Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created a bingo card for 2025. A set of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re half-way through the year, so let’s see how we went.
You might want to follow along with this chart showing which ones we discussed.
| Australia announces another immigration amnesty | Coalition forms a minority government in Canberra DIDN’T HAPPEN. | TikTok is able to operate in the US again | US and China warships exchange live fire | Musk disposes of X/Twitter |
| Rupert Murdoch separates from current partner | AUKUS cancelled by US LOOKS LIKE IT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN. | Penrith doesn’t win the NRL championship WE’RE STILL TO FIND OUT. | Fatalities caused by space debris hitting a developed nation | Betelgeuse goes supernova |
| ABC finally cancels Insiders and/or Q&A | Hungary leaves the EU | FREE SQUARE: Musk embarrasses himself publicly | Taylor Swift separates from current partner | Fairy bread flavoured Shapes becomes a thing NO, BUT... |
| Semaglutide (Ozempic) on Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for weight management [See note 1] | Congestion charge introduced in an Australian city | Drug possession decriminalised in an Australian state or territory | US withdraws from NATO NO, BUT... | Myanmar junta is overthrown |
| Tanya Plibersek becomes ALP leader | Natural disaster bankrupts a large insurance company | Boeing carved up or bought out by Airbus | Tianwen-2 finds ingredients of life on Kamoʻoalewa | King Charles III dies |
We also talk about a potential trade war between Indonesia and China, sleep hygiene and insomnia, habituation and impulse control, bird flu, fairy bread, Kyle Sandilands, and the music of Wilson Phillips.
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