Keren Lavelle

@kerenlavelle

Older but not necessarily wiser. PS I'm unable to access DMs.

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Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· 26d

Also after reading this

book cover: Alexandra Lapierre
THE VERY SECRETIVE
AND PASSIONATE
STELLA MILES FRANKLIN
A NOVEL
[plus photo of Stella aged about 19]

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· 27d

Okay, my vegetable-knowledgeable friends, what is this green stuff which came in the mystery box? (I tried tasting a few leaves but they don't seem to taste like much.)

Plastic-wrapped green leafy vegetable leaves, looking a little bit like flannel flower leaves, next to a mandarin for contrast

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· 27d

I bought kadayif in haste; then read the instructions which involve making a sugar syrup and pouring it over the pastry. Okay

A circular pan with a pattern of a central circle and wedges coming off it, all made of very fine browned pastry threads.

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· 29d

Art by Tony Albert

two windows, one with a glimpse of the Sydney Opera House; the other has a stained glass artwork with a haloed figure of an Aboriginal youth with a target on his chest

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· 29d

Art. Detail from Tony Albert: Not a Souvenir at the MCA. www.mca.com.au/exhibitions/...

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 12

Chief Sydney YIMBY on form here:

Justin @pleasedontatme
X.com
It is much easier to travel with kids when you are staying in 2br apartments than when you are all sharing a hotel room. (replying to:
Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social • 1d
Can someone please explain in simple language why Australia shouldn't ban short term rentals like Airbnb?
If we did that, it would free up literally thousands of houses and bring them back into the rental market & discourage investors owning multiple short term ren...

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 10

Australia enters the trending topics chat

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INCI

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 9

POLITICO launches in Australia

screenshot: politico.com
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Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 3

Political Gadgets analyses Bluesky's #auspol discourse

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The discussion reflects profound fragmentation and polarization. A substantial cohort (roughly 30% of posts) focuses intensely on Israel-Palestine issues with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric, including antisemitic and anti-Zionist posts that blur important distinctions. Another significant group expresses deep distrust of government institutions, Murdoch media, and foreign policy alignment with the US-particularly regarding Palantir and AUKUS.
Constructive policy discussion (roads, gender violence, transport exists but receives less engagement than grievance-focused posts. The tone oscillates between frustrated activism on genuine issues (femicide, corporate accountability, media bias) and conspiratorial thinking (CIA coups, widespread corruption). Overall, BlueSky #auspol reflects a left-leaning, antiestablishment sentiment with limited mainstream political voices, creating an
- ho chamber effect tutional skepticl
internal divisions on other issues

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 2

She's a hard-working author, that Miles Franklin, adapting My Brilliant Career for Netflix some 72 years after she died.

section of a Wikipedia post:
performance in The Family Next Door, Northeast received a Logie Award nomination for Best
Supporting Actress in a Drama in 2026. On 18 June 2025, Northeast was named as the lead in Miles Franklin's adaption of My
Brilliant Career for Netflix.
[23]
~ Other activities
v Filmography
~ References

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 2

Fasolada, Greek bean soup

A blue and white China bowl containing an orangey red soup mix with a sprinkling of green parsley on top

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 2

A cartoon of a lifeguard on a platform looking at his phone. Above the umbrella above him there's a flag with the words "TEXT HLP 2 LFGRD" signed by Friedman, published in the New Yorker

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jul 1

Fabulous book; it has recast so much of my historical awareness. (They're not Arabic numerals, they're Indic numerals, for example.)

Book cover in blue, red orange and gold:THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
'An outstandingly gifted historian'
Max Hastings, Sunday Times
THE GOLDEN ROAD
HOW ANCIENT INDIA
TRANSFORMED THE WORLD
BLOOMSBURY

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 30

Making cauliflower soup because a. It's winter; b. I have home-made chicken stock.

stainless steel saucepan with a golden liquid with patches of white cauliflower crumbs in it on a cooktop

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 29

New fresh hell just arrived with gmail: unhelpful AI summary of the email.

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• Sandra forwarded a blog post about The Interview (Dawe/Clarke satire).
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Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 29

I've never had a winter veggie garden before now. Thanks to the fairly wet autumn/winter where I am, it's been pretty easy so far. The roaming Brush Turkey didn't dig it up when the bed was at seedlings stage …

A bunch of brassica, broad bean and pea plants in a garden bed

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 26

The rorting middlemen: This NDIS tale sounds very similar to the companies which "manage" the provision of aged care to people living at home

