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Gen X. Writer. Single parent. She/Her. Living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, The World.
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These people thinking Trump’s dystopian plan can be stopped - so sorry friend, that moment has passed.
From Rosencranz & Guildenstern are Dead:
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said ‘no’.
“Somehow we missed it.”
From Rosencranz & Guildenstern are Dead:
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said ‘no’.
“Somehow we missed it.”
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Except that it simply doesn't work. Especially rurally, where you're assessed over the phone & then shoved straight onto CHSP & told there are very few providers & no money for services & no waiting lists. As a disabled person entering the aged system I have run out of energy to deal with this.
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Except that it simply doesn't work. Especially rurally, where you're assessed over the phone & then shoved straight onto CHSP & told there are very few providers & no money for services & no waiting lists. As a disabled person entering the aged system I have run out of energy to deal with this.
Great article, such useful info - we meet next week with Mum’s (proposed) SAH provider & I will so use this info. Note for newbies to this administratively Byzantine system:
“There are over 100,000 ahead of you on the queue so it’s a good idea to start the process well before you need it.”
“There are over 100,000 ahead of you on the queue so it’s a good idea to start the process well before you need it.”
Australia’s new aged care system is complex and often overwhelming. Kathy Eagar and Paul Sadler break down how to access support at home and what to expect at each step. #AgedCare #MyAgedCare #SupportAtHome #AusPol @k_eagar
How to navigate the Support at Home maze
Australia’s revamped aged care system was supposed to streamline access and improve support. Instead, older people are confronting long waits, rising costs, confusing assessments and opaque rules that too often leave them without the help they need.
johnmenadue.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Great article, such useful info - we meet next week with Mum’s (proposed) SAH provider & I will so use this info. Note for newbies to this administratively Byzantine system:
“There are over 100,000 ahead of you on the queue so it’s a good idea to start the process well before you need it.”
“There are over 100,000 ahead of you on the queue so it’s a good idea to start the process well before you need it.”
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Australia’s new aged care system is complex and often overwhelming. Kathy Eagar and Paul Sadler break down how to access support at home and what to expect at each step. #AgedCare #MyAgedCare #SupportAtHome #AusPol @k_eagar
How to navigate the Support at Home maze
Australia’s revamped aged care system was supposed to streamline access and improve support. Instead, older people are confronting long waits, rising costs, confusing assessments and opaque rules that too often leave them without the help they need.
johnmenadue.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Australia’s new aged care system is complex and often overwhelming. Kathy Eagar and Paul Sadler break down how to access support at home and what to expect at each step. #AgedCare #MyAgedCare #SupportAtHome #AusPol @k_eagar
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Apparently all the humor of “I’ll have what she’s having” is lost at the pharmacy. Smh.
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Apparently all the humor of “I’ll have what she’s having” is lost at the pharmacy. Smh.
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Here’s a fun little tax policy brought in by Treasurer Scott Morrison - sell your home to “downsize” and you can put $300k into your super.
The catch? You don’t actually need to downsize and it doesn’t even need to be your home. So yeah, it’s a rort
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The catch? You don’t actually need to downsize and it doesn’t even need to be your home. So yeah, it’s a rort
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Here’s a fun little tax policy brought in by Treasurer Scott Morrison - sell your home to “downsize” and you can put $300k into your super.
The catch? You don’t actually need to downsize and it doesn’t even need to be your home. So yeah, it’s a rort
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The catch? You don’t actually need to downsize and it doesn’t even need to be your home. So yeah, it’s a rort
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
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Before you encourage your children to do ‘music’ and ‘drama’ consider the week before Christmas, your plans, their love for the spotlight, your introverted nature and how many hours of your life remain. If it isn’t a showcase it’s a concert at the moment.
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Before you encourage your children to do ‘music’ and ‘drama’ consider the week before Christmas, your plans, their love for the spotlight, your introverted nature and how many hours of your life remain. If it isn’t a showcase it’s a concert at the moment.
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The money being spent on drilling for gold has increased 45 per cent in the past 12 months.
Record gold prices drive Australian exploration boom
The money being spent on drilling for gold has increased 45 per cent in the past 12 months.
www.abc.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The money being spent on drilling for gold has increased 45 per cent in the past 12 months.
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What the fuck have i just watched
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What the fuck have i just watched
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Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.
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I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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The Albanese government is paying a bikie gang hundreds of millions to keep ~100 asylum seekers on Nauru, an island of ~12000 people, about the size of Tullamarine airport. They can’t work, can’t afford decent food, and can’t access proper healthcare.
www.theage.com.au/world/oceani...
www.theage.com.au/world/oceani...
Bikie-linked security firm still guarding Nauru detainees
Personnel at MA Services Group have repeatedly attempted to cover up its role in an ongoing operation involving a private security force sent to Nauru to guard exiled Australian immigration detainees.
www.theage.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Albanese government is paying a bikie gang hundreds of millions to keep ~100 asylum seekers on Nauru, an island of ~12000 people, about the size of Tullamarine airport. They can’t work, can’t afford decent food, and can’t access proper healthcare.
www.theage.com.au/world/oceani...
www.theage.com.au/world/oceani...
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Hundreds of storks found dead near Madrid amid wider bird flu surge reut.rs/4puCjPX
Hundreds of storks found dead near Madrid amid wider bird flu surge
Spanish authorities have detected four outbreaks of bird flu in wild birds in the central Madrid region, where forestry agents collected hundreds of dead storks over the past several weeks including more than a hundred in the past 24 hours.
reut.rs
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Hundreds of storks found dead near Madrid amid wider bird flu surge reut.rs/4puCjPX
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The families seeking asylum that we support have no safety net, often no form of any income or right to even work. It’s why they turn to us for help at the ASRC & why I’m turning to you asking for your donation to our end of year appeal this weekend: donate.asrc.org.au/defend-hope
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The families seeking asylum that we support have no safety net, often no form of any income or right to even work. It’s why they turn to us for help at the ASRC & why I’m turning to you asking for your donation to our end of year appeal this weekend: donate.asrc.org.au/defend-hope
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More than 3,000 aged care patients stuck in hospital beds, new national figures show
Australia
Australia
'Deeply furious': More than 3,000 aged care patients stranded in hospitals
State health ministers will today enter their final meeting of the year with their federal counterpart armed with figures showing a 25 per cent increase in just three months of aged care patients stra...
www.abc.net.au
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
More than 3,000 aged care patients stuck in hospital beds, new national figures show
Australia
Australia
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December 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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My fave* part of this whole saga is that even after YEARS of being on notice to stop lying and sort their shit out, the Department tells the Ombudsman they have an app for that. And when the Ombudsman asks to see the app they say 'actually, no we don't'. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
![Screenshot from the article. The text reads:
Illustrative of the government's approach to the system is an app the DEWR claims it built to provide "alerts on known risk areas".
, including providers booking dodgy
appointments that can penalise jobseekers.
When the ombudsman asked to see it, the department had to admit the app does not yet exist.
"Later in the investigation when we sought further information on this data App, DEWR changed its previous advice, stating that the risk monitoring data App for monitoring TCF [Targeted Compliance Framework]-related data was in fact not complete and was expected to be gathering data by late 2025," the ombudsman wrote.
The ombudsman revealed a catalogue of other examples where the department or Services Australia, which administers the welfare cancellations and occasionally checks the work of providers issuing suspensions, made misleading claims to his office, to him, to jobseekers and to the public.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y5jtxfxnv4exgujkdbmy43jp/bafkreiakutdnw67stuml4xooynfe6gms377a4rai6begtvzhqv3uxszyvy@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My fave* part of this whole saga is that even after YEARS of being on notice to stop lying and sort their shit out, the Department tells the Ombudsman they have an app for that. And when the Ombudsman asks to see the app they say 'actually, no we don't'. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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'Pig-headed' is the way Terry Carney, of Robodebt fame, describes the response of the Department of Employment to the second Commonwealth Ombudsman report into their error-riddled privatised jobseeker compliance program. You can see why for yourself here. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
‘Particularly strange’: Ombudsman damns welfare compliance
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the Commonwealth ombudsman says government departments still need to ‘unlearn’ the culture that produced robodebt.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
'Pig-headed' is the way Terry Carney, of Robodebt fame, describes the response of the Department of Employment to the second Commonwealth Ombudsman report into their error-riddled privatised jobseeker compliance program. You can see why for yourself here. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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Witnesses have told an inquiry into modern slavery that migrant workers are being exploited in the nation's blueberry capital.
