Mark Holsworth, Black Mark
mholsworth.bsky.social
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark
@mholsworth.bsky.social
Author of The Picasso Ransom, Sculptures of Melbourne and the long-running blog Black Mark - Melbourne Art & Culture Critic. He/him
A criminal gang has been running the country.
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Bullshit.
What evidence do you have?
Or is this just your lack of understanding and human decency?
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Definite Art Nouveau styling with the flowers.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It is beautiful, and I see so many quality details in the legs alone; they are carved, look at their feet.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I'm having difficulty feeling any sympathy for people in QLD because, after all the warnings about extreme weather from climate change, they voted for it, repeatedly, for decades.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
No comment from Aftab Malik, the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia in Australia. I guess the Zionists didn't permit him to talk to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
And why do you think that this is good legislation?
Or are you just here to bitch that Thorpe doesn't obey the wishes of the ALP/LPD duopoly?
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
ABC distorted reporting: no mention that destruction of cultural property is a war crime, no mention that Australia assisted these crimes, both practically and politically.
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
That was 2014, so I guess his kid is a bit more independent, and that dad has got back to his street art.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This brings us to a popular misconception that you share, that "compulsory voting (i.e. attending a polling booth)". This is not backed up by any judicial opinion; in fact, there is a high court judgment (non-binding) that informal voting is illegal.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Would you like another example?
Mr Informal from Tasmania was not allowed to run under his legal name. The AEC insisted that he run under his dead name because they didn't want to allow anyone to say "Vote Informal".
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
More from his back catalogue. I know his pronouns because I saw him putting this one up. He was pushing a baby carriage then and had his paste-up supplies stashed in the bottom.
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Albert Langer was jailed for informing the public of provisions in the Electoral Act. He wouldn't accept the institutionalised political censorship of the AEC that wanted him to shut up because he opposed the duopoly.
What do you call it when informing the public about the law is illegal?
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I think you support an electoral system that has repeatedly elected racists, bigots, with no regard for human rights, international law and that have committed war crimes and genocide. If this government truly reflects you democratically, then you are guilty of these crimes as well.
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Why not look at Canada and NZ for more comparable examples? They have human rights, and Australia doesn't.
They don't jail people for informing the public about provisions in the electoral act, and Australia has.
I see you have 'common sense' but little compassion or understanding.
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Voter turnout is not a measure of a democracy. Saddam Hussein often had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than even Australia.
Moving on.
How would you distinguish between democracy and mob rule?
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
'Common sense' often sounds reasonable, but it isn't. In reality, compulsory voting in Australia has added to the misery of troubled people, like the man in the article, instituted political censorship, stifled dissent and produced far worse governments than Canada or NZ.
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
That's why 'ceasefire' is in quotation marks, meaning it's just what some people are calling something and certainly not what the author is.
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black Mark
Such an intensely Australian image
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM