Reposted by Ben SchneidersThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon. 2061476386
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It was won by the Australian Services Union in Victoria with current Labor Senator Lisa Darmanin playing a big role 000
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 23/07/2026One of the biggest achievements of the labour movement in the last 20 years was winning DV leave. Would have helped save many women’s lives. Remember reporting on its first inclusion in an EBA at Surf Coast Shire Council in 2010. Was a world leading workplace right. Now available to all workers 1155
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The English have discovered that Thomas Tuchel is in fact a German. 010
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Please make him manager of the English football team before the Argentina match. What could go wrong? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...abc.net.auMcCullum 'gutted' after being sacked as England's Test coachThe architect of England's controversial Bazball approach to Test cricket is given his marching orders after a disappointing string of results. 001
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Ok, never thought I’d say this. Let’s go Belgium 🇧🇪 000
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026In a vaguely just world Infantino would be forced out for the Balogun decision and FIFA cleaned up from top to bottom. I won’t hold my breath 022
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Spent the morning laughing at how ludicrously corrupt FIFA are. And then within a few hours I forget all that and am captivated by the match of the World Cup. The sport, somehow, consistently manages to transcend how awful the people running it are. 160
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Also the case is in the Supreme Court not the Federal Court. Which is presumably another hallucination 190
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Lovely story about post war migration, community and belonging and the role these clubs played in migrants’ lives. And also, of course, about one of the greatest players who ever lived 020
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Football is ded to me (thanks again Holland). But this doco on SBS is a terrific watch about the improbable story of Ferenc Puskas landing in Australia and taking South Melbourne to an NSL title. Ange played for him and drove him around in a Datsun 200B. Great nostalgia trip tooangeandtheboss.comAnge and The Boss 130
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Quite a lot of this type in media; addicted to attention and celebrity with no fixed principles. Just an opportunist. Read somewhere his podcast was originally pitched to be a wellness thing and then he seamlessly pivoted to far right adjacent BS as there’s more views 020
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Still buzzing after yesterday. What a win. So great to have a young and exciting team. Best ever win for Socceroos? 140
Reposted by Ben SchneidersLouise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 08/06/2026For #4Corners viewers both here in Australia and overseas, this story by my excellent colleague Steve Cannane on the dangers of AI is a really important watch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPV...m.youtube.comThe AI takeover: Who controls our future? | Four Corners DocumentaryYouTube video by ABC News In-depth 1817385
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Fast running out of time if this is going to happenafr.comJacinta Allan’s leadership ‘terminal’, could be challenged within weeksNo formal push is underway, but some Victorian Labor MPs are increasingly worried they are running out of time to replace Jacinta Allan before the state election. 000
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 01/06/2026And that’s not including the many thousands it costs to take out insurance 010
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 01/06/2026What a dud product private health insurance often is. If she’d been a public patient with the same serious illness she would be $35,000 better off and received almost identical care. www.theage.com.au/healthcare/t...theage.com.auTamara was grappling with a cancer diagnosis. Then came the $35,000 in medical billsThe first financial shock was the out-of-pocket expenses during the diagnostic phase. Then came the bills for four operations. 152
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It was an easy enough sell. “A chicken in every pot, a bin on every corner”. Zohran loved it 020
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 07/04/2026!!!theage.com.auBen Roberts-Smith arrested over multiple war crimesAustralia’s most famous soldier has been taken into custody over the alleged murders of unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners. 030
Reposted by Ben SchneidersNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump saying that he’s glad that Robert Mueller is dead, both presidents shattered some of Washington’s most sacred norms. 211023131
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Close run thing. Interest rates up by 0.25%. Five RBA board members voted for an increase and four voted for interest rates to stay the same 144
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 17/03/2026What a blow. That paragon of ethical conduct PwC … 010
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 15/03/2026It’s a silly video but who the hell do the AFL think they are?? It’s just a sporting administration 030
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The AFL is drunk on its own self importance. It’s an out of control organisation in Melbourne 131
