I dove for @crikey.com.au into everything that's wrong for trans advocacy rn, and what we need to do to ensure we don't go the same path as US and UK We need to be building community strength right now before it's too late, we can't wait for others to do it for us www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/07/q...

Wins and losses as Australian Centre for Disease Control moves ahead www.croakey.org/wins-and-los... #publichealth

As well as the Law Council of Australia, more disability peak bodies have come out to oppose the sudden introduction of new powers for police & ministers to cancel social security for people accused of a serious offence.

"Exports of Australian gas carry “substantial risks” of slowing the move to cleaner energy in Asian countries, according to a confidential report for the Western Australian government that undermines the government’s own narrative that the industry helps cut global emissions."

Only 5 days of parliament to go... @amyremeikis.bsky.social is across it all #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

This has never been about common sense: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

This is DEPRAVED

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The Halloween horror. Gina showing Trump Australia's angriest and most devout MAGA Trumpian for future ambassador. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I knew things were getting bad, but...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

What’s the lettuce equivalent for Australia’s Liz Truss?

Thank you @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social and @senatorthorpe.bsky.social. This is the most basic principle of what they call the "justice" system, and they want to strip it away with no scrutiny.

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, spotted at Donald Trump’s 1920s, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was also reportedly there, but her office declined to confirm whether Hanson attended.

You can't make this up.

They say most suspensions are reversed, so what’s the harm? But everyone who’s received that text message knows the harm starts there. Anxiety, stress, wasted time & energy. It starts even before that – submitting to mistreatment just to avoid the text. Ty @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.

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

Good intentions won't save us on this slippery slope www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Anglicare Australia says @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social's plan to give police powers to have Centrelink payments stopped for people accused of a serious crime is “completely at odds with the principles of fairness and justice”. Thank you @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.

“For as sure as my ancestors were born into a country where none of them was the equal of any white man, Israel was revealing itself to be a country where no Palestinian is ever the equal of any Jewish person anywhere.” from The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 💙📚👀

I’m sorry - what the actual fuck? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I love Tassie, but they are in deep, deep fiscal trouble

Government trying to give police powers to recommend welfare cancellations, senate rebels on enviro laws and David Pocock pulls one over the government in the name of transparency - it is all happening. thepoint.com.au

Which familiar face is making an unwelcome return? | Fiona Katauskas

A FLAGRANT breach of the rights to social security & due process. Sneaking through draconian powers in an unrelated bill is performative crap Labor can only get away with for welfare recipients bc it's easy to punch down on us Read @australiainstitute.org.au update here👇 Ty @amyremeikis.bsky.social

"I had actually been diagnosed with malnutrition and scurvy. I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

No Joy, only Division: Just the stupidest stupid of all www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

It’s Halloween! Why not go trick-or-treating as something genuinely terrifying? | First Dog on the Moon

Awful. The Queensland Government is actively harming trans kids. #qldpol #aushealth #trans www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Can you guess the reason why choosing to not have children is the key concern of these people, wrt to climate change

Incredible - Sussan Ley’s first car was a VW Beetle, which she celebrated in May 2024 with this social media post. Is someone going to tell her?

Sussan Ley, whose modified name happens to contain the same letter combination as Hitler’s police force, has tried to make the tenuous case that the Prime Minister wearing a Joy Division t-shirt is antisemitic.

Every time I don’t think Auspol can get any stupider, I get proven wrong. A national conversation over whether the PM should apologise for wearing a t-shirt featuring a very popular band that’s been around for decades because of its name, is stupid, stupid, even for us

I am despair eating for the country - come join

In Aus if you want to check if your email has been compromised by data leaks. haveibeenpwned.com

One for my haters: Sorry again to disappoint, but my voice is not the result of 'vocal fry'. My nasal passage is smaller than most and the result is a huskier, slightly strained at ties, voice. God knew I would be too powerful if I had the regular amount of space.

Albanese Govt made sensational claims about freedom of info being exploited by AI bots, criminal gangs, foreign agents. Those arguments fell apart, but not before doing real damage to eSafety Commission, the stalking horse for this leg - on @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

"Whatever you make of the Mutual Obligations system, I think it has to be said that the obligation on the part of the government — that is, to act lawfully — is not being met in this instance" - christopherrudge.bsky.social

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

Exclusive from my colleague Anton Nilsson: Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting www.crikey.com.au/20...

Haha! Coffee number three is about to hit my poor abused stomach as my poor abused brain takes in parliament. Come join my descent into ulcers and the abyss at The Point Live thepoint.com.au

"We have this idea that those in poverty have to be punished and we don't — we're already punished enough. I think lifting people out of poverty is a policy choice. That's all it is and the government could make that choice." - @artistaffame.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Today's blog post looks back at the 1984 parliamentary expansion - how did it change the shape of the pendulum, and how did it change where marginal seats were located? www.tallyroom.com.au/63515 #auspol

The permitting abundance reform agenda

"Lithuania to close border with Belarus after balloons shut down Vilnius airport – Europe live" Lithuania to close border with Belarus after balloons shut down Vilnius airport – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Fiona the Precariously Employed Bettong has an important message for Australia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thomas Sewell was in court today arguing his goose-stepping 2023 march through Ballarat in front of a banner that read “Australia for the white man” was “political” speech

Spot bloody on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...