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Bucky Fullminster posted:Isn’t what the first paragraph does? Also consider using subheadings like “Executive Summary” and such throughout as this will flag for the reader what is where. Decision makers will, at best, skim read this so it’s important to structure your writing to be easily skim read. It’s not a creative writing exercise, just make it so I can easily read it and consider the argument. If the concept is complex, the writing MUST be simple. Having to slog through dense writing while considering a dense topic is just so mind numbing.
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has anyone seen the asher keddie as notMia show? she’s bad at parenting, business, politics and business, but drat it somebody has to plant a flag for second-wave feminism
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Lol of course it was a 40yr old with a cooked brain that vandalised the wooliesSecretOfSteel posted:I haven't been in Woolworths for a while given there's a Coles nearby, but gently caress me do Woolworths like recording everything you do. Can't a man jerk off in the bread aisle in peace any more
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Non Compos Mentis posted:Can't a man jerk off in the bread aisle in peace any more Man cannot jerk by bread alone
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Non Compos Mentis posted:Lol of course it was a 40yr old with a cooked brain that vandalised the woolies Adds a whole new meaning to enjoying a succulent Chinese frozen meal
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New woke lamb ad doesn't poo poo on vegetarians and hippies.
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JBP posted:New woke lamb ad doesn't poo poo on vegetarians and hippies. This made me look up Sam Kekovich He filmed facebook ads for Corey Bernadi's political party and the lamb people got angry with him for using the term "lambassador"
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birdstrike posted:has anyone seen the asher keddie as notMia show? she’s bad at parenting, business, politics and business, but drat it somebody has to plant a flag for second-wave feminism Buddy,
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SecretOfSteel posted:I haven't been in Woolworths for a while given there's a Coles nearby, but gently caress me do Woolworths like recording everything you do. Went to one this morning and the self-checkout beeped at me and said to call an employee*. So I called one over and she scanned her ID card and replayed the video from a camera directly overhead which I hadn't even seen - and distinct from the camera pointing at my face - to rewind and ID what I'd put in my bags. I wonder if they use the same video surveillance package the casino uses. * or whatever condescending euphemism companies are using for staff nowadays
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The Woolworths camera correctly detected my son(2yr) shoplifted a toy and closed the glass gates on us causing an employee to ask me to pry a toy out of his hands and pay for it.
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Anidav posted:The Woolworths camera correctly detected my son(2yr) shoplifted a toy and closed the glass gates on us causing an employee to ask me to pry a toy out of his hands and pay for it. lol exact same thing happened to me, those new glass gates have ruined toddlers' fun
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my des provider is making me fill out an obligatory gratitude journal lol
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When I was like 8-9 i stole a kinder surprise from woolies and my parents subsequently caught + yelled at me. I’m glad they did because since that day i’ve been a honest law abiding man whos never stolen anything ever again* *excluding the thousands of dollars of pirated mp3s online
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an egg posted:my des provider is making me fill out an obligatory gratitude journal lol Is there anything more dehumanizing. Hard enough to deal with disability poo poo without having to pretend to be loving grateful about it. "Hmm, how can we take away even more dignity from our clients?" Meanwhile, some oval office in a suit is using "gratitude" quotes to get a six figure bonus.
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an egg posted:my des provider is making me fill out an obligatory gratitude journal lol Or what? Take some time to report that to Centrelink. Draw seven legged spiders in it. That's not an activity that will help you find work. Gratitude Journals don't work if you're forced to use them.
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an egg posted:my des provider is making me fill out an obligatory gratitude journal lol quote:Reasons to be cheerful, part three
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thank you, friends. it seemed faintly ridiculous to me too, glad it's not just me. you're a wise man, cartoon.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Is there anything more dehumanizing. Hard enough to deal with disability poo poo without having to pretend to be loving grateful about it. I bet some grad student did a survey that showed people who write gratitude journals are less likely to jump off a bridge or something. Then that got turned into a KPI by suits who don't understand that writing the journal isn't what makes people not want to jump off a bridge.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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It's just the usual "the DES provider owns a side company that gets paid to issue/force these and gets free money from the government for doing so" I'd assume, like, basically every single aspect of the privatised JSA environment we keep forcing the poor and disabled to suffer under. And the 'or else' is usually "you lose your payment for possibly months because CL is so backed up and understaffed that people are starving and going homeless while waiting for corrections to be made" so, you know, not a great option for most people on a CL payment!
