We counted, so you don’t have to. Insane is the number of things Jillian Segal actually HERSELF conceded she had no evidence for, or backflipped on, but went completely unreported. www.lamestream.com.au/we-counted-a...

Unfortunate that Charlie Pickering should declare Australian of the Year Grace Tame's gig at the ABC as 'problematic' while talking to a serial pest convicted of spousal abuse eh. #LetHerSpeak

The next person who labels the budget “communist” should have their house seized and turned into public property, so that they can learn what communism actually is.

I actually like giving the school bully my lunch money how dare you

This is the UK but cuts to the NDIS will see more vulnerable families and individuals "drop out" of the system. Even the privatisation has led to a loss of duty of care and providers of last resort already

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

"its plan won't require legislative change. It won't abolish mutual obligations. It will still rely on private job agencies to find work for jobseekers So, major elements of our employment services system won't be changing at all." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Aaron Swartz was facing prison for something the LLM companies are investing trillions in (downloading other people's data) and educational instutions like MIT absolutely cannot wait to throw money at them while simultaneously reducing services and staff amid budget crises. grody

And yet people keep saying it. The other common one is dogs - "without short stays, how can I go on holiday with my dog?" Dunno, mate - how many people should be homeless so your dog can go on holiday?

The Media's Treatment of Flotilla Detainees is Shocking and Unprecedented Australians are returning home with stories of abuse and mistreatment while the media is deferring to Israel by interrogating them as if they aren't reliable. #AusPol www.lamestream.com.au/the-medias-t...

The AI thing reminds me so much of coptalk. Cops will repeatedly YELL "do not resist" as you are lying on the ground with their knee on your neck. "DO NOT RESIST"

Replacing fossil fuel capitalism with renewable energy capitalism will not and cannot lead to any form of climate justice.

I wish more leftists would understand that the idea that fatness is unhealthy isn't some kind of objective truth, but a myth created to make profit for the weight cycling industry, using a racialized, gendered, classed body ideal.

"A tragic birth, and death, in a tent – and still our poorest must pay" @amyremeikis.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

This is pretty fucked as is the government statement the kids will be put in counter terrorism programs using these as a threat basically rather than a genuine needs based intervention - this whole thing shows the worst of Australia

Have we worked out yet that every single "it's too expensive" from successive governments, for things like fast trains & hospitals & schools, is all just utter fucking bullshit in the face of hundreds of billions of dollars to fascists for submarines we don't need and won't get?

This is such a ridiculous way to frame the topic, bordering on outright disingenuous. The report this headline is based on includes employer provided sick leave as "income support". The "more than 8 million Australians on income support" includes 7.5 million people who took any sick leave.

Homelessness is a policy choice and a policy failure. As the 1% don't have to pay their fair share, everyone else is suffering. Societies don't work when a few hoard the wealth of the many. www.smh.com.au/national/a-m...

ABC so desperate for a headline that fuels anti welfare rhetoric that they’ve conflated “income support” with “comparatively generous private insurance policies and compensation schemes”. Since when are these part of ANY ordinary definition of income support? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Three Tasmanian police charged in the space of 6 days, over separate incidents. Two involved stealing! The other was "charged with common assault and issued with a Police Family Violence Order".

I have not stopped thinking about this since I first saw this horrific story. What kind of society are we when babies are dying in tents while some people own multiple houses that they rent for prices that so many can't afford. Why are we paying for weapons and not housing for vulnerable ppl?

222 years ago on this date, the first massacre was committed against Aboriginal people in Tasmania. The occupational settlement by white British nationals was one day old. About 300 Aboriginal people from the Big River and Oyster Bay tribes had gathered for a kangaroo drive. Upon being sighted by

it's as if there's some unseen force — encouraging them to say the opposite of what's true — in the face of millions of Australians who have solar on their roof and batteries in their garage who are just paying to be connected to the grid... What force could that be?

FRIENDS Here's my great big story about my experiences deep in the guts of the "wind turbine syndrome" debate. What I fucked up, what I learnt, and what it tells me about the growing fears around data centres and inaudible "infrasound" Make some tea, sit down, have a read (thread coming later) ❤️

Richard Dawkins is the perfect avatar of our times; a man who thinks large language models are people and muslims are not.

"[Amal] Khalil was a veteran reporter ... raised under Israeli occupation in the 1980s in southern Lebanon, and was driven by a desire to chronicle daily life in south Lebanon under constant threat of Israeli invasion and bombardment."

My latest newsletter is about how the media defines "political violence" as something that happens exclusively to politicians, and ignores its primary victims: everyone else.

At least six Australian activists detained by Israel navy after Gaza flotilla boats intercepted Spokesperson says just two out of 14 Australians remain in communication, after CCTV footage showed Israeli navy boarding vessels in international waters #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

how's this for an unintended consequence: some research suggests that teens perceive peers who comply with Australia's teen social media ban as less popular. i.e. banning social media for teens made it cool again

War profits season is officially on people! Total's profits grew a third due on higher oil and gas prices due to the illegal war on Iran. This is as HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE face power cuts and fuel rationing, btw www.reuters.com/business/ene...

I can see how Vice Admiral Justin Jones was a Scott Morrison pick to be Commander of Operation Sovereign Borders His giving permission for racist expression is disgraceful & he should resign

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Can I just say I'm genuinely so tired of this. Ableism being still alive and well, non-autistic people fetishizing autism("get yourself an autistic gf!"), and now people spreading the idea of autism diagnosis as a "social contagion"

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

Well, it's confirmed: government documents show we're negotiating to hand access to every Australian travellers' biometric data to the United States. And it's worse than we thought #AusPol www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/27/d...

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

'At least 160,000 people to be removed from NDIS as Labor unveils ‘unavoidable and urgent’ cuts' ... meanwhile; 'In charts: A look at Australia's record spending on defence' #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The government is booting people off the NDIS and supposedly onto other support. For this to be credible, rather than a fig leaf, they will have to significantly expand funding for alternatives including invent programs that don’t exist.

Media outlets should spend less time writing about the “legitimate grievances” of people who loathe immigration and more time addressing how racist reporting about migrants, Muslims, Black folks, and other racialised communities has cultivated the fascism we are enduring today. Just saying.

The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan

“If the modern Australian nation wants to rebuild the social cohesion we enjoyed here before the boats, it needs to acknowledge where it all started to unravel – with the failure of the British crown to negotiate Treaty. Or to put it in simpler terms – no justice, no peace.”

Yeah cause it’s the kind of thing you propose building to appease the ego of a narcissistic leader whose army just got its asked kicked by a Black military general (Touissant L’Overture) and Black enslaved people who ran your troops off their island. It’s a monument to ego and defeat. Perfect.

The Guardian documented quadruple-tap by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Three waves of ambulances were struck. Paramedics came for the injured. They were struck. Backup crews arrived. They were struck too In six weeks of war, Israel has killed at least 91 medical workers.

I’m struggling to find an appropriate way to express my contempt for these kinds of ridiculous appeals to a highly subjective Arcadian vision of society as it was perceived to exist around the time that the person speaking was twelve years old and I really wish people would stop doing this

more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...