Brought closure to the Hilton bombing: https://nitter.cf/t.co/DITCPN5PAT
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"NASA will take motivation from its Challenger heartbreak"
The Dockers will take motivation from their Grand Final heartbreak. afl.com.au/news/1640758/gran…
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Surely it’s a bed
The top places to start a family have been revealed for 2026, offering cheaper childcare, higher fertility rates and excellent health services.
Get the rankings here: bit.ly/3X2swqR
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I believe we’ve heard this one before
#BREAKING: While the human remains are yet to be formally identified, police believe they belong to an adult male. abc.net.au/news/2026-11-12/h…
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These anti-Zios are sweethearts
‘Making Susan’s life a living hell’: Activist fronts court over harassment charges against MP smh.com.au/national/making-s…
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Remind me if it was Tony Abbott who ruthlessly undermined Julia Gillard from the day she became PM and then executed her
ABC's 'I was actually there' program was fascinating tonight. It looked back over Julia Gillard's famous misogyny speech and left Tony Abbott looking like a dick. Again.
iview.abc.net.au/video/DC240…
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Here is how Mentaldude describes his “mission” under the auspices of the Australian Cultural Fund:
“We aim particularly to influence ministers, government officials, journalists and other opinion makers.”
Yes, folks, this is what senior executives @creative_gov_au — including CEO Adrian Collette and Corporate Affairs chief Nicola Grayson — looked at, before deciding Pearls and Irritations was indeed an “arts project” and worthy of taxpayer support.
@MichaelDanbyMP @JulieSzego @johnmenadue @Tony_Burke @wmdglasgow
As part of his fundraising campaign under the auspices of the Australian Cultural Fund, Mentaldude undertook to use the monies raised to develop a Young Writer’s Handbook (whatever the fuck that is) and to award scholarships for young writers.
These details were added after senior staff at @creative_gov_au coached him to make some mention of the arts in his application (given the ACF exists explicitly and exclusively to fund artists and their projects).
There is not the slightest evidence that either of these outcomes was “developed”. Instead, Mentaldude has published (as of today) 1732 articles attacking Israel.
@MichaelDanbyMP @JulieSzego @johnmenadue @Tony_Burke @wmdglasgow
Always admired the way she addresses entire populations
I am terrified the Democrats won’t win the midterms. I am terrified what Trump will do if he loses. Fuck you America, for putting the rest of the world in this terrifying place. We will never forget you elected him TWICE!!!! #Midterms26
As part of his fundraising campaign under the auspices of the Australian Cultural Fund, Mentaldude undertook to use the monies raised to develop a Young Writer’s Handbook (whatever the fuck that is) and to award scholarships for young writers.
These details were added after senior staff at @creative_gov_au coached him to make some mention of the arts in his application (given the ACF exists explicitly and exclusively to fund artists and their projects).
There is not the slightest evidence that either of these outcomes was “developed”. Instead, Mentaldude has published (as of today) 1732 articles attacking Israel.
@MichaelDanbyMP @JulieSzego @johnmenadue @Tony_Burke @wmdglasgow
But here’s the best bit.
The motto of the Australian Cultural Fund is “100 per cent for artists. 100 per cent to artists!” [Exclamation mark in original.]
Well, Mentaldude doesn’t even pay his contributors.
In other words, not a cent of the $669k raised via the ACF found its way to any “artist”.
It all went on staff salaries — ie, paying themselves to produce the most vicious “anti-Zio” content you’ll find anywhere — plus a hefty operating surplus.
And guess what. All of this was in direct contravention of @creative_gov_au guidelines, which state that artists must be paid for their work.
More here:
theaustralian.com.au/busines…
@johnmenadue @Tony_Burke @MichaelDanbyMP @JulieSzego @wmdglasgow
That said, I did present at St John’s Ambulance at the MCG in 1981 after biting into a jam donut that turned out to be filled with molten lava instead of jam
This is a close-up of a crowd reaction shot in the dying minutes of the Grand Final
A month on, I’m still trying to understand how you sustain a head injury watching a game of football
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Stop being silly. Why would he not attend CHOGM and why would he not attend the cricket while there?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has attended the cricket in Antigua and Barbuda as Labor defends his trip to the Caribbean while Australians face interest rate pain back home.
news24.com.au/news/pm-catche…
This is a close-up of a crowd reaction shot in the dying minutes of the Grand Final
A month on, I’m still trying to understand how you sustain a head injury watching a game of football
But here’s the best bit.
The motto of the Australian Cultural Fund is “100 per cent for artists. 100 per cent to artists!” [Exclamation mark in original.]
Well, Mentaldude doesn’t even pay his contributors.
In other words, not a cent of the $669k raised via the ACF found its way to any “artist”.
It all went on staff salaries — ie, paying themselves to produce the most vicious “anti-Zio” content you’ll find anywhere — plus a hefty operating surplus.
And guess what. All of this was in direct contravention of @creative_gov_au guidelines, which state that artists must be paid for their work.
More here:
theaustralian.com.au/busines…
@johnmenadue @Tony_Burke @MichaelDanbyMP @JulieSzego @wmdglasgow
What’s clear from this report is that Mentaldude didn’t even need the money.
He was simply desperate for an official stamp of approval on his conspiracy theories.
And the bureaucrats at @creative_gov_au were desperate to comply.
They got sprung. But even now they keep mumbling about how Mentaldude “published book reviews” as if that justified their decision to deem him an artist. More on that here:
theaustralian.com.au/busines…
@MichaelDanbyMP @JulieSzego @Tony_Burke @johnmenadue @wmdglasgow
What’s clear from this report is that Mentaldude didn’t even need the money.
He was simply desperate for an official stamp of approval on his conspiracy theories.
And the bureaucrats at @creative_gov_au were desperate to comply.
They got sprung. But even now they keep mumbling about how Mentaldude “published book reviews” as if that justified their decision to deem him an artist. More on that here:
theaustralian.com.au/busines…
@MichaelDanbyMP @JulieSzego @Tony_Burke @johnmenadue @wmdglasgow
You can fool all of the arts bureaucrats some of the time
You can fool some of the arts bureaucrats all of the time
But you cannot fool all of the arts bureaucrats all of the time
@MichaelDanbyMP @Tony_Burke @johnmenadue @clairlemon @JulieSzego @creative_gov_au
