Aussie urged to claim $475 million payout with deadline days away Hundreds of thousands of Aussies will lose out on compensation of between $1,000 and $50,000 if they miss this deadline.

Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Extreme rhetoric in right-wing political circles deserves more attention The rhetoric in Australia's right-wing political circles is getting more extreme and the media should be paying more attention.

Extreme rhetoric
Advance
Holocaust minimisation
Margaret Thatcher and the International Democracy Union (IDU)

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The teenage women making Denmark 'a hard target' Denmark is fast-tracking female conscription as it muscles up to Russia and faces threats of invasion from the US.

“Currently grappling with threats from an old foe, Russia, and an old ally, America, Denmark has made conscription compulsory for women for the first time in its history.

“Every 18-year-old Dane, male or female, must now register for military service.”

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Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters Links to major crypto world figures are just the start.

Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters

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Truth, Lies and Media News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behi...

This ep has a very good discussion of the Atlas Network, its ‘free market’ think tanks in Australia, astroturfing, and the layers of the onion of dark money in politics.

Thank you to @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and Denis Muller for the shoutout too.

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There can be no social cohesion while divisive groups like Advance aim to smear hate against some Australians | Lucy Hamilton The astroturf group’s strategy event had the theme ‘evolve’ – but its speakers want to take the country back to the past

Advance platformed a rep of a US Islamophobic hate group last week. He called for “remigration” (white supremacist term for mass deportation). Steve Bannon’s sidekick called Muslims “invaders” here to conquer. Unrelated: WA police stopped attack on Mosque. #Auspol
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The Jewish Council of Australia condemns Benjamin Harnwell's appalling comment at the Advance conference and call on our leaders and the Antisemitism Envoy to speak out in condemnation.

MAGA figure tells Australian conservatives centre-right politicians 'betrayed' West Benjamin Harnwell, the "international editor" of Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, said centre-right politicians have "betrayed" the West by supporting "mass immigration".

Benjamin Harnwell, the international editor of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, told Australian conservatives that Angela Merkel did more damage to Germany’s fabric than the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.

The comments were made at event held by the lobby group Advance.

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Climate disinformation, the Atlas Network and Dr Karl The scourge of AI-slopaganda, viral disinformation campaigns, and online attacks against individuals and institutions is going to get far worse before it gets better, if the latest public hearings on ...

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🧵. "it really matters that these #auspol figures are networking with some of the more toxic establishment forces in the transnational Right."

More excellent investigative work from Lucy H.

NEW: Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, says it wasn't responsible for buying $100m of Palantir shares

A Future Fund exec told Estimates blamed external fund managers for purchasing the stake in the Trump-linked company accused of powering ICE's deportations
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You Don't Need Democracy If You Don't Have People: Quinn Slobodian's Warning YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

You Don't Need Democracy If You Don't Have People.

@quinnslobodian.com and I discuss the tech billionaire dream of "capitalism without democracy."

Quinn's work helped inspire my own, so it was great to finally chat! He's been leading the way on this topic.

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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

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The corruption of the West is about to have a stake driven through its vampire heart.

This profound and thorough analysis by Gareth Hutchens explains what that stake is made of.

Thanks to @garethhutchens.bsky.social for this excellent explanatory journalism. #Auspol

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As West wakes up to the Epstein class, China plans global reserve currency As the West reacts to the revelations in the latest batch of Epstein files, China has plans for the renminbi to become a global reserve currency.

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The economist, the bull and an elite movement that reshaped the world A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

The origins of neoliberalism, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, the Overton window, the Nobel Prize in economics, and cryptocurrencies.

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When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.

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Australia's scandal-ridden childcare sector a legacy of 'golden age' of reform The decision by past governments to push Australia's childcare industry in the direction of marketisation and corporatisation has left a lasting legacy.

excellent look back at decisions to screw over early childhood services, including those who warned about what would happen, from @garethhutchens.bsky.social

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How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

The RBA says changing rates won’t raise house prices. I wouldn’t be so sure The biggest and most pressing economic problem Australia faces is nothing new: the ever-worsening ability to afford to own the home you live in.

Thank you @rossgittins.bsky.social. That’s high praise coming from you.

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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Being a renter in Australia means handing over an unnecessary amount of personal data to real estate agents who have no clue - and who often don't care - how to keep that data secure. Many can't tell you how it's stored, who can access it and when/if it gets destroyed

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major UN report finds Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date.

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Thanks mate!

Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point. Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

Incredibly powerful op-ed written by Randa Abel-Fattah that everyone needs to read. It’s being published by @deepcutnews.bsky.social after The Age commissioned it then spiked it.