It seems a bit much to release a director's cut of a film into cinemas 5 weeks after it's original release.

This is such a weird decision: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-25/nedlands-mp-jonathan-huston-quits-wa-liberal-party/106840964

On the one hand, it doesn't really matter since the he'll have even less influence outside of the opposition and the problem will resolve itself at the next election.

On the other, the possibility of him joining One Nation seems bizarre. Two elections ago, Labor won this seat. The overlapping federal division elected a teal independent, and returned the second highest "yes" vote in the Indigenous Voice referendum. The area may lean conservative, but how do you look at all that and decide they'd want a far right anti-immigration party to represent them?

#AusPol

A small apartment block on Scarborough Beach Road recently put up a sign reading "Ben Roberts-Smith Beach Houses". Someone did some digging, and it seems to have been bought by a shell company owned by Hancock Prospecting: https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/1ue2fj0/the_ben_robertssmith_apartments_in_scarborough/

So I guess if you want some war criminal themed accommodation near the beach in Perth, just ask Gina.

Perth has been graced with a Frankie MacDonald weather forecast for Friday: https://youtu.be/7P68Brv8uoU

I tried the third and final beer in Feral's thiotransformed hazy series tonight: Warped, Amplified, and finally Saturated.

They all felt like they'd been brewed from a similar recipe, but ended up with quite different flavours. This one tasted of lemon/pineapple.

Apparently it's also a problem for sheep graziers.

Down in Busselton for the long weekend. It's been a bit windy, up around 60 km/h. The first pub closed their kitchen at 6pm due to low patronage.

Earlier today in Fremantle.

CCTV of the train crash in Guildford yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/1tjfbz3/cctv_of_the_train_crash_in_guildford_yesterday/

You can hear the warning bells before the truck tries to cross the tracks. It's amazing no-one was killed.

On board for the first leg of my journey. It's longer and less direct than I'd like, but beats dodging missiles.

What do you do when your slop podcast hosted by a fictitious Oly Bennet (who sometimes seems to be Ollie?) hits the guardrails of the LLM that is generating the scripts?

Just feed the refusal message through the text to speech system and publish as normal. It's not really a problem if there's no human listeners.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dubai-travel-guide-current-safety-updates-and-future-attractions--70427324

RE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116483835313862451

Seth was the leader of the GNOME Usability project, which led to the creation of the human interface guidelines; the words might have changed over 25 years, but he's one of the people that made the Linux desktop, and we're still walking in his footsteps.

A dress rehearsal for Saturday's dawn service, from earlier today.

It looks like yesterday's worship was a bit more crowded:

https://www.perthnow.com.au/wa/perth/all-hail-the-cactus-thousands-of-meme-lovers-hail-perths-iconic-green-cactus-sculpture-in-forrest-chase--c-22159873
https://www.instagram.com/kickflipskateboard/p/DXRnlNcHxs_/

There were some people worshipping the cactus while I was walking through the CBD today.

Anne Twomey recently published an interesting video about the eSafety v. Baumgarten court case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9H3uMvREWg

Essentially eSafety has been issuing takedown requests outside of its statutory functions, using the same communication channels for the statutory takedowns.

When called on it, they claimed these decisions were not reviewable because they were outside of the functions the law said were reviewable.

So it turns out a woman police assaulted in Broome earlier this week was the star of the 2002 film Rabbit Proof Fence.

https://nit.com.au/10-04-2026/23650/rabbit-proof-fence-star-considers-legal-action-following-police-altercation

Unsurprisingly, The West has a different spin on this: https://archive.md/tG5qE

In particular:
* Describing BRS as a "decorated army veteran" in the title.
* No mention of his failed defamation lawsuit.
* The only unblurred photo of BRS is a 2010 photo in his army uniform.
* That photo has been doctored to remove the crusader cross patch he was wearing.

About time: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-allegations-arrest/106537668

If the reports are accurate that Anthropic was using LLM tools to write much of the Claude Code software, I wonder what the copyright status is of the leaked source code?

If there are portions that are not copyrightable, the only protection they would have had is trade secret. And that's not much use if they go ahead and publish the source.