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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Abolish the job service providers. Bring back functional government-assisted recruitment of unemployed workers.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every billionaire is a policy failure. - Oxfam. To which, I add this: Every trillionaire is a government failure.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One Nation is like cane toads: they started in Queensland, they are spreading and not welcome anywhere. Keep the One Nation cane toads out of Victoria.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Other ways of controlling inflation are possible. The RBA should be able to: * Increase compulsory superannuation contributions. * Reduce the GST rebate to companies, currently 100%. The RBA's toolbox should have more than just a hammer.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The RBA chooses to defend its adherence to discredited neoliberal doctrine. That's why it chooses the indirect path of raising interest rates to control inflation when other actions are possible.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 gigawatts is the power output of 100 million human brains. (The power output of one human brain is about 20 watts.)

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week ... but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting ..." Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Greens have a lot of good people. It's a shame only one can be leader and another as deputy leader at any given time.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The income declared against how little returns to the public purse needs to change. Tax wealth not work. #Auspol

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If religions can own property, it's time to tax them.

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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 01/10/2026

These wages range from $7.15 to $9.80 per day, far below the minimum wage in the community. This means that incarcerated people working on Victoria’s roads will be paid as little as 90c per hour. End forced and underpaid labour in Australia @ourfairgo.bsky.social

abouttime.org.au

‘The Opportunity Doesn’t Make the Conditions Fair’: People in Prison to Be Paid $1 Per Hour to Fix Victoria's Roads

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How much money has Santos Limited received from Australian commonwealth, state and territory governments in grants and subsidies over that time that they were paying no company tax?

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every time you fill up your car with fuel, you're paying more tax (fuel excise and GST) on that single tank of fuel than Santos has paid in company tax in more than TEN YEARS.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't wait. Get those tests, especially if family medical history had stuff like high cholesterol or other risk factors are present. Everyone should learn possible heart attack symptoms, and that men and women can have different symptoms.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very good article. The only thing I take issue with is the advice to wait until 50 for various tests especially cholesterol and heart health. In my opinion, one's first cholesterol test should be done much earlier, I suggest age 30. Many people with heart issues experience them before age 50.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I recommend some pats and cuddles. On the cat's terms, of course.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Liberals: We'll cut spending on childcare so parents have to pay more. Also Liberals: Why aren't Australians having children? The born-to-rule mentality has significant cognitive flaws.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

17 points and Wharfie Time. I was a bit uneasy looking at that margin and I was thinking, that's under three goals. Three goals. That's how many goals Brisbane kicked in the final minute in a game against Sydney last year. Sydney were up by 20 points with a minute to go and won by two points.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One Nation's finances should be subjected to a detailed, public forensic audit.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even worse are the financial penalties and punitive effective tax rates that discourage unemployed workers from undertaking seasonal work such as harvest work. This makes harvest work unprofitable. When the work offers no profit, people won't do it.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jobs have been harder to fill since the Howard government destroyed the CES. Severing that link between employers and unemployed workers has made it harder to recruit staff. Some employers don't even know how to recruit staff anymore. "Help wanted" signs in shop windows are ineffective.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture ... The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all ... It was a place impossible to enter except on official business ... -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Data centres.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love our unemployment system. Oh you’re unexpectedly out of work? We’ll pay you half your rent a fortnight from three months in the future. Good luck!

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sounds like you're another victim of the infamous liquid assets test. Centrelink counts savings but not unpaid bills. The thresholds for this infamous test have not ever been indexed since it was introduced in 1994.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hawthorn fans acting so hard done by. I have no sympathy. Since Hawthorn won their first premiership in 1961, they have won 13 premierships, an average of one every 5 years. They've won 4 since Essendon last won a final, and 12 since St Kilda won their flag. Not every top 4 finish nets a flag.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That dog that can't work out which end to sniff.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No unemployed workers or their representatives? Had unemployed workers been represented, the panel would hear about the unemployment-shy employers who game the immigration system. These employers refuse to employ locals then complain about being unable to find workers.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is why Australia needs a Royal Commission to investigate unemployment and its effects on unemployed workers. Why are unemployed workers being denied this investigation?

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you want a 25% gas export tax, ask for 40%.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026

OpenAI won't even consider renewable investments in Australia until the country agrees to kill its copyright laws so they can freely train on creative work. When Albanese caves and agrees to this, OpenAI will just run on fossil fuels anyway: guaranteed. archive.ph/mzSVj

OpenAI’s ultimatum: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables
The ChatGPT creator threatens to walk away from local training facilities unless Labor backs down on creative industry protections.
Noah Yim
,
Greg Brown
and
Matthew Cranston
4 min read
September 14, 2026 - 9:29PM

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Coalition doesn't support free speech. Privatised media routinely suppresses free speech and viewpoints it doesn't like, and the Coalition ignores this.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Australia needs a strong centre-left or left-wing government that won't roll over like tame dogs as soon as corporate interests show up. That hasn't happened since Whitlam.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨 New report from the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare on mortality rates of working-age welfare recipients between 2012-2022 makes for grim reading, could be hugely improved tomorrow by raising rates as per the Government's own committee. @aihw.bsky.social www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cent...

Key findings

Of the 287,000 people aged 22-64 who died over 2012-2022, almost 3 in 5 people received income support payments

Coronary heart disease was the leading cause of death among income support recipients

Income support recipients were overrepresented in deaths from suicide, accidental poisoning, and alcoholic liver disease

Mortality rates and leading causes of death differed depending on the type of payment received

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes, that's the lesson. If Kid has taken hours to work on an assignment, it's worth spending a few minutes to check it before submitting it.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope Kid has learnt a valuable lesson from this debacle.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just one of the many ways that employers are shirking their mutual obligation requirements. Employer refusal is the leading cause of long term unemployment.

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We’re all expecting a hotter summer this year and yet @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social and Labor still have no policy to stop mutual obligations on extreme heat days

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If supermarkets are still delivering orders in paper bags, that's an obvious security problem that they must solve. They should be delivering orders in branded boxes with tamper-resistant seals, with a packing list included.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A poorly-considered and rushed policy proposal. It ignores 250,000 unemployed and underemployed Victorians who want a job but can't find one due to systemic failures.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Once again, unemployed workers are ignored by policy makers.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Greens have endured media headwinds for decades: mostly ignored, little positive media coverage, far too much baseless negative coverage. That is the consequence of concentration of Australian media in a few right-wing media networks.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I hope the stretching helps. I got a painful back spasm two days ago and all I could do was stretch it and hope. It's calmed down a lot; it's still sore but it's just a dull ache now.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In March 1996, Australia still had the CES. Over time, it was abolished and replaced by employment "services". Scope creep for these "services" over time has destroyed meaningful assistance for unemployed workers and replaced it with a burdensome compliance treadmill.

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Phil Gorman @philgorman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Don't allow your pets anywhere near a sick bird. Dogs sniffing near them will inhale the virus & likely develop a sub clinical infection which makes them dangerous carriers. Cats living with the dogs will get very sick & die.

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

At least the Australians have a first innings lead this time. They could be better: they're throwing away wickets with rubbish batting.

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