Gemma Crofts

Price of poverty hurts us all, yet research reveals an easy fix In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the mora...

Its's super-shitty that we don't just institute proper welfare because it's the right thing to do but truly nuts that we won't even do it despite knowing it benefits everybody to do so

He said fuck you nate bargatz

Fuck ICE

An actual crowd expert analysed drone footage after the march and calculated 225K in attendance based on a whole variety of factors that he analysed over many hours

Some senior cop stands up *during* the march, claiming it was "about 90,000"

And everyone everywhere prefers his word as gospel?

"AI" is IT from A Wrinkle in Time.
"Just give in," the AI pushers say. "We can all be together in this. You don't have to think."

Time to hold onto your inner Meg, friends.

A screenshot of an Instagram post by @sbsnews_au. Over an image of Palestinian people trying to access aid supplies, the headline “Israel admits Palestinian civilians were harmed at Gaza aid sites”. The word “harmed” is highlighted in red.

Babe, wake up: SBS just dropped a new neoliberal media euphemism for “killed by the IDF”

oh this is sad. i loved this growing up

Victoria records highest number of arrests in 172 years as crime rate soars Victoria has recorded a significant rise in criminal activity over the past 12 months, up to March 2025. According to the latest data from the Crime Statistics Agency (CSA), 627,268 criminal offences ...

The crime rate doesn’t exist in a microcosm. It is directly related to the issue of poverty www.sbs.com.au/language/pun...

the skinny jeans are sending me

Fortunately I’m getting great at this “don’t believe what you see/hear with your own eyes/ears” caper 🙃

IDF: “Findings from an initial inquiry indicate that the IDF did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site. Reports to this effect are false.”

Albanese surrounded by drought

“Look, I said when I was elected Prime Minister that I wanted the climate wars to end. They're pretty pointless, frankly.”

- PM Anthony Albanese, in SA to announce $57m in drought relief cash, one (1) business day after greenlighting a 45-year extension of Australia’s most polluting gas project.

I’ll just leave this here for your edification.

I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide

Could be important. Maybe we should look into this

thank you!

where can i buy it in Australia do you knoww???

Too many writers I'm sure know the terrible irony of being blamed and harassed for story choices you vehemently argued against in the writers' room.

(I mean... don't harass folks because you didn't like a story point, full stop. It's just... awful and funny being like "y'all... I TRIED!")

When I die you'll find a USB stick with every episode of ITVs Press Gang (89-93)

Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death As the total ban on any humanitarian aid entering Gaza stretches into its third month, doctors warn babies are starving in hospitals.

Never forget how many of those advising the ALP are patting themselves on the back for ensuring the govt did nothing in this.

“Not an issue/we made sure it hurt the Greens”

Those doing so are truly putrid. At best excusing murder, at worst cheering for it.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

here’s to 3 more years of a cowardly, spineless political party that will take no meaningful action on anything, except gaslighting us into thinking this is the best we can do

From The Tally Room blog www.tallyroom.com.au/60426

probably

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Travel Warning: Do not enter the USA under any circumstances

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Charts showing cost of increasing Jobseeker to 90% of age pension base - $3.5bn; raising it to 90% of total age pension - $5.2bn. Cost of super concessions for the richest 10% - $9.9bn + $10.4bn, cost of capital gains discount for the richest 10% - $18.6bn, cost of fuel tax credit for mining companies - $4.8bn

Always remember - budgets are about choices
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The outlook for house insurance is much worse than we’re being told

📢 Insurance companies, the banks and the government know what’s coming, but they don’t want to talk about it before it happens, mainly because they don’t know what to do about it.

Donate to Help more than 80 families in Palestine rebuild their lives, organized by Alex McKinnon I'm a journalist in Sydney who's been reporting on Palestine … Alex McKinnon needs your support for Help more than 80 families in Palestine rebuild their lives

Alex McKinnon has just launched an ambitious fundraiser for Gaza "to help more than 80 Palestinian fundraisers all at once. All money donated will go into a single pool, which will be split among the fundraisers equally." Get amongst it!

A declassified version of the Office of National Intelligence’s Climate Risk Assessment report should be publicly released.

It’s been 2 years.

🇦🇺s deserve to know the facts & understand the scale of the threat posed to national security by climate change
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

Australia’s drama dilemma: how taxpayers foot the bill for content that ends up locked behind paywalls

Commercial TV broadcasters once commissioned around 300 hours of Australian drama each year. Last year, they commissioned just nine hours of new, non-soap drama.

Just heard about the news out of Queensland. Hormone therapy, from puberty onwards, is safe, rigorously evidence-based, life saving medicine that results in higher quality of life, lower rates of depression and anxiety, and a direct reduction in deaths for trans and gender diverse people.