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Just because he said it, doesn't mean it should be reported straight from the horse's mouth without putting some kind of qualification/counter IN THE HEADLINE or at the very least in the lede.

Journalists need to be very very careful reporting on the paracetamol story. This is no time for straw man reporting or headlining Trump's statement without commentary, because all most people will see is the headline and take it as gospel. 1/

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

There are just over 370,000 JobSeeker Payment recipients with a partial capacity to work of <30 hours a week - around 42% of recipients. Sources: data.gov.au/data/dataset... and data.gov.au/data/dataset...

The newly released statistical report on the long-running Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey found that, after adjusting for housing costs, 31.3% of single-parent families were living below the poverty line in 2023 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Despite incomes staying relatively high in 2023, there was plenty of evidence that many Australians were increasingly struggling to deal with the high cost of living, not least rising rents and the prices of other necessities. #nobodyDeservesPoverty www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

if you're in the market to support some woke antifa media, may i recommend @theflytrapmedia.com, worker-owned feminist coop that just this week published an incredible photo essay on anti-fascist, rural feminist radio in Argentina

Excited to share my new piece with @desibility.bsky.social! It's about my experience in a physical rehabilitation hospital, shame, and, the ways that for-profit healthcare emphasizes individual responsibility for failing health - to my own detriment.

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.” Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

Every day, I find myself wishing that our new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Organizers in Crisis, was already out in the world, because I think it could really help people right now. Preorders really make all the difference in terms of helping a book become widely available.

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

I ran the numbers on all the podcasts that politicians went on during the election. A whopping 88% had *only* white hosts. The only systemic flaw of corporate media the new media ecosystem even gets close to addressing is gender – 45% of podcasts had at least one woman host #auspol

Autism is lifelong. Here’s what support looks like in adulthood theconversation.com/autism-is-li...

‘Grave concerns’ from states over Labor plan to move autism services off NDIS www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Now rebranded, Oxehealth carceral mental health surveillance technologies, are coming to Australia. @bluntshovels.bsky.social

Social connections, service access, language: how disability can make things even harder for refugees theconversation.com/social-conne...

Police used 'excessive' force on Aboriginal man in wheelchair, court finds www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Join us tomorrow for the first event of the term, with Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim! @drsamischalk.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Excellent, probing piece today in Crikey by Catriona Menzies-Pike on the closure of Meanjin www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...

With Meanjin, my guess is that MUP are just waiting till the fuss blows over. To help keep the fuss going, you could write directly to: -the chair of the MUP board, Warren Bebbington [email protected]. -the Vice-Chancellor, Uni of Melbourne, Emma Johnston - [email protected].

Conservative think tank and the Fin Review discover that not all families can afford high support costs www.menziesrc.org/latest-resea...

tell me what you really think about essential supports for disabled kids “I think they’re in for a rude shock if they think we’re going to be intimidated into signing up to a bad deal in relation to the NDIS" NSW Premier Minns www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

including during Welcome to Country, and graffiti and vandalising political billboards and sacred sites. This anti-Indigenous violence has not been taken seriously by Australian authorities.

The National Socialist Network have a long history of threats and violence towards Aboriginal people, including twice targeting Senator Thorpe (for which only member received a slap on the wrist, and the other was never charged), disruption of public events... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

So Victoria’s Supported Independent Living accomodation services are all collapsing. Having worked for a couple of years in one of those mentioned in this article, this is unthinkable

Calls for AFL to do more to address systemic racism and falling Indigenous numbers www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

one of the last things I did before leaving work was on the urgent need to support folks with very high support needs living in group homes this situation is completely untenable, and solvable if their needs are kept at the front archive.md/NT1Fi

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

🚨I spoke to Crikey for this story on the need for better media reporting on the far right! Long story short: stop giving neo-Nazis propaganda wins www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/05/h...

There's also brief survey for parents & carers about their exp accessing support services for kids with disability (all - not limited to autism/dev delays). Ends on 10 Oct 2025. I encourage everyone eligible to complete it so the Govt has an accurate picture of what it's really like to get help.

NDIS publishing details about debts etc, which is then picked up by the Tele. so helpful www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/imp... www.dailytelegraph.com.au/health/ndis-...

Inquiry into the proposed Thriving Kids disability program is open now till early October www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Meanjin has (had 😭) two - TWO - part time staff members. I'd be willing to bet my dinner that the cost of supporting Meanjin is less than what a single top 15 executive at Uni Melb makes in a year

Meanwhile...

This is terrible news. I’ve read so many things in Meanjin over the years I just never would have seen anywhere else.

The loss of Meanjin is devastating news for Australian writers and readers. Always meant so much to see my work there. Some of my best experiences of being edited. An entirely avoidable disaster.

Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.

The survey I link to closes today ….

economics is deeply weird 'Competitive care: Why, when and how competition can improve human services' www.pc.gov.au/research/sup...

yet more evidence that disabled people are left without basic oversight and regulation when getting support

consultation reports are out on mandatory registration of group homes, support coordinators and platform providers in the NDIS www.ndiscommission.gov.au/about-us/ndi...

so called 'affordable' housing is a scam. build more public housing 'Melbourne 'affordable' housing tenants face 17 per cent rent increase' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Rowan taking direct action to make me rest in bed

latest newsletter from @desibility.bsky.social - 'Disabled people are figuring things out for themselves, and this edition shares reactions to ableist interactions and increased authoritarianism.' www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/oppo...

For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-n...

'UN says Gaza war has left at least 21,000 children with disabilities' And here's the UNCRPD Committee news item with a link to the full report www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

We spent $150K in the last month and only raised $58K. Thankfully the earlier Itch Bundle fundraiser meant that we haven’t yet ran out. All support is deeply appreciated to keep Gazans connected through forced starvation & colonial violence: bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

listened to this on the train home last night. utterly fascinating and really thought provoking