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Ben Raue @benraue.com · 8h

I've published my full guide to the 2027 NSW state election. Yes, it's a while away, but if you're trying to wrap your head around how it might go, you'll find it useful. www.tallyroom.com.au/62772 #nswpol

NSW election guide now live

As part of my efforts to prepare election guides for all of the upcoming elections, I have now published a guide to the 2027 NSW state election. While that election is still almost a year and a hal…

www.tallyroom.com.au

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 11h

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day (and I guess #AntipovertyWeek now we're there)

phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t...

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

phonakins.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 11h

Uber drivers refusing rides due to guide dog, handler says

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Independence 'chipped away' by Uber driver refusals, guide dog handler says

Sarah Maculans says she was refused rides by four Uber drivers within a week due to her guide dog, Sunny.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 11h

‘Horrified’ NDIA’s Salesforce probe drags past 2 years

more from #estimates last week

www.innovationaus.com/horrified-nd...

'Horrified' NDIA's Salesforce probe drags past 2 years

The National Disability Insurance Agency has handed Salesforce almost $100 million in the two years it has been investigating suspected misconduct of its staff that involved the software giant. The co...

www.innovationaus.com

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 1d

On noticing that the ground has slid away

My 2nd post at In Between Days is about how you can paper over cracks, but you can't paper over an abyss

We're over the cliff

We're in freefall

We have to live in this reality together

Because that's the only way to get from the no longer to the not yet

Yesterday I got so old...

On noticing that the ground has slid away It's like it was yesterday. 16 year old me bopping along to In Between Days at the back of the school bus, the jangly joy of the music jarring perfectly aga...

in-between-days.ghost.io

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 12h

was such a gobsmacking interview

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

The Federal Court has given a record $2.2 million civil penalty to a (now defunct) NDIS provider, following the death of a 38-year-old Queensland man who wandered onto a motorway www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

NDIS provider fined $2.2m after man killed walking into highway traffic

Proceedings began against the now-defunct provider following the death of a Queensland participant in 2023. The penalty is the highest civil sanction imposed on an NDIS provider to date.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

I don't remember seeing this before

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

your reactions were pretty much mine when reading this

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

curious 'statement of expectations' from the minister about the NDIS quality and safeguards commission

www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

www.health.gov.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely wild ombudsman report into the NDIS participant service guarantee, including disagreeing with the agency about whether they have delivered on it, and that rules haven't been finalised since 2022! [very good plain English report too btw]

www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/asset...

www.ombudsman.gov.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

because it's me, I watched a chunk of #estimates from a seat outside Katoomba hospital while waiting for my cardiac appointment (routine) while texting with @dougieherd.bsky.social

good summary of some of the questions

thenightly.com.au/politics/bur...

Bureaucrats deny States left in the dark on NDIS overhaul

Several State leaders have publicly claimed they were blindsided when Health Minister Mark Butler announced a new ‘Thriving Kids’ program in a National Press Club address on August 20.

thenightly.com.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

'Why is there so little nature writing by disabled Australian writers?' Jessica White

www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

Why is there so little nature writing by disabled Australian writers?

Author Jessica White considers ecobiography, and how deafness shapes her relationship with natural and built environments.

www.artshub.com.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

“Homes are a source of dignity, and Israel deliberately knew how to attack our very dignity by destroying our houses.” Nour Alsaqa

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Nour's home lies in ruin. This is how Israel made so much of Gaza unliveable

When 25-year-old Nour imagines herself back home in Gaza City, she remembers the things that made her smile. Now that's all gone.

www.abc.net.au

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 3d

Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking at this online event about the Targeted Compliance Framework scandal, & how mutual obligations worsens and commodifies poverty. I'll throw some jokes in as well, dw

Come along if you like - it's free
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unfinished...

Unfinished Business: 50 Years After Henderson

An initiative of the Australian Social Policy Association and the Australian Journal of Social Issues, as part of Anti-Poverty Week.

www.eventbrite.com.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

“It makes you feel like, ‘am I even a human to you guys?’. What’s the point of being here? Will that save your budget?” Kieron D’Netto

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Kieron relies on NDIS after surviving a catastrophic diving accident – but new rules could put his life at risk

Brisbane man is one of hundreds reporting devastating cuts to NDIS plans after rule changes last year

www.theguardian.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

this whole story about Monique Jeremiah and 'Diversity Models' is wildly awful, and keeps getting worse

9now.nine.com.au/a-current-af...

Outrage after agent painted model's face to make her look 'more Aboriginal'

Former model Hayley, who claims Monique told her to look disabled, also has functional neurological disorder,

9now.nine.com.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 3d

The @antipovertycentre.org watched #estimates yesterday so we didn't have to - 🧵of some of the questions and non-answers (some which sound very LNP era) about welfare and the TCF...

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 4d

"If they don't deliver, they don't get paid,"

The first flagrant lie from the employment department in today's senate estimates hearing about the welfare cops who profit from poverty. No doubt there will be much more bullshit to come!

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 4d

If you want to watch the employment department defend their unlawful operation of compulsory activities (so-called mutual obligations), you can tune in to the senate estimates hearing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WId...

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 4d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 4d

ko-fi.com/post/Punch-u... I had a tv interview with abc today and it made me think about this

Punch up

Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

ooo looking forward to this!

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4d

If you've fallen down inflammation-type wellness circle rabbit holes, hmu for a @motherjones.com essay I'm working on. My email is [email protected]. I can you your first name only.

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Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 5d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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