Feeling cute. Started a Mastodon account. Might delete later.
Follow to keep up with my latest👇
@roycekurmelovs@aus.social
Pinned Tweet
Follow
Click to Follow RoyceRk2
Royce Kurmelovs
@RoyceRk2
Journalist. Author of The Death of Holden (2016), Just Money (2020) and others.
Mastodon: @roycekurmelovs@aus.social
Royce Kurmelovs’s Tweets
Neat thread about Russian exiles reviving small businesses in an Armenian town
Quote Tweet
Видели эти треды из Тбилиси? Ужас, правда?
Хотите расскажу, что происходит в других городах, куда массово понаехали русские релоканты?
Это тред из Ванадзора. Погнали!
Show this thread
2
12
NEW: together with colleagues, I spent the last month reconstructing the lives of dozens of convicts who joined the Wagner mercenary army and who were killed in Ukraine. A window onto the grim reality of Russian prison life.
reuters.com/investigates/s
35
395
1,120
Show this thread
Press statement from Invasion Day rally organisers on Gadigal land
26
47
Greggery: "I said it is clear that you adopted a course which was not full and frank with the Ombudsman."
Hurman: "Yes."
this goose is cooked
14
62
279
Show this thread
Hurman: "I was responsible but I guess everyone above me also was responsible."
Greggery: "What are you getting at here, Mr Hurman? Who changed it?"
Hurman: "I understand that Serena Wilson made a decision to change it... she is sort of higher in the chain within DSS."
hoo
4
30
148
Show this thread
Blockbuster investigation: how high-end lawyers in London and Moscow helped Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin evade western sanctions for his role running paramilitary group Wagner – and helped him construct an elaborate lie to hide it
18
351
561
A week investigating Andrew Tate in Bucharest and it seems he’s an imposter. His home; a Norman Bates inspired meat factory (see pic), his chain of casinos;fictitious, his web-cam empire; two girls in a Brookside-style semi. Still trying to follow the money!
140
1,069
7,458
GREGGERY: Of course, you weren't reappointed. Did this come as a surprise?
CARNEY: It did, although it was my longest term there, being over 5 years where most periods in my career had been around 3. My conflict of interest statement was provided prior to Cabinet.
#RobodebtRC
1
6
29
Show this thread
Greggery now getting to the circumstances around Carney's tenure at the AAT ending. It ended on 30 September 2017 even though he sought reappointment and had served with distinction for many, many years. Wouldn't have anything to do with his decisions on Robodebt now would it?
2
28
151
Show this thread
With half-year financial updates trickling out of ASX listed companies, we're starting to get a picture of the extent to which Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been a massive financial boost for Australia's fossil fuel producers.
This raises a few thoughts:
5
9
22
Show this thread
Voting "yes" on the Voice means government can't take it away again - as others work to muddy the waters, Lorena Allam cuts through in The Guardian.
theguardian.com/australia-news
2
9
If this is not just an exercise in giving fancy titles to people whose job is to monitor calls, my concern is that this "speech analytics" unit is deploying a similar pseudoscience used by police in the US to analyse 911 calls.
Quote Tweet
#RobodebtRC Christopher Birrer swears that ever since Robodebt, Complaint Handling processes in govt are sufficient as they now use “speech analytics’ to review complaints. Commissioner Holmes’ doesn’t let it by her & uncovers it isn’t much of a process at all 
Show this thread
0:53
48.6K views
2
5
14
Show this thread
Replying to
best covid advice i got was from someone who is hiv pos
first advice: do not blame yourself or your community for spread
second advice: do what you can to stop spread in your community that the community can survive
third advice: fight like hell for the living
1
27
187
"Geoffrey Watson, SC, director of the Centre for Public Integrity and a leading campaigner for a National Anti-Corruption Commission, said ministerial diaries should be available to the public almost immediately."
1/
8
45
149
Show this thread
In the first year of the pandemic people in the lowest income group died of COVID at 2.5x the rate of the general population.
I thought the gap might’ve closed slightly once case numbers skyrocketed, but nope, it’s worse.
The poorest people die of COVID at 3x the rate.
