@drcollette
British/Australian - Communication and Media academic and writer interested in media effects on human society. Everything interests me, especially communication, media, language, music, technology, complexity, and contradiction.
Morrison one of the six referred to anti-corruption commission Sarah Basford Canales Sarah Basford Canales Former prime minister, Scott Morrison, was one of the six people robodebt royal commissioner, Catherine Holmes, referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission. The final report, released this morning, found two officials – Mark Withnell and Serena Wilson – had engaged in serious corrupt conduct. The report found the other four, however, did not. The other four names referred to the Nacc included Morrison, Kathryn Campbell, Annette Musolino and Catherine Halbert. Morrison’s failure to realise the bureaucratic advice was misleading, the report found, was due to both the social services and human services departments failing to advise him and other ministers that new laws were needed. Campbell was one of two named by the Australia Public Service Commission in 2024 after it found 12 public servants, including Campbell and former department head Renée Leon, breached the code of conduct 97 times during their involvement in the robodebt program.
NACC's new report finds that two of the Robodebt Six engaged in serious corrupt conduct www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Referrals to heads of agencies for alleged breaches of the APS code of conduct
Six of the people referred for APS breaches are still in senior roles in the public service
Scott Britton
Russell de Burgh
Allyson Essex
Paul Mcbride
Emma-Kate McGuirk
Jason Ryman
#Fascism in action, #Australia - #auspol - #FreeSpeech
Turns out Atlassian is just another Big Tech company and all those 'values' espoused were performative
Australian electoral processes are not as vulnerable to big money as in the US.
But notable that the interests trying to buy political power in Illinois - the Israel lobby, gambling interests, and billionaires backing hard-right candidates - are similar to the forces of darkness in #auspol.
So dumb
The worst part is that they, and their staff, are too dumb to figure out they could replace them with the same shoes in the correct size.
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Send them an invoice.
Why focus on the disapprove data, the real story is how high the approval ratings continue to be - 85% of 77 million people is still 65.5 million Americans!
What would it take for them to change given everything we know, everything we see, everything we hear?
Its unfathomable.
It's time theft as well as discrimination.
OMG how frustrating. Hope you are OK.
We need to talk about non-white racism and racial hierarchy.
"A 37-year-old man was interviewed by police at the scene and was then given a direction to move on."
It seems staggeringly unlikely if a Muslim came in throwing fists, threatening to kill people and shouting anti-semitic slogans at kids during Hannukah they'd be allowed to leave peacefully.
We finally figured out what's the go is with the au pair. "Grassroots campaign" for taxpayer funded nannies and au pairs is astro-turfed by ex-staffers and a Liberal consultancy. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
FOI reveals Pauline Hanson, Matt Canavan & Kevin Hogan have all accessed the government's small-scale renewable energy scheme which provides funding for rooftop solar, solar batteries, solar water heaters & air-sourced heat pumps. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Total hypocrites. They are also wealthy enough not to need the subsidies.
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pretty unbelievable that over three seasons and 18 episodes of Creative Types, Virginia Trioli will have interviewed 13 men and 5 women.
When your war crimes are so monstrous that Switzerland stops being neutral — You have lost the moral authority of the entire world.
Spain said no. The UAE demanded answers. Australia marched. Switzerland broke 200 years of neutrality, when US bombed Iranian schoolgirls !!! #AUKUS #warcrimes #Auspol
one of the great things about being an imperialist power is you can set fire to one of the world’s oldest civilisations on a whim, but any retaliation against you is a moral outrage
#auspol
#auspol #Australia
Of course he does. One Nation is a hollow shell - the party of poseurs, opportunists, and hypocrites.
When asked if the govt’s new Apprenticeship program was “worthwhile”, Jacinta Price said
“Throwing more taxpayer money to boost trades isn’t the answer”
Doesn’t want taxpayers funding trades, but happy to slug them for hubby to attend CPAC events? Really disgraceful. #auspol
Let me briefly distract you from rising fuel prices.
Electricity prices will rise too with the gas cartel now super-profiting from selling OUR gas in a disrupted Intl market. @albomp.bsky.social’s dud gas policy changes announced in December mean the cartel laughs as we suffer. #auspol
Anything but death. Zionism doesn't offer much nuance.
Yes - and it's important to keep stressing the difference.
Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained"
Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?
You can whinge, or get angry, or sulk … or you can get active. Join me and others TODAY from 1200 at the Burnside Ballroom for the ‘power of activism’.
@adlfrin.ge free event! #auspol #saparli
The rate of warming has increased from 0.2C per decade to 0.35C over the last decade. We're about to overshoot +1.5C
"global heating of 1.5C-2.0C may be enough to trigger near-apocalyptic tipping points that play out over decades and centuries" #auspol
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
