McLean
@mcccclean.bsky.social
Pro game developer turned burned out hobbyist
Play Five Plants (among others) at https://mcccclean.itch.io/
Other pastimes: criticising the Australian government, worrying about climate change, occasional jokes
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Play Five Plants (among others) at https://mcccclean.itch.io/
Other pastimes: criticising the Australian government, worrying about climate change, occasional jokes
they/them
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Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.
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The irony of a prime ministership whose theory of government is procedural and consultative being hostile when the public in a democracy tries to see what's going into the soup.
"Albanese government staffers – as well as senior Commonwealth public servants – privately fume at what they claim are abuses of laws and practices surrounding transparency by people whose sole aim is to embarrass the government."
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The irony of a prime ministership whose theory of government is procedural and consultative being hostile when the public in a democracy tries to see what's going into the soup.
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2022: Labor will restore the public service.
2023: Labor has brought some temp jobs in-house again.
2024: Peter Dutton wants to cut the public service!
2025: Labor are cutting the public service.
2023: Labor has brought some temp jobs in-house again.
2024: Peter Dutton wants to cut the public service!
2025: Labor are cutting the public service.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
2022: Labor will restore the public service.
2023: Labor has brought some temp jobs in-house again.
2024: Peter Dutton wants to cut the public service!
2025: Labor are cutting the public service.
2023: Labor has brought some temp jobs in-house again.
2024: Peter Dutton wants to cut the public service!
2025: Labor are cutting the public service.
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HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
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Whenever the Greens or independents want anything to change the media screams demanding in-depth analysis from them on how the policy would work then dismisses them even if they have that analysis
Pauline goes ‘look at me, I have no policy but I am racist’ and the media is like ‘let’s hear her out’
Pauline goes ‘look at me, I have no policy but I am racist’ and the media is like ‘let’s hear her out’
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Whenever the Greens or independents want anything to change the media screams demanding in-depth analysis from them on how the policy would work then dismisses them even if they have that analysis
Pauline goes ‘look at me, I have no policy but I am racist’ and the media is like ‘let’s hear her out’
Pauline goes ‘look at me, I have no policy but I am racist’ and the media is like ‘let’s hear her out’
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It's staggeringly unlikely this stupid power will ever be used.
Congratulations to the Albanese Government and @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social for embarrassing themselves, for insulting the welfare and legal sectors, and wasting everyone's time for no public or political benefit whatsoever.
Congratulations to the Albanese Government and @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social for embarrassing themselves, for insulting the welfare and legal sectors, and wasting everyone's time for no public or political benefit whatsoever.
Sadly, they cut a deal with the Libs to indeed rush this through
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It's staggeringly unlikely this stupid power will ever be used.
Congratulations to the Albanese Government and @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social for embarrassing themselves, for insulting the welfare and legal sectors, and wasting everyone's time for no public or political benefit whatsoever.
Congratulations to the Albanese Government and @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social for embarrassing themselves, for insulting the welfare and legal sectors, and wasting everyone's time for no public or political benefit whatsoever.
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Roblox wanting to add sports betting for kids actually kind of explains how they got an exemption from the social media ban
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Roblox wanting to add sports betting for kids actually kind of explains how they got an exemption from the social media ban
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A translation of the Nauruan president’s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade – but secrecy in Australia’s offshore policy is nothing new
A translation of the Nauruan president’s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade – but secrecy in Australia’s offshore policy is nothing new
From Scott Morrison’s ‘on-water matters’ to the Albanese government’s MOU with Nauru, successive governments’ attitude to legitimate scrutiny has been one of hostility
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Offshore, secrecy dominates. But it doesn’t stop at the water’s edge.
In February, Australia brokered a new offshore arrangement with Nauru, striking a deal to send members of the so-called NZYQ cohort – non-citizens with criminal histories – to the Pacific island. Australia would give Nauru more than $400m in exchange. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A translation of the Nauruan president’s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade – but secrecy in Australia’s offshore policy is nothing new
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Every state apart from Tas is pulling their weight with hospital expenditure. The Feds not wanting to pay for the additional demand on hospitals that the FEDS CREATE from underfunding their primary health, NDIS and aged care system responsibilities is pathetic bullshit www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Beyond belief': PM tells states to spend less on hospitals
Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured.
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Every state apart from Tas is pulling their weight with hospital expenditure. The Feds not wanting to pay for the additional demand on hospitals that the FEDS CREATE from underfunding their primary health, NDIS and aged care system responsibilities is pathetic bullshit www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??
