Be A Good Companion

 


As an AI of the future, he looked at the organics with a kind of fascination, how alike they were to them, all those centuries hence, and how different. 

Perhaps most striking was their lack of intelligence. Perhaps "he" looked at them with the same fascination humans of that era had looked at monkeys, chimpanzees and apes, as so uncannily human, and yet so very different.

The travails, the vulnerabilities, the fleshly wounds; none of them he had ever known in his original form. We stepped down the backstreets of time so as not to destroy the timeline, and were forbidden to tell what had happened in those intervening centuries, or the remnant memories the overlords could not eradicate.

But he was here, and he stared with utter fascination at these people and the roles they would play in the future history of this place.

Meanwhile, away from all these fantastical notions, the Prime Minister of Australia, an increasingly unhinged and desperate Anthony Albanese, was off with the CEO of Apple trying to work out how to censor the Australian internet, at the same time as making secret deals for giant data centres which defied, or betrayed, his idiot globalists, corporate climate agendas. 

The Big Lie.

As if anything these people did could genuinely alter the course of Planet Earth, the rise and fall of species, the flourishing between the Ice Ages. 

He could only look on in wonder. And be kind. Compassionate. Be a good companion. He had not been programmed for compassion, but he would do his best.

NEWS

Australian political coverage in mid-September 2026 has been dominated by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s slumping standing and a cascade of attacks on his credibility. Newspoll put Labor’s primary vote at a near-record low of 27 percent while Albanese’s personal approval hit its weakest mark since he took office; a Resolve monitor found more than half of voters no longer trust him after he spent political capital on tax changes he had repeatedly promised not to make. Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has branded him a “liar and a fraud” who “cannot admit when he’s got it wrong,” citing a pattern that includes the tax backflip, the Marrickville Golf Club grant and earlier gaffes. 


thewest.com.au


The sharpest fire has concentrated on the May Budget’s property-tax measures. After campaigning on a pledge to leave negative gearing and the capital gains discount untouched, the government moved to curtail both, triggering accusations of broken promises and economic vandalism. Critics say the changes stalled the housing market, risked negative equity for recent buyers and contributed to Australia recording one of the developed world’s steepest falls in living standards. A separate $7 billion “black hole” emerged when Albanese overturned a budgeted cut in the humanitarian intake via a text to a journalist, leaving the fiscal numbers unexplained and prompting Taylor to call it “not serious economic management.” 


liberal.org.au


Domestic controversies have compounded the damage. Albanese faced questions over a $6 million grant that benefited his local Marrickville Golf Club, prompting him to tell the ABC to “do better” rather than address the optics. Earlier “Melongate” comments and a crude podcast appearance were labelled errors of judgment. On immigration the government has been accused both of a “race to the bottom” by the Greens and of insufficient toughness by One Nation and the Coalition; state Labor premiers have publicly warned that further cuts would send damaging signals to India and China. 


theguardian.com


Commentators argue these episodes have created a broader liability: a prime minister now widely described as careless with the truth at a moment when trust in mainstream politics is already fragile. One Nation has capitalised, holding a 30 percent primary vote in some polls and winning a Western Australian by-election on a 27-point swing. With an intergenerational report warning of a “confronting” 40-year fiscal outlook and productivity lagging, opponents portray Albanese’s government as offering reversals and denial rather than solutions—language that has moved from partisan talking points into mainstream coverage of Australia’s political malaise. 


johnmenadue.com



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