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Minimum wage in Australia is a bit over $24 an hour. But we still think it’s ok to pay people on welfare, unemployed people, single parents, old people, disabled people MUCH MUCH LESS. And we expect people to look for work while living below the poverty line. #RaiseTheRate #auspol

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In the latest update to well shucks what could go wrong with that:

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Fortunately, my prophylactic meds control my migraines (huzzah!) but for those who suffer, this is interesting research. (Erasmus MC is my local hospital. Best I've ever experienced. Quality and continuity of care, facilities, staff. Just astonishingly good. And of course fees are 100% covered.)

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Exactly. #auspol

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53% of 18- to 24-year-olds want more Socialism #auspol #Australia #EatTheRich #ClassWar #Socialism

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PSA: Words matter They aren’t “layoffs” It’s not about “efficiency”

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"The firing of thousands of federal employees is not a small or common thing. You haven’t been able to confirm that?"

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Good time to go and pull up your tax records and save them. Have no protection from what #musk might do or change to benefit his fortune.

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Why is the IRS complying? This makes no sense. DOGE has no real authority. Where is the pushback?

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Burke's interference was a disgrace. His hands are far from clean in this grubby craven mess.

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“This shift from government schools has promoted growing concentration of socio-educationally disadvantaged students in schools that have already high proportions of disadvantaged students” Policy failure, with generational consequences. #inequality #auspol www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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How the Media and Musk Are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Well Beyond Its Size Analysis of media mentions on Elon Musk’s X reveals that established news organisations are helping to boost Nigel Farage’s party well out of proportion to its number of MPs bylinetimes.com/2025/02/17/h...

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Just starting your growing adventure? 🌱 Here are 5 easy veggies to get you going: lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, zucchini (courgette!), & green beans. Quick to grow & super rewarding! #gardening #beginnergardener #growyourown

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"Like any Labor leader, Albanese is up against a political class that is relentlessly anti-Labor. The media, meanwhile, cut Dutton the sort of slack no Labor leader would ever be accorded, and he's cruising along on a non-agenda of thought bubbles and bluster." tdunlop.substack.com/p/we-interru...

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They try to appear competent. All this lightspeed firing of hundreds of federal workers in different departments in a very short time, is supposed to impress and frighten us. But this only shows: They don't know what they're doing. They're all incompetent fools at the levers of power.

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Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

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In Crikey, Catri Menzies-Pike and I wrote about Creative Australia's decision to drop Khaled Sabsabi from the Venice Biennale. If conservative media is going to dictate cultural policy, Creative Australia might as well pack up and call it a day www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/17/k...

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My wobbly #GingerCat went to the vet today for a close trim under anaesthetic, because his wobbliness makes it hard for him to groom himself thoroughly. We've had this done a few times before. Today the vet said that something was new.

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Utterly horrifying abuse and exploitation of disabled people by a cab driver. We had a four and a half year Royal Commission into the appalling perpetration of violence against us by so many people, and it shows no sign of changing www.smh.com.au/national/499... archive.md/KlY8H

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important research on inequalities of access to disability support 'some groups are more likely to be rejected from the scheme than others: women and girls, people aged 55 and over, and those who live in disadvantaged areas.' theconversation.com/ndis-reforms...

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Three-quarters of Australians want more national parks, study finds biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/austral...

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Sadly not actually surprising. Links between covid 19 and cancer acceleration/development are known. Ping @1goodtern.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Tax the polluters. If the product they provide becomes uneconomical, alternatives will show up to replace them. Society can change its spending habits to support the planet. Or we all will end up with a planet that can’t support us. #auspol

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THIS 👇

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Happy Emma Goldman Comstock Noncompliance Day (ayyy a fellow Lithuanian) www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/em... @zinnedproject.bsky.social

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Bloody hell. Hire a live actor with MC experience on their CV to do this, if faculty members can't get it right. They'll know how to avoid awkward moments. Give the pro MC enough time ahead to triple-check the pronunciation of names they're unfamiliar with and then just step back out of their way.

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Associated Press barred from White House event because it won't call it the "Gulf of America." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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This is spot on from @stevepeers.bsky.social

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I regret to inform you that, once again, things can always get stupider

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This seems as sensible as removing every website that happens to have the word "boomerang" in it.

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Utter madness, please stop this reckless and destructive planned development. Do the right thing, @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social.

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High school kids on the bus discussing how their mate gets on to the dark web. This social media ban is gonna be real effective huh? #auspol. 😊🤞🦋

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‘Regional newspaper publisher Australian Community Media (ACM) will move all of its mastheads to one print edition per week within the next 7 years.’ ‘would affect ACM's remaining daily papers including the Newcastle Herald, Canberra Times & Illawarra Mercury.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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This is a perfect gift for gardeners & ramblers. If like me you try to restore a fatigued & exhausted bee with a teaspoon of honey water, you can give an energy boosting sip from this little kit.

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Some mangos went overripe before we could eat them all, so I've used this recipe as a guide for my own version of mango feta dip (preserved lemon instead of white wine vinegar for brightness, zaatar for depth of flavour, plus extra sesame seeds all added to the blender) food.ndtv.com/recipe-mango...

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Morning light on the golden robinia #Sydney #summer

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Trump’s cronies are clearly setting up this fake “academy” and “journal” so they can back any jackass idea they want. When I worked for the world’s largest coal company, the office next to mine was home to over 100 “research institutes” whose job it was to deny the climate crisis. Same thing.

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Fortunately the removed #WomenInSTEM story was archived by the Wayback machine 1/...

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A bunch of grasping Callithumpians!

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