Lindsay Parry

@lins-oz.bsky.social

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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 )
OFF THE CHARTS Japan on-sells almost twice as much gas as Australians consume
‘Cracks are already beginning to show’: AUKUS is in trouble, UK probe warns A parliamentary inquiry reveals there are already problems emerging that raise serious doubts about whether the submarine project can be delivered.
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."
Viktor Orbán ousted after 16 years in power as Hungarian opposition heads for election landslide
A dog house in the guise of the White House with cobwebs
A recent photo of Rick Morton in Italy
Circle of Fifths
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.
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)
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings Jason Koutsoukis The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body. “The first thing you need to do is be trusted yourself, and yet Brereton continually seems to be unable to understand that.”
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Goodall dies at 91 Conservationist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute says.
Opinion This zombie scandal will haunt the Libs, unless they eject Morrison. Malcolm Knox Journalist, author and columnist 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.
Pro-Palestine protesters are seen during the Palestine Action Group's March for Humanity in Sydney. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)
Numbulwar dancers perform a traditional dance during the 25th annual Garma Festival in Gulkula, NT. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)
Two leading Israeli human rights groups accuse their country of committing genocide in Gaza By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran Two Israeli human rights organisations, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, have labelled the country's actions in Gaza as "genocide". B'Tselem compiled testimony as well as details of mass killings, destruction of infrastructure, forced displacement, mass arrests and alleged abuse of Palestinians in Israeli jails.
According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), the US-led China in 60 of 64 frontier technologies as recently as 2007, judged by share of the world’s most-cited research, while China led the US in three. However, by 2023, these rankings were reversed, with China leading in 57 of 64 key technologies, and the US in seven. “China has built the foundations to position itself as the world’s leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains,” the ASPI says. A China shock 2.0 is emerging to rock America Xi Jinping and China’s catch-up and overtake approach to the technologies of the future All of the world’s top 10 research institutions in some technologies are based in China, and are already collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US).
This was always what #AUKUS was about. Being subsumed (pun intended) into the US military. "a guarantee that it supports the US in any conflict" I trust Paul Keating on this one: "...the most poorly conceived defence procurement program ever adopted by an Australian government" Trump’s review likely to raise the price of AUKUS submarines Anthony Albanese, Donald Trump and AUKUS. Australia is facing the prospect of a Trump review demanding it pay more for the $368 billion AUKUS pact – and a guarantee that it supports the US in any conflict.
Australian foreign policy is in the doldrums Allen Patience - Pearls and Irritations Opinion polls indicate Australians are at last waking up to the fact that their country’s security reliance on Trump’s US is no longer tenable. Indeed, it never has been. A complete foreign policy overhaul is now urgently needed. But Australia’s foreign minister is dithering. Is she not up to the task? There is no sign that Senator Wong, or anyone else in the Albanese go-slow government, has an inkling about what post-ANZUS options Australia should be considering.
22nd June. 1941. Operation Barbarossa. 22nd June. 2025. Operation Polls Boost Needed.
Labor elder Paul Keating has launched a scathing tirade at Defence Minister Richard Marles.Credit: Kate Geraghty, Alex Ellinghausen Thanks Paul Keating: “Yesterday’s statement by Richard Marles amounts to nothing more than a careless betrayal of the country’s policy agency and independence in its ability to make decisions in its own national interest and not in the interest or interests of another country.”
A photo by Peter Marlow / Magnum - lady on a beach. From The Atlantic - an article by Charley Locke. "Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out" It applies to Oz as well. Have you noticed who the workers are in many aged care settings ? The long-term-care workforce is disproportionately made up of immigrants.
Paul Keating re #AUKUS: "the calling of the Pentagon review should be the catalyst for the government to get on with the job of forging a relevant, distinctly Australian path for the country’s national security, rather than being dragged along on the coat-tails of a fading Atlantic empire." And from THE SHOT: Australia has cancelled its $368 billion submarine purchase, just hours after announcing it, after someone realised it would be cheaper to just give China $300 billion in return for an agreement not to invade.
The Saturday Paper - Richard Flanagan on Tasmania’s political crisis: ‘Bankrupting itself to build a white elephant’
Elon Musk with President Trump at the White House in March, during happier days.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
United States vetoes UN resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza The remaining 14 UN Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution, which demanded an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas PERMANENT AND NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS The Council is composed of 15 Members: Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end of term year): Algeria (2025) Denmark (2026) Greece (2026) Guyana (2025) Pakistan (2026) Panama (2026) Republic of Korea (2025) Sierra Leone (2025) Slovenia (2025) Somalia (2026)
Today in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au - not so sure about 'exclusive', as we #auspol folk might have suspected . . . . (Jason Koutsoukis. is The Saturday Paper's special correspondent.) Exclusive: How Abbott and Credlin control the Liberals Liberal MPs reveal how the former prime minister and his close confidante have been at the centre of a string of disastrous decisions that led to the party’s stunning election loss and the collapse of the Coalition.
Electric vehicle sales in China for one week May 5 to 11. See if you can find Tesla.
A photo of Sussan Ley From Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social - his latest at Nervous Laughter - Life, writing and other tragedies: "Sussan used numerology to add the extra 's' to her first name which, as it happens, already makes her more qualified as treasurer of the party than Angus Taylor."
Today in The Saturday Paper - editorial: Editorial Stop the votes Surely this is the end, the rock bottom drunks talk about at their first meeting. For more than 20 years, the Liberal Party has staggered further and further from the political centre, stopping occasionally to bicker with gays or yell at the weather that it isn’t real. Dutton is a man whose malice was mistaken for intelligence.... He was what he always seemed to be: a thug who damaged his own party in unprecedented ways and who would have done the same to the country had he been given the chance.
Labor MP Ali France was able to topple Peter Dutton and claim the Queensland seat of Dickson. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)
"We are proud of who we are...we do no need to beg, borrow or copy from anywhere else. We do not seek our inspiration overseas. We find it right here in our values, in our people" A photo highlighting the response from The New York Times - Australia's Election Wasn't About Trump. An Anti-Trump Wave Swept It Anyway
When in Rome Peter Brookes - The Times - cartoon April 26 2025 Political satire
Yep - sounds about right. In today's @thesaturdaypaper.com.au By OSLO A cartoon
Discovery Projects - started 23 March 2022, End date 23 March 2025. Aust Research Council grant $530,000 Historical frontier violence: drivers, legacy and the role of truth-telling. Following on the work by Prof. Lyndall Ryan 1943-2024 - The Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930 A map showing massacre sites 1788 - 1930
In case you have yet to catch up with today's Betoota Advocate. A photo with the wording Liberal Staffer Sacked For Suggesting Coalition Comes Up With An Actual Policy Instead Of Culture Wars Brain Rot