Funny how the Australian government is determined to cut waste from fraud in the NDIS but won't touch the AUKUS submarine deal, which is entirely a fraud perpetrated by the US

Live: Government to cut 160,000 people from NDIS scheme as budget blows out NDIS Minister Mark Butler says the scheme was designed to support 410,000 people with a disability, but currently supports 760,000. Follow live.

Watching Labor piss it all away in real-time because they won't tax large corporations properly is both incredible and utterly predicable. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Netanyahu and Ben Gvir

"Israel is the first state in history to legislate a death sentence that applies only to one ethnic group.

There's a reason nobody has ever done this.

It's a depth of evil beyond humanity itself."

~ Daniel Lambert, KNEECAP Manager

Chart showing Profit and wages of oil and gas, compared to administration and support Admin and support: Wages $64.3bn; Profits $13.1bn Oil and gas: Wages $4bn; Profits $71.6bn

You'll often hear how the gas industry is vital for Australia because it's so big. But really the only thing big about it is its profits.

Bonnie Doon How's the serenity?

Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits | Adam Morton The government will hand over $10.8bn this financial year under the scheme that makes it cheaper for miners and other industries to use diesel and petrol

Need more articles that put numbers into real perspective:

"taxpayers will hand over nearly $10.8bn to make it cheaper for miners, farmers and some other industries to use diesel and petrol. ....
It’s more than the government spends on the air force."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#auspol

A rubbish bin / trash can at KFC that says “General Waste.

Imagine one day you go into the chicken operation you started and you’re now outranked by a bin.

I’m just curious about the number and how that got calculated. It’s all typical smear campaign - but how the hell did they get that figure?

Anyone have a link to the Watson report on the CFMEU? Libs are already out in force talking about the “$16 billion” it’s cost tax payers. I cannot for the life of me reconcile that figure and want to know how it’s calculated.

#auspol

That’s interesting - considering that education has been paid for.

Does Australia Get More Tax From Beer Than Gas? YouTube video by 10 News

Australia - 2nd biggest natural gas producer in the world and yet its beer drinkers who pay more in taxes (to the tune of $1.2 Billion). Pocock is right - what the fuck is going on in parliament?

youtu.be/UZln5YCghKo?...

#auspol

Libs are so useless they can’t even do a proper #LibSpill

Are the authors listed? Curious for referencing.

“It was Australian soldiers who liberated the Holy Land”

Mate, you’ve literally bulldozed our war graves in Gaza

How does "knowing" this information improve the outcome? Especially when it comes to travel, when the point is to experience something new. All this "knowing" just reimagines the past. It's just loop after loop, feeding back on itself, normalising based on the past.

Sounds like a great holiday!

I see this kind of take a lot in posts on AI – "The agent knows the person’s budget limits, travel history, preferences, sensitivities, and what 'best value' actually means to them."

Oh yeah. How?
Does it surveil me?
Tap what others have accumulated?
Stalk my data?
Infer from my histories?

It’s time for Labor to abandon failed reliance on “the market” to resolve the housing crisis.
Public housing has and could again play a crucial role. Labor should go back to basics, create a national public housing commission and fund it by reducing CGT and -ve gearing rip offs!

It isn't an ethical double standard, it's a lack of ethics entirely.

Their outrage isn't determined by the severity of an event. It is determined by which events can be exploited to further their political and economic agendas.

I was at the ICDE conference and LeBlanc was a speaker. It was said in passing - but SNHU was the only investor in Matter & Space and had decided to take it in house. That was after they’d spent the marketing budget. Was hard to discern what the motivation was.

View from The Hill: regardless of whether massacre was preventable, Albanese has been found wanting in meeting antisemitism crisis Published: December 15, 2025 7.14pm AEDT Author Michelle Grattan Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Disclosure statement Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Partners University of Canberra University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. View all partners DOI https://doi.org/10.64628/AA.gcumhwkkv Share article Print article Anthony Albanese cut a lonely political figure laying a small bunch of flowers at Bondi on Monday morning, as the question confronted the nation: could more have been done by leaders, and the community, to prevent this tragedy? Opinions will differ, and what we learn about the perpetrators will affect judgements. Despite this being an act of terrorism, on the evidence so far the father and son were not formally linked to a terrorist group. But without doubt, the massacre is the horrific culmination of the antisemitism epidemic that has spread like a wildfire in Australia. Most of us did not recognise the fact, but this anti-Jewish sentiment must have been embedded in sections of the Australian community – the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023 was the spark that lit a conflagration. The diversity among the people who’ve died can be seen in itself a sort of dreadful parable. They range from a ten-year-old child, Matilda, to an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Australia's journalist class has basically collectively and immediately decided last weekend's terror attacks were the direct result of anti-genocide protests and the entire political response is now going to be guided towards actions that won't prevent another terror attack

Transcript from a speech the soon to no longer be Leader of the Opposition gave at Bondi today: My team and I want you to be proud of your Jewish faith, to be able to celebrate a time like this. First they came for the Opera House, then they came to the Harbour Bridge, now they've come for Bondi, but we will not let them win. [Applause]

Sussan Ley out there fostering hate and division. The Liberal Party has not learned one lesson from its election loss. They only now appeal to extremists.

Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross.

Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.

Surely we should be using Robodebt as a precedent for not doing this … and as an ethical and legal risk that should have killed this a long time ago.

Final presentation of the year delivered. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve presented about #11ty for #ReclaimOpen25, open learning design systems for #OERCamp and yesterday on my teams work to Reframe learning design as a solution to complex problems at #Ascilite2025.

Not much action on the #ascilite hashtags for a while... So who's coming to #Adelaide for #Ascilite2025 #Ascilite25?

Interesting... I hadn't seen that take on casual Friday, where it revolves around footwear.

View from the top of the cable car across Wellington

Two glasses, one finished pint of blackcurrant nitro and a fall glass of ginger beer with rum.

A painted wall way with pink and blue that matched the colours of the sky

Final rays of light over the bay in Wellington.

Day 1 in #Wellington. I am absolutely wrecked - completely ruined by running on multiple timezones across a couple of days and I couldn’t think straight. Assigned some time for a nap and went walking.

Someone needs to explain the guys in suits with thongs/flip-flops/jandals though.

It was a pleasure to present this morning at #ReclaimOpen25. It's already up on YouTube, where I've included all the links to the sites mentioned. I really wanted to call out to the #11ty community, who are the ones that taught me everything I know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9At...

The grille of an guitar amplifier with the text "This one goes to 11(ty)" superimposed. 11ty has been styled to look like metal and replicate the style of the original Spinal Tap logo.

Spent the weekend finalising slides for this week's #ReclaimOpen conference. Looking forward (and slightly daunted by being on after the keynote) to sharing some thoughts on using #11ty to reclaim the open web.

Limits Having some time to think in August, I spent some time thinking about my limits.

NEW POST: Limits
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Having some time to think in August, I spent some time thinking about my limits.

#blogging4life