Andrew Bartlett

Yeah it feels that way. I feel a ‘use it or lose it’ charge (or incrementally increasing rates or the like) could work at Council level too - they’re always short of revenue.

Also the issue of land that's approved for building homes being land-banked - sometimes for decades - rather than built on, which keeps prices up through artificial scarcity. (But yeah, workforce shortages (and cost of materials) is also a reason why some sites approved for development sit vacant)

A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe How Schleswig-Holstein is challenging big tech dominance and redefining digital sovereignty

A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe

No bother. It’s happened before - it’s all fine. Gives me a bit of accidental cred.

Thank you - but wrong Andrew Bartlett. The one you’re wanting is English, not Australian. (Never met him, but based on his Twitter he seems like a good guy)

I had assumed as much, but given it’s a public conversation I thought I should be definitive.

That’s not really the same party in my view, but answer is definitely no in any case. Last time I was in the Senate I gave up my job there when I didn’t need to, so I absolutely wouldn’t want to be back there - it would be too soul-destroying.

finally, we're living through precedented times

Loving reminder Australia, that @4zzzradio.bsky.social hosts "Locked In" on Christmas Day for VIP (Very Important Prisoners), friends + family.
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Black and white flyer from my collection showing ‘4 Triple Z’ and the station’s banana logo/mascot

Flyer from my collection for 4ZZZ’s Octobanana market day/festival on Saturday, 31 October 1992 featuring a line-up of several Brisbane and interstate bands

Flyer from my collection for 4ZZZ’s radiothon and market day from 9-11 March 1990, marking fifteen years of community broadcasting

Flyer from my collection for the first Livid Festival, promoted by 4ZZZ and hosted at UQ’s St Lucia campus on Saturday, 21 January 1989. The bill featured notable Brisbane bands/artists like the Go-Betweens, Chris Bailey and the Ups & Downs

Taking a moment to acknowledge that today marks 50 years since Brisbane/meanjin’s original community radio station @4zzzradio.bsky.social began broadcasting from studios at UQ’s St Lucia campus. Brisbane’s thriving music scene and independent news landscape (and my youth) owe a lot to the Zeds 🖤

The Blak Out Party!
4ZZZ is throwing the biggest and blakest celebration of First Nations artists that have been heard over the 4ZZZ airwaves throughout the generations, Saturday November 22nd.

18+, from 6:30PM. Tickets $30/$10 for mob+b.f. available via Oztix!

Game of chicken fires up as Turkey rejects Australia’s deal Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the federal government’s offer to split hosting duties for next year’s UN climate summit.

Fighting to host the next COP as though it’s hosting the Olympics is offputting. 50 000 people fly here to be part of the 31st demonstration of failure to prevent runaway climate change.
“The cost of hosting the summit could reach $2 billion, according to govt estimates”
www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Cover of Heather Anderson’s new book celebrating fifty years of Brisbane/Meanjin’s groundbreaking community radio station, 4ZZZ

Freshly delivered! It’s a busy time for 50th anniversaries… look forward to diving into these pages and reminiscing on five decades of 4ZZZ radio on Brisbane’s airwaves 📻 🤘 @4zzzradio.bsky.social

A photograph of two people enjoying an ice cream at the beach, in a vintage dithered style. 'Talking Zeds' 'The Best Show Ever' 'November 13th 10AM-12PM'

The Best Show Ever ran from 2003 to 2013, run by Sarah Werkmeister and joined by Michelle Brown as guest co-host from 2009/10. Dedicated to local & Australian genre spanning music curation, from art pop to hip hop, punk and no wave. TBSE Featured local interviews, and had a strong following and many song requests. Highlights of their broadcasting include interviews with Broadcast and John Waters. The name came about when Sarah and Kirk Scotcher (of the band Sephora at the time) joked about starting a ‘best show ever’ and it became a reality, though Kirk only joined a few episodes before moving to Melbourne. The show continued, playing the latest and greatest in Brisbane music as well as new music from further abroad. Michelle Brown started volunteering at 4ZZZ in the mid 90s and was station manager from 2009 to 2016. Sarah Werkmeister was an announcer and producer from 1999-2014, starting on The Youth Show around ZZZ’s 25th. They both enjoyed many a radiothon.

Each week on Talking Zeds we'll feature a rotation of special guests, historical figures and the people who shaped 4ZZZ into what it is today. This Thursday, the 13th of November we're continuing our 50th celebration special programming with the return of The Best Show Ever!

VOTING FOR THE HOT 100 IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!

For one year only, we’re mixing up the date of our annual music countdown to coincide with our birthday. On December 7th, we’re celebrating the 🔥SPICIEST, SWEATIEST TRACKS🔥 of the year– as voted by you, the listener!

www.4zzz.org.au/hot100

Thanks for voting in the 2025 4ZZZ Hot 100. Here are your votes: Mitch, Please - All The Rage Playlunch - Keith Private Function - Koala R.U.B. - Good Bloke Vipersnatch - Therapy Anna & The Morphics - Servo Snack Anxiety Bubblegum Haircut - Cop Gun Budd - Banger Dreamkillers - Bad Juju Floodlights - The Light Won't Shine Forever

Awesome! Voting is open in the only Hot100 that matters, the original & the best #4zzzhot100 😀 @4zzzradio.bsky.social #radio #communityradio Solid list of 10 songs chosen😎

Almost 120 flying foxes hospitalised after giant hail smashes Queensland colony Rescued bats taken to RSPCA wildlife hospital in Brisbane’s south-west with injuries including ‘faces that were smashed and broken wings’

Hail storms have injured and orphaned hundreds of bats. If you would like to help our team of volunteers who are helping rescue, transport & rehabilitate these bats, please donate here bats.org.au/get-involved...

#bats #flyingfox #biodiversity

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...

What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."

So it seems.

I fear she will soon be in a lonely place.

She’s Lost Control.

No shark has ever been more jumped, no bow more longer drawn.

Joy Derision.

Something apparently so clearly inappropriate it took them 5 days to say so. (Or more accurately 45 years to say so, given how long #JoyDivision shirts have been worn for).

Disorder

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

Interesting chart in this report surveying people on what they think are the major contributions to the 'housing problem'.

Feels like a failure of the (non-right wing) media, politicians and experts that the measures that would have the most impact are so far below immigration

Presidential Election 2025 (#aras25) - live results by @gavreilly

🗳️ #aras25 Count Results live, from as soon as each of the 43 constituencies start to report their results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Looking like a resounding victory for Catherine Connolly.

A huge moment for the united left in Ireland, for the many young people whose energy and optimism fuelled Connolly’s campaign, and a pretty clear rejection of uninspiring government party candidates who couldn’t offer a vision.

#Aras25

24 Hour Party People Official Trailer #1 - Simon Pegg Movie (2002) HD YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

We are now as far from the film 24 Hour Party People as it was from that album... 1979 - 2002 -2025 😬

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFiy...

Zed50 going on. Wish I could have been there for it all. Enjoy it all whether you're in a band or just a punter.

Velociraptor playing early at #Zed50 - a celebration of music, #Brisbane & @4zzzradio.bsky.social Tons more great bands to come until 9pm - nearly sold-out