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Absolutely wild scoop: Australian gas company Santos demanded recipients of disaster funding help supply the company and the broader oil/gas industry with good PR in hilariously explicit terms Read the whole amazing story here: drilled.media/news/santos-...

The central message of this budget is Labor hates people with disabilities and the poor. #auspol

Australians may only be able to access NDIS if ‘all appropriate’ treatment options exhausted, documents reveal

If you drop (or throw) your new Steam Controller it will scream at you #SteamController #Linux #SteamOS #Valve #PCGaming

By the time authorities admitted Covid was airborne, millions of people had already died. The Andes strain of Hantavirus spreads person to person. Everyone on the boat should have been quarantined. You don’t “wait & see” with a virus that has a 40% fatality rate.

It seemed like there was nothing to see in this budget, and that everything was revealed before the Treasurer's speech. But there's much more to look at in the details, from welfare to housing, from tax to energy bills. Join us next Tuesday to find out what you didn't learn from the headlines:

Spain’s growing reliance on renewable energy has helped keep power prices stable even as the war in the Middle East drives up costs, said the country’s minister for environmental transition

The Australian literally found a guy with a Porsche and a property portfolio to be the voice of the 'victims' of the budget

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(As a general rule of thumb, people will give up just about everything else to hang onto their car as it's how they get to work and they can always sleep in it if they lose the house/rental. If defaults on car loans are exploding, it is a very bad sign.)

It's called the ' demolition phase' of Greater Israel. Not even kidding. That's what they are openly calling it.

There is also $684 million unspent funds meant to be used by providers to get people jobs... which begs the question, what the fuck is the point of these private welfare cops who don't do their job?

This is Labor's "responsible" budget: ❌More for US wars ❌More for coal and gas ❌$59 million a day for private schools ❌NDIS slashed ❌No renter support ❌No lift in welfare payments ❌Growing aged care wait times Hate to see what "irresponsible" would have looked like.

Catastrophically shit. I mean, they actually CUT funding for Electric Vehicles, and announced nothing new (a few sheckles aside). In the middle of a fuel crisis! Nothing to get off imported fuel!

While Gas firms reap untaxed giga profits, our most vulnerable are being punished by an unlawful system that hands over billions in public money to private corpos for the sole purpose of appeasing capital and keeping the middle class scared. #auspol #federalbudget2026-27

Pretty big cuts to the department of climate change etc, health disability + aging, and social services

unsurprising. I've now had several DM's from current NDIA planners and I'm struggling to keep track of the volume of comments. there's a lot of data there and I want to collect it because it's clear that people at every level of the system including staff are being harmed.

Balancing the books on the backs of people with disabilities. Foul

The cuts to the NDIS budget don’t only impact those on the scheme, they impact those of us who don’t currently get supports we need. The cuts mean more people will join me in a life of unsupported disability.

There’s no sign Foundational Supports are being designed with disability needs in mind. This is not a plan for our future. This is a plan to hide us from the world.

Eugenics

For context, $4 billion cut from climate and energy, $46 billion on fossil fuel subsidies and $36 billion cut from the NDIS.

In 18 years of closely watching federal budgets, I've never seen a budget measure with this level of social spending cuts (not even in Joe Hockey's 2014 budget). $36b in NDIS cuts over the forward estimates

If you lose a lot of weight suddenly you often gain it back just as quickly. However, this isn’t true in all cases, such as being cut in half by a mysterious ronin who appeared to have not even unsheathed his katana

The admin staff were making people cups of tea and bringing out sandwiches and blankets because the waiting room was freezing and they felt terrible about the wait. This is the brand new Footscray Hospital. Very fancy, very grand, very big … and same number of beds as the old hospital.

🚨 NEW: A majority of Australians think Donald Trump is the greatest threat to world peace, according to a YouGov poll commissioned for The Australia Institute released today Last year, a Dynata poll (also for The Australia Institute) saw 31% rate Trump as the greatest threat

people on Jobseeker are in full-on survival mode, for real

Once again this is a reminder that design choices matter!

I am shocked, SHOCKED!, that people living below the poverty line, due to the cruelly low rates of welfare payments, even before this latest cost-of-living-crisis, are experiencing increased mental health issues. INCONCEIVABLE.

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

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Really good piece on the history of gas tax in Australia by Gareth Hutchens www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Hey @noblesteedau.bsky.social you might be interested in this

For all my gamedev friends interested in procgen!

#BREAKING 🚨 It seems ABC News have updated the headline of the article, an editor noting 'the article has been updated to further emphasise that income support includes sick leave.' There are no changes to the body of the article. To FURTHER emphasise this? What the fuck???????

Thanks printer, that cheered me up

Data centers add fewer permanent jobs per dollar than the energy powering them www.latitudemedia.com/news/data-ce...

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Hantavirus may have spread between passengers on cruise ship, WHO says. HPS is fatal in 35-50% of cases www.bbc.com/news/article...

Philip Morris uses secret Senate hearing to warn illegal tobacco in Australia could wipe out legal trade by 2030

Hmmm interesting, go fuck yourself I paid for my shit

Sure. But Tim Wilson is leading a class war on behalf of the rich. The current system doesn't work for the old or the young, it only works for the wealthy. Older people without assets go homeless and jobless, as young families without wealth struggle.

When food banks are unfunded and everyday Aussies are going without, the need for a 25% tax on gas exports is crystal clear. Australian gas belongs to the Australian people, and they deserve to get a fair return. @davidpocock.bsky.social #auspol

About to hit $70bn

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WOW um this is pretty huge. UAE just pulled out of OPEC??? One of the top producing countries in the price-fixing cartel

@nauris.bsky.social @curiousquail.com Thought you both might enjoy seeing this given both of you have posted art on your timelines ❤️