wednesday newstrip

A man is expected to be charged for offensive behaviour after a group including an alleged neo-Nazi booed & heckled a welcome to country at Melbourne’s main Anzac Day dawn ceremony · a Sydney radio station has been using an AI-generated host for about six months without disclosing it — & was not legally obliged to · the Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, has condemned a heckler who interrupted an Anzac Day service in Perth this morning. The person disrupted a welcome to country at the Kings Park dawn service, shouting obscenities · possum comes off second best as snake enjoys long weekend lunch · water in a central Auckland fountain was dyed red early this morning in what appeared to be a protest coinciding with Anzac Day · a group of Australian Ford car salesmen had timed vehicle races & did "donuts" on a pristine Otago, N.Z. beach, believing they were allowed to · two struck by lightning as storms disrupt Brisbane Anzac Day ceremony.

wenesday newstrip

T.®ump administration is working to end habitat protections for endangered animals, environmental groups say · a whistleblower accuses Elongated Muskrat & DOGE of being at the origin of a major security breach · Israel's investigation into Hamas' Nova festival massacre leaves families of victims with more questions than answers · Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) says T.®ump administration paid El Salvador $15 million to detain prisoners · 'he's a fake': T.®ump hits back at US Senator Van Hollen for visit with Abrego Garcia · speaking to reporters at Dulles airport in Washington on Friday afternoon, the senator Chris Van Hollen just accused the government of El Salvador of creating the hoax he called “Margarita-gate”, by placing a pair of cocktail glasses on the table between himself & Kilmar Ábrego García as they met the night before, to make it look as though they were enjoying drinks · US will abandon Russia-Ukraine peace efforts if no progress soon, T.®ump & Rubberio say · Elongated Muskrat’s unofficial “department of government efficiency” & the T.®ump administration have spared the jobs of US Department of Transportation employees who provide support services for spacecraft launches by Musk’s companies, SpaceX & Starlink – a revelation that raises a new round of conflict-of-interest questions around Doge · thousands of records on the assassination of Robert F Kennedy released · https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/.

wednesday newstrip

'The penguins won': critics roast T.®ump over latest trade-war reversal · Pam Bondi Beach demands Supreme Court 'swiftly constrain' judges’ power to overrule T.®ump admin · homeless residents living in Moreton Bay park in Brisbane have tents, belongings bulldozed & dumped by council rangers · Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 155 Chinese nationals fighting with Russia in Ukraine · 'Breaks promises': T.®ump Education pick accused of 'overextending' her federal authority · Florida teacher is fired after calling student by their preferred name · Trans pilot launches lawsuit against right-wing influencer over false claim regarding DC plane crash · US Naval Academy library yanks Maya Angelou's memoir — & keeps Mein Kampf.

wednesday newstrip

‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: T.®ump imposes tariffs on uninhabited — apart from penguins —islands near Antarctica · DoNuts T.®ump's big denial as markets continue to bleed: 'Oil Prices Are Down, There Is NO INFLATION' · T.®ump has Australia’s generic medicines in his sights. & no-one’s talking about it · US admiral at NATO fired as part of what appears to be an expanding national security purge of top officials by the T.®ump administration · Interior Secretary Dog Bumrug & his senior staff have reportedly used his position leading the agency to make a series of bizarre demands on his aides to use the agency’s industrial ovens to cook him chocolate chip cookies, instructed political appointees to work as servers for a multi-course meal, & ordered a U.S. Park Police helicopter for personal transport · Democrats in Congress demanded answers from the Pentagon on reported book bans at the service’s elite academies, a new policy that is meant to remove “woke” ideology from the elite colleges.

wednesday newstrip

Australia's Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO, was sent questions from T.®ump administration asking if it is taking ‘appropriate measures’ against gender ideology · Interior Secretary Dog Bumrug told Fox News host that he "certainly" believes there’s room on Mount Rushmore for President T.®ump’s face, in an interview that aired on Saturday · despite being prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment from standing for election again, President T.®ump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House during an interview with NBC News · quake disaster has exposed a T.®ump-sized void on the world stage. China is stepping in · a Paris court has convicted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen of embezzling money from the European parliament · Iran has reacted with outrage after DoNuts T.®ump said the country will be bombed if it does not accept US demands to constrain its nuclear program.