Bernard Zuel
@bernardzuel.bsky.social
Writer & critic (SMH, Guardian, Rhythms & everything found at bernardzuel.net) teacher (Sydney University), podcaster, host/facilitator (anywhere you want me), media trainer (you talk, I help). Opinions definitely are those of my employer - moi.
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I'll entertain technical arguments about the Summary Offences Act (NSW) when someone can explain how Police can kettle and move on small groups protesting climate issues but somehow this out front of state parliament renders them powerless. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
What we just witnessed was state-sanctioned Nazism
What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I'll entertain technical arguments about the Summary Offences Act (NSW) when someone can explain how Police can kettle and move on small groups protesting climate issues but somehow this out front of state parliament renders them powerless. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Not for the first time, heads have rolled at the BBC following a puffed-up scandal pushed by the UK's Tory press. Will the ABC learn the lessons of its British compatriot?
Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either
www.crikey.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Not for the first time, heads have rolled at the BBC following a puffed-up scandal pushed by the UK's Tory press. Will the ABC learn the lessons of its British compatriot?
Wait forever to see @gillianwelchmusic.bsky.social+Dave Rawlings come back, then 2 tours in a year! They're in Aus in 2026. QPAC 13/2; HOTA 14/2; Empire 15/2; State 17/2; Civic 19/2; Canberra Theatre 20/2; Thebarton 22/2; Forum 24/2; Palais 27/2; Coal Creek 28/2; Costa Hall 1/3. On sale 14/11.
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Wait forever to see @gillianwelchmusic.bsky.social+Dave Rawlings come back, then 2 tours in a year! They're in Aus in 2026. QPAC 13/2; HOTA 14/2; Empire 15/2; State 17/2; Civic 19/2; Canberra Theatre 20/2; Thebarton 22/2; Forum 24/2; Palais 27/2; Coal Creek 28/2; Costa Hall 1/3. On sale 14/11.
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Birthday party starter in olden times. #morningpop #2005
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Birthday party starter in olden times. #morningpop #2005
Thank god, a corrective to the mealymouth good bloke/bit of a rascal shit as Kate McClymont lays out the trail of corruption to & from Graham Richardson.
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away.
www.smh.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Thank god, a corrective to the mealymouth good bloke/bit of a rascal shit as Kate McClymont lays out the trail of corruption to & from Graham Richardson.
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
This week's playlist offers Lukas Nelson+Sierra Ferrell & Chaparelle+Sierra Ferrell; Jenny Lewis & Travis Tritt, Wilco & Orville Peck, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets & The Smiths x2, Courtney Marie Andrews & Margo Price, Nick Shoulders & Gwenno +11 more
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open.spotify.com/playlist/6f9...
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This week's playlist offers Lukas Nelson+Sierra Ferrell & Chaparelle+Sierra Ferrell; Jenny Lewis & Travis Tritt, Wilco & Orville Peck, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets & The Smiths x2, Courtney Marie Andrews & Margo Price, Nick Shoulders & Gwenno +11 more
open.spotify.com/playlist/6f9...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6f9...
We are at end times again, a minute to midnight on society’s doomsday clock, when a newspaper devotes a full page to “superfood” cottage cheese. The food for people who don’t actually like eating.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
We are at end times again, a minute to midnight on society’s doomsday clock, when a newspaper devotes a full page to “superfood” cottage cheese. The food for people who don’t actually like eating.
A hot times playlist for you. Listen to Margo Price, Billy Joe Shaver & Gwenno; Emma Swift, Stella Donnelly & Nathan Seeckts; Roy Orbison, Novatone & Nick Shoulders; DZ Deathrays, The Smiths & Buckingham/Nicks; Wilco, Rob Snarski & The Models + more good stuff.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/dancing...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/dancing...
DANCING ON VOLCANOES: A PLAYLIST
Sure, it may blow any second, but for listening for 80 minutes, you'll be hotter AND cooler than the best lava lamp. CLICK HERE TO LISTENNo need to crack a toe or two to find more playlists like this ...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A hot times playlist for you. Listen to Margo Price, Billy Joe Shaver & Gwenno; Emma Swift, Stella Donnelly & Nathan Seeckts; Roy Orbison, Novatone & Nick Shoulders; DZ Deathrays, The Smiths & Buckingham/Nicks; Wilco, Rob Snarski & The Models + more good stuff.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/dancing...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/dancing...
