It has cost $1.138 million and counting for the independent lawyer the NACC has had to hire to fix the mess their Commissioner made of the Robodebt inquiry

Compromised decision making costs public money and trust.

The military-industrial-Zionist-journalist complex.

a three panel meme with a dog holding ball in its mouth First panel: dog says "CCS?" Second: hand taking ball, dog says "NO BUILD CCS" third: "ONLY CCS" with angry eyebrows Based off the 'no take only throw' comic satirising the contradictions of dogs who do not like the taking off the ball but like the throwing of it

"Many oil and gas companies advocating for [carbon capture and storage[ in UK have simultaneously raised issues with the technical feasibility and commercial viability of CCS in other countries when faced with regulation"

influencemap.org/report/The-U...

Just read through these. My God.

To the NACC: can you tell us why there haven't been any public hearings into the Robodebt matter?

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NACC says: No comment.

The LNP government was responsible for the deadly crime of #robodebt.

The Labor government promised that people would be held accountable.

They lied. #auspol

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The thing I truly cannot process here is that the newsletter is an email block of text and sometimes pictures and that should be the ABSOLUTE EASIEST THING ON THE PLANET to find different options for.

Again, let's be clear here: you are sending emails with words in them

Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog | Taylor Lorenz Get more from Taylor Lorenz on Patreon

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog.
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

The 'statement of reasons' given by enviro minister Murray Watt approving the North West Shelf gas project extension contains some astonishing mental gymnastics.
He assumes the same level of emissions could occur even if the project didn't proceed
epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/_entity/shar...

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

Proponents say age verification = showing your ID at the door to a bar.

But the analogy is often wrong.

It's more like: bouncer photocopies some IDs, & keeps them in a shed around back.

There will be more breaches.

By @jaypeters.net
www.theverge.com/news/792032/...

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Labor must drop flawed and friendless freedom of information bill In opposition, the prime minister talked a big game on transparency. It’s about time he walked the walk on open government.

@albomp.bsky.social’s #FOI Amendment Bill deals one-sidedly with Govt concerns and completely ignores the serious problems users face accessing Govt info. Unsurprisingly, analysis of Senate submissions on the flawed Bill show it is friendless outside Govt. #auspol

Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia  — Australian Friends of Palestine Association AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

It looks very much like the National Press Club statement lied about their cancellation of Chris Hedges. His appearance WAS confirmed, and even listed on the website, according to this.
(Hedges believes his talk on Gaza was cancelled following pressure from the pro-Israel lobby):

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

I wish people who use AI to make content off of other people's work and DEAD PEOPLE a very fall down the stairs.

David Shoebridge turns up the heat on AG Dept Sec Kath Jones who objects bail law changes in QLD,NSW, NT are to
“put more ppl in jail”
DS “r u seriously challenging that?”
KJ “u said to put more FN ppl in jail”
DS “they were expressly identifying wanting to put more FN kids in jail”🔥 #Estimates

David Shoebridge has accused NACC CEO Philip Reed of “misleading the parliament” after he told the Senate that Commissioner Paul Brereton had no existing duties with the IGADF
DS “That’s what happened Mr Reed, didn’t it?”
PR “I’ll leave that to others to determine”
🔥 ouch 🚩 #Estimates

After claiming Commr Brereton rarely provides advice to IGADF, NACC CEO Philip Reed then says it’s going to “take some time” for Brereton to advise him on how many times he’s provided advice.
Shoebridge “Bcoz there’s so much advice?”
“Those things don’t sit together Mr Reed”💥🙄 #Estimates

NACC Inspector Gail Furness confirmed there’s 55 complaints she received since 1 Oct (this year) relating to Brereton & his (secret) role with IGADF. Whilst not being specific, suggested is investigating
Thank you all who complained & to ABCs Olivia Caisley’s great work on this.

Our mega rich are inflaming selves & their tools to make us hate each other. They depict anyone not in their chosen identity (“Christian” “White” rightwing) as a subversive, violent Other. That’s a path to bloodshed.
How are we going to limit the hate?
#auspol
lucyham29.substack.com/p/australias...

Graph showing: Avoided emissions from passenger cars in Norway

My estimates of how much Norway's CO₂ emissions have been reduced as a result of EVs, PHEVs, and biofuels.
robbieandrew.github.io/EV/

Maybe the PM could at least do some of his token "centrism" and ask for 3 of the 6 Aussies back?

On Friday, the ultranationalist minister suggested that Israel would be better off throwing the flotilla participants in prison for several months rather than immediately deporting them back to their home countries. Security prisoners - those incarcerated for offenses that intentionally harm national security - are housed separately from criminal prisoners and are not eligible for many of the benefits available to the general prison population. The term is a catch-all term applied to detainees, convicted prisoners and terrorists, and administrative detainees who are held without charges for extended periods, without trial.

"We are in Ketziot prison, and as I promised, those flotilla members, supporters of terrorism, are here in a security prison," Channel 14 reported Ben Gir as saying. "They receive conditions for terrorists here, for everything, terrorist sweatpants, terrorist conditions. This means, there is a minimum of the minimum, that's what I promised and that's how we are fulfilling it."

The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.

www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...

It's honestly why I harp on media framing so, so often.

People really underestimate how much it influences everything.

EXCLUSIVE: Over 30 Human Rights Experts Demand UEFA Expel Israeli Soccer Teams European soccer’s governing body reportedly paused a vote on suspending Israel after Trump released his 20-point 'peace plan' for Gaza.

"EXCLUSIVE: Over 30 Human Rights Experts Demand UEFA Expel Israeli Soccer Teams"

European soccer’s governing body reportedly paused a vote on suspending Israel after Trump released his 20-point 'peace plan' for Gaza, reports @premthakker.bsky.social