Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️⚧️♿
@sbwrightpoet.bsky.social
Teacher Librarian | Disabled |Social Democrat | Prokopton of Stoic Phil. | Poet | Ditmar Winner | Living on Narungga Land | Born on Yolgnu country|He/Him | https://ko-fi.com/sbwright|@sbwright linktr.ee/sbwright
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I’ll just leave this map of the Atlas Network for other kiwis to navigate… 🙄 #nzpol #AtlasNetwork
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I’ll just leave this map of the Atlas Network for other kiwis to navigate… 🙄 #nzpol #AtlasNetwork
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8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...
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The former chief executive of Norsta Maritime - a leading defence and border security contractor - has accused the firm he once led of misleading the Australian military and exposing it to potential cybersecurity risks as it managed key taxpayer-funded contracts www.theage.com.au/national/mis...
Former CEO of top defence contractor sues company
Dan Smith claims he was forced out after refusing to drop his concerns that the firm was misleading the Australian military.
www.theage.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The former chief executive of Norsta Maritime - a leading defence and border security contractor - has accused the firm he once led of misleading the Australian military and exposing it to potential cybersecurity risks as it managed key taxpayer-funded contracts www.theage.com.au/national/mis...
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What I know for sure is if registered NDIS providers succeed in getting higher rates for complex care, they won’t pass the profit on to the workers who provide the care or use it to ensure better quality of care for clients
this interview, and the subsequent reporting around it, was absolutely infuriating. any other sector's big business lobby wouldn't get this kind of uncritical, uninformed, wildly inaccurate coverage, yet disabled peoples' essential services do [little 🧵]
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
NDIS described as 'trainwreck' - ABC listen
A market failure is happening now in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with many not-for-profit providers heading to insolvency.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What I know for sure is if registered NDIS providers succeed in getting higher rates for complex care, they won’t pass the profit on to the workers who provide the care or use it to ensure better quality of care for clients
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Dozens of civil liberties campaigners and legal professionals are calling for an inquiry into the UK’s data protection watchdog, after what they describe as “a collapse in enforcement activity” after the scandal of the Afghan data breach www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog
Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Dozens of civil liberties campaigners and legal professionals are calling for an inquiry into the UK’s data protection watchdog, after what they describe as “a collapse in enforcement activity” after the scandal of the Afghan data breach www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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A mother of 8 was sexually abused by an ICE officer.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A mother of 8 was sexually abused by an ICE officer.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
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An excerpt from Senator Fatima Payman's brilliant essay from @australiainstitute.org.au latest book, "A Time For Bravery".
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
An excerpt from Senator Fatima Payman's brilliant essay from @australiainstitute.org.au latest book, "A Time For Bravery".
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Today in Canadians are hella smart:
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Today in Canadians are hella smart:
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“Shakedown tells the true story of how a group of ordinary Australians risked it all to expose an unlawful automated debt-recovery system that falsely accused half-a-million people of welfare fraud between 2015 and 2019” www.c21media.net/news/austral...
Australia’s ABC unveils drama based on real-life welfare fraud political scandal
Australian pubcaster the ABC is launching a four-part drama series based on a real-life political scandal in which hundreds of thousands of Australians were forced to pay a total of more than a billio...
www.c21media.net
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
“Shakedown tells the true story of how a group of ordinary Australians risked it all to expose an unlawful automated debt-recovery system that falsely accused half-a-million people of welfare fraud between 2015 and 2019” www.c21media.net/news/austral...
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“They can’t do that! The ADA protects you!”
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“They can’t do that! The ADA protects you!”
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
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The AFR is having another go at the Vic budget (it's a fav target of a few media outlets/journos, who seem unable to cope even though Dan is no longer in power). David Richardson points out a few errors in their coverage #PointLive
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The Point Live — Daily Updates
Stay updated with the latest from The Point.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The AFR is having another go at the Vic budget (it's a fav target of a few media outlets/journos, who seem unable to cope even though Dan is no longer in power). David Richardson points out a few errors in their coverage #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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A new documentary explores the journey of the Australian Paralympic cycling team and their participation in the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Read more: https://loom.ly/-_Kzom8
Read more: https://loom.ly/-_Kzom8
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
A new documentary explores the journey of the Australian Paralympic cycling team and their participation in the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Read more: https://loom.ly/-_Kzom8
Read more: https://loom.ly/-_Kzom8
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Fucking awful, and also highlights why having independent local media that doesn't just reprint law enforcement press releases is essential for holding people accountable.
women in an SF jail were forced to strip while sheriff’s deputies watched and filmed on body cameras missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-s...
‘Nauseated’: S.F. supervisors demand action after alleged mass strip search of women in jail
Supervisors want action after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly strip searched en masse.
missionlocal.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Fucking awful, and also highlights why having independent local media that doesn't just reprint law enforcement press releases is essential for holding people accountable.
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Every recent Deloitte report will now need to be fact checked. They’re not a trustworthy source because of use of GenAI in their work
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Every recent Deloitte report will now need to be fact checked. They’re not a trustworthy source because of use of GenAI in their work
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Oh dear the chickens have come home to roost.
Over 70 Australian companies have production & sustainment contracts with the F-35 program.
In excess of 700 of the fighter jet’s “critical pieces” are manufactured in Victoria alone.
#auspol
Over 70 Australian companies have production & sustainment contracts with the F-35 program.
In excess of 700 of the fighter jet’s “critical pieces” are manufactured in Victoria alone.
