It’s time to reset the NDIS to ensure it is there for those that need it the most | Martin Laverty Mark Butler’s proposed plan offers a significant opportunity to redefine the scheme for people with permanent and significant disabilities

"Save the NDIS for those who need it the most" is a framing that worries me.

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Cinema Paradiso (1988) The Magic of Cinema | 4K YouTube video by RikiBuster Video

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Look, this NDIS stuff. It’s not the recipients. It’s the legalised grift of providers. It’s privatisation for profit. And even with NFP’s it’s still about making profit. It’s yet another thing Labor did without looking critically at the possibility of it going wrong. #NationaliseNDIS

Read Evelyn Araluen’s blistering resignation letter to University of Queensland Press Evelyn Araluen is an award-winning writer published by UQP. Her most recent book, _The Rot,_ won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award this year and is short-listed for The Stella Prize. After Lamestream broke the news that the University of Queensland Press had cancelled the publication of a children’s book, _Bila, a river cycle_ , written by Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun, citing the University's controversial new anti-Semitism policy, Araluen announced she was leaving the publisher. This is her termination email in full: * * * _Dear XXXXXXXX,_ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

After Lamestream broke the news that the University of Queensland Press had cancelled the publication of a children’s book, award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen has terminated her relationship with UQP.

‘Clear case of cronyism’: Former school building boss Anthony Manning found corrupt by ICAC The ICAC has released the findings of Operation Landan, a long-running investigation into former School Infrastructure NSW chief executive Anthony Manning.

The ICAC said it had found Manning, who held one of the most senior roles in the NSW education system, engaged in corrupt conduct, spending millions of dollars intended for school projects on consultants and contingent workers who were his friends and associates.

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Imagine a California where families and workers don't just survive, they flourish. That’s the roadmap. 

Better schools, housing that’s affordable, cleaner air, and a health care system that sees you as a human being first.

Let’s make it happen.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥
Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

Freedom (1982) Official Trailer YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

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Sign the Petition Save 2SER-FM

Sydney's much-loved community radio station 2SER-FM is under imminent threat. We've started a petition to go to UTS, (the uni that will make the call). WE DON'T WANT MONEY, just your support. Can you help? c.org/xnykpfBd7r Please share.

What do YOU think about Taxing the 1%? YouTube video by Australian Greens

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Someone suggested it could be to indicate private schools are having a problem with bad manners?

The Wayback Machine getting caught in the Al lawsuits is a consequence of our ineffective government YouTube video by Peter Zezas

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New detection tech could make AUKUS submarines obsolete Chinese researchers have developed a new gravity-based detector that could be used to find submarines and render the proposed AUKUS submarine redundant.

A new Chinese gravity-based detector could make stealth submarines obsolete.
That raises serious questions about the long-term viability of AUKUS, John Queripel writes.
#auspol #AUKUS #Defence #China #Geopolitics

Meet the private school girl on a mission to make everyone use good manners Frankie Johnston is tired of eye-rolls and her peers not standing on public transport. Now she wants to do something about it.

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Very big call. Almost sorry I missed it…

This. They're moving toward antivirals that kill multiple viruses with mRNA. Cancer cures. And they don't have to poison my neighbors to do any of that.

_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis." https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

Opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald about community radio station 2SER-FM. Titled 'Shutting this priceless cultural asset would hurt.'

The University of Technology in Sydney is poised to close community radio station 2SER-FM. Here's my opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, arguing that it would be pure folly to do so.

The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly? The way we deal with rising inflation is highly problematic.

the policy was set in stone when the gig economy was the cash economy, when official figures did not remotely resemble actual economic-exchange-care activity. Now everything is transactionalised.

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Learn more about protecting yourself from the threats of AI at our online event this week. This event is hosted by the Society of Authors Cymru and is free for all, but hurry – there are just a few days left to book your ticket.

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The new head of the Australian military is taking his first international trip to the US as part of the $375 billion AUKUS scam.

While there, he will be the keynote speaker at a $ 5,000-a-head corporate event run by former Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

The system is rigged.

Moya Brennan, Whose Gaelic Pop Band Won Worldwide Fame, Dies at 73

Vale.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

Number go up Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

Here's an infuriating fact: Elon Musk’s fortune could pay the average salary for every public school teacher in the US for three years.

Take a look at these charts that tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap that it makes a profit selling it on to other countries!

Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_royalties

Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail after being charged with five counts of war crime murder Former SAS corporal to be released from Silverwater prison ahead of potential trial on charges relating to alleged killing of civilians in Afghanistan

Has anyone heard of a man charged with mass murder been granted bail before?
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A few more photos of Adelaide's grey-headed flying-foxes for International Bat Appreciation Day (17 April).
The last photo shows one drinking water off its chest after dipping into the river.