Luke, cool
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Live on Yuggera land, Australia. Photography, travel, food, safe communities, safe planet. Be kind, be cool. Always look left. Photos are mine unless otherwise attributed. She/her.
The only answer to “will we need a recession to get inflation back to 2.5%?” Is “No, what a stupid thing to ask”. Michele Bullock did not give that answer. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
If turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? | Greg Jericho
Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker
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“Biggest improvement in housing affordability for 40 years”
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last wk.Stop reporting property like it is a share market
Stop spreading that Meloni-in-a-Palestinian-flag video. It’s AI. Totally fake
If anyone's up for a chance to kick your heels AND support the Sydney Asylum Seeker Centre, THIS is right up yer alley... events.humanitix.com/frock-up-and...
Frock Up & Rock Up - Community Celebration
Gala event celebrating community, connections and cultures. Live music, food and fun times.
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Poverty kills. The level of Jobseeker kills. It is a choice governments make every year. It is a choice the RBA makes when it decides more people need to be unemployed www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Unfolding my iPhone to show you a Meta Glasses recording of my final divorce proceedings
Instead, our Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, turned up in Washington this week, beaming like a kid in a lolly shop next to Defence Secretary Peter Hegseth www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Everyone but Australia reconsiders relationship with America
No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.
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Birdsville's lone ranger retires after three decades as keeper of the desert
For more than 30 years, Don Rowlands has been the ranger in charge of Munga-Thirri National Park, in Queensland's far south-west corner. But the time has come for him to hang up his uniform.
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Just remember, the Reserve Bank is worried that wages might grow too fast and cause inflation
A huge thank you to everyone who donated ❤️ 250 donations in 24 hrs, funding 100 seats for bereaved Indigenous families to attend the Gala FOR FREE. 💜 If you haven’t donated, Simply click “Get Tickets” → “Pay It Forward” & give what you can. Thanks for showing up🙏 events.humanitix.com/jilyagala2026
The 2026 Westerman Jilya Institute Indigenous Child Suicide Prevention Fundraising Gala
Join us to fundraise for the Psychology Treatment Centre!
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM@drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 2mo agoPlease read & share. You can literally donate $1 to support this event-to donate click on "get tickets"; scroll down to Pay It Forward" button & insert any amount. I think it’s the most important fundraising event for our most vulnerable Indigenous communities. events.humanitix.com/jilyagala2026
Thank you Sally. It isn’t something that should be judged or stigmatised. When someone takes heart medication we don’t say “they’re cheating at having good heart health” we say, “that’s a necessary change for optimal health”, as is this. Thank you for sharing it with people. Makes a difference. 🩷
Good. Julie Bishop should never be heard from again in any role. An absolute cancer. www.smh.com.au/national/anu...
ANU apologises to whistleblower after ‘indefensible treatment’
Academic Liz Allen named then-chancellor Julie Bishop and two other senior leaders as having threatened, bullied and intimidated her.
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To get back to March 1996 level, Jobseeker would need to go from $808.70 a fortnight to around $1,050
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are loooooong way from Whitlam, and Hawke/Keating
Fundraising event for our most vulnerable Indigenous communities. You can donate any amount from $1 - go on. Cheers
Dr Tracy Westerman AM@drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 2mo agoPlease read & share. You can literally donate $1 to support this event-to donate click on "get tickets"; scroll down to Pay It Forward" button & insert any amount. I think it’s the most important fundraising event for our most vulnerable Indigenous communities. events.humanitix.com/jilyagala2026
I’d be as happy never to see the Murdoch do-up of that image as it recalls their hate-filled, defamatory campaign of two weeks (and ongoing), to bully me and warn any other respected commentators who dare step out of line.
If its really to support the community, build it without the pokies www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Logan mayor says region can't handle proposed Cowboys' leagues club
The proposed Queensland Cowboys leagues club in Logan would be fitted out with 100 gaming machines.
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apnews.com/article/minn... #Hopkins,Minn police chief calls this a “rarity.” Stop doing that please. Every 5 days in America, a man annihilates his family, consistently for 6 yrs now.
Man kills a woman and their child at a Minnesota daycare before taking his own life, police say
Police in Minnesota say a man killed a woman and their child at a home daycare they own before taking his own life.
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Anthony Albanese needs to stop going on podcasts. He has neither the wit nor dexterity required. In his attempts to appeal to increase his reach and popularity, he only reveals his limitations. Russell Kidd, Carnegie @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
