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How about the underprivileged and under-financed (pensioners and other benefits recipients) stop attacking each other and their representatives, and instead collaborate to claw back funds from the overprivileged and the biggest bludgers on the national purse (the armed forces re AUKUS and mining...

Brilliant - and harmless! Why the council would bother spending rates removing it, when foot traffic will do it for free in a fortnight, beats me.

Actors have said it for years: 'I don't read the reviews.'

Better for all of us as a general protest against the state of the world.

Music is a personal choice but the menu from which we draw is limited and directed by the major corporates in a very comprehensive system, pretty much like any other 'industry'.

To put the record straight here, with 34 singles and 20 albums, 13 award nominations and 6 wins over a 30 year career, Ben Lee is among the most recorded and awarded AU songwriters in the history of pop music. Here's a link to his Wiki write-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lee

Is Ben Lee losing it or just chasing clickbait? Roots is a portmanteau term for a whole swag of genres that have been around for well over a century, perhaps a sub-genre of folk. 'Roots' artists were widely popular decades before Ben Harper. The 'demise' of AU popular music is more likely...

It's a big country. Many of us left the cities long ago.

Uh-oh, there go the neighbourhoods. I often think the word 'development' is interchangeable with 'destruction' these days.

When I used to drink alcohol, it was always white wine gave me headaches, so I mainly drank red. Now I get gout so I tend to steer clear of all alcohol except pure spirits. I still get headaches, up to 3-day blasters, but that is principally due to emulsifiers that are annoyingly appearing in...

This warning might be directed to regular daytime users of bush roads and h'ways who, after many passings, may get to spot these animal tracks. Night users and travellers, particularly at 100-110kph have little chance of spotting them. Useful info regarding the tracks though, particularly the photo.

LNP favouring the corporates as usual. Note to Danny Price: we stopped believing in trickle-down economics decades ago.

This is not correct, CN. Dot painting was not 'introduced' by Bardon; he simply encouraged Western Desert painters to work on board and canvas (for commercial reasons) rather than sand and bark. For years my family had a bark dot painting bought in 1961 outside Yalata Mission. Geoff Bardon was...

Woolies is just trying to steer the ACCC away from the well documented fact that the duopoly of the big two in AU continues to grow. 2025 Woolies - $51.25mill. Coles $40.87mill. Aldi 12.44mill. Woolies and Coles together have approx. 67% of the market. UK's biggest two have approx. 43%.

"Today, a very common Australian expression is ‘Strewth’". I haven't heard strewth in many years and I doubt many under 30s would know it at all.

Surely a greater worry would be that it could be used to produce convincing false invoices en masse by scammers?

We go to the pictures regularly. It's a 45 min drive. $10 for seniors unless an 'art' film. My partner loves the 'experience' and it is our most regular form of celebration and culture. There are still brilliant films being made around the world despite 90% of it screened here is US violent...

A sample of 100,000 to represent 8.2 billion? That's pretty poor odds.

‘Labor is seeking to reach everyone with our message that Australians value Medicare...' Labor yet again attempting to woo those further out on the right wing. Wake up, Labor! Look left and reclaim the centre.

Our only hope for real social justice is the centrist Greens who now sit where Labor once was before Hawke. Right-wing federal Labor has improved the destruction and corruption the Coalition wreaked on Australians for the last decade, particularly with health reforms, but has so far ignored...