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Gratitude psych is a psyop imo
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update: i'm going to have to ask my provider for a new gratitude journal because i used too many f-wordsJBP posted:Gratitude psych is a psyop imo i also feel this way about the sudden rise of "stoic philosophy"
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an egg posted:update: i'm going to have to ask my provider for a new gratitude journal because i used too many f-words ask for a hard cover journal so you can throw it at your provider
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gently caress off Tim Pallas
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an egg posted:my des provider is making me fill out an obligatory gratitude journal lol .... The actual gently caress? What the hell is a "gratitude journal" and whose stupid idea was it to make it mandatory?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:.... The actual gently caress? What the hell is a "gratitude journal" and whose stupid idea was it to make it mandatory? 
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I once lived with a dude who used to work for Sarina Russo and I was on the dole at the time and Sarina Russo was just the default employment service I wound up and he would tell me the most insane stories about workplace culture there that made it sound like it was a loving cult
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-19/anger-and-fear-as-australians-wait-for-mental-health-supports/103365124 We said it at the time that Labor were pulling a bait and switch around the Better Access Scheme, and the numbers did indeed back that up. The issue was, and still is, is that Labor are conflating two seperate issues: access and dose. Access was the reason Mark Butler killed the extended sessions - that regional and rural Australians have limited access to psychological services. The rise of telehealth can address this somewhat but there has to be a value proposition here to grow the industry in these areas. There's also no financial incentive for MH providers to go to bulk billing or reduce gap fees, so the status quo remains. If you can get access, dosage is the # of sessions you can access at the reduced rate. The theory is that people need a certain "dose" of treatment before they can get better. The suggestion was the money saved here would go towards funding the hypothetical scheme that is for a greater clinical severity than the Better Access Scheme but below that of psychiatric inpatient services. The primary issue here is that the BAS relies on clinical research to identify what disorders are covered under the BAS, and for how many sessions. It's why eating disorders only recently were added to the scheme, but personality disorders are not (no evidence of change in a short time frame). I'd argue that even the maximum of 10 sessions is woefully inadequate for your "standard" anxiety and depression, so people are receiving an insufficient "dosage" of treatment to support recovery. I'm just spitballing here but what I'd like to see is some better level of stepped care or something so you can bring in the more severe/long term disorders under the Medicare umbrella but I'm not holding my breath under Labor. The last thing I'l rant about is the focus on disorders and the DSM-5-TR. There's some obvious benefits to the DSM but the drawback is we focus on disorders of clinical significance where your success rate is markedly lower. We really ought to be thinking about how we address sub-threshold mental health challenges beyond relying on the shadow mental health system that are Employee Assistance Programs. We rely on people having a stable job and stable access to EAPs which obviously miss huge sections of our community who are not in paid work. I acknowledge that the above rant isn't a fully formed thought but whatever.
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and of course the medicare rebates themselves are woefully inadequate compared to the industry's standard fees, which is surely a major factor in why the wealthier disproportionately use the scheme - psychology appointments are so expensive that even with the rebate many people can't afford to go very often
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-19/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-rejects-us-calls-for-palestinian-state/103367348 If only there was some way the US could get Israel to stop bombing civilians.
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Recoome posted:We said it at the time that Labor were pulling a bait and switch around the Better Access Scheme, and the numbers did indeed back that up. It’s impressive to me how efficiently the current administration has eroded both access and dose simultaneously. Access has been under a prolonged siege since 2012, when rebates were frozen - this battle was never resolved, we’ve since talked about different things because this fight is now 12 years old but I would point to this decision as a primary cause of access limitations. Increasing gap fees that psychologists have to increasingly charge or be overwhelmed with inflation is how it starts but over time, it chases people out of private practice altogether, further degrading access, particularly in rural and remote environments. Fixing dose doesn’t help this so <of course> investigations into the better access program will conclude that that increasing the session cap didn’t improve access. Access is limited by the price of admission, not the number of available sessions… The system is set up to fail, you don’t need to commission a study into the penetration of better access, ask literally any privately practicing psychologist and they can tell you why the system isn’t achieving its targets. It’s the classic tactic of defunding a public service, commissioning a study that concludes the service isn’t performing as well as it’s meant to, and using that study as a reason to defund that service further. I’ve probably pointed out this same thing on these forums but it continues to be true - Australia used to be a world leader in access to psychology, there are very few comparable countries that have a similar system to access psychologists based on GP referrals, talk to anyone from Canada or America about how they access psychologists and you’ll see how lucky you are (or were) in this country. It’s an honest to god shame how much such a progressive system has been undermined and degraded in the last 15 years E: quote:acknowledge that the above rant isn't a fully formed thought but whatever Your rant is perfectly formed and is completely accurate - don’t stop posting about psychology access, it’s such an important topic. But it’s also such a frustrating thing to talk about because there seems to be a wide consensus among Australians that it’s good and should be funded and yet it keeps getting worse and worse. <at the time> that rebates were frozen in 2012, people protested, you saw editorials appearing in newspapers, you had expert bodies talking about what a bad idea it was yet the needle didn’t move even a bit and were still frozen, more than a decade later. This debate about number of seasons is following the same trajectory, we have stats, research, best practice evidence, expert opinion, and public opinion on our side and yet it feels like it’s going to slip away from us again… it’s a really demoralizing debate to be a part of Serrath fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Went to one this morning and the self-checkout beeped at me and said to call an employee*. So I called one over and she scanned her ID card and replayed the video from a camera directly overhead which I hadn't even seen - and distinct from the camera pointing at my face - to rewind and ID what I'd put in my bags. I doubt they'd have upgraded since I left, so it's unlikely. And a lot of it was kinda customised in-house.
