Oh my God yes please

Minister Plibersek must apologise for Sky News comments about advocacy groups open.substack.com/pub/apcentre...

The Spectator are confused. It's not going to be cost free. Billionaires are going to pay more. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Robodebt was a mass deception based on a cruel bet: that people on income support would simply give up and pay debts they didn't owe. Today I tabled a petition from Kath Madgwick and Jenny Miller calling for those responsible to finally be held accountable.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Welfare payments are increasingly conditional and subject to the whims of profiteering job agencies - who can't even help people find work! We must stop expecting Labor to be better. Maintaining an underclass of people living in permanent precarity is part of their business model.

A generational dunce

Zoe Daniel joins the chorus of deeply unhelpful hot takes from non-experts about the EPBC reforms. This opinion piece is so poorly constructed and full of deeply ignorant and superficial commentary. It reads like it’s written by a Labor staffer. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely pointless contribution from Zoe Daniel here. Like a columnist who’s already run out of ideas so just keeps repeating the same thing. In this case: centrism no matter the cost.

Reckon it'd be super fun and cool if Insiders talked just fucking once about the climate implications of fucking anything

Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests “The numbers are so unimaginably high, it is actually easy to lose sight of how crazy this all is,” @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org @antipovertycentre.org #NobodyDeservsePoverty

Dummies guide to writing a centrist EPBC op-ed: * Get all weepy about an endangered bird you read about * Decry political contestation * Quote Ken Henry * Say "productivity" as if you understand it * List a bunch of really troubling potential outcomes then kind of just hand wave them away

$11.5 billion. That's how much Australia's teachers contribute in unpaid labour every year. Our teachers are overworked, undervalued and facing increasingly difficult and unsafe classroom conditions. It's no wonder they're abandoning the profession in droves. #WorldTeachersDay

*They’re trying to create a MARKET out of environmental destruction*

In an abhorrent turn of events, Queensland's Health Minister - Tim Nicholls - has reinstated a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s first ban unlawful.

Despite the seriousness of these crimes, I am utterly unconvinced that this is how the problem should be addressed, or that the welfare system should ever be used in this way.

mask off for the coal ghouls - 89% of those who die from heat in Australia are disabled people www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Just heard Murray Watt arguing changes to environmental laws were needed so we can export more minerals. Murray, what? They’re for environment protection! Julia Thornton, Surrey Hills The Age, letters

That Joy Division tee is so new you can still see the fold lines

Til that the ALP is a labourist party supported by rank and file unionists and not a pliable servant of capital that's captured and neutered its own base

THREAD: A veil of secrecy and forgetfulness hangs over a taxpayer-funded mission to the United States earlier this year, involving Special Envoy Jillian Segal and one staffer. The purpose of the trip, which covered less than ten days, have never been made public.

The left critique of patriotism isn't "let's be ironic instead" (???), it's "creating a special identity around the nation one happens to live in cultivates a reactionary tribalism that is at odds with humanitarian universalism"

inspired by mentions today I have decided to rank make Nirvana the next entry in my recurring top songs thread series. So here's my personal top 50 Nirvana songs. [Made perhaps a little easier than previous artists since they regrettably only have like 94 individual songs]

21. Heart-Shaped Box "Broken hymen of your highness, I'm left black. Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back" is honestly one of the filthiest lyrics to ever be in a hit song

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

Once more for those at the back: The government of Australia is complicit in genocide. Like, literally.

ThE wHiTe HouSE iS a sYmBol Of hoNouR

She's so old that she gets pooped after 2 minutes of playing and can't summon the energy to react when I mess with her 😻

She's so old that she gets pooped after 2 minutes of playing and can't summon the energy to react when I mess with her 😻

Deeper Water by Deadstar is a stone cold classic and I will fight you if you do not concur

The median age of death in Australia is 82, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But the AIHW found, among those accessing homelessness services, the median age at death was 55 — 27 years younger. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Fresh from unveiling pro-business environment laws that will take us backwards, Labor will today rub shoulders - and pocket hefty donations! - from the same people who helped write those laws. Labor works for the coal and gas industry and the loggers. They’re not on our side.

This post is making a lot of assumptions about the health and adequacy of our so-called representative democracy

Centrism is a helluva drug

This is why I'll never preference labor first again @danrepacholimp.bsky.social does a post on Facebook about having homeless people forcibly removed and moved on because they wouldn't accept help ( help as we know is inadequate and means shelter for a day or two) I point out that labor

is this good

Just last week we learned that the number of Australians living in poverty is 3.7 million and rising and it barely made a ripple in the news, but you can't stop the media class cooing about Albo playing fascist footsies with Trump. The absolute fucking state of journalism in this country.

We are in an age of profound intellectual regression

Thinking is an embodied process. Understanding is fleshy. Insight is visceral. GenAI's creators imagine consciousness as a kind of computational output instead of an emergent activity of situated bodies in relation - but ofc they do, capitalists hate bodies & the west loves a body/mind dualism

I am reliably informed by the media class that handing our sovereign resources and $350 billion to an authoritarian regime at the helm of a flailing, dying empire that has abandoned the rule of law is a good thing. That's a relief!

Remarkable how unsuited for these times Albo is. A generational boob.

Glad this is doing the rounds again

So is the plan that we're just going to ignore this? Not talk about it? Pretend it's not happening? Are Democrats going to run on stopping the unfolding climate catastrophe or collaborate in the right's denialism?

Get his ass

Millions of Americans are marching against Trump today. I sure hope no leader from Australia is about to pop over and bend the knee to him, offer him tribute and fawning adoration, maybe some of our resources and real estate for US military bases. Surely that won’t happen.

Using AI-generated misinformation to produce a submission to an inquiry on misinformation is a bit, right?