Abigail Boyd

Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state

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The woman who exposed the childcare industry Some childcare centres in Australia are so understaffed that children are left alone for hours. Other centres spend less than a dollar a day on feeding them. Yet the industry receives billions in pub...

"The PM says he wants his legacy to be universal #childcare.
You can't do that if you don't fix the system

...start with public money into public services. Anything less is negligent, given what we know about child safety." @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social #7ampodcast
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Thanks Sonya ❤️

‘All hell let loose’: Abigail Boyd fought to release documents that revealed gross childcare failings. Then she had to read them ‘The more I look, the more horrified I am – there’s no end to the things that keep coming through,’ NSW upper house member says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Every Wednesday about 5,000 pages of documents are sent to the clerk’s office in New South Wales Parliament House and members of Abigail Boyd’s staff scan each one. The documents are being released in tranches by various state government bodies after a legal fight by Boyd, a Greens upper house member and the chair of the NSW education committee. Continue reading...

‘All hell let loose’: Abigail Boyd fought to release documents that revealed gross childcare failings. Then she had to read them

Butler talks about the ndis being only for those needing lifelong support but without early targeted support so many of these kids will need lifelong support. And when did the ndis become all about ‘financial sustainability’ and not about addressing genuine need at whatever age it’s required?

I find this hugely concerning, as will so many who just wish governments would stop passing the buck and get on with ensuring all children get support they need. Whether it’s ndis or something else, the support will still be required - but this will just be used as an excuse to cut overall funding

NSW Police Stop Using Ineffective and Racially Biased Facial Recognition Identification System The NSW Police Force has stopped using a system notorious for its ineffectiveness, especially when it comes to identifying racial minorities.

NSW Police has dropped its use of a 2011 facial recognition algorithm notorious for its racially biased outcomes, although it continues to generate leads based on newer versions of the flawed tech
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Workers united will never be defeated ✊ Happy May Day!

NDIS provider shut down following ABC investigation The former operator of a Sydney childcare centre where children were force-fed until they vomited, strapped in highchairs for hours and had their heads shoved into garbage bins, has been permanently b...

We are leaving some of our most vulnerable people at risk of serious abuse in poorly regulated sectors where it's simply too easy to take advantage of people to make a quick buck. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

The fact is that none of these sectors - whether it's early childhood education and care, disability services or aged care - should be set up to attract those more interested in dollar signs than in caring for people.

Reading about the child abuse at Fanous' early childhood centre made me feel physically sick, and I was shocked to discover he'd gone on to run an NDIS business. Thanks to the incredible work of Adele Ferguson and the Four Corners expose, at least one wrong has now been righted.

These cuts are aimed squarely at teachers, nurses and doctors and health professionals, first responders and frontline community workers. The government needs to step up and do everything it can to keep its workers safe from injury, not cut them off when they need support most.

‘Extreme and harsh’: NSW Labor on collision course with unions over workers’ comp changes NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has flagged plans for a radical overhaul of worker’s compensation for injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

When less than 10% of workers in the workers comp system are in the public sector but they account for almost half of all psychological injury claims, it’s clear that these reforms are guided by the government’s budget bottom line and not by what’s best for workers. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

He’s aspiring to entrench a class divide between property owners and permanent renters

‘Pro-aspiration’ PM shies away from new taxes on investors, super Anthony Albanese has also ruled out restricting negative gearing to help fix the housing crisis because it would signal to voters that Labor is an anti-aspiration.

Albanese talking about being ‘pro aspiration’ is some next level nonsense. So he’ll keep public handouts for wealthy investors so ppl just wanting a roof over their head are extra-aspirational? www.afr.com/politics/fed...

NSW Police switch off Cognitec facial recognition Aging algorithm raised bias concerns.

1/7 🧵 Why NSW Police switched off facial recognition tech — & how AI-based biometric profiling persists
@abigailboydmlc.bsky.social & @suehigginson.bsky.social ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

"The avg mortgage pays $200k in profit over its life to the banks. The supermarkets made an extra billion last year when their profit margins went up.

"We can either collect more tax from the big businesses that can afford to pay it, or we can say, Sorry, Marge, you've had it too good." #qanda

From the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry instigated by Greens MP
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Privatising childcare has been a disaster. Profits before care for children.

In a parliamentary debate about the Special Religious Education program in NSW public schools, Greens’ member @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social condemned the state govt’s “complete abdication” of responsibility over the content taught in scripture classes. More: rationalist.com.au/nsw-labor-go...
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NSW government to launch inquiry into troubled childcare sector A parliamentary inquiry has been called into the troubled childcare sector following a landmark ABC investigation into serious safety breaches in the industry.

Greens MLC @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social chair of Education committee will head an inquiry into the performance of the NSW regulator of the childcare sector.
Good work!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Betrayal of Trust: Australia's Childcare Crisis Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

@abigailboydmlc.bsky.social and the vital job to restore care to the childcare industry www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

This article goes a long way to explaining why NSW Labor had such a visceral and nasty response to us setting up our new parliamentary inquiry into foundational and disability supports. If they’d been open with us we could have worked together to ensure better outcomes for people with disability.

Instead, we’re starting the new year with so many in the disability community terrified at what the next 6 months will hold because they’ve been left entirely in the dark and can’t adequately advocate for something better without knowing where the true political sticking points are.

I wish the States would just come clean about these things. In NSW I see so many unexplained delays, decisions out of kilter with stated policy etc, that would make a whole lot more sense if they just admitted their hands are tied while negotiating with Fed Labor for more overall funding.

Australia now has 150 billionaires. And 3.3 million people (13.4%) living in poverty. This gross inequality didn’t happen by accident - it’s the product of decades of unfair policies by governments pandering to big corporates and the super wealthy. #TaxTheRich ffs

They would literally do anything, no matter the significant short and long term costs, to avoid doing the one thing that will actually help fix the problem - paying workers a fair wage. There is nothing labour about this Minns Labor government.

NSW government asks private sector to take public hospital patients as hundreds of psychiatrists set to resign Exclusive: Guardian Australia has seen an email from the director of Australia’s largest private mental health provider about the contract

The NSW Government reckon they’re “pulling every single lever available” to deal with the psychiatrist workforce crisis in our public hospitals - except the one they’re actually being asked to pull: paying psychiatrists a comparable wage to other States. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor may not have created this mess, but they’re sure as hell responsible for cleaning it up. Every day the NSW Labor government continues to systemically and chronically under resource the public health system, the crisis in our public hospitals will only deepen, putting public health at risk. 3/3

Thank you to all those who have worked tirelessly in our public health system in shocking and personally-damaging conditions for so long. Solidarity with those who can no longer stay in a system so harmful to their own health. 2/3

The NSW health system is at breaking point. That’s why medical professionals have been sounding the alarm for years and why hundreds of psychiatrists are saying they have no choice but to resign this month unless things improve. 1/3