McLean
@mcccclean.bsky.social
Pro game developer turned burned out hobbyist
Play Five Plants (among others) at https://mcccclean.itch.io/
Other pastimes: criticising the Australian government, worrying about climate change, occasional jokes
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Play Five Plants (among others) at https://mcccclean.itch.io/
Other pastimes: criticising the Australian government, worrying about climate change, occasional jokes
they/them
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nice to see prime minister is putting his foot down and making it clear that if you hack the Australian government, he will say it is ‘concerning’ then roll over and continue with his plans to change the law so you can steal from Aussie artists
September 24, 2026 at 12:18 AM
nice to see prime minister is putting his foot down and making it clear that if you hack the Australian government, he will say it is ‘concerning’ then roll over and continue with his plans to change the law so you can steal from Aussie artists
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Punching a barely conscious man strapped to a hospital guerney: NOT a sackable offence for NSW Police.
Chris Minns and Labor have set this standard.
Chris Minns and Labor have set this standard.
September 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Punching a barely conscious man strapped to a hospital guerney: NOT a sackable offence for NSW Police.
Chris Minns and Labor have set this standard.
Chris Minns and Labor have set this standard.
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i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality
August 24, 2026 at 11:34 PM
i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality
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Abolish private education, shut down all the schools. Give these kids back to their parents. They all now go to their local schools. Prahran High might need a few more campuses. The good news is I’ve got a few suitable sites that have just come onto the market.
August 21, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Abolish private education, shut down all the schools. Give these kids back to their parents. They all now go to their local schools. Prahran High might need a few more campuses. The good news is I’ve got a few suitable sites that have just come onto the market.
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The Coalition made social security recipients exempt from the ordinary statutes of limitation on debt that apply to everyone else, it was a cornerstone of Robodebt.
The Royal Commission recommended theses changes to the law be repealed, which would be simple.
Labor have ignored this for >3 years.
The Royal Commission recommended theses changes to the law be repealed, which would be simple.
Labor have ignored this for >3 years.
Centrelink pursuing debts that are more than 40 years old despite agreeing to waive old arrears
Centrelink pursuing debts that are more than 40 years old despite agreeing to waive old arrears
Advocates and legal bodies want the debt to be made ‘out of bounds’ given how hard it is to determine its accuracy
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Centrelink is pursuing $4.93bn in unpaid debts, with the oldest dating back more than 40 years, despite the government agreeing to implement a six-year statute of limitations on debt recovery.
A growing list of advocates, including peak legal body Economic Justice Australia, want the debts wiped, while Australia’s leading welfare expert has warned it is impossible to trust whether the huge amount of debt is accurate. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2026 at 2:19 AM
The Coalition made social security recipients exempt from the ordinary statutes of limitation on debt that apply to everyone else, it was a cornerstone of Robodebt.
The Royal Commission recommended theses changes to the law be repealed, which would be simple.
Labor have ignored this for >3 years.
The Royal Commission recommended theses changes to the law be repealed, which would be simple.
Labor have ignored this for >3 years.
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Scott Morrison was referred to the NACC over Robodebt and the Govt paid his $461K legal fees. I won an #AUKUS nuclear waste #FOI challenge and the Govt is threatening I’ll have to pay their $150K legal fees. @albomp.bsky.social thinks that’s fair play! #auspol
Anger at Labor as Rex Patrick faces potential six-figure legal fee if he loses Aukus documents battle
Australian government insists legal costs should be paid by former senator as FoI fight escalates
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Scott Morrison was referred to the NACC over Robodebt and the Govt paid his $461K legal fees. I won an #AUKUS nuclear waste #FOI challenge and the Govt is threatening I’ll have to pay their $150K legal fees. @albomp.bsky.social thinks that’s fair play! #auspol
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I don’t trust that these people are going to helped when I see phrases like “offered opportunities to connect with support services.” We do provide “opportunities to connect” in this country—usually it means providing a phone number. Whether there’s anything at the other end is another matter.
