Alex Bhathal

‘Like summer’s come early’: Sea temperatures surge off Sydney Sea temperatures off Sydney are up to three degrees above normal for this time of year, making for ideal swimming conditions even as scientists sound the alarm about warming oceans.

Trouble in paradise

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Brereton should resign, imo. He's personally compromised (defence), completely stuffed up the Robodebt investigation (and had personal connections with those involved), and his NACC has produced nothing else of any significance, despite thousands of referrals.

“Some of the people responsible for robo-debt are working outside the public service and not sanctioned by legal boards as far as I know, and some who designed robo-debt are still in the public service in compliance and audit roles. How can that be?”

Modus operandi: make abhorrent comments against a respected cardiologist then go to ground & hope no one follows up

Bad luck 4 them as @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters scrutinise board members at St Vincent's Hospital & the VictorChang Cardiac Research Institute 4 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

When John Howard was Prime Minister, he participated in many International Democracy Union events overseas from 1996 onwards. He even was elected the chair in 2002 while Prime Minister so attended its annual forum overseas every year as Prime Minister. The sheer desperation of this #auspol beat-up

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

AI adoption in the shadow of robodebt Robodebt showed what can happen when technological systems lack human accountability. For AI to succeed in government, we must learn from its mistakes.

Robodebt is a cultural touchstone. The associations that quickly come to mind are harmful systems, lost accountability, over-responsiveness, and people being reduced to data points www.themandarin.com.au/299754-ai-ar...

THE NEW RACIAL REGIME Book Launch All funds to Gazan families & Mob Strong OCT 8, 7pm, Frontyard, 228 Illawara Rd, Marrickville w Alana Lentin, Keiran Stewart-Assheton, Kaiya Aboagye, Shawna Tang $20 / $10 concession / $30 solidarity /$32/$42 with book Light food & drinks

On October 8, Alana Lentin will host a book launch for 'The New Racial Regime', on Gadigal land (Sydney), w guests Kaiya Aboagye, Keiran Stewart-Assheton & Shawna Tang.

Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.

Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....

Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide.

Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...

We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 16th at the Wheeler Centre for a conversation bringing together Palestinian, Jewish and Syrian voices.

We'll explore themes of justice, liberation and what revolution means for people fighting for freedom. Tickets at: events.humanitix.com/on-revolutio...

US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’

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$350m to $750m 👀

Anti-corruption chief kept consulting role after saying he had resigned The head of the national anti-corruption commission told a Senate inquiry he had resigned his role at the defence force's investigative arm. But the ABC has learned he continued consulting for them, a...

What is it with privileged, powerful people in this country?! They appear to assume the rules simply don’t apply to them. And in so many respects the rules aren’t applied to them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Discord is hiring a child safety threat operations specialist in Australia ahead of the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 taking effect www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... cc. @cameronwilson.bsky.social @joshtaylor.bsky.social

Threads of Endurance Grief, resilience, and finding humanity in fractured times

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Boonwurrung land earlier today. Could see the You Yangs.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers and Jimmy Fallon should just quit TV & start an experimental jazz band called The Political Climate.

I'm sure Jaco Pastorius would want that.

"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

Go Cats! 💙🤍🤞🏼

Terrifying

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Hare-Clark! Why Do We Have It? Are There Any Alternative Approaches?

#politas

Sunny Singh explores cost of conflicts with compassion in short story collection The novelist demonstrates particular skill in the more unconventional narratives. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Review of #Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) in Singapore’s Strait Times: “Singh is committed to exploring the human cost of conflict through intimate character studies rather than battlefield narratives.” www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/su...

Former Greens leader Adam Bandt has been announced as the next CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation, taking over from Kelly O’Shanassy in January 2026

The statement from the ACF added that Bandt “will not play any further role in the Greens”

ACF appoints Adam Bandt as its next CEO The Australian Conservation Foundation’s Board has appointed former Greens leader Adam Bandt as the next CEO of the national environment group.

Great news in from the ACF. Congratulations @adambandt.bsky.social www.acf.org.au/news/acf-app...

one of the last things I did before leaving work was on the urgent need to support folks with very high support needs living in group homes

this situation is completely untenable, and solvable if their needs are kept at the front

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One of the great injustices of Neo-Liberalism is how people who work taking care of the elderly and taking care of the disabled are barely respected and poorly paid.

Pakistan's Solar Revolution Is Bringing Power to the People Fed up with pricey electricity from an unreliable grid, Pakistanis have snapped up cheap solar panels. In an interview, Muhammad Mustafa Amjad, of Islamabad-based Renewables First, says his country ca...

Pakistan is a great example of the global solar boom and shows why petrostate politicos are freaking out!

Solar is doing more to address energy poverty than any power tech!

Expensive fossil fuels cripple poor nations

e360.yale.edu/features/pak... #energysky

Environment: Australian Government misleading people about our emissions reductions Ignore the government rhetoric, Australia’s actual emissions are not falling. NSW Forestry Corporation facing 29 charges of illegal logging. Swift parrot habitat continues to be logged in three states...

"misleading" is putting it politely.

The Australian government is gaslighting us about emissions reductions, on behalf of the fossil fuel lobby. #ClimateCrisis #auspol
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People banished to Nauru by Australia face hostile reception as $2.5bn cost of deal revealed Home affairs department reveals just-signed transfer deal, worth $408m upfront to Nauru, forecast to cost Australia $2.5bn over 30 years

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Calls for Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to apologise over comments on Indian migrants Members of the Indian community have urged Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to apologise for her claims that the government prioritises Indian migrants because many of them vote for Labor. The...

It’s been a hell week for South Asians in Australia: www.sbs.com.au/news/video/c...

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle spared convictions, jail sentence Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle has avoided convictions and a jail sentence, seven years after publicly exposing aggressive debt collection practices at the tax office.

Hope the ATO and government are proud of themselves.
Pursued this poor guy for 7 years, wrecked his life for the crime of exposing serious wrongdoing - costing millions - all for a final result of no recorded conviction and a 12-mth good behaviour bond.