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skua<p>Delegitimising of system of government</p><p>My list of how the federal government of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> has delegitimised gov.</p><p>Numbers = today's feelings only.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>; inadequate action 50<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a> etc; corruption of public service ethics 60<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCare</span></a>; decade+ of abuse and neglect of frail aged 70<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a>; lack of proportionate action 140<br>Treatment of refugees; offshore detention 50<br>Failure to address social media harms 30<br>GW Bush invasion of Iraq 30<br>Victimisation of unemployed 50</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@mike_k" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mike_k</span></a></span> <br>I don't know, maybe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a>, years of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeCareQualityAndSafetyCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgeCareQualityAndSafetyCommission</span></a> failures, the on-going deaths linked to the (perhaps unlawful) cutting off of benefits, the decades of abuse of children in government care, a public service in which PS lawyers find themselves bullied into participation in unlawful acts, a PS which says "Yes sir, how high?" instead of providing info on limits, really is a dangerous thing, something better not emulated?<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianPublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianPublicService</span></a></p>
Open Forum<p>Key Robodebt RC recommendations still not implemented two years on</p><p>Two years on from the findings of the Robodebt Royal Commission, the Federal Government has still not implemented all of its recommendations, and alarming flaws in the social security system remain. <a href="https://federated.press/tags/robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robodebt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.openforum.com.au/key-robodebt-rc-recommendations-still-not-implemented-two-years-on/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openforum.com.au/key-robodebt-</span><span class="invisible">rc-recommendations-still-not-implemented-two-years-on/</span></a></p>
Morpheus Being<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NACC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NACC</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IA</span></a></p><p><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/robodebt-rc-reforms-needed-pronto,19923" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">independentaustralia.net/polit</span><span class="invisible">ics/politics-display/robodebt-rc-reforms-needed-pronto,19923</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@DjityDjity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DjityDjity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@andyjennings" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>andyjennings</span></a></span> <br>AIUI large changes after Royal Commission reported in 2021.</p><p>Are you refering to changes made by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnHoward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnHoward</span></a> etc?</p><p>Link has what should now be in place.</p><p>(A failure to provide adequate registered nurse hours resulted in a vulnerable parent of mine being stupified, weakened and falling multiple times due to a new medication. So no confidence in facility managers. &amp; doubts about the public servants meant to be ensuring quality. cf <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/247-registered-nurses-in-aged-care-homes?language=en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">health.gov.au/resources/public</span><span class="invisible">ations/247-registered-nurses-in-aged-care-homes?language=en</span></a></p>
Matt Godden<p>"The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NACC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NACC</span></a> commissioner, Paul Brereton, said nepotism and cronyism were among the most frequently observed corrupt behaviours reported to the commission."</p><p>All of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> remembering how reluctant Brereton was to see his buddies prosecuted over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a>.</p>
Mark Deasy 🍉<p>We will never know the names of the odious, capricious monsters who bullied <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Lattouf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lattouf</span></a> for the same reasons we will never see the names of the odious, capricious monsters in the sealed section of the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a> RC.</p><p>Even though the reason for sealing that section, criminal prosecution, did not happen.</p><p>Rich, powerful, well connected. That's how the system works in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a></p><p>The Lattouf unfair dismissal case is another reminder we live in a society where access to justice for the average punter is a long, costly, public, damaging and tedious process, full of risk, esp if you have been wronged by the powerful. It changes you.</p><p>The powerful? Those moral vacuums engaged in bad-faith harassment, offended at factually accurate reporting about another country? </p><p>Why, they are gifted privacy, of course, by a system that applies different standards to the rich and connected. And there will be no consequences for ABC management, naturally.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/israellobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israellobby</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/abc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abc</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@adamsteer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adamsteer</span></a></span> </p><p>The general ill-preparedness of governments is chilling<br>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GatwickDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GatwickDrones</span></a>, absence of preparedness for pandemic isolation actions, &amp; absence of protection of voters from Rupert Murdoch's pro-Trump brainwashing are just a few examples.</p><p>Which combine with systemic failures in communication and ethics leading to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCareCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCareCrisis</span></a> and even to unlawful actions, as found in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a> (and now possibly wider program failures stretching over decades).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorporateCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateCapture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a></p>
D. G. Marshall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MsDropbear42</span></a></span> </p><p>"My primary concern has always been how the Commonwealth could possibly settle unsubstantiated and statute-barred claims made against me, alleging egregious conduct on my part without taking a single statement from me at all."</p><p>- every victim of the illegal <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a> scheme</p>
