The Albanese Government is asking the High Court to create a new defence to false imprisonment to escape $10s of millions it is liable to pay 356 people it was forced to release from immigration detention. www.afr.com//politics/hi...

Sarah Henderson's intervention this week reminded me she's an ex ABC journo and also made a cameo on Frontline, grilling Mike Moore

The LNP front bench not exactly paying Ley much attention. Cracker of a shot by @mikepbowers.bsky.social #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

Another two men from the NZYQ-affected cohort have been deported to Nauru in a process human rights advocates say is shrouded in secrecy, v @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Dressing for Halloween as slutty AI is proving harder than first anticipated

a crumb of media coverage, as a treat www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Government trying to give police powers to recommend welfare cancellations, senate rebels on enviro laws and David Pocock pulls one over the government in the name of transparency - it is all happening. thepoint.com.au

De Minaur's results are: beat most people below him, nobody above him, and be reliable grandslam quarter-final cannon fodder. So no, it is not enough.

Adnan thought he’d served his time. But one night border force raided his home to deport him to Nauru - @sbasfordcanales.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More AI lies. There is simply no song! It doesn't exist!! Oh except that one.

Morning - I have had three coffees so far and a cookie - The Point Live is with you: live.thepoint.com.au

Crazy we are still looking at what the Coalition is doing when what matters is Labor’s choice www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

In iconic Manly, even community infrastructure like a lifesaving club faces a litany of NIMBY complaints. Noise, tree removal, a "masculine" aesthetic, loss of a "heritage" footpath. www.afr.com//politics/th...

Don’t do a Deloitte: the AI stuff-up that ricocheted around the world - on the pod with Lisa Murray and Edmund Tadros www.afr.com//companies/p...

Excited to be able to talk about this publicly now - The Point is now up and running and from Monday, you'll find my parliament blog on it 💃 thepoint.com.au

Bowen lashes Queensland government plan to keep coal firing for longer www.afr.com//policy/ener...

The take-out from the wall of media reporting on Albo's meeting with Trump is wow Albo you diplomatic genius, the psychopathic god-king was in a good mood and found you unthreatening

Sadly the answer many economists would give to this is NO you're better off upsizing because the family home is mostly exempt from the pension asset test, so you could get a part pension in a multi-million $$ house.

Scoop: The federal government was warned last month that 1 in 3 parents plan to help their kids get around the social media ban. The risk of "non-compliance snowballing and becoming normalised" could "undermine" the ban, the report says, based on polling done in Feb/March www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Fake academic reference reveals AI use in claim for $1.6m from NDIS www.afr.com//politics/fa...

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report www.afr.com//politics/fe...

For all the students at the social work uni intensive who told me they now use AI at work to write up case reports: NDIS participant’s bid for more support failed in part because two physiotherapists used AI to write letters used to back her claim to top up her package www.afr.com/politics/bid...

Nothing sadder than a "the truth is out there, we just didn't discover it" waa waa story.

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

One day I'm going to throw my phone in the harbour and it's gonna look like a bold statement rejecting the distractions of modern life...the truth will be I'm waving away flies and accidentally let it go.

The Australian Public Service Commissioner confirms what many suspected: Public servants are avoiding putting things in writing to escape public scrutiny. But what is the Govt doing about it? Trying to change FOI law to make secrecy even easier. live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/aust...

It's Senate Estimates week, so @amyremeikis.bsky.social has got the live blog fired up live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/parl...

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues. Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump. 📰 AFR ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social ✍️ @edmundtadros.bsky.social 🗣️ @chrisrudge.bsky.social

This whole thing is going to be a debacle. "every face scanning tool they tested could be tricked with repeated attempts." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Three words you don't want on your professional obituary: "after bacon comments". www.afr.com//companies/m...

Just discovered I am one of 390 people Silky Nutmeg Ganash follows on Twitter. Just imagining her waking up to a timeline full of Albo and Chris Minns like we do Trump.

John Lyons' contacts "were openly saying Australia will never see the #AUKUS submarines. Pretending a meeting with a mercurial embossed carbuncle of a President will change reality is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine." @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Donald Trump has let fly with an absurd and rambling speech at the UN General Assembly, and it looks like Anthony Albanese has finally secured that meeting (lucky him).

this exists it is called thinking

Like, what the hell does ‘speak up’ mean if not putting your name to your comments? Farcical reporting.

Not a single one of them prepared to be named. Total cowards, both the MPs and the Guardian.

Oh goddamnit! Are we fuckkng living through history!?! This is bullshit

Hastie threatens to quit frontbench, issues net zero ultimatum to Ley www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

“Kirk wanted the America he was killed in. He fought for it. Became rich in doing so. And up until his final breath was continuing his harmful grift that has seen trans-people demonised across world. So I do not mourn that.” open.substack.com/pub/amyremei...

In AFR, @paulkarp.bsky.social tackles cash-for-access in NSW. It can be as little as $110 per head. Donation caps do not stop it -- access is simply too cheap. The new federal disclosure threshold of $5k would not reveal it -- most appear to be well below. www.afr.com/politics/reg...

The National Guard “inadvertently” emailed reporters a memo that says Trump deployments are turning the public against the military and bringing veterans shame.

From cabinet secrecy to “factors against” access, Australia’s FOI amendment bill risks undoing gains won under earlier reforms www.themandarin.com.au/299152-foi-a...

Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be murdered, because noone deserves to murdered. Political violence is not something to be tolerated, not even against Charlie Kirk. And it is in holding and defending those beliefs that we make ourselves unlike Charlie Kirk.

Read Lee's account in full

Just going for the first swim of the season *checks notes* 8 days into spring.

Deloitte friends, my DMs are open. Please tell me who wrote the robo AI report (other than obviously robo AI).

#breaking Robodebt wil cost more than $2.4 billion after Albanese Government settled second class action for $548.5 million. Live blog here and story coming www.afr.com/politics/fed...