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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
New from me: Why won't the government switch off the unlawful mutual obligations system?

FOI documents reveal a ramshackle Department that's scrambling to cover legal messes, preserve industry profits, and pretend that punishment is policy

thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Punishment Pays: The reason why the Government won’t bin Mutual Obligations
The Labor Government is dragging the public into another unlawful welfare scandal, because it refuses to walk away from an ideology and industry built around punishment
thepoint.com.au
February 4, 2026 at 3:35 AM
squanderedteeth.bsky.social
Let me guess, the ACTU have been dead silent and complicit like the last 2 + years
February 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
squanderedteeth.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social no posts about hosting your genocidal buddy?
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Good to have a final reminder that these laws are only about preventing people criticism Israel for committing genocide and have nothing really to do with hate (other than ensuring Zionists can continue to practice it)

live.thepoint.com.au
Major parties vote down LGBTIQ amendments Attempts from David Pocock, Jacqui Lambie, Tammy Tyrrell and Fatima Payman to have the laws at least extend protections to marginalised groups, including the LGTBIQ communities have been voted down by Labor and the Liberals. This was their amendment: (1) Schedule 1, item 10, page 8 (line 12), omit “distinguished by race, or national or ethnic origin”, substitute “distinguished by race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, disability, nationality, or national or ethnic origin, or because of the target person or target group’s personal association (whether as a relative or otherwise) with a person who is distinguished by any of those attributes”.
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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ingridm.bsky.social
the illegal chemical weapons Israel uses to incinerate Palestinians at 3,500C, leaving no identifiable traces of the dead.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Anthony Albanese and Isaac Herzog strolling a red carpet on the tarmac into the Australian capital.
February 11, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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anildash.com
Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Dec 17
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
"The Albanese government is bracing for a wave of compensation claims from its automated welfare compliance system [the TCF], listing almost half a decade of potentially unlawful decisions as a new 'unquantifiable' Commonwealth liability."
www.innovationaus.com/govt-braces-...
Govt braces for automated welfare compliance compensation claims
The Albanese government is bracing for a wave of compensation claims from its automated welfare compliance system, listing almost half a decade of potentially unlawful decisions as a new “unquantifiab...
www.innovationaus.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
The increasing capitalisation of third spaces, the social media ban, disconnect from public sentiment around current affairs in other places atm, and boredom. So much boredom
smhaustralia.nzcow.com The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · Dec 17
📢 Riot police were called in to disperse a large group of teenagers allegedly brawling on Mordialloc beach.
Teens clash with police on popular beach after storming Mordialloc supermarket
www.smh.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The west's favourite genocidal army, the IDF, has sent out the usual maps again, meaning they're going to bomb southern Lebanon any minute now

Your daily reminder that Israel does not care about ceasefires it commits itself to
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
What do you think is going to happen to Victorians when they don't have any crime to complain about? Is that going to make them more calm?
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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ok-but-still.bsky.social
petro is so beast
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
squanderedteeth.bsky.social
Jacinta loves a pair of jackboots. Been obvious for a while now
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
go ahead, write another take about what australia can learn from mamdani. claim all the ALP needs to do is magically get more bold. call on the left to do better video content. get paranoid that the rise of mamdani could also upend the establishment here. conflate left populism with right populism
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
squanderedteeth.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social still charging ahead with his national ID project in the name of 'child safety'. This country continues to be an experiment in punishment & control tactics for world powers
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Egregious defamation of social services/disability/community legal sectors, advocates & crossbench on Sky News by Social Sevices Minister @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social, accusing us ALL of supporting rape, murder & child abuse.

Labor's amendments supported by:

- Police Federation of Aus
- Coalition
JAYES: Who's saying that? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: To support them while they're on the run from the law. Yes, absolutely, there are senators- JAYES: There are senators who want the taxpayer to pay for fugitives on the run? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: To subsidise, yes, yes. This is the madness- JAYES: Who are they? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: -and the debate that we're facing at the moment, and people- JAYES: Who are these people? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: Well, you know, people can gave a look at that. Well, Senator Thorpe is one example and we've got, I mean, it's certainly a debate worth watching. We've got people in the community who are saying that people who are on the run for crimes like rape and murder and child abuse should continue to receive those payments to maintain them while they're on the run. It's madness.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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esghound.com
She's just mad it took 'em 8 years to finally read her great column
We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis Image by Getty Images Bethany Mandel Bethany Mandel August 24, 2017 What I’m about to suggest in this column is something I’m not sure I have the moral fortitude to actually carry out in my own adult life. But before I share this perhaps painfully naive idea, I’d like to tell you a story from my childhood.
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Hearing @australia.theguardian.com won't publish a story about this because they don't support their welfare rights reporter or think it's an important area to report on 👍
nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · Oct 30
The amendment to the income apportionment bill, would mean police officers would have the power to request the cancellation of Centrelink payments to those accused of a “serious violent or sexual offence” where an arrest warrant had been issued

The statement: apcentre.substack.com/p/joint-stat...
4m ago 09.56 AEDT Cait Kelly Cait Kelly Potential law allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped criticised as ‘shocking overreach’ Proposed laws allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped from those evading arrest while accused of serious crimes would be a “shocking overreach of police powers into the social security system”, welfare advocates warn. The amendment to the income apportionment bill, added by Labor this week during parliamentary debate, would mean police officers would have the power to request the cancellation of Centrelink payments to those accused of a “serious violent or sexual offence” where an arrest warrant had been issued. A Centrelink office in Melbourne A Centrelink office in Melbourne. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images Some advocates and social security legal experts, including the Antipoverty Centre, The Council of Single Mothers and their Children, Anti-Poverty Network South Australia, The Australian Unemployed Workers Union, and Everybody’s Home have said the amendment represents punishment without conviction and blurs the separation of powers. Anglicare Australia Executive Director Kasy Chambers said the proposal was “completely at odds with the principles of fairness and justice” and called on the government to scrap the amendment. Chambers said: This is a shocking overreach of police powers into the social security system. We’ve seen too many times what happens when governments rush through changes without thinking through the consequences. Robodebt should have been warning enough.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
squanderedteeth.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social is such a cuck for empire
October 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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nickmckim.bsky.social
In an abhorrent turn of events, Queensland's Health Minister - Tim Nicholls - has reinstated a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s first ban unlawful.
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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deepcutnews.bsky.social
A Labor staffer mistakenly emailed the federal government’s full talking points on Israel, Palestine and Gaza to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Organisation.

Read them in full here:

www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: Australian government’s full talking points on Gaza accidentally sent to Palestinian advocacy group
Government notes reveal they won’t back Gaza hospital proposed by Dr Mohammed Mustafa
www.deepcutnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
Whoops-a-daisy!

'Approximately 44,000 Australians who have a debt with Centrelink have overpaid it, some by $20,000 or more, Guardian Australia can reveal.'

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000
Exclusive: Services Australia spokesperson says automatic BPay payments and Centrelink being unable to contact customers may be to blame
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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overlandjournal.bsky.social
“Nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous lands”.

For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.
Colonialism's new Gold Rush: how 80 per cent of Australia's critical mineral mines exploit Aboriginal land without true consent - Overland literary journal
This fight over the Pilbara mine is not an isolated spat — it hints at a much larger problem. A new study finds that nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous ...
overland.org.au
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
squanderedteeth.bsky.social
Mark Butler has been abandoning disabled folk since this government came to power. This is just further proof
asherwolf.bsky.social Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · Oct 22
This response from Mark Butler’s office is bullshit. The back door ramp was blocked by furniture, had no handrails and the door only fits small manual wheelchairs. It’s not accessible
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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deepcutnews.bsky.social
The dispute between Chris Hedges and David Marr reveals much about the dire state of our press, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...
Australian journalism prizes 'objectivity' over truth
The dispute between Chris Hedges and David Marr reveals much about the state of our press
www.deepcutnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM