Dan Ilic
@danilic.bsky.social
linktr.ee/danilic
Investigative Humourist.
Host @ARationalFear Podcast.
Winner 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Australian Podcast Awards Best Comedy Podcast.
🏆🏆🏆
Investigative Humourist.
Host @ARationalFear Podcast.
Winner 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Australian Podcast Awards Best Comedy Podcast.
🏆🏆🏆
Is URZILA the show that finally brings sketch comedy back?
ABC’s new series Urzila marks a major comeback for sketch comedy after years of absence from Australian television.
ABC’s new series Urzila marks a major comeback for sketch comedy after years of absence from Australian television.
Is URZILA the show that finally brings sketch comedy back?
ABC’s new series Urzila marks a major comeback for sketch comedy after years of absence from Australian television.
tvblackbox.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
On this week's A Rational Fear we chat with Richie Merzian live in Belem — recorded on Tuesday — and this morning we found out that Australia will not be hosting COP31. Regardless there is lots of fun goss about the machinations of trying to win the COP31 bid. www.arationalfear.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
On this week's A Rational Fear we chat with Richie Merzian live in Belem — recorded on Tuesday — and this morning we found out that Australia will not be hosting COP31. Regardless there is lots of fun goss about the machinations of trying to win the COP31 bid. www.arationalfear.com
Australia will not host COP31 but Bowen will be COP President.
With a leaders meeting pre-COP in a pacific island.
With a leaders meeting pre-COP in a pacific island.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Australia will not host COP31 but Bowen will be COP President.
With a leaders meeting pre-COP in a pacific island.
With a leaders meeting pre-COP in a pacific island.
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Australia’s economic complexity ranking is at a low. @albomp.bsky.social’s response - cut CSIRO staff by 300 - 350🤦♂️.
Plenty of money for opulent projects like #AUKUS to fill foreign wallets, not so much money for our future prosperity. #auspol
Plenty of money for opulent projects like #AUKUS to fill foreign wallets, not so much money for our future prosperity. #auspol
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Australia’s economic complexity ranking is at a low. @albomp.bsky.social’s response - cut CSIRO staff by 300 - 350🤦♂️.
Plenty of money for opulent projects like #AUKUS to fill foreign wallets, not so much money for our future prosperity. #auspol
Plenty of money for opulent projects like #AUKUS to fill foreign wallets, not so much money for our future prosperity. #auspol
I met Charlie Kirk in 2015… a real jerk.
That is all.
That is all.
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I met Charlie Kirk in 2015… a real jerk.
That is all.
That is all.
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what
Trump on climate change: "The world was gonna burn up, but it actually got much cooler. It's a little conspiracy. We have to investigate them immediately. They probably are being investigated."
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
what
Am so dissatisfied with Labor…
Ruined my 2026 already.
They really know how to activate a guy to run against them.
Ruined my 2026 already.
They really know how to activate a guy to run against them.
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Am so dissatisfied with Labor…
Ruined my 2026 already.
They really know how to activate a guy to run against them.
Ruined my 2026 already.
They really know how to activate a guy to run against them.
Congratulations to Labor on running the world’s least convincing campaign to host COP31…
From Peter Malinauskis’ refundable ticket to Brazil
To Albo’s no-show at COP30
From Peter Malinauskis’ refundable ticket to Brazil
To Albo’s no-show at COP30
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Congratulations to Labor on running the world’s least convincing campaign to host COP31…
From Peter Malinauskis’ refundable ticket to Brazil
To Albo’s no-show at COP30
From Peter Malinauskis’ refundable ticket to Brazil
To Albo’s no-show at COP30
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Oh wow, this @roycerk2.bsky.social piece on Australia at #COP30
@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social turns up a at a carbon offsets lobby group event - and misses the fossil fuel exit roadmap event.
reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social turns up a at a carbon offsets lobby group event - and misses the fossil fuel exit roadmap event.
reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Oh wow, this @roycerk2.bsky.social piece on Australia at #COP30
@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social turns up a at a carbon offsets lobby group event - and misses the fossil fuel exit roadmap event.
reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social turns up a at a carbon offsets lobby group event - and misses the fossil fuel exit roadmap event.
reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
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The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
Ed is so good
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Ed is so good
Lewis Hobba in last week's podcast had a great point — that Labor is hedging on every issue.
