How much does Australia spend on offshore detention in Nauru? | Fiona Katauskas

How much does Australia spend on offshore detention in Nauru? | Fiona Katauskas

It’s hard to tell where it all goes… * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

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📣Hey cross benchers! Check out the @grattaninstitute.bsky.social analysis. It shows the #NDIS can be "saved" without the savage cuts to social participation. Pls stop these unnecessary cuts @davidpocock.bsky.social @mon4kooyong.bsky.social @helenhainesindi.bsky.social @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 2w ago

The government wants to make these short-term cuts to shore up the budget bottom line. But there’s a fairer way to repair the NDIS.

Dear 🇦🇺 Parliamentary Friends of #MECFS Thousands of constituents w #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis or #LongCOVID need your help. @peterkhalilmp.bsky.social Pls save Emerge Australia from closure in Nov 2026 when federal government funding expires. @sophiescott2.bsky.social @traceyspicer.bsky.social

Emerge Australia@emergeaustralia.bsky.social · 4w ago

Has #EmergeAustralia made a difference in your life? If a telehealth call, support or advice has helped you, now is the time to speak up. Please share this post and @your local MP and encourage them to read the full brief - zurl.co/m09GK #MECFS #LongCOVID

Friends of Australian Rock Art will discuss the significance of Murujuga's 50,000-year-old rock art and the ongoing damage from toxic industrial emissions which threaten its existence. 🗓️ Sunday 19 July 2-4pm AEST 📌 State Library Victoria, Melbourne 🎟️ https://theaus.in/4f4RJX0

Don't believe every housing headline. Or, as Chief Economist Greg Jericho puts it, maybe it's time to calm the farm. The latest data shows the outlook for house prices is more nuanced than the doom-and-gloom commentary suggests. Read the full analysis on The Point: https://theaus.in/4b7wym4

A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year. That's enough to cover the $16.3 billion annual cost of putting dental coverage into Medicare. ✍ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax⤵️ https://theaus.in/4aALclF

👀20 mins on #MECFS in recent 🇦🇺 Senate Estimates 🎥 tinyurl.com/2y4ww784 Thanks Senator Steele-John 🙏 Discussion covered telehealth barriers, housebound & bedbound patients, specialist access, long GP consults and disability support pathways @markbutlermp.bsky.social @senatoranneruston.bsky.social

With just 11 days allowed for submissions and three for hearings, the disability community testified to deep concerns and a lack of clarity over the sweeping reforms that Labor aims to push through parliament by July 2. trib.al/7hCDrWY

‘I do not want to go back’: NDIS cuts spark new fears

With just 11 days allowed for submissions and three for hearings, the disability community testified to deep concerns and a lack of clarity over the sweeping reforms that Labor aims to push through parliament by July 2.

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Australia Institute research shows voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support a 25% tax on gas exports. Yet the Australian Parliament has failed to act. ✍️ Join the call for a national plebiscite to introduce a 25% gas export tax! https://gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au/

States tell Albanese government that NDIS changes could mean people with disabilities are shifted into hospitals

States tell Albanese government that NDIS changes could mean people with disabilities are shifted into hospitals

Plan to move 240,000 people off scheme leads states and territories to jointly warn they can’t ‘deliver like-for-like services to people who are exited from the NDIS’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast State and territory disability ministers have rung alarm bells over the Albanese government’s proposed overhaul of the NDIS, warning they can’t deliver “like-for-like services” for more than 200,000 participants expected to be shifted off the scheme by 2031. The Albanese government’s national disability insurance scheme bill is designed to dramatically curb the growth of the $50bn-a-year scheme by first reducing budgets and then the number of people who can access it from 2028. Continue reading...

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Hundreds attend Kath & Kim-themed pro-Palestine fun run protesting Queensland hate speech laws

More than 200 Palestine supporters have dressed up in Kath and Kim-inspired activewear for a Brisbane fun run, with some risking arrest to raise funds for a High Court challenge to Queensland’s hate s...

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📺 Missed our community forum on the proposed NDIS changes? Hear from Senator Jordon Steele-John, Belinda Kochanowska and Naomi Anderson on what's at stake, what happens next, and why community action matters. 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZLG... #ProtectOurNDIS #NDIS

𝑸 Do 🇦🇺 Aussie GPs receive training to manage #MECFS while the new guidelines are under development❓ 🅰️ Not according to the govt in Senate Estimates. 🩺 Health dept official to investigate GP capability. Many thanks Senator Steele-John youtube.com/live/MPjhTy1... #MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee | [Part 1] | 03/06/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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one more ceo sleepout will turn this around. one more cost of living tax cut. just one more foodbank drive, I swear www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty

Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households

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Check out this GetUp! Campaign to reform the press council! getup.to/reZy9uDCdWnT3

Time to fix Australia's broken media

An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.

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Our #MECFS Awareness Symposium is starting now. The Symposium, “The Hidden Harm of “Trying Harder”, is being recorded and will be available on our website in the coming days.

#PEM is real & not the same as fatigue. It is biological, not due to deconditioning or lack of motivation. Telling people to push through can cause harm. Join us 2pm AEST, Tuesday 12 May, for a conversation on recognition, validation & preventing harm. zurl.co/umjjR

On Int #MECFSAwarenessDay, we launch: The Hidden Harm of “Trying Harder” focused on PEM. PEM is real and not the same as fatigue. It can deeply impact every part of a person’s life. It is widely misunderstood, dismissed, or reduced to simply being “tired. Access our PEM resources: zurl.co/3eeVl

Grateful to @emergeaustralia.bsky.social for recognising Pete as a finalist for the #MECFS Awards for Journalism Excellence for: 🎧The Conditional Release Program podcast with @jacktheinsider.bsky.social & @joelhill.bsky.social The Pain of ME/CFS tinyurl.com/u5ycactu ✍️SBS Insight. Link in replies

The Conditional Release Program

Listen to The Conditional Release Program on RedCircle

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Emerge Australia@emergeaustralia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌟 Celebrating Peter McClusky, finalist in the #emergeaustralia #mecfs Awards for Journalism Excellence for his two pieces from 2025! 🔗 Listen to the podcast here: zurl.co/ycqBv 📢 Thank you Peter for highlighting ME/CFS through your work! #mecfsawarenssweek2026

🌟 Celebrating David Tuller, senior fellow in public health and journalism at UC Berkeley, finalist in the #mecfs Awards for Journalism Excellence for his piece Open Mind Chronic Denial. 🔗 zurl.co/6S3JW 📢 Thank you David for highlighting ME/CFS through your work!

Join us this #MECFSAwarenessDay for a patient-focused online symposium. Hear from speakers as they share insights on #PEM, triggers, baseline setting & building a practical toolkit. 🗓️ Tue 12/5 ⏰ 2pm AEST 📍 Register - zurl.co/S7Byi

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Parliament House and online for Fluctuating Energy, Fixed Systems. Speakers shared powerful experiences and insights on how rigid systems fail people with #mecfs & #longcovid. Watch the recording: zurl.co/qThaI #mecfsadvocacy

Thank you to those who helped invite MPs to the Parliamentary Friends of ME/CFS meeting. 34 parliamentarians/staff from their office attended the meeting. 14 sent apologies. We’re now following up with every office to keep ME/CFS firmly on the agenda. 🔗 zurl.co/qEaTP

New online module for GPs 🩺 ME/CFS in General Practice: From invisible to visible – a case-based module covering identification, diagnosis, stigma-aware communication and safe care. RACGP CPD points available. #GPeducation #GPtraining #MECFS

Today, we brought ME/CFS to APH. With the theme Fluctuating Energy, Fixed Systems, the PFG of ME/CFS meeting highlighted a stark truth: people with #MECFS & #longCOVID must use systems built for stability, consistency & recovery, while living with fluctuating and unpredictable capacity.

We're thrilled to release the #LongCovid Treatment Guide! This is a collaboration with @rthm.bsky.social to help patients & providers explore treatment options together. The guide focuses on 24 medications, but includes a few other interventions for breadth /1

Long COVID Treatment Guide

An evidence-supported guide covering treatments addressing multiple Long COVID symptoms & mechanisms — focused on prescription medication, with a limited set of supplements, OTC medications, procedure...

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📢 #MECFS needs political attention - and MPs need to hear from us. Email your MP (2 mins!) and urge them to attend the Parliamentary Friends of ME/CFS meeting on 10 March. Take action 👉 zurl.co/DG4nc Let’s fill the room. 💙 #FairGoForME #MECFSAllianceAustralia

We are a wealthy nation. Nobody should be turned away from accessing a safe place to sleep, or nutritious food, while 1 in 3 big corporations pay no tax.

📢 #MECFS needs political attention - and MPs need to hear from us. Email your MP (2 mins!) and urge them to attend the Parliamentary Friends of ME/CFS meeting on 10 March. Take action 👉 zurl.co/UFRXm Let’s fill the room. 💙 #FairGoForME #MECFSAllianceAustralia

📅 Tue 10 March 🕚 11:00am–1:00pm AEDT (may finish earlier) Clinicians, MPs, researchers & people with lived experience will discuss the urgent needs of Australians with ME/CFS. 🔗 Register for Zoom: zurl.co/fyADw 📩 In-person (Canberra): information@emerge.org.au