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ceej @ceej.online · Jun 25

you can't draw a lot of conclusions from a single race. there are external factors, flawed candidates, the right political climate. but one conclusion you can absolutely draw is that all of the people who tell you that there's only one way things can be are fucking wrong

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21h

holy crap

the sculpture covered in tape or something

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

Along with tweaking the algo, buying tiktok, paying influencers $7k to post "Israel rules! I love their hummus, they don't even kill kids", they're trying to rebrand the livestreamed Gaza Genocide as the "War of Redemption". Good luck with that, dickheads.

Haaretz article about the above rebranding exercise

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 21h

it's also very difficult to find them if they don't have any money to spend, creating a trail of bank transactions, but ok

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 21h

Welfare payments should never be used as a mechanism of control or surveillance

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h

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Erika Kirk-Vance’s Vinyl Mourning Pants @daryltractor.bsky.social · 1d

Defence Minister Richard Marles refers to the Israeli weapons on sale at Sydney weapons expo as "beautiful, menacing and extremely cool".

- Via Antony Loewenstein

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 21h

Yep

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 22h

Hooray…Its not just fossil fuel expansion where Australia leads the world…

thepoint.com.au/news/251104-...

Gambling means Australians are the biggest losers in the world

A bet on the horses today is the only time many Australians will gamble. But this doesn’t change the reality that, collectively, Australians are the biggest gamblers in the world, wagering a total $25...

thepoint.com.au

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Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️ @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 23h

🚨Australia has a surplus of fossil fuels, not solar.
🚨Government has not instructed energy retailers not to raise their fixed daily supply charge, so we could be paying *more*.
🚨 Does policy address issues from @firstnationscen.bsky.social re: our most vulnerable? NO.

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) Chair Karly Warner called the proposal “controversial” and said it is “an unprecedented attack on fairness and due process which will shake public confidence in our legal system.”

The separation of powers is not optional.

El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

'Growing calls for Labor to abandon new powers to stop Centrelink payments for people accused of a serious offence'

@antipovertycentre.org is joined by many other organisations

apcentre.substack.com/p/growing-ca...

Growing calls for Labor to abandon police involvement in stopping Centrelink payments

Civil society organisations representing welfare recipients, First Nations people, survivors of family violence, disabled people and legal experts are calling on the government to scrap a proposed law...

apcentre.substack.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

Or as Sarina Russo says, “Check out my Louis Vuitton!”

El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

another utter failure of private delivery of public services

“It’s hard to think of another government-funded industry allowed to operate in this way … to continue soaking up so much public money and to spit out so few results.” @jeremypoxon.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies

Employment department’s annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year

www.theguardian.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

'Growing calls for Labor to abandon new powers to stop Centrelink payments for people accused of a serious offence'

@antipovertycentre.org is joined by many other organisations

apcentre.substack.com/p/growing-ca...

Growing calls for Labor to abandon police involvement in stopping Centrelink payments

Civil society organisations representing welfare recipients, First Nations people, survivors of family violence, disabled people and legal experts are calling on the government to scrap a proposed law...

apcentre.substack.com

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 1d

A poem I wrote some months ago showed up at my door today in the first issue of the relaunched Southerly magazine.

OMAR SAKR

Walking to day-care in the genocide
The primary selling point of a pram
Has never been articulated by an ad.
My son yells out his discoveries -
Tree, rock, motorbike, cloud, a bee!
I walk behind him unseen, grief-struck
And let the tears come without fear
That my weeping will drive him
To worry. O holy carriage, hold fast
His wonder, and my wet confession
Of this, a father's sole reprieve.

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Michael Smith @michaelps.bsky.social · 23h

This sounds like a good thing - Netflix rebooting Neighbours kind of thing

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Nick McKim @nickmckim.bsky.social · 1d

The Greens have secured a Senate inquiry into the capital gains tax (CGT) discount. We will use this to expose one of the most regressive tax breaks in Australia, where 50% of the benefit goes to the top 1% wealthiest Australians.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

The duopoly just joined forces in the Senate to vote down an #AUKUS inquiry. Never mind the political, technical & management risks associated with the program, or the $365B price tag - the two major parties are happy sleepwalking with your national security and money. #auspol

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies

Employment department’s annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year

www.theguardian.com

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly shameful and disgusting watching a Labor Government that claims to stand for values, fairness and the rule of law rip two more men (including a refugee from Sudan) out of our community and deport them for life to Nauru, straight out of Trump’s ICE playbook www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese government deports two more men to Nauru in secret, infuriating human rights advocates

Exclusive: Sources say a Sudanese national and another man were chartered to the former regional processing centre last week, joining one other person

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 9

”[Trump] is running a crypto scam where he can receive millions of dollars anonymously. Meanwhile the DOJ has shut down the crypto investigations unit. Truly no corruption scheme like this in our history — at least out of the White House.”
@timmiller.bsky.social
@thebulwark.bsky.social

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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 1d

add a home battery and an EV and most households would never need to pay a petrol bill ever again.

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

Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels

Labor announces ‘solar sharer’ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 1d

If he can promise us a NACC, get our votes for it, then corrupt it into a Pollie Protection Racket, he won't be caring too much about jobseekers.

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 1d

Ghastly and feral Israeli settlers.

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Jul 12

"The Yesha Council also announced a prize for the "Best Zionist Editor" - the person who over the next four years incorporates the most "Zionist" changes in the encyclopedia. That lucky encyclopedist will receive a trip in a hot-air balloon over Israel."
www.haaretz.com/2010-08-18/t...