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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 5h

I thought they were dead 🫣

My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 8h

lakettle, oceanttle

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, it's sad.
Labor/LNP trying to sustain the traditional 2 party system for their own benefit, it's a farce IMHO. So obvious they have been bought by vested interests.
Look at Tas where either cld form minority govt with indies and greens for a progressive govt, but neither side will do it #auspol

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 16h

Dog forbid Labor would talk to the Greens about the environment 🙄 #auspol

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Smug as ...

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1d

And after that, fk them all to hell!

a man in a suit and hat is standing with his hands in his pockets in a black and white photo .

ALT: a man in a suit and hat is standing with his hands in his pockets in a black and white photo .

media.tenor.com

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1d

The fact Wong thinks she can just snark her way out of this is a sign of how normalised the relationships between politicians and lobbyists have become.

Like, of course the PM shouldn't be president of a registered lobby group that sells corporate members access to politicians? No shit??

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Could it get more yes minister? #auspol
Watching SF is triggering.

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Heard some of this on RN in the car yesterday - here it is in case you want to listen. Cameron's views on aukus, Labor and Albanese right now. 🫶 ✌️✊ #auspol #DougCameron
youtu.be/OymOJdhvG3I?...

Australian Sovereignty and the Path to Peace - Doug Cameron | 2025 Laurie Carmichael Lecture

YouTube video by The Australia Institute

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3d

Conflicts of interest are the norm now in the govt, public service, appointments and agencies. Integrity is hard to find - NACC, Antisemitism Envoy (seriously 🙄), Murray Watt, Angus Taylor, etc.

A few exceptions, Catherine Holmes for one. #auspol

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 3d

The gambling regulator's alleged 'cosy relationship' with the $50b betting industry: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-06/nt-betting-regulator-accused-close-industry-four-corners/105848692

The gambling regulator's alleged 'cosy relationship' with the $50b betting industry

Four Corners has uncovered allegations of conflicts of interest and pro-industry bias at the country's part-time regulator responsible for Australia's biggest betting companies.

www.abc.net.au

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3d

They really don't care #auspol #EatTheRich

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 3d

In March 2025, the median Australian taxpayer earned $55,619 per year.

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Caddin Schieler @caddinschieler.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg has officially been cleared for release and is said to be en route to Greece along with a multitude of other activists from Spain and Malaysia on Monday.

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3d

Had a look at the trailer - very intense.
He's got the most beautiful eyes tho!
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New 'Steve' Trailer: School Drama Starring Cillian Murphy Hits Netflix Today

Murphy stars in 'Steve' as the headmaster of a school for troubled boys grappling with the institution's impending closure.

theplaylist.net

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3d

It's working now!
I recently changed to the duckduckgo browser but I had the adblock off bc youtube has got around it.
Now I have the adblock is back on I get thru! 👏

My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. I'll have a look. No worries.
Was using 12 foot ladder before it got taken down 😞.

My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3d

Pay walled 🤷‍♂️

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 4d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...