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@CartwheelPrint
Aug 24, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
A thread derived from this document while taking into account all of the changes in our welfare system, since - The Forrest Review was published 5-years ago: pmc.gov.au/sites/default/… I've wondered for a while if Palantir tech is being used for the likes of robodebt.. #auspol 1.
Andrew Forrest: 'Big data mining with specialist fraud firms like Palantir Technologies have proven extremely efficient at identifying fraud in a manner that the cash
system has no hope of replicating.' While it's not direct it's certainly a connection and explains a lot. 2.
Remember this gent: abc.net.au/news/2019-07-2… Straight away I thought of Palantir because when I wrote: melmacpolitics.com/2018/04/26/aus… I learned how their tech can be used to data mine billions and trillions of records in the hope of finding a nugget of value, be that an old debt, etc 3.
It is also known and not secret that Palantir's Fusion software is used by not only the ATO, AFP, and the DIBP, but also the Department of Human Services: ngm.com.au/australian-cri… 4.
Part of the summary of what the Indue card would do also caught my eye: 'have the scope to expand to accept other government payments such as funding for care
packages under the new National Disability Insurance Scheme.' The NDIS.. 5.
What led me back to the review in the first place was Forrest's stance on exemptions and mutual obligations. He believes that: 'Exemptions cause good policy to fail.' That job service providers are best placed to impose penalties not Centrelink. #ParentsNext also came to mind 6.
He also called for: 'All discretion of Centrelink and Job Service Providers to grant exemptions to be removed.' And to: 'Apply mutual obligation to all payments received by those of working age.' It's almost like his review has become a government blueprint for policies. 7.
He also wanted to: 'Reduce Centrelink's role in job seeker compliance to the spot checking of employment providers.' There is probably much more to contemplate with the benefit of knowing what's happened to our welfare system since this review was published. End.

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Dec 27, 2019
Chinese company approved to run water mining operation in drought-stricken Queensland theguardian.com/environment/20… Water mining ffs Take a deep breath, let’s unpack this for as many eyeballs as possible to see. This BS must stop. #qldpol #auspol #waterislife
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Stanthorpe is expected to run out of drinking water within weeks. 👈
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Jul 26, 2019
The case for a universal basic income, open borders, and a 15-hour workweek vox.com/policy-and-pol… Time for some hope, inspiration, and ideas for #auspol and the future. 1.
Imagining utopia, writes Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, “isn’t an attempt to predict the future. It’s an attempt to unlock the future. To fling open the windows of our minds.” 🌻2.
Rutger Bregman: ‘We know that every milestone of civilization — the end of slavery, democracy, equal rights for women — were all utopian fantasies in the past. So the point is to come up with new utopias: visions of a radically better society.’ 3.
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Jun 2, 2019
Why political coverage is broken abc.net.au/news/2011-08-3… From 2011 and as relevant as ever. ‘Promoting journalists as insiders in front of the outsiders, the viewers, the electorate… this is a clue to what's broken about political coverage in the US and Australia.’ #auspol 1.
‘Part of the problem is how often the Australian press reframes politics as entertainment, seizing on trivial episodes that amuse or titillate and then blowing them up until they start to seem important.’ 2.
‘The advantage of politics-as-entertainment is that the main characters, the politicians themselves, work for free! The media doesn't have to pay them because taxpayers do. The sets are provided by the Government, the plots by the party leaders, backbenchers and spin doctors.’ 3.
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Apr 26, 2019
Dozens of NT Centrelink clients' details published on public Facebook page abc.net.au/news/2019-04-2… The CDP is the government’s flagship remote employment scheme and it’s worth $300m per year for Indigenous people to work below min wages with no workplace safety 1. #auspol
to receive their social security assistance. They work more hours in this work-for-the-dole scheme than non-remote participants, they also incur more penalties on average per person than any other region. In remote locations of course jobs are harder to find. There is also 2.
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Feb 12, 2019
An #auspol thread - Tampa ship captain voices frustration sbs.com.au/news/tampa-shi… I’ve been thinking about the Tampa incident, this article always gets to me.

‘All these years later, was there any one thing somebody said to him that, above all else, sticks in his mind?’
“Ja, there was one man from Nauru who sent me a letter that I should have let him die in the Ind ... the Indian Ocean, instead of picking him up. Because, the conditions on Nauru were terrible. And that is a terrible thing to tell people, that you should have just let them drown”
Out of 433 asylum seekers that were so grateful to be rescued and not turned back on their unseaworthy boat, around 233 were sent to Nauru. The others were taken in by New Zealand where they’ve been happy ever since. The conditions were that bad even back then on Nauru.
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