Just to recap on Bruce Lehrmann’s car crash testimony today in his defamation proceedings against Channel 10.

An epic thread. Several weeks prior to the alleged incident Bruce denies:

🤥telling another colleague Brittany was “good looking” and seeing if she could be invited to the bar he was drinking in.

The Robotdebt story has a crucial chapter. A short period of only 11 days.
#RobotdebtRC. A thread. It’s early 2015 and Scott Morrison is a relatively new Minister for Human Services, having come across from Minister for Immigration and Border Protection in the Abbott government, where he was responsible for implementing Operation Sovereign Borders.

#RobodebtRC

Getting to the crux of it.

Previous Govt’s had performed checks on Centrelink compliance at a rate of 20,000 per year. It was a manual process whereby payslip data was sought from employers and compared to what had been declared by recipients. “The Legal Way” 1/9 Now, hear me out. If you wanted to quickly identify potential under- reporting of income (and thus over receiving of benefits) then ATO “smoothing” or “averaging” might be a place to START. But naturally it’s not going to give you an exact debt unless the recipient 2/9

#RobodebtRC

Just quietly Rachelle Millar having a big whinge about the Saturday Paper doing a “hit job on the Coalition every week”…welp dear Ms Millar, seems you’re still digesting the kool aid. Sat Paper is real - frank & fearless - JOURNALISM. 1/4 Quite the opposite of the absolute *shit stain* that you spent your media career feeding your press releases to. I’m looking at you Simon Benson and Rupert Murdoch in general. Which have destroyed the fabric of Western society (I’m not exaggerating) 🤮 🤮 2/4

#RobodebtRC :
In 2014 a family of petty criminals plan to start a scheme - a stealing spree - across the vast suburbs of Australia. They steal anything of value, cars, jewellery, electronics. Then sell on those items on for cash. Uncle Jerry doesn’t like the idea. 1/7 Jerry is a policeman and advises his family that stealing is illegal and they’d have to find a legitimate way to make a living. The family ignore Jerry and set about recruiting more thieves from their wider friends and associates. They begin to make big money, efficiently. 2/7

I’m sure that one day my kids will ask me about this period. This period where scientists had been banging on about climate change for several decades. This period where the climate changed and everyone realised the scientists were right. - - - I’ll tell them how we knew what was coming and despaired that politicians kept getting elected who rejected the science in favour of their coal mining mates. How we had ‘leaders’ who said the science was crap. Or whose faith told them it was a Gods plan. And they didn’t act.

Residential towers on the east coast of Australia are a perfect storm for defective works. My first experience in the construction industry taught me the importance of checks and balances.
A thread. In 2000, as an engineering work experience student I tagged along to a site inspection with a structural engineer. He had designed the building, a commercial tower in Melbourne’s CBD. He was there to check the steel reinforcement (reo) had been installed correctly,