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Hang on, are we saying that if we make cuts to services/programs, we don't spend as much money? These guys are geniuses!

Makes total sense from the free speech warriors

Exceptional planning right there…

I agree with the second statement here wholeheartedly. But gee the 'first responsibility of govt is to protect us' rubbish really gets my goat. Who said it was and when did we all agree to it? It reeks of paternalism, not to mention propaganda to justify warmongering and other atrocities.

‘Taxpayers fund…’ Atrocious framing from ABC News. Who else would be paying them? I’d rather my taxes fund this than a third-rate news service. (To be clear, I don’t want to stop funding the ABC, I want their News department to be first-rate again.)

Absolutely mind-bogglingly extraordinary from Trump, reported like he just ordered a sandwich. wtf abc news australia?!

Fancy giving this bunch of complete nut-jobs such a big platform…

Does 3D printing count as a sculpture?

Oh my, what is going on at ABC News? It really takes some effort and, more pertinently, determination to twist a good news story into a bad one like this.

Appalling framing, ABC News.

Breaking news: Labor Premier tries to keep Labor voters. And then there's also this 'analysts say' rubbish, as if ON gaining power isn't in actual fact terrifying. All sorts of wrong, ABC News Australia.

The brilliant inventiveness of big tech strikes again. The automatic dishwasher has been around for about 100 years already.

So bigotry then

James Baldwin on why he did not join the Nation of Islam also offers one of the most cogent explanations for why political Zionism in its current ultranationalist form has been so damaging to Jewish culture.

Thanks for promoting this populist rubbish without context, ABC. You really are determined to sell out the majority of Australians you're meant serve.

How does Michelle Grattan still have a job?

AI is eating web traffic, websites are blocking AI, and reliable information is getting harder to find. "For now...the best thing you can do is scroll down and click on some actual search results..." theconversation.com/ai-is-eating...

Critics claim trans people ‘defy biology’. New research suggests otherwise theconversation.com/critics-clai...

I like Emma but seriously, this is half a step removed from click bait. The deal was done before *these guys* were in power and will last well after they're gone. It's not a decision you change based on how the wind's blowing right now. Whether AUKUS is good or bad is a completely different Q.

Can't for the life of me work out what the words and pictures about fire fighting have to do with this.

But at the same time slightly falling house prices represent a crisis

ABC News once again happy to amplify political shenanigans without context.

'...groups from across the political spectrum...' I'm wondering what the extreme left group(s) is/are?

It's possible they should have thought of this before investing heavily in said AI companies' products.

None were turfed into the creek but it looks like one was turfed into the garden bed

So nice of the abc to frame this as a PBS stoush and not a drug company gambit.

WTF is that picture?

abc's 4corners continues to do the media's heavy lifting: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

This an excellent analysis by Jeff Sparrow... we really do live in bizarro world. theconversation.com/friday-essay...

‘Leavitt to Fox’ is the perfect name for her

Great explainer on Australia's response to latest US pharmaceutical tariffs. Why TF can't 'normal' news media do this? theconversation.com/why-australi...

Also important to note Biden's rating followed a concerted effort in the media to portray the economy negatively (you could almost call it a campaign 🙃) and Trump's rating is despite the media largely ignoring reality or even talking the economy up...

We Do Care | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The nazis keep stirring up hate and division. At least this is a bit better than recent efforts from the abc: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

"Long overdue." Yes, really should have implemented it BEFORE we were sure it was near useless and far dangerous.

Today's comic in the Guardian: I'm worried about our brains in 2026. As more of the online world becomes fake and polarising, I hope that people start to return to reality. I plan on gazing at the moon, chatting with strangers and learning more about my local environment in 2026. Join me?

How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it theconversation.com/how-the-inte...

As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce theconversation.com/as-music-fes...

Extraordinary. And extraordinarily worrying. Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

And? What's the point of making this comparison exactly? Is this meant to be proof that Trump is better than Biden re: Gaza? Complete bollocks! He just wants his real estate development as soon as he can get it. At best they are as bad as each other.

Good from the abc... even though they've played their role in boosting so much of the misinformation they refer to. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I am perhaps warier of "shame overreach" than the author, but this, by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is a thing of beauty. It should be read and shared widely www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...