Alex Bhathal
@alexbhathal.bsky.social
‘Towel-headed loser’. Also, Social Worker, social/race/eco justice; former National Director AASW; Lecturer; refugee advocate.
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Sadly, they cut a deal with the Libs to indeed rush this through
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Sadly, they cut a deal with the Libs to indeed rush this through
No!
Oh, No!
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
No!
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Medicare Mentre Health Centres are part of the solution, but they can't be in place of peer-led options, and we need to ensure they are evaluated.
My comments in the Brisbane Times.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
My comments in the Brisbane Times.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
Hundreds of millions has been spent to fix mental health crisis. But will it work?
Over 40 Medicare Mental Health Centres have opened across Australia in the last year, including 12 in Queensland. We visited one on Brisbane’s north side to find out what they’re all about, and who th...
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Medicare Mentre Health Centres are part of the solution, but they can't be in place of peer-led options, and we need to ensure they are evaluated.
My comments in the Brisbane Times.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
My comments in the Brisbane Times.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
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"The Australian government has at all times known that the current Nauruan president and key members of his government are seriously corrupt, and they still signed a $2.5 billion deal with him."
Greens senator David Shoebridge reads what he alleges to be extracts from a secret AUSTRAC report that has not been made public, in the Senate late on Tuesday.
Labor accused of turning blind eye to Nauru corruption allegations
Greens senator David Shoebridge reads what he alleges to be extracts from a secret AUSTRAC report that has not been made public, in the Senate late on Tuesday.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
"The Australian government has at all times known that the current Nauruan president and key members of his government are seriously corrupt, and they still signed a $2.5 billion deal with him."
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So many weasel words I can’t keep track! Just cut back executive salaries and keep more people employed.🤬
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
So many weasel words I can’t keep track! Just cut back executive salaries and keep more people employed.🤬
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This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
Justice for Kumanjayi White chuffed.org/project/just...
Justice for Kumanjayi White
Appeal from Senior Warlpiri Elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves:
chuffed.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Justice for Kumanjayi White chuffed.org/project/just...
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"The administrator’s choice is between a technology utilising gas – which can never be competitive in Australia – and one using green hydrogen that likely will be."
The Whyalla steelworks might be the best place in the world to make low-cost green iron. Will Labor seize the moment? | Rod Sims and Baethan Mullan
If the government is committed to the energy transition and a future made in Australia, the choice that must be made is clear
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"The administrator’s choice is between a technology utilising gas – which can never be competitive in Australia – and one using green hydrogen that likely will be."
My evenings are putting on Muster Dogs and then I watch Norah watching tv
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My evenings are putting on Muster Dogs and then I watch Norah watching tv
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#nzpol Check out these free, public online talks by some of my amazing colleagues at Massey...
www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/t...
www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/t...
The Thinking Life: Free Massey University webinars on the ideas that shape us
What does it mean to think in a world overflowing with information, emotion and ideology? Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences is inviting the public t...
www.massey.ac.nz
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
#nzpol Check out these free, public online talks by some of my amazing colleagues at Massey...
www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/t...
www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/t...
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New from @EmpirePodUK (Part 4)
The concluding part of our Orwell miniseries:
Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Wife
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
The concluding part of our Orwell miniseries:
Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Wife
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
New from @EmpirePodUK (Part 4)
The concluding part of our Orwell miniseries:
Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Wife
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
The concluding part of our Orwell miniseries:
Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Wife
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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A good longer read from Geoff Mulgan on the political limits of hollowed out centrism & why a long term vision, energy + ideas matter geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
Hollowed out: can the centre hold?
Can the centre hold and resist the far right?
geoffmulgan.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A good longer read from Geoff Mulgan on the political limits of hollowed out centrism & why a long term vision, energy + ideas matter geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
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If so, congratulations to Tony Windsor for winning back the Division of New England at the 2028 federal election
October 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Brereton should resign, imo. He's personally compromised (defence), completely stuffed up the Robodebt investigation (and had personal connections with those involved), and his NACC has produced nothing else of any significance, despite thousands of referrals.
Sidenote: Did you know that the NACC employs over 200 people, spends over $50m per year, has 5 offices, and in over two years of operations hasn't landed a single major corruption finding?
September 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Brereton should resign, imo. He's personally compromised (defence), completely stuffed up the Robodebt investigation (and had personal connections with those involved), and his NACC has produced nothing else of any significance, despite thousands of referrals.
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“Some of the people responsible for robo-debt are working outside the public service and not sanctioned by legal boards as far as I know, and some who designed robo-debt are still in the public service in compliance and audit roles. How can that be?”
