Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.
I mean we aren't doing Shia / Sunni but we should be doing various degrees of "are you in a particular church in full communion with Rome / do you ride a cargo bike"?
Kitty/Inner West HansardBetween the Maronite Catholics and the Bicyclists trying to rig the census so they get more stuff, my statistics trained heart is having palpitations
I have, kid you not, used “thin tissue of odious lies” which is a phrase I learned from a Peter Cook comedy recording my Dad played for me.
Patrick StokesOne day I will use 'rotten cadre of finks' in anger and never be able to explain why
Imagine the ads for this during the footy though. Product would do numbers..........
Django WexlerSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
More medals than Major General Corporal MacArthur!
Helen KennedyThis guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
ABC News Bot (unofficial)An interim report has confirmed a runaway coal train reached speeds well in excess of the safe limit and rolled backwards for 5 kilometres before coming to a halt.
I love that there's some mushy ice on the ground and Kiwis start doing Yo Full Sick Tony Hawk down a suburban side street where Death Via Hitting An Old Parked Camry"is the main chance www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
New Zealand capital delights in rare snowfall as southern city residents ski down world’s steepest streetSnow falls in Wellington for the first time in 15 years while snow blanketed Dunedin and Christchurch on the country’s south islandwww.theguardian.comThe ABC managing to run this without mentioning there is currently no way to refuel our one Antarctic research / supply ship in Hobart.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)The aging Macquarie Wharf 6 on Hobart's waterfront is being dismantled as part of a project to deliver a modern home port for RSV Nuyina.
Is needing to blow up the Danube riverbed to try and provide emergency supplies of cooling water to a nuclear power plant A Good Thing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactorHungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce outputwww.theguardian.comAnd now a One Nation Senator and national spokesperson on Parking Meter Fraud and the Feral Goat Industry.
Christopher Owen12 years ago #NeverForget
The unprecedented wildfires have revealed buried munitions from the global war of annihilation with the fascists. Nature is healing.
AFP News AgencyWWII shells surface in wildfire-ravaged French village Around 400 shells and pieces of ammunition have been recovered in the area where over 180 homes were ravaged by flames u.afp.com/SHUK