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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 5d

Also noted @grogsgamut.bsky.social comment that the fact that the NACC hasn’t caught any serious corruption in public office sends a signal to people that they probably will get away with it 😒

My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 6d

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Ronni Salt did a very good spiel about the NACC today on the Sunday Shot. In case you missed it
theshot.net.au/the-sunday-s...

The Sunday Shot - The Shot

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theshot.net.au

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 6d

Albanese’s an insular, deeply institutionalised apparatchik who has spent his whole adult life in service to ‘The Party’.
ALP is his principal loyalty & focus - instead of people of Australia.
He is emblematic & stereotypical of the ‘political elite’ & lacks a scintilla of real world life experience

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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · Mar 30

This is something I didn't read about in the main stream media or see on the news. Thank you Sydney Criminal Lawyers. No thanks to the duopoly.
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/politic...

Political Block on Atrocity Prosecutions Remains, As Major Parties Reject Genocide Reforms

The major parties have voted down a bill that would have allowed prosecutions for genocide to take place without the Attorney-General’s approval.

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au

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katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 5d

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katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 5d

Drongo

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 7d

Please explain to me, @senatorwong.bsky.social, exactly how a GENOCIDE committed with impunity by Israel with mostly weapons and bombs and other artillery provided by the USA "has been the greatest contribution to peace in the Middle East."

I'll fucking wait. #auspol #GazaHolocaust

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 6d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 6d

You don’t say?!🙄

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 6d

Dear @senatorwong.bsky.social
Trump's US Govt funding of Israel's brutal occupation and ongoing genocide hardly qualifies him for receiving the #NobelPeacePrize. The Australian Labor Govt have zero principles, decency, humanity or credibility with obscene comments like this. 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 6d

In The Time of Madness:
Why isn't the UN sending in peace keeping forces to all Israel's Occupied Palestinian Territories & enforcing the law?
Why is AU offering troops?
Why are American-Israeli real estate developers overseeing the end of the American-Israeli genocide & peace process & not UN?

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katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 6d

Like virtually every political party, cultural institution & media enterprise in this & other similar states

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 7d

So. A Zionist then. Fuck. There goes my admiration which started the first moment I met her approximately 10 minutes ago ... #NobelPeacePrize

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OlmateLooseUnionThug @olmate-unionthug.bsky.social · 7d

The Zionist lobby is much stronger than we realise

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12d

The dodgy and colonialist Netanyahu-Trump 'peace plan' calls for the deradicalization of Gaza.

A far higher priority for regional security and peace is the deradicalization of Israel.

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 12d

This is not balance, unless we accept a world where truth is balanced by lies. It is an abandonment of the fundamental mission of journalists — to hold power accountable. But most egregiously, ….

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

johnmenadue.com

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 12d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social

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🗣️ @chrisrudge.bsky.social

HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 8d

The saddest part of @australianlabor.bsky.social government is that the LNP are still in power making our laws from opposition.

NACC legislation a spectacular failure of the impotent @albomp.bsky.social letting LNP decide the how the law work.

Why can't we vote for someone who isn't the LNP, ffs?

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Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social · 9d

This is incredible news, and shows the incredible power of collective action. The fight against the neoliberal university (my own included) goes on, but its nice to hear some good news for a change.

Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 9d

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.

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katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 9d

Kill it then

katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 9d

Gutless venal wonders

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9d

Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 9d

It was. I went to the launch & they only showed the 1st half. The 2nd has way more heft. A lost opportunity to make greater - and really important - impact.

Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 9d

Lots of podcasts these days are bogged down with 'filler' ie pretend conversations that string them out and make them suitable only for the slow-witted. Even the Robodebt doco was padded out with fluff images and repetition. It's all reminding me of the boredom of primary school 'social studies'.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 9d

It has cost $1.138 million and counting for the independent lawyer the NACC has had to hire to fix the mess their Commissioner made of the Robodebt inquiry

Compromised decision making costs public money and trust.

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katelam.bsky.social @katelam.bsky.social · 9d

Thx David. How else wld we know?

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 10d

Huh.

'Completely flawed': Monash University is scrapping its flagship sustainability institute

The uni's plans to 'streamline operational services' by closing down its flagship institute dedicated to climate action and sustainability have sparked internal backlash.

www.crikey.com.au

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