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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 2h

No one can work it out. It's been broken for months now. Working fine one day, no comments displayed the next. I wonder what the comment was that went too far?

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 3h

Literally true. A while back "something went wrong" with the portal news system. You can add a comment and/or give a thumbs up to a news item. The counts of these are shown under the summary news items on the portal. But when you next open the news item, no counts or comments are shown.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 4h

The Rich People's Lobby has whacked the govt into a backflip on its superannuation reforms
#whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/wealthy-supe...

The One Percent has a super win as Chalmers caves. What's the scam? - Michael West

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced Labor is backing down on the proposed tightening of the super tax for the very wealthy. What’s the scam? The scam is how the Labor Government is letting hyperbole ...

michaelwest.com.au

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 4h

Gotta pay for that stadium. pulsetasmania.com.au/news/staff-r...

Staff rally over Royal Hobart Hospital clinical trial cuts

The state government says nobody will lose their jobs as a result…

pulsetasmania.com.au

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 4h

Last time I added a comment to this effect, including noting that at least I got my corporate carers' week cupcake, under the performative "we love carers" news article, the article was promptly marked as expired, so that it no longer appeared in the portal news list.

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 5h

Diddums.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 5h

Albo's philosophy of government: steady as she doesn't go

Government offers major concessions on proposed super tax increase

The government has bowed to pressure on its superannuation tax policy, one of the few revenue-raising measures it had promised, two years on from when it was first announced.

www.abc.net.au

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 5h

ABC is your news source of choice then.

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 5h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roi7...

I Was in the House When the House Burned Down

YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic

www.youtube.com

Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, Herzog is legendary. There is a documentary (Burden of Dreams) on the making of another of his films (Fitzcarraldo) that was re-released earlier this year. Lots of people make the parallels between that and Hearts of Darkness, the doco of the making of Apocalypse Now.

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 7h

Captured. The corporate state continues to rule

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

Government offers major concessions on proposed super tax increase

The government has bowed to pressure on its superannuation tax policy, one of the few revenue-raising measures it had promised, two years on from when it was first announced.

www.abc.net.au

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 8h

$700 a week for a room in a rooming house in Upper Mount Gravatt is where we’re at I guess

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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 8h

"If you’re proud of balancing the books while people go hungry, you’ve lost sight of what good government means."

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 12h

"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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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11h

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10h

Indeed.

REPORTER: Anthony Albanese left door opens to changes to this package, to gain broader support. The next day you shut that door, you said that people opposed to the unrealised capital gains component weren't actually worried about the model, they just didn't want a fairer superannuation system. So how can this be interpreted in any other way than you being rolled by the Prime Minister?

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11h

Gotta say @albomp.bsky.social sure does love capitulating to Tories.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11h

Leo making the point that the ban doesn't actually remove any harmful content.

"We're not actually addressing the harmful content. It kind of is giving the appearance of that."

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11h

6News's @leopuglisi6.bsky.social says 6News would not exist if the social media ban was effect when he started it at age 11 in year 6 in 2019.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11h

Didn't even have the bottle to stick with changes to super that affected only the wealthiest 0.5%.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11h

Both Headspace and Project Rockit making the point that if the ban is about getting kids to go outside and socialise in person, a lot of in-person places for young people are taken away now. They're moved on, can't hang around shopping centres etc anymore.

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 10h

The Senator, on the other hand, turned out to be decidedly weird.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 12h

Next up in Senate estimates, a rigorous investigation into why this one weird trick that the senator clicked on turned out to be neither a trick nor particularly weird.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 12h

Senator Henderson to Yahoo: "You're displaying on your front page... a photo which looks like a woman exposing her buttocks. Then when you go into it, you see that those are two. bald heads in front of the woman... Can I ask you to explain why this is on your front page?"

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h

Senator Henderson: I mean what even is this magic???

Drawing of a young women or old woman or possibly an image Sarah Henderson thinks should be banned from the internet, at this point, who the fuck knows.

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 11h

"The committee calls Mr Fred Scuttle to the table."

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