‘We’d be on our own’: families face being thousands of dollars worse off as Labor cuts NDIS lifeline Households fear not being able to cope if support is reduced or removed amid confusion about how the cuts will impact children and adults with autism

And how much money are we spending on defence?
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This comment was left by a U.S. Marine under today’s BnB post “Lest We Forget What It Truly Costs: Achilles, Anzac, and the Lie of Glorious War”. “Bryan” left a real email address. I’ve invited him to write a post about his experiences of war.

A powerful piece of writing from someone who’s seen it.

Great piece. Found myself nodding in agreement through the whole thing.

Taxing our gas.Today’s Age cartoon.

The Pentagon’s new submarine boss says the US Navy’s priority is its next generation of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines – not the Virginia-class vessels Australia is depending on under AUKUS
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What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

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Solidarity with Evelyn Araluen, Jazz Money, Matt Chun and everyone else impacted by UQP's bow to authoritarianism.

Another flagrant step to fascism and censorship by this colonies arts institutions.

I stand beside Evelyn Araluen. #enoughisenough

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Randa Abdel-Fattah & Evelyn Araluen have publically announced they're no longer publishing with UQP due to UQ's actions. I've got a contract that I can't break, but lobbyists have already attempted to get UQ to cancel it. In meantime, I 100% support Jazz Money. UQ is to blame, not good people at UQP

No excuse for not taxing gas super profits, cutting the CGT and -ve gearing on housing and abandoning the madness of spending $368B on nuclear subs.
Cutting NDIS expenditure, subsidising multinationals, rich investors and the arms industry is not my understanding of Labor values!

Many others will follow Evelyn A out of UQP. Randa A-F already has. Another Gaza-related cultural tragedy for Australia

The secret life of Bob Hawke: U.S. informant Declassified diplomatic cables have shown that Bob Hawke was an informant to the U.S. while head of the Australian trade union movement.

This might be a place to start

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Crackdown on unregistered NDIS providers coming in bid to save $6b a year NDIS Minister Mark Butler will announce reforms to the disability scheme on Wednesday that will aim to save more than $6 billion a year by 2035 — and the largely unregulated market of NDIS providers i...

Shonky providers is what happens when you privatise any service
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Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

Here's the archived original blog post.

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Read Evelyn Araluen’s Blistering Resignation Letter to University of Queensland Press 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...

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"No one left behind"

ALP too scared to take on the gas industry that strips billions from our country each year; but not shy about kicking the crutches out from under hundreds of thousands of disabled Australians. So gutsy Albo.

Exclusive: University of Queensland scraps Indigenous children’s book, citing controversial anti-Semitism policy The University of Queensland has decided to pulp all 5,000 copies of a children’s picture book written by an Indigenous poet, after media queries from News Corp’s _The Australian_ newspaper that levelled accusations of anti-Semitism against the book’s illustrator. It’s a decision that also marks the first time a controversial definition of anti-Semitism, adopted by Australia’s universities last year, has been cited as the basis of a book cancellation. _Bila, a river cycle_ , was written by award-winning Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun. It’s an environmentally-focused book that tells the story of a river’s journey from mountain to sea and the people who pollute the waterways. Money and Chun began work on the book in 2022 and it was due for release this year. Jazz Money, the author of __Bila, a river cycle.__ In January this year, Dymocks announced that it was removing all of Chun’s books from its stores after he wrote an article titled “We don’t mourn fascists” in the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack. After the Dymocks announcement, _The Australian_ approached University of Queensland Press (UQP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Queensland, to ask about _Bila._ The chair of UQP, Professor Heather Zwicker, told the newspaper that the publisher had, “put the proposed publication on hold pending the outcome of an internal review and external legal processes underway,” effectively suspending its publication. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

The book's author has described the decision to pulp all 5,000 copies of the book as reckless and disrespectful, and says it "sets a chilling standard".

Shameful. And doesn't bode well for the new Meanjin, let's be honest.

The gas cartel can spend millions on social media advertising, more than they pay in tax.

NOTE: Advertising is a tax-deductible activity for these companies.

Clearly the corporate tax rules in Australia are way too lax and allow far too many concessions, write-offs, write downs and deductions.

More Pococks in Parliament please.

David Pocock beside himself as Shell’s Cecile Wake insists she doesn’t know Shell’s revenue, or how much gas they export, while she fronts an inquiry on Gas Exports.
Sarah Hanson-Young: “What did you think we were going to be asking you about today?” 🔥🙄 #auspol

“Dr Mitchell’s research suggests psychopathic traits are more prevalent in people working in high control environments, such as politics, courts and senior corporate roles.

“I just think we have not realised how many of them are out there,” she said.”

The ‘human predators’ living amongst us and the careers they’re drawn to ‘In a way, they’re almost like a different species to us.’

I haven’t watched this yet, so don’t know if it’s any good. But the premise is relevant.

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Just look at how hate, greed, and sociopathy decayed and rotted both Thiel and Palantirs CEO from the inside out!

All the effort they've put into being the absolute WORST human beings, and they're too physically dismantling to hold onto any power that could come from it.

If only the government had the courage to “save the LNG for those who need it most”.

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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If they’ve known for years that providers have been rorting and defrauding, why didn’t they crack down then? Why leave it until they have to toss recipients off?
And why the heck did they privatise it against advise? (rhetorical Q only, I know about “mates”)