Alice Lastname
@alicelastname.bsky.social
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👩‍👦🐶😷🌳🌊 Dog lover, road tripper, insomniac. She/her, 🏳️‍⚧️Ally, 🇵🇸 Free Palestine On unceded Kaurna land.
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
While the media and political class fixate on tinkering with superannuation, a new report finds that 1 in 7 Australians are living in #poverty.

And it's 1 in 6 children.

In such a wealthy nation, this is an obscene policy choice. #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
One in seven Australians living in poverty: report
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
www.abc.net.au
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thedescenters.bsky.social
So, wait, what happens after that? If the notes "aren't enough to make a full assessment" (because of the provider, who supplies them,) they call *the provider*... and then what? If they don't provide more information and just stick to their decision, what happens?
jeremypoxon.bsky.social
"If someone has a payment suspension & they want to challenge it & they believe it's either unfair or unlawful, do you hold all the information that you need in the system?"

DEWR: "In some cases the notes aren't detailed enough for us to make a full assessment"

extraordinary misadministration
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robinince.bsky.social
Watching Piers Morgan drag out the “what is a woman” question with Zack Polanski and using it to try and diminish Polanski and then reminded that Morgan’s allyship to women stretches all the way to calling Mohammed Al Fayed “a bit of a rascal”

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls, say police
Scale of criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders
www.theguardian.com
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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fahad-s-ali.bsky.social
🧵 If this peace deal is successful, we'll be back at the perpetual statemate that characterised the status quo ante. Israel will continue to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, it will continue to control Gaza's borders and we will be no closer to Palestinian statehood.
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ingridm.bsky.social
over nine thousand Palestinian people - around 9,570 people, on these figures - are incarcerated while presumptively innocent and subjected to extraordinary acts of violence by Israelis who literally rioted when there was a suggestion that prison rapists may be held accountable.
alicelastname.bsky.social
A load of corporate speak to justify the commission continuing to ignore legitimate complaints by individual consumers because they’re too busy fluffing around in the background, endlessly setting up a system that promises proactive and reactive regulation, but rarely does anything tangible.
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liangrhea.bsky.social
Are you in Australia, aged 20-70, with an increased risk of #BreastCancer via family history, prev ADH or LCIS on biopsy, or other reasons? Hurry to your GP for referral to this FREE, TELEHEALTH service recently started by Prof Kelly Anne Phillips to discuss medical prevention. #ASBD2025
Picture of slide with text:
Preventing Cancer with Medications
(PCMed) Service

Peter Mac

• Frec consultative, telehealth service for healthy women anywhere in Australia at
increased risk of 1" BC

• Primory focus is to initiate BC prevention medication and ensure well-tolerated

•Discharge women to primary care to complete the 5-year treatment course

Support women, referring clinicians and GPs throughout treatment trajectory
(hotline service)

Embedded implementation study to assess feasibility and effectiveness of the
Service (uptake 55%)

Picture of slide with text:
Who is suitable?
Female
Aged 20 to 70years.
No invasive BC or DCIS.
Increased BC risk
LCIS or atypical-hyperlasla
Remaining lifetime BC risk >20% or 10-year risk >5%

And a QR code for referral information Prof Kelly Anne Phillips appealing at podium
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
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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rocketpilot.xyz
Barely a week after the Queensland government banned drug testing facilities. All public policy has tradeoffs but the hard right consistently choose the ones that lead to bigger body counts
Person dies after deadly opioid detected in yellow teddy bear pill
Queensland Health issues a public health alert warning nitazenes have been detected in tablets.
www.abc.net.au
alicelastname.bsky.social
“They will fund charities to feed us wilted vegetables and cans of beans that are more expensive than Coles brands”.

🎯🎯🎯

But also, don’t take more than one (small) wilted vegetable per person in your household at the Foodbank truck.
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animalsaustralia.org
With the announcement of the first phase of a ceasefire deal being struck, there's hope on the horizon for the people and animals of Gaza.
Significant uncertainty remains around what changes will be made to the aid supply and distribution process. We will keep you updated as the situation unfolds🙏
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noticingclimate.bsky.social
100 million meals over 10 years = 10 million meals a year. 3 million below poverty, so its at best 4 meals a year per person.

Woolworths supplier Andrew Forrest wealth over 10 years: 2.83 to 12.68 billion. @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social report = hunger is a political choice. #NobodyDeservesPoverty
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇
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actionhappiness.bsky.social
There is a past version of you that is so proud of how far you’ve come

Image: www.instagram.com/adoseofremin...
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mkkraemer.bsky.social
Gilbert the foster kitty is super tolerant of my bullshit.
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hleehurley.com
"Almost eight in 10 people in Northern Ireland believe too much emphasis is put on religion as a source of identity rather than a source of meaning or purpose, a survey has revealed." [Bel Tel]

Poll conducted by Christian advocacy group the Iona Institute and carried out by Amárach Research
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aunz.theconversation.com
Wombats’ whiskery noses help them snuffle for food, navigate burrows and sense friend or foe.
Whiskers for warrens: why wombats have such whiskery snouts
theconversation.com