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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📍Wolli Creek, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you are leading with 40 seconds to go in the preliminary final and the ball is currently in play 2m away from you and your team mate is getting lightly cuddled

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mum as a recently retired NSW Catholic schools principal

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the photographer, Peter B. Kaplan: peterbkaplanphotography.com/nyc#23

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mind-bending photos of the workers installing the WTC's massive transmitter tower in 1979: old.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/...

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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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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Any reporting on R U OK? Day that doesn't call out its links to the 'Landmark Forum' cult is incomplete. The founder started it after attending one of their programs after his father's suicide. Landmark was banned in France after 2004 reporting revealed attendees were being told to kill themselves.

History

Gavin Larkin's father, Barry Larkin, died by suicide in 1996. Later, when Gavin Larkin experienced depression and was concerned about his mental health, he completed a course at Landmark Worldwide. From this course, he chose to complete a project about suicide prevention to honour his father, to create a national day of action about contacting people who might be having a difficult time. This resulted in the eventual co-creation with Janina Neam of R U OK? in 2009. The first day was held on 29 November 2009, but the annual timing later changed to be on the second Thursday of September.

Inside The Landmark Forum

"You're lying. You don't love your daughter. Go kill yourself. No, that's not good enough. Get cancer. Make it last for 29 years so you suffer and die." This scene begins the 2004 French Channel Three report on the Landmark Education Forum in Paris.

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

Bull fucking shit actually, this is the 'rhetorical' move and what you will actually do is 'nothing', because you are two-faced pigs.

The Albanese government knows it remains exposed by its position, which one Labor source described as "rhetorically less impressive", but there are signs it may act further in the coming weeks and months.

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

Currently unemployed posting about McDonald's on LinkedIn.

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

🚨 #BREAKING 'Fucking idiot who got fired for being shit at her job' has 'something to say'.

Former Employment and Workplace Relations Secretary Natalie James, who was terminated by the Albanese government in December 2025, said: "I wholeheartedly agree with the Secretaries Board's submission. I would go further and suggest that Parliamentarians who post extracts of witnesses should be accountable for the comments made on their posts."

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Professor of Constitutional Law at Monash, Dr. Luke Beck, says the proposals by the Secretaries Board to limit posting of clips on social media would 'directly and expressly burden political communication'. theconversation.com/top-bureaucr...

A law that seeks to protect against serious and genuine harms and has an incidental impact on political communication can be valid. But each of the Secretaries Board’s proposals targets political communication directly.

And each is calibrated to preventing criticism rather than preventing any genuine harm.

The High Court has dealt with a similar case before. In one of the very first implied freedom of political communication cases in 1992, the High Court struck down a law that made it illegal to “use words” intended to bring certain senior government officials “into disrepute”.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m here to tell you right now: we don’t care. You people are fucking infants.

Stephen Dziedzic
@stephendziedzic

APS anxieties here aren’t concocted. One official (also a friend) confessed to me they couldn’t sleep for three nights before estimates. Went in a wreck. But the hearings provide *indespensible* accountability. Trying to control socials clips would be fruitless + anti-democratic

QT: Josh Butler
@JoshButler

Perhaps very well-paid senior public servants could simply just give straight simple answers to questions, instead of complaining that clips of their torturous obfuscating answers (or non-answers) make them look bad…

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hannah Ferguson wants you to know she will be doing it "normal person" style.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨 UPDATE: Mr. Brown purchased this Sydney property for $1.9m in 2024 after accepting voluntary redundancy at Atlassian. Earlier today he added a driveway and a mailbox to maximise asset value.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Per @pagdavidson.bsky.social, DEWR had worked with ACOSS and other stakeholders on a framework that would more properly satisfy the legislation. They decided to do nothing for two more years instead, until the Ombudsman found they were still in breach of social security law. These people are hacks.

peter davidson
@pagdavidson

In 2023 a digital protections framework was drafted by dewr in consultation with orgs representing people affected. Not perfect, but the produce of a year’s consultation.
They’ve now gutted it of meaningful content.
Toothless!

