Her take on the cost of living crisis was that it was good that I wouldn’t have the issue of hoarding things like her, as I would never be able to afford them in the first place.

Lmao. You’ll be so poor you wont be able to buy things. Great flex, boomer.

Both are brilliant!

I didn’t like Prophet Song either. The mother character’s inability to do anything kinda bogged the whole story down for me.

I went to Aldi yesterday and they do really good prices with the limited options the my had. Example.

Sea salt chips big bag:

• Woolies: on special from $6 down to $3.60
• Aldi: always $2.99

So they do better than the half price specials at the majors.

Politics in one simple chart. Sigh.

I think all the federal Greens MPs do free community meals now. If you’re in Max’s electorate check out the Events page: https://www.maxchandlermather.com/events

There’s an outbreak in NZ as well. Seems like we’ve let other vaccinations drop after COVID :(

Agreed. They need to get back to reality if they want to pick up votes at the next election.

Great list. Might I humbly add Peachy Keen or Cinnamon Lip from Pollyanna.

Same for me

Fucking hell SA

This screams “look we’re doing something about the cost of living crisis!” energy without tackling the major influences in the cost of living like housing and grocery prices.

Woo! Get in everyone, we’re going back to the good old days! No uppity women, no trans people and burning shit tons of coal!

/s

I mean games, tv, movies all have some sort of rating system so you don’t really have to spend a lot of time reviewing the content for your kids. Seems like a gap that this doesn’t exist for books.

On mobile I get (almost) 3 lines of 1 story. lol

I hate it. Really hard to skim read.

This misalignment is also shitting me to tears.

Another one in FNQ that isn’t getting much media coverage too https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/29/man-allegedly-stabbed-woman-to-death-before-attempting-carjack-on-major-queensland-highway

Im sure both of these will go on a list somewhere and we’ll continue to ask “what can we do?”

Credit to the Australian members of parliament who haven’t let this go:

[Prime Minister Anthony] Albanese has said he raised the matter directly with the US, including with the president, Joe Biden, during his visit to Washington in October 2023.

In February this year, Albanese and cabinet members supported a motion put forward by independent MP Andrew Wilkie urging the UK and US to allow Assange to return home to Australia.

The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said he also raised the matter with his US counterpart, Merrick Garland, during a meeting in January this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-australia-reaction-wikileaks-founder-plea-deal

Thanks to those 900 complainers who got this to happen!

Beach Read by Emily Henry. Both protagonists are authors.

Absolutely. Great idea.