If there are vexatious requests for FOI the solution could be more nuanced and connected to existing vexatious litigant regulation? Charging for FOI information is crude and discriminatory.
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If there are vexatious requests for FOI the solution could be more nuanced and connected to existing vexatious litigant regulation? Charging for FOI information is crude and discriminatory.
I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.
Hi, just woke from a coma, can anyone give me a quick update on how this rehabilitation went?
Thirteen in 24 hours 😢
If you spent your day caught up with men being Nazis I also encourage you to read this — Men working in sexual assault services sexually assaulting sexual assault survivors.
The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" — aka tricking journalists into writing about them — was a major strategy for them. www.crikey.com.au/20...
Well, she did such a fabulous! job investigating the actions of public servants involved in #Robodebt - for which there have still been no prosecutions or loss of benefits.
THIS.
“A single unsealed coal borehole in country Queensland is releasing the greenhouse gas equivalent of 10,000 cars each driving 12,000 kilometres a year – and it’s just one of 130,000 across the state.” www.smh.com.au/national/que...
But little old ladies in Extinction Rebellion are arrested for trying to save us from climate change
I genuinely don't understand why neo-nazi groups aren't added to the list of proscribed terror organisations when they pop up. Like, there are a bunch on there already, but since neo-nazi orgs advocate violence by definition surely each new org should go onto the list?
I think it's a real tragedy that neither Slick nor The Death of Holden are on this list. The good news, Bluesky, is that if you have an account with the ABC, you can add both these books as part of your vote for Top 100 books published since 1 January 2000. You know what to do.
There is no excuse now (not that there ever was) for any govt to continue normal relations with Israel.
Labor’s plan to fix FOI is to make it harder to apply for information.
‘Camp Sovereignty founder Krautungalung elder Robbie Thorpe told the ABC's Indigenous Affairs Team the men targeted women first, destroyed Aboriginal flags and injured four people.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Victoria Coates talking on RN National is about the most biased guest I have ever heard - the rhetorical contortions are astonishing. For the record - Australian universities do not use the Cambridge core curriculum - we are smart enough to develop our own, even if the US is not.
Perhaps it was his own right wing tendencies that caused that!
Anthony "there were some good racists" Albanese
Social cohesion Australia is fraying. Not because of immigration. Social cohesion is eroding because of increasing inequality. Fear results. Hope must be restored for social cohesion to build. But hope is dead if uncertainty reigns. Uncertainty ends when the future feels assured.
“I think it is an act of terrorism that happened here,” Robbie Thorpe said at the camp on Monday. “It was a premeditated attack on our people; it has been allowed to happen. “Where were the police at that time? There was a group of armed people walking around. Why weren’t they monitored?”
Parliament was sitting today. Any censure of Bob Katter or is it cool for MP’s to physically threaten a journo then stand alongside neo-Nazis as a speaker at a right wing rally, all in the same week?
.. and not for the first time - there is an unbroken presence of fascistic political organisations in Australia.
Thank you - pretending it is an aberration is completely misleading - and dangerous
Israel murders journalists www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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And how much tax did 'older' Australians pay at the same stage of their lives, especially those who did not receive first home buyer allowance, stamp duty concession, child care subsidies, family tax benefit, and who did not go to university?
❄️ Antarctica is no longer untouched Scientists found heavy metals in Antarctic snow, tracing back to nearby research stations and growing tourism. Pollution is leaving a chemical footprint, even in Earth’s most remote places. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Antarctica 🧪
@albomp.bsky.social the "Austalian way" is for Prime Ministers and politicians to dismiss the radicalism and threats of fascists - while pursuing people who want environmental action, human rights, social justice.
.. fascist organisations have been active in Australia since Federation (and before). If @albomp.bsky.social or his staff read the research, they'd learn 'the Australian way' has a fascist streak Smith, E, J Persian, V J Fox. Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia. Routledge, 2022.
@albomp.bsky.social Australian National Socialist Party National Socialist Party of Australia National Front of Australia National Resistance National Alliance Progressive Nationalist Party Australian Nationalist Movement Reclaim Australia True Blue Crew United Patriots Front /next
Politicians, like @albomp.bsky.social claiming fascism/nazism is not "the Australian way" show an appalling lack of historical knowledge: in chronological order White Australia Policy New Guard Australia First Movement League of Rights Australian Party Australian National Workers Party /next
The circularity of his logic is head-spinning
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
#USAisNotaSeriousCountry Shitty beaches - 61% of beaches tested in the US experienced at least one day where faecal contamination reached potentially unsafe levels. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"... #Israeli occupation army detonated more than 80 booby-trapped robots in residential neighborhoods in Gaza City over the past three weeks, confirming that more than one million Palestinians in #Gaza and the north refuse to be displaced to the south." english.palinfo.com/news/2025/08... #Israel
Some scientists call Vibrio vulnificus a quintessential climate-sensitive organism. Warming ocean temperatures are promoting a surge in their populations and transmission dynamics. Another thing to keep in mind when reading garbage from the “CO2 is good” crowd.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes genocide.
#RealHeroes Vs #Genocide, #Australia - #auspol
She didn't see it coming?
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
LEAKED: DOCUMENT SHOWS EX-UK PM TONY BLAIR INSTITUTE PART OF ‘TRUMP RIVIERA’ AND ‘ELON MUSK SMART MANUFACTURING ZONE’ Their internal paper called the Gaza Genocide a “once-in-a-century opportunity” to rebuild Gaza with artificial islands, blockchain trade & tax-free zones.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
One of Australia’s worst exports: consultants Nous are wrecking Canadian universities nationalpost.com/feature/how-...
*descending
I've already listened to it twice - very sensible - especially compared to the blathering of Paul Kelly of The Australian who seems to think Climate Change is a cultural issue rather than geo-ecological
Apparently, the same could be said for his brain
Advocating "Fighting" for justice,freedom, equality while using a handbook on etiquette
A cautionary tale - remember when everyone in politics ran around quoting The End of History by Francis Fukuyama declaring the triumph of liberal democracy ... and now here we are the damage has been done
🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 #MISSING 15 Year old from #Winnipeg #Manitoba #Canada Precious is described as: HEIGHT: 5'6" WEIGHT: 120lbs, thin build HAIR: Auburn EYES: Brown #MMIW #MMIWG #EveryChildMatters #NoMoreStolenSisters#Canada #RedDressAlert #AboriginalAlert www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...
Mike Hudema "Current policies are taking the world to a 2.8 degree temperature rise...that spells catastrophe, yet the collective response remains pitiful." – @antonioguterres There is no time to wait. ActOnClimate
Choosing taps is hard
When the history of the rise of fascism in the UK in the 2020s gets written, the complicity of the BBC will require a full volume of its own.
Media: Why have we lost public trust? Can anyone help?
Richard Boyle has walked from the court after eight years of hell with NO CONVICTIONS. A small win in an otherwise disgraceful prosecution. #auspol
Britain - author of the contemptible and colonist "British Mandate" that caused the Zionist occupation of Palestine should be nowhere near any decisions about Gaza. Lying war criminal Tony Blair should be at The Hague.
Mitochondrial diseases are genetic. In Australia, scientists are investigating the potential for mRNA technology to find a solution. RFK Jr dismantled mRNA resarch in the USA. #USAisNotASeriousCountry aibn.uq.edu.au/article/2024...
#USAisNotaSeriousCountry
The traumatisation of Richard Boyle for doing his job as servant of the public is another side to this outcome. He has been subjected to career destruction, personal vilification, financial loss, and mental torture.
Blue Whales Are Going Silent. Scientists Warn It's a Cry for Help ->Earth.Org | #Whale #Science #Wildlife | More info from EcoSearch
"On July 11, #Israeli settlers beat two young men to death in the occupied West Bank, including a Palestinian American. Based on witness accounts, phone recordings, and video footage, this is how their killings unfolded." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm-l... #BDS #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews
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So many pictures of murdered and maimed children. So many. But also there was a beloved music teacher, Elham Farah, shot in the leg by a sniper to use as bait, then run over by a tank, in November 2023. A beloved old woman. A teacher.
Valerie Zink, a photojournalist who worked for Reuters as a contractor for eight years, has publicly resigned from the Reuters news agency, accusing it of "enabling" the Israeli killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, in a "betrayal of journalists": www.middleeasteye.net/news/reuters...
Ahmad Al Batniji, a celiac patient, died this morning while seeking treatment for his condition, a disease that is manageable elsewhere but became deadly in Gaza, where malnutrition and the lack of gluten-free food made survival impossible.
