The NT Legislative Assembly gave us a calm, informative look at Territory politics: modern architecture, guided tours and stories. A thoughtful Darwin stop for anyone interested in how the Top End governs itself.

https://www.offthemainroad.com.au/latest/ntlegislativeassembly

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Book bans! In this economy? Isn’t everything hard enough already?

First it is children’s books and then…

The Guardian
@SituationCake I’ll never forgive Turnbull for ruining the NBN, but I’d take him anytime over Scotty from marketing. #AuPolitics

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Learnt that many <40year old Aussies already don't do #AustraliaDay due to it being #InvasionDay.
So no Australia Day parties for them. And an Invasion Day party would be yucky.

Instead they're tuning into triple j and have Top 100 parties.
(triple j is so cool that they don't do capitals.)

War and waning political fortunes: Australia’s best political cartoons of 2022

From the conflict in Ukraine to the last days of Scott Morrison’s reign, Russ Radcliffe rounds up the year’s sharpest political cartoons

the Guardian
"The capacity of our politicians to take a good economic policy idea and pervert it into a partisan waste of taxpayers’ money never ceases to appal."
Ross Gittins is always a good, if depressing, read
http://www.rossgittins.com/2022/05/infrastructure-spending-has-degenerated.html #auPolitics
Infrastructure spending has degenerated into wasteful vote buying

The capacity of our politicians to take a good economic policy idea and pervert it into a partisan waste of taxpayers’ money never ceases to...