#auspol
Human rights fears over Australia’s role in F-35 parts after Trump’s decision to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia
Experts warn US deal on ‘lethal’ aircraft presents issues for Australia that ‘we’ve tried desperately to ignore with the Israelis’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Oh dear the chickens have come home to roost.
Over 70 Australian companies have production & sustainment contracts with the F-35 program.
In excess of 700 of the fighter jet’s “critical pieces” are manufactured in Victoria alone.
#auspol
Over 70 Australian companies have production & sustainment contracts with the F-35 program.
In excess of 700 of the fighter jet’s “critical pieces” are manufactured in Victoria alone.
#auspol
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One of the Rad Trad Catholic, “pro-White” academics at Campion College 😬 in Sydney (read up below, exposed by Begley’s reporting at the SMH) was on the podcast I’ve covered here.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists - The Shot
Around the West, mainstream figures are normalising far-right actors and ideas. Some of them, for example the Australian judiciary, do...
theshot.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
One of the Rad Trad Catholic, “pro-White” academics at Campion College 😬 in Sydney (read up below, exposed by Begley’s reporting at the SMH) was on the podcast I’ve covered here.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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When I was wanting to buy a #solarbattery for my home I didn’t have any help
Except for the online sites like solar choices and a govt one on dos and donts
Some people here helped too but I was mostly flying solo
So if you have helpful advice for others
Could we create a #solar thread 😁🙏
Except for the online sites like solar choices and a govt one on dos and donts
Some people here helped too but I was mostly flying solo
So if you have helpful advice for others
Could we create a #solar thread 😁🙏
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
When I was wanting to buy a #solarbattery for my home I didn’t have any help
Except for the online sites like solar choices and a govt one on dos and donts
Some people here helped too but I was mostly flying solo
So if you have helpful advice for others
Could we create a #solar thread 😁🙏
Except for the online sites like solar choices and a govt one on dos and donts
Some people here helped too but I was mostly flying solo
So if you have helpful advice for others
Could we create a #solar thread 😁🙏
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MAGA loyalist & Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning, in part due to the unyielding threats she’s received since supporting Epstein survivors.
If she’s getting threats severe enough to make her resign, imagine what’s happening to those Trump said are seditionists who should be killed
If she’s getting threats severe enough to make her resign, imagine what’s happening to those Trump said are seditionists who should be killed
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
MAGA loyalist & Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning, in part due to the unyielding threats she’s received since supporting Epstein survivors.
If she’s getting threats severe enough to make her resign, imagine what’s happening to those Trump said are seditionists who should be killed
If she’s getting threats severe enough to make her resign, imagine what’s happening to those Trump said are seditionists who should be killed
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Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists
@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
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@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists - The Shot
Around the West, mainstream figures are normalising far-right actors and ideas. Some of them, for example the Australian judiciary, do...
theshot.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists
@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
@lucyham.bsky.social
The Shot
November 21, 2025
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists'
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists - The Shot
Around the West, mainstream figures are normalising far-right actors and ideas. Some of them, for example the Australian judiciary, do...
theshot.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists'
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The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong
Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss breaks down the problem with offsets at a Senate Inquiry into proposed changes to the Environment Protection Reform Bill.
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong
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This from Sen. David Shoebridge:
'AUKUS submarines create nuclear waste-and they want to dump it on this Arrente land near - Alice Springs. The same US companies running Pine Gap want to turn this ancient salt lake into a global nuclear dump.'
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social
#AUKUS #nuclearwaste
'AUKUS submarines create nuclear waste-and they want to dump it on this Arrente land near - Alice Springs. The same US companies running Pine Gap want to turn this ancient salt lake into a global nuclear dump.'
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social
#AUKUS #nuclearwaste
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The Labor government should really have asked Metallica about Napster. They're forcing kids to be internet outlaws in order to hang with peers online, rather than forcing tech companies to get nazis off their sites & have proper moderation. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Popular streaming site Twitch to be included in under 16s social media ban
Less than three weeks out from when the ban is due to come into force, the eSafety Commissioner revealed the platform would join the list of age-restricted social media sites.
www.abc.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The Labor government should really have asked Metallica about Napster. They're forcing kids to be internet outlaws in order to hang with peers online, rather than forcing tech companies to get nazis off their sites & have proper moderation. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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This is what Stoicism actually is.
Anyone saying they are a Stoic and using it as a means to building wealth and as a life hack to achieve personal success have a primitive misunderstanding of the philosophy at a fundamental level.
From ‘The Stoic Life’ – Brennan (p. 224).
#Stoicism #Philosophy
Anyone saying they are a Stoic and using it as a means to building wealth and as a life hack to achieve personal success have a primitive misunderstanding of the philosophy at a fundamental level.
From ‘The Stoic Life’ – Brennan (p. 224).
#Stoicism #Philosophy
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is what Stoicism actually is.
Anyone saying they are a Stoic and using it as a means to building wealth and as a life hack to achieve personal success have a primitive misunderstanding of the philosophy at a fundamental level.
From ‘The Stoic Life’ – Brennan (p. 224).
#Stoicism #Philosophy
Anyone saying they are a Stoic and using it as a means to building wealth and as a life hack to achieve personal success have a primitive misunderstanding of the philosophy at a fundamental level.
From ‘The Stoic Life’ – Brennan (p. 224).
#Stoicism #Philosophy