Department says it’s received 834 requests for a review of tool’s assessments since it launched in November * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There appears to be no legal barrier for a human to override a controversial algorithm that determines financial support for elderly Australians, a Senate inquiry has heard, despite government assessors being banned from doing so. The Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT), introduced in November as part of aged care Support at Home reforms, is used to assess eligibility and assign funding levels for aged care services. Continue reading...

Self-esteem is overrated. The better path to enlightenment is through contemplating one’s insignificance.

Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment tool

(Angus) Taylorism is just another word for nothing left to lose

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“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

Lobbying has become big business, with around 727 lobbyists registered in the national capital, more than three times the number of elected officials sitting in parliament.

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US-based "Combat Antisemitism Movement" and Jillian Segal are running an all-expenses-paid conference for Australian mayors and councillors.

In this guest post, James Barnes argues that psychiatric diagnosis rests on a basic category error, one that doesn't acknowledge the relational dynamics of psychological distress.

Blak In-Justice, staged by the Torch and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, features works by Judy Watson, Vernon Ah Kee and Destiny Deacon * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Melissa Bell loves to paint images of water. In her work, blues and greens swim alongside one another in a colourful flow. “I grew up on the river in the backyard,” the artist says. “I was pretty lucky with that, living on country at Cummeragunja on Yorta Yorta, where I’m from. The water was always a part of me.” Bell always loved art – and studied it at RMIT – but then her life got “a bit chaotic”. “I ended up meeting a partner, [which led to] domestic violence, and I lost my way,” she says. Bell was incarcerated for the first time in 2015 when she was in her late 20s, and four more times over the next five years. Continue reading...

https://therealginachick.substack.com/p/the-strange-beautiful-gift-of-overwhelm?r=2a4fut&utm_medium=ios Overwhelm is a thief. Its kiss steals with cold lips our life force, creativity, purpose and cl...