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
After charming last night at Red House, some sunny day real estate from Mr “brooding machismo” Walsh. #morningpop #mondayvinyl #theapartments #thatswhatthemusicisfor
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
After charming last night at Red House, some sunny day real estate from Mr “brooding machismo” Walsh. #morningpop #mondayvinyl #theapartments #thatswhatthemusicisfor
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
And don’t worry that you won’t, you will. You’ve got an empty cup to fill. #morningpop #bonnieraitt #streetlights
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
And don’t worry that you won’t, you will. You’ve got an empty cup to fill. #morningpop #bonnieraitt #streetlights
Going dirt-first. @redeyerecords.bsky.social coming through as usual. #morningpop #saturdayvinyl #brucespringsteen #nebraska #boxset #outtakes
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Going dirt-first. @redeyerecords.bsky.social coming through as usual. #morningpop #saturdayvinyl #brucespringsteen #nebraska #boxset #outtakes
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Saturday read (& listen) #5. A playlist brings all the styles to the yard, from Exciters to Thundercat, Valerie June to Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Bud Rokesky to The Avalanches, Obongjayar to The Models, Bob Dylan to Little Simz, Oumou Sangare to Tristen +16 more.
open.spotify.com/playlist/5Fw...
open.spotify.com/playlist/5Fw...
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Saturday read (& listen) #5. A playlist brings all the styles to the yard, from Exciters to Thundercat, Valerie June to Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Bud Rokesky to The Avalanches, Obongjayar to The Models, Bob Dylan to Little Simz, Oumou Sangare to Tristen +16 more.
open.spotify.com/playlist/5Fw...
open.spotify.com/playlist/5Fw...
Saturday read #4. Past & present imperfect - sonically, historically, personally - intersect in a dark-inflected new album from @ruthhazleton.bsky.social. It's a reminder how far folk can go when it's done well.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...
RUTH HAZLETON – HERONBONES: REVIEW
RUTH HAZLETONHeronbones (independent) SOMEWHERE IN THE ELDTRITCH environs of Tri-Coloured House, between Ruth Hazleton’s questioning voice and the displaced-from-this-realm one of Aoife Nic Dhiarmada,...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Saturday read #4. Past & present imperfect - sonically, historically, personally - intersect in a dark-inflected new album from @ruthhazleton.bsky.social. It's a reminder how far folk can go when it's done well.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/ruth-ha...
Saturday read #3. A Stuart Spence photo is the spark to check in with some wacked out memories. It's the Radiators, but it's so much more in What Comes To Mind. A tale of trains, buses, mullets & missed opportunities.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/what-co...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/what-co...
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Saturday read #3. A Stuart Spence photo is the spark to check in with some wacked out memories. It's the Radiators, but it's so much more in What Comes To Mind. A tale of trains, buses, mullets & missed opportunities.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/what-co...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/what-co...
Saturday read #2. Pop isn't ever perfect, but it can be sublime. Like in an Icecream Hands album. And lo, what have we here but an Icecream Hands album with strings & things, high tunes & low moods, harmonies & heartaches.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/icecrea...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/icecrea...
ICECREAM HANDS – GIANT FOX PINEAPPLE TREE: REVIEW
ICECREAM HANDSGiant Fox Pineapple Tree (Independent) THE PRODUCER OF most Icecream Hands albums, the elusive – has anyone ever seen him or her? Is it true he/she is a four-men-in-one godhead sent into...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Saturday read #2. Pop isn't ever perfect, but it can be sublime. Like in an Icecream Hands album. And lo, what have we here but an Icecream Hands album with strings & things, high tunes & low moods, harmonies & heartaches.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/icecrea...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/icecrea...
Saturday read #1. Morning cow milking, evening folk fiddling (yes, it's a fiddle not a violin he says) & in between being a bridge between cultures, languages & formalities. It's been a hectic life for Martin Hayes, a modern giant & a modest Irishman.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/blessed...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/blessed...
BLESSED ARE THE FIDDLERS MARTIN HAYES, FOR YE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
THIS MAY BE DOWN to remembering The Life Of Brian better than other reported versions of the sermon on the mount – fact check aisle three! – but there’s always been a soft spot in my heart not just fo...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Saturday read #1. Morning cow milking, evening folk fiddling (yes, it's a fiddle not a violin he says) & in between being a bridge between cultures, languages & formalities. It's been a hectic life for Martin Hayes, a modern giant & a modest Irishman.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/blessed...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/blessed...
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This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.
Lawsuit Alleges Inhumane Conditions at Broadview ICE Facility
Federal authorities moved two plaintiffs in the suit out of state; a judge has ordered they be returned Monday.
southsideweekly.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.