"The housing affordability crisis was a policy choice. The government is finally changing course" my column @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/260612-...

Cya there x

Aurora Healthcare has run the Mackay Private Hospital for nearly a decade, providing mental health respite and physical rehabilitation beds. The hospital, which opened in the 1990s, also accommodated up to 21 public patients who were waiting for an aged care bed or NDIS plan.

Waiting for the water to heat up !!!!!!

People are saying hospitals will see people kicked off the NDIS. Uh, really? The hospital based community clinic I attend has been too underfunded to deliver core functions since it's funding was gutted, years ago, on the grounds that more PWD would be relying on the NDIS not hospital clinics

The guy who hired a boa constrictor for his son’s prep year birthday party wants his opinion on “government money wasting” to be taken seriously

Hot water will be fixed tomorrow afternoon !!!! The electrician said Tuesday and I said I really couldn’t make it with my skin condition until then with no hot water the electrician hadn’t been told I had no hot water at all so they changed it to tomorrow

The quality of public housing is not a mistake – neglecting homes is a policy choice designed to further undermine support for public housing, punish the people who live in it for needing support, and to ultimately justify sell-offs and privatisation. Governments must maintain, buy AND build homes.

The cuts to the NDIS will destroy lives. My family already is in the NDIS hell, now we have to worry about our daughter’s future. My column for @deepcutnews.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...

Also got a random phone call from a staffer from my federal Labor mp yesterday I was polite because it was a staffer. He was calling people to ask what they thought about the budget. I held nothing back 😂 then I told him I needed help with getting my hot water fixed

I know we need more public housing but we also need to improve the public housing we do have. Currently I’ve been a week without hot water I reported my water heater wasn’t working on the 2nd

🧵3/12 #AusPol Pauline Hanson wants drug testing on welfare recipients, which for her means those on welfare payments, not those in reciept of the diesel subsidy, a large welfare payment to mining billionaires like Gina Rinehart: theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senat...

Australians are serving in foreign militaries – and the government is not keeping track www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Really enjoying the course I’m actually learning a lot

If you only read one thing today I recommend this 👇 #Auspol

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 remember one job provider I had was in a shopping centre right next door to a bakery and having to walk past that hungry was a new cruelty in itself." - By @artistaffame.bsky.social ko-fi.com/post/They-ca...

& even a new smartphone when my mobile phone carked it. They even offered money for other things like new glasses & shoe repairs. I ended up not taking it, but they did offer. Compare that to Melissa's ( @artistaffame.bsky.social ) who won't even cough up a taxi fare for her to attend appointments.

"We don't care what anyone else says. We're proud and we loved her to death. Always have and always will. We just wanted to let everybody know. She had a face, she had a name, and it was Jodi." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

My hot water system is not working last time this happened it took a week to have it replaced

4 corners on BHP lying to people (no shit) is silly, they should do a four corners episode about the one person who actually believed BHP when they said they were “going green” - id watch the fuck out of that

Today 1pm

SO angry, between companies and governments and all the deniers... So much time wasted, and will just be more costly in every way.

but let's do more articles about rich folks having to pay a tiny bit more of their fair share '‘They’ve taken all my stuff’: councils across Australia threaten homeless people with fines and confiscation of belongings' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Jessica moved to the park seven weeks ago. She has two tents, one for sleeping, the other for her two primary school-age autistic children to do homework.”

Winter has definitely hit Adelaide it’s freezing

“Poverty doesn’t just impact health. It signs death certificates.” Read @artistaffame.bsky.social's speech from @apnsa.bsky.social's budget response rally at SA parliament May 13

Nephews bday party today he’s officially 4! His party is a sausage sizzle in the park with a bunch of his friends.

Farewell @fionakatauskas.bsky.social's Inklings you will be missed 😭 inklings.ghost.io/its-the-last...

Current mood after checking the One Nation nutters in my messages 🖕🏽

I was invited to dinner tomorrow night to thank volunteers but I don’t think my flare is going to let me go this time

Incredible stuff

Can't negatively gear if you're already not earning enough to pay income tax

In the process of demolishing every single public housing tower, Homes Victoria evicted a family, offered them a home that was boarded up, and another home that was infested with mice and cockroaches, then said oh you’re no longer public housing tenants now coz u said no so fuck you I guess

Bit worrying that a state premier does not understand how income tax works.

This has all been pretty stupid hey. I broke down some of the more hysterical language being thrown at Labor’s tax changes, and what the right really means when they treat the reforms as an "assault". Because when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression...

PM too concerned about Zionists to care about the general community I’m disgusted with his priorities c.org/wN5yBT2XQz

A big thank you to all the speakers and to all the participants!

Proud day eh @markbutlermp.bsky.social, @albomp.bsky.social? Could have taxed gas companies, decided instead to hit people with Down Syndrome. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

So, the annoying part of talking to people about looking for work is that they say things like “with your skills and experience, you’ll find something”. And that should be true, except that due to my disabling health conditions, I can only work from home. *I* am not the

I’m going to explain this because it seems I didn’t do a good job and some people are misunderstanding. The way we address inequality and poverty is through redistribution. You lift up the poor while lowering wealth. So the gap in the middle becomes smaller.

The Labor government keeps banging on about social cohesion but on of the things that damage it the most is inequality between the rich and the poor. In fact the wider the gap the less social cohesion

“It’s heartless to cut supports we need to leave the house, work and study at a time when the cost of living has dramatically increased and alternatives are simply not there,” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Haven’t slept much because of the flare so I’m about to slowly put my bins out so I can sleep in tomorrow morning

My latest article in The Shot "In Farrer, suddenly the saviour Pauline was all for the water .... Pauline Hanson – who thinks the Murray Darling Basin Plan is the name of her plumber Murray’s work schedule – now wants you to believe she’s going to save them." 🙏🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Protests called as data centre developer super-sizes plans for fossil gas generation in Southern Highlands reneweconomy.com.au/protests-cal...

Bit late but here's my effort

The idea that water impacts from data centres are "made up" or "fake" is a nasty right-wing / tech shill talking point that seems to be getting more and more disconnected from reality every single day

Hey folks a friend of mine has a little toy shop in Australia and she’s been struggling lately with sales so if you’re looking for toys for your kids or grandkids check out charliehorsetoys.com.au