Reposted by @read-about-it.bsky.socialEmma Edwards @cllremmaedwards.bsky.social · 29/06/2025For those wittering on about how Glastonbury festival shouldn’t ‘be political’, and it was better when it was ‘ just a music festival’, my university dissertation circa 2001 is available in no good bookshops. 410821
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Rod Stewart being a Farage fan is like finding out Jimmy Barnes is a One Nation voter. 010
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Here's something I wrote for the Australian Institute for Community Directors. www.communitydirectors.com.au/articles/hyp...communitydirectors.com.auHyperlocal news outlets give communities back their voice 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Trump’s USA has arrived at its Tiananmen Square moment. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 05/06/2025So will Donny be handing back the keys to the Tesla Musk gifted him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comMusk calls for Trump to be impeached as extraordinary feud escalatesFormer adviser taunts president over links to Epstein while Trump threatens to cancel contracts for Musk companies 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Ange maintains his incredible second season trophy record but unfortunately it’s unlikely to be enough to save his job. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Two t-shirts for today which is not only the federal election but also World Press Freedom Day. Imagine how boring my wardrobe would be without my union swag. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 01/05/2025No wonder Dutton is Trump-lite … Trump’s campaign manager has been advising him. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Thanks to Dylan Bird, host of Future Perfect on 3RRR 102.7FM, for this thoughtful interview about Brunswick Voice and hyperlocal news media thus morning. www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad... 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Lucky Trump's yes men on the Supreme Court ruled that POTUS is above the law, otherwise he'd be looking at serious jail time for insider trading after today's performance. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 19/03/2025#Breaking on Fox News: Trump has just released a trove of previously secret documents that prove JFK was killed by Biden and Obama. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 28/02/2025“The free world needs a new leader.” Exactly. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...theguardian.comEuropean leaders throw support behind Zelenskyy after heated Trump meetingThe EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challenge 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 28/02/2025You cannot count on Trump’s America as your friend. Deal with him at your peril. Seek alliances that do not include the US. Governments should have been developing contingency plans for this over the past three months. If they haven’t, they have failed their people. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 25/02/2025There also needs to be an understanding that the greatest threat to world peace and stability now is not Russia or China but the US. The US is in fact a rogue state that is operating outside of international laws and norms. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A decisive psychological shift needs to occur in global foreign relations: the US is not our ally. They are not our enemy, but we no longer share the same values. Regardless of their size, that’s how we should treat them: one voice among many. 100
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 23/02/2025ICYMI while Elon was hanging out with the Nazis at CPAC on Thursday, the mother of his chikdre posted this … 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 20/02/2025It’s looking more and more like Trump is Putin’s man in Washington. 000
Reposted by @read-about-it.bsky.socialKon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) strongly opposes the Australian Government’s decision yesterday to deport members of the NZYQ cohort to Nauru. This move sets a dangerous precedent, raising serious concerns about human rights and fairness. asrc.org.au/2025/02/17/h...asrc.org.auHuman rights advocates condemn Albanese Government’s dangerous Nauru deportationsThe Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) strongly opposes the Australian Government’s decision yesterday to deport members of the NZYQ cohort to Nauru. This move sets a dangerous precedent, raising se... 26518
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Israel is trying to soften world opinion for a full siege & eradication of Gaza's civilian population. Follow these statements to the logical conclusion, & you cannot see any other outcome. And they know they can do it with impunity cosTrump is 100% behind them. www.theage.com.au/world/middle...theage.com.au‘Only viable plan’: Netanyahu says he’s moving ahead with Trump’s idea to force Palestinians from GazaIn a week marking 500 days of war, Israel’s PM signals readiness to resume fighting after the ceasefire’s current phase. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 08/02/2025@mebankau.bsky.social I have been attempting to transfer money between two ME Bank accounts and both the app and website are not working. Can you advise when they will be functional again as it is quite urgent. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 07/02/2025News outlets getting in a lather about Trump’s EO about the ICC need to bear in mind the US has never ratified the ICC, so like most things he says and does it’s irrelevant hot air. But once again, due to gullible media, he’s hit the headline he wanted. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 06/02/2025If the rule about reporting on Trump is treat seriously what he does, not what he says, then why report his Truths. He uses them to “fill the zone with shit” and they should be treated as such. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump doubles down on Gaza takeover proposal despite bipartisan oppositionPresident says territory would be ‘turned over’ to US by Israel as it emerges idea was not discussed with aides 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 05/02/2025There is nothing unethical about journalists having and expressing political views as long as they don’t allow them to intrude on their professional work. It might be a different situation if Pete was reporting on politics but he’s a cricket writer FFS. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Can anyone show me any evidence that Peter Lalor has ever once mentioned Gaza in his cricket writing or commentary? No, I didn’t think so. 100
