I love that Trump's toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they're too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.
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I love that Trump's toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they're too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.
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...
'Lessons' from these #robodebt findings:
- two lower-level officials corrupt conduct findings
- key people responsible, Morrison & Campbell, face no consequences
- #NACC worse than useless
- governments can get away with anything
- no justice for the victims and families.
A total failure. #auspol
In the present context, however, of an investigation into allegations of corrupt conduct, we are not so much concerned with Diceyan theory of ministerial accountability and Cabinet solidarity as with personal obligations of honesty and good faith. Thus, although Mr Morrison may have been responsible to Cabinet for the failings of DSS – in particular for DSS’ failings in not preventing the shortcomings of the NPP and checklist – it by no means necessarily follows that Mr Morrison was personally at fault for not detecting the failings of DSS or that he set out to act dishonestly or in bad faith. The question of any personal shortcoming requires consideration of the system and circumstances of ERC’s operation at the time of its adoption of the NPP.
The passages clearing Morrison of fault are extraordinary
NACC says Morrison is technically "responsible" as cabinet Minister, but not "personally at fault"
If responsibility exists without consequence...then what does "ministerial accountability" even mean anymore?
Trump posted this a few hours ago. Not only is the safety of the players at stake, but their families too. Yes, it is delicate, which is exactly why he should never have posted this, particularly knowing how the Iranian regime regards him.
It's always about him. 😤
This song never gets old (unfortunately).
Midnight Oil: US Forces. #Iran
youtu.be/SAFv2NEE-_c?...
No matter how many US Navy ships are sent to protect it, an oil tanker without insurance cannot sail through the Straits of Hormuz. The Trump regime has a $US20b reinsurance program but it's not enough. The oil crisis will deepen until the insurance problem is solved. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
FYA:
Some background on the new non competitive "expedition" class
#Iditarod
iditarod.com/2026/03/06/i...
Mushers competing in this year’s Iditarod began departing from Willow Lake Sunday to embark on their thousand-mile journey to Nome, with stiff competition among the top racers. www.adn.com/outdoors-adv...
Unofficial official 2026 Iditarod thread starts now. All the teams are out of Willow after the official restart. We have 34 real teams and 3 "expedition" mushers who I probably won't be talking a lot about after today, but we'll see. #mushersky #Iditarod54 1/
Some new itty-bitty virus watercolors #sciart ko-fi.com/s/44054b7b68
Regardless of the environmental pros and cons of #nuclear power compared to other energy sources, deregulation / corruption of standards will lead to failure (obv, the same applies to ANY infrastructure)
#AusPol
I love that term ... Everyday Australians
When asking for a definition from those who use it, the answer is effectively WHITE.
I've always claimed to be space cadet not a boomer; born in the same year & month Alan Shepard first went into space.
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
#EpsteinFiles
Firstly, this was an invasion. Secondly, they killed 41 people for the sake of some forty year old remains?
Can someone explain to me how any of this is justified ? How this not some of the most evil psychotic shit you’ve heard ? From the “only democracy in the Middle East?”
youtu.be/Gw7gNf_9njs?...
Everyone here knows Fox News lies to its viewers, but this is an example that not even the most diehard members of the cult can deny, and it's important to not brush it off.
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Short thread
Australian RBA seems to target about %5 unemployment rate is required to meet inflation targets. FWIW, thats 1 in 20 of those that want to work AND follow jobseeker rules AND that have deal with the stress of meeting the requirements.
David Mitchell / Veronica Coren-Mitchell (married 2012, 2 kids)
RSS is the forgotten but brilliant internet technology. If you are not using an RSS reader, try it out! Perfect for following blogs!
One of the ways enshitification has rotten my brain, that I can recognize, is the lack of websites I check. Before facebook and twitter consolidated our sources, I used to get into rabbitholes from one blog post to the next fansite. Now I rarely do that outside of Wikipedia.
Italy players are celebrating home runs by taking a shot of espresso
It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
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