The entire issue with the NDIS is that a generation of Australians (including almost everyone working in the political media) have become indoctrinated to believe the private sector is more efficient than the private sector.
Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???
We didn't deserve this day.
In a shocking twist, impunity has emboldened a narcissist to descend into full megalomania
A 1.4% levy on the gambling industry could compensate the media for ALL revenue lost from a potential gambling advertising ban.
Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. It's time for our government to act.
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Has Penny Wong expressed her concern yet? Has Marles talked about our shared values?
Every time they get asked about AUKUS they talk about the alliance.
Well this is the alliance.
we gotta send so many guys to the Hague
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver an address to the nation tonight, outlining the government's response to the Middle East conflict and encouraging Australians to "play their part". He is expected to urge Australians to save fuel for areas and industries that "most need it". The address will be simulcast on television and radio across Australia at 7pm AEDT.
people simply love it when you storm out of the gates to support an illegal war, then lecture them about personal responsibility after it makes their lives worse
some might say it's incongruous that the lamp button is a drawing of my actual lamp, while the fan button is a drawing of a whole wind turbine, which is a different kind of thing
but what you need to factor in is that *I* am a fan, of wind turbines
a 3D print of a plastic structure and a faceplate with three holes in it
the structure, post-assembly, now containing some electronics and with some keyswitches inserted into the faceplate
the structure is now invisible, wrapped in cardboard that's been colored with an alcohol marker and decorated with some William Morris-design borders
handpainted wooden tokens are placed over the keys - a computer, a lamp, and a wind turbine
new hobby: building homebrew IoT devices, housing them in paper + cardboard structures, and then painting wooden tokens for buttons
when I got into smart home stuff I was really put off by the glossy/plastic aesthetic basically everything has. so, feels rad to bring a handmade vibe
It’s crazy how likely it is that the cops just straight up executed Desi Freeman
Gourisetty's defense is so funny too. That he's continuing in a proud tradition established by Abbott and Howard -- where's the lie hahaha
all of those things are great if you are in the mood to pick up some new technical hobbies, but getting a 3D printer isn't a shortcut to anywhere, it's a detour and you gotta be prepared for that
Fell for this trap recently. Absolutely a hobby level-up-er, great fun, super useful. But it's an *order of magnitude* more fucking around. You've gotta learn about plastics, about slicing, how to navigate the various model stores & collections, plus CAD if you want to do any custom stuff.
Graphs showing 2 columns Admi and Support industry: Wages $64.3bn; Profits $13.1bn; Total, $77.4bn Oil and Gas industry: $4bn wages; $71.6bn operating profits; Total $75.6bn
The gas industry likes to boast about how important it is the Australia economy. What they're really saying is look at our profits.
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Tomorrow the PM is meeting state and territory leaders about the fuel crisis.
They should discuss making public transport free for as long as the crisis goes on.
And as the Federal government is backing the war, they should pick up the tab.
It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.
This is not a joke.
We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.
The NACC works exactly as intended when the Albanese govt set it up.
Everyone in the APH can get on the beers tonight’s knowing they’ll always be safe.
Opinion | The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s reasons why Scott Morrison did nothing wrong on Robodebt are extraordinary and delusional, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/n...
The reality is the Canberra bubble was never going to allow their own to face consequences for Robodebt
("but the strait of Hormuz closing is *bad* for capitalists" I didn't say their plan was smart, I just said they've learned not to put effort into avoiding disasters)
Important thing to keep in mind about disaster capitalism is that a few decades ago the capitalists realised that, if the game plan is to wait for a disaster and then capitalise on it, it is counterproductive to put any effort into avoiding disasters
Two kids with cancer died at Westmead Children’s Hospital due to mould in the wards. This is unacceptable and unbearable. Sorry is nowhere near enough
You can tell how much Labor and the Coalition care about the poor Iranians by the way they hastily built a series of offshore concentration camps to imprison Iranian refugees *forever* when they tried to escape the regime.
Children’s graves dug for Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war. This image speaks a terrible truth in answer to Labor’s lies about this awful war they support.
the distaste you see among these politicians for genuine activists and advocates is irritation that they're not willing to play the game for power, ignorant that it's the game that's killing us
starting to think the fella who giggled about going to kyle sandilands wedding might be a shit bloke
Excerpt of article. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised if his labelling of 2021 Australian of the Year and child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame as "difficult" was misinterpreted, saying he was referring to her "difficult life". He made the comment when asked to give a one-word response to a rapid-fire list of people and news topics as part of a word association game at the Future Victoria conference, presented by the Herald Sun newspaper and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce. "If there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise," Mr Albanese told reporters. "She has had a difficult life and that was what I was referring to. What Grace Tame has done is turn that difficult experience that she had into being a strong advocate for others."
ughh this lady has the unyielding-moral-compass flavor of autism and is mad at me. I know, I'll tell a transparent lie on the record. that'll smooth things over.
