Matthew Spillane
@spillanemj.bsky.social
Retired Naval Operations Analyst.
Lapsed Mathematician. Fading Ranga. Inner West Sydney
Lapsed Mathematician. Fading Ranga. Inner West Sydney
TLDR: Every Liberal ex PM claimed more than every ALP ex PM. Party of small government. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Taxpayers foot $1.4m in expenses for our former PMs
The report doesn’t include pensions for the former prime ministers, or the costs of staff.
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
TLDR: Every Liberal ex PM claimed more than every ALP ex PM. Party of small government. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Rollicking read
“Leanne Edelsten .. claimed that Richo had offered to get her husband off the charges if Leanne would have sex with him. Leanne told me she looked Richo up and down, before saying: “I love my husband, but not that much.””
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
“Leanne Edelsten .. claimed that Richo had offered to get her husband off the charges if Leanne would have sex with him. Leanne told me she looked Richo up and down, before saying: “I love my husband, but not that much.””
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 8:06 PM
Rollicking read
“Leanne Edelsten .. claimed that Richo had offered to get her husband off the charges if Leanne would have sex with him. Leanne told me she looked Richo up and down, before saying: “I love my husband, but not that much.””
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
“Leanne Edelsten .. claimed that Richo had offered to get her husband off the charges if Leanne would have sex with him. Leanne told me she looked Richo up and down, before saying: “I love my husband, but not that much.””
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Being a RWFW must be a terrible job, you have to drive to the office seven days a week and yet you still never achieve anything
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Being a RWFW must be a terrible job, you have to drive to the office seven days a week and yet you still never achieve anything
I’m sure BBC sacking journos will get the RWFWs off their back
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I’m sure BBC sacking journos will get the RWFWs off their back
Australia has a housing crisis and the world’s largest number of horse racing tracks 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroug...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroug...
Thoroughbred racing in Australia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Australia has a housing crisis and the world’s largest number of horse racing tracks 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroug...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroug...
I’m shocked I tell you, shocked, that Woolworths flipped this 1000sqm block of land next to Newtown railway station. They left it empty for nearly a decade, supposedly with plans to build a new Woolworths Metro. So much for a housing crisis..
www.colliers.com.au/en-au/proper...
www.colliers.com.au/en-au/proper...
www.colliers.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I’m shocked I tell you, shocked, that Woolworths flipped this 1000sqm block of land next to Newtown railway station. They left it empty for nearly a decade, supposedly with plans to build a new Woolworths Metro. So much for a housing crisis..
www.colliers.com.au/en-au/proper...
www.colliers.com.au/en-au/proper...
There really is something off about Minns
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
There really is something off about Minns
Police objecting to anti-genocide protests while approving Nazi protests is chef’s kiss. I’m sure the antisemitism envoy is onto it.
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Police objecting to anti-genocide protests while approving Nazi protests is chef’s kiss. I’m sure the antisemitism envoy is onto it.
Reposted by Matthew Spillane
The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says
Dozens of neo-Nazis demonstrated outside NSW parliament on Saturday where they held an antisemitic banner and chanted a Hitler Youth slogan
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW Libs shut down the entire Sydney CBD for a decade when two pedestrians were killed by an idiot… a car does this and we all just shrug our shoulders
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Three pedestrians critical after car mounts footpath following crash
Three men are in a critical condition after a car veered onto a footpath where they were standing following a collision with another vehicle in Sydney's west.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NSW Libs shut down the entire Sydney CBD for a decade when two pedestrians were killed by an idiot… a car does this and we all just shrug our shoulders
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Well there’s the Dems election marketing plans sorted
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Well there’s the Dems election marketing plans sorted
“The nation’s peak adviser on infrastructure said it was not possible yet to make a confident assessment of the project’s cost-benefit ratio until there was more certainty about its cost.”
Just make the existing train faster than driving
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Just make the existing train faster than driving
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Staged build of high-speed train line from Newcastle to Sydney revealed
Details of the ambitious plans are revealed in an evaluation of the mega project, which shows three-fifths of the 191-kilometre line would be through tunnels.
www.smh.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“The nation’s peak adviser on infrastructure said it was not possible yet to make a confident assessment of the project’s cost-benefit ratio until there was more certainty about its cost.”
Just make the existing train faster than driving
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Just make the existing train faster than driving
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Today’s insightful financial news is that US stocks prices fell because people thought the prices were too high
Breaking news: US stocks have dropped as jitters over highly elevated valuations for many artificial intelligence companies intensified and top Wall Street executives said markets were vulnerable to a pullback. on.ft.com/4hIMmhj
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Today’s insightful financial news is that US stocks prices fell because people thought the prices were too high
Selfish pricks comes to mind www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Why does western Sydney love big cars?
Each 10-centimetre increase in a car’s front height increases the risk of death for a child by 80 per cent. Drivers still flock to the larger models.
www.smh.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Selfish pricks comes to mind www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Dick Cheney dies and a Muslim is immediately elected mayor of NYC
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Dick Cheney dies and a Muslim is immediately elected mayor of NYC
ABCnews property porn time
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
ABCnews property porn time
Be interesting to see the battery state on this
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Be interesting to see the battery state on this
ABC news running more property porn stories
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
ABC news running more property porn stories
USA is so phucked!
“heirs are treated as if they bought the stock at market value, so they don’t pay taxes on any of the deceased’s gains”
“heirs are treated as if they bought the stock at market value, so they don’t pay taxes on any of the deceased’s gains”
The capacity of the income tax to take the most from people who can most afford it has been undermined by wealthy people’s avoidance of taxable income. 💰
Read more:
Read more:
The tax avoidance playbook
Taxes used to work. That was before the loopholes.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
USA is so phucked!
“heirs are treated as if they bought the stock at market value, so they don’t pay taxes on any of the deceased’s gains”
“heirs are treated as if they bought the stock at market value, so they don’t pay taxes on any of the deceased’s gains”
I mean yes, but if only he’d ever been in a position to do something about it…
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I mean yes, but if only he’d ever been in a position to do something about it…
Reposted by Matthew Spillane
Israel is losing support in two of its key battlegrounds: the hearts and minds of Americans.
Spinning genocide: Why is Israel trying to reframe its war on Gaza?
Israel is losing support in two of its key battlegrounds: the hearts and minds of Americans.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Israel is losing support in two of its key battlegrounds: the hearts and minds of Americans.
UK vox pop: “Prince Harry got stripped of his title for marrying an American..”
I mean who cares about the royals, but that wasn’t it..
I mean who cares about the royals, but that wasn’t it..
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
UK vox pop: “Prince Harry got stripped of his title for marrying an American..”
I mean who cares about the royals, but that wasn’t it..
I mean who cares about the royals, but that wasn’t it..
So Sarah Ferguson pays the largest price for Andrew’s actions. That fits.
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
So Sarah Ferguson pays the largest price for Andrew’s actions. That fits.
😂 As are proof readers
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
😂 As are proof readers