There is a lot of misinformation flying about the status of the Great Barrier Reef — mostly coming from you-know-where.

This rubbish comes from the Turnbull/Abbott government. This crap is repeated ad nauseam by the Murdoch Press, especially The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. The Great Barrier Reef Marine park Authority was decimated by Tony Abbott and now has become a rubber stamping Authority for whatever the Minister for the Destruction of the Environment, Greg Hunt, says.

In Pasadena, California, Black Lives Matter organizer Jasmine Richards is facing four years in state prison after she was convicted of a rarely used statute in California law originally known as "felony lynching." Under California’s penal code, "felony lynching" was defined as attempting to take a person out of police custody. Jasmine was arrested and charged with felony lynching last September, after police accused her of trying to de-arrest someone during a peace march at La Pintoresca Park in Pasadena on August 29, 2015.

A Patriot Movement supporter, approved by the Trump campaign, talks of violently overthrowing the federal government.

Today's topic — planetoid Greedo.

Tony Abbott's former chief of staff Peta Credlin has rubbished claims her old boss wants his job back, labelling deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce's comments "horse s--t".

The Nationals leader, a political ally of Mr Abbott, on Tuesday said he believed the former PM still harboured leadership ambitions but would realise a comeback wasn't possible.

"He will want to, but he'll realise he can't," Mr Joyce told AAP. "To say that he doesn't have a desire is ridiculous - to say that he can't overcome that desire by the reality that's just not going to happen [is another]."

Spain ‘betrays NATO allies’ hosting Russian warships – oh, really?

Malcolm Turnbull has taken Bill Shorten to task after the Labor leader accused US presidential hopeful Donald Trump of being "barking mad".