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“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
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And this:
The Inspector of Detention Services suggests separation rooms at youth detention centres — which have sometimes been found to lack basic amenities — are inhumane.
Rooms in Qld youth detention centres 'soiled with urine', inspector says
The Inspector of Detention Services suggests separation rooms at youth detention centres — which have sometimes been found to lack basic amenities — are inhumane.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
And this:
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Getting pretty sick of state governments trying to get “tough on crime” and ramp up the number of kids in detention when they also treat them like this.
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Children and young people at Adelaide's only youth detention centre are being held to the floor in a restraint technique that "may constitute a breach of human rights and clinical best practice", according to a report tabled in parliament.
Report reveals SA youth detainees 'routinely' physically restrained
Children and young people at Adelaide's only youth detention centre are being held to the floor in a restraint technique that "may constitute a breach of human rights and clinical best practice", according to a report tabled in parliament.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Getting pretty sick of state governments trying to get “tough on crime” and ramp up the number of kids in detention when they also treat them like this.
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
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ABC, giving up on their gaming youtube account with 416K subs (having already given up on their gaming tiktok account with 66K subs): how do we reach younger viewers?
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
ABC, giving up on their gaming youtube account with 416K subs (having already given up on their gaming tiktok account with 66K subs): how do we reach younger viewers?
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Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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“I cannot emphasise enough that what Repacholi says in a few short sentences is both fundamentally absurd, and deeply terrifying in how it flew into the climate space without a single raised eyebrow.” @ketanjoshi.co writes.
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd)
www.crikey.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“I cannot emphasise enough that what Repacholi says in a few short sentences is both fundamentally absurd, and deeply terrifying in how it flew into the climate space without a single raised eyebrow.” @ketanjoshi.co writes.
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The CPSU have also done bugger-all work on this for years other than to say the CES should come back. Get serious and involve yourselves please.
I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes:
'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.
'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The CPSU have also done bugger-all work on this for years other than to say the CES should come back. Get serious and involve yourselves please.
headed toward a plausible future where our intelligence agencies are subject to greater transparency and scrutiny than the BOM's website redesign
📢 In the biggest reforms since the 1980s, intelligence agencies such as ASIO will have their functions increasingly scrutinised.
New government powers to keep ASIO, AFP in check as intelligence agencies expand
www.sbs.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
headed toward a plausible future where our intelligence agencies are subject to greater transparency and scrutiny than the BOM's website redesign
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Important issue that got very little coverage
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Important issue that got very little coverage
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*They’re trying to create a MARKET out of environmental destruction*
The government has finally stopped drip feeding EPBC details and provided them to everyone! www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/...
One of many howlers
"The proposed changes will also allow certain biodiversity certificates issued under the Nature Repair Market to be used for environmental offsetting."
One of many howlers
"The proposed changes will also allow certain biodiversity certificates issued under the Nature Repair Market to be used for environmental offsetting."
www.dcceew.gov.au
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
*They’re trying to create a MARKET out of environmental destruction*
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‘…lifting people out of poverty (by giving them more money) is a policy choice…’ Successive governments instead choose to give $4 Billion a year ‘…to force people to do compulsory activities that don't get them jobs, cause harm and are operating unlawfully.’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Price of poverty hurts us all, yet research reveals an easy fix
In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the mora...
www.abc.net.au
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
‘…lifting people out of poverty (by giving them more money) is a policy choice…’ Successive governments instead choose to give $4 Billion a year ‘…to force people to do compulsory activities that don't get them jobs, cause harm and are operating unlawfully.’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
to participate in the australian class action against Facebook for the 2015 data leak, you gotta upload a photo of your drivers license to a website with the URL facebookpaymentprogram.com.au. its so funny. victim of a data breach? hold your nose and dive into what looks exactly like another one
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
to participate in the australian class action against Facebook for the 2015 data leak, you gotta upload a photo of your drivers license to a website with the URL facebookpaymentprogram.com.au. its so funny. victim of a data breach? hold your nose and dive into what looks exactly like another one
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Worthless, chickenshit ANONYMOUS statement from the do-nothing Albanese Government who have done nothing to address these crises OR rebuild trust in the welfare system, have no plans for reform, & watch on uselessly as the collapsing welfare administration blows holes in legislation and the budget.
October 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Worthless, chickenshit ANONYMOUS statement from the do-nothing Albanese Government who have done nothing to address these crises OR rebuild trust in the welfare system, have no plans for reform, & watch on uselessly as the collapsing welfare administration blows holes in legislation and the budget.
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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood
Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man
Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man
February 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood
Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man
Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man
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Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird