Why is the NDIS an 'ATM for crooks'?
Aren't paid consultancies an ATM for crooks?
Isn't giving away all our gas an ATM for crooks?
Isn't AUKUS an ATM for a crook with an orange painted face?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #NDIS
Read @Mark_Butler_MP speech to the National Press Club in full: www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...
#NDIS
#AgedCare
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“Resetting the scheme means that over the forward estimates on average growth will be across those four years just 2 per cent a year.” - Butler
Massive yikes. Paywalled - but a fascinating read if you can get to it.
It is easy to criticise
Proud to announce I’m starting a new job the Iranian Meme Factory
All Chris Minns had to do - at a bare minimum - was be less bad than Berejiklian and Perrottet. And yet.
Just pass it, they said. The perfect is the enemy of the good, they said.
Why did environmental NGOs get behind the safeguard mechanism, and what are they actually good for?
Are you leaning towards cremation or burial?
Image of a child standing among a group of chickens, appearing to hold food for feeding the chickens.
The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today reported three more H9N2 avian flu cases on mainland China, all in children under the age of 6 years.
Last week, CHP recorded two cases. Read more: ow.ly/Ub1z50YNHMO
The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout
theconversation.com/the-end-of-o...
As always: a thread on highlights from @ember-energy.org Nerd Easter global power sector data review!
With lots of good news, some noticeable kinda bad news, and a few things I think are missing from the picture. TY to Ember, this is such a valuable piece of work
Sarah Ferguson asks if we should ‘give something back’ to gas giants in exchange for a tax.
David Pocock “why we bargain with them?”
“I don’t think we need to give anything back. We just want a return for our gas!” 🔥 #auspol
'Not how it works': Are Australia's days as an astronomy powerhouse numbered?
While the world's eyes were on the moon, Australia quietly axed a key space deal.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Umm what the heck?
Twitter is back, baby!
Hear hear
Put these guys on the $20 note and book them for the grand final half-time show (all codes).
'When the killer cooks': Viral image shows Israeli soldier cooking in southern Lebanese home - www.middleeasteye.net/news/viral-image-shows-i...
True colours, shining through
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The pickles in Big Mac are actually slices of raccoon penises. RFK Jr is gathering the evidence but will probably be assassinated before everything is revealed
Pardon?
Mattress stores are fronts for organized crime. There are not enough humans to need the number of mattress stores around, even factoring in bed-wetters.
Gosh your writing is so lovely to read. I was in Paris last year and am immediately melancholy that I won’t get back there for a while. (Also, riposo might be the word?)
Picture of the Canal Saint Martin in Paris at sunset on a warm day, the banks are filled with people sitting outside in groups talking and drinking.
A run of sun and warm days sent everyone mad, myself included. It was a collective psychosis the likes of which I've never experienced. Plus my advice on making friends in Paris: just stay still. rick-morton.ghost.io/thirst-du-so...
Larissa Waters asks former Treasury chief Ken Henry if it’s too simplistic to say wartime gas profits from the war on Iran can either go to Australians, or to overseas investors & shareholders.
Henry “That’s not simplistic, that’s how it is!” “It is as simple as that.” 💥 #auspol
Every single article I read about Madonna at Coachella mentioned that she’s 67. Not one article I read about Nine Inch Nails at Coachella mentioned that Trent’s 60.
ISN’T THAT WEIRD?
It’s almost as if everything Madonna has ever said about misogyny is true, or something. 🤷♂️
Safe to assume he decided to trial it on Easter weekend, one of the busiest times for people to be on the roads/needing chargers?
