Tom Studans
@maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Welfare advocate. Covered the Robodebt Royal Commission. None for me thanks
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‘Abdel-Fattah is charged with having given profound offence with past social media posts – but then so too has Tony Abbott been charged with giving profound offence to many Indigenous Australians in the past.’
www.theage.com.au/national/pol...
www.theage.com.au/national/pol...
Politicians shouldn’t decide who appears at writers’ festivals. It’s a dangerous path
Australia’s best writers festival could collapse within days as international and local writers boycott it in protest at the removal of Randa Abdel-Fattah.
www.theage.com.au
January 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
‘Abdel-Fattah is charged with having given profound offence with past social media posts – but then so too has Tony Abbott been charged with giving profound offence to many Indigenous Australians in the past.’
www.theage.com.au/national/pol...
www.theage.com.au/national/pol...
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The opposition is claiming the social media ban is a failure because kids have bypassed it and also they haven't put in enough mental health funding to support kids.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
January 9, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The opposition is claiming the social media ban is a failure because kids have bypassed it and also they haven't put in enough mental health funding to support kids.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
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It’s worth mentioning, the terror attacks happened to all Australians. It may have been targeting the Jewish community, but an attack on Australian soil is an attack on us all. We should start acting like it.
January 9, 2026 at 5:41 AM
It’s worth mentioning, the terror attacks happened to all Australians. It may have been targeting the Jewish community, but an attack on Australian soil is an attack on us all. We should start acting like it.
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Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard
Adelaide Festival board facing a stark choice: Are they willing to sacrifice the entire festival to prevent a single Palestinian-Australian author from speaking?
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard
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This is ridiculous and offensive
Announcement by Adelaide Writers Festival cancelling invitation to Randa Abdel-
Fattah
Fattah
Adelaide Festival Board Statement
www.adelaidefestival.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 1:44 AM
This is ridiculous and offensive
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From the story: The ruling found that the implied freedom of political communication “protects the free expression of political opinion, including peaceful protest, which is indispensable to the exercise of political sovereignty by the people of the Commonwealth”.
January 8, 2026 at 2:01 AM
From the story: The ruling found that the implied freedom of political communication “protects the free expression of political opinion, including peaceful protest, which is indispensable to the exercise of political sovereignty by the people of the Commonwealth”.
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Intriguing reporting from Nine here - the objection to former High Court justice Virginia Bell to lead the royal commission apparently relates to a previous decision where she upheld the democratic right to protest www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Virginia Bell’s role in protest laws under scrutiny as Albanese weighs royal commission
Judgments handed down by former high court judge Virginia Bell and another contender, former Federal Court of Australia chief justice James Allsop, are under scrutiny as the government decides on a ro...
www.smh.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Intriguing reporting from Nine here - the objection to former High Court justice Virginia Bell to lead the royal commission apparently relates to a previous decision where she upheld the democratic right to protest www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
I'm not sure what England would like the Australian players to do when there's an umpiring mistake but the first thing not to do is go and lay hands on the umpire in a dead rubber
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I'm not sure what England would like the Australian players to do when there's an umpiring mistake but the first thing not to do is go and lay hands on the umpire in a dead rubber
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...They measured 69C on the ground at a tram stop metres away from the building and 64C on a bus stop bench outside."
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
...They measured 69C on the ground at a tram stop metres away from the building and 64C on a bus stop bench outside."
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"The executive director of Sweltering Cities, Emma Bacon, has been lobbying the government to suspend mutual obligations for jobseekers amid the heatwave. The team visited a Services Australia in Brunswick on Wednesday to measure the temperature at nearby public transport stops...
"The executive director of Sweltering Cities, Emma Bacon, has been lobbying the government to suspend mutual obligations for jobseekers amid the heatwave. The team visited a Services Australia in Brunswick on Wednesday to measure the temperature at nearby public transport stops...
Melbourne swelters through hottest day in six years as severe heatwave descends on Australia’s south-eastern states
Hot conditions for NSW, Victoria, South Australia, the ACT, Tasmania and WA as authorities warn of high fire danger
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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"The executive director of Sweltering Cities, Emma Bacon, has been lobbying the government to suspend mutual obligations for jobseekers amid the heatwave. The team visited a Services Australia in Brunswick on Wednesday to measure the temperature at nearby public transport stops...