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
OPINION
NDIS price for my disabled sister's mat: $100. We paid $5
email search for an application form
directory and no one about. When for the taxpayer. The company
HEALY
National Disability Insurance
door emitting B-grade private-eye
the rostering. It sends out flashy
Agency, which manages the scheme. "Oh, no, you can't access
vibes, I was told, "Sorry, we close at
4." My foot already in the door, 1 great job it's doing. It writes up
the form online,"I was told. "We
need to ask you specific questions."
surged forward. "That's OK, it's 10
irrelevant care plans in the first merson on behalf of the client.
Devastating hardly covers the effect that a diagnosis of
twin sister when she was in her late was incurable and progressive, and symptom-management is fraught
Every small task for her is
frustratingly difficult or impossible now - moving, eating, washing. dressing. But the one thing that has
been the assistance and companionship she receives from
Disability Insurance Scheme. This
has enabled me to keep working as aGP; it also means my sister has been able to continue living with us.
"OK," I said, "what do you need to
We decided to self-manage the
The carers, most of whom are
know?" The reply: "Your address."
I presume such tactics are used
NDIS package my sister was
women and hired as casuals, are
to test desperate applicants and
awarded. That seatra work for me.
provided no equipment and minimal support, and some have been hauled
into the office for tellings-off. My
10 days after it was posted and we had four weeks from the posting date to complete the paperwork, including reports from a GP and a specialist, for whom it normally took months to get an appointment.
So I called in favours. with an NDIA representative, who devised a cunning list ofneeds and
soty goals, about work and independence, which my sister had Jost, hence the need for support. We were then directed to the local NDIS office, located somewhere in an ensure you claim for …

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 25

I don't like the sound of this at all and look - they don't even let you photograph it

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 24

Things have changed with our electricity provider so I thought I should research what is better... getting a headache just thinking about doing it.

from The Guardian: Why is the energy market so hard to navigate?
Nationwide, retailers have about 145,500 different electricity plans available, according to the ACCC, and customers looking to switch might be offered more than 120 different options. Adding to the complexity, the rules for retailers differ by state and territory.

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 23

Patternous

blueish white clouds almost in a diamond pattern across the sky

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 21

another bad take from allergic-to-science Angus

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Angus Taylor MP • •
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The Snowies and the brumbies have helped shape our national identity.
They're also an important part of my life. I grew up and worked amongst them.
Today I stood alongside families, horsemen and people who had travelled to Kiandra just to protest the NSW Government's aerial cull.
No bureaucrat will understand how to manage this land more than the locals.
I want to see the locals back in control. I want to see the brumbies protected.

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 20

William Dalrymple, THE GOLDEN ROAD

in reverse the wealth of Rome drained into Indian pockets. In the first century the puritanical Roman naval commander Pliny the Elder describes India as 'the sink of the world's most precious metals...
There is no year which does not drain our empire of at least fifty-five million sesterces ... So great is the labour employed, and so distant is the region drawn upon, to enable the Roman matron to flaunt see-through clothes in public ... Thus is India brought near: by greed, and women's decadent need to follow fashion."

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 16

poster which says Protest: Rinehart & Hanson
No room for racism
Saturday 20 June 5:30 pm the Star Pyrmont

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 15

Fascist billionaires team up

Photo of Gina Reinhardt smiling
Mining Tycoon Gina Rinehart Buys Over $1 Billion SpaceX
Stake
WSJ The Wall Street Journal

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 12

Fossil fuel behemoth Woodside Energy and its joint venture partners want to blast and drill for oil and gas just 2 km off the wondrous Scott Reef. Pls donate to Environs Kimberley to help fight this www.environskimberley.org.au/donate_v2?ut... Photo Nush Freedman

Beautiful blue underwater scene with Healthy corals

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 12

there was a secret bit of Vivid happening for a while in La Perouse

A crenellated tower lit up at night with indigenous-artwork style dot painting patterns, an image of a stingray plus a bunch of kids at the base of the tower

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 11

American sports ball, I'm guessing…

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Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 9

more fact-free gaslighting

But we do have foreign investment aplenty in Australian real estate and nothing says
"overseas buyer ghetto" quite like these long stretches of long-term shopfront vacancies, now visible everywhere I go and everywhere I look.
If the loophole to foreign investment is that they have to "buy into an Australian business", then the hole is, in reality, a gaping maw, an ugly, insatiable Sarlace slurping up
commercial property sales with no intention of holding up the "business" end of the bargain.
You can't miss the fact that commercial sites are languishing in huge numbers.
I don't know how many of these empty premises are owned by nonresident and noncitizen investors but I suspect it's a goodly few. And the last tenants were likely sent broke by the rent and overheads because
"small business" is often just a euphemism for a couple of dreamers who watched too many Hugh Grant rom-coms featuring charming, quirky little uber niche businesses where no one makes a penny but the owner still gets to

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 9

That racist, anti-immigrant propaganda machine is up and running – here it's News Ltd in a Facebook stream – but funnily enough, no paywall pops up. Feelpinions and no facts

Keren Lavelle@kerenlavelle· Jun 9

this man definitely has more money than sense