We could build 67,000 extra homes a year & see rents fall 12% in a decade. How? By fixing our land use planning systems. ✍️Brendan Coates inflectionpoints.work/articles/pla...

Tech giant Meta is not only failing to block scam ads but is knowingly taking billions from scammers each year, according to leaked internal audits that found the company is feeding users 15 billion scam ads per day – and even more to those that click on one. Read more ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Infrastructure Victoria is clear—better connected and safer cycling infrastructure is needed to support more Victorians to ride.

this is one of the most insane policies people are subjected to in Australia if you're in a couple, your partner's income is used to assess *your* eligibility for dole, disability, etc. if your partner makes a basic wage, *you* can't get help it's designed to keep victims in abusive relationships

this is how it’s enforced www.pedestrian.tv/news/centrel...

I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...

ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

#Melbourne trams spend a huge amount of their time just waiting for traffic lights. Traffic light priority would mean faster trips, more competitive travel times, and even enable more frequent tram services with the current fleet.

"People with a disability and Indigenous Australians are overrepresented in the data. About 33% of all suspensions affected those with a disability, and at least 26% of all suspensions affected First Nations people."

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

Victoria's new Planning Amendment Bill offers a glimpse of a future where our planning system says "yes" rather than "no" as the default. But this future is at risk if it does secure the crossbench's support. Join us next Thursday for an emergency letter-writing workshop!

No one will remember anything Linda Reynolds did in politics, but we will remember this forever. What a piece of sh#t.

I can’t stress enough that if you’re writing anything longer than a couple of paragraphs, spend time thinking about formatting, layout, readability and design. The amount of work it takes to get to “compelling and professional advocacy” from “unhinged rant” is ten minutes of using a style sheet.

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

Local government in Australia is not much more than a bin collection agency masquerading around as an HoA.

Orson Welles would murder every one of you motherfuckers with a hammer.

Day two of Jillian Segal - the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia - being silent on the actions of a political cult that executed the Holocaust, protesting in the streets of Australia and attacking First Nations people. Apparently first they came for mob, but I was very busy.

The whiplash from how quickly Aussie media will label any pro-Palestine protest as ‘antisemitic’ but when actual Neo-Nazis are protesting on some white supremacist shit the media is like ‘woah woah woah. let’s not go throwing any labels around’

Well, that was something. Several thousand flagwits in MEL today, & budding fuehrer Thomas Sewell fulfilled his dream of addressing the masses outside the VIC parliament.

It gets worse. The Deloitte report suspected of using AI contains a fake quote and erroneous citations to one of the leading cases on Robodebt. www.afr.com//companies/p...

Official trailer for SBS' soon to be released docu-drama 'The People vs. Robodebt' featuring Jenny Miller, Deanna Amato and many others. www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/2025...

i don't want to pick nits with the analogy but i personally would like rules for flying cars to come before they hit our roads (skies?) rather than after

Exclusive: “Systemic failures” in software have left outsourced employment services on the brink of collapse and the government “significantly constrained” in its ability to legally defend mutual obligation requirements, a leaked report reveals. satpa.pe/6BF4WkX

RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...

given one of the few good uses for LLMs is coding assistance maybe tech council members should immediately open source all their code under a permissive license. to do otherwise would risk harming investment in the AI industry in Australia, imo

A new paper highlights that while countries like Australia have seen construction productivity fall, NZ saw a boom in the 2010s. Their secret? Zoning reform. By allowing more medium-density housing in cities like Auckland, they supercharged their construction sector

Unpacking the sudden, strangely synchronised media concern for starving Palestinian children. Why now? What’s changed & what still hasn’t?  A look at the caveats & spin still dominating the conversation. + imagine if journos weren’t chilled into looking away when I was sacked

we’re living in pretty unprecedented times but luckily in Australia we have some of the worst journalists in the world to help navigate us through the waters

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month. But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

Waiting for a tram home tonight? Melbourne has the least frequent evening tram services in Australia. #MoreServicesNow

Totally untenable for someone in an anti-racist, government role. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Hi everyone, I just need to be clear my priority is revoking access as quickly as possible for this participant.” Rick Morton on how the NDIA chief responded to a disability advocate wrongly accused of "rorting" on talkback radio. http://satpa.pe/Tv43WWz

Matt Turnbull, Executive Producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing - after the Microsoft layoffs - suggesting on Linkedin that may maybe people who have been let go should turn to AI for help. He seriously thought posting this would be a good idea.

After more than four years and over 1,300 submissions, Australia's first Indigenous-led truth-telling inquiry has handed down its final report, calling for major reform.

A UN report names companies complicit in Israel’s war and genocide on Gaza, including US giants and firms from China to Mexico. Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k

Shoutout to the time Voyager played Stay Gold in Brunswick and absolutely crushed it. So good to see them putting out new music again after a brutal couple of years. Wishing Danny all the best in his recovery. Full series available at www.deviantart.com/banjoeskimo/gallery

New: It’s absurd and embarrassing in a liberal democracy to have to say this, but people shouldn’t be punished for protesting against genocidal oppression, or speaking about it. So many cultural institutions have done this very thing though - and damaged themselves in the process.

I hope the Lattouf decision gives other board members decision makers around the country serious pause in the future. Political opinions are still legal in this country. Facts and criticism about horrific human rights violations should be supported, not punished.

We don’t need to wait for the Aukus submarines (not that they’ll ever be delivered) to question our sovereignty. It’s happening already. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "

MEDIA RELEASE: Jewish Council condemns FM Wong’s endorsement of US military strike on Iranian nuclear targets, which threatens to escalate a dangerous regional conflict and lead to more death and suffering

You don't understand! The ALP government has to support Israeli genocide, US war crimes, the destruction of the rule of law, and the north west gas shelf, because it only has a 51 seat lead on the Coalition. Something something Murdoch. They're really progressive, I swear.

The US is arming a literal genocide, has blocked international action against that genocide, and has now started a war with a sovereign nation by bombing some power plants its own intelligence reports are simply power plants - all on behalf of the country committing genocide.

Over the weekend, various planners praised New South Wales' use of floor area ratio (FAR) as a planning tool. This is deeply troubling, because everything we care about should tell us that Sydney’s planning system is far from a model—rather, it's a cautionary tale.

Jobseeker's infamous policy that penalises jobseekers for not going to interviews or applying for jobs has been quietly collapsing, reports Ben Eltham.

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

Today's front page: "Exclusive: PBS listings frozen over Trump’s executive order". https://trib.al/9YjpoC4

Good day to everyone except the senior management at Electronic Arts: aftermath.site/dragon-age-the...

Community consultation models are broken. They give a megaphone to older, time-rich residents while locking out younger, time-poor voices. The result is a political system tilted toward short-term thinking and against long-term progress.