Lindsay Parry
@lins-oz
Retired Systems Analyst. Genealogy hobbyist. Facts and politeness please. A pronounced lean to port re politics. Kaurna Land 🏳️🌈
Australia : AI and its quest for unlimited access to copyright, power, water and spineless politicians. "I think we need a bigger island" (Thx to OSLO in today's @thesaturdaypaper.com.au )
Watching a livestream of the Kennedy Centre in USA with workmen removing part of the signage. Not quite as dramatic as the toppling of the Berlin Wall but just as historic?
Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party’s Moral Decline PJ Keating 16 April 2026 A snip: "How dispiriting for the rest of us is Angus Taylor’s cowardice in not even attempting to stand and argue for principles that have been integral to Australia’s strength - principles his party has long championed."
The wider MAGA-sphere will not be happy. They invested a lot in propping up this guy in Hungary.
While we watch the man baby wanting to kick the nuclear football, I think all the pet owners on here would have their own opinion of a President of the United States who does not have a pet. The first presidency to claim the honour.
Have you read Rick Morton's latest ? rick-morton.ghost.io/nacc-for-mis... "What knowledge of corruption we might make out comes only from squinting, looking for clues in an agency that appears to regard the digestive tract of hierarchy as all middle intestine; no guts and no arsehole."
Iran: Even a "surgical" war that avoids cities would still involve striking oil terminals and ports. Experts at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have warned that any conflict in the Gulf no matter how targeted would likely trigger a global recession due to the immediate closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Weapons (human remains) of mass destruction. I kid you not. Anzac war graves bulldozed during the war in Gaza. The reason ? "... underground terrorist infrastructure was identified within the cemetery and in its surrounding area, which the IDF located and dismantled"
Niki Savva: "Liberals with a flair for black humour predict it will get worse before it gets much worse....." Tony Barry: "“These guys are arguing over who gets to be mayor of Hiroshima as the Enola Gay appears over the horizon.” (Illustration by Dionne Gain)
Louise Adler said during an address in Brisbane to mark the United Nations Day of Peace in September 2024:
"Australia faces no credible military threat from China. The real danger lies in uncritical alignment with US strategy, fear-driven rhetoric and the steady erosion of national sovereignty. The only potential China threat we face is acting as a proxy for the US." @johnmenadue.com
“The first thing you need to do is be trusted yourself, and yet Brereton continually seems to be unable to understand that.”
"Robo-debt was a spivvy, slick, slogan-driven lazy shortcut. It was illegal; it ignored due process; and it didn’t save money. Its costs are still growing. It spat on Australians. The new welfare cop beat up everyone it saw, rorted the payroll, cost billions in compo and left its own unpaid debt."
Rick Morton is living in Paris - as if you all didn't know that. "And then Julia Zemiro came to visit and my wonderful friend Meg Clement and I took her out for dinner and drinks. Could it get any better? " Nervous Laughter <rick-morton@ghost.io>
The devastating human story behind one of the Australia’s greatest political scandals premieres on 24 September on SBS and SBS on Demand. "SBS has never been afraid of bold storytelling and The People vs Robodebt is a shocking tale that goes to the very heart of inequality and social cohesion....."
SMH today: it was “highly implausible that this was not co-ordinated at the highest levels of the party and the Brethren”. "Dutton did not respond to a request for comment. Both Dutton’s office during the campaign and the Brethren denied high-level co-ordination of the campaign effort." B.S.!
1855 - Abraham Lincoln - he would "prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy".
Ask ChatGPT about anti-vax, sovereign citizens, conspiracy theories, and this is a summation:
Aldi smoked salmon - PACKED in Poland - sourced from 'aquaculture Norway'. Norway salmon - "faces ongoing challenges with environmental sustainability, salmon welfare, and disease" And the Aldi Fresh Tasmanian Salmon Fillets ? Duh. Tasmanian !! "Wild caught salmon" in a supermarket? No such thing.
"A few days ago, Ley implored delegates at the Queensland Liberal National Party’s annual convention to take up her message of modernisation and getting back in touch with the wider society. They responded by voting overwhelmingly to ditch the party’s target of net zero by 2050." Shaun Carney SMH
Pro-Palestine protesters are seen during the Palestine Action Group's March for Humanity in Sydney (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)