Dan Holmes
dholmesnoise.bsky.social
Dan Holmes
@dholmesnoise.bsky.social
Canberra based journalist with themandarin.com.au covering the Australian public sector.

Nerd. Context advocate. Recovering composer and music dude.

dholmes@themandarin.com.au
Apsanonymous@proton.me
Signal: Apsanonymous.2600
@grogsgamut.bsky.social is she doing one of these?! Or did you just screencap at an awkward moment?
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Taking name suggestions for my lapel duck.
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I am so sorry.

#auspol #ausnews
August 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Also noting there are 33 recommendations, not 32 as has been widely reported.

A lot of them are interrelated, and rely on government ceding power to community.
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This isn't me, but I'm pretty sure I wrote this headline four or five times between 2010 and 2020
May 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I dub this look "squatters tuxedo"
April 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I've been really relishing the contrast between my week/weekend lives recently.

Life is weird, in the best possible way.
March 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Department of Veterans Affairs secretary Alison Frame reflects on her department's recent capability review.

#mandarinlive #ausnews #auspol
March 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
David Schmidtschen tells #mandarinlive it's "very disturbing" the APS doesn't talk about talent below the SES level.

#ausnews #aps
March 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Katy Gallagher tells The Mandarin's Building a Better Public Service conference she doesn't like seeing public servants being pulled into the political arena.

#mandarinlive #APS #ausnews #auspol
March 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Nobody
Absolutely Nobody
Not a Soul on Earth

ABC:
March 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Happy day 2 of #senateestimates to those who observe.

#auspol
February 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Weed now considered gateway drug to executive government
February 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
First gig back with Assyrian legends Azadoota this weekend, and I feel better about playing music than I have in 10 years.

We are SO back!
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I believe it was dismantled in November 1989 after the fall of the Australian Military Mateship Republic (AMMR)
January 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This is excellent from @pcgamer.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
How it started | How it's going

Brisbane. Not even once.
January 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
January 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The main event
January 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Massive thanks to @jagungal.bsky.social for showing me the Australian Parliament House bees.

Early contender for the most fun yarn this year!
January 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
- Google replaces ads with AI at the top of SERP
- AI to be trained on "synthetic" data
- Social platforms ditch fact checking, promote "political" content
- LLMs focus all attention on tasks more easily achieved using other AI models/rules as code
January 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you say so, Simon.
December 29, 2024 at 1:16 AM
December 29, 2024 at 12:16 AM
December 26, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
December 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM