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Cheering Kerry O'Brien.
"former ABC broadcaster Kerry O’Brien got a standing ovation at the 70th Walkley awards for a rousing speech that reminded media of the 'clear and present danger for a strong, free, effective and independent media everywhere'."

I wonder how many journos applauding have censored themselves? #auspol
Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Look forward to listening a bit later both. Will note Zelenskyy has said he will step down if peace is solidly guaranteed (guy deserves a break!)
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
OLD EVERALD AND YOUNG JAMES TALK POLITICS is a day early as James has law exams. This week we talk about personal future of Zelensky as #Putin has made it clear that he will not declare peace if #Zelensky survives. He may become a victim of peace. Same thing happened to Winston Churchill in 1945.
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@everaldatlarge.bsky.social and i on this week's show talked about the new environmental laws, ukraine, barnaby, the ashes and so much more!! listen in and have your say
#auspol #auspol2025
Watt's Win (S5E44)
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November 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Can't understand why #Nationals are grieving that #Barnaby has gone. They are a far better Party without him.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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There would be no Farage or Trump in politics if centre-left parties seriously addressed poverty and inequality instead of obsessing over identity and telling people how to talk.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Delighted that #Parliament has honoured #MalcolmTurnbull with an official portrait. He is as intelligent a person as I have ever met but he lacked political nous & people skills. Sad as he could have been a great one.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I will never vote for #Barnaby and #Hansen but understand their surge in polls. Voters have had gutful of cosy domination of Parliament by Labor & Coalition and don't see #Greens as alternative. They just want to protest. We face future of unstable government.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
United Kingdom is in economic doldrums due to disaster of #Brexit yet British voters tell pollsters that want its architect #Farage as their Prime Minister. This is as dumb as American voters re-electing #Trump the greatest fool of all time. Seems modern democracy does not produce commonsense.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#BarnabyJoyce & #PaulineHanson have send to media a very friendly photo of them dining in her office. It rejoices in holy political matrimony that will finish in a nasty divorce bur Barnaby is used to that.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Queensland schoolteachers have walked off the job again closing schools for a day. Its time for all governments in Australia to wake up to fact that #teachers are overworked underpaid and have second rate working conditions.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Bureau of #Meteorology in #Queensland has created a website that cost 96 million dollars and is a dud. Prime example of gross extravagance by governments that created some more wealthy guys.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Our #Parliament in Canberra is sitting this week when most Australians hope an #environment bill will be passed that is long overdue. Lets hope it has some teeth. We have played games with environment for too long.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Voters of Australia have had gutful of #politics & want to show their disgust by threatening to vote for #PaulineHanson as they hope she will gut the Establishment.
James Ashby’s plan to expand One Nation www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: James Ashby’s plan to expand One Nation
Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff lays out the party’s strategy to take more votes – and members – from the opposition, while exerting greater influence over its policy.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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@everaldatlarge.bsky.social and i on this week's show talked trump's plan for "peace" in ukraine, the release of the epstein files and the environment
listen in and have your say #auspol #auspol2025
A Peace of Trump's Mind (S5E43)
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November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Australia descended from era when #GoughWhitlam declared we should not tax acquisition of skills to today when we make profit from #education that is supported by all parties.
How did Australian #universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
How did Australian universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years?
Australians think students are being asked to pay far too much for their degrees. Just under half (47%) of Australians surveyed by YouGov in June 2025 believe a worker on an average income should be a...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
'Peace' plan provides for Russian funds in foreign banks be used to rebuild #Ukraine. Response by #Zelensky must be to demand #Trump supply funds also as price for sitting on fence for so long.
Ukraine Faces Difficult Choice Over U.S. Plan to End War Zelensky Says www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
Ukraine Faces ‘Difficult Choice’ Over U.S. Plan to End War, Zelensky Says
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November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Enjoyed breakfast in Melbourne today with Australia's most switched on economist @thekouk.bsky.social. Learned much about Australia's unrealised productive capacity & the #politics of achieving it. We agreed that it wont get there without a strong Opposition in #Parliament & that is a long way off.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Spending $2 billion on a talkfest that will achieve nothing meaningful during a cost of living crisis is political madness.
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Can't work out why any nation would want to hold #COP meeting where thousands of windbags achieve NIL except to give free kicks to #climatedeniers. The worlds campaign to reach #netzero needs totally new leadership.
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Been in public life 70 years Always noted many people with power in #politics #finance #religion believe they have unlimited entitlement to sex with the young. Huge mental illness.
Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over #Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
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November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Australia needs traditional #conservative party with one ideology - commonsense. Many like me will back it as were are people with basic principles of life who live in rapidly changing world in which we must constantly upgrade our thinking. We have no place with current #Liberals & #ChristianRight.
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Australia over-governed. We don't need 3 levels of govt. #Constitution allows States to divide into smaller States. We can have 50 states & no local govts & also reduce #Senate to original figure of 5 per state as this will allow for more MP's as population grows. Hopefully we will get quality.
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Made more more than 100 visits to Federal Parliament over 7 decades & have never before seen parties commit political suicide more effectively than today's #Liberals & #Nationals. Tragic.
‘Fighting against gravity’: Coalition’s energy policy lashed www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
'Fighting against gravity': Coalition's energy policy lashed
An energy expert has lashed the coalition's new policy favouring coal and gas over renewables, saying it won't bring power costs down.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Can't work out why Australia wants to host #COP meeting full of windbags who achieve nothing except to give free kicks to #climatedeniers. We must seek to lead world to achieve #netzero & work with those nations who try to do likewise.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Listen and enjoy todays podcast of OLD EVERALD AND YOUNG JAMES TALK POLITICS. No political spin. No whitewashing of events. Today we hit #Liberals for ratting on #climatechange, #Trump for continuing his usual idiocy and Victorian Government for its unworkable laws on #youthcrime.
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@everaldatlarge.bsky.social and i this week talked about the libs' abandonment of net zero, jeffrey epstein and awful crime reforms by the victorian government
listen in and have your say #auspol #auspol2025
Zero Idea (S5E42)
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November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM