It's interesting to look at a world map of health care models. The USA sits outside most developed countries in denying affordable healthcare care to its citizens & is more aligned with 3rd World countries in having a large part of the nation not covered.

Remember Piro's performance at the press conference on the 2nd of July? How was her dismissive, patronising refusal to consider any questions asking for actual evidence for the charges at all acceptable? Especially not when this event wasn't considered as a more logical cause of the damage.

Yes especially if you come through the Northern Suburbs via The Seacliff Bridge.

I can certainly understand that. I live in Wollongong now. It's about 90 minutes from Sydney on the coast. It's only about an 90 minutes from where I grew up in Western Sydney but geographically it's very different. It's a beautiful coastal strip. It used to be very affordable but not any more.

Exactly right. Remember when Matt tried to pretend he was a guy who knew what it was like working in a coal mine? He wouldn't last long.

I saw this meme a few days ago. It's appropriate not just from America but for everywhere in the world where billionaires want to control all the wealth & the political agenda.

If only there had been a childhood polio vaccine program in the 1880s when FDR was a child. Then he wouldn't have contracted the disease the disease in 1921 then aged 39 & had to cope with its consequences for the next 24 years of his life. Yes, vaccines save lives & improve their quality.

That fake gold ornaments in the Oval Office are getting totally out of hand. It's not an imperial palace & it's not in keeping with US heritage. Trump's obviously inspired by the Kremlin. His plans for the ballroom decor are bound to be awful.

If you haven't seen this wonderful Taika Wititi film, "The Hunt for the Wilderpeople" do yourself a favour and chase it up. Sam was wonderful in it & it was a massive hit in Australia & NZ . It was a favourite role of Sam's. It's an absolute classic – you'll laugh, cry & be thoroughly entertained.

Then there's the manslaughter by neglect of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, visually impaired & unable to speak English, while his family waited at the ICE facility to collect him, he was allegedly abandoned on a freezing night at a Buffalo restaurant but found dead near a hockey arena. Such cruelty.

That was a huge song when I was in high school. It was written by Johnny Young of YTT. Russell was/is a very talented performer and songwriter. He was extremely underrated. He put out a great album of self penned songs called Bloodstone in the very early 1970s. It was fantastic.

Are we surprised what Israel's current defence strategy is all about? It's the equivalent of Hitler's "lebensraum". They are systematically seizing neighbouring territory for their concept of Greater Israel. Any excuse to land grab & they don't care who lives there now. Follow the red line.

Exactly. Trump's name was added in plain sight but the removal was shrouded from public view & would have cost much more because of his fragile ego. Pathetic.

The POTUS vs. The Boss. I think we know who is winning that contest.

The visionary novelist George Orwell told us that this moment would arrive. Russia & North Korea prove his reality. Who would have thought the USA would be next, but here we are. JD Vance is the voice of Big Brother.

Absolutely awful. That's a US national monument, not a Mar-a-Lago swimming pool. Utterly tasteless. This is how it should look.

Absolutely, Gina is Australia's Elon Musk. She's not backing Pauline & buying her a plane out of anything other than pure self-interest. While Pauline does her supporting the battlers spiel, her policies & voting record confirm Pauline is a hard right winger who is Gina's kindred spirit.

Pauline is sooo in touch with those little Aussie battlers. Like Trump she has convinced the disgruntled that she can parade around in designer outfits, surround herself with fabulously mates & somehow be more in touch with the battlers than other politicians. Her voting record tells the real story.

This T shirt is still for sale on Etsy. Obviously Joe Biden is not as thin skinned as Mango Mussolini who can dish it out, sling mud, name call opponents & celebrate their deaths but he is incapable of taking any criticism or humour at his own expense. What a big baby he is.

Only because they don't know about the correct Veggie to butter ratio. I reckon it's about 1:4. A very little goes a long, long way & if they learn to get it right they'll be hooked.

It was aways a treat when James was on the radio. He approached his illness with grace, good humour & honesty & was candid about its progress with his listeners. We held our breaths hoping he would survive it. I'm glad he chose his own time to exit. Go well James. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

I fear that's not currently possible but there is hope.

Our wonderful Aussie cartoonist Cathy Wilcox strikes again! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

It's almost like the people at the top making the big decisions are incompetent fools & not listening to the experts.

If poor people can't survive, get angry & seize power, it can get really ugly. There's lessons in history the ultra rich are not heeding.

Mark Carney's Easter message is beautiful. This is the message Anthony Albanese our Australian PM posted yesterday. Isn't it great to live in a country where leaders understand their assignment. It's such a comfort.

Good choice. Kiama is lovely.

This amazing photo "Migrant Mother" taken by Dorothea Lange in a pea pickers camp in California in 1936 at the height of the Great Depression.