Russell Yardley

@bob_parto Your entitled to your opinion as am I. The ALP, Greens and Teals all support it and they represent the largest majority of Australians. The LNP and One nation who supported your position don’t add up to 40%. Sussan Ley has made her support very clear. Your views are held by few.

I'm over this sh1t.

@M_Demo1 @Tim_jbo The leader of any group is but a reflection of the group. Don’t look at the leader to identify the problem look at the organisation!

@Tim_jbo Picked two wrong leaders in a row. Hat tricks on

Rumour has it that the Liberal Party is in panic mode. They picked the wrong leader, and even the moderates know it.

@KosSamaras @clovis_dm I sometimes hear people cheering Gaza or Ukraine wars as though they are in the grandstand at a footy match and you would think their lives depended on it - the tragedy is that they don’t and never have!

@clovis_dm David - you sure Australian troops are in Iran? Because if that’s not the case then you are indeed doing that right now.

Once again, the Left is outraged that the federal Labor government hasn’t condemned the U.S. bombing of Iran with sufficient fury. And once again, the Right is incensed that it didn’t cheerlead the strike quickly enough. Remarkably, both sides are still wrong, just as they were in the lead-up to the federal election, when the loudest voices on both extremes of the Middle East debate not only lost the argument but also lost their seats. Now, I say this not as a commentator, but as a researcher, one armed with a strong dataset - Labor actually winning 94 seats. Australians aren’t interested in ideological performance art. They are not clamouring for moral absolutism from either fringe. They expect their government to act soberly, cautiously, and in the national interest. But some, keep shouting into the void. Because if there’s one thing May 3rd taught us, it’s that performative outrage, whether draped in a keffiyeh or clutching a Stars and Stripes, doesn’t win elections in this country. It alienates the very centre-ground that actually decides them.

As someone working and investing in science commercialisation Leigh is spot on. We will see a terrible drop in the number of investors doing what we need than to do invest in Australia’s future!

@craigthomler @tw4goldstein Craig I expect you will be consistent and be as critical of the others who have celebrated their opponents defeat. You should also post praise for Peter Dutton on his most gracious acceptance of his own defeat. Send me a link to your posts I look forward to reading them.

I didn’t think this day could get any better, and yet - here we are!

As progressive politics slides further into cultural theatrics, the left must choose: double down on spectacle or rebuild trust through substance. This essay calls for a return to serious politics. russellyardley.substack.com/p/beyond-dark-…

@NGruen1 My problem with it was the tone, it leans toward despair and resignation rather than constructive hope. I’m very down on post-modernism, to me objective truth, evidence is important. Undermining expertise and knowledge is dangerous. The quote links knowledge only to power. Bad.

@rmyardley My fault then. It was powerful for me - I was reading the book.

Powerful passage "This is where we break the trance of Western culture. It has served its purpose in supporting this story, but there is no reason to remain in thrall to its illusions. Calling attention to the seduction, and recognizing our vulnerability to it, might also protect us from becoming further entrapped in the reigning (un)realities. Knowledge, children are taught, is power. Facts are a show of mastery over the earth, others, ourselves. And this conflation of knowledge with power is reflected in the barriers to high-quality education that sustain the status quo, with the legacy of the powerful secured and the usual power structures reinforcing their grip. The powerless and unknowledgeable are denigrated, meanwhile, because they might lack the rugged self-reliance and command of the facts that are so prized in this civilization of imperialists, civilizers, and colonizers, wielding “knowledge” to dominate and control. One of our defining fictions is a merit-driven individualism, with everyone getting exactly what he deserves. The losers in that equation are deemed an inescapable aspect of progress: the weak and ignorant suffer so that the deserving and knowing might get their due. We have fallen prey to that civilized habit of reimagining ourselves in line with certain power-intoxicated unrealities: “progress,” “success,” “wealth,” “knowledge,” among other fictions. There may come a day when we have reimagined the world so entirely there is nothing left but scorched earth and mirages—when what remains is a barren wasteland, with all the progress, wealth, and knowledge in the world incapable of sustaining a single living being. This is not some future fantasy. A regime of (un)realities has been metastasizing its necrotic way steadily into everything: our water, our air, our flesh. We might register the violence, sickness, and perversity, even if we feel too powerless or personally embattled to do much about it. Where to start, what to even do. The wars deepen, the seas grow more clotted with plastic and isotopes. A resignation settles in, one epidemic after another: meth, opioids, social media, loneliness, suicide, fentanyl, extremism, forever chemicals, depression, overdose. We take our daily medicines, our poisons. Material gain, technological attainment, power over others, power over ourselves, all the insipid fantasies and lullabies with which we consume ourselves—it should come as no surprise why so many of us will seek, with the same propulsive individualism, to make a home in our own minds, in our own addictions. The comforts on sale and permitted are tame in comparison to the private terrors and ecstasies of an imagination crystalline and compact, be it intoxicated, exalted, completely mad. At least we might find, with each intoxication, a glimmer of that blessed dawn and its Absolutes." The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality and our Search for Meaning: Dakwar, Elias: amazon.com.au/Captive-Imagin…

