Kate Dempsey, PhD
@drkatedempsey.bsky.social
Jaded academic, allied health CEO, fond of stats. www.katedempsey.com.au
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Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump.
Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment.
A government of, by, and for the billionaires.
Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment.
A government of, by, and for the billionaires.
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
popular.info
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump.
Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment.
A government of, by, and for the billionaires.
Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment.
A government of, by, and for the billionaires.
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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Melbourne/Naarm, save the date: Thursday 11 Dec, 6:15PM at Trades Hall!
Join us in welcoming Chief Na'moks and Gwii Lok'im Gibuu of the Wet'Suwet'en and Gitxsan nations, visiting Australia for the first time to Stop Woodside on their ancestral lands.
Join us in welcoming Chief Na'moks and Gwii Lok'im Gibuu of the Wet'Suwet'en and Gitxsan nations, visiting Australia for the first time to Stop Woodside on their ancestral lands.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Melbourne/Naarm, save the date: Thursday 11 Dec, 6:15PM at Trades Hall!
Join us in welcoming Chief Na'moks and Gwii Lok'im Gibuu of the Wet'Suwet'en and Gitxsan nations, visiting Australia for the first time to Stop Woodside on their ancestral lands.
Join us in welcoming Chief Na'moks and Gwii Lok'im Gibuu of the Wet'Suwet'en and Gitxsan nations, visiting Australia for the first time to Stop Woodside on their ancestral lands.
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#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
I have read this article now and do not see why it needed to be rejected by either the Age or Guardian. She simply expresses her experience and what we see on the news.
Randa Abdel-Fattah details life as a target of the pro-Israel lobby and those who capitulate to it, in an op-ed commissioned by The Age and then rejected
www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...
Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.
Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby
www.deepcutnews.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I have read this article now and do not see why it needed to be rejected by either the Age or Guardian. She simply expresses her experience and what we see on the news.
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"Following the illegal robot-debt scheme, two of the key architects of the program — found to have designed and implemented it by the royal commission but ignorant of the fact it was unlawful — moved to the NDIA," writes Rick Morton. http://satpa.pe/q0f6JWE
Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme
Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.
satpa.pe
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"Following the illegal robot-debt scheme, two of the key architects of the program — found to have designed and implemented it by the royal commission but ignorant of the fact it was unlawful — moved to the NDIA," writes Rick Morton. http://satpa.pe/q0f6JWE
I think the comparisons to Robodebt are apt, Rick. It’s hard to be in France thinking creatively with the sheer volume of crap going on in this Agency. Surely Minister Butler is planning to intervene?
Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme
Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
July 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I think the comparisons to Robodebt are apt, Rick. It’s hard to be in France thinking creatively with the sheer volume of crap going on in this Agency. Surely Minister Butler is planning to intervene?
Yep. Filled in their form 12 months ago. A few months back they ‘closed the request’. Not sure why since it was unresolved. 🤷♀️ @deakinnteu.bsky.social shouldn’t you be posting about this?
The managerial morass at Deakin University gets worse, with casual staff still waiting for back pay, despite the uni admitting widespread underpayment over a year ago. Worse, staff are now being forced into lower paid roles.
www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong...
#HigherEducation #HigherEd
www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong...
#HigherEducation #HigherEd
June 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Yep. Filled in their form 12 months ago. A few months back they ‘closed the request’. Not sure why since it was unresolved. 🤷♀️ @deakinnteu.bsky.social shouldn’t you be posting about this?
Plus @beneltham.bsky.social Blockchain Hub 🙄
Taking a moment to get my head around the concept of “boastful, even by LinkedIn standards”
My latest in @crikey.com.au. I trawl through Tim Wilson MP’s LinkedIn profile, which is hilariously boastful, even by LinkedIn standards.
While in the #auspol wilderness, he started a PhD at RMIT Blockchain Hub—which employs several former IPA researchers…
www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/16/t...
While in the #auspol wilderness, he started a PhD at RMIT Blockchain Hub—which employs several former IPA researchers…
www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/16/t...
June 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Plus @beneltham.bsky.social Blockchain Hub 🙄
Great work again Rick. Rather than pay casual academics correctly or fairly, universities are dumping them in favour of making tenured academics teach non-stop, then punishing them for not researching, when they have no time anymore to do so.
