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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 8h

On ABC News Breakfast this morning, they were doing a news story about Instagram's efforts to ban under-16s from their platform. The background footage showed a young person scrolling through Insta … and there was one of my photos! 😄
It was this chonky euro ...

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JK @j2dk.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 22h

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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decryption @decryption.bsky.social · 7h

just told a real estate agent to fuck off and it felt good, everyone should try it

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Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 5h

And with every first home buyer bonus, since all first home buyers have the same increase in available funds, it just drives prices up even further.

Really it’s a government funded seller’s bonus, which does nothing to increase affordability. They know what really needs to be done, but don’t do it.

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Mike @bikeymikey70.bsky.social · 7h

Someone on ABC Radio, their rent is increasing from $620/week to $840, a 35% increase 😳

When are we going to realise that capitalism is destroying society, not improving it

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 5h

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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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 3h

weird how the IDF have been doing this exact thing for 2yrs and the ABC hasn't mentioned it once.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 4h

Masked gunmen have carried out "extrajudicial executions" in the streets of Gaza City as an expert claims the terror group is trying to regain control of the destroyed enclave.

Graphic footage shows Hamas executing people in the streets of Gaza

Masked gunmen have carried out "extrajudicial executions" in the streets of Gaza City as an expert claims the terror group is trying to regain control of the destroyed enclave.

www.abc.net.au

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 7h

So glad to see the future of relationships is wanking alone to prompts from a chatbot that will raise your electricity and water prices send all your private responses to Sam Altman for unsafekeeping

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know about you, but it makes me feel sick that the media continue to make the story about the insatiable needs of a narcissist than the thousands of lives and deaths of ordinary people.
Each one of those people’s lives have far more value than his

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 5h

Steeped in ALP bullshit.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 1d

“I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications screen. “Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.

theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/a...

Albo Yet to Receive Single Phone Call After Number Leaked Online — The Shovel

“Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.

theshovel.com.au

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow-footed rock-wallaby. Boolcoomatta Reserve.

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the Murray and Albo show! Watch two gutless dickheads unnecessarily sacrifice irreplaceable rainforest and species out of sheer laziness and spite.

Newspaper article describing the latest act of unnecessary vandalism.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

FFS

The Age (unofficial) @theage.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 You can go for decades working hard to accumulate wealth, only to finally get there, and not really know what to do with all the money. Here are some tips.

I’m 55 with no kids. How should I spend all my money before I die?

www.theage.com.au

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Lucien Rees 💬🚴🏻‍♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social · 1d

That extra reply consumes a tiny bit more energy multiplied by billions of requests keeps the coal barons smiling.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 2d

Hey, friends. Here’s another quick reading from my new philosophy book, IMMORTAL GESTURES (Scribe).

This chapter begins with finger horns on the red carpet, then moves through Black Sabbath to the Renaissance and beyond.

There’s also a discussion of cuckolding and prehistoric mythology.🤘

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t within the job description of a police union.

This is Australia, not America.

#AusPol

Police union calls for tougher sentences amid soaring crime in Victoria

The Police Association welcomes the Victorian chief commissioner's new strategy to get more officers on the streets, but says tougher sentences the only effective solution to crime crisis.

www.abc.net.au

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

Arthur just couldn’t quite get used to working from home.

A black and white dog stares at the image of a flock of sheep on a computer monitor.

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

It's a concern they don't give a shit about when it comes to the personal details they collect about voters. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Anthony Albanese, Sussan Ley and Scott Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed on US marketing databases

Richard Marles says investigation under way into how the prime minister and other senior government staff’s phone numbers appeared in the databases

www.theguardian.com

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Lucien Rees 💬🚴🏻‍♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't heard a single federal politician talk about what they might do about this. If asked they would simply recite talking points about 'creating jobs' and 'growing the economy'.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

'Eating mostly brown food': The 'devastating' juggle faced by a rising number of Australians

With one in seven Australians living below the poverty line, researchers and advocates say that COVID-era universal income is the solution.

www.sbs.com.au

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Roseanne Byrne @roseannebyrne.bsky.social · 1d

This is deliberate. The savings to the budget and military spending matter more than people.

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1d

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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 [...]

theaimn.net

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to post that little clip just aired on Media Watch of 2019 Anthony Albanese pointing out all the problems concerning FOI that 2025 Anthony Albanese is intent on making worse

Massive hypocrite

#auspol

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 2d

This is a choice we make as a society. What does that say about you and me?

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 2d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 2d

Random kid enjoying parade from my bench bike

Kid sitting in cargo bike, parade in background

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