Reposted by Ben SchneidersJason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 14/03/2026U.S. President asks PLA Navy to be the guarantor of global energy supplies 1185
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 10/03/2026So who is making $$$$ out of these market ‘zig-zags’? We’ve seen this play out before www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...nytimes.comLive Updates: After Global Economy Shudders, Trump Zigzags on Whether War Is Nearing End 010
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Setka’s links to Gatto have been publicly ventilated for years - no one in politics should be surprised by any of this 000
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The relationship between Setka and Gatto was extremely close. As it is with other union leaders (Peter Marshall and Earl Setches mentioned in The Age’s reporting today). www.smh.com.au/national/set...smh.com.auSetka’s secret sisterhood: Labor women in covert support of CFMEU boss revealedLeaked text messages reveal a network of Labor-linked women rallied around the fallen union leader over criminal harassment charges and his criticism of Rosie Batty’s domestic violence advocacy work. 120
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The union has been in administration for much of that time since the stories were published. And there’s rightfully plenty of attention today on the role of underworld figure Mick Gatto in the industry 110
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 19/02/2026At the time we reported how the $100 billion Big Build in Victoria and major projects in Sydney had become a honeypot for organised crime corrupting the CFMEU and builders 110
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Building industry corruption and the CFMEU is dominating Vic politics the last few weeks. Here‘s the first part of our investigation from July 2024 www.theage.com.au/national/building-bad-how-bikies-underworld-have-become-a-construction-industry-cancer-20240703-p5jqr0.htmltheage.com.auBuilding bad: How bikies, underworld have become a construction industry ‘cancer’A months-long investigation featuring secret surveillance reveals how bikies, criminals and underworld figures have infiltrated the building industry, including on large publicly funded projects. 141
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 14/02/2026And here’s the original reporting. We went through months of digging, verification and speaking to dozens of people www.theage.com.au/business/wor...theage.com.auRestaurant empire behind Chin Chin underpaid staff: leaked auditThe high-end restaurant business that includes Chin Chin in Melbourne and Sydney underpaid staff by $340,000 in a single year, a leaked audit shows. 071
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Some of the most satisfying work of my career was exposing these high end restaurant groups for wage theft. Detailed in more depth in my 2022 book Hard Labour 1100
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 14/02/2026There were far worse offenders in the restaurant industry than the Lucas group in terms of underpayment but none were worse to deal with In terms of pressure, aggressive tactics etc towards our reporting. 181
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Lucas and his external PR spivs used every trick in the book to stop the story running even though the details were pretty straight forward. His was one of many restaurant empires we exposed through those years whose business model was bolstered by wage theft 280
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Not sure how Chris Lucas was “absolutely exonerated” when an audit he had commissioned showed 20% of his workforce were paid unlawfully below the minimum rates of the award … 44614
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 10/11/2025They should hold Richo’s state funeral at a burnt out printing press. All donations to be made through his old Swiss bank account 240
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Some good truth bombs here from the AFR. Unfortunately all too rareafr.comRicho’s gospel was every man for himselfGraham Richardson embodied everything most normal people detest about politics. His legacy is one of self-enrichment, self-aggrandisement and self-indulgence. 050
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 20/10/2025We are a couple of news cycles away in Victoria from someone calling for the ADF to take charge 140
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 13/10/2025That’s a good idea. The death of local papers has been really bad for the ecosystem. Also left largely unwatched the level of government that is probably the most corrupt 110
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 13/10/2025It really does. It needs an ecosystem of a big enough reporting staff, and an outlet willing to take the risk to do it. Only a few outlets do it at scale in my view; old Fairfax papers and ABC. Legal costs/risk a big part of it. 020
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Some people doing v good work as solo independent journos or part of small teams. But it’s so precarious and mostly lacks reach/impact. The reality is you still need scale and lot of money to do consistent public interest journalism 120
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 13/10/2025I’ve been to a lot of clubs the last few years. Nothing beats the cevapi the Albanians do at Dandenong Thunder. A 10/10 000
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Heidelberg souvas I’d give a 6/10. The team can beat half the A-League but could learn something from Northcote on souvas 100