"The executive director of Sweltering Cities, Emma Bacon, has been lobbying the government to suspend mutual obligations for jobseekers amid the heatwave. The team visited a Services Australia in Brunswick on Wednesday to measure the temperature at nearby public transport stops...
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Those who have been agitating for the Royal Commission want to make it a RC into why any criticism of Israel is evil.
Australians overwhelmingly do not agree with this, and Albanese should side with the public.
Australians overwhelmingly do not agree with this, and Albanese should side with the public.
Exposed: Australian Services Union’s very public campaign against genocide
January 7, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Those who have been agitating for the Royal Commission want to make it a RC into why any criticism of Israel is evil.
Australians overwhelmingly do not agree with this, and Albanese should side with the public.
Australians overwhelmingly do not agree with this, and Albanese should side with the public.
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If we agree to the royal commission will they stop those stop the hate ads on kayo
January 7, 2026 at 12:18 PM
If we agree to the royal commission will they stop those stop the hate ads on kayo
The thing you have to understand is that Ben Stokes loves these situations
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 AM
The thing you have to understand is that Ben Stokes loves these situations
Yeah well he's out now and he got 40 #YeahWellHesOutNowAndHeGot40
Yeah well he's out now and he got 40
January 7, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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That bad-faith actors like SuSSan Ley are happy to say anything, however nonsensical, b/c they believe it to be to their political advantage is one thing; but the claim -- a version of 'horseshoe theory' -- itself has Nazi origins.
Ofc, an historical ignoramus like Ley neither knows nor cares.
Ofc, an historical ignoramus like Ley neither knows nor cares.
Pressed on why she described far-right neo-Nazis as “far-left”, Sussan Ley says these are just “political concepts” and can be framed however you like. 🤔
I don’t think so, Sussan. Left neo-Nazis?
#auspol
I don’t think so, Sussan. Left neo-Nazis?
#auspol
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
That bad-faith actors like SuSSan Ley are happy to say anything, however nonsensical, b/c they believe it to be to their political advantage is one thing; but the claim -- a version of 'horseshoe theory' -- itself has Nazi origins.
Ofc, an historical ignoramus like Ley neither knows nor cares.
Ofc, an historical ignoramus like Ley neither knows nor cares.
Yeah well he's out now and he got 1
January 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Yeah well he's out now and he got 1
Our lives only ever accelerate as an accumulation of grief and sorrow which ends in catastrophe but on the other hand I've finally got Shane Warne Cricket '99 running pretty credibly on Windows 11
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Our lives only ever accelerate as an accumulation of grief and sorrow which ends in catastrophe but on the other hand I've finally got Shane Warne Cricket '99 running pretty credibly on Windows 11
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US crossed an 'unacceptable line' following attacks on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro.
January 4, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US crossed an 'unacceptable line' following attacks on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro.
Right wing guys have been trying to interview me on foreign policy online all day and a guy who is literally pink called me a pasty white boy and another one called me a twink
January 4, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Right wing guys have been trying to interview me on foreign policy online all day and a guy who is literally pink called me a pasty white boy and another one called me a twink
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The Australian yelling about *business* groups and *business leaders* wanting a political thing to happen but I thought that was "woke" and not their role?
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
The Australian yelling about *business* groups and *business leaders* wanting a political thing to happen but I thought that was "woke" and not their role?
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Contrary to what the Oz says, the head of the AHRC is the president Hugh de Kretser not the human rights cmr Lorraine Finlay.
January 1, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Contrary to what the Oz says, the head of the AHRC is the president Hugh de Kretser not the human rights cmr Lorraine Finlay.
Vanilla ISIS
the Australian has been running one article after another blaming muslims and Islam for Bondi and claiming multiculturalism is now done.
December 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Vanilla ISIS
England win the worst Test match in history by 4 wickets to make it 3-1 in the series.
December 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
England win the worst Test match in history by 4 wickets to make it 3-1 in the series.
I don't want to hear pitch chat from a single Australian player after how they batted this morning. Full accountability for failing to play to the conditions entirely. Doubly so seeing how the game went in Perth.
December 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I don't want to hear pitch chat from a single Australian player after how they batted this morning. Full accountability for failing to play to the conditions entirely. Doubly so seeing how the game went in Perth.