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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @mylesjaybee.bsky.social · 7h

Mould, leaks, rot... the houses failed inspection, so the tenants get evicted. Welcome to Queensland’s new housing policy: punish the poor, protect the landlords.
#auspol #qldpol

Tenants evicted after taxpayer-funded landlord fails to maintain property

The community housing provider says the landlord was unwilling to complete the necessary repairs, which included fixing doors that would not shut, leaking roofs and mouldy concrete.

www.abc.net.au

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 6h

Fake academic reference reveals AI use in claim for $1.6m from NDIS
www.afr.com//politics/fa...

Fake academic reference reveals AI use in claim for $1.6m from NDIS

The report asked for increased funding for a client but was created with the help of artificial intelligence and cited academic references that did not exist.

www.afr.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 7h

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

yay!

Powerd Media @powerdmedia.bsky.social · 7h

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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Ciara @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 10h

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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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 9h

Chris Minns, the Premier of NSW, has so far in 2025 resided over a record breaking amount of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders deaths in NSW custody, including a disabled man and 2 children under 15.
Excuse the AI overview, the articles are ALL behind payewalls. Ofc.

¹11 deaths in custody in NSW in 2025, of Aboriginal and TORRES Strait Islanders

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🦇 CEO of CuntGPT 🕸️ @cunexttuesday.lol · 8h

Community housing is a scam involving private entities exploiting vulnerable tenants for government dollars

#AusPol

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

Tenants evicted after taxpayer-funded landlord fails to maintain property

The community housing provider says the landlord was unwilling to complete the necessary repairs, which included fixing doors that would not shut, leaking roofs and mouldy concrete.

www.abc.net.au

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 8h

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...

Second Canberra University reports staff were paid incorrectly

Vice-chancellor apologises after $1.5m blunder hits staff.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Dec 4

The cycle of homelessness and criminalization

This image portrays a satirical critique of systemic issues surrounding homelessness and criminalization. It visually represents the cyclical challenges faced by individuals experiencing homelessness:
1. A person is denied shelter due to lack of resources (“Sorry, out of beds. Good luck.”).
2. They are later punished for sleeping in public, which has been criminalized (“Get up! Public sleeping is now a crime. You’re going to jail.”).
3. After serving their time, they are released but continue to face barriers (“You’ve been in jail! I’d never hire you or rent to you.”).

The illustration highlights how systemic obstacles perpetuate homelessness rather than resolving it, presenting a no-win situation for those trapped in the cycle.

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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously?

Home in Place would not say why it had not taken the landlord to the Residential Tenancies Authority, the government agency that can enforce tenancy law.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 9h

Lunch time. I could buy this lunch for 40,000 people for the cost of this report nobody has written nor read, commissioned and then buried in the desperate thrashing of a department bargaining with the reality of what they've done to hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients.

I am holding up a banh mi sandwich in front of the sign outside one of Deloitte's offices in Sydney.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

Paul Karp
NSW political correspondent
Oct 14, 2025 – 5.31pm

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.
Two academics have questioned the relevance of citations of their work in the new report, raising concerns that Deloitte merely substituted out false references to works that don’t exist in favour of real works with no or very limited relevance to welfare compliance, which was the subject of the report.

The republished report also incorrectly cites work by Australian National University’s John Braithwaite by giving the wrong publication year and repeatedly omitting his co-author.

Officials from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, while unhappy about the use of AI and errors in the original report, told a Senate estimates hearing last week the recommendations in the Deloitte report had not changed and would be taken up by the department.
Details of errors will further embarrass Deloitte and the department as both parties claimed to have checked the references of the rewritten report. The academics say the new problems call into question the quality of the research used to back up Deloitte’s effort to recommend how to fix IT systems for welfare compliance.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 9h

Home in Place evicts social housing tenants from Morningside apartments over landlord failures

Mr Giuffrida says Home in Place had provided taxpayer funding to a private landlord without ensuring he maintained the property to minimum legal standards.

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

Tenants evicted after taxpayer-funded landlord fails to maintain property

The community housing provider says the landlord was unwilling to complete the necessary repairs, which included fixing doors that would not shut, leaking roofs and mouldy concrete.

www.abc.net.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 16h

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

Defining and Measuring Child Poverty in Australia www.austaxpolicy.com/defining-and...

Defining and Measuring Child Poverty in Australia - Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog

Poverty harms children now and into adulthood. It limits health, learning, and wellbeing, and undermines rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the… Read More ›

www.austaxpolicy.com

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JK @j2dk.bsky.social · 13h

Natalie James is Secretary of the Department of Employment & Workplace Relations, which commissioned the report.
Her prior job was as a Partner at Deloitte where she helped "businesses develop data-driven, risk informed solutions to their workplace relations challenges".
Sounds like a handy skillset

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 13h

ugh and carers are supposed to be thankful they can now work 100hrs over 4 weeks rather than 25 hours a week without losing their payment

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cubbieberry @cubbieberry.bsky.social · 21h

And this week is also National #CarersWeek #NCW25

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

"Centrelink payments are still hundreds of dollars a week below the poverty line. It’s no wonder poverty is rising. People can’t keep up when the basics are unaffordable and support has been frozen in real terms"

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

#AntipovertyWeek

Critics say Labor government has failed to raise payments and help alleviate poverty

Kristin O’Connell, a spokesperson for the Antipoverty Centre and a disability support pension recipient, said the Labor government’s failure to raise payments had made things more difficult for those with low incomes.

She said in a statement the group had regularly heard from people who say “life has gotten harder since the Albanese Government came to power”:

Centrelink payments are still hundreds of dollars a week below the poverty line. It’s no wonder poverty is rising. People can’t keep up when the basics are unaffordable and support has been frozen in real terms. …

There’s no such thing as a responsible budget that keeps people in poverty. If you’re proud of balancing the books while people go hungry, you’ve lost sight of what good government means.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13h

AI's inability to do citation is a known problem. Nicely demonstrated in the 6 Mar 2025 @towcenter.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social piece about freely available published news articles

Is Deloitte ignorant of the problem? Or just indifferent to it?

AI Search Has A Citation Problem

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

www.cjr.org

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13h

"Officials from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, while unhappy about the use of AI and errors in the original report, told a Senate estimates hearing last week the recommendations in the Deloitte report had not changed and would be taken up by the department."

JFC🤯🤬

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 16h

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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Mutual Aid Australia @mutualaidaus.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Vulnerable people are falling further and further behind so it is up to us to look out for each other.

And while Link isn't here for Community Giving and Friday Fund Day, we thought we'd share some Mutual Aid resources.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The March for White Australia RETVRNS this Sunday, OCT 19.

Below is a list of counter-protests, organised under the banner of 'No Room For Racism & Fascism' /// 'No White Australia. Counter The Far Right.'

Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 15h

Govt to tiny NFPs:

We’ll need a quarterly report, a data report, a transparency report, a yearly audit, your data plugged into this data pool each month, sign off any time you sneeze and your invoices won’t be paid unless all of this is signed off by us. Also you can’t charge admin fees.

Deloitte:

a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease

Alt: a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease

media.tenor.com

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