Hello,

Modern Australia is a bizarre mix of cosmopolitan western liberalism and hellhole deathcamp paranoid racist wasp fundamentalism. They're weird and we're sick of them. The Manus Island situation is criminal and the fact our new PM appears to agree, well, that apparently doesn't go down well in some circles.

In domestic news, procedural whoopsies sort of mar the incoming government, I guess, if you're a nerd. The TPPA morphs. And Bill English, unable to become an irresistible force, commits to being an immovable object.

Also the United States had some elections, proving two things; they haven't cancelled having elections yet, and the organised left can do things.

Bumper music;

DJ Shadow feat. Nas - Systematic

Wolf Alice - Planet Hunter

Ty Segall - Alta

Nadia Rose - Big Woman