Yes so many sectors would suffer without migrants - aged care, nursing, cleaners, taxi drivers, delivery drivers etc

I'm uneasy at the apparent campaign to prepare the ground for cuts in #ndis, creating stress and anxiety for many who just want their basic needs met, while other huge expenses including fossil fuels and many billions blowout in the Defence budget are fine apparantly.

The worry is that the new improved version will be automated assessments, without human input, and not appealable. Nothing has been learnt from #robodebt. This is not an improvement, and will create risk to the health and safety of participants. Thank you for advocating for a better designed system

A textbook when I was studying environmental science in 1978 greatly affected my understanding of the limits to growth, written by this man. He's had to withstand big criticism, but hey he was unfortunately right. www.facebook.com/reel/1476845...

NDIS participants work more and feel better after accessing the scheme New analysis by the e61 Institute, which tracks NDIS participants over more than a decade, finds substantial improvements to their workforce participation and self-reported energy levels within four y...

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All this propaganda about the #ndis costing too much, when the flow of money isn't one way. Research shows for every $1 spent by govt, $2.25 returns to the economy. It creates jobs, it makes life easier & more productive for recipients. Stop blaming people with disability & look at Aukus, Defense

It's the cruelty to #ndis participants that gets me. The anxiety and stress at having provision of basic needs cut goes against the very original intention of the #ndis, while the many billions going to corporations, the Defence blowouts and AUKUS free flows.

While #ndis has become a battle ground of budget reduction between carers, people with a disability just seeking to get their basic needs met, and #ndia, many billions keep flowing to corporations and Defence budget blowouts. Stop making vulnerable people have to fight so long & hard for basic care

Yes fund big corporations and Defence $38 billion budge blow out, but the needs of the disabled? We have to beg, jump through hoops and appeal through stress and anxiety. #ndis

Defence has 38 billion in cost blowouts, but let's keep cutting the #ndis

Defence's huge waste while #ndis cuts continue

So much waste from Defence but we still have to cut back on #ndis spending

New gas and coal, acting for donors, sycophant to US and Israel, Robo-ndis and aged care assessments, no anti gambling legislation, AUkUS, environmental laws that allow huge clearing of wilderness in the NT. I could go on!

Thank you for speaking for the millions of us who are appalled at our obsequious pathetic politicians supporting the monsters of war and genocide. @albomp.bsky.social

NOT IN MY NAME!! @albomp.bsky.social

It's such a relief to hear basic common sense being applied to the functioning (or dysfunction) of our world, and what needs to change. Our current leaders are taking us to planetary and social apocolypse, here is finally a leader with clarity. www.facebook.com/share/r/1FV2...

Yes taking away the valuable input of those closest to the participants is another reason there are so many problems

So many bad consequences of assessment tools used to decide what supports our most vulnerable need, with insufficient human oversight and adjustments. #agedcare and #ndis The warnings are coming, has nothing been learnt about the huge cost of these so-called efficiencies?

Alcoa's green efforts dubbed 'disappointing' by WA premier after $55m payment Roger Cook criticises Alcoa's environmental record for being "not at the level we expect", after the US mining giant agreed to pay $55 million for clearing a native jarrah forest in WA's south without...

Wow, Alcoa has been naughty enough for the WA Premier to criticise them! This makes me so angry. A measly fine! This destruction is not reversible, rehab of rare jarrah forest IS NOT POSSIBLE! Yet, carry on chaps, keep up the destruction. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Yes exactly! A breathless excited coverage of the most dreary, boring event. The #abcnews biases towards the #libs were showing embarrasingly. I had to turn off before I vomited.

The same this morning when the whole (1 hour I watched until I couldn't) of #abcnews breakfast was devoted to the voting of the Libs. The #abc (Lib fans) seriously overestimate the interest of their audience in the irrelevant, un-electables. It's not as though there isn't plenty else to report on.

Some of the Jewish community asked, not THE (whole) Jewish community!

So great you are returning, I missed you all, your insights and discussions are a breath of fresh air, thanks for coming back

Smiling sitting woman in patterned red dress, holding a walking stick, with dry white salt lake, a line of green reeds and cloudy blue sky in the background, with the words 'Little Body Huge Life Finding Freedom in any Body Suchita Vanessa Smith

I'm thrilled and excited that after 15 years (off and on) work, my book 'Little Body Huge Life - Finding Freedom in Any Body', is going to be launched on March 7. Thank you to #castlemountmedia and the donors on my #gofundme for all your support bringing it to fruition.

BRING BACK 'THE DRUM'!

While it's good to see the rorting providers being caught, could we stop punishing participants for the big costs, and properly fund their needs?

I've watched 2 episodes of Goolagong so far, and each time the story, what and who she had to deal with, have stayed with me. And I've learnt so much more about her. Beautifully made and acted, and yes the young one is a natural.

I don't understand why the Adelaide Writers didn't consider what happened to the Bendigo Festival; it's not like there wasn't already a real life example of how catastrophic censorship can be for the organisation and event.

This feels like such a betrayal. Instead of improving the #ndis they are making it worse for participants, creating more stress and anxiety, less safe for the people it is meant to be helping. First principle of it should be DO NO HARM. Oversight by qualified assessors, right to appeal is important

NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul Exclusive: Staff were told of major changes to the way NDIS funding and support plans will be made during a recent internal briefing

This is a big worry. Minimal input from actual people, no medical input, limited appeal opportunities, sounds like no lessons learnt from #Robodebt. Anxiety, stress and limited assistance for the very people this is meant to help. The govt hasn't been listening. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...