My Dad always insisted in turning off electric devices during lightning storms. Apparently there is a real reason for this but if you wiring is earthed properly you should be fine but I still have the fear

Lightening was just so close to us I can see where it struck.

A young couple bought a one-bedroom unit in inner-Brisbane using the government’s 5 per cent deposit scheme. Around the same time, a two-bedroom brick walk-up in the same suburb sold for just over $1m, highlighting soaring unit prices.

Australia really needs whistle blower protection legislation - from the tax office to off shore detention, whistleblowers are prosecuted! #AusPol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22082/...

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Affordable housing tenants at a Barangaroo apartment complex are required to use a separate entrance. Dr Gemma Killen and Katherine Berney share this piece on what this says about who we believe deserves access to housing. womensagenda.com.au/latest/baran...

1. There's always someone accused of DV among these white supremacist groups 2. Who is the wellness influencer married to the engineer nazi?

Governments used to build places for people to live in. Housing used to be affordable. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

naturally Krauss is in the email dump today, where he decides that because Feynman was a known sexual predator, he could be one too

Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.

NYT: are any of them trans or not

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Under the updated legislation, landlords now need a "reasonable" rationale to say no to a tenant having pets — and that reasonableness can only be decided by an independent tribunal.

'The [NSW] state government should urgently turn its attention to drafting legislation to stop neo-Nazis from registering as a political party, leading experts in law and extremism have said.' www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

#OtD 12 Nov 1977 the first Reclaim The Night march took place in the UK in several cities. Inspired by marches in Germany, they were particularly significant when because of the Yorkshire Ripper police advised women not to go out at night stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8432...

Property investors make up two in every five Australian home loans amid record borrowing

Eleven flood buyback homes sell without a reserve price in the NSW Northern Rivers, with more to hit the market before the end of the year.

Study finds women still do the bulk of unpaid at home work, which influences gender inequality at work too e.g. being concentrated in lower paid jobs.

The Centre for Future Work's Solving the Crisis report found that low real wages, underfunded public services and skyrocketing prices have left many workers experiencing hardship and hopelessness. Read more ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/feeling...

LNP copped a big rejection from the electorate two federal elections in a row, but still they get vastly more coverage than Greens or Indies who entered politics specifically to pursue better climate goals

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

We've joined forces with 10 organisations from across the non-profit spectrum to urge the Legislative Council to support the bill, and our Deputy CEO Bernie wrote a great piece for InDaily about why this all matters. You can read her piece here: www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

The SA Legislative Council will vote on minimum standards for rental homes tomorrow. If you care about renters, you know that minimum standards are a no-brainer: no other service that provides shelter to human beings for any extended period of time operates without standards for health/safety.

Two Torres Strait Islander uncles are appealing a federal court ruling that the Commonwealth does not owe a duty of care to protect their people from the impacts of climate change.

An international student has been awarded $10,000 in compensation after a tribunal found she was unfairly evicted from her university accommodation after she made complaints about noisy students.

Me: I will not Dismissal post, I will not Dismissal post. Also me: Whitlam would never saddle us with AUKUS

A WA mother expresses outrage at the "disgusting" condition of a home offered to her by WA's Department of Housing and Works.

The partner income test perpetuates domestic violence. Victims of domestic violence without their own source of income cannot easily flee a violent partner because the perpetrators' incomes are counted in Centrelink's income tests even after the relationship is terminated.

About 580 group homes were at jeopardy, and 4900 residents and families were at risk of eviction and losing their support workers, according to Health & Community Services Union

They should all become public housing Around 2,000 units will be built around Brisbane's RNA showgrounds to house 10,000 athletes Ms Caniglia is calling for greater clarity around what portion will become social or affordable homes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Thousands of people with complex disabilities are at risk of eviction from group homes that may close due to a looming funding crisis, say workers endeavourhillshallamdoveton.starcommunity.com.au/news/2025-11...

Feel this about too many ALP figures too

I just Did The Math and worked out that the Commonwealth Bank has pulled in roughly $233b in profit (NPAT, statutory) since its full privatisation in 1997. The last 10 years alone represents more than $100b in profit. Adjusted to 2024/25 fy inflation.

And careerist politicians, swayed by donor money, wealthy enough to identify with right wingers over their own base, keep literally sacrificing lives of their base for personal interest

Four in ten women in Australia without children have reported they are hesitant to have a child because of climate change, a new survey shows. womensagenda.com.au/climate/surv...

National Socialist Network leader and pedophile advocate Joel Davis led the call for rape threats against female MPs, after Saturday's neo-Nazi rally. Fascism and Nazism is grounded in violent misogyny. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Abundance is not a serious concept - it’s a vibey idea cloud invented to serve as a recruitment tool for US centrists, to provide the US political class with an alternative narrative to redistribution.

Hand on heart, how expensive do YOU want housing to be? The answer depends on who you are (homeowner, renter, investor, banker, politician, concerned citizen, foster child etc.) and how much you put your own concerns above the collective concerns: buff.ly/9fDUTpW

A portrait exhibition of people who have experienced homelessness is opening up conversations to show everyone has a story worth listening to.

🇦🇺 pays $1.5mil per person each year to detain people on Nauru. During last Senate Estimates, I asked about links to organised crime and value for money, I was told there is no need for concern. Now whistleblower evidence paints a very different picture. www.smh.com.au/national/pou...

A respected consulting engineer says about 80 per cent of apartment buildings he has inspected in Darwin have serious structural issues.

NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Ketan Joshi's Irrational Climate Reset I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽

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...

A Victorian inquiry has found a dismissive and disrespectful health care system built around "Caucasian male biology" is contributing to poorer outcomes for women and girls.

Questions for Census from research seeking a more comprehensive definition of ‘homelessness’ www.croakey.org/questions-fo...

"Besides electoral politics, one topic Teen Vogue covered a lot that Vogue never touches: unions and labor organising. Remember the rumour Jeff Bezos wanted to buy Condé Nast as a wedding gift for Lauren Sanchez? Teen Vogue has given plenty of positive coverage to the Amazon workers' union..."

BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say