September 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Some of the people responsible for robo-debt are working outside the public service and not sanctioned by legal boards as far as I know, and some who designed robo-debt are still in the public service in compliance and audit roles. How can that be?”
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Modus operandi: make abhorrent comments against a respected cardiologist then go to ground & hope no one follows up
Bad luck 4 them as @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters scrutinise board members at St Vincent's Hospital & the VictorChang Cardiac Research Institute 4 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Bad luck 4 them as @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters scrutinise board members at St Vincent's Hospital & the VictorChang Cardiac Research Institute 4 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Modus operandi: make abhorrent comments against a respected cardiologist then go to ground & hope no one follows up
Bad luck 4 them as @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters scrutinise board members at St Vincent's Hospital & the VictorChang Cardiac Research Institute 4 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Bad luck 4 them as @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters scrutinise board members at St Vincent's Hospital & the VictorChang Cardiac Research Institute 4 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
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When John Howard was Prime Minister, he participated in many International Democracy Union events overseas from 1996 onwards. He even was elected the chair in 2002 while Prime Minister so attended its annual forum overseas every year as Prime Minister. The sheer desperation of this #auspol beat-up
EXCLUSIVE
PM&C staff abandoned Anthony Albanese's visit to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, because of its political nature.
The opposition said it was 'extraordinary' and undermined the PM's claim that his visit was AUKUS-related.
Read more in The Nightly: latika.me/PMandC
PM&C staff abandoned Anthony Albanese's visit to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, because of its political nature.
The opposition said it was 'extraordinary' and undermined the PM's claim that his visit was AUKUS-related.
Read more in The Nightly: latika.me/PMandC
Staff abandoned Albanese as he headlined Labour conference
The PM’s departmental staff abandoned his final engagement in the UK, underlining Opposition criticism that the trip was partisan and not diplomatic.
latika.me
September 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
When John Howard was Prime Minister, he participated in many International Democracy Union events overseas from 1996 onwards. He even was elected the chair in 2002 while Prime Minister so attended its annual forum overseas every year as Prime Minister. The sheer desperation of this #auspol beat-up
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What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k
Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
www.abc.net.au
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Robodebt is a cultural touchstone. The associations that quickly come to mind are harmful systems, lost accountability, over-responsiveness, and people being reduced to data points www.themandarin.com.au/299754-ai-ar...
AI adoption in the shadow of robodebt
Robodebt showed what can happen when technological systems lack human accountability. For AI to succeed in government, we must learn from its mistakes.
www.themandarin.com.au
September 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Robodebt is a cultural touchstone. The associations that quickly come to mind are harmful systems, lost accountability, over-responsiveness, and people being reduced to data points www.themandarin.com.au/299754-ai-ar...
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On October 8, Alana Lentin will host a book launch for 'The New Racial Regime', on Gadigal land (Sydney), w guests Kaiya Aboagye, Keiran Stewart-Assheton & Shawna Tang.
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
September 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
On October 8, Alana Lentin will host a book launch for 'The New Racial Regime', on Gadigal land (Sydney), w guests Kaiya Aboagye, Keiran Stewart-Assheton & Shawna Tang.
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
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Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide.
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide.
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
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We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 16th at the Wheeler Centre for a conversation bringing together Palestinian, Jewish and Syrian voices.
We'll explore themes of justice, liberation and what revolution means for people fighting for freedom. Tickets at: events.humanitix.com/on-revolutio...
We'll explore themes of justice, liberation and what revolution means for people fighting for freedom. Tickets at: events.humanitix.com/on-revolutio...
September 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 16th at the Wheeler Centre for a conversation bringing together Palestinian, Jewish and Syrian voices.
We'll explore themes of justice, liberation and what revolution means for people fighting for freedom. Tickets at: events.humanitix.com/on-revolutio...
We'll explore themes of justice, liberation and what revolution means for people fighting for freedom. Tickets at: events.humanitix.com/on-revolutio...
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
$350m to $750m 👀
$350m to $750m 👀
US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract
A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
$350m to $750m 👀
$350m to $750m 👀
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What is it with privileged, powerful people in this country?! They appear to assume the rules simply don’t apply to them. And in so many respects the rules aren’t applied to them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Anti-corruption chief kept consulting role after saying he had resigned
The head of the national anti-corruption commission told a Senate inquiry he had resigned his role at the defence force's investigative arm. But the ABC has learned he continued consulting for them, a...
www.abc.net.au
September 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
What is it with privileged, powerful people in this country?! They appear to assume the rules simply don’t apply to them. And in so many respects the rules aren’t applied to them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...