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Ed Jegasothy

@edjegasothy.bsky.social

Epidemiologist, biostatistician, egalitarian. Interested in environmental health and the causes of health inequality. Senior lecturer in public health at Sydney Uni. Opinions are my own.

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Antipoverty Centre@antipovertycentre.org · 3w ago

Yes, 20% of suicide deaths are people on JobSeeker. Yes, 60% of working age adults who die are on a Centrelink payment. So what did Tanya Plibersek do in Anti-Poverty Week? Give $5 million to charities. FULL STATEMENT:

Plibersek’s charity funding in Anti-Poverty Week is an insult to poor people

The government has announced $5 million in charity funding while welfare recipients make up more than a third of suicide deaths, and are up to 10x more likely to die than people not on income support.

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David Sligar@davidsligar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Labor will ensure working women do not retire into poverty" using "superannuation". Too bad about non-working women, I guess. Championing super as a poverty reduction tool is goofball stuff. The Age Pension sets the floor, super is the supplement linked to past earnings.

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

#BREAKING 🚨 Labor in their draft 2026 platform have replaced their previous statement of belief 'that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia' with a 'recognition' the social security system should support 'better health and wellbeing'.

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

#BREAKING 🚨 Labor in their draft 2026 platform have replaced their previous statement of belief 'that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia' with a 'recognition' the social security system should support 'better health and wellbeing'.

A fair social security system 91. Labor believes in a strong, adequate and fair social safety net and that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia. Labor is committed to a social security system that keeps people out of poverty, whether they are unemployed, working age, escaping family or domestic violence or in retirement.A fair social security system 90. Labor recognises that a strong social security system supports not only economic security but also better health and wellbeing, and that when people have the means to meet their basic needs and make choices about their lives they experience stronger social and health outcomes.
Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ALP conference somehow even more sauceless than everyone thought it would be this year. Not you, internet smart guy. You already knew it would be bad. I mean even among attendees who had properly calibrated their expectations to 'zero'.

Marita Hennessy@maritahennessy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Call for Papers for Special Collection @healthpromint.bsky.social: Power, Equity & the Health of Women & Girls 📆 Submission deadlines: Abstracts - 30 September 2026 Full papers - 01 March 2027 More information: academic.oup.com/heapro/pages... @docsamantha.bsky.social

Call for Papers for Special Collection in Health Promotion International: Power, Equity and the Health of Women and Girls

Health Promotion International is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal that contains refereed original articles, perspectives, opinion pieces, policy piec

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ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The experimental estimates are based on "nicotine metabolite concentrations" detected in wastewater samples, combined with data showing a collapse in spending on legal cigarettes and vapes.

ABS estimates 80pc of tobacco consumed in Australia last year illegal

The experimental estimates are based on "nicotine metabolite concentrations" detected in wastewater samples, combined with data showing a collapse in spending on legal cigarettes and vapes.

abc.net.au

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some absolutely brutal figures from the ABS on tobacco consumption - figures that really should have those arguing that the higher excise is working to really have a long think...

A graph showing that overall tobacco consumption has risen over the past decade - almost all became the fall in legal tobacco has been replaced by more consumption of illegal cigarettes
David Sligar@davidsligar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

desperate attempt to construct a metaphysics of wordcelism in the face of technological competition. birds don’t know how to fly unless they’re constructed an elegant treatise on flight.

Jon Hegglund@jonhegglund.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this is a fundamental philosophical difference. I do not believe "ideas" exist in some pre- or a-linguistic form. no ideas prior to the language with which they are expressed. there is no separate plane of content independent of expression. we can't touch the noumena, we are fated to phenomena.

David Sligar@davidsligar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I feel much of the AI hate is from people who pride themselves on their own writing. Human nature overstates the importance of our own skills, and here it overstates the significance of the writing process itself as a condition of analytical and critical rigour.

Jeremy Poxon@jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Rishworth: "I am really sick of this debate of 'too soft' or 'too hard' mutual obligations. I want to see effective mutual obligations" You're sick of the debate? Imagine how all the people you're torturing in this system feel