@NGruen1 No I have not read the book. I was responding to what you said was a powerful quote. It was posted in isolation with one comment. No context. I disagreed. The quote only contain negative ideas and nothing to replace what it was condemning. That’s not powerful.

@rmyardley He's not arguing against science or Western culture. You really do need to read it in context.

The Regressive Turn of Progressive Politics: Trump’s Return and the Backlash Against Moral Elitism open.substack.com/pub/russellyar…

@TheOnlyEsta So you would like Trump to be able to run again? In a democracy you don’t make a sword that you would not like your worst enemy to wield!

HYPOTHETICALLY‼️ If Barack could run for president in 2028 would YOU vote for him? YES or NO

@dalfonso @3AW693 Could please share your financial analysis that NSW and Victoria are similar? I look forward see a link to any such analysis as I must have missed it.

@3AW693 Meanwhile in NSW, similar financials to Victoria, they have just completed an underground tunnel twice the size of SRL & just about to start on another one. Better for Tom to address why the Vic Liberals are an A grade election losing machine & get out of the way of progress

@Jochapman24Jc @craigkellyXXX No I read the paper! Words have meaning.

@rmyardley @craigkellyXXX There are so many studies about the harms from the jab now.. You're just repeating what the Government has told you, it saved millions of lives, how can that be proved? How do low vax countries not have excess mortality?

COVID VACCINE CATASTROPHE New study published 18th December 2024 confirms the worst fears. The covid vaccines were a huge gamble because there was no long term safety data. And the data now confirms that that gamble was a catastrophic error. For while this new study found a 4 to 8% decrease in the risk of death for those vaccinated in the medium term, in the longer term, the risk of death was 69 to 94% higher for the vaccinated. So for a negligible benefit against Covid, after one year the benefit was reversed and the vaccinated showed a substantially greater risk of death. The study’s authors suggest that "the Covid 19 vaccines may have an indirect effect on the immune system" and the effects "could contribute to an increased risk of death from other causes over time." frontiersin.org/journals/medic… The Covid vaccines should be immediately pulled off the market. And those that lined up to be injected, based upon politicians promises of "safe & effective" should be absolutely furious.

@anti_illiwacker @craigkellyXXX What you say here does not make sense and refers to no evidence. The paper provides a well structured and evidence based paper. Craig uses it in a very illegitimate way.

@rmyardley @craigkellyXXX All cause mortality suggests the vax saved no one. Everything else is based on assumptions.

@ron_mccallum @SandyXiaotong I’ve worked with scientists much of my 45 year career. How many years and which scientific organisations have you worked with? We are discussing scientific and economic reports not boasts of any side of politics by parliamentarians. Don’t obfuscate or deflect address the issue.

@rmyardley @SandyXiaotong So by that theory we will ignore the government's boasting about renewable energy, because it was the same agency that come out with those figures!

CSIRO: in a devastating blow, the science agency CSIRO was humiliated today by Frontier Economics and shown to be nothing more than a partisan marketing mouthpiece for Chris Bowen - who is only 4ft9. When Dutton is PM, he will have to clean-house #auspol

@MichaelSarri @3AW693 And you don’t?

@3AW693 It's because these people exist in an echo chamber obliviously huffing the vintage of each-others farts.

After his comments, he's been shocked to have been called an 'embarrassment to Australia'. 😳 MORE 👉 nine.social/S5P

@goodfoodgal Your ignorance of science is obvious.

Hey everyone! Guess what? It’s winter. Which means it goes from being hot in summer to cold right now. That climate change really does a number right?

@migtronix @JoshButler Before you claim the moral high ground what do you say about Hamas? What do you say about the women, children and babies murdered and raped by the Palestinians on 7 Oct? Point out to me which Arab states provide a democratic, fair and pluralist society that we might admire?

@JoshButler Would alboo be able to find his conscience on that map?

PM Albanese on 3AW radio, asked about pro-Palestine uni protesters and "from the river to the sea" chant PM says "I reckon if you asked those people chanting it, heaps of them wouldn't have a clue, wouldn't be able to find the [river] Jordan on a map"