The fact that this person is a cis man and made no attempts to hide their gender in any way and yet had unfiltered access to bathrooms anyyway, kind of proves the point that it would be pointless to in transition to gain access to a woman's bathroom to begin with huh? Like the fact that this is a court case kind of undercuts the entire transphobic theory of bathroom perverts right? Because if you need to transition to get into a bathroom and yet this guy didn't transition and was successfully repeatedly able to enter bathrooms for years.... Seems like all the transition would have done is put him on an increased risk of violence and scrutiny. From a statistical perspective, that's just fact.

"...Concerns over the scheme's central method, income averaging, were first raised in the media in late 2016.

The Coalition government repeatedly defended the program, which continued to operate until 2019, falsely accusing hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients of owing money to Centrelink.

Ms Miller said there was a "proliferation" of negative media coverage in late 2016 that was "growing and growing and growing" but it was "predominantly in the left-wing media".

"We weren't too concerned because it wasn't unusual that the left-wing media were attacking us regarding social policy," she said.

(...)

"The prime minister [Malcom Turnbull] was unhappy with the escalating media issue around this [Robodebt] … we were trying to contain it," she said.

"I developed a crisis media strategy at the request of the minister – he was very firm with me that I needed to shut this story down.

"That involved … placing stories with the more friendly media, the right-wing media, about how the Coalition was actually catching people who were cheating the welfare system."

"But we had a continued crisis in the left-wing media that wasn't seeming to die down," she said.

Ms Miller said the government released personal information of Robodebt "case studies" to the media to deter more people from speaking out.

"The minister requested the file of every single person who appeared in the media … you could see the exact transactions that they'd had with Centrelink.

"This would send a clear message … that maybe consider it [going to the media] twice.

"There were less people speaking out in the media which was our intention."

'It's a disgrace' Former acting national manager of Department of Human Services Bevan Hannan at Robodebt royal commission. He said he became "quite upset" watching earlier public hearings because "it became apparent that people [at the department] knew that aspects of the Robodebt scheme were unlawful".

"There was an opportunity in January 2017 to put a stop to it," Mr Hannan said. "

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The media is never on the leftist side.

crabs are cannibals, i'll stop eating them when they do the same. we're nothing but animals ourselves, except without a penchant for cannibalism

What the fuck video was featured in this article? It's a severely tilted shaky camera angle of a TV playing surveillance footage with no sound. The camera literally pans away from the footage at crucial parts.

I believe this 65 year old woman, but that is an absolutely terrible video and I'm surprised that a better one couldn't be provided. ^((Note: there was quality video footage featured taken by the daughter who arrived on scene after the initial altercation, I'm talking about the security footage.))

Something not mentioned in the graph is that not all training is created equal. The issues with police in this country is how they are trained, specifically "warrior" training, John Oliver has a piece about this. There's also a 6-minute New Yorker piece on YouTube about it that I cannot link for some reason. It's called " The police trainer who teaches cops to kill" subtle title I know.

Psst: It's not the hours, it's the training. It's the content. A thousand hours of warrior training is worse than 20 hours of HR seminars.

Suffering in the wilderness sounds like the worst response to homelessness you could possibly have imo.

If you become homeless you don't have access to camping/hunting material or training