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More than half of Sydney health district’s staff psychiatrists have resigned, leaked documents show Documents also show plans to maintain services without bed closures and rely on ‘bolstered’ allied healthcare staff and nurses

Half of staff psychiatrists Sydney Local Health District – Royal Prince Alfred and Concord hospitals – have resigned, leaked documents show. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/30/more-than-half-of-sydney-health-districts-staff-psychiatrists-have-resigned-leaked-documents-show

Beautifully done 🤣

I guess you've seen this ages ago!
Cut your own grass!

A bird with vibrant blue on the head, wings, and tail, rusty orange on the chin and chest, and white on the belly. He is perched on a deck hangar and looking toward the camera.

Mr. Bluebird is grumpy

(Eastern Bluebird)

True. This gish-gallop of horrors is deliberate, and their sheer scale, volume, and rapidity ae squarely aimed at overwhelming our capacity to speak out against those horrors with any measure of effectiveness.

Thugs, bullies, drunks, and rapists abounding.

Australians deserve better.

Vote independent for greater integrity in our Parliament.

#Auspol

Now 75 reasons why Dutton is unfit to be PM IA's catalogue of 75 major reasons Peter Dutton should not be prime minister.

75 Reasons why Dutton is unfit to be PM.

Another list with links worth saving.

I can think of a few more for the list.🙄

The rancid hobgoblin is a sociopath whose only objective is money & power. He has no humanity. He is irredeemable.

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a little cocker spaniel puppy sits on a person’s lap in the driver’s seat of a parked car. the puppy’s fur is sticking up in wacky points on top of her noggin, and her ears are slightly damp, making her curls more prominent. she’s pressing one front paw into the person’s chest as if desperate for reassurance during this trying time.

This is Nellie. She is experiencing her first bad hair day. Please give her a moment. 12/10 (IG: little_cocker_nellie)

George Pell raped, groped two boys in Ballarat, compensation scheme decides Two men were compensated after the National Redress Scheme accepted they were abused as boys by the late Cardinal George Pell in Ballarat in the 1970s.

Protected and defended by the church.

If you fund that church you are a collaborator.

Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio "There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

That's great!

ABC - STOP with the Trumpian politics!!

From FB.

Mental health Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

"Poverty is killing people but their death certificates say things like suicide,heart attack or stroke it doesn't go into detail about the high cortisol levels in someones system from years of poverty and lack of good food."
New from @artistaffame.bsky.social
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"The government needs to get serious about mental health in this country and can and should be doing a lot more. Instead we have a government that would rather keep people in poverty and then deny them access due to cost for the healthcare they need."

Privacy reforms slip through as global trends show enforcement Privacy changes took effect in December 2024, and it seems the local media and marketing sector are largely unaware, Chris Brinkworth writes.

Australia’s media and marketing sector remains largely unaware of major privacy changes that took effect in December 2024, even as global evidence shows regulators can enforce new laws within days www.mediaweek.com.au/privacy-refo...

Read this article. If you don;t understand it, ask for clarification.
We have preferential voting for a reason, and it's NOT to choose between only two parties.
Time to use it.

Another publishing house gets swallowed, leaving Australian literature on shaky ground Penguin Random House's acquisition of Text Publishing leaves Australian publishing further concentrated in the hands of a few multinational companies.

Text Publishing, the latest Australian publisher to be bought out, is now an extremely small subsidiary of a gigantic corporation that trades in content, not literature, writes @catrionamp.bsky.social.

Australia’s big 4 banks join privacy partnership with ConnectID Customers of the Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, ANZ, and Westpac can now verify their identity without oversharing personal information.

The Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, ANZ, and Westpac have entered a partnership with digital identity verifier ConnectID
www.cyberdaily.au/digital-tran...

Food banks are just a more expensive way to get food that isn’t necessarily suitable to poor people: Prove me wrong TFIF, am I right? And that the pollies have headed home for the summer break after a chaotic final week, and maybe we’ll get some respite from their pontificating until that election is calle…

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‘Food insecurity crisis’ The founder of food rescue group OzHarvest, Ronni Kahn, said even people with jobs and mortgages were turning to the organisation because they could no longer afford to buy life’s essentials. “It’s a new demographic for us,” she said. “We’re seeing nurses, we’re seeing teachers, we are seeing people who’ve got jobs and who cannot make ends meet. Female worker stocking shelves Shopping at Australian food charities can be more expensive than supermarkets. What’s gone wrong? Read more “State and federal governments absolutely need to recognise that there is a food insecurity crisis, and they have to increase funding to food relief organisations like us so that we can help feed more people.” Kahn said fresh produce was in high demand, because it had become so expensive, while eggs can be hard to come by. “We might just put eggs into little cartons of four or six, and try to match need with demand. But again, we certainly don’t have eggs every day.”

NO YOU DON'T NEED MORE FUNDING PEOPLE NEED MORE MONEY TO LIVE OFF

#RAISETHERATE

High food prices becoming ingrained in Australian economy, analyst warns Economic data shows food and beverage prices still rising faster than long-term average, even as inflationary pressures ease

Yeah again why us who can only by essentials aren't noticing your economy things

Economic data shows food and beverage prices still rising faster than long-term average, even as inflationary pressures ease

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bird! A blue jay. Sitting on a bent branch of a dogwood tree, the branch mounded with snow, the dappling of late day sunlight behind. The blue jay is in the left of frame, facing right, its tuft slicked back and catching the golden light. In its mouth -- er, it's beak, is the beak its mouth, or is the mouth inside the beak okay never mind whatever -- IN THE BEAK is a peanut. A treasure. A prize. A little snack. The blue jay looks quite pleased at what it is found in the snow -- taken before a squirrel could get it. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today.

(photo by me)

High food prices becoming ingrained in Australian economy, analyst warns Economic data shows food and beverage prices still rising faster than long-term average, even as inflationary pressures ease

Somebody say there’s no cost-of-living crisis?! Yeah, nah. Everyday Aussies feeling the pinch on basic groceries. Surviving not thriving. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Useless’ regulator let Telstra, Optus negotiate fines ACMA slammed as industry “lapdog”.

Consumer advocates are up in arms amidst allegations that telecommunications industry regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is too “cozy” with Optus and Telstra, and “colluded” with the giant firms to minimise recent compliance fines ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Really missing humour in posts, generally.
I know it’s a dystopian hellscape rn, but finding something to laugh about might save someone’s life today!

THINGS YOU SAY AFTER 50 1. Where the h** is my phone? 2. How did I get this bruise? 3. That isn't my password either? WTHI? 4.How do they expect you to read this small print? 5. Where did I put my glasses? 6.I don't care if it doesn't look fashionable it's comfortable! 7. Who the heck is calling at 9:30pm?? 8. Does anyone say please and thank you anymore? 9. Geez, how do you throw your body out of whack just sleeping wrong?? WTH? 10. This scale can't be right! 11. WTH is wrong with people nowadays?? 12. Why did I come into this room?

Truth! 🤣🤣🤣

@jamnic77.bsky.social how many out of 12?

Credit @laceyholt406 on TikTok

I’m old enough to remember being told it was antisemitic to suggest that the israeli regime would intentionally bomb a Gaza hospital.
Now they’ve bombed every Gaza hospital, and even patients being treated in tents.
#auspol