Migrant workers treated 'like pigs' amid claims of modern slavery
Witnesses have told an inquiry into modern slavery that migrant workers are being exploited in the nation's blueberry capital.
www.abc.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Witnesses have told an inquiry into modern slavery that migrant workers are being exploited in the nation's blueberry capital.
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In the same week the US released a new National Security Strategy which declared “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests”, @RichardMarlesMP declared “full steam ahead” on #AUKUS 🤷♂️🤦♂️. #juxtaposition #auspol
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the same week the US released a new National Security Strategy which declared “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests”, @RichardMarlesMP declared “full steam ahead” on #AUKUS 🤷♂️🤦♂️. #juxtaposition #auspol
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Did you know those over 55 can sell their house, buy a bigger, more expensive house, and use the ‘downsizer’ scheme to put $300k extra into their super
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The rich get tax advice; the poor get lectures: super tax saga lays bare a skewed system
A new report on the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the changes to superannuation tax on balances over $3m highlights yet again how the tax system is weighted in favour of the rich and that...
thepoint.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Did you know those over 55 can sell their house, buy a bigger, more expensive house, and use the ‘downsizer’ scheme to put $300k extra into their super
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
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"But for ... Australia that has ... relied upon, the flowery rhetoric of "vague platitudes" ... this strategy document requires a much more fundamental rethink than simply quietly distancing itself from the wilder rhetorical flashes of the US president" #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Trump's quietly released national security strategy is illuminating
When the White House quietly released its national security strategy late one night last week, it instead seemed to get lost in other news. Except, perhaps, in Europe.
www.abc.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"But for ... Australia that has ... relied upon, the flowery rhetoric of "vague platitudes" ... this strategy document requires a much more fundamental rethink than simply quietly distancing itself from the wilder rhetorical flashes of the US president" #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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"NATO’s most powerful member, the US, has picked a side – and it is Russia."
But hardly anyone in Australia's political and media class is questioning why Albanese continues to suck up to the fascist regime in Washington.
Our govt's foreign & defence policy is a national security threat. #auspol
But hardly anyone in Australia's political and media class is questioning why Albanese continues to suck up to the fascist regime in Washington.
Our govt's foreign & defence policy is a national security threat. #auspol
Donald Trump is pursuing regime change – in Europe | Jonathan Freedland
Donald Trump is pursuing regime change – in Europe | Jonathan Freedland
The US made it clear this week that it plans to help the parties of the European far right gain power. Keir Starmer and his fellow leaders have to face this new reality, writes Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"NATO’s most powerful member, the US, has picked a side – and it is Russia."
But hardly anyone in Australia's political and media class is questioning why Albanese continues to suck up to the fascist regime in Washington.
Our govt's foreign & defence policy is a national security threat. #auspol
But hardly anyone in Australia's political and media class is questioning why Albanese continues to suck up to the fascist regime in Washington.
Our govt's foreign & defence policy is a national security threat. #auspol
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This is excellent. Teal seat 2PPs are not being disrupted by teals; voters in those seats are genuinely moving away from the right in step with neighbouring classic seats. www.tallyroom.com.au/63713
How meaningful is the Labor 2PP in the teal seats?
For the final blog post of 2025, I wanted to look at a question that has come up regularly in the comments, and on psephological websites: how meaningful is the two-party-preferred vote, particular…
www.tallyroom.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is excellent. Teal seat 2PPs are not being disrupted by teals; voters in those seats are genuinely moving away from the right in step with neighbouring classic seats. www.tallyroom.com.au/63713