Caramelised Cat
@caramelisedcat.bsky.social
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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As parliament winds up for the summer I’d like to draw your attention to the OpenAustralia Foundation.
We are a small charity with a hard working team running services to support our unique democracy.
We need your help to fund our work.
Please donate now.
donate.oaf.org.au
Please boost.
We are a small charity with a hard working team running services to support our unique democracy.
We need your help to fund our work.
Please donate now.
donate.oaf.org.au
Please boost.
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We need your help: Make a donation today to support the OpenAustralia Foundation
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November 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
As parliament winds up for the summer I’d like to draw your attention to the OpenAustralia Foundation.
We are a small charity with a hard working team running services to support our unique democracy.
We need your help to fund our work.
Please donate now.
donate.oaf.org.au
Please boost.
We are a small charity with a hard working team running services to support our unique democracy.
We need your help to fund our work.
Please donate now.
donate.oaf.org.au
Please boost.
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Labor's one concrete promise to welfare recipients in 2022 was to abolish compulsory cashless welfare.
As at 10 October 2025, there were 32,556 on income management (IM):
- 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard)
- 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures.
- 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous.
www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...
- 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard)
- 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures.
- 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous.
www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Labor's one concrete promise to welfare recipients in 2022 was to abolish compulsory cashless welfare.
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The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
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Ever grateful to those that speak up & out, & for their solidarity.
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ever grateful to those that speak up & out, & for their solidarity.
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
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Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Shame Labor shame: New powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction pass the senate
Welfare recipients have a right to be treated equally under the law, and should not be subject to punishment before having access to legal advice for any reason, ever.
apcentre.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
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The Group of 8 Universities has signed up as part of the BCA-led Alliance of Industry Organisations and is supporting their push against environment protection. I took a look at their management "team", and AFAICT, only one of them has ever held a teaching or research job.
go8.edu.au/about/team
go8.edu.au/about/team
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The Group of 8 Universities has signed up as part of the BCA-led Alliance of Industry Organisations and is supporting their push against environment protection. I took a look at their management "team", and AFAICT, only one of them has ever held a teaching or research job.
go8.edu.au/about/team
go8.edu.au/about/team
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Here, again, is the human cost of the government's unlawful system of payment suspensions
Constant cycles of punishment that you cannot escape - even when you're in hospital
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
Constant cycles of punishment that you cannot escape - even when you're in hospital
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Here, again, is the human cost of the government's unlawful system of payment suspensions
Constant cycles of punishment that you cannot escape - even when you're in hospital
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
Constant cycles of punishment that you cannot escape - even when you're in hospital
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
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Where wil CBUS find the money to pay the fines and compensation?
Oh right.. from its members funds.
What are the penalties to it’s board, the chair and it’s executive management team?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Oh right.. from its members funds.
What are the penalties to it’s board, the chair and it’s executive management team?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Superannuation giant Cbus hit with penalty for mishandling insurance claims
Superannuation giant Cbus will pay a $23.5 million fine after admitting it breached the law over major delays in its handling of insurance claims.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Where wil CBUS find the money to pay the fines and compensation?
Oh right.. from its members funds.
What are the penalties to it’s board, the chair and it’s executive management team?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Oh right.. from its members funds.
What are the penalties to it’s board, the chair and it’s executive management team?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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WTF Flinders. 🤬
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
It’s one of Australia’s worst underwater environmental catastrophes. What’s going to happen to South Australia’s vast algal bloom as summer heat warms the ocean?
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
WTF Flinders. 🤬
Walk into the club like
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Walk into the club like
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“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties
The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president’s enormous network and clout kept him immune from past Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But this time was just too much.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
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What if we took the billions saved by not hosting the COP and gave it to the Pacific who we keep saying the COP was supposed to help? #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251121-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251121-...
COP failure delivers a billion dollar opportunity to finally deliver for Pacific family
New analysis of Australia's foreign aid spending recommends a more direct way to help our Pacific neighbours, following the failure to win the right to host next year’s COP climate talks.
thepoint.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
What if we took the billions saved by not hosting the COP and gave it to the Pacific who we keep saying the COP was supposed to help? #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251121-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251121-...
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A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning.
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
COP30 Is on Fire
Flames have erupted in the “Blue Zone” at the United Nations Climate Conference in Brazil.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning.
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
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There'll now be a debate on Schedule 5. I'll start then:
The Albanese Government's last-minute grab for police powers to cancel welfare benefits without a conviction is now opposed by more than 35 civil society organisations, including NATSILS and the Law Council of Australia. Touch one, touch all.
