#Crikey
So I'm sorting out a few tweaks to a couple of my final mix master tracks for the first of hopefully 10 albums I intend to release via #Bandcamp.
Over the last 3 or so years I began compiling the tracks for my 10 albums although some of the later tracks are not quite finished and all of them need work and mastering it has been a personally exciting project to work on.
Each album is chronologically ordered and contains songs, recordings, remixes and/or fresh versions of songs from or about each time period.
The first of these 10 albums, #Kiwifruit covers a period between 1985-1989 and was remixed from a range of sources from desk recordings at live gigs with #Wellington band #TheLaundrettes fresh recordings of songs that were written during this time period beginning 40 years ago #crikey an early recording of #BumpnUgly engineered by Brent McLachlan of #BailterSpace and Wrythe Studios fame plus remixed and reimagined tunes from my early 4 track recodings.
Kiwifruit will be available on Bandcamp from Mon 1 Dec #Aotearoa #NewZealand Time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
#crikey take on the #labor farce called leadership. #csiro #COP30 #edhusic the last of the true #labor only after he got shafted.
Excerpt from my morning #Crikey "Worm" email:
“Sussan's leadership is terminal, it's just a question of when,” a so-called supporter of Ley was quoted as saying. With friends like these, hey?As my care-factor for Liebs is zero, my focus was not on the [in]substance, but the rhetorical style of the last sentence [being the Crikey editorial remark]. I would not have included the
y, tis not my idiom. Mine would have beenWith friends like these, eh?🤔🤷
#auspol #grammar #idiom #rhetoric
even #Crikey persists with framing the rabble Liebs & Nuts as "The Opposition", & continues positioning each & every policy & pronouncement from the waste-of-space Labs wrt what "The Oppo" says about it. 🤬🤬🤬
Why are, otoh, quality journos like Amy R apparently rare as hen's teeth ... she relentlessly reliably robustly always speaks the truth that Labs simply
do NOT need the Liebs & Nuts at all
to pass good legislation.
Fucken pointless rusted-on #MSM, ffs 🤬🤬🤬
#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies
Corrosively brilliant article.
Like hot concentrated acid poured onto (don't try anything like this a home kids) magnesium powder.
Haven't finished reading yet.
Rooting (well kinda) for PWC to win.
#PWC #PriceWaterhouseCoopers #AusPol #Australia #CorporateCitizenship #BernardKeane #Crikey
#auspol #Labor is unable "to think clearly about the problem of being a fossil fuel-addicted US protectorate in a world of US imperial decline and a global heating crisis."
#BernardKeane at #Crikey speaking clearly about the woeful leadership #Australia is stuck with.
It seems that Labor is trying to weaken Freedom of Information Disclosure legislation..
> Instead of rolling back the cabinet exemption, she’s dramatically expanding it, virtually back to where it was before Labor’s John Faulkner reduced the exemption in 2009, when everything vaguely connected to the cabinet process was exempt. The Centre for Public Integrity called it “a classic Yes Minister move”. Younger generations might call it something else: blatant gaslighting.
It's particularly perverse that they're trying to misinterpret a finding from the Robodebt royal commission that advocated limiting the cabinet exception to instead advocate for expanding it.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/05/labor-trumpian-lies-freedom-of-information-laws
#auspol #FOI #FreedomOfInformation #Transparency #Crikey #Labor
Great article by @crystaljane.bsky.social, a must-read for everyone, especially journalists and reporters, on how to cover neo-Nazis without giving them the spotlight.
#AusPol #Crikey #Extremism #Australia
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aivutzyumh7g32wnq22zcvls/post/3ly2mve67js2o
#AusPol
Anyone seeing #RichardMarles or #PatConroy being interviewed in relation to the #Elbit contract exposed by #Crikey?
The antisemitism report would have benefited from a little — or any — understanding of basic public policy #crikey #bernardkeane #jilliansegal #firewall #antisemitism #policy #auspol #education
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/antisemitism-report-jillian-segal-understanding-public-policy/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Bernard Keane written this same post a dozen times about different governments without ever explaining why the problem is excessive spending rather than inadequate tax revenue #auspol #crikey revenue.https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/25/nsw-queensland-state-budgets-david-crisafulli-chris-minns/
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Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia https://www.science.org/content/article/cockatoos-have-learned-operate-drinking-fountains-australia #Crikey!
👀 👀 🥪 🤖 #Crikey
Wallace & Gromit contraption in real life! - Joseph's Machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv7WVaoJJ0Y&ab_channel=Joseph%27sMachines
There's a new notorious namesake on the blog today.
It's crazy to think that there is a new generation of young adults who didn't live the Steve Irwin experience.
Miss you, Steve.
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/steve-irwin-crikey-steveirwini/
#steveirwin #crocodilehunter #biology #snail #crikey
Oh, FFS - I hadn't realised they've done that. I lost respect for #TheGuardian generally because of their pro-establishment campaigning against Corbyn. I have been making a monthly contribution (not subscription) directed to #TheGuardianAU, but partnering with #OpenAI and buying into #genML hype is a red line for me.
On #TheGuardian and #OpenAI, here's a little from #Crikey:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/20/guardian-artificial-intelligence-openai-news-corp/
Sorry, @VoordeMus - are the lay-offs separate or explicitly linked?
@camwilson I have to ask - why no mention of Mastodon?
Delighted to see Johan heading up journalism at Monash - was privileged to learn the craft of radio from him as a media student many, many moons ago at Murdoch Uni.
Movers and Shakers: What's in the media diet of journalists?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/19/crikey-movers-and-shakers-media-diet-australian-journalists/
#Crikey #AustralianJournalism #journalism #AustralianMedia #MurdochUniversity
