In the wake of robodebt, Services Australia will be ambitious with AI The agency's boss details how AI will be used by the organisation.

Services Australia CEO David Hazlehurst pulls in a $828K salary (more than @albomp.bsky.social). In the wake of #Robodebt he’s ‘ambitious’  about using AI to deal with welfare recipients. What could possibly go wrong? #auspol

My son committed suicide over this criminal scheme, I’ve been fighting for over 8yrs, we need justice 💔🤬💔

Tomorrow 5/2 @BarbaraPocock will be making a speech in Parliament on behalf of #Robodebt victims & the failure of #NACC, thank you @BarbaraPocock for your continued support, we need more of you 💔♥️💔

Rhys took his life over #Robodebt, 26/01/17, he received a final letter of demand, for $18000 on 23/01/17, went to his doctor in distress on 25/1/17, they did nothing, he then took his life 26/01/17 #Robodebt #NACC 🤬💔💔🤬

Finally received a reply from @MarkDreyfusKCMP re my 12500 signature petition re #NACC & the failure of the investigation into #Robodebt, lots of blubber & platitudes, inc “so sorry about your loss”, they don’t give a shit 💩

From the RBA's statement the only real conclusion is they want more people to be unemployed.

Nearly 200,000 households are at risk of breaching their home loans Close to 200,000 households are either already breaching their mortgage contracts, or risk doing so, as the surging cost of home insurance forces many to dump their policies.

Would have been good to have just a little more attention given to @sharanjit.bsky.social's heroic efforts to point to climate change as a threat to Australia's heady mix of natural disasters, insurance costs, climate-change linked inflation and the mountain of debt on which the country rests.

Paul Fletcher didn’t want to lose his seat lol

Liberal MP Paul Fletcher announces he will not run for re-election Liberal MP Paul Fletcher has announced he will not run for re-election at the next federal election. In a statement, Fletcher said it had been a “privilege” to serve as the MP for Bradfield, as well as a parliamentary secretary, minister and cabinet minister between 2013 and 2022, and as a senior opposition frontbencher since May 2022. Last week I marked fifteen years as Member for Bradfield. Renewal is healthy, for people and institutions, and now is the right time to hand over the baton. I expect some outstanding people will put themselves forward to be the next Liberal candidate for Bradfield, and to serve the people of Bradfield with energy and commitment. That Liberal candidate, once chosen through our party processes, will have my full support … I will continue to serve my constituents in Bradfield for the balance of this parliamentary term.

Fletcher leaves rather than loses at the election

A few things this post did do is help me discover new people, follow some great accounts back - and happily weed out some insufferable arseholes 😎

Thanks for all your suggestions on how you'd like to see politics covered. I am going to take some time to go through it and have a think about what can be done x

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Jesus wept. Life sentences for 10 year olds who are so vulnerable they won’t even be allowed on social media for another six years.

Seriously FMD.

“Get out of the way:” Manufacturer wants more renewables to soften price crunch and avoid shutdowns Manufacturer of wind farm anchor cages wants governments to “get out of the way” and allow more renewables to be built to prevent more price crunches and shutdowns.

“Really simply: if the renewable energy projects that should have been built by now had been built, we wouldn’t have been in this situation.”

Australian manufacturer calls for government to build new renewable power.

My latest in @reneweconomy.com.au

The Coalition minister and the corruption watchdog Podcast Episode · 7am · 17/11/2024 · 15m

Unbelievable what the #NACC has devolved into and how badly it has botched the investigation into #Robodebt - thank god for @squigglyrick.bsky.social shedding light on these issues. This morning’s @7ampodcast.bsky.social is well worth a listen… #auspol
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The sense of RELIEF I feel

Continuing a great tradition

a cheery bunch!

I paid $US300 for that Heller quote and I would do it again

Good Lord. At least the jaw-droppingly inept performance of Brereton at Senate Estimates should hasten his resignation but the self-righteousness of the man is astonishing.

For decades, power protected Alan Jones. Now he’s facing his own reckoning Once The Man Who Ran Sydney, Jones’ grip loosened as society changed, and he refused to change with it.

Interesting. In every article I have read about the fall of Alan Jones, no mention of the thousands & thousands of women on social media who responded to his sexist remarks about women ‘destroying the joint’ one memorable weekend, causing the exit of many advertisers. www.smh.com.au/national/for...

Slick A riveting expose of the global oil industry’s multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to address environmental devastation.

And *finally* if you enjoyed this series, and want more of my work or are interested more in what the oil and gas industry was up to in Australia, check out my book, Slick, which is available now:

Revealed: Oil Majors Used A Little-Known UN-Affiliated Organization to Seed the Economic Argument Against Climate Action New documents show that as the fossil fuel industry worked to skew the scientific understanding of climate change, it also funded and promoted research to help make an economic argument against acting...

And here's the second looking how the oil and gas industry, through Ipieca, coordinated with people like Fisher to help shape economic thought and language to further its interests:

Exactly. A politically switched-on PM would be out there angrily demanding his (metaphorical) head on a pike, and gaining a boost in popularity as a result.
It’s just incredible political malpractice.
#NACC #RoboDebt

This guy. Wow.