Hugh Riminton
@hughriminton
National Affairs Editor @10NewsFirst Grateful father, partner and Granddad. @riminton.bsky.social All views my own.
⚡️BREAKING: An unarmed Palestinian livestreaming at Gaza’s port was directly shot by an Israeli sniper, despite posing no threat.
PM Anthony Albanese gently chides One Nation after its Senators yesterday turned their back during the Welcome to Country. “Having a bit of respect is appropriate in my view”, he tells @abcnews
New Bradfield MP Nicolette Boele gets in a question at #QuestionTime, even as the Liberal Party continues to challenge in the courts her 26-vote election victory.
For the first time, Sussan Ley opens the batting (or is it the bowling) at #QuestionTime
This moment will last forever. What a beautiful way to say goodbye. Thank you Ozzy.
“Time held me green and dying, though I sang in my chains like the sea” - Jon Stewart, living up to Dylan Thomas.
Hunter Biden finally says the unsayable from Joe Biden’s inner circle about the late stages of his presidency: “He got old, he got old before our eyes.”
Former PM Malcolm Turnbull says Anthony Albanese’s China trip was “exactly the right thing to do”. He tells @abcnews even the visit to the Great Wall “made perfect sense”, brushing off criticism from the Liberal Opposition.
“Be passionate. Avoid cynicism” - parting advice from a gentleman of Australian journalism. Peter Ryan OAM, dead at 64. @kennedyawards
Very sad to hear of the death of the ABC’s Peter Ryan OAM, at just 64. I first worked against him in Melbourne in the 1980s, a fine journo and a gentleman of the old school. My thoughts with his wife and family.
Amid increasing evidence Russia is indoctrinating its youth for war, a supermarket in Russian-speaking Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan stocks these these cheerful little numbers…
As anyone who knows me can probably work out - my FB account has been hacked. Whatever this nonsense is, my advice would be to swerve it.
Try not to overdo robodebt comparisons. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/20…
The National Anti-Corruption Commission declares a public servant corrupt - then suppresses her name. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
How to spot it if you about to be conned by a “ghost store”. @acccgovau @10NewsPlus youtu.be/X8kAA32iDL4
I spent a few days on an Australian warship recently to see for myself the surface fleet the Defence Minister himself calls “ageing and fragile”. The report is linked below @10NewsPlus @TheNewDailyAu thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/…
Worth the cost of a subscription- or, weird idea, the cost of buying a paper, to read this analysis of Trump’s Big, Beautiful act of American self-harm. Astonishing times. Dispiriting if you believe in the US and the western world @FinancialReview afr.com/world/north-am…
The Australian navy has become a “museum” - says senior defence analyst Peter Jennings. In this report, we go to sea on HMAS Arunta to see if he’s right. @10NewsPlus youtu.be/aCWcb3ZwM-8?si…
Is our navy war ready? I head out to sea with the captain and crew of HMAS Arunta. Coming up @10NewsPlus 6pm
