Damian Smith

@DuchesssNewTown @Biggy1883 @vogrady2132 I keep reading what I "called" on election night. 99% of the seat predictions on election night are automated. It is only when a result is obviously wrong that I intervene. I do sit down after the coverage and review every seat and my memory is having Goldstein in doubt.

@Vk2Lj No. They write to the Returning Officer for Canberra informing them that they cannot vote given their position, and the Returning Officer writes back accepting their excuse for not voting.

Early voting has finished. More than 6.77m people cast a pre-poll vote, 1.64m completed postal votes have been returned so far & 155,000 people voted with a mobile team. 👇

Can we stop rating women at the Brownlow now? AFL players' partners divulge ‘lifelong body dysmorphia’ from online trolling. Comments along the vein of 'I thought WAGs were supposed to be skinny'. Latest for @abcsport: abc.net.au/news/2025-04-0…

Turnout for the 2025 WA election has reached 85.1%, passing turnout for the 2021 election.

A table that explains how Labor defeated Kate Hulett in Fremantle. Hulett won the polling day vote but there were more Pre-Poll, Postal and Absent votes than polling day votes and Labor won these categories easily to retain Fremantle after an election day fright. #wapol

Some next-level trolling here from @Unions_WA

Election analyst Antony Green says the result for the Liberals is a "disaster" for the Liberals, as Labor — led by Roger Cook — secures another thumping victory in the west. ab.co/4i8ODBG

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has returned from Vegas. Asked if he’d go again in a cyclone - “Hindsight is a wonderful thing”

Ah, yes, "Tes Thdpssssps".

So… not ad-free, then? @DisneyPlus

Executing a handshake = tougher than it looks 😂

@Robert__Rennie Hi Robert! Any chance of a follow back so I can DM you?

What am I thinking on commodity prices? Crude: No change in our views that Brent has the potential to test up towards the April highs, and possibly up to $85 given the backdrop of the extension of OPEC production cuts; increasingly aggressive US and European sanctions on Russia; bouts of freezing weather across the UK, Europe and the US; the sharp rise in LNG prices; the potential coming tariffs on Canadian crude; a likely “maximum pressure” Trump campaign on Iran; and a more aggressive stance on Venezuela all in the weeks ahead. However, RSI’s have hit overbought levels last seen when we were up at the highs back in April suggesting that much of the ‘good news’ is now in the price and it would need another aggressive step up in sanctions on Russia for Brent to crack up above $85. Now that could still be seen. Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week was quoted as saying he would “be 100% on board for taking sanctions up, especially on [Russian] oil majors”, suggesting that Rosneft may be targeted. Rosneft accounts for more than 40% of Russia’s crude shipments to foreign markets, and direct sanctions would materially harm flows, adding to an already tight market. We remain focused on the fact that US crude inventory has fallen for the last the eight consecutive weeks for a cumulative drop of 17.7mb since the end of November to hit the lowest level for this time of year since 2018. That leaves our global measure of crude inventory at the lowest level in at least the last 5yrs, suggesting that even if we don’t see a material step up in US sanctions on Russia, Iran and possibly Venezuela, then prices will be well supported. Bottom line, we remain in ‘buy the dip’ mode and still expect to see $83/85 being tested in the weeks ahead. Metals: We remain focused on rising copper production and Trump’s tariff and trade wars plus geopolitical risks which should all weigh on prices. However, the devil will be in this week’s details from Team Trump, and we are seeing clear signs that Chinese housing activity improved sharply into the end of last year. So a close above $9,200 would add to the idea that improved risk sentiment could lift copper up towards the 200dma at $9,480, though we would look to fade such a move. On aluminium, we surged above $2,600 despite China announcing a fresh all-time record for production at 3.77mt in December, up 4.2%yy. We had expected to see a slowdown post the removal of export VAT rebates at the beginning of December, though we may have to wait for January and February data to see that slowdown as Chinese producers max output to ‘get stuff out the door’ ahead of the coming trade wars. However, technically, the surge above $2,600 adds to our view that we will see a push up to $2,700 and then $2,800 in the weeks ahead, though Trump risks are high this week. Iron ore: As we noted last week, iron ore looks set to continue pushing higher above $100, helped by signs of restocking into the Lunar New Year holiday which commences next week. Last week’s China data also confirmed a marked improvement in housing activity data into the end of last year. However, we stick to the view that we should be capped by the $105/110 region given close to record inventory levels and rising supply as Rio brings on the Western Range project in the Pilbara in the first half of this year, and we see first iron ore from the Simandou hit the market later this year. We see prices weakening as we move through 2025, with the potential for low $70s to be seen late this year.

Noting that electrification of our homes is one the best ways to bring down emissions and bills, I looked at what Australian states were doing to help their residents get off gas and electrify their homes.

the most wholesome video you will EVER see 🥹 #AFLWDraft | #foreverfreo

FASTEST 16-year-old EVER 👀 🇦🇺's Gout Gout storms to 20.04 over 200m in Brisbane 🔥 Oceania record ✅ National record ✅ Fastest time ever by a 16-year-old ✅ 2nd on the U18 all-time list ✅ Peter Norman's Australian record stood for 56 years 😮‍💨 📸 Casey Sims

@jimmywilliams03 @1116sen @SENWestAus Nina is a weapon either way, but fwiw, was actually first reported by @bonnieluise on the front page of @POSTNewspapers last Friday: issuu.com/postnews/docs/…

Gold medal Olympian Nina Kennedy reveals on Instagram she wasn’t fully fit when she won in Paris! 🥇 That’s wild, imagine the new heights she could get to. @1116sen | @SENWestAus

The exact moment a single drop of rain becomes one with the sea. (I waited very patiently for this shot.)

At one point we even conducted an experiment: FOI for information we knew @fk_media had published in its annual report. “The information you are requesting is confidential”

Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!