Women in Poverty's petition to federal parliament to Hold Robodebt Culprits Accountable has gone live Sign here and don't forget to click the confirmation in your emails! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

This man has long-term form vilifying the gay community. Now would be a extremely important time for SA allies to shoot off an email expressing your disgust in Tom Koutsantonis to our Premier. Speaking up early as these bigots try on their divisive, discriminatory nonsense, is absolutely VITAL!!!

When the notorious Black and Tans were pulled out of Ireland after the partition, they were sent to Palestine to abuse the people there. Many Northern Irish people feel a real bond with the Palestinian people due to their shared oppression.

Under @albomp.bsky.social’s new #FOI laws, Deloitte, EY, KPMG & PWC can make a submission to Cabinet (on a topic you won’t know about) and you won’t get to see how they influenced the Govt until 20 years later. How’s that for democracy? #auspol

England, a government so ashamed to be English that it keeps lying that it's a whole set of islands and/or a kingdom of loving loyal subjects, is a scourge on this planet & I will rejoice when it finally understands that it can be just England & not do any famines or genocides or colonialism at all

No more artwashing Israel's genocide! European broadcasters to vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision. The vote comes after broadcasters from Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland & Slovenia said they would boycott if Israel was allowed to take part. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

"Our strength comes from our diversity" once tweeted Australia's biggest grifter when bought by Gina Rinehart.

Help @ourfairgo.bsky.social lobby for an end to sub-minimum wages for disabled people in Australia www.gofundme.com/f/help-disab...

This is why Labor has stopped the perpetrators of "robodebt" being named and put under investigation, because they want the option to punish the poor as well, and act "unlawfully" against those who can't fight back. When will people realise that Labor hates the unemployed as much as the LNP.

When asked how long they knew about ~310k people potentially affected by unlawful Centrelink payment cancellations, Amanda Rishworth and DEWR refused to answer. ALL penalties must be stopped. These decisions cost lives – lawful or not. Thanks @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.

Everyone loves Bird of the Year! And it's bgrk! (chicken noise) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Computer says no… I’m battling centrelink and a super fund for my mum trying to correct incorrect automated decisions. No idea how elderly people, particularly from NESB with no computers are meant to navigate this machine hellscape to access their own entitlements after lives of toil & sacrifice

Clearly hitting it's KPI's. Doing exactly what is was designed to do.

Funny how our media always gives the soft soap to the right-wing crank bloke who sPeAkS hIs MiNd. MP “Forget climate / we should make muscle cars / being scared of of brown people in Coles or seeing Hanzi on a sign.” Media “this man is a maverick genius and leader”

I used Wise as a disability JSP *voluntarily* 2019-2021 as I wasn’t claiming any welfare payments. They were still contacting me after I told them I was migrating to the UK and in the first 6 months I was here about my ‘obligations’ (I had none as voluntary applicant with no dole payments).

The unemployment rate might still be low at 4.2% but the labour market hasn't impressed this year. Employment is up just 103k this year, compared to +282k over the same period last year. If that doesn't pick up soon, a spike in the unemployment rate is inevitable #ausbiz #auspol

A world first win. Unions in Australia holding Uber to account ✊

That's 300,000 of our most vulnerable people being unable to eat or pay rent or take meds or do laundry or pay bills or see a doctor or get to a job interview. Even missing one payment can be hard to recover from when the payments are already well below the poverty line.

One is pretty convinced that three women called Pat, Lorraine and Margaret with an urn & a swear jar could have done a helluva lot better than this.

A massive thanks to the 400 people who turned out last week to raise almost $10,000 for Gazan children via Aussie charity supporting those on the ground, Olive Kids. Thank you to the amazing performers and to all who came together in solidarity last week!

Mutual Obligations MUST be immediately paused and Minister Rishworth must take responsibility for the safety of welfare recipients #nobodyDeservesPoverty #RaiseTheRate #BTPM #AbolishMOs www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Incredible reporting, the type Western media weren't doing while IBM did the Holocaust

"Consumer demand for banknotes surged in Europe during each of a string of crises, the research, published by the European Central Bank, showed Wednesday. Physical currency offers “distinct psychological and practical utility,” says the study..."

"Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard, with one recent study estimating they caused as many as 1,009 deaths in Australia from 2016 to 2019."

Spain and Italy deploying their navy to escort the Gaza aid flotilla is a direct testament to the power of meaningful direct action and trade union intervention. In Australia, trade unionist organising for Palestine has been dogged by factionalism and in-fighting. We must do better.

Aren't the kind of libertarians who support trump all about the Free Market? Or is that only when they're competing against other Americans, and not companies outside of the US which is (supposedly) "very unfair"?

In the week of the Robodebt doco, why wont the government publish the figures - if there was transparency we would not be left doing our own math www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"A Jewish student at a Victorian public school telling a Palestinian child in year 2 that they “can’t wait to help the IDF go kill Palestinians in Gaza”. ... A principal screaming in a teacher’s face that they were “antisemitic” and a “terrorist” for wearing a keffiyeh." Examples fr new APAN report

People already surviving below the poverty line, unlawfully have their support cancelled. “The system is being applied unlawfully at worst, and it’s defective administration at best. It’s 1000’s &1000’s of people who are having really serious consequences” #Auspol #UBI

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

Super telling that the US government wants to "cure" my autism but doesnt have any interest in paying for my cancer treatment.

Glad to see coverage of the crisis of anti-Palestinian racism in our schools on ABC News today. Great reporting by Millie Roberts here. "I've taught students who've got family who were killed in Gaza and the schools have set up nothing to help those students” — teacher Chris Breen

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

look at these albatrosses and their amazing eye shadow

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

Hope Richard Marles is having a nice day

Some more feedback for Richard Marles from his electorate

That this job provider system even still exists is insane. We know it doesn’t work. The money wasted on job providers could be spent on Centrelink staff actually supporting people’s health and wellbeing.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

I had a false debt raised on my single parent pension in the mid nineties - I was fortunately able to get it overturned by the ombudsman. It's been going on for decades and will go on for decades more.

"AI is going to replace artists.” Oh really? AI is going to rack up student debt and then be a disappointment to the family?

Two things can be true: The Prime Minister should meet with and maintain relations with the US President no matter who they are. Getting a glowing selfie with them when your reelection was not insubstantially driven by an anti-Trump reaction is illadvised at best and Scott Morrison coded at worst.

Jim Henson, David Bowie, and Jennifer Connelly on the set of LABYRINTH (1986) Henson was BOTD in 1936

Look what we have here then.