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 Last week the Southern Downs regional council approved an application for the company, Joyful View Garden Real Estate Development Resort Pty Ltd, to operate a water extraction and distribution facility at Cherrabah, a large property at Elbow Valley near QLD-NSW border. #nswpol

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”