Kate Lance
@katelance.com
Once an astronomer, then an Internet techie, then award-winning maritime-history author, now an infrequently read novelist. My books are at https://seabooks.net. Mastodon: https://aus.social/@katela. Glass art avatar by Annie Rie.
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The full cost of the BoM website has been known for some time — I reported it in September last year — so why would management not be honest about it? It’s a story of executives meeting the firm ‘Accidenture’. $96m later… www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s $96m website fiasco
Global IT consultancy Accenture has been accused of ‘strip mining’ the Bureau of Meteorology during its years-late delivery of a redesigned website not fit for purpose.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The full cost of the BoM website has been known for some time — I reported it in September last year — so why would management not be honest about it? It’s a story of executives meeting the firm ‘Accidenture’. $96m later… www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
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Jacinta Allen has a metro
Jess Wilson has a pamphlet
#SpringSt
ps hundreds of people with positive attitudes have ventured out to catch the very first Melbourne Metro train
Jess Wilson has a pamphlet
#SpringSt
ps hundreds of people with positive attitudes have ventured out to catch the very first Melbourne Metro train
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Jacinta Allen has a metro
Jess Wilson has a pamphlet
#SpringSt
ps hundreds of people with positive attitudes have ventured out to catch the very first Melbourne Metro train
Jess Wilson has a pamphlet
#SpringSt
ps hundreds of people with positive attitudes have ventured out to catch the very first Melbourne Metro train
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If a Liberal State Government was wrecking the Victorian #StateLibrary & trashing the services it exists to provide, ALP members might be protesting. As it is, pretty much crickets. If you don't save the State Library you're going to lose more seats to indies, Teals & Greens. Interested now? #vicpol
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If a Liberal State Government was wrecking the Victorian #StateLibrary & trashing the services it exists to provide, ALP members might be protesting. As it is, pretty much crickets. If you don't save the State Library you're going to lose more seats to indies, Teals & Greens. Interested now? #vicpol
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The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding.
By Georgina Woods
By Georgina Woods
The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods
The minister says quick approvals can happen while protecting the environment, but my experience tells me that haste brings unintended consequences
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November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding.
By Georgina Woods
By Georgina Woods
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Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
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The Victorian ALP government will proudly open the new #StateLibrary underground train station with giant murals taken from its collections as clueless Library management is dismantling its public services & failing to properly research, protect, and tell the stories of our past & present. #fiasco
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The Victorian ALP government will proudly open the new #StateLibrary underground train station with giant murals taken from its collections as clueless Library management is dismantling its public services & failing to properly research, protect, and tell the stories of our past & present. #fiasco
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for the first time in its racist murderous history, an officer of the NSW Police has been found guilty of causing death of an Aboriginal person ❤️🩹name and pic of Aboriginal person in article💔
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'This should be the outcome': Officer guilty over fatal police pursuit crash
Benedict Bryant had pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving occasioning death over the crash in inner Sydney in February 2022, which killed Jai Wright.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
for the first time in its racist murderous history, an officer of the NSW Police has been found guilty of causing death of an Aboriginal person ❤️🩹name and pic of Aboriginal person in article💔
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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BREAKING: Pauline Hanson is in hot water after it’s revealed she charged taxpayers thousands$ for flights, priv cars & hotels to attend her private court matter where it was found she Racially discriminated Mehreen Faruqi.
She classifies it as work.
Should pay it back & Resign.
She classifies it as work.
Should pay it back & Resign.
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
BREAKING: Pauline Hanson is in hot water after it’s revealed she charged taxpayers thousands$ for flights, priv cars & hotels to attend her private court matter where it was found she Racially discriminated Mehreen Faruqi.
She classifies it as work.
Should pay it back & Resign.
She classifies it as work.
Should pay it back & Resign.
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NSW legislating to get rid of doli incapax, the presumption that 10 year olds are not mature enough to understand criminal behaviour brings to mind that Vietnam maxim, having to destroy the village to save it.
NSW AG Michael Daley saying it's in the best interest of children 🙄 #auspol
NSW AG Michael Daley saying it's in the best interest of children 🙄 #auspol
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
NSW legislating to get rid of doli incapax, the presumption that 10 year olds are not mature enough to understand criminal behaviour brings to mind that Vietnam maxim, having to destroy the village to save it.