The Albanese Government's last-minute grab for police powers to cancel welfare benefits without a conviction is now opposed by more than 35 civil society organisations, including NATSILS and the Law Council of Australia. Touch one, touch all.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
There'll now be a debate on Schedule 5. I'll start then:
The Albanese Government's last-minute grab for police powers to cancel welfare benefits without a conviction is now opposed by more than 35 civil society organisations, including NATSILS and the Law Council of Australia. Touch one, touch all.
The Albanese Government's last-minute grab for police powers to cancel welfare benefits without a conviction is now opposed by more than 35 civil society organisations, including NATSILS and the Law Council of Australia. Touch one, touch all.
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Isn’t it great how politics is now basically grown men abusing children
This is just such evil behaviour
This is just such evil behaviour
New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people
Critics warn move could have devastating impact on lives and wellbeing of those affected
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Isn’t it great how politics is now basically grown men abusing children
This is just such evil behaviour
This is just such evil behaviour
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Like the local streaming quota, Australia should legislate that a certain amounts of views should go to Australian users as a way of promoting domestic Posting production
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Like the local streaming quota, Australia should legislate that a certain amounts of views should go to Australian users as a way of promoting domestic Posting production
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“They (Labor) are now responsible for cuts to public science that exceed the Abbott government – cuts current Labor MPs rightly slammed at the time.” #auspol
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 AM
“They (Labor) are now responsible for cuts to public science that exceed the Abbott government – cuts current Labor MPs rightly slammed at the time.” #auspol
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That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
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When asked about TT-Line's insolvency and whether he was "aware of anything that has made them solvent again", Tasmania's auditor-general has said "the short answer is 'no'."
Spirit of Tasmania operator still insolvent, auditor-general says
When asked about TT-Line's insolvency and whether he was "aware of anything that has made them solvent again", Tasmania's auditor-general has said "the short answer is 'no'."
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
When asked about TT-Line's insolvency and whether he was "aware of anything that has made them solvent again", Tasmania's auditor-general has said "the short answer is 'no'."
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New figures show there are 50 per cent more pokies in areas with an Indigenous population of at least 10 per cent. Gambling groups say it is "not surprising".
'Very disturbing' rate of pokies in Indigenous communities
New figures show there are 50 per cent more pokies in areas with an Indigenous population of at least 10 per cent. Gambling groups say it is "not surprising".
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New figures show there are 50 per cent more pokies in areas with an Indigenous population of at least 10 per cent. Gambling groups say it is "not surprising".
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40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would emigrate from the US permanently if they had the opportunity.
A country run by religious nutters bent on controlling female bodies, misogynistic techbros, rape apologists, and men obsessed with killing things? Seems fair.
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
A country run by religious nutters bent on controlling female bodies, misogynistic techbros, rape apologists, and men obsessed with killing things? Seems fair.
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would emigrate from the US permanently if they had the opportunity.
A country run by religious nutters bent on controlling female bodies, misogynistic techbros, rape apologists, and men obsessed with killing things? Seems fair.
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
A country run by religious nutters bent on controlling female bodies, misogynistic techbros, rape apologists, and men obsessed with killing things? Seems fair.
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
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The Libs dropping Brad Battin for Jess Wilson isn’t going to help much electorally.
Why?
Well put it this way: you’re three paragraphs into this post and you still haven’t noticed that’s not Jess Wilson and Brad Battin, that’s Emma Kealy and Sam Groth.
Why?
Well put it this way: you’re three paragraphs into this post and you still haven’t noticed that’s not Jess Wilson and Brad Battin, that’s Emma Kealy and Sam Groth.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The Libs dropping Brad Battin for Jess Wilson isn’t going to help much electorally.
Why?
Well put it this way: you’re three paragraphs into this post and you still haven’t noticed that’s not Jess Wilson and Brad Battin, that’s Emma Kealy and Sam Groth.
Why?
Well put it this way: you’re three paragraphs into this post and you still haven’t noticed that’s not Jess Wilson and Brad Battin, that’s Emma Kealy and Sam Groth.
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There's an 11year old girl sitting in adult cells in Perth lockup because she got caught shoplifting a drink and a pastry from Coles.worth less than $10
'7NEWS can reveal the Adelaide teen accused over a sickening attack on a homeless woman at Hawthorn is the son of prominent business leaders. The Youth Court has been told the former private schoolboy was already on bail at the time of the alleged assault which was filmed and posted online.'
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
There's an 11year old girl sitting in adult cells in Perth lockup because she got caught shoplifting a drink and a pastry from Coles.worth less than $10