Steve Baty (He/him)

Meet Andrew Rowse! Melbourne City Councillor, engineer and innovation advocate, Andrew believes Victoria has enormous untapped potential. He’s standing for the Australian Democrats to champion evidence over ideology, accountability and fresh thinking. vic.democrats.org.au/posts/meet-a... #auspol

Woolworths do not need to raise prices because inflation is up. Inflation is up because Woolworths are boosting their profits by raising prices.

I get that taxing gas is attractive, but it is simply putting a price tag on the environment. Policies that make more sense to me include clamping down on profit-shifting offshore; increasing taxes on corporate profits; removing subsidies for fossil fuel extraction & use.

Imagine what we could save if we cut Defense spending

Business Councils (like Advertising Councils) are the last century’s functional Sith Lords. Their members were part of setting up Atlas Network think tanks for propaganda at a remove. The fewer rights, protections, you have the better. The worse your pay, the better. #Auspol #SpringSt

Received edited draft back from the publisher. Looking through the proposed changes/queries and expecting "WTF were you trying to say here?!" but so far, it's been minor.

Shout out to the driver of the silver hatchback who drove through a pedestrian/bike crossing on Bourke St this morning. Fortunately I'd stopped mid-crossing because I could see he wasn't watching the road. He seemed surprised to see me there when he hit the raised crossing and looked up.

On November 14 I'll be joining 100 other cyclists riding from Bondi to Berry raising money for Dementia Research Community to fund research into dementia. You can donate to the cause here: drc.supporterhub.net.au/fundraising/...

Huge congratulations to my friend Daniel Puskas and his restaurant, sixpenny for winning Good Food Guide Restaurant of the Year!

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... Glad this report has been handed out. The findings aren’t a surprise. Hopefully action will be taken to address the pretty glaring flaws in the approach.

Just out of a customer research session looking at a piece of transport infrastructure. Customer: “Why don’t they have people like you look at aged care?”

Big news out of Brazil. Lula re-elected.

In other news, Hell yeah Serbia!

CPI data is due out this Wednesday. It'll be one of the key pieces of information the RBA ignores when raising interest rates in November.

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

Western Sydney International airport saw its first passenger services yesterday in an event that’s been decades in the making.

Taken this morning on my ride

I make a decent living helping governments listen to people *before and during* the initial design decision-making process so as to avoid backflips due to ‘backlash’. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

This is great to see! bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/202...

This is similar to the way I quote cycling-related purchases

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... This is absurdly credulous: “Production won't ramp up until 2028…”

The extension to the Sydney Metro M1 line between Sydenham and Bankstown will run its first passenger services on Friday October 30. Say goodbye to the train replacement buses and hello Metro. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Sunrise on the Bay Run during this morning’s ride

Instead of cutting 6% of its workforce NAB could have reduced all staff work hours by 2hrs and still make $10bn in annual profits.

I need a second opinion, folks. My wife doesn’t think “We’re not here to fuck spiders” is appropriate language for an email to a client who’s been dicking around.

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Very frustrating interaction with a client coming on a day where my glass is already full from the attack on Haines. Not thrilled

I'd filed a Hanson/ Lambie cartoon for today but it seemed a bit tin eared with what's happened in Indi so I did a new, last minute one this morning. I had a few ideas about division & dark days but thought I'd focus on something that's bringing people together instead. Here's to Helen Haines.

What's somewhere nice to have lunch in Sydney?

I saw the announcement earlier about new leadership for NACC. I will remain unconvinced until I see them start some real investigations.

#BREAKING 🚨 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Indi MP Helen Haines was "attacked" when she was struck by a vehicle outside her electorate office in Victoria earlier this afternoon, with one suspect in custody "We are praying for her full recovery...the motive is not known"

Haines is one of the very best in our parliament. This is awful.

My wife and I did an ancestry.com dna thing to see where our families originated and I’m seven layers of snowflake. Nothing outside the British isles. Scotland, northern ireland, northern England; bit of wales and Southern Ireland.

An amazing number of people think Tesla showed off a flying car last week.

Yesterday’s coffee conversation with my wife landed on the idea that the reason we only experience time in one dimension is because we’re sitting on the surface of 5 or 6 dimensional space time with multiple temporal dimensions. But like a circle on a piece of paper, we can’t access them.

Your kids can’t receive free tertiary education* because of fairytales like AUKUS and ‘tax cuts for the wealthy are good for the economy’. * or dental care or decent public schools or …

Earned it

Up earlier than I’d planned but I think that just I’ll head out riding earlier. Might get an extra couple of laps around the park in.

Cycling event this weekend: the Bowral Classic 2026. 152km of rolling terrain through the southern highlands. Aiming for around 7hrs elapsed time.

Policy related to fossil fuels in this country are a complete clown show.

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