Stop cutting public services to fix your "deficit" (I.e. Balance of revenue and spending as a state; entirely irrelevant to the economics of the state) and find some real waste to axe. Like consultants, overpriced contracts, and pollie benefits.

You know, maybe we should be looking more at the content and conduct of social media platforms rather than pretending these regulations are going to do a single meaningful thing. Also, get rid of metadata retention and assisted access laws. #auspol

The @antipovertycentre.org is one of THREE external stakeholders the government has "consulted" during this TCF scandal All 3 stakeholders (including a peak body for community legal centres) told the Department to turn off payment suspensions, & were ignored www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There is $1 million budgeted for the legal assistance needed for NACC to properly reconsider the Robodebt referrals - this funding ends in February 2026 and I hope for all of us that means there will be answers and accountability at this time (6+ years after Robodebt ended).

The NACC has AGAIN been forced to correct its evidence about how many times the Commissioner has consulted for Defence. This is ridiculous.

I mean, this is how large scale enterprise (and government, since its operations are corporatised) consultancies work: you pay orders of magnitude over what the product or service is worth. We infantilised government to the point they can't even see it. Somebody thought this was a bargain.

That's a fucking war crime, folks. Would be lovely if the AU government condemned it. HAH. Yeah, sure. 🙄 That requires a spine.

"Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians" by Matt Saunders #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251125-...

This is a disgrace. Every single MP and Senator who voted for this should lose their seat. Forget politics, it violates a fundamental legal principle: you're innocent until proven guilty. I hope the High Court quashes this on a challenge. It's clearly punitive action by the executive.

Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction. Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.

A reminder that a warrant is NOT proof of guilt. This is executive overreach. #auspol

Source: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow... Essentially: lose parental leave pay, social security payment, or family assistance, if there's a warrant for your arrest (for violent or sexual crime) OR if you "might prejudice the security of Australia or a foreign country". Madness. #auspol

As if carbon offsets weren’t a big enough fraud…welcome to the world of ‘biodiversity offsets’…sure the idea failed dismally in NSW but Murray Watt is keen to have a crack… what could go wrong? Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

"the Gov is trying to give itself the power to cut that income off before a person has been found guilty. It is punishment without conviction. It has no place in a fair society." Great piece by @maiyazize.bsky.social & @antipovertycent.bsky.social Kristin O'Connell thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Who're the parties that'll be served by the @albomp.bsky.social govt ramming regressive EPBC laws thru parliament by year's end, & why do they feature in the Business Council of Australia-led 'Alliance of 26 industry groups'❓ Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓

This is bonkers. Absolutely bonkers. What do you suppose happens when you start stripping people of the minimal support they get? Hypothetically, let's say they're guilty. What then? You think they're going to be more lawful when they lose their accommodation?

New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today Read more: archive.is/UHu9J

I can't believe I just said that.

You know, there two things to take away from the Trump-Mamdani meeting: 1) Engaging with your political opponents is how you make change 2) There's more to Trump than most of us give him credit for Being willing to meet and listen is a prerequisite for this sort of thing. Credit to both.

You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

It's because reason, truth and knowledge are an existential threat to the status quo and propaganda.

I've had a weird life. Over 30 years I've worked with, but never for, governments both in Australia and abroad, at both national and semi-sovereign levels of jurisdiction. The one thing I've learned from experience is that THE only good governments are ones that are willing to upset vested interests

The Albanese Government's proposed changes would weaken our environment laws and benefit destructive industries. The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections. #auspol

Saw a wild Song of the Mysteries by @jannywurts.bsky.social in a local bookshop (rare for them to carry her superlative work!). Books really make one underestimate the size of her work. I expected this massive time to be a large print copy, and it was not! 🤣

No amount of money, frankly, is worth the wholesale destruction of our planet's fragile ecosystems, flora, and fauna. Do something about it @albomp.bsky.social, or the entire party will find themselves on the receiving end of a generation of really angry antiestablishmentarians. #auspol

"fresh survey of eight sites along WA's Ningaloo Reef has revealed more than 60 per cent of corals have died [..] Of the 1,600 corals counted in March, only 600 were still alive come late October"

Well done, western coalition. People dead? ✅ Billions spent? ✅ Arms companies gorged on corporate welfare? ✅ People helped? ❌ People harmed? ✅

I'm *really* grateful I didn't pay for that

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This shit breaks my heart. We're all better than this. And it is hard to understand how this happens, because it's not how we approach our colleagues. Important message to keep pushing. You don't notice an assumption until you trip on it.

I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26

Logged into a gmail account for the first time in years today. I do not miss the convoluted settings mainstream mail providers have... ergh.

Follow the money, Lebowski.

Standing room only at the community meeting calling on the Tasmanian Government to take salmon farms out of Long Bay on the Tasman Peninsula. This would be consistent with Recommendation 3 of the 2022 Parliamentary Inquiry, but the government refuses to implement this recommendation.

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

🇦🇺 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...

seems silly to be talking about if people who play AAA games have long enough attention spans when the people who own AAA game studios don't have long enough attention spans to let teams actually make stuff

Michael is my neighbor and a wonderful, courageous person. When Nazis left anti-Semitic leaflets on people’s cars, he organized a neighborhood sign-making session and led people in posting the signs communicating our solidarity against hate.

On the blog: Think for Yourself (Flashback Edition) "If we focus on tools without training our sensibility, we should be unsurprised when our tool use is insensible." kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...

Despite the underdelivery on promises, this was a fun game. It'll be a loss to future players when the servers go down. Public binaries for servers when official support ends is really the least companies should do. Otherwise, we just lose art. #EA #Anthem #StopKillingGames

Yep. Death cults in the US (I.e. Fascists). I hope our government is expressing the appropriate level of consternation about this rhetoric. Yeah, right. I suspect we wouldn't lift a finger if pogroms started happening. I mean the murder pogroms. The deportation pogroms already have. #auspol

'The LNP also announced that the world is indeed flat, and evolution is 'just a theory'.' Welcome back to the dark ages, LNP fans! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Kudos to the people who are fighting the good fight in what feels like an increasingly helpless battle against the mediocratisation of our social fabric - especially our government. #auspol

Australians are paying billions for this Nauru arrangement and we can't even get a public statement about high-level meetings in our own Parliament, let alone a proper opportunity for media to ask questions. That's shameful.

Either this should be stopped, or everyone involved should take a 50% paycut for outsourcing their brains to GPTs. Maybe even just get fired, since apparently we only need some prompt-meisters to do the work of senior officials.

Sure, every* game company** is using AI... but using it well? Is it actually helping with ANYthing? Or is it driven by a need to have AI deliver early on the promise of substituting for human labour because there's no other problem it solves? * not every, not by a long shot ** as opposed to studio

Well, #Boots on @netflix.com kicks the nads. Nicely done. I hate that stories like this ever happened; I hate the fact they're just as necessary today as they were when the memoire behind the show was written. People should be kinder to each other. And to themselves.

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.