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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 18h

Party registration watch: because there is less than zero actual voter demand for yet another paranoid minor right party with a manifesto assembled from Ralph Babet's lost belly fluff, here is "Power 2 People" applying for registration, avoid.

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 23h

To all those who comment about subsidies for renewable energy, what are your thoughts on the $500,000,000 we taxpayers will fork over to bail out Glencore, who paid $0 tax in Oz, but posted a record profit? At least with renewable we are buying cheap endless energy security.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 3h

All mines close; no exceptions. Mount Isa copper has been a fabulous resource for 100 years, but it's worked out as an underground mining operation. It closed in July.

There's ore left, at lower grade, but it will be open-pit mined and smelted in China. That is the future of the operation.

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 1h

Why waste time getting agreement from some minority scum

Of of course

The duopoly forever

marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 8h

Epic gaslighting by Labor - the Coalition is irrelevant, so choosing to negotiate with it is just political cover for failing to do the right thing

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...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 5h

Our gas expert and Principal Advisor @markogge.bsky.social joins this webinar next week to talk about LNG expansion, tune in if you can!

International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 15h

What does #LNG expansion mean for Canadian households & businesses?

Join experts from @americanprogress.bsky.social,
@australiainstitute.org.au, & @pembina.org as they share insights from the U.S. & Australia + how these cases can inform Canadian policy.

Register: www.iisd.org/events/econo...

Webinar. Economic Risks of Canada's LNG Expansion: Case studies from Australia and the U.S. Tuesday, October 14, 2025. 4:00 p.m. Ottawa. 10:00 p.m. Geneva. Speakers: Ian Sanderson, Pembina Institute; Mark Ogge, Australia Institute; and Shannon Baker-Branstetter, Center for American Progress.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 5h

NSW Premier Chris Minns has rejected calls to light up the Sydney Opera House in the colours of the Palestinian flag as he did for Israel. Says it could be “inflaming the situation”
Palestinian flag is inflammatory? This man is an absolute disgrace.

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 5h

Become an AW board member!
Are you an Aṉangu woman or man with connections to Country in the Maralinga Tjarutja, Yalata, Far West Coast or Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands?
Watch the video to hear AW members explain why Country needs your voice.
www.landscape.sa.gov.au/aw/get-invol...

Landscape South Australia - Alinytjara Wilurara | Work with us

Employment opportunities and board positions.

www.landscape.sa.gov.au

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 4h

"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 · 4h

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...

Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee [Part 1] | 09/10/2025

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 4h

Astute work by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has finding an affordable home in Australia just gotten harder? | Fiona Katauskas

Thanks climate change

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4h

Important 🧵.
"The #Robodebt vibes here are off the charts"

Seems that Labor has learned nothing from LNP crimes against welfare recipients.
Except how to better cover up the cruelty, illegality and dehumanization. #auspol

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6h

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Phil Gorman @philgorman.bsky.social · 4h

If it's so essential to the nation NATIONALISE IT!

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 9h

We're paying over half a billion dollars to prop up criminal-created global miner Glencore's Mount Isa copper smelter ... for just 2 years!

And we're taking how much ownership, for all that money? Don't answer that.

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

Mining giant gets $600m worth of taxpayer funds to keep refinery open

The last Australian copper smelter processing third-party product will stay open after its owner accepted a support package.

www.abc.net.au

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

The Deloitte report was received by the Department last year but was not publicly released until almost 12 months later

DEWR tried to hide it as long as possible — not because of AI errors — but because it documents the widespread unlawful administration of Mutual Obligations

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

An FOI I put in at the start of the year found that senior officials at the Department of Employment were aware of these significant issues in 2020, but refused to act

It took until DECEMBER 2024 to get Deloitte to review the system & report back

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

Why did the Department have to outsource a basic review to Deloitte in the first place? Because they do not know how their own system -- which is unlawfully punishing ppl -- actually works. And haven't documented its processes

Here is the Secretary, in February, confessing that

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

This now brings us to WHAT (apart from AI errors) is in the report

Deloitte could NOT provide assurance the system aligns w/ legislation, saying it "impairs" the Department's ability to defend the lawfulness of TCF decisions before a court, or tribunal. Big ramifications there

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine receiving this advice from your independent assurance review, and still operating the system in question as is. That's what the Federal government is doing, currently -- at the expense of hundreds of thousands of participants

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

What certainly isn't AI is the interviews Deloitte conducted with guilty bureaucrats and executives inside the Department. Here is one of them saying their system disproportionately-incorrectly punishes First Nations people

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5h

Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice"

The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 4h

Jim Chalmers calls out the “hopefully divided” Liberal Party following leaks from their party room including “Fmr shadow ministers writing letters about leaking, & then leaking them”🔥, condemns the LNP’s “unedifying spats…between the far right & the further right”💥 #QT

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 4h

They are still winning to this day

Emus banned from outback Queensland pub

The owner of the Yaraka Hotel says he doesn't really want the birds' patronage, because "when they get in, they behave a bit badly."

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 3h

In case you missed this on Oz msm ❤️💛🖤

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 3h

Treasury official James Kelly grilled after claiming does not see any evidence of price gouging in the insurance sector bcoz their profits ‘don’t look excessive’
Nick McKim “they’re up 50% in the last financial year!” #Estimates

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 3h

#auspol
How much more evidence is required until they get rid of it. Find the job network ‘providers’ a new job in mining or something

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 4h

Allman-Payne quotes a DEWR director referred to as MR15 in the Deloitte report who says: "The TCF is a process that wasn’t designed with fairness in mind… If the function of the TCF is to penalise people, then it’s fulfilling its role, but that’s not the intention of a fair system."

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 2h

When I see disinformation I will call it out.

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