Lias
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The Sunday Shot. Not your usual hackneyed Sunday morning political affairs fare!
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Tomorrow's #SundayShot has @mariecolemanao.bsky.social on the Dismissal, @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the Victorian Treaty...and I went to @punterspolitics.bsky.social's dinner in Canberra.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The Sunday Shot. Not your usual hackneyed Sunday morning political affairs fare!
Don't miss it, or you'll miss it.
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Just showed the boys some select scenes of Jurassic Park and the older toddler goes “I hope they’re ok!” And I say: it’s ok, look, the little boy and the girl are safe! To which he says
No. I mean the velociraptors.
No. I mean the velociraptors.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just showed the boys some select scenes of Jurassic Park and the older toddler goes “I hope they’re ok!” And I say: it’s ok, look, the little boy and the girl are safe! To which he says
No. I mean the velociraptors.
No. I mean the velociraptors.
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"More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf"
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
Weaponising media. National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors - Michael West
More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf.
michaelwest.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Misogyny aside; the LNP’s wilful ignorance in regard to all things scientific is a serious concern
Any party that chooses to base its political views and values on misinterpretations of biblical myths written over 3,000 years ago should not be allowed to govern anything
Any party that chooses to base its political views and values on misinterpretations of biblical myths written over 3,000 years ago should not be allowed to govern anything
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Misogyny aside; the LNP’s wilful ignorance in regard to all things scientific is a serious concern
Any party that chooses to base its political views and values on misinterpretations of biblical myths written over 3,000 years ago should not be allowed to govern anything
Any party that chooses to base its political views and values on misinterpretations of biblical myths written over 3,000 years ago should not be allowed to govern anything
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Care for a castle in France's magnificent Bourgogne?
It'll cost you half a million $AU *less* than the median Sydney house price.
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It'll cost you half a million $AU *less* than the median Sydney house price.
www.leboncoin.fr/vi/304965509...
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Care for a castle in France's magnificent Bourgogne?
It'll cost you half a million $AU *less* than the median Sydney house price.
www.leboncoin.fr/vi/304965509...
It'll cost you half a million $AU *less* than the median Sydney house price.
www.leboncoin.fr/vi/304965509...
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"I had actually been diagnosed with malnutrition and scurvy.
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"I had actually been diagnosed with malnutrition and scurvy.
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
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As I was effectively reporting on myself, I contacted MSM peers and The Age reporter, Gareth Hutchins 'took the story' and I 'handed' (sent) him all my notes and recordings. (Not ethical to report on oneself unless it can be justified ethically).
See: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
See: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Jobless treated same as offenders
People who are asked to join work-for-the-dole program may end up doing the same work, and working alongside, people completing court-ordered community service for breaking the law.
www.theage.com.au
October 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
As I was effectively reporting on myself, I contacted MSM peers and The Age reporter, Gareth Hutchins 'took the story' and I 'handed' (sent) him all my notes and recordings. (Not ethical to report on oneself unless it can be justified ethically).
See: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
See: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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"Sure am," I responded. I was also wired to the dictaphone in my pocket, recording it all.
Heck, they even tried to send me to an English class to learn to read and write ffs.
So, yes, get rid of it & bring back the CES.
Heck, they even tried to send me to an English class to learn to read and write ffs.
So, yes, get rid of it & bring back the CES.
October 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"Sure am," I responded. I was also wired to the dictaphone in my pocket, recording it all.
Heck, they even tried to send me to an English class to learn to read and write ffs.
So, yes, get rid of it & bring back the CES.
Heck, they even tried to send me to an English class to learn to read and write ffs.
So, yes, get rid of it & bring back the CES.
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I soon worked out that I'd 'upset the apple cart' and at that meeting the Russo staffer asked me "why was I conducting reporting on a mutual obligation worksite?"
So, I responded: "As you asked, I'm working to improve my employment prospects."
