Very good piece of analysis from David Crowe on the totally wrong footed pursuit of Brittany Higgins’ compensation payout

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Islamophobic & anti-immigrant rhetoric & false accusations. Antisemitic speculation that led to thousands of X posts naming the wrong man. A news outlet actually using that name on air. A first look at the absolute mess following the Bondi Junction attack. theguardian.com/australia-news…

‘Nicole begged for help: from police, from friends, from family & ultimately from a shelter. No one was able to help her, because no one was willing to stand between her & OJ. No one was willing to act like her life was more important than his celebrity’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Is anyone pumping out reads that instantly turn people insane like The Cut because it’s truly the most impressive track record I’ve seen in YEARS

YouTube has blocked Avani Dias powerful reporting about Sikh separatism in Punjab after a demand from the Indian government. It comes two weeks after the blocking of CBC's Fifth Estate program that featured footage of a Sikh seperatist's killing, and a year after a BBC…

Pretty devastating piece on the breakdown in so many aspects of British life in the last decade and a half of austerity. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Two news editor jobs going at Guardian Australia! workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/342/ workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/341/

5 years today since the Christchurch shooting, the biggest mass shooting by an Australian.

Whether it happened overseas or because we're unwilling to interrogate how our culture created someone capable of this, Australia rarely acknowledges the massacre. But it is our shame.

‘An Israeli tank that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others in Lebanon last year fired two 120mm rounds at a group of “clearly identifiable journalists” in violation of international law, a UN investigation has found.’ theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Called Centrelink to deal with a parental leave pay issue. Go through prompts, request to speak to operator, and recorded voice says they’re too busy, and hangs up. I call back, robot says they’re too busy to take a call, and hangs up.
Just no way to get through by phone. Wild.

Some American friends were visiting this summer and accidentally went to Sydney Zoo when they meant to go to Taronga, after putting the wrong name in the GPS. I genuinely assume that’s what happened here !!

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staggering

Australia has lost 410 dedicated bulk billing GP clinics over one year, according to my analysis of a government health services register - in the same time there has been a net increase of 301 clinics listing their billing option as 'fees apply'

When newscorp was trying to defend the stage three tax cuts like two weeks ago this salary was apparently bugger all??

One of the wildest true conspiracies of our lifetimes is that plastic isn’t actually recyclable in any meaningful way and they all lied to us about it theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…

Malnourished, homeless, orphaned: The horrors for Gaza’s children. A nurse does ops on 6 dead pregnant women to save their babies. Rarely, if ever, has any country killed, injured & orphaned as many children as quickly as Israel is right now. My new column abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…

V good column from Ross Gittins:

Let’s stop using interest rates to throttle people with mortgages smh.com.au/business/the-e…

Our much-loved art deco flats weren’t always sought after. Back in the 1930s, they were seen as a “danger”, to society. How times have changed 👉🏼 Art deco density: what we learned from Australia’s first apartment boom theguardian.com/australia-news…

Does it make me a pick me girl if I have seamlessly transitioned to Coke Zero? (diet coke, tequila and lime will always be the perfect late night drink though)

This is v funny from ⁦⁦Gina Rushton⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Ah yes Calcutta, that barren wasteland where cricket went to die. Famously no one plays cricket in the confines of high-density Indian city living.