Speaking of the millions Morton Bay Council has spent against the homeless, here's Jarrod Bleijie spending millions in infrastructure for the Waraba property development in the area. No mention of any allocation of public housing. #qldpol
We'll expel an ambassador from one country based on secret 'credible evidence'; but not the ambassador of another country openly committing a genocide. Tell me our government is compromised without telling me our government is compromised.
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David Pope in Canberra Times
#USAisNotaSeriousCountry
#USAisNotaSeriousCountry - imagine leaving electoral boundary creation and monitoring in the hands of politicians. You know what they're like! No serious country does that! Real democracies have independent authorities doing it.
Maybe Big Sport could cough up - especially as so many of its owners, sponsors, and benefactors are the ones responsible for doing nothing about climate change! Cricket is a billion dollar industry - utterly dependent on the grass roots clubs. Let it fund them!!
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They're here, everyone! This isn't like "sorry for those polluted US towns but we're built different" We have RECENT LIVING MEMORY of awful bushfires & drought restrictions, yet just 1 of these proposed data centres' usage could supply 66k Melburnians with water for a YEAR 7 of them want permits
Maybe Big Sport could cough up - especially as so many of its owners, sponsors, and benefactors are the ones responsible for doing nothing about climate change! Cricket is a billion dollar industry - utterly dependent on the grass roots clubs. Let it fund them!!
ICE seem to have a perfect Catch 22 - any non-citizen who shows up in court is a target for kidnapping and detention, but if they don't show up they are a target for kidnapping and detention. The USA is not a serious country.
I have encouraged my students to watch the series to get a better understanding of the current culture of Big Tech - and its relationship to specific aspects of US culture that Australians do not share.
Well this is extremely depressing ping @cathywilcox.bsky.social
Apart from being punished for being a victim of sexual abuse herself why wasn't she allowed to breast feed her baby, and why is she only allowed one hour a week access. This seems designed to PREVENT bonding. Deliberate cruelty.
Let's be clear on terminology: Danish authorities kidnapped a Greenlandic infant. They took the one-hour-old infant from the mother's arms. They told her she was 'not Greenlandic enough' and was not fit to be a mother because her own adoptive father abused her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Still relevant www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC...
Delivering orders to the local Zionists
@albomp.bsky.social Australia has spoken SANCTION ISRAEL NOW STOP THE GENOCIDE
Dear Jill and Ben, the good people of Brisbane know right from wrong, yet when the sun is out, usaully the beaches are chockers, but here we are - cease the genocide and the danger that creates for the overwhelming amount of 'good, peaceful Jews' here and at home www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Believe them. They will never be satisifed.
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
Evidence
Is that all you did before making a whole set of false assumptions? Read a few lines? I hope you don't have to make decisions about other people's lives in the real world.
You know nothing about me, my beliefs, my values, my contributions. Stop making accusations based on nothing but false conjecture. You think you have integrity, but you're a class traitor expending energy attacking the wrong people.
NO - I am not suggesting anything other than if you want wage justice for everyone you have to pay for it. Why don't you stop making assumptions and treating everyone like an enemy?
I'm not in North America - as my profile clearly states and as you would be able to work out if you read anything other than a single post. You clearly just want to nitpick. Goodbye.
Did I say it wasn't? Are you actually saying that because the entire global system is unjust and imbalanced we can't make any criticism of specific parts of it?
Wow, you manage to project a lot and make unfounded assumptions. You clearly have no idea what I think about the exploitation of human being MORE GENERALLY. At least make an effort to read more than one post before you make assumptions.
Mike will find that's 55 million people GLOBALLY with valid visas - including tourists and business visa holders. The US sure has the dumbest elected representatives in the world. Also, what do you think they will call the new walled kingdom? apnews.com/article/trum...
Just as Australian conservatives in the LNP and other right wing parties officially abandon efforts to act on climate change.
There are few people in the global spotlight who project self-centredness, incompetence, cruelty, and lack of integrity as much as Noem. Why is anyone surprised - she lies about everything.
Can any Americans on here confirm that the second civil war has already started - the US media seem to be ignoring it.
Israel admits that 83% of Palestinians it killed in Gaza were civilians. substack.com/@tritaparsi/...