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Unfounded claims from rags like this seems to be the reason Labor ignored calls from over 100 experts to push through their new Schedule 5 law.

(The 'sore tooth' was what some unnamed relative remembers Freeman mentioning in the past.)
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A law purely designed to counter tabloids
Screenshot of Facebook post by The Advertiser, 3 Sept. Fugitive and self-proclaimed sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman has been criticised by his own family for pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars on a disability pension while refusing to recognise the state. Picture of Dezi Freeman with headline: Cop killer Dezi on welfare jackpot for years over 'sore tooth'
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Today I was driving behind a ute with a P-plate and 2 stickers on the back window of a symbol (I now know is) called the Jerusalem Cross. Not surprised at all that, when I googled it, I found it's been appropriated white supremacists. But jeez, this stuff didn't used to be so overt. Right?!
The Jerusalem Cross. Pretty much, one large cross surrounded by four smaller crosses.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Hello, to the spider who lives in my car's side mirror, and whose webs I keep destroying over and over again. I don't usually get to see you in person.
A car side mirror is partially covered in a spider's web. In the gap between the mirror and the mirror's housing, half of a spider can be seen peering out of it's hiding place.
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Wishful thinking...
Text message: Hi xxxx, reminder of your Face to Face appointment on 6/11/2025 at 10:00 AM with you [sic] provider. Check your Workforce Australia inbox for more details or call xxxx on xxxx.
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Haha 🫠 I spoke too soon...
Text message: Hi xxxx, reminder of your Face to Face appointment on 6/11/2025 at 10:00 AM with you [sic] provider. Check your Workforce Australia inbox for more details or call xxxx on xxxx.
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Watching Smoggie Queens on Binge. Only one episode left. Have enjoyed it so far and glad to see they got a 2nd season.
Promotional photo featuring the 5 main cast members of tv show Smoggie Queens
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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"The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund"

Focusing on transgender people, specifically.

Worth remembering that there are still people out there who don't know how much money she has put into changing laws in the UK.
At least it will be a bit simpler now to just point them to this...
What we fund We fund legal representation for women and organisations who: Have lost their livelihoods or are facing tribunals because of their expressed beliefsAre being forced to comply with unreasonable inclusion policies regarding single sex spaces and services, or female-only clubs and eventsAre challenging legislation which takes away the freedoms or protections women are entitled toDon’t have adequate means to bring actions to court or to defend themselves The JKRWF does not hire a lawyer on your behalf, so you must already have sought legal representation, and have a clear desired outcome to your case.
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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ATO staff were alerted to Suzanne’s hardship circumstance on several occasions that should have prompted them to cancel the PAYG payments, and reassess the repayment schedule, documents show. Instead, she was referred to a debt collector, which is usually reserved for unresponsive taxpayers – not those making weekly repayments.
October 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A picture from the Bodega Cats account in Bluesky shows a cat sitting on a counter, staring into the distance. A post below says "She looks like most retail employees at the end of their shift". To which someone replies "Hearing "if it didn't scan it must be free" for the millionth time".
October 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Just saw a Coles truck with a huge Progress Pride flag on the side. I drove after it just so I could get a pic 😆
A large Coles truck, the kind that delivers to its supermarkets, parked in a Coles dock. A white 'coles' logo is superimposed on top of the Progress Pride flag.
October 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Alt text:
Ms James : I'll ask the team to walk you through that detail. One thing I will say before I hand over to them is that it does appear that with some of these cases where the system has not been applying or operationalising policy correctly or as we anticipated we became aware that the system was not operating entirely as we expected but we weren't necessarily aware of the impact. Before I ask the team to comment on that, because you might be reflecting that that seems odd—how would we not understand the impact if the system is not doing what we think it should be doing?—I'll say that when I met with the independent assurance team that is looking at our systems one of the things they reflected on is that the system and its processes are not documented end to end. So, in many cases, there are—and I do not want to pre-empt the full report, but this is the language that was used in the briefing with me—dead ends in the system but it might not be that you can understand the impact of that until an event happens and the team is kind of reverse engineering it. I'm not using the proper terminology here. I'm not a technical person. The reason I mention that is that a big, complex IT system will often not work in the way you anticipate. We might refer to them as 'bugs' as if they were all trivial and insignificant, but some of those bugs don't have an impact on our participants and some of them do. The first one we identified—
October 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Needs eyes
Two of the Muppet Martians from Sesame Street
October 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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In case you didn't know that Andrew Hastie is a former soldier, this Guardian article repeats it twice in 2 paragraphs.
Or, attempts to. "Solider"?

