She grows more absurd by the day…

This should be taught in journalism schools: How to suck all the life, interest and colour from a news story. It’s eye-wateringly badly reported. abc.net.au/news/2024-09-0…

This breaks my heart 12 public primary schools in Sydney have pulled out of their interschool sports competition bc the buses they need to get to the council playing fields are too expensive & unreliable & the teachers don’t have time to attend. 👇 smh.com.au/politics/nsw/p…

Great. Taxpayer billions help fund Olympic aquatic centres and hi-tech gyms for private schools…while state schools can’t afford a bus for sport. What a stinking betrayal. smh.com.au/politics/nsw/p…

Where I live - in Dr Scamps’s electorate - my son’s high school can only afford a bus for sport one-way. The kids have to find their own way home again.

Really, the only way we can sort this out is to leave Peta Credlin and Janet Albrechtsen together in a blacked-out room for a week without food or water. theguardian.com/law/article/20…

Small target. My The Sydney Morning Herald cartoon.

Mike Carlton My neighbour is a PS teacher. She's not returning to teaching next year. Buying endless supplies out of her own pocket for classes, unsustainable workload & leaders failure to address/protect children from bullying and/or protecting teachers from parental bullying.

(📣) The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter: “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.” RETWEET if you agree. theguardian.com/world/article/…

As a proud product of government schools this is so wrong. BOTH major parties complicit in under-resourcing of public schools. How the hell do we claim to be an egalitarian society if the quality of your education depends how much money your parents have? smh.com.au/politics/nsw/p…

Jesus. Next they’ll dig up Menzies…Billy Hughes…

Thoughts on the late Tim Bowden, from the ABC Alumni website. abcalumni.au/a_tribute_to_t…

Absolutely. Both Labor AND the conservatives have betrayed state school kids. They’re equally culpable. The shower of taxpayer dollars on wealthy private schools is obscene.

🫣Hope #Australia can learn from this. #Auspol #buildingsafety #firesafety #housing #GrenfellDisaster bbc.com/news/articles/…

An Author’s Moment About a month ago, I attended an event where the highly acclaimed crime and thriller author Michael Robotham was speaking. It was enlightening to hear from a best-selling author that he had suffered the pain of starting out 1/5

This is good news. I think she’ll smash it. The Liberals have taken Pittwater for granted for way too long.

If I'm ever unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with cancer I know I'll be disregarding the decades of evidence informing my oncologist's advice, crossing my fingers, and hoping that a former supermodel with a product to sell isn't misleading me.

Excellent to have Elle McPherson’s learned views on breast cancer. I’d also like to hear what she can tell us about Middle East peace…inflationary pressures in the economy…climate change…AUKUS…