Robert Fairhead

To be fair, 75 million Americans didn't anticipate the repercussions or re-electing a narcissistic, paedophile puppet of Putin! 🙄

Trump’s ego-trip war has collided with economic reality but he can’t undo the damage | Rafael Behr The US president’s doctrine of lawless military adventures harms American interests and boosts Vladimir Putin, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The White House seems not to have anticipated the predictable economic repercussions of war in the Middle East – soaring oil prices, falling stock markets, disrupted supply chains feeding inflation and choking growth.

A Song on the Radio Elliot parked close to the beach. Tie a Yellow Ribbon was on the radio and Elliot turned it up loud to hear it over the breaking waves.

A Song on the Radio (Episode 4, 11 Oct 2020). Listen on the new look Tall And True Short Reads website or your favourite podcasting app, including #ApplePodcasts, #Spotify and #YouTube. 🎧 #storytelling #shortstory #podcast www.tallandtrueshortreads.com/a-song-on-th...

“Australia does not have a gas shortage problem. It has a gas export problem,” writes Louise Morris, Advocate at The Australia Institute.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3Nwzdgz

I met you in the dark, you lit me up
You made me feel as though I was enough
We danced the night away, we drank too much
I held your hair back when you were throwin' up ~ Say You Won't Let Go by #JamesArthur (2016). Top marks for making "throwin' up" sound romantic! 👏 #songs #music #lyrics

Trying to get my head around the Anti-Corruption Commission's argument that a corruption hearing of a former prime minister is somehow not in the public interest

a man with black paint on his face is smiling while holding a microphone Alt: A man with black paint on his face and body giving a thumbs up.

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a man is driving a bulldozer in a forest Alt: A man driving a bulldozer in a forest, clearing the trees and topsoil

The Nationals, the party of the bush!

Alone in the Sauna Jez closed her eyes, took a deep breath, savouring the hot, dry air of the sauna in her nostrils and the sweat on her skin.

She felt herself relaxing and nodding off when the sauna door opened and the temperature dropped. ✍️ #writer #writing #sauna #shortstory #writesky www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/shor...

There is only one trait Matt Canavan needs as Nationals leader The leader of the Nats needs just one quality: an unslakable thirst for drama.

There is only one trait that Matt Canavan will need as Nationals leader: his unslakable thirst for drama. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/m...

Trump wears a baseball cap at Dover Air Force Base
and he doesn't bother taking it off during the solemn ceremony.

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

What a fucking crock.
Two mid-level officials found to be corrupt by the NACC, but the big guns get off scot-free forever.

The royal commission already found that Serena Wilson misled the ombudsman. In 2023.
It took the NACC three years to copy and paste this uncontroversial finding.

You've got more puzzles to play. And I see your Wordle was on par today! ⛳

Stumped after my 2nd guess, so I left it for a while, and when I came back, today's winning birdle was obvious! 😉🦜 #WQuers #Wordle #Wordle1726 3/6

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Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

The massive rise in Islamophobia, consciously fuelled by large sections of the media, is a national disgrace.
I'd love to hear the PM and LOTO speak out about this and the dangers of white supremacy but ....crickets

Single frame. Soccer field, five Iranian women players in motion, one kicking a goal which is flying past an Iranian Ayatollah goalkeeper.

Goal!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Thanks. 🙏

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Ta! Well done on your birdie, too! 🦜

Hello again from the UK where we have mail in ballots.

It’s so weird to see him harp on this. We only do mail in ballots in Oregon. It’s great!

I vote by mail every election - in Australia.

#TrumpLies

Alone in the Sauna Jez closed her eyes, took a deep breath, savouring the hot, dry air of the sauna in her nostrils and the sweat on her skin.

A post popped up in my FB memories on Monday morning after I'd submitted my story for the weekend's #FuriousFiction. It was a timely reminder that I hadn't shared March 2025's #shortstory. Now I have! 👇 www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/shor... #writers #writing #writesky