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
But the former solider has vowed to keep publicly prosecuting his Australia-first agenda from the backbench, maintaining pressure on Ley as she attempts to unite her fractured party. Hastie resigned from the frontbench on Friday over a split with Ley on immigration policy, following a series of provocative policy interventions that tested the opposition leader’s authority and raised speculation the former solider was preparing a tilt at the top job.
October 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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"suspended for not turning up to meetings they were never told about"

For me, after missing the appt & getting a text saying 'get in touch or your payment could be suspended', I was prompted to rush in & quickly sign a new Job Plan. It had things we hadn't discussed & I hadn't agreed to.
One of the more absurd aspects of the TCF is the amount of meaningless busywork the system inflicts. As the department admitted in its submission to Hill’s inquiry, the vast majority of payment suspensions don’t actually result in a financial penalty to recipients. In a 12-month period, tCOhe department explained that “90.1% of all suspensions resulted in no delay to payments, because the jobseeker took action and had payment reinstated before the payment fell due”. Payment suspensions can be imposed by providers with little or no proof, and seemingly little accountability. Jobseekers talk of being suspended for not turning up to meetings they were never told about. The administration required is crippling; a system in which frontline staff working for employment services providers spend the majority of their time ticking boxes, rather than helping clients find work.
September 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Treated myself to the box set of Rosehaven, so I don't have to rely on streaming services to watch it.
Picture of DVD cover. Rosehaven The Collection starting Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola.
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I should never buy Vege Deli Crisps. Apart from being overpriced chips, I can't stop eating them! Most of the packet gone in one sitting. Already feeling slightly dehydrated from the 3 or 400 grams of sodium.
Alas, it won't be the last time..
Crumpled bag of Ajitas Vege Deli Crisps, Original Blend with purple and orange sweet potato and taro.
September 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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From Amanda Rishworth in 2023.

(And, no, it is not "responsibile" to keep people trapped in poverty.)
“The changes we’re making – whether it’s to rent assistance, jobseeker – are structural changes,” she told ABC Insiders. “They’re ongoing increases that will be applied. So when you talk about the surplus from last year, that’s a very different circumstance to the reforms that we’ve made which are ongoing and structural. We have calibrated these to be responsible to help people that are doing it tough.”
September 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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This guy is a real piece of work. Offered his services to the dept of Immigration to write a $30k report accusing real researchers of being "advocates primarily and researchers secondarily" in relation to asylum seekers in detention.

www.theage.com.au/national/can...
One of the researchers, Zachary Steel from the University of NSW, said most of Dr Samuell's claims were "self-evidently" false and there was "a convergence of interests" between Dr Samuell and the Immigration Department. Louise Newman, director of the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, has accused the Government of backing a "campaign of harassment and personal vilification".
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We called the government’s aged care support service and asked them what to do. They said, check the room finder on our website: look, there are beds available in all these homes! But I have called all those homes, I told them, and there are no beds. Wow, they said: they should update their website! I agreed that that would be good, and that was the end of our conversation.
September 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I understand websites need to make money & can't just provide info without ads, but I'm not loving this new thing where an ad suddenly covers a huge chunk of screen & continues for, what seems like, half of the article.
Phone screenshot of the website Eating Well. Below the website title and the Top Stories banner are 3 lines of writing: In This Article Water Retention Frequent Headaches. Below that, an ad for TikTok's search capability takes up about 3/4 of the space where the article would otherwise be.
September 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Loving this photo from Yahoo Finance from their "Cash boost" article about the latest indexation to Centrelink payments.
Someone has taken out $900 in cash!! (Presumably so they can then go put it back in their account & pay a few bills.)
Why can't they ever show someone holding up, like, $12.50?
A Centrelink sign set amongst green foliage is shown behind the superimposed picture of a hand holding nine $100 bills, fanned out like playing cards.
August 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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This Chumps List let's you filter your search by Education, Arts, Community, Journalism, Health, Conservation, etc.

Really disturbing to learn about the 'Chevron Nature in Focus Photography Competition!' boasted by Conservation Volunteers Australia.
Heading: Chevron Nature in Focus Photography Competition! Photo: some kind of grey and blue wren poised atop a broken branch. Underneath: Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) and Chevron Australia are proud to announce the launch of the Chevron Nature in Focus Photography...(cuts off)
August 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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It might be from 'Harnessing data and digital technology' Inquiry interim report.
Page 105 has the "$4300 per capita".
I'm not even going to understand it, though.

www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/cu...
Harnessing data and digital technology Inquiry interim report. "Multifactor productivity gains above 2.3% over the next decade due to AI seem likely. Excluding the Acemoglu paper, which as discussed above seems overly pessimistic, most other studies estimate much larger multifactor productivity gains accruing from AI (excluding Misch et al., footnote 13). Considering just these studies, AI seems likely to produce multifactor productivity gains above 2.3% over the next decade. 2.3% multifactor productivity would mean higher output and higher living standards. Using Acemoglu’s (2025, pp. 33–34) approximation implies a 4.3% increase in labour productivity (ABS 2025d, table 2; equation 7). This would correspond to an additional $116 billion in GDP or $4,300 per capita (ABS 2025b, table 1). That said, there is a great deal of uncertainty." And a mathematical equation follows. Then more text on (page 105).
August 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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See, if we still had dvd rental stores, you can bet that I'd be able to rewatch Mermaids on a whim (just bcos I got thinking about the finger food Cher's character makes her kids).
As it is, I'll need to wait till I eventually cycle through to the relevant streaming service.
Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci, in Mermaids, look mystified by the cheeseballs on toothpicks and marshmallow kebabs on their plates. Winona still looking unsure as she disassembles her marshmallow kebab.
August 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Same vibes
Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon looking grumpy
August 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM