Shouldn’t it be before he arrives?

There are also protests before he arrives, demanding his invitation be cancelled, that have been announced in Melbourne and Sydney.

But announcing big protests for when Herzog arrives is intended in part to incentivise the government to cancel the visit, though I don’t think they’ll be dissuaded.

I wish there was something practical I can do other than just leaving the country.

There’s advocacy and activist groups who would love any help you can give, including donations.

Living here I’m part of the problem.

You can look at it the opposite way. That our government and industries are contributing to the problem means that we are capable of making a difference through our activism in this country.

I doubt 7news will show time and places. Any link for that?

The Green Left website has filterable listings where you can often find activist events like this: https://www.greenleft.org.au/events?start_date=2026-02-09&search=

Their listings for this nationwide protest are currently incomplete, though, with listings for only 4 of 9 announced cities: Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth. The national poster also lists Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Cairns and Townsville.

So if you’re not in one of the cities with a listing already, you’ll need to find your local event/group yourself and check their channels, or I suppose wait for a listing to go up on Green Left.

It’s all too silly to actually engage with it, but I think Answers in Genesis are talking about carnivorous dinosaurs potentially becoming ‘vegetarian’ for the duration of their stay on the ark: https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/humans/dinosaurs-ark-how-possible/

Ah, yeah, that’ll do it!

These are different; they require pedalling and are top speed limited to 25km/hr.

That may be the law, but I see e-bikes daily that have been modified to remove those restrictions. In the video in the linked article I can see maybe one person pedal.

I mean they could just get an actual motor bike at 16 anyway

They have to pass a written test on the road rules, and yeah, they have to actually be 16. The motorbike also has to have registration plates and they can be penalised or lose their licence.

Bikes paths? Maybe we can use this to get the boomers on board with spending money on bike infrastructure!

Yeah, of all the e-bike incidents for people to be concerned about, this one gets traction? I guess it’s it’s just this one is visually interesting, and for some people is emblematic of the disregard that actually is dangerous in other situations?

Hey, what if we gave every teenager a motorbike, and didn’t make them do any kind of driving test? That’s probably a good idea, right?

Flamin’ Galah

It’s a neo-nazi site: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/how-federal-election-candidates-boost-noticer-neo-nazis/105159556

The Noticer is a Nazi news site

That bad, huh?

There was a fire burning out of control 60km to the west while this downpour occurred:

Wye River is about 60 kilometres east of the Carlisle River bushfire in the Otways, which has been burning out of control since Saturday.

Well they haven’t been able to do it “quietly”. They’ve lost at least 24 speakers so far, and a sponsor: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/09/adelaide-festival-boycott-pro-palestine-academic-randa-abdel-fattah-ntwnfb

EDIT: That article has since been updated to reflect that 45 participants have now withdrawn.

She was cleared of wrongdoing and the suspension of the grant was lifted, btw:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/23/pro-palestine-academic-randa-abdel-fattah-cleared-of-wrongdoing-after-investigation-into-research-grant-ntwnfb

The statement from the Adelaide Festival board says that it’s because of “past statements” by Abdel-Fattah, though they don’t cite anything or even mention the nature of these statements. So it’s not explicitly because Abdel-Fattah’s ethnicity.

Also, there’s three three-way time-offset junctions in Europe (at this time of year), but they all have ‘hard’ international borders. If the junctions were in the Schengen Area, then it’d be like Cameron Corner, but I don’t think you can legally walk freely between countries (and time zones) at these three points, without using an official point of entry (I might be wrong about that, though).

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Europe

I got curious about whether this was possible in the U.S., and it looks like it isn’t!

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_offsets_by_U.S._state_and_territory

… he isn’t himself a war criminal any more than Sam Mostyn could be considered a war criminal if Australia were committing an ongoing genocide.

Herzog isn’t subject to an arrest warrant by the ICC (Netanyahu and Gallant are), but it’s at least arguable he’s a criminal under international law for incitement to genocide. Remarks by him form part of the evidence in the ICJ case: https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203447

I think even in the absence of such remarks you could make the argument it’s Herzog’s responsibility (or Mostyn’s, hypothetically) under international law to use the powers available to him to remove the government to prevent genocide.

But yeah, as you say, the statement “the UN has declared him a War Criminal” is factually incorrect in that there’s been no finding or warrant against him as an individual.

Some analysis from Anne Twomey, professor emerita of constitutional law at the University of Sydney (you may have seen her on YouTube): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/nsw-parliament-rushing-anti-protest-laws