No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

New open access article by @evansmithhist.bsky.social and myself, looking at patterns in membership application data of the National Front of Australia:

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

Always have to bring this back to the people affected. This is what they're paying providers billions of dollars to (unlawfully) do bsky.app/profile/mkla...

"Unlike fires, floods and cyclones, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) does not recognise heatwaves as a natural disaster – leaving it up to the discretion of service providers to determine how they respond." Thx to @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/260205-...

The excellent folks over at the Justice and Equity Centre @justiceandequity.bsky.social have just published their NDIS insights report for 2025/26. A really good summary of the last 12 months of NDIS faultlines: jec.org.au/publication/...

Labor offers to delay NDIS autism changes if states agree to hospital and disability funding deal

"Services Australia knew its internal practices relating to child support payments conflict with the law but did nothing about it for six years, a report from the commonwealth ombudsman has found." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Surveillance of welfare recipients is not an appropriate response to people in increasingly desperate circumstances committing violent acts. But Labor's plan seems to be just introducing more pre-crime punishments until needing welfare is itself seen as the crime. www.itnews.com.au/news/service...

Craig Goodwin taking the time to go on 5AA radio to talk shit on Josh Cavallo is pretty on par for someone who bailed on the club just before the 2023/24 season started for Saudi money. Craig wasn’t even at Adelaide United to witness what happened within the club during that time! #ALM

Good to hear that 'guy not here for the period in question' and 'radio host tolerant of booing players who experience homophobic abuse' have come together to agree there's nothing to see here omny.fm/shows/the-fi...

Big win for NDIS users at Federal Court. Sherri Sutherland and Victorian Legal Aid successful in establishing that people with disability are not required to prove that other services can’t meet their support needs first before getting onto the NDIS: www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/access-ndis-...

my only sappy thing to say about GDQ is that the last however many years have tried their best to convince the world that ppl like me should not exist and sometimes you wonder if we really are on a downfall but GDQ comes around saying trans rights all day all week raising millions and millions

From May last year, when NDIS execs backflipped and introduced default 3-month funding "periods" more than 20,000 plans -- one third -- were cut by an average of 22.5 per cent. Rest increased but this includes across the board indexation. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/01...

4/ Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s statement on her cancellation from Adelaide Writers Week:

Australian Adelaide Writers Week cancelling a writer for the crime of being anti-genocide and anti-land theft, site opens with a statement acknowledging the festival taking place on stolen land for bonus irony. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇

NDIA FOI account back online! on about the 5th attempt I finally fixed the bug that stopped the service i was using to get notifications when the FOI log updated - see below for updates!

Secretary defends job providers' use of payment suspensions, as she's "interrogated the system in a very active way" So, she's asked about @antipovertycentre.org analysis, showing the system is threatening 5 payment suspensions a minute, & admits she didn't even check this data. Such interrogation!

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

The Commonwealth argued in this hearing that the High Court appeal should not proceed, as the retrospective measures in the bill resolve any legal questions. They may have had a point, had the bill been passed. I'm not sure it would have been a good one. In any event, the appeal will now be heard 🙂

Disability groups have released a statement: "We are deeply concerned that communities traditionally over-policed & disadvantaged, including First Nations people with disability, would be at heightened risk" The whole statement is well worth reading. Ty @amyremeikis.bsky.social for reporting.

Thank you @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social and @senatorthorpe.bsky.social. This is the most basic principle of what they call the "justice" system, and they want to strip it away with no scrutiny.

this piece is infuriating. disabled people are being paid a few dollars an hour - this has to change, yet the focus here is on well paid non-disabled people, pontificating about things that are not true. brief 🧵

They say most suspensions are reversed, so what’s the harm? But everyone who’s received that text message knows the harm starts there. Anxiety, stress, wasted time & energy. It starts even before that – submitting to mistreatment just to avoid the text. Ty @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.

State disability ministers threaten Butler with boycott over two-minute speaking limit in NDIS meeting

Priorities.

Civil society groups call on gov to abandon police power to stop Centrelink payments without proper judicial process Statement from: @ausunemployment.auwu.org.au @antipovertycentre.org @maximumwelfare.bsky.social Anglicare and Single Mother Families Australia open.substack.com/pub/apcentre...

DOS archaeology ain't much, but it's honest work.

🚨 PSA FOR FOLKS IN DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES "Mutual" obligations are VOLUNTARY from today until 6 Jan 2025. There are no payment suspensions, demerits, or other penalties during the transition to Inclusive Employment Australia. If your provider isn't helpful, you can ignore them completely.

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned A thread👇

Workforce Australia deleted their X, so I'm bringing you the reminder that Mutual Obligations are suspended from Thursday 16 October 2025 until Monday 5 January 2026 (inclusive) for Inclusive Employment Australia (Formerly DES) participants. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

What compensation could ever be fair for being imprisoned over a false debt? At least two people were jailed after Centrelink used unlawful calculations to accuse them of overclaiming welfare benefits www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.”

Good morning.

The federal government spent more than $60m on private law firms to fight national disability insurance scheme participants appealing decisions about their packages last financial year, a 60% increase from the year before, Guardian Australia can reveal. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

you should read the whole article (i want to also read the book!) but i want to highlight this first question, because so often you hear that solitary is bad, BUT it's a necessary way to protect the vulnerable (whether bc queer or mentally ill or something else). that's not true. it is never that

They are calling it one of the most lawful systems of welfare administration of all time:

i reviewed NBA 2K26 for @endlessmode.bsky.social because someone had to while you're all playing silksong: www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...

i wrote about who's really rorting the NDIS for @crikey_news www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/29/n...

People using the NDIS regularly have to submit FOI requests to even figure out how a decision was made about their plan. Get outta here with this

The federal government wants to charge for making FOI requests. Ridiculous for a government allegedly committed to transparency. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/freed...

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

#BREAKING 🚨 'A major report for government by Deloitte is littered with citation errors prompting concern it may have been generated by artificial intelligence' ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social in the AFR on the consultancy's $440,000 Targeted Compliance Framework report: www.afr.com/companies/pr...

📢 The agency has blamed poor process and human error for incorrectly pursuing 115 people for debts.

The Administrative Review Council is conducting an inquiry into the administrative review of social security decisions inc. internal reviews and the 2 tiers of the ART - consultations open until 26 September 2025 consultations.ag.gov.au/legal-system...

The Free Piss

More on the Ombudsman's report and recommendations including the unfair power imbalance between "The Department", its employees and delegates and welfare recipients living below the poverty line from @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org from @antipovertycentre.org on ABC www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.