Greens say community has ‘no confidence’ proposed savings from NDIS will help disabled Australians Jordon Steele-John, the Greens’ spokesperson for disability inclusion, said there is “no confidence” in the community regarding proposed savings from the NDIS, set to be revealed by health minister Mark Butler today. Steele-John told RN Breakfast this morning: People cannot understand, quite rightly, in my opinion, why a government facing a budget, which is ultimately always about choices, would choose to cut their services rather than make the gas exporters pay their fair share of tax, tax Gina Rinehart or Clive Palmer a bit more, or maybe … buy one fewer submarine from Donald Trump rather than take away their ability to connect with their community or get the absolute basics they need to live. Steele-John went on to say disabeled people and their families are “sick of being used as political footballs”. We’re in a situation right now where the state government is saying we cost too much. The federal government is saying we cost too much. And in the middle are disabled people and our families who will end up receiving Less services and support. We will end up without the supports that we need to live. photo of a man in a suit with glasses talking at a mic

"We’re in a situation right now where the state govt is saying we cost too much. The federal government is saying we cost too much. And in the middle are disabled people and our families who will end up receiving Less services and support. We will end up without the supports that we need to live"

Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

Budget asks and existential dread Feeling a bit like Tweek from the 2016 South Park where President Garrison is threatening North Korea and cupcakes don’t solve the problem but I’m here making cupcakes (or muffins or wh…

I want and NEED my disabled family members to have adequate care and supports whether they're autistic or had a stroke or have another rare genetic condition. They shouldn't be used as pawns against each other because of age or when they got their disability of what that "primary" one is

07.19 AEST NDIS savings redirected to aged care Tom McIlroy Tom McIlroy The health minister, Mark Butler, will detail savings from the NDIS on Wednesday, and reveal that some of the savings will go to help older Australians with the provision of essential services like showering, dressing support and continence management. Labor is winding back elements of its aged care reforms, removing out-of-pocket costs for non clinical services in the Support at Home scheme. The government has faced criticism from advocates for elderly people, experts and aged care providers, who said these personal care services are essential for people’s independence and ability to stay at home. The minister for aged care, Sam Rae, said the changes will be effective from 1 October this year. Showering, dressing, continence care – these aren’t optional extras. They’re the basics of ageing with dignity, and no older Australian should miss out because of cost. Older Australians, their families and providers told us these services needed to be protected. We’ve listened, and we’re acting.

Don't you fucking dare pit one group of disabled Australians against another

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Promotional graphic for an In These Times article titled “Fortress Yellowstone.” The background shows a ranch gate at sunrise with a large horned skull mounted on a wooden fence, mountains in the distance, and golden light across the landscape. Overlaid text reads: “The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world.” By Joseph Bullington.

“Once their streams are polluted [in the Amazon], they cannot live in the community anymore,” explains Maria Ivete Bastos dos Santos, president of the Union of Workers and Rural Workers of Santarém. ​

Billionaires harvest spoils of empire into Montana.

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notice how he loves police and hates the courts. Guns, not law. Might is right.

students are a means to their ends. They give a shit when zionist student grievance campaigns can be weaponised against decolonial scholars, for example.

A Vice-Chancellor at a regional university had renovations done to remove the student services office from her building & replace it with an art gallery. There was already an art gallery in the building next door, she didn't like seeing students in her building. Eventually no-confidenced out.

'It's just bulldozed through': Native title holders allege cultural sites have been destroyed by mining company A First Nations group on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula says a mining company has bulldozed areas of cultural significance and has started development without a formal agreement with Traditional Ow...

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British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

what I can not stand about these tertiary institutions attacking their own students is the complete absence of evidence that pro-Palestine students are a physical threat to anything or anyone. The “threat” is to status quo white supremacy and war machine money.

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The stunning underwater world that’s at risk as the Iran war drags on | CNN Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf is a one-of-a-kind marine ecosystem that’s home to dolphins, sea turtles and coral. How do oil slicks affect them?

A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz

@greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk:

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by “set in stone” I don’t mean to say that a treasurer in control of his faculties - let’s say a brain and a heart - and with a non-moribund prime minister, let’s be real - can not update the ridiculously patrician RBA mandate.

anyone with a mortgage is not the real victim here ffs this colony KNOWS poverty is criminalised and criminalisation causes poverty and btw cf in the colony title to land, seizing and keeping title to land, is wealth and the opposite of all that hardship and misery. It is our entire tiny history.

and as all this predictably unfolds, caused by wealthy comfortable business-owner-banking-political-corporate classes - because installing a woman or public school grad in an institution like the RBA transforms the appointee, not the bank - we are told higher mortgage repayments are the real trauma.

*suppressing wages and causing unemployment, including suppressing wages by causing unemployment, and all the hardship and misery that causing poverty brings, the social and human and economic costs, the carceral economy it stimulates, the further trauma and poverty caused by criminalisation.

translation: low unemployment means high demand for labour and therefore, according to their own theory, higher wages. Business will pass on higher wage costs - not some magic expectation emerged from nowhere - this is the RBA suppressing wages for the business-owner class.

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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Good things can happen. Settlers just have to get out thier own way.

A militarised look for Victoria police @ today’s Melbourne rally calling for an end to Israeli massacres. We *sound* angry, as the West’s leaders help this crime against humanity extend through a 3rd year, but the coalition doesn’t act out (unless there are actual Neo Nazis, w 👮‍♀️ protection) #auspol

Save these Turtles! Turn the Water Back On!! Right now in wetlands near Moree, turtles are being pulled from the mud as the water disappears around them. It’s an environmental catastrophe.

Living close I’m shocked by this. People have for years for fought to keep these wetlands. Below is the greens email to allow people to reject this decision please share👇👇 This is a quick way to write to the Ministers responsible www.catefaehrmann.org/gwydir_turtles

Indigenous remains discovered on an Australian Island, halting construction work The method of burial was recognised as traditional by Noongar Elders. Ground-penetrating radar work will now take place to determine if there are further remains.

The method of burial was recognised as traditional by Noongar Elders. Ground-penetrating radar work will now take place to determine if there are further remains.

The patriarchy is the greatest detriment to humanity.

coz those algorithms are self-poisoning by design.

When people are like "Matt why do you hate AI so much" I'm going to just start sending them this post

"university bosses treat staff - especially academic staff - as a problem to be managed, rather than as colleagues in pursuit of a shared goal."

*Le sigh*

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Bearing witness to the parts of the whole Randa Abdel-Fattah reflects on the fragmentation she has felt since October 7, caught between daily life and the normalization of live-streamed annihilation of Arab and Muslim lives.

Here's the text of the speech Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah gave upon being awarded the Australia #Palestine Advocacy Network’s 2026 Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize on April 10, 2026.

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I am for imagining cultural-ecological water care and making it happen. Better worlds are possible. There are whole rivers out there nourishing us and all we have to do is look after them.

exactly!! I mean the fact that turning off the water destroys wetlands is right there. Water is wet.