The staff then asked if I was taking notes.
7/🧵
So, I responded: "As you asked, I'm working to improve my employment prospects."
The staff then asked if I was taking notes.
7/🧵
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I soon worked out that I'd 'upset the apple cart' and at that meeting the Russo staffer asked me "why was I conducting reporting on a mutual obligation worksite?"
So, I responded: "As you asked, I'm working to improve my employment prospects."
The staff then asked if I was taking notes.
7/🧵
So, I responded: "As you asked, I'm working to improve my employment prospects."
The staff then asked if I was taking notes.
7/🧵
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It was a mix of those sentenced by Victorian courts to 'community work' and those "sentenced" by mutual obligation doing the same tasks at the same places.
So I started interviewing them. I filed reports. Some made the local Leader newspapers (Murdoch) I once filed and worked for.
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So I started interviewing them. I filed reports. Some made the local Leader newspapers (Murdoch) I once filed and worked for.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It was a mix of those sentenced by Victorian courts to 'community work' and those "sentenced" by mutual obligation doing the same tasks at the same places.
So I started interviewing them. I filed reports. Some made the local Leader newspapers (Murdoch) I once filed and worked for.
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So I started interviewing them. I filed reports. Some made the local Leader newspapers (Murdoch) I once filed and worked for.
3/🧵
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Yep. When I left Murdoch and became a (then) unemployed freelancer, yes, I went on 'the dole' for a while.
I had to sign up for a Sarina Russo job agency and meet the mutual obligations crap. So we saw an opportunity to both 'flip the script' and continue being a journo.
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I had to sign up for a Sarina Russo job agency and meet the mutual obligations crap. So we saw an opportunity to both 'flip the script' and continue being a journo.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Yep. When I left Murdoch and became a (then) unemployed freelancer, yes, I went on 'the dole' for a while.
I had to sign up for a Sarina Russo job agency and meet the mutual obligations crap. So we saw an opportunity to both 'flip the script' and continue being a journo.
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I had to sign up for a Sarina Russo job agency and meet the mutual obligations crap. So we saw an opportunity to both 'flip the script' and continue being a journo.
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End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
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So when Russo's agency assigned me to some useless task to 'improve' employment prospects, we showed up, but we had all our journo gear (pen, pad, dictaphone) in our pockets.
Realising what I had in front of me, I started speaking to others doing the same 'mutual obligations'
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Realising what I had in front of me, I started speaking to others doing the same 'mutual obligations'
2/🧵
October 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
So when Russo's agency assigned me to some useless task to 'improve' employment prospects, we showed up, but we had all our journo gear (pen, pad, dictaphone) in our pockets.
Realising what I had in front of me, I started speaking to others doing the same 'mutual obligations'
2/🧵
Realising what I had in front of me, I started speaking to others doing the same 'mutual obligations'
2/🧵
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Excellent thread
Yep. When I left Murdoch and became a (then) unemployed freelancer, yes, I went on 'the dole' for a while.
I had to sign up for a Sarina Russo job agency and meet the mutual obligations crap. So we saw an opportunity to both 'flip the script' and continue being a journo.
1/🧵
I had to sign up for a Sarina Russo job agency and meet the mutual obligations crap. So we saw an opportunity to both 'flip the script' and continue being a journo.
1/🧵
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Excellent thread
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Just my thoughts.
Yesterday, I was out in the field across Melbourne's north-east suburbs. Reservoir, Mill Park, Greensborough, Eltham, Lalor, Epping, Montmorency etc and I noticed something ...
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Yesterday, I was out in the field across Melbourne's north-east suburbs. Reservoir, Mill Park, Greensborough, Eltham, Lalor, Epping, Montmorency etc and I noticed something ...
1/
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Just my thoughts.
Yesterday, I was out in the field across Melbourne's north-east suburbs. Reservoir, Mill Park, Greensborough, Eltham, Lalor, Epping, Montmorency etc and I noticed something ...
