Forget NIMBYs and YIMBYs
Move over, “skibidi toilet”, “delulu”, “tradwife”, and the other new words added to this year’s Cambridge Dictionary.
When it comes to housing, we’ve all heard of NIMBYs (not in my backyard) and their nemesis, YIMBYs (yes in my backyard).
Now there’s another housing-based acronym on the block. “TIMBYs” stands for “thoughtfully in my backyard”.
TIMBY is being promoted by the good people of the National Trust of Australia and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
They say TIMBY is a “balanced, inclusive approach that delivers more housing while respecting heritage, character and community values”. This all sounds very sensible.
And for the young people playing along at home, backyards are green places at the rear of housing that could be purchased for peanuts many decades ago.
ABC’s brush with bad timing
Celebrity surgeon Munjed Al Muderis has had a shocker of a fortnight after comprehensively losing his defamation trial against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes.
In a landmark judgment, Justice Wendy Abraham found Al Muderis was dishonest, callous and prioritised fame, money and numbers above vulnerable patients.
She also found the “positive media his practice had enjoyed needed correcting, and the investigation revealed another side of his practice. Patients should be making their decisions with both sides of the story.”
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Yet over at the ABC, the verdict is nowhere to be seen on its website, beyond The Law Report podcast, which notes the case was the first time a media organisation had successfully defended a defamation case on public interest grounds.
And on Thursday, the ABC decided to broadcast a re-run of Anh’s Brush with Fame featuring – you guessed it – Al Muderis. On the long-running show, the comedian and author interviews “extraordinary Australians” while painting their portrait. The episode with Al Muderis was filmed in the third season of the six-season show, and ends with Doh saying: “I look forward to seeing what else he has next in store for us.”
Munjed Al Muderis (left) and Anh Do on the ABC’s Anh’s Brush with Fame.
CBD contacted the ABC to ask why the episode went to air given the court finding that “positive media coverage his practice had enjoyed needed correcting” and whether the episode would remain on iview.
It looks like further sightings will be hard to find, an ABC spokesman saying: “In light of the Federal Court’s recent judgment, the ABC has taken the decision to remove the episode from ABC iview and the broadcast rotation.”
Which footy team?
It’s an Australian tradition that visiting celebrities are forced to “choose” a footy team and pose in their jumper.
Richmond AFL club once claimed Indian cricketer Virat Kohli, while Hollywood A-lister Jeff Goldblum was photographed wearing a Rabbitohs cap at an NRL game a few years back.
Celebrated US gymnast Simone Biles has now joined Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and swimmer Ariarne Titmus as a Hawthorn supporter.
The diminutive Biles (1.4 metres), who won a record 11 Olympic medals, has posed for pics in a personalised Hawthorn jumper with Hawks star Will Day (1.91m).
Gymnast Simone Biles and Hawthorn player Will DayCredit: Facebook
Biles is visiting Australia for the self-described “property industry event of 2025”, REA Group’s Ready25 shindig at Sydney’s Royal Randwick. Property seems to be one of the few industries that can afford to fly out celebrities to talk wellbeing, authenticity and other buzzwords; former US vice president Kamala Harris recently appeared at a real estate conference on the Gold Coast.
The big question is which NRL team will Biles choose once she gets to Sydney.
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