Not just a few Year 12 students cheating. DOZENS of them. Whenever a school makes the news for all the wrong reasons, it's amusing to compare the high-flown statements on their website with the actual character and ethics of the students they're turning out. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

The Government: we can’t possibly tax the wealthy or even the minerals we give away, because Gina tells us it’s better to let the disabled just die

Just in case anyone thinks Greg's experience is an anomaly, based on my ~3 months in the NDIA National Contact Centre, I was having these conversations with participants, families and support coordinators on a daily basis. The 'cracks' that people are slipping through are more like fissures.

Apart from the cruelty (bad enough, I don’t get the economics. If your daughter has funding cut, support workers lose hours, family member cut work hours to take up the slack. income taxes decrease, those workers no longer with $ to spend in the economy. that’s a big hit to the economy.

No one gets it unless they've been under the thumb of government attacks. It's why I want to tie these cuts to the refreshed mutual obligations scam. The same people losing social supports, or being denied access in future, are the same people they endlessly run through these job service providers.

It’s socially acceptable politeness because they didn’t actually say what they mean or use a naughty curse word or attack anyone’s character. The “civil” upper hand from the powerful comes from their ability to distance themselves from emotion because nothing they do ever affects them directly.

All the right emotions to feel, it seems. And writing with those emotions sizzling at your fingertips is the soulful counterculture we need in the face of the faceless, polite but long-winded and patronising, unaccountable government machine.

Fair to say this was written in anger, frustration and despair. The NDIS cuts, and the way they are being done, are cruel. They cannot be supported. www.deepcutnews.com/p/health-min...

"I've been one of Jacinta Allan’s most vocal critics. But calling a woman a witch is not political criticism. When we decide misogyny is acceptable when aimed at the 'right' woman, we create a culture that threatens every woman." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Barnaby Joyce's superpower appears to be the ability to look at a person and instantly know they're a recent arrival to Australia. He can tell them apart from Australian citizens who have been here for decades. Wow. I'm impressed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Instead of writing an angry post about all the crap that gets worse everyday I wanted to pay tribute to someone who was truly good … and Professor Richard Scolyer was truly good 💜💜

The pedestrianization of Broadway through the heart of Manhattan just expanded, and it's glorious:

And Sesame Street. That was the first place I ever heard the 3rd movement of Bach's Violin Partita Number 3 in E. Likewise the 3rd movement of Vivaldi's Lute Concerto in D. I was playing the Vivaldi on the piano a couple of years ago. My brother overheard & said "That's from Sesame Street!"

the need for the inclusion of the graphic is a sad reminder of the shockingly low literacy rate among geese

Note AstraZeneca is only pulling Zoladex 3.5mg - used to prevent breast cancer reoccurrence & slow the growth of endometriosis - from the PBS “for commercial reasons”. The 10.8mg version of Zoladex which is used to treat prostate cancer will remain available on the PBS www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

R.I.P Anthony Head 💔

Happy pride month all, fuck Palantir

If that's the extent of your @australianlabor.bsky.social govt's 'reform', you can kiss your now undeserved huge majority goodbye in 2028. Perhaps doing something to alleviate child poverty & homelessness might help your collapsing prospects @albomp.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... #auspol

my name is Oz and wen the stone is broke to bits and all alone i lie in sand it stretches bare you read my words you pls despair

Totes legit.

Just read this post and then saw the following Discworld QOTD bsky.app/profile/rinc...

Dave's entirely undeserved privilege is his daughter's nest egg. I met him once and he is genuinely this clueless; across multiple topics.

Privilege is having an enormous blindspot to privilege. They see themselves at the merit olympics taking gold every time, and poor people just didn’t try hard enough.

My VCE student works two nights a week. Every cent will go on a second hand car and a laptop (he’s using a school laptop atm). Then he’ll have to find a new job when he moves to Melbourne and will be starting over with *nothing* while studying and living in his grandmother’s garage

How privileged of her that she has extra to funnel into it. The poor uni students however are simply trying not to starve to death

What Sharma means is: “We fund our daughter’s life expenses so she can feel smug about her ‘responsible’ saving habits and to ensure there are no unwelcome tax implications from what is effectively our outsourced capital gains.”

I also bet she pays nothing to Dave for board, because on a senator's salary he doesn't need her money. When I lived at home, every payday I handed over half my wages to my parents. My family was poor & I had to help support them. The Daves of the world have no idea what that's like.

Sharma's tone is the same as Hockey's "get a better paying job." Sorry to hear about you getting screwed over with NDIS cuts. The best thing the Govt could have done is take the control out of private company's hands. There would be no need for cuts.

Absolutely this. Sharma writes from a position of extreme privilege about a child being raised in extreme privilege.

Sharma writes this as if it's a flex, rather than a lament. Surely this situation is reflection of something that has gone horribly wrong in our economy.

SUCH an arsehole. These entitled pissants have NFI what it's like to live in the real world. My kids worked from the age of 10 (paper routes), thru McDonald's in teen years, & then at whatever they cld get all thru 2 & 3 Uni degrees respectively. One *still* can't buy a home, other struggles. 🖕

Our society is worse for the loss of those days when full time university students were just that: full time students, working on the side to cover student ‘luxuries’ like local gigs, engaging in uni events, etc. When did we ever think full time university students should be investing in shares?

I know the concept, but a rich family in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney is not requesting board. They would also be paying the HECS too. That's how you have money to invest in shares working 3 shifts a week. No other expenses.

My daughter has Down Syndrome and the NDIS has been gutted, and you fully support the cuts. So, basically f*ck you and the entitled horse you rode in on

Definitely a thing full-time students doing 3 shifts a week in pubs do all the time: take after-tax money they have in the bank and invest it in the sharemarket. This is totally very common and not made up. (And btw the new CGT arrangements means she would be in front anyway!)

At some point we’ve got to stop seeing this as a series of oopsies moments and recognise that we are in institutional collapse. This system never “worked” the way we pretend it did. But at least there was some semblance of responsibility, of learning from mistakes It’s over. Time to build new ones

Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The only reason Sharma’s daughter can afford to do this is because she’s living at home. Everything about getting ahead in Australia is balanced on generational wealth. And that’s why it’s got to change, for the many

Private school children taught it's ok to kill koalas? Hello Queensland. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Editorial: It is a cliché to say this violence would be a national emergency if it didn’t happen to women, if it wasn’t softened by the adjective “domestic”. trib.al/i0hMG7w

We are so committed to punishing the most vulnerable workers along with the unemployed that we end up with this kind of perverse situation. And even worse when we realise the unemployment rate is a government policy decision, a tool to control inflation without increasing tax.

Here's me. "Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities"

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Australia, where the rich get much richer and the poor suffer from food and housing insecurity. Looks like all of the lobbyists did their job. 😡

“Where can I find the paper towels?” “Who’s asking?”

Exactly Jeremy! Admire ABC’s efforts to do some practical good right now but the best thing they can do is spearhead a movement across the country to #RaiseTheRate The media’s been a useful tool demonising the most visible ‘welfare’ recipients. Admit it was awful to do that & get to work fixing it!

Well @news.abc.net.au is now here on Bluesky Jeremy so we can ask them directly: why does our government leave Jobseeker at ~$400/wk when this is simply unliveable for the 4.5% of Australians who have to be unemployed so that RBA are not forced to lift interest rates even further? #auspol #Auspol