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People calling this tacky (it is) and fascist (it is) but not the third most important thing… costumes beyonce would wear on tour 😔
Jun 10
JUST IN: UFC unveils the outfits Octagon Girls will wear at the UFC Freedom 250 White House fights this weekend.
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alexandra leclerc's influence...
Ariana Grande has released the music video for “hate that i made you love me.”
Watch: youtu.be/82-jTNka3uc?si=Q8Kk…
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welcome back susanalbumparty
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Why is Newscorp *especially* keen on the Coalition and One Nation in Victoria?
We have a few theories.
Keep in mind that 65% of Newscorp’s total market value is held in Real-Estate interests when reading this.
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15 reports of sexual assault including rape from Flotilla volunteers. The blatant murder of paramedics in Lebanon. Another round of Israeli war crimes and nary a peep from our “progressive” elected officials. This is how history is erased and atrocities are normalized
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Something to be aware of here is that right now the govt is actively courting "A.I." which will push more people into unemployment, where they will effectively be punished with poverty for the crime of being sacrificed for the wealthy.
#TheyDoNotWorkForYou
May 26
It is not a "major overhaul" if you keep the unlawful mutual obligations system in place. That's punishment as usual
There will still be outsourced providers, work for the dole, daily payment suspensions
It's the same stick with a new brochure
theguardian.com/business/202…
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Australian cops murder Indigenous people without consequence, & the Australian settler public gives no shits
No charges will be laid over the death in custody of 24-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi White, who died after being restrained by two plain-clothed NT Police officers inside an Alice Springs Coles supermarket almost a year ago.
nit.com.au/26-05-2026/24486/…
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May 26
This seems like a critical and under-discussed point.
"No matter how lifelike A.I. systems appear from the outside, we know that they are merely mathematical flip-books" slate.com/technology/2026/05…
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May 25
"The government is right to wind back a system where taxpayers spend billions lining the pockets of those who treat housing like an asset class, not a basic need" 🫡
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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May 26
Counterpoint: the financialisaton of everyday life isn't a success story. It shifted responsibility for economic security from the state & employers onto ordinary workers, to transform themselves into risk-bearing investors
Your "success story" resulted in a housing crisis
May 25
One of Australia’s greatest financial success stories has been the rise of ordinary people becoming investors. Over the last 30 years, millions of Australians have gradually moved from relying purely on wages and property to owning shares, ETFs and diversified portfolios. Not just wealthy people, but teachers, nurses, tradies, students and young families trying to build financial security over time.
That’s why the government’s proposed CGT changes feel like such a profound mistake.
This piece in today’s The Australian is my attempt to explain why I think that matters.
theaustralian.com.au/wealth/…
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Our economy is literally designed to keep hundreds of thousands unemployed. How can we justify punishing those people for that?
Any employment services reform that fails to abolish mutual obligations and put the system back in public hands isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
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The privatised job services model has been a disaster, enriching unaccountable providers and causing harm to millions of people through coercive compliance and payment suspensions and cancellations.
And the Ombudsman says the system isn't even operating lawfully!
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Labor’s own inquiry into employment services in 2023 concluded that privatisation had failed and that ‘fundamental change is needed’.
The reforms suggest that Labor hasn’t read its own report.
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"The mutual obligations system has been roundly criticised, including in two Commonwealth ombudsman's reports which found the suspension of many people's welfare payments for failing to meet their jobseeking requirements may have been unlawful."
May 27
"People looking for a job will be continually punished despite looming changes to employment services, advocates claim." canberratimes.com.au/story/9…
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May 27
Mutual obligations is not and can never be 'effective' at getting people into work. That's not the point.
There's no 'mutual obligations' compliance system you can design that can be lawfully administered by government nor companies. That's not the point.
x.com/maximumwelfare/status/…
May 27
Rishworth describes that very often, mutual obligations are a complete waste of time that don't help people get work and just piss off businesses too. This is because mutual obligations are not effective at getting people into work as a policy. But no-one is allowed to say this.
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May 27
This approach succeeded for many years, when there was not decades of evidence of our failed 'employment services'.
Where Treasury has noted the mutual obligations system represents an unquantifiable liability, you are basically announcing your intention to get hit by that bus.
May 27
I was not wrong. Not only is this a disappointing announcement in terms of the ALP, it's the exact same fake 'reform' announcement which occurs periodically to slightly reframe the status quo. They've just readopted the previous jobactive system and rhetoric about 'choice'.
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We've got 30 years of evidence that privatised employment services and mutual obligations make finding work harder. It's insulting to people trapped in this harmful, failed system for Labor to simply fiddle at the edges and label it "reform".
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