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How many years worth of articles about this topic need to be written before something is actually done about it.

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The ABC sacked our colleague because of her political opinion and to appease a lobby group, the court found. And they spent more than $1 million on ridiculous defences including the she was never sacked and there is no such thing as a Lebanese race. Time for the ABC to rethink how it treats staff.

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 comments

Israel is a genocidal state and all who support it cheer for the murder of children. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

A Melbourne food bank helping to feed up to 7,000 people a week says it could be forced to close after the City of Casey approved its permit with strict conditions www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

People often ask me if I’m ever going to stop wearing my mask. They ask in such an exasperated tone, as though my mask is infringing upon their lives in some way. I like not being sick. If I had known how effective respirators were before COVID, I would have worn them before!

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

And the US just bombed Iran at the behest of Israel, which has been claiming its at immediate risk of a nuclear strike for 30 years and we’ll all be told Israel has a right to defend itself, but anything Iran does is an act of war and in another 30 years we’ll be told there was no need for any of it

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate rose sharply last week to 1.3% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-80. It has passed the peak from early January, during the XEC wave. That implies a 31% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #Australia 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

new admin review tribunal figures from last year, showing NDIS decisions most likely of ALL cases to be overturned www.art.gov.au/sites/defaul...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone else stop at Gundagai on the drive between Sydney/Melbourne? 🙋🏻‍♀️ A cute old town with architecture that’s fun to capture! #Gundagai #Procreate #ArchitectureArt #Uplift

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The ICC: Why do journalists never cover our tournaments in-person any more? Also the ICC...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

England's Women's World Cup Odyssey. 🏏 Almost 10,000km of flights crisscrossing India. (And more if they end up playing a semi-final in Colombo!)

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This is worth sitting with. Just for instance, I know who gave me the infection that left me bedbound. It does happen. This isn’t an abstraction.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

If you can't stay up until 3am, Prime have thoughtfully(!) hidden full replays of the #WTCFinal. To view them, you can: 1. Select and hold the thumbnail for tonight's live session. Select 'More details' from the options and you will see a list of replays for each of the previous days sessions. 1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

People want disabled folks to shut up. They want us to go away & not fight for our lives. If they’re on the “left”, they may not say it as overtly as those on the right, but the sentiment is the same. Eugenics is on both sides of the aisle and these “jokes” are harmful.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

‘There’s faeces everywhere’: Carol’s home regularly floods with sewage. It’s a sign of a ‘neglected’ public housing system www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Is Bluesky kind of a bubble? Yes. Is X very much a bubble? Oh hell yes. Is -- wait for it -- LinkedIn? To a degree that would blow your mind, if you spent enough time there. There never has been a single online "town square" -- they all drift toward certain norms.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

Wow!! #Netball #SSN

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I was planning to catch up on the last session of #WTCFinal from overnight… but Prime don’t have the full days replay 😩 The most they’ve got is 25min highlight package 😭 When they’ve got exclusive rights… why?! 🏏

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Australian C19 Weekly Update - 6th June 2025 We continue to see growth everywhere except the Northern Territory. Tag healthcare providers who should have respirator masks in place! Data from: nindss.health.gov.au/pbi-dashboard/ Thanks to @angiecibisdesign for the design! 1/4

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

New Zealand centurion Casey Kopua received an SOS call from the Giants and was on a plane the next day. Coming out of retirement, it was the almost 40-year-old world champion's first elite netball game in six years.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

When I turned 40 I made a specific effort to always reach out for the rail on the stairs. Here at 56 it's now entirely automatic, and has absolutely and literally saved my ass several times.

submitted 23 days ago • 176 comments

There is no fucking therapy in the world that will fix bone on bone pain when all your cartilage is gone. Refusing to consider any surgical option til age 60 means the bone will chip further, further damaging the joint

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The fact that some families are acruing massive debts while awaiting changes in support plans from the NDIS Is testament to a broken system www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Victorian Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 30 May 2025 From 18 May 2025 to 24 May 2025: 🔸COVID positivity rate: 5.5% (+1.1%) 🔹COVID: 1,051 (+55%) 🔹Influenza A: 1,208 (+47%) 🔹Influenza B: 375 (+39%) 🔹RSV: 915 (+19%) Source: www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

England new old openers firing, with both Beaumont & Jones getting 50’s. Eng 0/136 after 27 overs. And I seemed to have missed the context for why the commentators have spent the last 5 mins talking about AI generated photos of themselves looking older and younger… 🤨 #ENGvWI 🏏

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

HEATHER KNIGHT INJURY UPDATE: An MRI scan has revealed that Heather Knight has suffered a significant tendon injury to her right hamstring and will be ruled out of home international cricket and The Hundred in 2025.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

🧵 on the Victorian drought

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

If you want to donate to help farmers in drought, go to ruralaid.org.au #AusPol

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A new long COVID study of over 1,000 children—472 under age 2 and 539 aged 3–5—found that 41% of toddlers and 45% of preschoolers who had COVID had at least one lasting symptom. It’s the first study of its kind in this age range. Source: archive.md/PlMqk

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

“China noted a rise in outpatient cases from 7.5% to 16.2% and severe hospitalized cases from 3.3% to 6.3%” The latest COVID variant is sweeping across Asia, causing “razor blade throat” and other concerning symptoms. The US dismantles reporting, remove access to testing & may restrict vaccines:

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments