Doctoral student UTS. Explanatory journalism - esp international Right’s influence on Auspol/society, integrity. refugees, climate. Opposing Christofascism. YES
Joined January 2009
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Jun 12
One of the first jobs to be replaced by AI is management consulting now that it proving itself ever more like glorified guesswork.
Jun 12
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
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Jun 10
I'm not sure why anyone would switch Australian commercial television on at all at this point. Just smash your temples with a hammer and save yourself some of the pain
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Honoured to be speaking at London's famed @frontlineclub alongside @Leila_MA (with more speakers to come) on "How Gaza Changes Everything" on 8 July.
Get your tickets and bring all your friends:
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Jun 11
Oh my dear God. What the fucking #Robodebt is this??
I just watched the last hour of the NDIS bill hearing and watched as @SenatorJordon, who has the patience of a saint, explain the actual NDIS and what a job interview looks like to a bunch of senior bureaucrats who have been called in to explain the enormous clusterfuck that is the plan for the former NDIS, which will harm hundreds of thousands of disabled people. At the end, he LOSES it. Justifiably. Go watch:)
And then I get curious about who one guy is so I look at a govt table which says he’s now working in and a different name catches my eye.
Russell de Burgh.
‘While working as the branch manager of the Pensions and Integrity branch of the Department of Social Services, De Burgh was identified by the #Robodebt Royal Commission as one of the officials who made "false representations" regarding the lawfulness and operation of the Robodebt program.’
And now this man has a very senior role in Health, rolling out cuts that will end lives and livelihoods in exchange for AUKUS submarines.
I do not know why I am still shocked, yet I am. #RoboNDIS
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Jun 11
OMFG. Try getting through Ronni Salt's latest NACC exposé without your whole body filling with rage.
How did a body built to expose corruption end up so thoroughly captured by the people running it?
My latest article in The Shot
After spending obscene amounts of taxpayer's money on luxury travel, office refurbishments and airfares from their homes to their Canberra office, I examine the high price Australians have paid so far for an impotent #NACC
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Jun 12
Australia’s greatest living investigative journalist, Brian Toohey, launched his new book in Sydney tonight.
After a career of 50 years to date of groundbreaking journalism, editing, and publishing, Brian has now published some of his very best reports & investigations — and a few previously unpublished — in this fabulous new book.
A spillover standing-room only crowd greeted stories from Brian and MC David Marr, with contributions from Laura Tingle, Colleen Ryan, Marian Wilkinson, and Colleen Egan.
“Fifty Years Before the Mastheads - My Published and Unpublished Stories on Politics, Corruption, Defence, Journalism and Secrecy” is self-published and well worth finding and buying now.
The recent political history covered in the book is shocking to those who don’t know it — and a terrifying reminder to those who do — of how our democracy is being sold off and given away.
# Get it here # gleebooks.com.au/p/50-years-…
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Jun 10
Tanuki’s readings of the trash posts and sad replies by the gullible.
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Jun 10
Thanks to @tom_tanuki
The Topham Guerin political campaign model of spamming FB boomer groups with stupid memes has morphed & massed in the era of AI slop. It’s out for One Nation not the LNP. #Auspol see reply
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Jun 9
Thanks for the 10k followers :)
It’s been five years writing and knife fighting on this platform, working a day job and putting out articles.
It’s been an experience I wouldn’t trade for anything.
boganintel.com is having its 5 year anniversary in August, and some big things are on the cards.
If you haven’t already, please subscribe :)
Thanks 🙏
You're a real journalist now!
Congrats. She deserves a follow back, don't you think?
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Jun 9
I've been in hospital with my 4yo son all day, as he's getting chemo for his leukaemia, and as ever, I can't stop thinking about the fact that churches in Jerusalem begged the Israeli govt to let them treat kids with cancer in Gaza, and Israel said no. A mass death sentence.
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Jun 9
1/3 The far right propaganda flooding our zone is shifting. Its White grievance Narrative has focused on immigration & small boats but can only endure only so long as the numbers fall. So it’s being reconstructed, against black & brown Britons instead.
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Jun 9
Brilliant news and not a moment too soon! 👇🏼
👏 🇬🇧 Zeteo UK is here to disrupt Britain’s broken media! We’ll be bringing fearless, independent journalism to the UK - no bowing to political pressure, no corporate interests, just fearless journalism.
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"redhead girl from Ipswich?" I appreciate the metaphor, but the reality is the object of the IPA political lust is an illiterate old-age pensioner with grey hair expertly colourised in copper-brown auburn/copper-infused brown box dye. Which makes it creepier and weirder.
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Brent points out that IEA did the same, flipping from UK Tories to Reform. This is not a coincidence or just a parallel. Both are components of the Atlas Network that have driven societies off cliffs since they fostered Pinochet, Reagan, Thatcher. Read Hayek’s Bastards 💡
Jun 5
A break-up note, quietly published in the AFR…
“Sorry, but I’ve found someone new.”
The fact that the IPA is now backing One Nation, and de-legitimising the Liberals, is significant.
The IPA was founded to assist with the establishment of the Liberal Party.
- It had a seat at the table when the party was forming.
- It wrote the Menzies’ early policy platforms.
- Director CD Kemp (who founded the IPA alongside the Murdochs, Coles, and BHP) left papers from this era that became the official history of the Liberal Party.
- The IPA became an intergenerational power base. Kemp’s two sons were Liberal ex-Ministers.
- The IPA-to-MP pipeline delivered Tim Wilson, John Pesutto, James Paterson and many more.
Now, allies are abandoning ship – not leaping into a void, but abandoning the IPA’s historic free-market ideals and Liberal Party links to chase shifting institutional power.
We can debate whether it’s driven by a desire to maintain relevance, or capture by Rinehart (who bankrolls both One Nation and the IPA) – but the cause is irrelevant and the outcome is the same.
Once the IPA has legitimised One Nation as “mainstream” and de-legitimised the Liberals as implicitly fringe, there’s no going back.
(In the UK, the same story: The Institute of Economic Affairs, a stalwart Tory ally, helped undermine the Tories and drive Reform.)
The IPA has picked a side, and sorry Liberals: it ain’t you.
They’ve run off with some redhead girl from Ipswich, and are going to spend the next few years stringing you along.
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My good mate @aaronsmith wrote this stunning piece about his week as a temp political staffer in Canberra. 👇🏽
Australians become inured to reading about Canberra and federal politics through the mainstream lens, but Aaron walks us through it warts and all.
Apart from his illuminating insights, I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of political writing, in fact, beautiful pieces of writing, that I have ever read - seriously.
Aaron crafts a tale of a tumultuous week in Australian politics, a tale of Parliament House and its operatives and inhabitants, like only a master storyteller can.
Congratulations Aaron, this piece will go into my very special book of writing that I will read again and again. I hope everybody does. We need to savour and cherish voices like yours, not just now, but forever.
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This is what Australia’s future looks like as one of the lower tier members of the 4th reich
Australians are being held hostage by @AstraZeneca @AstraZenecaUS Our health is being endangered by their greed. Their profits are just fine, but Trump has enabled predator capitalists to break our health & national budgets for CEO bonuses (and tHe sHaReHoLdEr 😩🤬)
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Australians will laugh themselves sick at a line in this conversation. America is going to “give” us submarines under #AUKUS?!? Anyone want to tell @BenFreemanDC how this is another rolling extortion racket where we keep paying extra billions for nothing?
#Auspol
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@QuincyInst's @BenFreemanDC on Congress' dangerous stealth move to integrate U.S. & Israeli militaries.
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Australians are being held hostage by @AstraZeneca @AstraZenecaUS Our health is being endangered by their greed. Their profits are just fine, but Trump has enabled predator capitalists to break our health & national budgets for CEO bonuses (and tHe sHaReHoLdEr 😩🤬)
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