have scientists factored in the Israeli bomb dropping tonnage and tech billionaire data centres is my question.

This is a great win for free democratic expression for people in our cities, & a deserved & humiliating loss for our overly-authoritarian Premier Minns. He keeps serving up his grubby law-n-order, & either the people or the courts tell him to go stick it! Public space, public life. #publicsydney

The Orwellian Minister FOR the Environment seems focused on everything but the environment. Otherwise, he'd recognise we're in an #EcologicalEmergency which is indeed an #ExistentialEmergency. #capturedstate #fossilcriminals #auspol #wapol

Brisbane Transport always makes travelling two suburbs away into such an adventure.

The obligations were of course never mutual, why else would they need to call them that in the first place, but the Australian Government has totally abandoned the idea of compliant welfare administration on their side of things for too many years now & decided also to videotape their crime spree 👍

Do you see how the Targeted Compliance Framework is a framework for the government to dispense with social security law, and administrative law, to punish welfare recipients to extract capital? With the proud object of Targeting them with Compliance. As a weapon forged by the state. As in Robodebt.

The NCSL told me they could assist in making a complaint to DSS (who manage the DES system I was assigned to at the time), however I needed the provider I had complained about to provide me my file. Which I requested in writing and verbally. I did not receive my file. Do you see how lawful this is?

I would have to have contested each demerit through the 'administrative' mechanism of the 'National Customer Service Line'. Until 2024 this was operated by a company that also operated employment services. No-one has ever been able to explain to me what a 'demerit' is or how the points system works.

In my case, and potentially many thousands of others, I was not ever notified of my obligations under social security law as required in legislation. I incurred enough 'demerits' this way to have my JobSeeker cancelled without my doing anything. I then appealed the cancellation as stipulated here.

It cannot be any sort of valid administrative arrangement where two for-profit contract providers arbitrate this 'dispute' about 'demerits' between themselves, which cannot be appealed directly to DEWR or any tribunal. It's not social security law, it's not administrative law, it is flatly unlawful.

It's true that decisions made under this system mandating the kinds of decisions that can be made under social security law are not decisions under social security law. This is, you might say, what is unlawful about them.

Yeah no it's not law or policy it's a secret third thing that totally determines how the law is applied in a very legal way that also very conveniently means it can't be appealed legally, at law.

absolutely gutted to hear about this. this is going to have a knock on impact on the entire Cohealth network which includes thousands and thousands of people including me! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"A report by a government-dominated parliamentary inquiry into Queensland’s container recycling scheme has made 10 referrals to the state’s corruption watchdog, alleging it was dominated by two large beverages companies." I guess it's good-bye to container recycling, too, then. tinyurl.com/467nkny5

"... it would also remove a ban on private ownership on new generation, which unions have said would be akin to privatisation by stealth." Just wait for next week, when the Qld Govt will announce plans to burn the state's remaining forests for fuel. tinyurl.com/The-Guardian...

The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-onus-i...

Things are going well over on X, the town square, the place a whole lot of influential people in media and politics believe fairly reflects the views of most Americans.

Well. Crap. Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That Time Magazine cover is like the brief was "What if Joe Biden had a turkey neck?"

Full report here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/adani-s...

The Labor Gov, under @stevenjmiles.bsky.social chased Adani for this money. The new LNP government recently abandoned the court action, essentially giving away $400 million worth of coal to Adani. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

NSW anti-protest law ruled unconstitutional after Palestine Action Group court challenge www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How about "RBA companies' utter incompetence at raising productivity means they will have to accept lower profit growth"

How about no.

Yeah, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient is not all that great. Not being Trump doesn’t make you good. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

The released Palestinian prisoner, Mahmoud Abu Foul, 28 years old, was subjected to severe torture with iron rods and electric shocks in Israeli torture camps, which caused him to lose one leg and both eyes. A crime that the whole world must see.

The ABC still as on the ball as ever when it comes to understanding the reaction to Gillard's speech.

Israeli "troops shot dead at least nine unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis." "During the last Gaza ceasefire [..] Israel violated the agreement more than 1,000 times before scrapping the deal." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

the same white media will completely ignore Ben Gvir saying “shut the fuck up or we’ll gas you” to Australian hostages. Despite the months of renting and kerning over zionist lies that [redacted] was chanted at the Opera House. www.deepcutnews.com/p/shut-the-f...

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

It's becoming very clear that Gaza is nothing but a testing ground for the global defense industry. Why else would they send the bombs to flatten the place and then pay for it to be rebuild

Disgusting comments from the Deputy Premier just days after kids died from tainted pills. Victoria, NSW and ACT are all exploring pill testing because it’s a proven and safe harm minimisation programme that saves hundreds of young people’s lives.

End of a very intense but very successful regent parrot field trip - gorgeous birds doing it a bit tough

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

It's still going. The republished Deloitte report into the Targeted Compliance Framework is STILL full of slop references. How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this? ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social

"‘Only the commies in Victoria support pill testing’, Queensland deputy premier says" Jarrod Bleijie is a complete fucking tool who couldn't thrive anywhere outside of the mutagen-laced talent pool of the LNP. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Campbell Newman's legacy: bad teeth. (In fairness, there was nothing stopping Labor reversing this when they returned to power except for politics or laziness.) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

He should play him like the Bowery King from John Wick.

This is a small print run so pre-order to make sure you don’t miss out on Ezzideen Shehab’s breathtaking book, Diary of a Young Doctor. Ezzideen’s words are essential reading. As reviewed by @amyremeikis.bsky.social More: linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide

remember that time the minister intervened to suspend an ARC funded Future Fellow after zionists created an orchestrated a campaign against her academic freedom.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

lmao after watching successive governments do absolutely nothing meaningful about the data broker industry nor targeted marketing, I’m not above laughing at them for this

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres. All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing: www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

... it was a fake invoice, wasn't it? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility. This is beyond cruel. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...