I've navigated a lot of systems, grants, funding interfaces and admin in my time, but the NDIS is by far the most complex, tedious and hard to understand. We should have a health system that values providing care for everyone who needs it instead of treating that support as a rort on the system.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party has hit a record high primary vote in the South Australian election. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Watch the full episode of We Used To Be Journos: youtu.be/lKxJWNBgSAU
The @antipovertycentre.org said it is “unacceptable” that people in poverty are being forced to “spend even more of the little money they have” on fuel or taxis.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/47sa8u6
Speak out and vigil for Yuko at Melb Magistrates Court 8:45am Tuesday 31st.
Cheering you on Avi!
Unpacked my summer with Amanda on @changemakerspod.bsky.social
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
Banjima traditional owners say the thousands of hectares left poisoned by decades of asbestos mining has left them with one of the highest death rates of mesothelioma in the world.
I love* how the framing is "powerful AI tools" and not "overcomplicated pattern copying software granted access to ridiculously unrelated functionality."
*loathe, actually. The term is "loathe."
This guy gets it.
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
Dramatic changes in upper atmosphere are responsible for recent droughts and bushfires: new research theconversation.com/dramatic-cha...
I just joined the @quitgpt boycott. OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit. Join us: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT
The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism.
A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.
“Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency”
the fake conspiracies are a distraction from the real conspiracies... this is what I found again and again while researching Doppelganger.
And Bannon is doing it in overdrive these days.
“There’s a tendency in certain government departments to trivialise the impacts of #climate on the economy so as to avoid making difficult choices today. This is a big problem – the consequences of delay are catastrophic.” - Mark Campanale, CEO of @carbontracker.bsky.social
The billionaires bankrolling rightwing astroturfer Advance Australia
michaelwest.com.au/the-billiona...
ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you don’t like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.
7/9
The question isn’t just “what happened?”
It’s: who allowed it? Who could have prevented it? And why did society fail to act, even when the risks were known?
I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
This piece is from 2020 & I think about it a lot; “This crisis occurring in peak holiday time is highlighting the fact that the assumptions of normality we have got are being challenged by climate change.”
I agree we need to rethink the summer break.
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01...
We are grateful for the solidarity from @swelteringcities.bsky.social in the campaign to stop compulsory activities for people on Centrelink payments during heatwaves.
You can support the campaign by signing and sharing the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
“Heat is our biggest environmental killer, according to Professor Watkins, who said more people had died as a result of heat than all other natural disasters combined.”
two images 1 fire with text “the world right now” 2 a man cupping mouth and shouting with text “me: did you finish heated rivalry yet?”
Camp sovereignty attacked by neo-Nazis last year.
A bomb thrown at attendees to the Invasion Day rally in Perth yesterday - thankfully didn’t detonate.
Royal commission into bloodthirsty racists? Special envoy? Motions of solidarity in the parliament?
No.
How could all these fires, floods and heatwaves possibly be connected?!
Catching up on summer reading - FOI docs reveal Meanjin axing never debated by Melbourne Uni. And why were all bids to save it rejected?www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/meanjin-closu...