Move-on orders issued to people in Wagga Wagga homeless camp www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Wagga Wagga homeless told to leave camp or face enforcement action
Homeless people in Wagga Wagga's Wilks Park camping area have been ordered to remove all personal belongings by July 7.
www.abc.net.au
June 27, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I don’t trust that these people are going to helped when I see phrases like “offered opportunities to connect with support services.” We do provide “opportunities to connect” in this country—usually it means providing a phone number. Whether there’s anything at the other end is another matter.
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Really wild story here. I had no idea about any of this - Tim's research is amazing and this absolutely mad fake climate policy cannot persist in its current form
Shell’s Prelude is a big floating gas terminal located half-way between Broome and Timor.
Let me tell you about how repeatedly exposing its workers to life-threatening risk between 2020 and 2023 have led to the facility being issued with $200m worth of entirely unearned offset credits.
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Let me tell you about how repeatedly exposing its workers to life-threatening risk between 2020 and 2023 have led to the facility being issued with $200m worth of entirely unearned offset credits.
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I've put a new piece of analysis out today showing how Shell's Prelude LNG terminal will receive a butt tonne of free offset credits from the safeguard mechanism for no other reason than because it repeatedly exposed its workers from life threatening risk.
Really!
Really!
June 22, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Really wild story here. I had no idea about any of this - Tim's research is amazing and this absolutely mad fake climate policy cannot persist in its current form
<looking at fascists working hard to bring about fascism> wheew they have NO idea what they're doing. embarrassing. we're going to end up with fascism if these dummies don't change course
June 18, 2026 at 10:26 AM
<looking at fascists working hard to bring about fascism> wheew they have NO idea what they're doing. embarrassing. we're going to end up with fascism if these dummies don't change course
PH dogwhistled her way through the speech and most of the people in the room were dogs and enjoyed the whistling
Pauline Hanson dog whistled her way through the entire Press Club speech and apparently nobody in the room heard a thing.
June 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
PH dogwhistled her way through the speech and most of the people in the room were dogs and enjoyed the whistling
pardon earnestposting but yeah the prayer would boil down to something like "dear lord, we believe you're a god of conquest and dominion who rewards the powerful, witness us work to eliminate rabble in your name." Not every Christian worships a god of compassion and charity!
Warnock: Right before they passed that ugly bill that cut $1 trillion out of medicaid, the Speaker of the House joined with other legislators and said a prayer, and then they went and voted for that bill. I just want to know what was in that prayer.
June 18, 2026 at 4:37 AM
pardon earnestposting but yeah the prayer would boil down to something like "dear lord, we believe you're a god of conquest and dominion who rewards the powerful, witness us work to eliminate rabble in your name." Not every Christian worships a god of compassion and charity!
The journos giving fawning coverage to Hanson are competent actors, working in line with their values, to bring about a future that they want to live in. They can see Hanson's fascism perfectly well. Time to decide if we can see theirs.
They are utterly bereft of how to deal with her. They actually think her voters care about policy details.
June 17, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The journos giving fawning coverage to Hanson are competent actors, working in line with their values, to bring about a future that they want to live in. They can see Hanson's fascism perfectly well. Time to decide if we can see theirs.
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At some point we’ve got to stop seeing this as a series of oopsies moments and recognise that we are in institutional collapse.
This system never “worked” the way we pretend it did. But at least there was some semblance of responsibility, of learning from mistakes
It’s over. Time to build new ones
This system never “worked” the way we pretend it did. But at least there was some semblance of responsibility, of learning from mistakes
It’s over. Time to build new ones
Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits
Senate estimates hearing told issues caused by a glitch in the automated system that runs the controversial mutual obligations scheme
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM
At some point we’ve got to stop seeing this as a series of oopsies moments and recognise that we are in institutional collapse.
This system never “worked” the way we pretend it did. But at least there was some semblance of responsibility, of learning from mistakes
It’s over. Time to build new ones
This system never “worked” the way we pretend it did. But at least there was some semblance of responsibility, of learning from mistakes
It’s over. Time to build new ones
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In my brief and ill-advised stint as an ABC journo, Rebel News was among a group that mobbed me and other staff and taunted us at a 2021 anti-vaxxer rally. It was treated as a safety incident and IIRC we adopted new policies in response. Five years later, a star radio host is giving them comment.