University of Technology Sydney asked KPMG to analyse researchers by income generated and produce a master Excel list of productivity at the individual level as part of its $360m restructure. The EBA might have something to say about that. Revealing docs. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
Exclusive: KPMG’s secret university restructure
A leaked report of the KPMG-led restructure plan for UTS is based on a performance metric not permitted by labour contracts.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Great work again Rick. Rather than pay casual academics correctly or fairly, universities are dumping them in favour of making tenured academics teach non-stop, then punishing them for not researching, when they have no time anymore to do so.
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So it’s all good on the climate front then!
Anyway it was 20° in the evening last night in May in Melbourne
May 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So it’s all good on the climate front then!
Because women don’t matter!
Why is Peter Dutton creating a fear fantasy of people being afraid to go to the shops?
Both NSW & VIC police stats show an uptick in DV-related assaults (along w/ down trends across many major crime areas)
Why not take on an actual crime wave for the real terror?
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Both NSW & VIC police stats show an uptick in DV-related assaults (along w/ down trends across many major crime areas)
Why not take on an actual crime wave for the real terror?
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Victorians afraid to go to shops because of rising crime: Dutton
Eight years after warning that Victorians were afraid to go to restaurants, the opposition leader said they felt unsafe going to the shops as criminal incidents rose by 20 per cent in 12 months.
www.theage.com.au
April 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Because women don’t matter!
It’s a cross section of the male pattern baldness population
Even in the famous photo after the repeal of the carbon price more than ten years ago had more women in it than this.
A real cross section of the community
March 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It’s a cross section of the male pattern baldness population
A throw back from the mid 1970s?
March 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A throw back from the mid 1970s?
It’s terrible to see this from Columbia. And where will it end?
Another capitulation
apnews.com/article/colu... Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
apnews.com/article/colu... Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.
apnews.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It’s terrible to see this from Columbia. And where will it end?
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Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
![a Google search for 'the effect of UX on [expletive] libraries' showing no AI overview, just the search results](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgpxmpiumlpxxclzsgar5lnq/bafkreic6uzw2erxbl6v67yece6647wgdmxvqjfglrs767cq7rghazbukxu@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
I’ve worked in the sector for 18 years (casual) while also practising in my field. I am unemployable now in any uni, because they have all moved to remove casuals, rather than pay them fairly. My current university employer has ghosted me after 6 yrs of work. No farewell morning tea for me I guess.
One day I will write about something that isn't utterly, totally depressing. But it is not this day. University management, where logic and learning go to die. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
Everything that’s wrong with university management
It’s business as usual in the university sector, where exorbitant executive pay, insecure jobs and exploitation of academic staff continue unabated.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
March 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’ve worked in the sector for 18 years (casual) while also practising in my field. I am unemployable now in any uni, because they have all moved to remove casuals, rather than pay them fairly. My current university employer has ghosted me after 6 yrs of work. No farewell morning tea for me I guess.
I don’t think regional unis like Charles Sturt are the problem, Claire. Looks look more closely at the VC salaries in the Group of 8, shall we?
The Australian Senate is inquiring into university governance -after concerns about issues including extensive wage underpayment/theft & vice chancellors' salaries. I think changes are needed - but I also found Charles Sturt University's submission compelling: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
March 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I don’t think regional unis like Charles Sturt are the problem, Claire. Looks look more closely at the VC salaries in the Group of 8, shall we?
It has pockets!
Despite the fancy cotton and silk - this dress only set me back $68!
And I still have enough leftover cotton and silk to create another garment 👀
And I still have enough leftover cotton and silk to create another garment 👀
So I started and finished this dress last week!
I found this beautiful cotton voile for half price last October and had planned to sew this exact dress pattern from it as I thought it'd make for a beautfully light summery dress.
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#Sewing #VintageVoguePattern
I found this beautiful cotton voile for half price last October and had planned to sew this exact dress pattern from it as I thought it'd make for a beautfully light summery dress.
🪡🪡🪡🪡🪡🪡🪡
#Sewing #VintageVoguePattern
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It has pockets!
This is just appalling.
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This is just appalling.
What? 👇
If you think this sounds far-fetched, we currently have a number of Australian academics under formal investigation by their home universities for *speaking at an anti-racism conference*
February 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What? 👇
The NDIS is another Robodebt in the making. I predict another book will be needed, Rick on what’s going on there.
After this little nugget in estimates about Mean Streak yesterday someone slid into my DMs to say the book has been checked out of the Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet library since last year and the wait list got so long they bought more copies.
February 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The NDIS is another Robodebt in the making. I predict another book will be needed, Rick on what’s going on there.