Matthew Toohey

Being barred from Rapey McTreason's lieathon isn't the flex the Felon think it is. Personally, I think the less we see/hear of this gold-painted turd the better

Well, that was harder to pick than a broken nose, wasn't it? 🙄
I hope Albo insists that John Lyons is allowed at any joint presser with Trump.

The more unpopular a fascist regime becomes the more they crack down on dissent

👇🎯 Stunts are good politics because they send signals of how serious problems are to the public & media. This is why, e.g., university presidents should have gathered en masse on the Capitol steps to make the public aware of the existential threat to higher ed all the federal budget cuts pose.

The ABC's attempt to impose an "impartiality obligation" on its presenters' public commentary demonstrates that it has learned all the wrong lessons from its rolling series of debacles. Just setting itself up for the next round of disasters.

Universities must be reimagined for the AI age Australia’s competitiveness depends on how quickly we can align education, technology and workforce development.

How about we replace Chancellors, VCs and senior managers with chatbots? (They've already replaced themselves with AI but continue to collect the salary and make awful decisions) share.google/xLXvRgJsFPIz...

Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...

He sure can deliver a set of talking points, can't he?
#productivity
#AusPol

Jim Chalmers has ripped into the LNP’s “nasty negativity” inc. Andrew Bragg’s “absolute rubbish” & Tim Wilson’s “scorched earth industrial relations”
Says if they “had answers on productivity they wouldn’t have presided over the worst decade for prod. growth in the last 60yrs”🔥 #auspol

NAB flags $130 million hit after underpaying staff, as payroll problems widen The bank's payroll review and remediation is ongoing, and total costs remain uncertain, according to NAB's latest ASX release.

How on earth does a major organisation, particularly a bank, accidentally underpay its staff? The mind boggles.

NAB flags $130 million hit after underpaying staff, as payroll problems widen

#auspol

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has, famously, spent a shit-ton of taxpayers' money on external lawyers to investigate how it could have underpaid some of its own staff.

They'll claim it's because Australia's industrial relations laws and awards and agreements system are SO COMPLEX that even computers can't get it right.
The reality is that payroll systems are usually run by HR people, not IT, and near enough is always good enough for HR. (Until it's not.)

Don't they livestream on Facebook anymore?
If so, that's clearly the place to be at 9:20pm.

Fuckin' hell...

All memorial service programs should include the recipe for the deceased’s favourite dessert. RIP and thank you David Dale

Australia to develop national solar module reuse and recycling scheme Australia’s federal, state and territory governments have agreed to develop a national solar PV module reuse and recycling scheme.

‘Australia’s federal, state and territory governments have agreed to develop a national solar PV module reuse and recycling scheme.’ #Solar #ProductStewardship

Not before time! #auspol
www.pv-tech.org/australia-to...

All zelensky needs for a deal is the pee tapes and the Epstein files #ukraine

Sorry for the slow reply: I've had a sabbatical from social media.
Yes, I spy with my little eye The Dreaded Triangle. Not the most egregious example, it must be said, but given that this is an ad for a clothing company there's no excuse for even the slightest hint of The Dreaded Triangle.

The world's largest welfare queen regrets biting the hand that feeds him.

The State is more powerful than any and every billionaire.

Money comes and goes - there's always money, but only a fixed pie of power.

News at 11

That's fair enough. #ScottyFromMarketing has experienced almost no repercussions for his misdeeds, and the awarding of an AC is a big step in the wrong direction.
Please make it a big effigy and be sure to post video of its burning to social media.
I'll write a letter on your behalf.

You'll find their names here:
www.gg.gov.au/australian-h...
If you wanted to write to someone to voice your concern, I'd suggest the Chair, Shelley Reys, or the Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council, Senator Katy Gallagher (though she almost certainly absented herself on his nomination).

What are people in literary studies up to nowadays? I have this vague intellectual history in my head wherein way back in the early 20th century it was all close reading aesthetically interesting texts, then in the mid-to-late-20th century they decided they were gonna save the world actually...

#OtD 7 Jun 1948 Chinese phosphate miners on Nauru protested when a ship came to take them back to China, but they demanded part of their pay. Australian police attacked the workers, killing 4, injuring 16 and arresting 49, and the workers were deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7982...

IKR?

There is neither merit nor consistency to any of our systems except for the rule that the rich and powerful will be rewarded no matter what. They can only fail upward.

Great time for koalas to start doing crime and blaming it on humans

Awarded an AC for services to the Reject Shop. #auspol

I'm curious about such arcane things, and that powered me through most of the hour.
The rules around wearing one's Order of Australia insignia are extremely detailed and specific. (They're also written in non-binary-inclusive language, which doesn't seem like an accident.)

I read the Order of Australia booklet (which includes the Constitution and Ordinances of the Order) from cover to cover—which is an hour of my life I'm never getting back—and I was unable to locate any reference to an automatic award of an AC to former prime ministers.
Merely a custom.