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No relation. NDIS policy and supporting disability advocacy. Account is in personal capacity. he/him
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krat
13 days ago
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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Lauren Pikó
14 days ago
New open access article by
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
and myself, looking at patterns in membership application data of the National Front of Australia:
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajph.70045
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Elizabeth Humphrys
18 days ago
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...
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Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education
Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...
https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2026.2626469
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Jeremy Poxon
18 days ago
Always have to bring this back to the people affected. This is what they're paying providers billions of dollars to (unlawfully) do
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Antipoverty Centre
19 days ago
"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-...
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Welfare advocates urge Government to suspend Mutual Obligation requirements during extreme heatwaves
Welfare advocates are imploring the Australian Government to suspend mutual obligation requirements during dangerous heatwaves, arguing it is unnecessarily putting people’s lives at risk.
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260205-welfare-advocates-urge-government-to-suspend-mutual-obligation-requirements-during-extreme-heatwaves
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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/...
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NDIS Insights 2025-26
An explainer for people with disability and disability advocates, helping them understand developments to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
https://jec.org.au/publication/ndis-insights-2025-26/
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Guardian Australia
26 days ago
Labor offers to delay NDIS autism changes if states agree to hospital and disability funding deal
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Labor offers to delay NDIS autism changes if states agree to hospital and disability funding deal
Exclusive: The $2bn Thriving Kids scheme, due to start on 1 July, would instead start in October, after states said they were not ready yet * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has offered to delay the start of a new program for early intervention autism services and provide budget top-ups for smaller states, part of efforts to secure an overdue deal on hospitals and disability funding. Premiers and chief ministers look likely to agree to the deal at Friday’s meeting of national cabinet in Sydney, after Anthony Albanese and the health minister, Mark Butler, offered to push back the start of the new $2bn Thriving Kids scheme to October. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/29/labor-offers-to-delay-ndis-autism-changes-if-states-agree-to-hospital-and-disability-funding-deal?CMP=aus_bsky
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Jeremy Poxon
28 days ago
"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...
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Services Australia has not applied child support law properly and some parents are owed money, report finds
Ombudsman says agency knew for years that part of its child support processing not in line with law
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/27/services-australia-has-not-applied-child-support-law-properly-and-some-parents-are-owed-money-report-finds
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Antipoverty Centre
about 1 month ago
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...
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Services Australia to tap law enforcement data for staff security
Privacy obligations competing with staff safety concerns.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/services-australia-to-tap-law-enforcement-data-for-staff-security-622930
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Ben
about 1 month ago
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
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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...
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INTERVIEW: Craig Goodwin - 14 January 2026 - The FIVEAA Sports Show
https://omny.fm/shows/the-fiveaa-sports-show/interview-craig-goodwin-14-january-2026
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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-...
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Access to NDIS safeguarded by Federal Court win
The Federal Court has today made a landmark ruling against an appeal by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) which sought to limit eligibility for people accessing the National Disability I...
https://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/access-ndis-safeguarded-federal-court-win
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Aura
about 1 month ago
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
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Rick Morton
about 1 month ago
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...
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Exclusive: One third of reassessed NDIS plans see cuts to funding
As parliament considers another bill to boost the NDIA’s power to cut costs, tens of thousands of participants are now on reduced plans and many more have lost flexibility due to restructured payments...
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/01/10/exclusive-one-third-reassessed-ndis-plans-see-cuts-funding
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Andy Fleming
about 2 months ago
4/ Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s statement on her cancellation from Adelaide Writers Week:
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
about 2 months ago
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...
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Adelaide Festival Board Statement
https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/adelaide-festival-board-statement
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Jeremy Poxon
3 months ago
#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 👇
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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!
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3 months ago
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Jeremy Poxon
3 months ago
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!
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Anne Trubek
4 months ago
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
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Tom Studans
4 months ago
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 🙂
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Antipoverty Centre
4 months ago
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.
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Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates
Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.
https://live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-point-live-sussan-ley-finishes-off-worst-week-as-leader-so-far/6095/
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Antipoverty Centre
4 months ago
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.
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El Gibbs
4 months ago
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 🧵
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Antipoverty Centre
4 months ago
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.
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Guardian Australia
4 months ago
State disability ministers threaten Butler with boycott over two-minute speaking limit in NDIS meeting
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State disability ministers threaten Butler with boycott over two-minute speaking limit in NDIS meeting
State and territory ministers say they will reconsider their attendance to the meeting next Friday if they get at least 10 minutes each State and territory disability ministers have threatened to boycott an upcoming NDIS meeting with the Albanese government after being given just two minutes to contribute to discussions. In a joint letter from all jurisdictions sent on Thursday to the health and disability minister, Mark Butler, and NDIS minister, Jenny McAllister, ministers warned they were “no longer able to confirm” their attendance at the meeting next Friday unless given the opportunity to “meaningfully contribute”. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/30/state-disability-ministers-threaten-mark-butler-boycott-ndis?CMP=aus_bsky
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kristin (she/her)
4 months ago
Priorities.
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Nobody Deserves Poverty
4 months ago
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
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Emmy
4 months ago
DOS archaeology ain't much, but it's honest work.
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Antipoverty Centre
4 months ago
🚨 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.
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Government Announces Pause on Mutual Obligations for Inclusive Employment Australia - Disability Advocacy Network Australia
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations announced last week that they will be pausing mutual obligations for the rollout of the new Inclusive Employment Australia (IEA) program from the 1...
https://dana.org.au/government-announces-pause-on-mutual-obligations-for-inclusive-employment-australia/
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Jeremy Poxon
5 months ago
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👇
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Nobody Deserves Poverty
5 months ago
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.
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Nobody Deserves Poverty
5 months ago
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...
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Disco Elysium Quotes
5 months ago
“I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.”
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Tom Studans
5 months ago
Good morning.
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Lenore Taylor
5 months ago
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...
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‘They’ve engaged a barrister!’ Parents of high-needs children say Labor is waging lawfare over disability support
Exclusive: The federal government paid big law firms more than $60m in 2024-25 to fight NDIS participants appealing decisions about their care packages. Most families represent themselves
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/24/federal-government-waging-lawfare-against-disability-support-daunting-process-families-represent-themselves
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Keezy Young🌼
5 months ago
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
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Tom Studans
5 months ago
They are calling it one of the most lawful systems of welfare administration of all time:
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headfallsoff
6 months ago
i reviewed NBA 2K26 for
@endlessmode.bsky.social
because someone had to while you're all playing silksong:
www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...
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Patrick Marlborough
6 months ago
i wrote about who's really rorting the NDIS for @crikey_news
www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/29/n...
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People are using autism to rort the NDIS, but it’s not the people with autism
As a support worker (an autistic one to boot), I've had a ground’s-eye view of an industry with little to no oversight — one where government policy has had the marrow sucked out of it by a vicious ci...
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/29/ndis-work-autism-support-private-companies
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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
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6 months ago
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Josh Taylor
6 months ago
The federal government wants to charge for making FOI requests. Ridiculous for a government allegedly committed to transparency.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/freed...
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/freedom-to-come-at-a-cost-labor-to-charge-fees-for-information/news-story/c9035cfb2c0a1f8fa14af9bd6e7a1b7d
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Alex Bertram-Powell
6 months ago
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
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Tom Studans
6 months ago
#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...
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The Age (unofficial)
6 months ago
📢 The agency has blamed poor process and human error for incorrectly pursuing 115 people for debts.
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NDIA chased more than 100 disabled participants for debts they did not owe
https://www.theage.com.au/national/ndia-chased-more-than-100-disabled-participants-for-debts-they-did-not-owe-20250822-p5moyc.html
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Michael Klapdor
6 months ago
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...
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Administrative Review Council Inquiry on Social Security - Attorney-General's Department - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by Attorney General's Department
https://consultations.ag.gov.au/legal-system/arc-inquiry-social-security/
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David_j_roth
6 months ago
The Free Piss
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Nobody Deserves Poverty
7 months ago
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...
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Drive - ABC listen
The lively debate and stories that have shaped Canberra today.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/canberra-drive/drive/105598260
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austin_walker
7 months ago
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.
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