Late to my own news here: I'm re-joining @politico, to launch the company into Australia. We're heading heading Down Under🇦🇺 first with a Canberra Playbook. More here politico.com/blogs/politico-…

Solar efficiency has now doubled in less than 20 years. Whatever its deficiencies, you can't say the same of any other energy source (though wind has some comparable efficiency claims)

RT @b_judah: Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how…

Despite a long history of being pro-choice, Pauline Hanson is adopting an array of Trumpian tactics – including trying to wind back abortion access. @FlindersUniNews theconversation.com/one-nati…

Nestory Irankunda was born in a Tanzanian refugee camp to Burundian parents. At 20 years old, he just became the youngest player to score for Australia at a FIFA World Cup! 🔥

How everything went so wrong at ANU crikey.com.au/2026/06/09/ren…

Asking questions at Senate Estimates about why a year on from an investigation by Choice, which found that 16 out of 20 sunscreens tested didn't meet their SPF claims, 15 are STILL being investigated. The TGA has put forward some options for reforms, but I'm worried how slowly this is moving. In the country with the highest skin cancer rates in the world, confidence in sunscreens is vital and we need to rebuild that. abc.net.au/news/2026-06-05/s…

It's easier to bully NZ — which will freak out over the dairy export implications — than to do it to Australia, UK or US. But what becomes a precedent around NZ will morph into template to be tried elsewhere #China

Putting on my former competition official hat for a minute: Professional bodies can quite easily exhibit cartel behaviour. Leaving aside the substance of specific whistleblowing complaints against the Big 4, competition law and practice needs to enforce level playing fields. And if there are exceptions those are only appropriate for a specific national interest or for the smaller players on the field, @BarbaraPocock

When you pay off a credit card or mortgage, the bank can’t charge you interest on repayments you’ve already made. That would be illegal. But when the government does it, it’s fine and normal. Sign my petition today to fix HECS. We've done it before, let's do it again. moniqueryan.com.au/fix-hecs

Yes, and while we don't have polling to the level US does on this point -- it will come. And the only solutions are to treat AI as a workplace and national conversation, focusing deployment on where everyday Australians say they would like AI support or efficiency. If it's a top-down or cost-saving exercise, it won't work: neither as a productivity gain nor as a political issue #AI

Extraordinary. Wale says he couldn't even obtain a copy of China-Solomon Islands security pact until just before he departed Honiara. He's been praying" over what to do. There's an NDA in the pact. Not yet clear if he'll make it public. Wale says Solomon Islands will "review" it

It's hardly an endless debate - it's barely started. And the hardest questions are going to be around the cost. Meanwhile Pillar 2 is going well and will in the end become the meat of it all

Pauline Hanson has been invited to speak at the National Press Club later this month

And wouldn't it be smart to co-locate some big data centres alongside mines? ... Taking advantage of the infrastructure, avoiding urban zoning battles, and giving mines a life beyond digging things up

Join those numbers up with a drive down nearly any suburban Australian street observing how many cars are parked in and around each house. Takeaway: there are many houses with too many people in them (often kids who can't afford to leave), counter-weights to the many 1 and 2-person households (some who can't afford kids) and empty houses

What's the next step for #AUKUS Pillar II, in terms of advanced undersea warfare? This piece by @ASPI_org 's Executive Director @BassiJustin and myself, explores the technical dimensions of the announcement over the weekend of a new 'signature project' on developing 'enablers and payloads' for uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs), such as @anduriltech 's Ghost Shar XL-UAV, now being developed in Australia. It considers how developing these capabilities better enables the AUKUS partners to defend critical underwater infrastructure, including vital submarine cable networks, from deliberate attack by adversaries such as #China and #Russia. AUKUS Pillar Two lunges for an operational capability – underwater | Malcolm Davis and Justin Bassi | aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-… via @aspi_org

Seeking views on how much easier it would be to annex an independent Western Australia ... it would certainly be a lot easier to economically cripple and isolate WA than all of Australia

The application layer is where most of the AI money and productivity will be made Australia can be well placed for both the application layer, and the enabling infrastructure, if it acts in 2026

Household electrification holds the key to lower power prices for Australians. We’re world leaders in rooftop solar & there's an opportunity to generate & store even more electricity at a household level, reducing the need for expensive transmission costs & providing real energy security. Our challenge is to ensure renters & low income households can also benefit from the $1000s of savings electrification offers households. abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/c…

Opinion | As former independent senator Rex Patrick writes, a new scathing report confirms a slow-motion democracy scandal that's been in play for a decade or more. crikey.com.au/2026/05/22/fre…