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Sophie
@sophiepointer.bsky.social
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Mum, wife, part-time academic (injury epidemiologist). Fearless LGBTQI advocate & proud leftie. My views are my own. TERFS & MAGA fans keep scrolling. Will block first and ask questions later...yeah I won't be asking questions.
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sophiepointer.bsky.social
You reckon the ALP can stop calling them the Greens POLITICAL party now like it's some sort of uni days insult?
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
Yup! Neither party will get their noses out of the trough.
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
What I find more galling is Labors continued use of these slush find pork barrelling pots of money.
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
🤣
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
Mwaa cute!
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
I'm struggling to think of one significant thing Labor has actually done and I follow politics on a daily basis! More tinkering while Rome burns.
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
This report is a masterclass of maladministration, contempt for the law, ideological malice - and plain stupidity

The Department unshakably believes there are frauds in their system, but can't provide any actual evidence because they [checks notes] don't interact enough with people in the system
"Key observations from DHS sites Persistent non-compliance There was broad agreement from DHS staff that there is a small group of persistently non-compliant job seekers, who knew the compliance system well and were used to cycling through Comprehensive Compliance Assessments (CCAs). Many in this group learned to live with the application of three failures before undertaking another CCA in effect receiving an ongoing reduced payment without meeting their full requirements. While in some instances, these job seekers were cancelled from payment as they were judged to be non-genuine job seekers, DHS staff cited cancellation as ineffective because there is no payment preclusion period for non-genuine job seekers. Payment can be re-granted very shortly after cancellation, without the need to serve any (non-standard) waiting period or prove that they are looking for work at the point of claim. Cancelling payment was also cited as often problematic as the current compliance model does not provide for a cancellation penalty as a direct outcome of a failure. Unless the job seeker states they have no intention of complying with requirements at all, the case for cancellation thus requires PST staff to clearly demonstrate how the job seeker’s actions showed they were non-genuine. DHS staff stated that often they may not have had enough dealings with a particular job seeker to determine if they are a non-genuine. Some staff considered that providers should be making this decision due to this difficulty rather than DHS which would require providers to be delegated to make this decision."
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
Slimey git will end up siding with the Nats electoral oblivion policy of ditching net zero.

#auspol
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
Yeah cause the electorate love double dissolutions, especially ones coming close to the previous election FFS the man is an evangelical moron.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
That reminds me to dig out my boxed set of X-Files and rewatch it 😆
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
sophiepointer.bsky.social
TBH I think it's more about ego and loving the limelight.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM