Liz Hemlin

Sitting on the fence gives me splinters

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@idontca26729609 @JaneCaro Are you serious? 😂😂 he's the laughing stock of the world. 🌎

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@dave_gimm @DanielFerlizza @GBC_Press I don't think Daniel knows how to do that 😉

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@DanielFerlizza @GBC_Press Oh Daniel, time for you to do some research before you make such an idiot of yourself.

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@kiffddizzle @CatchUpFeed And recording it the whole time.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Oh my dear God. What the fucking #Robodebt is this??

I just watched the last hour of the NDIS bill hearing and watched as @SenatorJordon, who has the patience of a saint, explain the actual NDIS and what a job interview looks like to a bunch of senior bureaucrats who have been called in to explain the enormous clusterfuck that is the plan for the former NDIS, which will harm hundreds of thousands of disabled people. At the end, he LOSES it. Justifiably. Go watch:)

And then I get curious about who one guy is so I look at a govt table which says he’s now working in and a different name catches my eye.

Russell de Burgh.

‘While working as the branch manager of the Pensions and Integrity branch of the Department of Social Services, De Burgh was identified by the #Robodebt Royal Commission as one of the officials who made "false representations" regarding the lawfulness and operation of the Robodebt program.’

And now this man has a very senior role in Health, rolling out cuts that will end lives and livelihoods in exchange for AUKUS submarines.

I do not know why I am still shocked, yet I am. #RoboNDIS

[Sam Connor @criprights]

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[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@bradpsychology @Christi49154364 🤣😂

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@SaintPunk77 @KathyLette @World_Wildlife @NWF Oh Doug, hasn't anyone told you to fact check first before you make an idiot of yourself. Just about every major news agency ran with it. Not to mention all the fact checking sites.

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Screw you, @CBS.

#ValeTheLateShow #BoycottCBS

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@Baumann_Mac @changelingchil1 Good for you Ron, you're a force to be reckoned with.

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@KathyLette It looks like the colour of American cheese in a bottle

[Sam Connor @criprights]

The catastrophic announcements about the Budget cuts to the NDIS, the slashing of 204,000 jobs and the ending of 1455 businesses in the plan management sector - as well as the disastrous announcements for disabled people ourselves - has been met with widespread and almost unanimous disapproval by the broader disability sector.

Except by a notable few, including Autism WA, whose CEO was appointed to the NDIS board not so long ago - and who is the Chair of NDS, who are also ‘welcoming’ the destruction of the scheme.

The so called ‘reforms’ will not only end jobs and businesses but also lives, will institutionalise thousands and see thousands more thrown into a State based void created when the NDIS was built 13 years ago.

Further legislation that landed last week contains unbelievably punitive arrangements for disabled people, including block funding arrangements, unprecedented powers given to the Minister, the transformation of the NDIA into an agency who can legally enter our homes to ‘search and seize’ and legal mechanisms enabling automated decision making, including debt recovery identical to #Robodebt.

Yet a media blackout on this. Why?

And then there’s this.

I find it of great interest that this part of recent correspondence by Mark Butler MP, cced to Minister Jenny McAllister, is heavily redacted under FOI exemptions s47C and s47E(d).

Those exemptions are commonly used to hide internal government deliberations and operational discussions. They are often invoked when governments want to shield ‘politically sensitive’ decision-making from public scrutiny. Given the extensive redactions around NDIA Board arrangements, it raises serious questions about what discussions, concerns, or negotiations the government does not want disabled Australians to see.

https://t.co/zSpGa8zakA

Like, perhaps, that Martin Laverty, CEO of Aruma, is a member of the Aged Care Advisory Committee of the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA).

IHACPA says the Australian Government asked it to identify opportunities for future NDIS pricing reform, including reviewing current pricing approaches and developing a pricing data strategy. It also says the NDIA remains in charge of setting NDIS prices “for now”.

https://t.co/q4HXynmVGP

You would think this would be a clear conflict of interest for the Alliance 20 spokesperson, whether that’s an official or unofficial role.

There’s also the fact that National Disability Services, who Aunty Joan is the Chair of, have been telling their members that they should support these reforms - despite the fact that thousands of smaller or unregistered businesses will go under immediately under new, ‘tiered’ pricing structures, which pay unregistered providers far less than those who don’t pay enormous sums.

And 50 Acres.

This stinks. #auspol

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@criprights @AusParl @Mark_Butler_MP Oh Sam, that's the saddest thing I've read. I feel for every single person out there that will be impacted by this. You're so right, it is cruel, and it disgusts me that these politicians don't care enough about the far reaching implications this will have.

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Birds

What do you think about this?

British-owned beef giant CPC has been granted a permit to poison and kill 20,000 native galahs and little corellas at one of their vast cattle stations in the NT, Australia.

In its permit application, CPC admits its practices created the problem: “grain production, on-site storage, and cattle feeding have provided an artificial food source.”

Ornithologist Dr Lilleyman was "shocked" to learn of the NT government's decision to grant the permit.
She said that Birdlife Australia is concerned about the potential for secondary poisoning of non-target species occurring close to "an internationally significant wetland".

CPC has ten cattle stations on about 9 million acres. They supply cattle and beef to Asian markets, domestic feedlots and processors, and export live cattle.

The company is owned by Guy and Julia Hands through the Hands Family Office. They live in Guernsey after leaving England to avoid UK tax.

CPC has also applied for massive water licenses for irrigation projects to grow grain sorghum and other crops which will inevitably attract even more birds.

So what happens then? Even wider-scale poisoning of native wildlife?

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@AustraliamAlien @xskinn I'm sorry, but this is a fun fact for you. An ABI doesn't lower your baseline intelligence. So bringing brain injury into the equation is a moot point .

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@JJKALE2 @jaquix173 @AlboMP Yes I do

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@BobBrace2 🤣😂 yep good ol times . Let's not even start on the aptly named Spumante 🍾

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@BobBrace2 Remember this? Mum used to always bring this out for their friends while listening to good old Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 🤣🍹🍸

[Xpose Trophy Hunting @XposeTrophyHunt]

Karic Tehundatawenron Gros-Louis, Quebec with the little vervet monkey he hunted with Eland Safaris in South Africa. A gross, psychopathic devil.🤬
#BanTrophyHunting RT
@SARA2001NOOR @Angelux1111 @Gail7175 @Lin11W @Protect_Wldlife @PhaedraXTeddy

[Liz Hemlin @HemlinLiz]

@edenyosef1990 @MikeCarlton01 @tiredobserver1 Maybe you should look it up next time.
Reports from human rights organizations, journalists, and testimonies from former detainees allege that Israeli forces, specifically within detention facilities, have used military dogs to sexually assault and maul Palestinian detainees.