaks that favour passive income over wages. The claim is untrue and is being parroted by the coalition, the media and Tim Wilson’s latest data harvesting project. There is no new tax. CGT already exists. Tax on gains will be less generously discounted and tied to inflation as it was before John Howard. Claim: Tax grab. Reality: Government has the right to raise revenue to pay for spending - and this isn’t a lot in the scheme of things. The insinuation that the government raising revenue — removing tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit the rich — is a “draconian” “attack” on personal finances is ridiculous, playing into “taxation is theft”-style thinking. Nevermind that those currently negatively gearing can continue to do so under grandfathering rules, and that CGT and trust changes only apply from 2027 and 2028. The phase-out couldn’t be more gentle. Claim: Broken promises. Reality: Labor has taken action that media outlets expressly demanded it rule out. You won’t find “maintain CGT and negative gearing” among Labor’s 2025 election commitments. These were changes certain journalists demanded Anthony Albanese “rule out” on the campaign trail, based on suspicions that Labor might return to these increasingly unjustifiable tax breaks. Claim: Death tax. Reality: Changes to trusts will hit a tiny minority of wealthy beneficiaries of wealthy estates. It’s a scare campaign. No tax will be taken when assets are passed on - and that 30% won’t apply to fixed trusts, just discretionary ones. Claim: Assault on aspiration. Reality: Our housing market is already killing aspiration, with tax breaks advantaging those with the capital who are making things worse. Removing tax breaks that benefit those with the most is a step towards restoring aspiration for everyone else. Claim: Anthony Albanese owns 47% of our business. Reality: Entrepreneurs may pay a bigger tax bill if they sell their start-up for a huge profit… as they should. The 47% memes once again imply that people who make big profits on investments should get special tax discounts, unavailable to everyone else. This is the area in which the government has seen the most unexpected backlash, and one in which it’s now consulting on how to prevent unintended consequences. But is there a good reason that founders selling for huge profits shouldn’t pay the marginal tax rate that workers pay? The government, of course, already taxed gains from selling start-ups, albeit less generously — and that didn’t put people off starting them. (Rachel Withers - Crikey)