June 4, 2026 at 2:33 AM
In my brief and ill-advised stint as an ABC journo, Rebel News was among a group that mobbed me and other staff and taunted us at a 2021 anti-vaxxer rally. It was treated as a safety incident and IIRC we adopted new policies in response. Five years later, a star radio host is giving them comment.
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Here's me. "Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities"
Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities - The Shot
Australia’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities has many ugly layers. It’s worse than the bomb release mechanism on the F-35 death...
theshot.net.au
June 1, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Here's me. "Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities"
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In the process of demolishing every single public housing tower, Homes Victoria evicted a family, offered them a home that was boarded up, and another home that was infested with mice and cockroaches, then said oh you’re no longer public housing tenants now coz u said no so fuck you I guess
May 20, 2026 at 3:38 AM
In the process of demolishing every single public housing tower, Homes Victoria evicted a family, offered them a home that was boarded up, and another home that was infested with mice and cockroaches, then said oh you’re no longer public housing tenants now coz u said no so fuck you I guess
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Guy who has called two royal commissions and is required to lead the response:
May 20, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Guy who has called two royal commissions and is required to lead the response:
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My latest free newsletter is about one of The New York Times's specialties: publishing the opinions of wealthy elites as if they are news.
Rich Guy Quote Journalism
How the media turns rich guys' opinions into news
stringinamaze.net
May 14, 2026 at 11:04 PM
My latest free newsletter is about one of The New York Times's specialties: publishing the opinions of wealthy elites as if they are news.
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It does not feel right to present data centre caused power sector friction as an 'undersupply' squeeze.
The guy who walks into the all-you-can-eat buffet with a bucket and just starts pouring trays of food into it to take home for himself -> also not a restaurant food supply problem
The guy who walks into the all-you-can-eat buffet with a bucket and just starts pouring trays of food into it to take home for himself -> also not a restaurant food supply problem
The energy squeeze behind the Iran war and AI boom
It's suddenly the world's biggest constraint, thanks to oil shocks and AI's global race for electricity.
www.axios.com
May 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
It does not feel right to present data centre caused power sector friction as an 'undersupply' squeeze.
The guy who walks into the all-you-can-eat buffet with a bucket and just starts pouring trays of food into it to take home for himself -> also not a restaurant food supply problem
The guy who walks into the all-you-can-eat buffet with a bucket and just starts pouring trays of food into it to take home for himself -> also not a restaurant food supply problem
so it's obviously a joke that Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts is bundled into a single grab bag government department. and it's a fun little bonus joke that their website logo is clearly OCR'd from a physical letterhead
www.infrastructure.gov.au
www.infrastructure.gov.au
May 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
so it's obviously a joke that Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts is bundled into a single grab bag government department. and it's a fun little bonus joke that their website logo is clearly OCR'd from a physical letterhead
www.infrastructure.gov.au
www.infrastructure.gov.au
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This is a truly eye opening read. And I’ve been following this stuff pretty closely, so I mean that!
For the past couple of months we have been working on this investigation into the NACC’s leadership.
What we found was alarming and does not reflect well on the NACC.
What we found was alarming and does not reflect well on the NACC.
Built to fail? NACC: the integrity body undermined from within
The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s performance since its inception has been widely condemned. The leadership of Commissioner Paul Brereton, in particular, has drawn heavy criticism. Indeed, the...
thepoint.com.au
April 25, 2026 at 8:24 AM
This is a truly eye opening read. And I’ve been following this stuff pretty closely, so I mean that!
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The entire issue with the NDIS is that a generation of Australians (including almost everyone working in the political media) have become indoctrinated to believe the private sector is more efficient than the private sector.
Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???
Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???
April 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM
The entire issue with the NDIS is that a generation of Australians (including almost everyone working in the political media) have become indoctrinated to believe the private sector is more efficient than the private sector.
Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???
Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???
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We didn't deserve this day.
April 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
We didn't deserve this day.