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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 5h

We're meant to have these things called the Australian Federal Police and also the National Anti-Corruption Commission who are both certainly authorised to act in the scenario where a government department is recovering >$3.5m a year in fraud without even really actively looking.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 5h

Lmao the employment department has recovered 10.6 MILLION from providers due to fraud tip-offs over 3 years, and not shut down a single provider.

Reminder: They spend 4 BILLION A YEAR on this system, which is about 25% of how much they spend on JobSeeker payments each year.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 5h

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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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 7h

"In Australia, deception persists when the Zionist lobby and the gullible who support them insist that antisemitism is the issue, not the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children."

#AusPol
#Palestine
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#genocide
#Zionism

A century of deceit: Towards a new understanding of the colonisation of Palestine

Political and media commentary on the Hamas killings of October 2023 have been preoccupied with claims that these were not only the worst terrorists but that their actions were without precedent.

johnmenadue.com

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Jane Doe, Pretty Hate Machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 7h

"I've been bullied to go on here by @maximumwelfare.bsky.social to post about the mutual obligations scandal". We've missed you @jeremypoxon.bsky.social, welcome!

#NobodyDeservesPoverty #AusPol

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · Aug 28

"But we don't CANCEL Payments anymore"
yeah, not much difference if you don't have money in your account to eat or pay rent hey?

#NobodyDeservesPoverty

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 6h

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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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 6h

Go you good things!! Welcome from the Syd Knitting Nannas @knitnannasSYD.
There’s plenty to outrage everyone.
#listentoyournannss #gasfreefuture #noCSG#dontfracktheNT

1 Million Women @1millionwomen.bsky.social · 6h

We want to elevate the voices of women in rural and regional Australia with our new campaign #ShePowers.

Are you ready to lead your community through the renewable energy transition?

Visit this link: tinyurl.com/shepowers! 🔆

Join our #ShePowers network of rural and regional women in Australia!

There is a big conversation happening right now around how large scale renewable energy projects should be rolled out as we move away from fossil fuels. Women can be powerful advocates that help del...

tinyurl.com

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 6h

While the ineffective, cruel, & outright illegal nature of our nation’s bipartisan immigration laws have been widely-reported on for over a decade, the practices of the #ABF are much less publicised, despite their obvious similarities with those of ICE.
Happening now, under #Labor!
#auspol

Australia's own ICE raids: A look at Operation Inglenook - Overland literary journal

Racially-motivated raids, trans women being placed under male confinement without trial, and police-sanctioned sexual abuse are not exclusive to foreign countries or the Trump administration. They are...

overland.org.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h

From Insta

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h

The govt has paid $300,000 in contracts to Israeli intelligence firm Terrogence
"who has an indirect role in the military operations of the Netanyahu regime against Palestinians — not, apparently, that that’s any concern to the Department of Defence, where too much civilian murder is barely enough"

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 8h

Department of Defence has signed two more contracts with companies linked to the Israeli military — this time, it’s an intelligence firm.

Katherine Deves' awkward estimates, The West keeps it in the family, and authoritarianism is *so* cringey

www.crikey.com.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 6h

A beautiful love letter to independent journalism, and hope.

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simongarlick @simongarlick.net · 8h

Hoo boy:

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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jeffreyc.bsky.social @jeffreyc.bsky.social · 7h

Just looping in a few people so they don't miss the message

@albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
@liberalaus.bsky.social
#ato #auspol #santos

#DoBetter and stop selling out Australia

The resources are ours, not multinational billionaires who should pay #tax

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10h

It's good that the govt is rolling out a robotax scheme to get old debts from individuals, that should fix things....

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tables showing from 2013-14 to 2023-24 Santos Ltd had $46.7bn in revenue and paid $0 tax

Year Total income ($m) Taxable income ($m) Tax payable ($m)
2014-15 $3,389.4 $0.0 $0.0
2015-16 $3,476.0 $0.0 $0.0
2016-17 $3,715.3 $0.0 $0.0
2017-18 $3,498.0 $0.0 $0.0
2018-19 $4,360.6 $8.3 $0.0
2019-20 $5,013.9 $29.0 $0.0
2020-21 $4,070.3 $68.8 $0.0
2021-22 $4,746.0 $74.1 $0.0
2022-23 $6,257.4 $19.8 $0.0
2023-24 $8,210.3 $21.2 $0.0
Total $46,737.3 $221.2 $0.0

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publicintegrity.bsky.social @publicintegrity.bsky.social · 7h

As Catherine Williams and Gabrielle Appleby of the Centre for Public Integrity noted in a piece for The AFR on Tuesday, the Senate inquiry into the bill received “virtually unanimous damning assessments” in its submissions inbox, which closed last week.

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#auspol

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 9h

BREAKING: Crikey understands both the opposition and the crossbench, including the Greens, are opposed to Labor's bill, meaning it will struggle to get through the Senate.

Barely anyone except Labor supports the government's FOI reforms

Those opposed to the tightening of Australia's freedom of information regime are gathering force, meaning Labor will struggle to drag its bill through the Senate.

www.crikey.com.au

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 7h

If you want a detailed step through of exactly how Oz is getting screwed I found this a good one from Macrobiz.

Which makes the Labor cabinet today's actions all very special.

#auspol

www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/05/gas-...

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 8h

Please don't read this article unless you are prepared for a ball of rage and resentment to rise up within you. Successive #Australian gov't have chosen a 'yes to poverty' policy setting for our people.

Unsurprisingly, corporate entities do no have your best interests at heart, just theirs.
#Auspol

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10h

It's good that the govt is rolling out a robotax scheme to get old debts from individuals, that should fix things....

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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#ChrisHedges #Harvard #Universities #fascism #empire #immigrants #freespeech #auspol #genocide #censorship

youtu.be/AlWpGOu_y7A?...

Inside America's Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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...

www.abc.net.au

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Lee Tulloch @leetulloch.bsky.social · 9h

Me in @sydmorningherald.bsky.social today. (Paywall) #auspol.
www.smh.com.au/traveller/tr...

Airport taxis are so bad I now have a pathological fear of getting one

On one occasion, I felt so intimidated by a driver I was fearful the whole way home. What had I done? I’d questioned the route he was taking.

www.smh.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8h

The best time to flee was a decade ago. The second best time is anyway you can by any means possible *if you can*

And be as quiet as a mouse as you do it. No newspaper articles, no goodbye parties, don’t tell people you’re leaving until you’re safe elsewhere

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 8h

Everything Electric CEO Dan Caesar joins The Driven Podcast to discuss the evolution from YouTube to international EV festivals, Europe’s tipping point for EVs, and his new mission to accelerate adoption through Electric Vehicles UK.

reneweconomy.com.au

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

Probably just a coincidence, but I had tickets cancelled for an international flight on Friday, after I checked in. Airline said the ticket had been flagged for potential fraud and cancelled. My hosts who bought the ticket purchased it again the next day, and I was able to travel w/o a problem.

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Andrew @boatie.bsky.social · 13h

In bed with the enemy. The Minerals Council have purchased our major parties, now they’re just putting them to work. #AusPol

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

🔥Barbara Pocock slices up Richard Windeyer from Dept of Finance for allowing PwC back into govt contracts
RW “We were making a judgement about when we think the organisation is sufficiently changed & different”🤔
BP “How can u make that judgment over the top of the police?”💥 #Estimates

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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently, detention of children is good for them and discussing the impact of war on children is a threat to civilisation.
🤔 😑

#AusPol
#Zionism
#censorship

"A threat to civilisation" says doctor against hospital's Children and War event - Michael West

Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.

michaelwest.com.au

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 9h

Yep, Glencore was founded by an actual criminal, Marc Rich.

"In 1983, Rich and partner Pincus Green were indicted on 65 criminal counts, including income tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and trading with Iran during embargo," WP.

He was pardoned by Clinton in 2001, on his last day in office.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

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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