NSW AG Michael Daley saying it's in the best interest of children 🙄 #auspol
NSW AG Michael Daley saying it's in the best interest of children 🙄 #auspol
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The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
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November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
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Just once it would be a comfort if an ALP member actually lived up to their sacred principles rather than squibbing them at the first opportunity. Otherwise they should wind up the whole thing and stop taking up space.
So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Just once it would be a comfort if an ALP member actually lived up to their sacred principles rather than squibbing them at the first opportunity. Otherwise they should wind up the whole thing and stop taking up space.
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This is a welcome relief that Labor and the Greens worked together
Could you have imagined the shit show of an ‘environmental’ bill that was left to Labor and Liberals
Could you have imagined the shit show of an ‘environmental’ bill that was left to Labor and Liberals
The Greens have secured enviro laws with new protections for native forests & stopped Labor from fast-tracking coal & gas.
We’ve got outcomes that forest campaigners have fought for across decades.
We’ve made it harder for big corporations to keep wrecking our environment.
We’ve got outcomes that forest campaigners have fought for across decades.
We’ve made it harder for big corporations to keep wrecking our environment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is a welcome relief that Labor and the Greens worked together
Could you have imagined the shit show of an ‘environmental’ bill that was left to Labor and Liberals
Could you have imagined the shit show of an ‘environmental’ bill that was left to Labor and Liberals
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How is it possible to spend $100m on a website? One that presumably uses pretty much the same data-feeds and systems at the back-end as the old one?
Someone saw them coming...
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Someone saw them coming...
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Have you seen the new BoM website? Everyone is so mad about it | First Dog on the Moon
We just want things to work! Why is that too much to ask at the end of the world?
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
How is it possible to spend $100m on a website? One that presumably uses pretty much the same data-feeds and systems at the back-end as the old one?
Someone saw them coming...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Someone saw them coming...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“For over 15 years, the CSIRO has been subjected to a death by a thousand cuts.”
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The Bookkeeper and the Visionary: How Profit Strangles the Ideas That Could Save Us
There is a fundamental, often fatal, mismatch between the world of the bookkeeper and the mind of the visionary. The bookkeeper operates in a universe of defined columns – black ink for profit, red fo...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
“For over 15 years, the CSIRO has been subjected to a death by a thousand cuts.”
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I'm really enjoying the Festival of Pococks Making Sense.
How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I'm really enjoying the Festival of Pococks Making Sense.
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So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
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Here’s my question: why should the providers earn more for complex care when it’s the worker who gets paid the same whether they take a client to the movies or do manual lifts and personal hygiene with significant behaviours of concern?
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Here’s my question: why should the providers earn more for complex care when it’s the worker who gets paid the same whether they take a client to the movies or do manual lifts and personal hygiene with significant behaviours of concern?
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"What sort of monster makes casinos pay tax and bans them from money laundering?" chaser.com.au/business/bil...
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"What sort of monster makes casinos pay tax and bans them from money laundering?" chaser.com.au/business/bil...
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@davidgerard.co.uk don't know if you have seen this already. Turns out the one good use of AI is detecting AI-based accounting fraud
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The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
@davidgerard.co.uk don't know if you have seen this already. Turns out the one good use of AI is detecting AI-based accounting fraud
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I've been in IT/dev over 35yrs & worked on some of the largest websites in Australia as well as similar for the US. I seriously have NFI how a redesign could cost $96.5m & I'd be checking to see if anyone's stashed a few $m in an offshore act somewhere.
#auspol
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#auspol
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BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m
Environment minister Murray Watt ‘not happy’ with cost blowout and has shared concerns with new Bureau of Meteorology boss
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November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I've been in IT/dev over 35yrs & worked on some of the largest websites in Australia as well as similar for the US. I seriously have NFI how a redesign could cost $96.5m & I'd be checking to see if anyone's stashed a few $m in an offshore act somewhere.
#auspol
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#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Nationals: "too dumb to stand in the shade on a hot day."
What sheep know about the benefits of wind turbines that Australia's National Party doesn't
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Nationals: "too dumb to stand in the shade on a hot day."
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#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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“A third of Australian families are food insecure. NDIS is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, we have committed up to $368 billion to buy nuclear submarines that will be built in the United States.”
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Asset-Stripping a Nation: How Australia's Government is Trading Your Future for Empire
A third of Australian families are food insecure. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, the government ...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“A third of Australian families are food insecure. NDIS is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, we have committed up to $368 billion to buy nuclear submarines that will be built in the United States.”
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