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Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h ago

I'm the first person to post about this on social media. There has been no media coverage yet. DEWR themselves have not posted about it on their social media, despite making other posts today. This is a highly consequential decision of government that will affect many recipients. Not good enough.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h ago

#BREAKING 🚨 The new DEWR Secretary announced they'll seek to resume suspending or cancelling welfare payments on October 26 in respect of: • Refusal or failure to accept an offer of suitable work • Failure to 'reconnect' with a provider within 4 weeks www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...

Antipoverty Centre@antipovertycentre.org · 21h ago

We have zero confidence that DEWR can safely or lawfully administer the TCF – it's not possible. Yet again DEWR acting in bad faith with no regard for the human cost of compulsory activities, and they aren't offering any meaningful compensation to people who had their payment cancelled unlawfully.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h ago

#BREAKING 🚨 The new DEWR Secretary announced they'll seek to resume suspending or cancelling welfare payments on October 26 in respect of: • Refusal or failure to accept an offer of suitable work • Failure to 'reconnect' with a provider within 4 weeks www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 21h ago

Here's what she's been up to instead. None of these things are even close to being more important than her role as a minister to positively inform the public of significant decisions of government re: administrative law and to explain those decisions to them.

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Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 21h ago

Minister Rishworth has failed to provide any sort of statement or communication in relation to this significant decision of government. No-one expects comment from the Minister, nor does she have anything to say. However, it is her job to own this decision and explain it, and to do so at the time.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h ago

#BREAKING 🚨 The new DEWR Secretary announced they'll seek to resume suspending or cancelling welfare payments on October 26 in respect of: • Refusal or failure to accept an offer of suitable work • Failure to 'reconnect' with a provider within 4 weeks www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...

Jessie L@jessielilley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Victoria's new premier has axed the Minister for Men & Boys, even as women continue to be killed by men on a frighteningly regular basis, and instead introduces a Minister for AI to "capitalise" on tech "opportunities." People are dead to the ALP, it's all business now baby.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 5d ago

We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

Dylan McConnell@dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · last wk.

.. "Consumers should brace for hefty increases in the cost of generating electricity as data centres suck up vast quantities of power faster than new plants can be built" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

'Mismatch' between data centres and power projects that has experts worried

Consumers should brace for hefty increases in the cost of generating electricity as data centres suck up vast quantities of power faster than new plants can be built, experts say.

abc.net.au

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

Once again reminding people who run companies that they have autonomy, and that there is freedom (and money!) in trying to appeal to actual humans and not the machine pretending to be billions of them.

To me, you will always be the guy who understood the internet the best because you saw its worst parts, and still held out hope for something better. How do you think the internet has evolved, and how do you think about covering it through The Onion now versus when you left NBC? It’s reverting, at least for young people, to something closer to what was exciting about the internet 10 to 15 years ago—a means to an end to meet people in real life. That’s how I moved to New York, met my friends, discovered music and movies I never would have found. It destabilized culture in a way that let me exist functionally for the first time. Then people got the wrong idea—that being on the computer all day was the point. It never was. The internet helped me understand a world that had seemed vacuous and weird. Now we’re back in a place where the people who consolidated the internet seem to think the goal is to keep us on the computer feeding the machine. I don’t think that’s what people want. For us it’s the opposite: How do we get you back into real life using the information? The Onion, at the end of the day, is a really good sentence generator for the real world—the distillation you can say in the elevator. We want people out in the world talking to each other again—which is part of why we have almost 83,000 people getting a physical newspaper in their mailbox again this month. We view the internet as a means to an end to get people into The Onion in real life. Dominating ChatGPT is not the goal.
Victorian Socialists@vicsocialists.bsky.social · last wk.

Some decent media coverage of the Victorian Socialists teachers who've helped lead the rank-and-file revolt in the AEU and who will be standing as candidates in the upcoming election - challenging a swathe of sitting Labor MPs including Minister for Education and leadership contender Ben Carroll.

Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

"What is hard to ignore is the disparity between the government’s response to Islamophobia and its response to antisemitism." @deepcutnews.bsky.social What's also hard to ignore is how readily Albanese caves in to almost every demand of the Israel lobby. #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/labors-res...

Labor’s response to Islamophobia was disappointingly predictable – Najma Sambul

The government acknowledged the problem while ignoring key recommendations to address it

deepcutnews.com

a ok@wvv.bsky.social · last wk.

BW/DR is fantastic; after I watch something new to me it’s the first place I go to find someone engaged and with a POV writing about it. Cheap sub and well worth it

Bright Wall/Dark Room@brightwalldarkroom.com · last wk.

Almost a year later, we've been able to make up over half of this loss — thanks *entirely* to new subscriptions 🙏— but we still need some help to make up the rest. All it takes to support BWDR is a $29 annual subscription, and in exchange you get full access to everything we've published since 2013!

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last wk.

lmao at “bargain bin Elon Musk” but rachel has a point. there’s no reason for anyone avoiding substack because of politics to keep using shopify except that they simply don’t care as much when the political effects are felt in canada instead of the US.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

People claim to be doing progressive work and then do ad reads for the platform that literally keeps Canada’s bargain bin Elon Musk loaded. I get most Americans don’t think about Canada hardly ever but could you please, this once, think about the impact your actions have outside your borders?

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

People claim to be doing progressive work and then do ad reads for the platform that literally keeps Canada’s bargain bin Elon Musk loaded. I get most Americans don’t think about Canada hardly ever but could you please, this once, think about the impact your actions have outside your borders?

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: “Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”
Jo Dyer@instanterudite.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gareth Evans telling it like it is, namely AUKUS is: “more likely than not to prove one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions our country has made” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/defence/2026/07/25/case-against-aukus

The case against AUKUS

As this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset ...

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

"we do not want to highlight this yet" Hyped data centre company Firmus seemingly accidentally reveals plan to source water from a publicly owned provider that almost exclusively serves farmers, thanks to an inadvertent note left in its website FAQs lol

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Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

"She’ll make a claim – that she supports mass deportation – and then let her lieutenants clean it up by claiming that’s not what she said. And she’ll jump on any criticism – like her other political half supposedly yelling at a dog – as proof the media is against her." And the media lets her.

Amy Remeikis@amyremeikis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hanson continues to pretend she's new to all of this. In which case, her internship has gone for 30 years. She's one of our most experienced political players. So much so there isn't a single issue she doesn't have a history of controversy in - including DV www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Michael Bell@disirregardless.bsky.social · 2w ago

Virtually the entire Very Smart Canberra Press Gallery™ is 30 years into pretending that Hanson's batshit crazy racism and misogyny is incredibly new and somehow unable to have been anticipated.