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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 13m

I've hung in there for more than half an hour, but I think I'll give up and do this again tomorrow morning.

Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 13m

My Disability Employment Services caseworker had warned me the DES Transition Line had a wait time of about an hour. The recorded message says there's an "estimated wait time of more than 2 hours," and they may not get to my call today.
I still have tomorrow to ask to be switched to a different JSP.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 20h

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Robert Wilfort @robertwilfort.bsky.social · 18h

In the dying days of my Labour membership I witnessed on a video call a Jewish member trying to raise points that anti-Semitism was being weaponised and Corbyn scapegoated only to be shouted down by Labour right members and muted from the chat.

DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 20h

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 21h

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 21h

think I'd be risking a blood pressure incident if I actually read this book. but good that it's out there I guess, not that the perpetrators are ever going to suffer the consequences they deserve

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

www.declassifieduk.org

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 20h

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 21h

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 5h

I grew up in a town where there were several Aboriginal deaths in custody in the ‘80s. The final report of the RCIADIC was released 34 years ago.

Nothing’s changed.

“More First Nations people have died in custody in New South Wales so far this year than ever before, the state coroner has revealed”

More Indigenous Australians died in custody in NSW this year than ever before, coroner reveals

State’s tough on crime measures compounding the problem, one expert says, despite pledge to close the gap

www.theguardian.com

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Ciara @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 5h

Why do so many people and politicians not understand that when people are broke and have no excess income, they can’t spend at small/medium size businesses therefore the economy goes into a death spiral and businesses go under?????? Not all of us are wealthy and sorted, ya know? #nzpol

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2h

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2h

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company

When he was prime minister, Morrison appointed a Saudi fossil fuel firm's board member to two different taskforce roles in 2019 and 2022.

www.crikey.com.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2h

"Paid full award wages in the kitchen, restaurant, bar, housekeeping and reception"

yay!

Powerd Media @powerdmedia.bsky.social · 2h

A new disability employment opportunity for those living in the ACT is approaching, with a disability focused hotel soon to open its doors in Canberra, following the success of its sister hotel.

Read more: https://loom.ly/-B46PWQ

#Disability #Accessibility #Inclusion #Employment

Text reading: A new disability employment opportunity for those living in the ACT is approaching, with a disability focused hotel soon to open its doors in Canberra, following the success of its sister hotel. And a photo of a Hotel Etico staff member in the kitchen.

Text reading: “ It was very good. It's fun. We’re always working together. I have a support worker as well…when I do housekeeping, they always come with me. I love doing my job. It’s the best." Hotel Etico Australia trainee, JP. And a photo of Hotel Etico staff members preparing dishes in the kitchen.

Text reading: Hotel Etico Australia CEO and founder, Andrea Comastri, explains that the concept for the business originated in Italy a decade ago after a young man with Down syndrome asked a chef for a job, sharing his dream of wanting to work in a hotel. “ The chef gave him a chance and got together with other people to pursue this dream.” And a photo of a Hotel Etico staff member with a drink behind a bar.

Text on a dark blue background: According to Mr Comastri, participants in the program live on site for three days a week for a period of 12 months. "Paid full award wages in the kitchen, restaurant, bar, housekeeping and reception…but they also learn about living independently. The model is quite innovative."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 10h

So, the Albanese Govt's Education Minister wants to do something about bullying.

Perhaps he could start by ending the legalised bullying of LGBTQ+ students by religious schools.

You know, like they promised in 2022, before walking away from it, and from vulnerable kids. #auspol

Education ministers to consider new national standards to combat bullying
Krishani Dhanji
Krishani Dhanji
Federal, state and territory education ministers will consider a proposal for a new national standard on anti-bullying when they meet on Friday.

The communications minister and eSafety commissioner are also set to brief the ministers ahead of the social media ban taking effect on 10 December.

The government announced the anti-bullying rapid review in February, with co-chairs Dr Charlotte Keating and Professor Jo Robinson to present their findings and recommendations to the meeting.

The education minister, Jason Clare, says the review shows the prominence of bullying in and out of school hours.

Complaints about online bullying to the eSafety commissioner have increased by 450% in the last five years ...
The review reminds us bullying doesn’t stop when the school bell rings any more. Today it can follow you all the way home after school. The internet means that you can be bullied now at any time, day or night, and anyone can see it.

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 7h

True story, one of the things I wasn't allowed to put in my Police Brutality online course was a section about how many dogs cops kill.

What was extra wild is you can look at departments' pages for 'lost in the line of duty' and a good chunk of them are K9's shot by their incompetent partners

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10h

That “partial refund” at this point should really be full refund + compensation + full throated apology to welfare recipients whose lives are directly impacted by the quality (or lack thereof) of reports like this by unaccountable consultants.

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 11h

Wow.
"The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on"

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.

www.afr.com

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10h

And let’s be clear - this work should never be going to commercial consultants in the first place.

A properly independent public service should be providing frank and fearless advice that’s open and transparent.

The public service is there to follow the law - not help the Government break it.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10h

Meanwhile all this time and money could be spent actually improving the lives and outcomes of welfare recipients.

Instead we have billions of dollars punted back and forth deciding how much cruelty the Govt + public service can get away with.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 10h

Ok, here's what we got. The Department is cancelling welfare payments unlawfully, so paid Deloitte $440k to do an assurance review, even though the Secretary used to work there, & when Deloitte concluded they couldn't assure the unlawful system, DEWR tried to bury the report, but

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 10h

they got bullied by advocates and media to release it, where it turns out the report was full of AI slop, which became a global media scandal, so Deloitte part-repayed DEWR back $98,000, and re-uploaded the report, which has now again been called out for being riddled with errors

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 10h

The peace plan. Today’s Age cartoon.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 10h

Bittersweet.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Three pairs of hands reaching from the left towards three pairs of hands reaching from the right. But on the left, two pairs of hands are dotted outlines.

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🎃🦇👻 Michael Scare-anicolas 👻🦇🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 1d

I am also struck by the lack of attention paid to how Israel fired tear gas and rubber bullets *today* at Palestinians waiting for the release of their loved ones.

This kind of brutality is just priced in, and therefore deemed unimportant to report on.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not.

I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 8h

The homes Israeli hostages return to VS the homes Gazans return to

The is no going back to “normal” for them. They are now living in a rubble ridden hellscape while the western world moves on, pretending it didn’t fund and approve this.

On the left is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pictured is beautiful green lush Mediterranean style cityscape.

On the right is an image of a young Palestinian girl walking the “streets” of Gaza City, now turned to rubble and ash. The buildings are demolished by bombs and war crimes while the streets are littered with debris, rubble, and broken concrete.

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 7h

“Gaza's soil contains radioactive and carcinogenic elements, such as depleted uranium and phosphates, embedded in the rubble […] The use of white phosphorus by Israeli forces has led to severe environmental and health consequences, with long-term exposure causing respiratory diseases and cancer.”

| UC Global Health Institute

ucghi.universityofcalifornia.edu

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 7h

We have some seriously good political cartoonists in this country

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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