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Melancholic Artist living on unceded Gumbaynggirr land. Insatiably curious about the world! Defending rights of Women, First Nations, People of Colour, Disability & Queer communities. She/Her 2NVR Community Radio Show “The Curious World of Lisa Z”

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · Jan 26

We turn to academia & the fourth estate for scientifically rigorous, evidentially based, objective & unbiased knowledge. The reason very few right wing attitudes are found in universities or quality journalism, is because most RW ideas aren't scientifically rigorous or evidentially based.
#auspol

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 1h

How do you stop them removing the spit hood & spitting?
Seriously mate, there are choices in between your lust for dehumanising them and doing nothing to maintain staff safety!
And it's a specious dishonest argument/tactic to present it as an either/or!

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 9h

For the first time, the Deloitte report also publicly maps out the business rules of the jobseeker punishment system

Here's the tech the government inflicts on poor ppl every day - everyone is subject to it: single mums, ppl with disabilities, homeless ppl

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 9h

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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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 4h

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East!
#VomitWorthy

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Vince Conway @vinnieguitars.bsky.social · 7h

E-scooters are a good means of transport. But they can be very dangerous. It’s time for national laws #Australia #auspol25
chng.it/C4gjh72JJ2

Sign the Petition

E SCOOTERS - WE NEED BETTER LAWS

chng.it

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Mike @mlivingstone.bsky.social · 7h

The data shows gambling ads are hurting kids, families and communities, all so gambling companies can keep raking in billions in profits. You can send an email with demands to ban gambling ads at the link below…

#auspol2025

Tell your Labor MP: Ban Gambling Ads Now!

I just emailed my Labor MP demanding an end to gambling advertising. Will you join me?

www.getup.org.au

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

#LittleDickProud is Gina’s bitch!

DebLRae @owrlfs.bsky.social · 7h

National's Leader trying to suggest that there is not enough land in Australia for renewables. What a joke they are. #auspol

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Campaign for David McBride @mcbride-campaign.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Let's get #pardondavidmcbride trending! #auspol

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

Lies, distortions & fabrications from #DipshitDan

Tehan said on his return from his fact-avoiding mission that the US is going through a "nuclear renaissance",
. If so, it is a
renaissance without any paintings. Not one nuclear power station is under construction in the US.
More pertinently, there are no nuclear power stations under construction in any of the 35 nations in the Americas.
Tehan said: "There is huge investment going into nuclear. There are huge developments that are taking place. And everyone that I spoke to is incredibly confident, given the use of Al, given the use of quantum, that they will continue to make rapid developments with nuclear technology." This Trumpian use of meaningless superlatives - "huge", "incredibly confident",
"rapid developments", "everyone I spoke to" - is deliberately misleading.
The conclusion upon which they base their "facts" is that they want to continue burning fossil fuels for profit for as long as they can get away with it.

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ᴬᴺᵀᴵᶠᴬ Ⲋⲉⲅⲁⲅⲥ 🍉 ·̩̩̥͙*•̩̩͙✩¸¸.•*¨*•🌹🦋 @serarc.bsky.social · 7h

#auspol #gaza #hamas #israel #genocide #thisisnotawar #freespeech

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
~Mahatma Gandhi

youtu.be/zFoHXuhq9mU?...

FULL TALK | Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech

YouTube video by Media Education Foundation

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Campaign for David McBride @mcbride-campaign.bsky.social · 7h

A few months ago, incarcerated Aussie Government whistleblower #DavidMcBride requested special leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia.

The High Court today refused this request: hcourt.gov.au/sites/defaul...

The Attorney General must pardon David, for Justice!

@davidmcbride.bsky.social

Excerpt of results of applications for special leave to appeal, published by the High Court on 9 Oct 2025.

The table includes colums for No. Applicant, Respondent, Court appealed from, Result.

The row for McBride:
11. McBride, The King (C13/2025), Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (Court of Appeal) [2025] ACTCA 16, Special leave refused
[2025] HCADisp 232

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Campaign for David McBride @mcbride-campaign.bsky.social · 7h

Let's get #PardonDavidMcBride trending! #auspol

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 7h

The crisis of confidence is because of the rise of fascism, misogyny, etc
& the backlash of #KnuckleDraggers desperately manning the barricades of the evolutionary cul-de-sac they live on!

LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 7h

Put a fucking standard Covid mask on them!
You don’t need to be an abusive AH to protect staff from someone spitting!

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d

The Federal Government funds 71% of every spit hood put on an Aboriginal child in the NT. It's time to ensure Federal Funding comes with conditions including complying with human rights law!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18h

I work with Blue Missouri because our organization writes actual checks to down-ballot Democratic candidates.

No one else does what we do.

Other organizations give training or advice or texting services. While those things are important, candidates need $ to reach voters. bluemissouri.org

Home

Missouri needs you. Join the movement.

bluemissouri.org

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 18h

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 8h

"Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition, a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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