They simultaneously have Bow3n out here saving the planet while Watt is out here allowing more methane processing than ever.
They simultaneously have Bow3n out here saving the planet while Watt is out here allowing more methane processing than ever.
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Lewis Hobba in last week's podcast had a great point — that Labor is hedging on every issue.
They simultaneously have Bow3n out here saving the planet while Watt is out here allowing more methane processing than ever.
They simultaneously have Bow3n out here saving the planet while Watt is out here allowing more methane processing than ever.
The slow degradation of the CSIRO is music to the ears of fossil fuel industry groups.... the government works for them. not us.
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The slow degradation of the CSIRO is music to the ears of fossil fuel industry groups.... the government works for them. not us.
Finally a table at Otto is available
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Finally a table at Otto is available
Convinced AGI is only used in the group chat for in jokes…how is OpenAI going to monetise that?
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Convinced AGI is only used in the group chat for in jokes…how is OpenAI going to monetise that?
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That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
Illegal Immigration etc etc.
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Illegal Immigration etc etc.
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Oh no if only someone could have predicted this might happen
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Oh no if only someone could have predicted this might happen
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Your reminder #cop30 that #Australia has increased gas production by 360% since 2000. Stats c/o @iea.org:
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Your reminder #cop30 that #Australia has increased gas production by 360% since 2000. Stats c/o @iea.org:
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Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
Running into COP30 with Oil and Gas
As COP30 gets underway in Brazil, a new report spotlights increased oil and gas production from the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed a decade ago.
drilled.media
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
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#BREAKING 🚨 Dugald Saunders has announced his resignation as NSW Nationals leader after two years
Saunders says it is "the right time to allow a new leader to take up the fight" ahead of the 2027 state election, but will remain in parliament
Saunders says it is "the right time to allow a new leader to take up the fight" ahead of the 2027 state election, but will remain in parliament
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
#BREAKING 🚨 Dugald Saunders has announced his resignation as NSW Nationals leader after two years
Saunders says it is "the right time to allow a new leader to take up the fight" ahead of the 2027 state election, but will remain in parliament
Saunders says it is "the right time to allow a new leader to take up the fight" ahead of the 2027 state election, but will remain in parliament
AACTA Awards voting closes today at 5pm for Online Comedy — Please consider putting our online comedy web series “Long Head” as your number 1️⃣ . It’s very funny, very good, and Millie is a genius, and quite frankly I’m overdue for a red carpet event.
www.research.net/r/CHSR36G
www.research.net/r/CHSR36G
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
AACTA Awards voting closes today at 5pm for Online Comedy — Please consider putting our online comedy web series “Long Head” as your number 1️⃣ . It’s very funny, very good, and Millie is a genius, and quite frankly I’m overdue for a red carpet event.
www.research.net/r/CHSR36G
www.research.net/r/CHSR36G
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And the LNP dumps Net Zero
Humanity could be just 3 years away from crossing a dire climate threshold, report warns
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Humanity could be just 3 years away from crossing a dire climate threshold, report warns
Record carbon emissions mean that the planet's carbon budget could be exceeded in as little as three years, according to a new report.
www.livescience.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
And the LNP dumps Net Zero
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Still thinking about turning this series I wrote into an illustrated zine of some sort.
Would people be interested?
Would people be interested?
look at that dickhead in sydney who didn't get the joke
qoifoog.neocities.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Still thinking about turning this series I wrote into an illustrated zine of some sort.
Would people be interested?
Would people be interested?
Just drove through my childhood street… most of the houses kind of looked like this in my era
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just drove through my childhood street… most of the houses kind of looked like this in my era