Same company btw (the biggest one -2Apply)

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go? Exclusive: Former candidates accuse party of enriching itself at their expense, while insiders lift veil on chaos in Brisbane HQ – and staffers’ contempt for rank-and-file members

Great journalism from Sarah Martin - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bonkers. Average of 3 articles a week in The Oz over 2.5 years about Abdel- Fattah. Average of more than one front page story a month.

ETTE-SCLUSIVE: Data exposes The Australian’s campaign against Dr Randa Abdel- Fattah A sweeping data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by News Corp's The Australian targeting Palestinian-Egyptian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah...

A data analysis by @ettemedia.bsky.social shows just how insane the Australian campaign against Randa Abdel-Fattah has been.

www.ettemedia.com/exclusive-me...

ETTE-SCLUSIVE: Data exposes The Australian’s campaign against Dr Randa Abdel- Fattah A sweeping data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by News Corp's The Australian targeting Palestinian-Egyptian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah...

EXCLUSIVE: A data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by The Australian targeting Randa Abdel-Fattah. The paper has written more articles on her than Nine papers, Guardian, ACM papers & ABCNews online COMBINED

www.ettemedia.com/exclusive-me...

I've navigated a lot of systems, grants, funding interfaces and admin in my time, but the NDIS is by far the most complex, tedious and hard to understand. We should have a health system that values providing care for everyone who needs it instead of treating that support as a rort on the system.

A note for all podcasts that allow people to swear:

Either tell the guests before the show that they are allowed to swear or cut out the part after the guest swears for the first time where they say “oh sorry are we allowed to swear on this”

If Trump’s allies (yes, Albanese and Wong - that’s you) aren’t explicitly warning Trump against nuclear weapons they are complicit

Paddington in Speed Racer (2008)

Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1847

A letter to the National Press Club.
Send them your thoughts too, please.

Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."

The media wants disabled people to be locked inside until they die - The Shot If you’ve had the misfortune of reading the Murdoch press or the Australian Financial Review at all in the past...

Here's @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social. "The media wants disabled people to be locked inside until they die"

why is there a 30 rock joke in the Apple Big Little Lies ripoff

"At least once a week, every week, 1800 RESPECT – run by Telstra Health – is being subpoenaed, and not only is the $147 million government-funded service handing over confidential client notes, but 1800 RESPECT is also handing over complete audio recordings of victim counselling sessions"

Back in 2017, then Social Services Minister Christian Porter told the SMH I was "grossly irresponsible" because my org had stopped referring rape victims to 1800Respect because we were concerned they wouldn't fight subpoenas.

I hate to say it, but we told you so.

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...

The NACC robodebt report: A heartbreaking work of staggering incompetence Rick Morton wrote the book on robodebt. He delivers a damning verdict on the NACC's long-awaited robodebt report, which exonerated Scott Morrison and Kathryn Campbell.

The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...

tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant

They truly want you to believe this shit is inevitable and actually better than human endeavor but the one surefire thing that can stop it is not agreeing to the first two things. That’s all! That also means not willingly feeding it. It’s not difficult to avoid using it!

The thing is it's good for human beings to be teachers and artists and bad for human beings to destroy their bodies with grueling labor. A humanist politics should aim for automation to replace the latter as much as possible but not the former. Good things are good. Bad things are bad.

The network of Liberals behind two 'grassroots' childcare campaigns The childcare groups say they are the voices for everyday parents. What they don't mention is that they are supported by a network of current and former Liberals.

“A network of current and former Liberals is quietly behind two childcare groups who call themselves ordinary parents campaigning for the cost of au pairs, nannies and other in-home care to be subsidised by the federal government.”

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

Why now is the time to be loudly anti-war We don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin.

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

Outsourced call centre sweeps Centrelink customer privacy breaches ‘under the rug’, staff allege Workers accuse government-contracted Telco Services Australia of fabricating performance statistics, denying adequate breaks and penalising staff for taking leave

The welfare system is not safe for welfare recipients and not safe for the workers employed in it.

New NDIS reform is in chaos, insiders say Documents seen by Crikey show that senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency have warned that the policy design of the so-called New Framework Planning is in disarray.

Exclusive: Senior NDIA staff have warned that the policy design aimed at overhauling the scheme by relinquishing human involvement to an algorithmic “engine” is in chaos, writes Rick Morton.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/05/r...

Exclusive: NDIS algorithm designed to put scheme back on track at 'critical risk' Documents seen by Crikey show that senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency have warned that the policy design of the so-called New Framework Planning is in disarray.

I've been shown NDIS agency documents that warn the introduction of a support needs assessment and 'robo-planning' is a mess with every element of the tech listed as off track and now at 'critical risk'. Agency booked savings, but they're figuring it out as they go. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/05/r...

📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.

If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:

robodebtsettlement.com.au

The Howard Effect: In the Shadows of the Australian Dream It’s just over two years into his first term and John Howard is taking the country to another election. In that short time he has seized the mantle of economic credibility away from Labor and rewritte...

Th final part of our three part series featuring @amyremeikis.bsky.social on John Howard’s legacy is out today. Today’s focus: the culture wars, asylum seekers and racial division. 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the...