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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 3h

Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking at this online event about the Targeted Compliance Framework scandal, & how mutual obligations worsens and commodifies poverty. I'll throw some jokes in as well, dw

Come along if you like - it's free
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unfinished...

Unfinished Business: 50 Years After Henderson

An initiative of the Australian Social Policy Association and the Australian Journal of Social Issues, as part of Anti-Poverty Week.

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 9h

“It makes you feel like, ‘am I even a human to you guys?’. What’s the point of being here? Will that save your budget?” Kieron D’Netto

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Kieron relies on NDIS after surviving a catastrophic diving accident – but new rules could put his life at risk

Brisbane man is one of hundreds reporting devastating cuts to NDIS plans after rule changes last year

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 9h

this whole story about Monique Jeremiah and 'Diversity Models' is wildly awful, and keeps getting worse

9now.nine.com.au/a-current-af...

Outrage after agent painted model's face to make her look 'more Aboriginal'

Former model Hayley, who claims Monique told her to look disabled, also has functional neurological disorder,

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 10h

The @antipovertycentre.org watched #estimates yesterday so we didn't have to - 🧵of some of the questions and non-answers (some which sound very LNP era) about welfare and the TCF...

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

"If they don't deliver, they don't get paid,"

The first flagrant lie from the employment department in today's senate estimates hearing about the welfare cops who profit from poverty. No doubt there will be much more bullshit to come!

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

If you want to watch the employment department defend their unlawful operation of compulsory activities (so-called mutual obligations), you can tune in to the senate estimates hearing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WId...

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 1d

ko-fi.com/post/Punch-u... I had a tv interview with abc today and it made me think about this

Punch up

Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

ooo looking forward to this!

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

If you've fallen down inflammation-type wellness circle rabbit holes, hmu for a @motherjones.com essay I'm working on. My email is [email protected]. I can you your first name only.

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Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 2d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

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When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

abuse of older disabled people found out because the aged care home followed NDIS standards. horrifying, and points to the urgent need to implement the disability royal commission recommendations to stop this

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'It's a human rights tragedy': Aged care facility inappropriately restrained residents

A South Australian government aged care home, which looks after 23 people with dementia or complex disabilities, inappropriately used lap belts and other mechanical restraints to stop falls and contro...

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

doesn't look like the NDIS is there, but Centrelink and Medicare are

bill is online here: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

good summary of the Thriving Kids inquiry hearing last week, with key concerns from a wide range of groups and folks

www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

Advocates alarmed as major change for autistic kids looms

There are fears that many children with autism or learning difficulties will fall between the cracks of a new support system that aims to limit access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The ...

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

more restrictions on disability supports = higher costs, or what we all said at the time

''Everyday living cost' or assistive technology? NDIS participants frustrated with flexibility of rules'

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'I was so cross': NDIS participants blast 'nonsensical' spending rules

A year after a controversial NDIS change, advocates are growing increasingly concerned that "counterintuitive" and "nonsensical" funding decisions are reducing participant independence.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

hmm, wonder if this includes the NDIS and their wildly terrible IT systems?

'‘Tell us once’ laws to sweep away data sharing barriers'

www.innovationaus.com/tell-us-once...

'Tell us once' laws to sweep away data sharing barriers

Australians will be able to update their personal information across multiple federal government agencies in one go, rather than contact them individually, as part of a new bill introducing sweeping c...

www.innovationaus.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

trying to have the patience to let myself rest and recover. not really succeeding.

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

would love to have that chat Lauren!

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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 3d

The planning and heritage industries do a terrible job in general of engaging with the horrors of what went on in these sites, often with grotesquely whitewashed results (e.g. "Springthorpe", the generic suburban estate built on the grounds of Mont Park Hospital in northeast Melbourne).

El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

any further changes must include justice for the thousands of disabled people who lived and died in these places, and who also fought for liberation

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Psychiatric hospital to 'urban parkland': Sydney's public space dilemma

The challenge of transforming a major piece of Sydney's public space from a former mental health hospital to an "iconic urban parkland" is a delicate dance for the state government.

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

here is the full survey results from CYDA about the proposed Thriving Kids. CN suicide, distress

cyda.org.au/thriving-kids/

Thriving Kids

Our national survey reveals community concerns about the government's Thriving Kids supports program. Read the submission and survey factsheet.

cyda.org.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

I regularly come across older people with disabilities who were held at ‘Mayday Hills’ previously known as the ‘Beechworth Lunacy Asylum’. The site is now used for ghost tours, even while some of the old Mayday Hills workers are still employed elsewhere as disability support workers

El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

any further changes must include justice for the thousands of disabled people who lived and died in these places, and who also fought for liberation

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Psychiatric hospital to 'urban parkland': Sydney's public space dilemma

The challenge of transforming a major piece of Sydney's public space from a former mental health hospital to an "iconic urban parkland" is a delicate dance for the state government.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

community affairs #estimates on this week, with NDIS on Friday morning

www.aph.gov.au/-/media/Esti...

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 3d

“The research from Stubbs Terrace continues to be used to promote the idea that gender diverse children’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour can be suppressed, changed or corrected so that they become cisgender adults.” #wapol #aushealth
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Rainbow Futures WA: Ban on conversion practices 'cannot come soon enough'

"The government must urgently introduce legislation to protect LGBTQA+ people from these abhorrent practices.”

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

indeed, in part because there are so few resources to support folks to live well in community. but always money for institutions

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

100% yes to that. group homes, forensic detention, prison - so many places where disabled people are held in dehumanising conditions by the state and enforcers

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

“It is a major red flag when a vast majority of the people who will be impacted tell you your [NDIS] reform timetable is unrealistic and that it could cause real harm” Children and Young People with Disabilities Australia

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

"I visited a watch house where I saw a 17-year-old who had been detained for more than three weeks in the watch house without any access to sunlight, no access to their family, no schooling"

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Boy's 'haunting' expression in watch house drives home concerns for commissioner

Queensland's outgoing human rights commissioner says he has lost sleep worrying about some juveniles "spending weeks and weeks" in the state's watch houses.

www.abc.net.au

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