Mel Halpin
@melhalpin.bsky.social
“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” Thich Nhat Hanh. Twin. OT. Cofounder & Inventor elevutech.com - Age inclusive display tech eliminating the need for glasses to use the Next Gen of devices. SYD, Australia. #Accessibility #UBI
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Mel Halpin
@melhalpin.bsky.social
· Nov 15
For those new to meeting me here - hello!
I'm excited to share a big part of my life with ya'll - ELEVU. It's set to make life easier (and more accessible) for A LOT of people. Want to know more?
Here's some A's to often asked Q's about our awesome tech. 1/2 #ELEVU #Accessibility #Tech #Ageing
I'm excited to share a big part of my life with ya'll - ELEVU. It's set to make life easier (and more accessible) for A LOT of people. Want to know more?
Here's some A's to often asked Q's about our awesome tech. 1/2 #ELEVU #Accessibility #Tech #Ageing
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"Fuelling inequality: The brunt of a global crisis should not be borne by people in poverty" @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org for @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Fuelling inequality: The brunt of a global crisis should not be borne by people in poverty
On 24 March 2020, Scott Morrison took an unprecedented step: at the drop of a hat, he made the activities people on some Centrelink payments are forced to do completely voluntary as the COVID crisis l...
thepoint.com.au
March 31, 2026 at 4:28 AM
"Fuelling inequality: The brunt of a global crisis should not be borne by people in poverty" @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org for @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
This is what happens when politicians actually represent the needs of their constituents and are not beholden to big money donors - brilliant work @allegraspender.bsky.social
#auspol #VoteIndependents
#auspol #VoteIndependents
Allegra Spender has done more to provide a quality debate on tax reform than anything Labor has done in four years, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/12/a...
Australia's tax system is unfair to young people — and Spender's plan proves we desperately need independent policy
Independent MP Allegra Spender has done more to provide an independent examination of the need for tax reform than anything the government has done in four years.
www.crikey.com.au
March 12, 2026 at 7:58 AM
This is what happens when politicians actually represent the needs of their constituents and are not beholden to big money donors - brilliant work @allegraspender.bsky.social
#auspol #VoteIndependents
#auspol #VoteIndependents
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Must read #auspol
Extreme rhetoric
Advance
Holocaust minimisation
Margaret Thatcher and the International Democracy Union (IDU)
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Advance
Holocaust minimisation
Margaret Thatcher and the International Democracy Union (IDU)
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Extreme rhetoric in right-wing political circles deserves more attention
The rhetoric in Australia's right-wing political circles is getting more extreme and the media should be paying more attention.
www.abc.net.au
March 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Must read #auspol
As we witness the last desperate, savage gasps of the old paradigm play out in the Middle East, the late Tony Benn’s speech remains as relevant today as it was on the day it was delivered.
#WarWithIran
youtu.be/A7ciGW7h7PI
#WarWithIran
youtu.be/A7ciGW7h7PI
Tony Benn's incredible speech against the war in Iraq
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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March 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
As we witness the last desperate, savage gasps of the old paradigm play out in the Middle East, the late Tony Benn’s speech remains as relevant today as it was on the day it was delivered.
#WarWithIran
youtu.be/A7ciGW7h7PI
#WarWithIran
youtu.be/A7ciGW7h7PI
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It's not that complicated @albomp.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:23 AM
It's not that complicated @albomp.bsky.social
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It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
Happy 2026! 🥳
May this year be one where those of us who can, don’t just list the problems we see in this world, but do our best to be part of the solution.
As Rutger says “Follow the Gandalf”!
May this year be one where those of us who can, don’t just list the problems we see in this world, but do our best to be part of the solution.
As Rutger says “Follow the Gandalf”!
Forget “Follow your passion.” At the School for Moral Ambition, we say: Follow the Gandalf 🧙
Gandalf didn’t ask Frodo about his passions. He said: “Here’s a world-sized problem. You’re the one to fix it.”
So… which big, solvable, overlooked problem could you be the unlikely hero for?
Gandalf didn’t ask Frodo about his passions. He said: “Here’s a world-sized problem. You’re the one to fix it.”
So… which big, solvable, overlooked problem could you be the unlikely hero for?
January 1, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Happy 2026! 🥳
May this year be one where those of us who can, don’t just list the problems we see in this world, but do our best to be part of the solution.
As Rutger says “Follow the Gandalf”!
May this year be one where those of us who can, don’t just list the problems we see in this world, but do our best to be part of the solution.
As Rutger says “Follow the Gandalf”!
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
We must not let the tragedy of Bondi be used by a select few to advance their own divisive political agenda.
Please join thousands who have signed this petition to demand evidence based reforms to address antisemitism, racism, gun violence & uphold human rights
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
Please join thousands who have signed this petition to demand evidence based reforms to address antisemitism, racism, gun violence & uphold human rights
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today
jewishcouncil.good.do
December 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We must not let the tragedy of Bondi be used by a select few to advance their own divisive political agenda.
Please join thousands who have signed this petition to demand evidence based reforms to address antisemitism, racism, gun violence & uphold human rights
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
Please join thousands who have signed this petition to demand evidence based reforms to address antisemitism, racism, gun violence & uphold human rights
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
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Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist
Full release available at the link in our bio.
Full release available at the link in our bio.
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist
Full release available at the link in our bio.
Full release available at the link in our bio.
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence," Dr. Martin Luther King
Feeling heartbroken tonight. Praying for all affected in Bondi, for peace, for a remembrance of our shared humanity and inherent connection to each other. ❤️🙏
Feeling heartbroken tonight. Praying for all affected in Bondi, for peace, for a remembrance of our shared humanity and inherent connection to each other. ❤️🙏
December 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence," Dr. Martin Luther King
Feeling heartbroken tonight. Praying for all affected in Bondi, for peace, for a remembrance of our shared humanity and inherent connection to each other. ❤️🙏
Feeling heartbroken tonight. Praying for all affected in Bondi, for peace, for a remembrance of our shared humanity and inherent connection to each other. ❤️🙏
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If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.
This. Decades of worsening wealth and income inequality hasn’t happened by accident, but by design.
The good news is it can be redesigned.
Time for major tax reform. Time for Universal Basic Income. Time to get Big $ out of politics and break up media monopolies.
#auspol #UBI #TaxTheUltraWealthy
The good news is it can be redesigned.
Time for major tax reform. Time for Universal Basic Income. Time to get Big $ out of politics and break up media monopolies.
#auspol #UBI #TaxTheUltraWealthy
"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This. Decades of worsening wealth and income inequality hasn’t happened by accident, but by design.
The good news is it can be redesigned.
Time for major tax reform. Time for Universal Basic Income. Time to get Big $ out of politics and break up media monopolies.
#auspol #UBI #TaxTheUltraWealthy
The good news is it can be redesigned.
Time for major tax reform. Time for Universal Basic Income. Time to get Big $ out of politics and break up media monopolies.
#auspol #UBI #TaxTheUltraWealthy
Attn Sydneysiders 🎙️🎄
Our much beloved Wayside Chapel are calling on those who can donate to their Christmas appeal - $27 can sponsor a meal w all the trimmings to feed a person doing it tough & help them feel loved this festive season.
Go to 👇 donate.waysidechapel.org.au/christmas
Our much beloved Wayside Chapel are calling on those who can donate to their Christmas appeal - $27 can sponsor a meal w all the trimmings to feed a person doing it tough & help them feel loved this festive season.
Go to 👇 donate.waysidechapel.org.au/christmas
Bring joy and connection to our community this Christmas!
Donate a gift this Christmas to ensure everyone can gather around the table over the festive season.
donate.waysidechapel.org.au
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Attn Sydneysiders 🎙️🎄
Our much beloved Wayside Chapel are calling on those who can donate to their Christmas appeal - $27 can sponsor a meal w all the trimmings to feed a person doing it tough & help them feel loved this festive season.
Go to 👇 donate.waysidechapel.org.au/christmas
Our much beloved Wayside Chapel are calling on those who can donate to their Christmas appeal - $27 can sponsor a meal w all the trimmings to feed a person doing it tough & help them feel loved this festive season.
Go to 👇 donate.waysidechapel.org.au/christmas
Around the globe, we’ve had decades of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
Enough.
A new world is coming and those who have benefited most from the old one know it. #TaxTheRich #UBI
Enough.
A new world is coming and those who have benefited most from the old one know it. #TaxTheRich #UBI
Governor Kathy Hochul is speaking on stage, but the crowd keeps interrupting to chant #TaxTheRich
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Around the globe, we’ve had decades of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
Enough.
A new world is coming and those who have benefited most from the old one know it. #TaxTheRich #UBI
Enough.
A new world is coming and those who have benefited most from the old one know it. #TaxTheRich #UBI
Govts around the world, no matter which side, are busy jumping over themselves to maintain the wealth and power of the people & things they actually represent.
Only when we get money out of politics, will we see any real change towards making life easier for the masses. #Auspol #TaxTheUltraWealthy
Only when we get money out of politics, will we see any real change towards making life easier for the masses. #Auspol #TaxTheUltraWealthy
so great that rich people are being heard with their concerns about staying rich #antipovertyweek
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Government offers major concessions on proposed super tax increase
The government has bowed to pressure on its superannuation tax policy, one of the few revenue-raising measures it had promised, two years on from when it was first announced.
www.abc.net.au
October 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Govts around the world, no matter which side, are busy jumping over themselves to maintain the wealth and power of the people & things they actually represent.
Only when we get money out of politics, will we see any real change towards making life easier for the masses. #Auspol #TaxTheUltraWealthy
Only when we get money out of politics, will we see any real change towards making life easier for the masses. #Auspol #TaxTheUltraWealthy
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Formal recognition of the state of Palestine overnight is a welcome step but we must also listen to the experts outlining what further steps Australia & other nations must take to prevent the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Australia must do more to end Gaza war says author of ‘genocide’ report
Chris Sidoti, author of an independent UN probe alleging Israel is guilty of genocide, has urged Australia to step up efforts to end the Gaza war
www.afr.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Formal recognition of the state of Palestine overnight is a welcome step but we must also listen to the experts outlining what further steps Australia & other nations must take to prevent the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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We're launching a campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Sign our petition to call on the Australian government to sanction Israel NOW.
Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please:
Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...
Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please:
Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We're launching a campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Sign our petition to call on the Australian government to sanction Israel NOW.
Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please:
Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...
Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please:
Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...
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Well if there’s one it’s only that I’m upset that as an Australian I can’t vote for Mamdani!
Look out world, the time of gross wealth and income inequality is coming to an end.
#TaxTheUltraRich #UBI #auspol
Well if there’s one it’s only that I’m upset that as an Australian I can’t vote for Mamdani!
Look out world, the time of gross wealth and income inequality is coming to an end.
#TaxTheUltraRich #UBI #auspol
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Well if there’s one it’s only that I’m upset that as an Australian I can’t vote for Mamdani!
Look out world, the time of gross wealth and income inequality is coming to an end.
#TaxTheUltraRich #UBI #auspol
Well if there’s one it’s only that I’m upset that as an Australian I can’t vote for Mamdani!
Look out world, the time of gross wealth and income inequality is coming to an end.
#TaxTheUltraRich #UBI #auspol
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Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais
Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais
Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais
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"Feeling trapped and facing eviction, the mother-of-one turned to a charity and asked for £600. The money came through almost instantly... Since receiving her grant, Laura Burns' life has been transformed – she now has a new home, a job and is about to get married."
UBI will do so much for so many.
UBI will do so much for so many.
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"Feeling trapped and facing eviction, the mother-of-one turned to a charity and asked for £600. The money came through almost instantly... Since receiving her grant, Laura Burns' life has been transformed – she now has a new home, a job and is about to get married."
UBI will do so much for so many.
UBI will do so much for so many.
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With news of further bombings of hospitals in Gaza overnight, Jewish Council executive officer @sarahschwartz.bsky.social explains that this is deliberate, this is a campaign of targeted killings of journalists and we need to take action and end the two-way arms trade with Israel now.
August 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
With news of further bombings of hospitals in Gaza overnight, Jewish Council executive officer @sarahschwartz.bsky.social explains that this is deliberate, this is a campaign of targeted killings of journalists and we need to take action and end the two-way arms trade with Israel now.
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#UBI is the ONLY social stability program that recognizes your INHERANT value as a human being.
UBI is the foundation that says you- as a person living in a wealthy, technologically advanced country that produces more than enough for all- have the basic right to life free from poverty.
UBI is the foundation that says you- as a person living in a wealthy, technologically advanced country that produces more than enough for all- have the basic right to life free from poverty.
August 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#UBI is the ONLY social stability program that recognizes your INHERANT value as a human being.
UBI is the foundation that says you- as a person living in a wealthy, technologically advanced country that produces more than enough for all- have the basic right to life free from poverty.
UBI is the foundation that says you- as a person living in a wealthy, technologically advanced country that produces more than enough for all- have the basic right to life free from poverty.
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"People kind of think of centrism as evidence-based policy. 'We'll be sensible and we'll follow the evidence.’
"I hate to break it to you, evidence is often quite radical."
Catch Richard Denniss on his tour for his new Vantage Point essay Dead Centre!
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"I hate to break it to you, evidence is often quite radical."
Catch Richard Denniss on his tour for his new Vantage Point essay Dead Centre!
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"People kind of think of centrism as evidence-based policy. 'We'll be sensible and we'll follow the evidence.’
"I hate to break it to you, evidence is often quite radical."
Catch Richard Denniss on his tour for his new Vantage Point essay Dead Centre!
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"I hate to break it to you, evidence is often quite radical."
Catch Richard Denniss on his tour for his new Vantage Point essay Dead Centre!
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol