Tom Studans

As Centrelink penalties resume this week, @antipovertycentre.org has launched a new survival guide to help welfare recipients understand their rights and protect themselves from unfair treatment. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/Spnhj3iD

NEW rights guide for people in employment services How to resist job agency bullshit, avoid punishments, and find the easiest pathway through mutual obligations. Share far and wide Online version here: t.co/t4HSnyzbuq Order a physical copy here: t.co/iCxKnNTWY9

Mike ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom’ Burgess

come on man, are we really doing this?

TIL about the Greek conspiracy and Jesus Christ jec.org.au/focus-areas/...

Australian researchers have discovered a new subtype of depression where you are a sleepy little guy.

Scoop: ABC has wiped staff devices exposed to malicious ads from an Israeli company that used digital advertising to hack and track devices without a click. ABC is just one of many Australian government/critical infra/media orgs reportedly targeted www.abc.net.au/news/...

And maybe it will be alleged eventually! But it hasn’t even been alleged!?! So what the hell has the media been doing writing about it??

Every media organisation in the country has been running editorials about the danger of new media, changing rules for question time -- all too early, before investigations into the alleged attacker and before authorities even alleged a motive.

Anyone going to reflect on the last week of coverage and the undue emphasis on this guy's politics or potential radicalisation? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Home Affairs gave a $4.3 BILLION air services contract to a company with no Australian air operators certificate or employees – or the required aircraft – and which was registered to a front company: a real estate agent.

3 from 3 now with the datacentres I reported on in May cancelled or delayed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is 110% the chat worth having. In Australian public policy generally, we prefer spending $10 responding to a crisis situation than spending $1 on preventing the crisis.

We're constantly told that improving health and welfare is "unsustainable". How does that work? Isn't it a primary purpose if government?

If our public broadcaster really believes they have a role to "turn down the temperature", why do they so often platform hate-mongers who turn it up?

Broden Kelly you cannot possibly be selling EVERY product in Australia. Brodenflation is out of control, completely unsustainable

Ben Roberts-Smith now going door-to-door glamourising eating disorders for men

If I worked for one of those wonderful Australian political satire humour news websites, I would submit the following headline: Gay guy drinking a Crown Lager

Phil Haines thanks people sending flowers, but asks if people want to support Helen, to consider donations to Save The Children "Please keep sending Helen your love"

Helen Haines' husband, Phil, speaks from hospital: says she has lost both legs "Both her heart and her mind are in good shape" thanks her staff, locals who responded, paramedics, hospital staff "Helen's road to recovery will be long & difficult, but we know she is a fighter"

#BREAKING 🚨 Phil Haines, the husband of Helen Haines, has confirmed the Indi MP has now lost both of her legs following Monday's vehicle attack He says the good news is that she is alive and stable and "her heart and her mind are in good shape"

You can read the article here: sharetext.io/brun67b8 Originally published here: www.innovationaus.com/flawed-and-d...

We have questions for the minister ... and so do journalists. It's increasingly suspicious that Amanda Rishworth is refusing to say she has confidence that the system of "mutual" obligations penalties used against people on Centrelink payments is operating lawfully. From an InnovationAus report:

‘Dirt file’ stuff is such self-serving, irrelevant cope

Cancellations for people who fail to reconnect with employment services within four weeks are set to resume on October 26. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/PpyjPUed

“This is systemic & structural racism at play. Governments committed to improve the economic prosperity & social and&emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people... These kinds of measures... demonstrate how governments are failing on those commitments.” – Nick Espie, NATSILS

Brendan Nugent faces court over alleged attack on Helen Haines

Woman charged with hate crime after allegedly attempting to snatch hijab in Brisbane's bayside

Police commissioners speak after charges laid against Brendan Nugent over Helen Haines attack

Indi MP Helen Haines remains in a critical condition tonight at The Alfred, with doctors now fighting to save her second leg after she was pinned between two cars in a vehicle attack yesterday LATEST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hIy...

We've shared some key info for people who have compulsory activities. Crucially, regardless of why your payment is suspended, any suspension will be lifted automatically on Monday 26 October.

No advocate is irreplaceable. No-one is more important than their movement. No-one is so valuable to a community that what they do cannot be replicated or improved by others. Real leaders reject the cult of personality and empower their replacements. Real movements make sure they do.

I refuse to accept people willingly, regularly receive news and information via the medium of 10+ slide Instagram text posts and I feel a mixture of pity and revulsion for those who do.