We welcome yesterday's decision to make permanent the North Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room. With almost 350,000 visits, 6300 overdoses safely managed, and 63 lives saved to date, this facility is saving lives and changing lives.
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little verbose idiot. + drug and health writer et all. All views are my own etc
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Was vice better 10 years ago? Maybe! But those teams back then had loads of more resources than they do now
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It's dumb imo to argue whether "vice used to be good" without acknowledging that, for half a decade, they've regularly reduced their editorial teams to nothing + cut heaps of great writers and reporters
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Being at VICE was so crazy bc everyone who actually did any work was so smart and talented and dedicated and everyone who made the top line decisions was like the dumbest human corporate buzzword thesaurus you could ever encounter. Solidarity w my former colleagues this is so sad twitter.com/maxwelltani/st…
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Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click.
This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.… Show more
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Today’s announcement of Medicare reforms by includes reforms to opioid dependence treatment access by expanding the role of pharmacies. Not a lot of detail yet, but glad to see it high on the agenda.
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Submissions are now open for the First Nations edition of ! Co-edited by and myself, we welcome submissions across fiction, essay, memoir and experimental genres. Please get in touch with any questions. More info here:
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Australian veterans more likely to die by suicide than in service over the period of the Afghanistan war abc.net.au/news/2023-04-2 via
Deliberately not paying superannuation is 'wage theft' and the government is cracking down on it abc.net.au/news/2023-04-2 via
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Reading about these twitter files, so messed up lol (ex-wife locked me out again, anyone know a locksmith who accepts crypto?)
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I hate reaction gifs. Why do you need a proxy reacting for you? Coward
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A new code means employers need to protect workers' mental health. But will it work? abc.net.au/news/2023-04-2
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BREAKING: Lachlan Murdoch has withdrawn from his defamation case against Crikey publisher Private Media
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Heroin overdose data strengthens case for new Melbourne injecting room, peak body says abc.net.au/news/2023-04-1 via
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People will invest $1.5 million in allowing someone else to buy a pub but will still ask for door spots smdh
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It’s mind boggling people have donated $1.5 million of their own money to a business so it can buy The Tote
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Hard to think of a more organised and better executed plan from Essendon against a quality team for some time.
The conviction in two rucks, the keepings off May, the Setterfield job, the Snelling inclusion for specific role, the sub spark & team buy-in.
Let’s call it #BradBall
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An ABC investigation into a student hostel in outback Queensland has unearthed allegations of neglect and physical assault involving Indigenous children as young as 13.
Big thanks to and Andy Burns for making this story happen.
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Love being in my 30s. I’m touching on for public transport purely out of spite
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Not All Substance Use Disorders Are Rooted in Trauma filtermag.org/addiction-trau “Thanks largely to Gabor Maté, it has become popular to say that addictions are overwhelmingly rooted in trauma. However, the data do not bear this out.”
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Ngl, I see the way some media orgs approach social media and all I can think about is when I worked at a shoe store + was forced to hand out discount coupons to people on the street
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Crazy that it’s already April 2023. Also crazy that I’ve woken up as a human-sized cockroach and have no idea how it happened??
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New from me: Australia's justice systems are prioritising cost efficiency and productivity. Is it impacting the right to a fair trial? abc.net.au/news/2023-04-0
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no way in hell am i sharing a photo from 2016 are you KIDDING nice try tho
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Here's a core neonazi from group NSN explaining that a) NSN went to Posie Parker rally because they agreed with her on LGBTIQA+ issues, not to fight counterprotests as has been claimed. And that b) police had organiser agreement to bring them in #PosieParker
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Two of The Chainsaw’s top editors have exited as editorial tensions at Nine’s Pedestrian Group remain over the newly launched crypto publication via
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Absolute tragedy that Saturday Night is a huge track
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Former misfits singer Michale Graves joins the proud boys, travels to DC to perform for them and now testifies in their defence. Bad timeline. wusa9.com/article/news/n
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