Zionism is racism though? I don't get it. It's literally a doctrine of racial supremacy predicated on the complete erasure of another ethnic group? Am I reading too much into this? Would I vote for a motion that said Zionism is racism? Yes. Would I join the Greens? No

Imagine employing a number of full-time policy staff and still just copying Zohran and they can't even do it

Uhhhhh actually you have to say Israel is good and the most perfect victim in history on October 7 and you’re not allowed to say anything else. Okay? You can only say one thing. Well, that’s my statement and you agree with me so let’s everybody go and have a respectful October 7.

Following my reporting in August the privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into the app maker behind the Kmart glasses. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Privacy regulator launches probe into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ app

Commissioner said Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries

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Richard Morecroft, veteran ABC news presenter, dies age 70 after cancer diagnosis

Richard Morecroft, veteran ABC news presenter, dies age 70 after cancer diagnosis

Michael Rowland and Leigh Sales lead tributes to newsreader who read the ABC’s 7pm bulletin for 20 years * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Former ABC news presenter Richard Morecroft has died at the age of 70. Morecroft presented ABC’s 7pm news bulletin for almost 20 years until 2002. Continue reading...

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NBNCo have now cancelled the tech appointment because there isn't an outage listed on their system, despite our provider booking it for them in accordance with the only available procedure. They did exactly the same thing last time our service went down <2 months ago. Stealing a fucking living.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3d ago

>20min electrical storm Saturday afternoon >NBN box completely dead >No other outages reported >Public holiday Monday so no tech until WEDNESDAY 👍

What Australia needs is for whatever Australian federal politicians are currently available to directly adopt, as closely as possible, Zohran Mamdani's policies as the male democratic socialist mayor of New York City because a number of truly bad op-eds have been telling them to do this.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Australia needs a Zohran Mamdani of the left except he (or she 😎) is Australian but with the same policies as Zohran Mamdani (EXPLAINER: Zohran Mamdani is the male democratic socialist mayor of New York City).

We've now had essentially the same sorts of scandals in homecare, family day care, employment services, NDIS, veterans, residential aged care and ECEC. (I'm sure I've missed some in that list.)

At some point we need to conclude that the waste, fraud and poor / bad outcomes for people is a feature, not a bug of voucher-based delivery of social services. It flows directly from the mode of economic organisation of the programs in their current forms. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

They built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millions

The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale.

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its extremely cool and good the government is treating unauthorised access to it's ICT and data as something they just need to discuss with the company doing the unauthorised access.

Josh Butler@joshbutler.bsky.social · yesterday

OpenAI must explain how they will stop their models from inappropriately accessing Australian data, the chair of the parliament’s committee on artificial intelligence has warned, ahead of federal inquiry hearings today to grill big tech companies on AI www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

While he was a politician Shorten told these women he was on their side and he’d help them get justice. How much is his salary at University of Canberra now? While grieving families won’t ever see a dime www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensation

Commonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice

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Funny how he's always downplaying the chance of cost-of-living relief when I thought we were supposed to understand it's their number one focus, and always has been.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3d ago

Jim Chalmers flags savings package and downplays chance of cost-of-living relief

>20min electrical storm Saturday afternoon >NBN box completely dead >No other outages reported >Public holiday Monday so no tech until WEDNESDAY 👍

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My favourite part of when the NBN fails is how your provider and NBNCo both get to tell you to go fuck yourself 👍

They are coming

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 5d ago

Bluebottles the size of a fist wash up on Gold Coast beaches

by 'hack' it again sounds very soft: information that is public, but accessed in an unauthorised way. NSW gov and OpenAI both say no personal information exposed (it was about fire statistics)

a friday afternoon surprise: NSW gov says OpenAI disclosed a "misalignment" by its AI agent and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's National Parks and Wildlife web platform service. So, it sounds like a second Australian government 'hack'

58-year-old adopted man finds out Michael McDonald is his biological father

58-year-old adopted man finds out Michael McDonald is his biological father

Of the various things that you, a man of 58 who was happily adopted in your youth, but who has discovered your birth father thanks to a 23andMe test taken by a total stranger, can ask in your first phone conversation with the man in question, "Are you Michael McDonald?" is probably one of the more surreal. Doubly so if the response is an immediate, "Yeah, I’m afraid so."

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Australia needs a Zohran Mamdani of the left except he (or she 😎) is Australian but with the same policies as Zohran Mamdani (EXPLAINER: Zohran Mamdani is the male democratic socialist mayor of New York City).

Rachel I am officially publicly begging you to stop writing this fucking article three times a week @rachelwithers.bsky.social

Crikey@crikey.com.au · last wk.

The Greens need a Polanski or a Mamdani, a charismatic unifier who can speak compellingly to those looking for alternatives, writes Rachel Withers. Can Shoebridge and Hodgins-May cut through? www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/g...

UPDATED: the government has released the OpenAI email sent to Services Australia on Sept. 10 OpenAI fessed its agent managed to get internal files without a private account or password. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

#BREAKING 🚨 The RBA has declared ‘Wharfie Time’ on the whole damn economy!

OpenAI has apologised for hacking Australia’s Medicare statistics system in a blog post that revealed the intrusion was broader than first known.

USyd management allegedly considering takeover of SRC elections following controversy over ‘Globalise the Intifada’ ticket Kuyili Karthik and James Fitzgerald Sice Honi Soit September 28, 2026 honisoit.com/2026/09/usyd...

RBA rate day:

Quick question: do you think the government has yanked the files they claimed they didn’t want OpenAI’s agents accessing that were sitting on the forward facing server of the health data portal yet? Or…?

It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis www.governmentnews.com.au/agencies-slo...

Agencies slow to detect data breaches - Government News

It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis.

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Chickens sprinting over to you in the morning at full speed and squatting down to pick them up for a cuddle>>>

Movie where an event causes the total historical erasure of Taylor Swift's music around the world except for one gay guy who takes it on himself to re-record her entire catalogue but then nobody thinks the songs are any good

An OpenAI agent's breach of a government portal containing Medicare statistics proves how AI can exploit Australia's pre-existing cybersecurity weaknesses. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/a...

Australia’s legacy systems were already a cyber risk. AI agents are raising the stakes

AI does not create vulnerabilities in ageing systems. But it may change how quickly, persistently and autonomously those vulnerabilities can be discovered and acted upon.

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