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the whole thing. Three pages. Four years late. Operating in breach of social security law, for FOUR years. DEWR have already been found to have unlawfully cancelled hundreds of thousands of welfare payments in relation to decisions they often have no oversight of at all. This is by design.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We can Rebuild Australia by creating a grassroots movement to read my Substack about who should distribute this lettuce (not me). 1 like = 1 leaf 🏗️

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Crossing multiple lanes by splitting two slowing trucks following at ~1.2 Hilux-lengths 👍

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just posting one of the followers that's publicly visible if that's alright with everyone.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is the page. My beloved mutuals in the media and in the Press Gallery specifically are required to report that One Nation are beyond a shadow of a doubt faking death threats against them for attention.

[Facebook page]
The Muslim Retribution
2 followers • 0 following
GLORY TO ISLAM
Not a business

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a fake post in the voice of a One Nation supporter. A cheery invocation of 'right wing Aussie', use of 'degenerates', presents accusations of racism as an extremist provocation, 100% fake. One fake example vs. tens of thousands of actual examples of One Nation supporters, saying much worse.

One Nation Australia
@OneNationAus

We just got this review on our Facebook page. Enough is enough. The vile hatred, more often than not linked to physical threats, directed at One Nation, its representatives, members and now even voters has got to stop.

We have seen around the world, in similar democracies, where tolerating this sort of stuff gets you.

Not only should all accounts like this one be taken down, but those responsible for these pages and posts need to be held to account criminally.

['The Muslim Retribution' Facebook post]

The only good right-wing Aussie is a dead one.

The only way to deal with far-right degenerates is to round them up and give them what they deserve.

Anyone who votes for One Nation, as their supporters are admitted racists, should be targeted.

There is no peace with the far-right.

Peter Roche
@Velo_vinifera

An invented "attack"

This "group" FB page has existed 3 weeks, has no Bio or details of any sort, 3 posts about One Nation and no followers

How would you define False Flag?

@aapfactcheck @abcnews

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There’s some drilling a couple doors down on a new build and they’ve all decided to hide under my chair about it

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Shifting my key legacy item from 'universal childcare' (limited subsidy program) to 'blocking teens from social media' (teens are not blocked from social media)

Risking backlash from the Trump administration and voters concerned about government overreach, a cabinet source suggested Albanese was shifting his key legacy item from expensive universal childcare to blocking teens from social media, investing in AI, and the digital duty of care, which the government hopes to legislate in October.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Toxic Love one of the hardest songs of all time he really put his whole Tim Curry into this take

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One day very soon, chickens will be instructing an AI agent to do this for them.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Interesting remarks on Mr. de Brouwer's Robodebt experiences in professionally censuring a number of senior APS for their roles:

“You have to be really clear about the expectations on people and that you have the correct processes. Behaviour matters. That’s part of success. I’m not ignoring the past, I’m really not. But my inclination is that it generally doesn’t help if you just talk about the personalities.”

But later in the interview we do talk about “the personalities”. De Brouwer has been here before. Last year he was investigated for code-of-conduct breaches over his handling of the Public Service Commission’s report into robodebt. He was cleared of all the allegations made against him.

“Maybe I have a naive view of human nature, but there are some sociopaths in the world,” he says with a wry grin.

“And narcissists,” he adds.

“How do you weed them out of a system? Either the system will exaggerate the traits, or it may give them the incentive to wind down those traits. You have to make hard decisions at various times, and people have to see there are consequences.”

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New photos of Tom Studans as George Harrison in 'A Hard Muck-Up Day's Night' (2008) 🎬 #BeatlesBiopics

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You've got all your classic Beatles here: • John Lennon • George Harrison • Slightly worse George Harrison • Ray Davies (?)

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When the Commissioner said these debts should not be pursued on any other footing than would apply to other debtors, that was both a policy AND a legal recommendation. 'No reason' is totally clear—the provision is arbitrary, and these debts are unsound. Accepting 'in principle' means waiving them.

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