"Robodebt’s lasting lesson is that automated decisions affecting people’s lives must remain lawful, transparent, contestable and subject to meaningful human responsibility." But with #agedcare and welfare, Labor has learned the wrong lessons. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

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Agree it’s bad that public servants can deliberately mislead Senators at Estimates. But what’s worse is the culture of secrecy and obfuscation established by their ministers. #auspol

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John Menadue: The Nationals and One Nation are fronts for the mining industry. The Nationals have sold out farmers to the miners. One Nation pretends that it speaks for battlers but has also sold out to miners, like Gina Rinehart. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

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Pelosi is the embodiment of everything wrong with the Democratic Party

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So true. Yet public life and media culture (in Australia too) is dominated by talentless fuckheads (Sandilands, Hughes, Hanson, Stefanovic etc etc), for no good reason.

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