1/
Yesterday, I was out in the field across Melbourne's north-east suburbs. Reservoir, Mill Park, Greensborough, Eltham, Lalor, Epping, Montmorency etc and I noticed something ...
1/
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So then we all (the locals kids) went and got 27MHz CB radios and soon had our own network across Greensborough, Montmorency, Eltham etc) Channel 18, on 27MHz CB 'the Greensborough' channel.
When we got cut off we kids found a way around it. That was the 1980s and 90s. Social media ban? lmfao.
When we got cut off we kids found a way around it. That was the 1980s and 90s. Social media ban? lmfao.
October 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
So then we all (the locals kids) went and got 27MHz CB radios and soon had our own network across Greensborough, Montmorency, Eltham etc) Channel 18, on 27MHz CB 'the Greensborough' channel.
When we got cut off we kids found a way around it. That was the 1980s and 90s. Social media ban? lmfao.
When we got cut off we kids found a way around it. That was the 1980s and 90s. Social media ban? lmfao.
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The social media ban won't work.
I'm of the 'one phone' in the loungeroom/hallway days.
One day, when Mum was out, Dad at work, my bro and I, well, we climbed under the house and patched in our own phone lines. (This idiot forgot to turn the ringer off and got busted by Dad days later, grounded).
I'm of the 'one phone' in the loungeroom/hallway days.
One day, when Mum was out, Dad at work, my bro and I, well, we climbed under the house and patched in our own phone lines. (This idiot forgot to turn the ringer off and got busted by Dad days later, grounded).
October 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The social media ban won't work.
I'm of the 'one phone' in the loungeroom/hallway days.
One day, when Mum was out, Dad at work, my bro and I, well, we climbed under the house and patched in our own phone lines. (This idiot forgot to turn the ringer off and got busted by Dad days later, grounded).
I'm of the 'one phone' in the loungeroom/hallway days.
One day, when Mum was out, Dad at work, my bro and I, well, we climbed under the house and patched in our own phone lines. (This idiot forgot to turn the ringer off and got busted by Dad days later, grounded).
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Huge story here. Daniel had his payments illegally cancelled by the Mutual Obligations system. After years of bravely fighting, he exposed the error and won the backpay he was always legally entitled to
Centrelink illegally cancelled Daniel’s jobseeker payment. He fought back against the system – and won
Centrelink illegally cancelled Daniel’s jobseeker payment. He fought back against the system – and won
After taking his case to the administrative review tribunal, Daniel’s complaint then went to the commonwealth ombudsman, which is now investigating Centrelink
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Daniel’s chest tightened, his stomach dropped. The Centrelink worker at the end of the line told him his jobseeker payment had been cancelled. But he knew it wasn’t right.
Daniel is one of an estimated 310,000 Centrelink recipients who had their payments unlawfully cancelled between 2020 and 2024 because they were incorrectly told they had not met their mutual obligations under the scheme. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Huge story here. Daniel had his payments illegally cancelled by the Mutual Obligations system. After years of bravely fighting, he exposed the error and won the backpay he was always legally entitled to
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Worthless, chickenshit ANONYMOUS statement from the do-nothing Albanese Government who have done nothing to address these crises OR rebuild trust in the welfare system, have no plans for reform, & watch on uselessly as the collapsing welfare administration blows holes in legislation and the budget.
October 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Worthless, chickenshit ANONYMOUS statement from the do-nothing Albanese Government who have done nothing to address these crises OR rebuild trust in the welfare system, have no plans for reform, & watch on uselessly as the collapsing welfare administration blows holes in legislation and the budget.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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#ClimateReality in #Australia brought to you by #ClimateCriminals @australianlabor.bsky.social and leader @albomp.bsky.social.
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Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#ClimateReality in #Australia brought to you by #ClimateCriminals @australianlabor.bsky.social and leader @albomp.bsky.social.
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