Hugh Riminton
@riminton.bsky.social
National Affairs Editor @10NewsFirst. All views my own.
2025 Walkleys long list for the Best Book award.
October 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
2025 Walkleys long list for the Best Book award.
Threats with menaces. Where are the heroic defenders of free speech on this?
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Threats with menaces. Where are the heroic defenders of free speech on this?
“I was punished for my political opinion” - broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf after winning her unfair dismissal case against the ABC. The judge found the public broadcaster bowed to “an orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists.”
June 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“I was punished for my political opinion” - broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf after winning her unfair dismissal case against the ABC. The judge found the public broadcaster bowed to “an orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists.”
Freely available from Dementia Australia: easy to understand, practical and thoughtful advice if you need it. 🙏🏻
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Freely available from Dementia Australia: easy to understand, practical and thoughtful advice if you need it. 🙏🏻
US Government assessment of growing risks to “US interests” over the next 15 years from a warming planet.
March 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
US Government assessment of growing risks to “US interests” over the next 15 years from a warming planet.
The future: St Vincent’s heart surgeons Chris Hayward and Paul Jansz, and inventor Daniel Timms carried out Australia’s first successful artificial heart transplant - on a NSW man in his 40s. Another four Australian transplants are expected this year.
March 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The future: St Vincent’s heart surgeons Chris Hayward and Paul Jansz, and inventor Daniel Timms carried out Australia’s first successful artificial heart transplant - on a NSW man in his 40s. Another four Australian transplants are expected this year.
One for the incorrigible optimists: whatever Donald Trump is doing, it’s not the worst thing.
March 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
One for the incorrigible optimists: whatever Donald Trump is doing, it’s not the worst thing.
All the cool kids are doin’ it
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
All the cool kids are doin’ it
From the Oval Office, President Trump again referred to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau.” There was laughter, but it’s not clear from whom.
February 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
From the Oval Office, President Trump again referred to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau.” There was laughter, but it’s not clear from whom.
46 years to the day after starting work as a radio cadet in Christchurch, NZ, someone still pays me everyday to tell stories. What a privilege it has been.
February 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
46 years to the day after starting work as a radio cadet in Christchurch, NZ, someone still pays me everyday to tell stories. What a privilege it has been.
Donald Trump announces that white Afrikaners, the architects and chief beneficiaries of South Africa’s racist apartheid regime 1948-1994, will be offered urgent refugee resettlement in the US. On X, Elon Musk says “l love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.”
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Donald Trump announces that white Afrikaners, the architects and chief beneficiaries of South Africa’s racist apartheid regime 1948-1994, will be offered urgent refugee resettlement in the US. On X, Elon Musk says “l love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.”
“Dob them in” - NSW Premier appeals to people to report anyone they know who might be involved in potential antisemitic or other extremist behaviour.
January 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Dob them in” - NSW Premier appeals to people to report anyone they know who might be involved in potential antisemitic or other extremist behaviour.
“We are angry (at) this witches’ brew of extremism,” - Australian Jewish leader Peter Wertheim says Australia’s leadership seems powerless, as authorities continue to investigate the discovery of a caravan loaded with explosives in suburban Sydney.
January 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“We are angry (at) this witches’ brew of extremism,” - Australian Jewish leader Peter Wertheim says Australia’s leadership seems powerless, as authorities continue to investigate the discovery of a caravan loaded with explosives in suburban Sydney.
Australian inflation figure comes in at 2.4%. Goods inflation is now at its lowest level since 2016, raising hopes of an interest rate cut next month.
January 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Australian inflation figure comes in at 2.4%. Goods inflation is now at its lowest level since 2016, raising hopes of an interest rate cut next month.
Donald Trump says the scrapping of DEI initiatives is “the most important civil rights measure in decades.”
January 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Donald Trump says the scrapping of DEI initiatives is “the most important civil rights measure in decades.”
A point made inadvertently clear today by American academic/columnist Walter Russell Mead, in praising the new compact between Trump and the tech billionaires.
January 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A point made inadvertently clear today by American academic/columnist Walter Russell Mead, in praising the new compact between Trump and the tech billionaires.
Saying the quiet bit out loud - US academic/columnist Walter Russell Mead, praising the new compact between Trump and the tech billionaires in the @australian, making plain American jobs are not the intended end point of the new vision.
January 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Saying the quiet bit out loud - US academic/columnist Walter Russell Mead, praising the new compact between Trump and the tech billionaires in the @australian, making plain American jobs are not the intended end point of the new vision.
2024 was Australia’s second hottest year since formal records began in 1910. The trend line is ominous. Source: BoM/ABC
January 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
2024 was Australia’s second hottest year since formal records began in 1910. The trend line is ominous. Source: BoM/ABC
Jimmy Carter, the solar power prophet, who installed photovoltaic panels on the White House roof, remembered by Thomas Friedman. (On gaining the presidency, Reagan tore them down).
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/o...
December 31, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Jimmy Carter, the solar power prophet, who installed photovoltaic panels on the White House roof, remembered by Thomas Friedman. (On gaining the presidency, Reagan tore them down).
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/o...
I always found his outfit a bit loud for hangovers..
December 19, 2024 at 10:24 AM
I always found his outfit a bit loud for hangovers..
Important gathering for the Baha’i community, amid worsening Iranian persecution of Baha’i women. Proud to stand with Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay, Ry Atkinson @amnesty.org, Dr Saba Vasefi and Sepehr Atefi, whose film “The Women Who Said No” tells of the execution of 10 Baha’i women.
December 13, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Important gathering for the Baha’i community, amid worsening Iranian persecution of Baha’i women. Proud to stand with Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay, Ry Atkinson @amnesty.org, Dr Saba Vasefi and Sepehr Atefi, whose film “The Women Who Said No” tells of the execution of 10 Baha’i women.
A “strategic” partnership. Australian PM Anthony Albanese and PNG PM James Marape announce a new PNG NRL team to play in the Australia-based competition. If PNG enters into a “security” arrangement with China, sources have told me, the team will be dumped from the competition.
December 11, 2024 at 11:38 PM
A “strategic” partnership. Australian PM Anthony Albanese and PNG PM James Marape announce a new PNG NRL team to play in the Australia-based competition. If PNG enters into a “security” arrangement with China, sources have told me, the team will be dumped from the competition.