Quote Tweet
Replying to @kristin8X @AmyCreighton123 and @aihw
This @ABSStats has similar results from a different source & more recent data. This one has the death rate 1.6x higher than the general population for First Nations folks & same result as AIHW for the low income group at 3x higher than general population. abs.gov.au/articles/covid
6
48
97
Aik couldn't get all his payslips and when he went to the bank to ask about statements he was told this would cost $2 per page to print out, "well over $100" which he just could not afford.
2
22
170
Show this thread
Keeping the #RobodebtRC on in the background while I work. I'm struck how Rosemary Gay was forced to contact the most senior departmental employee - referred to as "God" by his coworkers - for a $64k debt.
If there was ever a metaphor for this whole process, we found it.
5
34
131
Show this thread
On 12 October 2016 Rosemary Gay gets a debt notice for $64,998,000.17 is due. 64 THOUSAND DOLLARS. Due by 9 November.
7
98
366
Show this thread
#RobodebtRC Block 3 Day 1.
Broom Cupboards.
Be wary of lofty museum visions of the rule of law, or that our institutions are inherently self correcting. It takes people.
Today we hear from the on how people fought all out efforts to silence&disappear them.
read image description
ALT
3
72
160
Show this thread
my fear is that culture journalism just becomes more & more of a pocket money activity for rich kids, because i 100% know i would struggle to afford to take the leap into freelance if i broke out today. this is why it's so important to show working class writers how to make money
9
292
2,290
Show this thread
Obligatory reminder that this phenomenon is a direct result of Obama era CAFE regulations, and that people predicted *at the time* that these regulations would increase the size of cars. From 2011 - me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/ne
Quote Tweet
it's honestly disorienting to go to europe and see that the cars there are just... smaller, and yet society keeps functioning and people are happy
turns out everyone does not need a massive pickup truck, who knew?
Show this thread
60
721
4,093
‘Super-tipping points’ could trigger cascade of climate action | Climate crisis | The Guardian
1
2
So this story which kinda ran everywhere and triggered lots of angry talkback? Totally made up post by a friend of mine. Not one journalist checked.
“Sydney tenant admits in social media post to paying zero rent by subletting to housemates” (17 Jan) abc.net.au/news/2023-01-1
33
143
672
Show this thread
Freelance climate reporter, , talks climate solutions and one ‘incredibly overlooked’ tool for journalists in this Q&A:
2
2
spoke to a 5th grade class doing a journalism unit. they told me about the stories they are doing. One girl's topic was 'dead animals' & i asked how she chose it. she said she couldnt think of anything panicked & pitched it at the last min. i told her she's a real journalist now.
13
385
5,862
Show this thread
A 2500t oil field structure that would have been removed 3 years ago if had maintained it properly has started to sink near Ningaloo Reef - and it probably has a stash of toxic chemicals.
31
28
Close enough.
1
4
Show this thread
Royal Commission dropping more exhibits today, including mp4s of the audio calls to Sandra Bevan about her debt.
What a woman to stand up in a commission, literally tabling her life. It better amount to real change. And people need to be loud about that.
12
117
313
Show this thread
When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he promised to protect "free speech." To him, the platform had been under the thumb of left-wing media elites for too long
21
137
271
Show this thread
"Early forecasts suggest El Niño will return later in 2023, exacerbating extreme weather around the globe and making it “very likely” the world will exceed 1.5C of warming. The hottest year in recorded history, 2016, was driven by a major El Niño."
3
3
The lives of the London super rich laid bare in divorce proceedings.
From the fascinating Serious Money by
76
267
692
Show this thread
Good morning with good news: Zero carbon generation may supply 50% of world's electricity by 2028. How? Why? World tripled down on RE in 2022 due to security & economics. Wind & solar doubles to 20%; RE hits 38% of supply by 2027 and 40% by 2028. Nuclear stabilizes at about 10%.
8
63
125
Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its COVID vaccine, but the vaccine only costs $2.85 to make.
Meanwhile, over the last two years, the company made over $19 billion in profits off the vaccine.
Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.
12.7K
38.9K
127.8K
🤔
Quote Tweet
JobSeeker Payment outlays and recipients changed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. In our latest Budget Bite, we unpack the short-term impact and the long-term trends along age and gender lines.
aph.gov.au/About_Parliame
1