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Australia is a few steps behind the UK where many cumulative cuts under the Coalition and halting of indexation and public investment is resulting in systems everywhere rapidly declining in accessibility/affordability and quality of service, or outright falling apart. As they degrade the cost increases to arrest decline (let alone restore them back to where they were before), and they are all in competition for (arbitrarily) limited budget. You can see this happening across health, aged care, employment services, higher education, R&D, etc. They all need major reform and inaction is just kicking the ball down the road where it will be even more costly and complex to address, with all the usual suspects lining up to object to any actual effort to improve public services or improve living standards. The one thing that mitigates this over the UK is that the Commonwealth is only one half the story here - the States drive a lot of it too, and we have eight jurisdictions where some of them might do better. (Half convinced this is where 90% of the work on climate mitigation/adaptation will end up happening) Basically our tax system needs a root and branch reform to pay to maintain a first world quality of life (especially inclusively and equitably) but the chances of that seem near nil under this or any future government, unless climate catastrophe forces it. Edit: it’s impossible to understate how much fundamental systemic damage was done by Abbott/Hockey in particular by cutting a lot of government services and programs that most people aren’t even aware of but helped support economic and social policy ecosystems. Even Turnbull had to do damage control just by restoring some basic funding. Then we had years of stasis and cuts under Morrison. ALP inherited a massively degraded public system. I actually don’t think they 100% realised the extent until they were back in and getting briefed by the APS. The capability of the federal government is drastically reduced compared with pre-Abbott times. Blamestorm fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Animal Friend posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-01-20/potato-crops-in-australia-are-still-susceptible-to-shortages/103368238 press op of dutton biting into a raw potato
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Blamestorm posted:The one thing that mitigates this over the UK is that the Commonwealth is only one half the story here - the States drive a lot of it too, and we have eight jurisdictions where some of them might do better. (Half convinced this is where 90% of the work on climate mitigation/adaptation will end up happening) i would not expect the states to be able to step in and fix things either unfortunately - their ability to raise revenue is pretty limited so if things are collapsing due to the feds underfunding everything, the states are pretty constrained in their ability to do more to cover for that. of course, labor seems to be still going ahead with the stage 3 tax cuts (though there has been some recent reporting that said they still haven't decided exactly what they're doing with them) out of cowardice which will just make fixing medicare pretty much impossible to fund, and we will keep going down a similar death spiral to the uk
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Yeah I'm originally from the UK and moved here about 12 years ago. Recently went back there for 6 months (for partners mat leave) and the decline since I left was staggering and immediately obvious as soon as you had any sort of contact with the healthcare system. The GP which used to routinely give me same day appointments when I was a kid was weeks booked out. Also private healthcare ads were everywhere. Australians as a whole have no idea how much further there is to fall.
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Don't worry we're only usually 10 years behind the UK but the gap is closing fast.
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lih posted:their ability to raise revenue is pretty limited Potentially more so than they previously thought given the implications for state levies after Victoria’s electric vehicle tax was ruled unconstitutional.
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Recoome posted:We really ought to be thinking about how we address sub-threshold mental health challenges beyond relying on the shadow mental health system that are Employee Assistance Programs. We rely on people having a stable job and stable access to EAPs which obviously miss huge sections of our community who are not in paid work.
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