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 05/02/2025No doubt the plan is to write some AI models which will be used to uncover social security "fraud", allowing Trump to cut off trillions of dollars of payments to the elderly, the sick, the unemployed, families with young children. Robodebt on steroids. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Meanwhile, the DOGE czar, Musk, has forcibly gained access to the private tax and social security accounts of every American citizen and installed a group of teenage techies to comb through them. 100
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 05/02/2025So after meeting Bibi today, Trump has just confirmed he wants to see Gaza ethnically cleansed, all Palestinians who were born or lived there before Oct 7, 2023, removed from the land that has been theirs for thousands of years, presumably give Israel a blank slate to build new settlements there. 100
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Who knew Kyle Sandilands had a brain? www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...theage.com.auKyle Sandilands to undergo ‘immediate brain surgery’The radio shock jock revealed live on air that he is suffering from a brain aneurysm and needs life-saving surgery. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 23/01/2025With the Jan 6 pardons, Trump now has an army of violent thugs who he can unleash on his political enemies with impunity. 010
Reposted by @read-about-it.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏 408320816579
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Flagging ratings for the TV network which owns both the newspaper and the rights to the tennis see The Age devote pages 2-5 to the Australian Open in the vain hope this will boost interest in the tournament. “Independent always”? 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Pro-Gaza rallies are enormously embarrassing to Israel and its friends because they spotlight its genocide on a weekly basis. But they have no connection to the vandalism of Jewish property. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 21/01/2025If Rudd was worth his salt as an ambassador, he’d tell this rabbi not to interfere in domestic Australian affairs. www.theage.com.au/national/rab...theage.com.auRabbi pleads with Rudd in Washington to help end Melbourne’s pro-Palestinian CBD protestsAt a meeting in the US with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the former PM agreed to make representations to Canberra on whether the rallies could be shifted away from the CBD streets. 100
Reposted by @read-about-it.bsky.socialDebrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus @dmansini.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I’ll be posting this today 5494048210166
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Dutton has declared he wants to be Australia’s version of Putin. Let that sink in. 000
Reposted by @read-about-it.bsky.socialRex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Gina wants Australia to be more like Argentina, so Peter Dutton struts as a Caudillo. It’s not an enticing prospect. Albanese’s timidity is a problem, but Dutton’s authoritarian populism is no solution. #auspolsmh.com.auDutton says ‘strong’ leader needed to heal anxious nationOpposition Leader Peter Dutton says Australia has one last chance at the coming election to return to prosperity. 1613930
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 08/01/2025They should have to pay back every cent. Taxpayers shouldn’t be finding private schools at all. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...theage.com.auCommonwealth to reduce funding for state’s richest schoolsSome of the state’s top schools will have their federal government funding reduced, sparking fears of fee hikes. 000
Reposted by @read-about-it.bsky.socialAndrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 22/12/2024LOL. Astroturf alert! 1151
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Poor Donny, forced to deny (unconvincingly) he’s Musk’s puppet. www.theage.com.au/world/north-...theage.com.auElon Musk ‘not taking the presidency’, says Donald TrumpThe prospect of the Tesla billionaire taking over is “not happening” Donald Trump tells supporters, and says the US could seek to retake control of the Panama Canal. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Coffeea at the Vic Market has closed down today. Another institution gone. I can’t remember a time going to the market when it wasn’t there on Elizabeth Street. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Perhaps you could team up with the Cricket Et Al guys to cover some AFL as well? 100
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The Age now running opinion pieces by Jacinta Price … 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 17/12/2024All things being equal, Werribee should have gone Liberal years ago. It will this byejection and will probably stay that way for some time if not forever. It’s the western suburbs equivalent of seat like Casey or La Trobe. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I’ll say it here now: Jaiswal’s Perth century was a fluke and he will not make another 50 this series. He’s a classic tourist who looks world class at home but falls back to the pack in Australian conditions. 000
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 16/12/2024There’s a simple reason why the US health system is so bad and unaffordable: Republicans have consistently blocked reforms that would introduce universal, government-subsidised health insurance as is the norm just about anywhere else. 100
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Now it makes me want to revisit more of Jack's post-Stripes catalogue (and regret missing his Corner Hotel gig last weekend - although I was there for the gig in 2002 that is famous for the soundcheck where he composed the riff for 'Seven Nation Army' @andrewstafford.bsky.social). 010
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 11/12/2024But relistening this week, I have really enjoyed it, probably because it sounds quite different from 'Elephant'. With the extensive use of piano, marimba and keyboards, it represents a clear progression in Jack White's development as an arranger. And 'Doorbell' is an irresistable earworm. 100
read-about-it.bsky.social @read-about-it.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Funny how you can sometimes have a completely different response to an album years later than you had when you first listened to it. Case in point, the White Stripes' 2005 release 'Get Behind Me Satan'. At the time, I hated it, probably because it wasn't 'Elephant II'. 100
