Part two of my 2022 year in reflection swimming thread is all salt water, and mostly ocean pools. /1

Sometimes I wonder if things can get worse for the Liberals, and then someone shows me how.

It’s extraordinary how conservatives like Alex Antic treat women’s pain as political currency - trampling over medical experts and compassion alike in the pursuit of another cheap culture war headline. https://t.co/J5vnatH7yW

@Aaronsmith333 All she's inviting is a perennial NIMBYism where nothing gets built, nothing gets done.

Incredible to transition from "these planning reforms will destroy our community with towers" into "but it isn't viable to build towers" without any hesitation at all. Truly great minds in the party of Menzies

@pwafork No matter how many times I hear this pro-Liberal centre right rhetoric, it’s never accompanied by a single reference to specific policies the Libs should pursue. Motherhood statements don’t cut it. The Libs, like their rusted on supporters are completely out of ideas.

Honestly….. wild, baseless accusations - that women would somehow falsely claim a still birth payment - without a shred of any evidence at all. Disgraceful. #auspol

This statement should immediately disqualify Hastie from ever leading the Liberal Party. https://t.co/iN2t4OqaD0

This is worth your time - YouTube production. On the surface, it’s about grid design and planning, but really, it’s about how geography is once again shaping class. In Sydney, where you live now defines how you live. We’ve rebuilt the old hierarchies. Melbourne will be similar

The club's chief executive texted Sen Pocock on Thursday to let him know he was no longer welcome. Surely if it's a sporting club with annual membership fees, then the financial members of the club and the committee decide who they boot from the club? Not the hired help.

Brad Battin is (re)shuffling deckchairs on the SS Liberal Titanic.

The ability of Liberal MPs to talk for hours without stumbling over a single solution is almost a talent. No wonder Gen Z have bailed on the Liberals — culture wars, rental stress, doubled uni fees and zero path to home ownership isn’t exactly a winning pitch.

They just told us it cost $339,703 in external legal costs (and far more in internal costs!) to prosecute whistleblower Richard Boyle. What a horrific waste of money to attack a brave truth teller.

I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a couple of weeks ag when I discovered that it had registered itself as a lobbying group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body. The gambling industry is insidious and invidious. It has its tentacles everywhere.

@DryFarmer24 @mattjcan I'm participating fully in the market. I didn't design the market. If you're participating in the same market as me, and not doing as well, is that a hallmark of socialism or capitalism, out of interest?

Penny Wong gave James Paterson the political equivalent of a firm ‘shhh’ and a pat on the head. https://t.co/twzOsK1A7e

Time and again, our regulators prove themselves unfit for purpose — opaque, unaccountable, and inadequate.

@LyleShelton Lyle, you come from a faith that spent decades running an industrial-scale protection racket for child sexual abuse - shielding predators and silencing victims. That you dismiss it, and still presume to sit in judgement of other faiths, is not just ironic. It’s obscene.

Oli Dugmore, "Is Nigel Farage a fascist?" "Trying to define fascism is like trying to nail jelly to a wall" "But I would certainly say that if you are advancing a policy program that involves the militarised mass expulsion of an ethnic minority background. That is a component

is it time for a bargain with the hard right in australia? “give us an economy wide carbon price and we’ll remove the prohibition on nuclear power.” *dons flak jacket*

Brian says CFO. We say spokesperson. He says receipts. We say Ramp. RSVP to see who wins.

@Endtyrannynow @mattjcan It's the opposite. It's cheap when it's full of renewablse and expensive when it's mostly coal. It's not a mystery. I think it's on this point that @mattjcan does so much damage - his aim is to convince people of the lie you've clearly fallen for. It's unprofessional of him imo.