skua<p>News 12/6/2025 </p><p> " ... the department admits “it has become clear that decisions regarding compliance action … may not have been validly made”. The department also blames “IT systems [that] were not operating in alignment with the law and policies”.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VictimisationOfUnemployed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VictimisationOfUnemployed</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScottMorrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScottMorrison</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReturnYourAward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReturnYourAward</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SystemicFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemicFailure</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianPublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianPublicService</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APSUnions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APSUnions</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicConfidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicConfidence</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/12/australia-welfare-jobseeker-payments-mutual-obligations-investigation-ombudsman/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">crikey.com.au/2025/06/12/austr</span><span class="invisible">alia-welfare-jobseeker-payments-mutual-obligations-investigation-ombudsman/</span></a></p>
Just Another Amy<p>Morrison getting a King’s Birthday Honour is a teachable moment — if you were under any illusions about what power values and rewards, this should sort you out.<br>It wasn’t an error, or a misunderstanding.</p><p>Major General Kathryn Campbell is still an Officer of the Order of Australia — in recognition of "distinguished service to public administration through senior roles with government departments”.</p><p>This is how things work.<br>Asking nicely won’t fix it.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robodebt</span></a></p>
Queen 1066<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>abcfeeds</span></a></span> Our political system is so good at giving each other pats on the back even though the public know they have destroyed lives and in Morrison’s case proudly caused people with mental issues to commit suicide. If you think <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/albo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>albo</span></a> wasn’t part of this then i have fake federal <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/icac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>icac</span></a> to sell you. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robodebt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/morrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morrison</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/albanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>albanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/lnp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lnp</span></a></p>
Rowland Mosbergen<p>If Scott Morrison was arrested for his illegal <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a> scheme, if we had more outrage of the Nazi flags being flown on Australian vehicles in Afghanistan, if we had investigated a murderer proactively he may not have won so many awards for "serving" Australia...</p><p>... then maybe I would have more hope for Australia.</p><p>But I really don't.</p>
Daniel Reeders<p>Ugh I am once again trying to work out what sense can be made of the OAIC's decision in the Andie Fox case. I am not a fan of Andie's but releasing a dossier on her to the media based on her Centrelink records is not suddenly legal and acceptable secondary use just because the Acting Commissioner thinks Andie should have expected retaliation. I may not be summarising the reasons correctly and that is because *I do not understand them.* It's not so much putting words in Andie's mouth as it is putting thoughts in her head, thoughts she would not have in one million years entertained because we do not live in Soviet-era Russia.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/29/government-cleared-of-privacy-breach-in-robodebt-row" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2018/may/29/government-cleared-of-privacy-breach-in-robodebt-row</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robodebt</span></a></p>
skua<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianPublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianPublicService</span></a></p><p>Yet another instance of the APS running in a nonlawful manner.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a>, the next group of "benefits stopped unlawfully" victims, this failure to follow the law, the years of the Aged Care Quality Commission allowing abuse and neglect to continue - and that's just what come quickly to mind.</p><p>It's not fit for purpose.<br>Putting public servants in an environment where they progress by climbing a corporate ladder is continuing to fail badly.</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-29/nacc-mishandled-complaint-against-commissioner/105349740" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-05-29/nac</span><span class="invisible">c-mishandled-complaint-against-commissioner/105349740</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://theblower.au/@HardBeingGreen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>HardBeingGreen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.au/@Queen1066" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Queen1066</span></a></span> <br>I'm thinking nobody knows for sure what the full effects will be.<br>And the number of people directly impacted will be very small. <br>(It was 500,000 for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a>.)</p><p>And those directly impacted can well afford to be slighlty less well off individually while benefitting from wider improvements to society resulting from their loss.</p><p>And demonstrating a preparedness to try new things wrt the gross (outrageous) wealth disparity is a good thing.</p><p>Try it and see.</p>
Donald Hobern<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@emmadavidson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>emmadavidson</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@kattekrab" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kattekrab</span></a></span> </p><p>I'd only recommend uses like this in cases where someone does actually review the results of the trawl (to avoid <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a> repeats) but I'd still be worried about the LLM missing evidence that simply looks different.</p><p>Every time I've experienced LLM-derived summaries, I've found myself looking at a generic document-shaped block of text that is more similar to a median document in the given class than to the source.</p><p>I'm in the avoid camp.</p>
Frank<p>BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA</p><p>Trillion dollar debt thanks to these fucking liars!</p><p><a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.nu/tags/IAmNotAMonster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IAmNotAMonster</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Dutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dutton</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.nu/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a></p>
Axel Bruns<p>The article outlines the overall logic of the practice mapping framework, demonstrates its utility by applying it to the <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a> discussion on Twitter from 2016 to 2023, and even contains some sample BigQuery SQL code for implementing the approach on available datasets.</p>
Axel Bruns<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aoir.social/@EssiDeh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EssiDeh</span></a></span> contributed his analysis of the <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Robodebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robodebt</span></a> case study, building on the (conventional) network analysis of the data that had featured in his PhD thesis several years ago,</p><p><a href="https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/ehsan-dehghan/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/peopl</span><span class="invisible">e/ehsan-dehghan/</span></a></p>