@medthwa.bsky.social
“There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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What has happened to our society? Look what too many older people find themselves facing. A national shame.
I believe I’m one of the lucky ones, as hubby & I have permission to camp out on private land for as long as. However, being disabled pensioners & now off-grid in 4WD accessible-only bush in tents (designed for recreation not survival) it’s a struggle/worry as hubby has a life threatening disease.
December 9, 2024 at 6:44 AM
What has happened to our society? Look what too many older people find themselves facing. A national shame.
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Unpublished docs for review of mutual obligations / targeted compliance framework that form spine of employment services reveals the govt cannot be sure the system is legal or working. Review won't report until after election. ACOSS refers to Ombudsman. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
Exclusive: JobSeeker payment system errors prompt review
The hunt for ‘anomalies’ in the JobSeeker compliance system will take months and the Department of Employment is unable to say if it is legal.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Unpublished docs for review of mutual obligations / targeted compliance framework that form spine of employment services reveals the govt cannot be sure the system is legal or working. Review won't report until after election. ACOSS refers to Ombudsman. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
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This is deeply disturbing.
This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Sound of Fear on Air
It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:19 AM
This is deeply disturbing.
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Privatisation. Is there anything it can’t fuck up? www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
A stroke victim waited hours for a bed. These doctors want answers
Doctors at Northern Beaches Hospital have raised several concerning incidents in their submission to an independent audit of the privately run public hospital.
www.smh.com.au
December 4, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Privatisation. Is there anything it can’t fuck up? www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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If you see this post, can you please help spread this information?
#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.
People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!
Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.
People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!
Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network
social.demcast.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:00 PM
If you see this post, can you please help spread this information?
#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.
People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!
Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.
People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!
Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
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Like, this is a Coalition era system that continues under the current government. In modern memory, there have always been jobseeker compliance routines that cause harm but this shit is properly obscene if you ask me.
December 5, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Don’t look away:
State sanctioned violence against imprisoned women is intrinsic to gender-based violence.
State sanctioned violence against imprisoned women is intrinsic to gender-based violence.
December 5, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Don’t look away:
State sanctioned violence against imprisoned women is intrinsic to gender-based violence.
State sanctioned violence against imprisoned women is intrinsic to gender-based violence.
The more journalists that stop posting on X the better.
December 2, 2024 at 6:58 PM
The more journalists that stop posting on X the better.
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WATCH: @rose.bsky.team, COO of @bsky.app, on what makes it different from that other hellhole
November 30, 2024 at 11:26 PM
WATCH: @rose.bsky.team, COO of @bsky.app, on what makes it different from that other hellhole
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Well said Paul Keating! #auspol
"In those 50 years I've never seen a public figure as mean or mean-spirited as Peter Dutton," Mr Keating told ABC radio.
"Those electors in Dickson [in Queensland] have a chance to drive the political stake through his dark political heart ... and I hope they do."
"In those 50 years I've never seen a public figure as mean or mean-spirited as Peter Dutton," Mr Keating told ABC radio.
"Those electors in Dickson [in Queensland] have a chance to drive the political stake through his dark political heart ... and I hope they do."
December 1, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Well said Paul Keating! #auspol
"In those 50 years I've never seen a public figure as mean or mean-spirited as Peter Dutton," Mr Keating told ABC radio.
"Those electors in Dickson [in Queensland] have a chance to drive the political stake through his dark political heart ... and I hope they do."
"In those 50 years I've never seen a public figure as mean or mean-spirited as Peter Dutton," Mr Keating told ABC radio.
"Those electors in Dickson [in Queensland] have a chance to drive the political stake through his dark political heart ... and I hope they do."
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum:
“I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them."
“I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them."
Trump "I had a great call with President Shinybum of Mexico. She will stop rapists and criminals from coming here!"
President Sheinbaum "I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them."
ow.ly/AP9R50UhcgT
President Sheinbaum "I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them."
ow.ly/AP9R50UhcgT
Critics mock 'Donny deals' after Trump met with brutal fact check from Mexico's president
Social media critics collectively laughed at Donald Trump on Wednesday night after the president-elect appeared to get a brutal fact-check from the president of Mexico.Trump bragged earlier in the day...
ow.ly
November 30, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum:
“I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them."
“I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them."
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1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
November 29, 2024 at 8:46 PM
1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
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Like, this is a Coalition era system that continues under the current government. In modern memory, there have always been jobseeker compliance routines that cause harm but this shit is properly obscene if you ask me.
November 30, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Like, this is a Coalition era system that continues under the current government. In modern memory, there have always been jobseeker compliance routines that cause harm but this shit is properly obscene if you ask me.
This 👇
“… the complexity of these mutual obligation requirements … has led to … human and computer failures – twinned with an employment services system now called Workforce Australia that outsources the vast majority of work to privatised providers with minimal oversight from public officials.”
“… the complexity of these mutual obligation requirements … has led to … human and computer failures – twinned with an employment services system now called Workforce Australia that outsources the vast majority of work to privatised providers with minimal oversight from public officials.”
1000 people — maybe even more — had their welfare payments unlawfully CANCELLED because Dept of Employment / Services Australia can’t read their self-defeating legislation that dictates mutual obligations to jobseekers. Latest in a series of bungles. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
Exclusive: Welfare payments cancelled unlawfully
An error in the interpretation of welfare legislation has led to the unlawful cancellation of payments, as the department fails to manage its own compliance system.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 30, 2024 at 12:20 AM
This 👇
“… the complexity of these mutual obligation requirements … has led to … human and computer failures – twinned with an employment services system now called Workforce Australia that outsources the vast majority of work to privatised providers with minimal oversight from public officials.”
“… the complexity of these mutual obligation requirements … has led to … human and computer failures – twinned with an employment services system now called Workforce Australia that outsources the vast majority of work to privatised providers with minimal oversight from public officials.”
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Snorkeling with a whale shark off Western Australia.
November 29, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Snorkeling with a whale shark off Western Australia.
"They are three highly-educated, intelligent, successful, professional young men who come from loving Christian families, who treat their own sisters, mothers and female partners with respect and love," Justice O'Rourke told the court.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Bucks party trio handed lengthy jail sentences for 'cold, callous, degrading' gang rape of three women
Three men from Sydney have been sentenced to prison over their sexual assaults against three women in their late teens, with the longest term being 14 years.
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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COVID notifcations for South Australia have dropped slightly from last week (from 322 to 306), with the %positive PCR tests steady at 9%. However, the 7-day moving average tells a slightly different story.
November 29, 2024 at 4:10 AM
COVID notifcations for South Australia have dropped slightly from last week (from 322 to 306), with the %positive PCR tests steady at 9%. However, the 7-day moving average tells a slightly different story.
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BREAKING - Rising Tide protesters disrupt Federal Parliament to demand no new coal and gas!
#risingtideaus #peoplesblockade #canberrawave
#risingtideaus #peoplesblockade #canberrawave
November 27, 2024 at 2:48 AM
BREAKING - Rising Tide protesters disrupt Federal Parliament to demand no new coal and gas!
#risingtideaus #peoplesblockade #canberrawave
#risingtideaus #peoplesblockade #canberrawave
BREAKING - Rising Tide protesters disrupt Federal Parliament to demand no new coal and gas!
#risingtideaus #peoplesblockade #canberrawave
#risingtideaus #peoplesblockade #canberrawave
November 27, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Where's the National Party?
November 26, 2024 at 5:34 AM
Where's the National Party?
Macquarie word of the year coincides with the exodus from that other place?
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Macquarie word of the year coincides with the exodus from that other place?
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...