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Jeremy Poxon

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The Department freely admits in these docs that compliance punishments hurt welfare recipients' chances of finding work - then chose to enact harsher punishments against them.

Because that's the whole point of employment services - they can't play dumb on that intent anymore

"The data also shows that the continued use of compliance action against some individuals does not
lead to improved outcomes. Job seekers who received a payment suspension were less likely to
subsequently achieve short or long-term employment outcomes than those who had never had a
suspension and, the more suspensions applied, the lower the outcome rate (Figure 2.2). The same
relationship was observed for financial penalties, but employment outcomes were even lower
(Figure 2.3). These negative relationships remain even when accounting for age, length
unemployment length, education level and circumstances such as disability or homelessness. It
cannot be concluded that the repeated use of payment suspensions and compliance penalties
against these job seekers is the reason for their poor outcomes, since job seekers who are
disengaged and non-compliant, for any reason, are clearly going to be less inclined or have less
capacity to find work than generally compliant job seekers. However, it is reasonable to conclude
that the repeated use of suspensions and the current range of penalties against this group does not
appear to have a deterrent effect. This may be due to the fact that currently penalties generally
small or are able to be waived."

November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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Nick Feik

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You may recall that the Albanese govt rammed through laws to shield the salmon industry earlier this year- against all scientific advice and without consultation.
This is on them too.

Our laws were in danger of doing what they were supposed to do - so they were changed

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November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM

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Nick Feik

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“The Department of Public Health issued separate advice on 7 November recommending recreational fishers avoid eating fish caught within 3km of treated pens for 21 days after treatment ends.”
What a disgrace.

November 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM

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pjcrowley.bsky.social

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I hope we aren't foolish enough to put away the pitchforks when they offer us a couple of sacrificial pedophiles. We need a much more thorough housecleaning, including the political class, the financiers, the media, and all the other dirtballs who participated, enabled, and covered up these crimes.

November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Seth Abramson

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1/ First, the indisputable context. Major-media journalists who omit the context are committing malpractice in the age of metajournalism.

“Donald Trump, the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who has faced 67 discrete allegations of sexual misconduct and has regularly expressed attraction to...

November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM