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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19m

It's great that the Albanese gov't doesn't even need to hide any of this anymore

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

lol

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 14h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 4h

About sums up the knuckle scrapping mobs that terrorise minorities in the UK now.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3h

Oh thank heavens …

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 42m

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?

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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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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously, what is this shit?

ABC 730 with a truly embarrassing story of Young Liberals featuring some of the most vapid people you could ever have the misfortune to encounter.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1h

Jeff and Terry have got something to sell you.

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 1h

David Pope in Canberra Times

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 1h

I think that there are some people who will willfully never accept a moral or scientific argument about climate change impacts. An actuarial argument may be the only thing that permits them to take action.

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 1h

We have a rice cooker but struggle to stop it foaming up like it has rabies. Even with a lot of washing of the rice before cooking.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 4h

For all the students at the social work uni intensive who told me they now use AI at work to write up case reports:

NDIS participant’s bid for more support failed in part because two physiotherapists used AI to write letters used to back her claim to top up her package

www.afr.com/politics/bid...

Bid to boost $200k NDIS package rejected after AI use found

The National Disability Insurance Agency warned about cut-and-paste medical reports. Throw artificial intelligence in and the results are even worse.

www.afr.com

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 5h

ABC is now indistinguishable from the Newscorpse grievance clickbait media. Are they furious? Is someone being slammed? Is it a scandal? Did someone weigh in? Did somebody have to scramble?

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 5h

Frustration mounts over AFLW being used as a 'trial run' for new rules: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-14/frustration-as-aflw-used-as-trial-run-for-new-rules-for-afl-mens/105889756

Frustration mounts over AFLW being used as a 'trial run' for new rules

Collingwood's Tarni White says it feels as though the women's competition is being used as a trial run for new rules before they are implemented into the men's league.

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 5h

Corporations will happily let you die for their profits.

Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 6h

I'm sure he has a future in real estate.

Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 7h

Sending best wishes to the crew of the S.S. Euphemism.

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 8h

Every day we stray further from god or something idk

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 8h

"everyone & everything on the planet..are living in the Fafocene..the Age of Consequences..the assholes of senseless extraction got to kick into open goals, while kicking those who put their bodies on the gear in the head & laughing all the way to the bank"
allouryesterdays.info/2025/05/24/a...

Affect and the Fafocene: kayfabe, hypernormalisation and Leonard Cohen - All Our Yesterdays

You and I – and everyone we know, everyone and everything on the planet – are living in the Fafocene. A full explanation can be found here, but the short version is this: we are near the beginning of ...

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 8h

Funny seeing this in a document released under FOI.

It is very likely that eSafety's internal assessment and related correspondence will be
subject to FOI requests. We have sought to provide considered and consistent assessment
capable of withstanding public scrutiny.

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 9h

"Asses".

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

WorkSafe to asses Auckland fire station after asbestos scare

The Auckland City Fire Station was closed on Friday when possible asbestos contamination was identified.

www.rnz.co.nz

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 9h

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Poverty increases to 1 in 7 people: New report

ACOSS and UNSW Media Release The number of people living in poverty in Australia has increased to 1 in 7, according to a new ACOSS and UNSW report released today at the start of Anti-Poverty [...]

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 9h

A senate interim report into Australia’s universities has heard that, along with a lack of internal scrutiny, councils and the executives who control them face almost no scrutiny from outside. Remuneration committees are especially secretive, writes Tim Moore. satpa.pe/OavkXVQ

Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector

satpa.pe

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 10h

Killed hundreds of thousands of civilians award 🥇 @senatorwong.bsky.social

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 9h

LinkedIn for the win.

SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 9h

📢 Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley are among dozens of high-profile Australians whose numbers have been leaked.

'Concern' over prime minister and Opposition leader's phone numbers being leaked

www.sbs.com.au

Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 10h

Families increasingly stupid.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 11h

So we retain an iniquitous system favouring the rich. Which will surprise nobody."

Inimitable @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social on the Super backflip
#auspol
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Albo’s super dance: one step forward, one backward, one to the side - Michael West

It was Jim Chalmers’ superannuation reform but we get Anthony Albanese’s reform of the reform - Government is risk-adverse and incremental

michaelwest.com.au

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