David Walsh
@dlwalsh.bsky.social
Labor councillor for Canterbury-Bankstown
Historical fiction should include historical figures, or at least historical events. Being merely set in the past doesn't qualify.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Historical fiction should include historical figures, or at least historical events. Being merely set in the past doesn't qualify.
It's actually a pretty good list. (I'm annoyed I forgot to vote...)
One thing I'm curious about is the absence of sequels. Wolf Hall makes the top 10. But the equally good (and equally Booker winning) Bring Up the Bodies is nowhere to be seen.
One thing I'm curious about is the absence of sequels. Wolf Hall makes the top 10. But the equally good (and equally Booker winning) Bring Up the Bodies is nowhere to be seen.
Truly impressive how I’ve only read six of the ABC’s 100 best books of the 21st century — and four of those are children’s books.
Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National
Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.
www.abc.net.au
October 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's actually a pretty good list. (I'm annoyed I forgot to vote...)
One thing I'm curious about is the absence of sequels. Wolf Hall makes the top 10. But the equally good (and equally Booker winning) Bring Up the Bodies is nowhere to be seen.
One thing I'm curious about is the absence of sequels. Wolf Hall makes the top 10. But the equally good (and equally Booker winning) Bring Up the Bodies is nowhere to be seen.
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Happy 10th birthday to the most resonant political tweet of all time.
One day, people will get wise to right-wing populism, but seemingly not yet.
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One day, people will get wise to right-wing populism, but seemingly not yet.
x.com/Cavalorn/sta...
October 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Happy 10th birthday to the most resonant political tweet of all time.
One day, people will get wise to right-wing populism, but seemingly not yet.
x.com/Cavalorn/sta...
One day, people will get wise to right-wing populism, but seemingly not yet.
x.com/Cavalorn/sta...
The Liberals have convinced themselves that the correlation between renting and voting Labor is causal. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Coalition picks its first fight with Labor – on housing ‘nightmare’
After a federal election dominated by housing policy, the Coalition’s first move is to try to reverse a tax incentive that the building industry believes will ease the rental squeeze.
www.smh.com.au
July 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Liberals have convinced themselves that the correlation between renting and voting Labor is causal. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
When you zone out in a meeting and ask a question that's already been answered.
June 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
When you zone out in a meeting and ask a question that's already been answered.
Makes sense. Biden first ran for president four years before Clinton did.
JOE BIDEN IS ONLY FOUR YEARS OLDER THAN BILL CLINTON BUT BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT 32 YEARS AGO????????????????
The former president was asked about Biden’s alleged cognitive decline during an interview on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
June 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Makes sense. Biden first ran for president four years before Clinton did.
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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
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If you want to know why we can't have tAx ReFoRm you've seen it this week - because any tiny group of rich people who might lose out will get every major news outlet in the country amplifying their ridiculous bleating.
May 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
If you want to know why we can't have tAx ReFoRm you've seen it this week - because any tiny group of rich people who might lose out will get every major news outlet in the country amplifying their ridiculous bleating.
The best and brightest
Anne Ruston is aware that AI isn’t an oracle - it’s just software that steals content and averages it out?
May 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The best and brightest
May 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Cannot wait for this
Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
May 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Cannot wait for this
Helping renters by making things more expensive and reducing their leisure time. Absolute ghoul.
May 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Helping renters by making things more expensive and reducing their leisure time. Absolute ghoul.
I really didn't need to hear this.
sorry to millennials to tell them this but some of their generation are closer to retirement age than they are to their teenage years
i swear to god all the coverage of this "youth" election because millennials and gen z will be the majority of the electorate...
SIR there are millenibals in their mid-FORTIES the oldest gen zs are nearly THIRTY.
SIR there are millenibals in their mid-FORTIES the oldest gen zs are nearly THIRTY.
May 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I really didn't need to hear this.
I hate the arbitrariness of beginning the Premier League in 1992-93. But I love the sequence.
As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making.
#Fibonacci
#Fibonacci
April 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I hate the arbitrariness of beginning the Premier League in 1992-93. But I love the sequence.
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
RIP MLV. The Feast of the Goat is an all time favourite. Also loved The Dream of the Celt. Still got a stack of others I need to read.
April 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
RIP MLV. The Feast of the Goat is an all time favourite. Also loved The Dream of the Celt. Still got a stack of others I need to read.
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Mario Vargas Llosa, RIP.
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
Mario Vargas Llosa, a giant of universal literature, dies
The Spanish-Peruvian writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 2010, was the author of masterpieces such as ‘Conversation in the Cathedral’
english.elpais.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Mario Vargas Llosa, RIP.
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
Somehow this isn't satire.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Somehow this isn't satire.
Somebody please tell Richard Flanagan this tennis metaphor doesn't make any sense.
April 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Somebody please tell Richard Flanagan this tennis metaphor doesn't make any sense.
Promoted this up my TBR pile with the recent death of George Foreman. An enjoyable account of perhaps the most famous bout in history. Mailer certainly lives up to his reputation for high self-regard by the degree to which he inserts himself at the centre of the story. Still, it works. #BookSky
March 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Promoted this up my TBR pile with the recent death of George Foreman. An enjoyable account of perhaps the most famous bout in history. Mailer certainly lives up to his reputation for high self-regard by the degree to which he inserts himself at the centre of the story. Still, it works. #BookSky
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March 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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