WATCH & ACT - GRASS FIRE - Leave Now Incident Location: Ravenswood South Issue Date: Friday 09 January 2026, 02:34 pm Next Update: Friday 09 January 2026, 04:40 pm More details at emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/w... #VicFires

Thinking of everyone in the growing patch already burnt. I'm still waiting for news on those I know in there. #VicFires

16 minutes ago as I type this. #VicFires

#VicFires Residents sheltering in place in #Alexandra are being urged not to use mains water unless absolutely necessary, the fire is virtually there if not already and pressure is impacting firefighting efforts.

If you're safe from fires, here's one way to pass what will be a stressful day. Do not underestimate the lethal heat factor today because you're not facing down a fire front. Our wall thermometer read 45° at 6.24pm IN THE SHADE in SA last night, from 47° earlier. #Heatwave #SwelteringCities

Today I am writing about the urgency of the climate crisis while the air purifier is already running at full pelt, the hill outside our window is slowly being shrouded by haze and the light outside is very slowly turning the colour of light molasses. The day of catastrophic fire has barely begun.

G'day Albo, my SA wall thermometer was at 45° in the shade at 6.30pm. That's what is headed to Vic before the change. The heat is as deadly as the firestorms already out of control. It won't be survivable when projects you ✅ end long after you're gone. We know who you're really "with." #Auspol

When emergency service officials are crying in town meetings the day BEFORE (last night)… You know it’s going to get absolutely horrific 😭 #VicFires

Note, all of these sources are on a delay, the delay is ingestion of data then publication. What is happening in any given location will be different to a data overlay. Put batteries into things that need them, expect the power to go out. Stay cool, stay hydrated and stay safe.

It’s possible the Longwood fire will impact up to 20 towns tomorrow. #VicFires

Victorians, if you haven't left yet or are leaving first thing, check on your disabled neighbours. Ditto if you're somewhere safe from fires but not heat. Even if it's your first conversation with them. It might mean it's not their last. The federal government already left them behind.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

It’s fucked, this situation is fucked, he’s a very serious professional and things are going to go extremely badly tomorrow

The way his voice is catching as he's saying this makes me very uncomfortable.

If you can leave, leave now. Vic Emergency at tonight’s briefing in Seymour. Emergency services will *not* be able to swoop into the middle of these fires tomorrow. #VicFires

If it’s safe to leave, leave now. If VIC Emergency suggests you should leave, please leave

Please Note: The graphic has not been updated on the CFA website, but the South West District has been added as a Catastrophic Rating for tomorrow. That includes The Great Ocean Road from Lorne to the SA Border. Adjust travel plans accordingly.

Disabled people are not expendable. The elderly are not expendable. Children are not expendable. Worth should never be tied to economic productivity. If we protected the most vulnerable in society, everyone would be better off.

When the issue is present in 3rd spaces it becomes visible. It *becomes a problem* for services to solve. Forcing ppl back into airconless homes will only work until the first royal commission into heat deaths 2/3

The issue is the young, the elderly, the disabled. P-CEP’s aren’t worth the paper they’re written on when the heat health plan is “keep moving”

Public housing HAS to lead the way, and Community housing needs to be mandated to Air con So does private rentals but at least those two can be forced into it

Once you have figured out your safest options to get through this heatwave and put them in place, this week is a great week to complete the Sweltering Cities Summer Survey. Especially if you have additional vulnerabilities such as disabilities or chronic health conditions. #Australia #Heatwave

I know this is a very long list, but as someone with multiple health conditions, heatwaves scare me. These tactics have helped to keep me safe so far

Cannot reiterate this strenuously enough: heatwaves are a public health crisis. They kill. Take action to protect yourself

Australia’s National AI Plan shifts away from the government’s previously promised mandatory AI safeguards. Instead, it’s positioned as a whole-of-government roadmap for building an “AI-enabled economy” theconversation.com/australias-n...

Prof. Carney spoke extensively on vulnerability as a concept in policy and law and his closing remarks were that we are all at all times vulnerable in some respect or other, and this is why the law exists.

Have spent the day resolutely focused on all the people who helped, who risked their own safety to ensure the safety of others. It’s no small thing in all that horror. Hate is a sickness.

Horrific violence in Bondi this evening, still a developing situation with a number of civilians shot and killed and ongoing warnings. Please stay away from Bondi and listen to and follow police directions.

I went to a Chabad high school. People I know are affected by events at Bondi today. Please follow instructions from police and refrain from live tweeting unverified information

A "principles-based approach" of good faith, purpose, value for money, accountability, and certain conditions. Virtually the #NDIS support definition we asked for. Parliament said nope – and treated us as less trustworthy than THEY are, with public $ intended to give us EQUAL opportunity. #Auspol

Disability orgs reiterate the call for the Gov to stop all Centrelink payment penalties and end the Targeted Compliance framework following another alarming report from the Commonwealth Ombudsman about the harms within the mutual obligations system. dana.org.au/call-to-end-...

Oh bullshit

“Tell us who you plan to throw overboard, who you expect to catch them, and what evidence you have for these "Sustainability" measures, risk assessments, and forecast outcomes.” #NDIS #Auspol

Who is in the mood for more #NDIS FOI docs that make you go 🤔? Cos this one took me forever to get, and another just released makes clear why NDIA advice to the NDIS Review 2.5 years ago was held back for further advice on harms of release. Who, precisely, are they planning to throw overboard?

The disabled were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis because they knew people wouldn’t fight for us. They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us. They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away

More on that here, with links to a few of the NDIS Supports submissions (mine included) in the comments. Happy #HumanRightsDay, @australianlabor.bsky.social and Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. That's a ❌ for #CRPD compliance from me. #Auspol

Yesterday, DHDA advised publication of submissions to the #NDIS Supports Rule "consultation" six months ago will be delayed until 2026. As in, they are censoring our own feedback to shut down discussion, until they can drown it out with strategic comms on their plan. #HumanRights #CRPD #Auspol

“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”

👀 #auspol #ausnews

I wonder why Albanese has not (Airquote) 'saved kids' from the (Airquote) 'Harmful Algorithms' determining NDIS eligibility. 🤔 #auspol #SocialMediaBan #NDIS #HarmfulAlgorithms www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I wish none of this was still relevant two years later, but it's a solid primer for some revelations I'll be writing about shortly. #Auspol #NDIS

#NDIS computer says no. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"But as a teenager with a severe disability who relies on social media for connection, community and access to a largely inaccessible world, this policy actually has the potential to create further harm." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To summarise NDIA day at #Estimates:

The NDIA seriously thought showing up to #Estimates and telling us they have no idea where that legal advice a senior exec told staff about came from was going to fly? #NDIS #Auspol

"a director .., later interjected to make it clear that under the new system, once the I-CAN generates a budget for a participant there is no way for the NDIS staff member to alter it, only to request a new assessment is done by the I-CAN tool." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

They really do want to remove as much choice and utility from the NDIS as they possibly can, don't they?

Roboplans that can't be edited by agency staff or the Tribunal, exclude external supporting information, and technically aren't counted as a "decision" by a decision-maker under law and policy? What could go wrong? #NDIS #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Oop, there it is. God forbid a disability scheme actually cost the government anything. Are we just going to magically have fewer people with disabilities needing assistance when this kicks in? No wait, don't tell me LET ME GUESS