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It took a lot of questioning and pressure to get the government to give students the basic dignity of an increase to #YouthAllowance and to realise the negative impact their approach would have had on young people.

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This victory shows the importance of holding the government to account, even when they’re adamant that they will not budge.

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This isn’t over. We need to make sure people on disability support pension and carer allowance will also see a raise in this time of crisis.

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Minister Cormann admitted the Minister has the power to extend the #CoronavirusSupplement to people on DSP and Carers. If they don’t, it will be a shocking act of cruelty to vulnerable people during a terrible crisis.

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Rachel Siewert
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The Government's plan to rollout the #cashlessdebitcard nationally is an ideological obsession with punishing people on income support.

Rather than wasting money and time on this card the Government should be increasing #Newstart.

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There is absolutely no evidence to show that income management works and its just plain cruel to go ahead with a damaging and expensive scheme like this when we have people living in poverty on #Newstart
The community will not accept a nation wide rollout and the big four banks, Coles and Woolworths should be very wary of becoming involved in this disaster of a scheme.
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Rachel Siewert
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The Greens call on the Senate to reject the Gov's attempt to expand and entrench the #CashlessDebitCard following the senate inquiry report into the Bill tabling today and listen to the lived experiences of people on the card & compulsory income management in the NT.

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I really hope that my Senate colleagues will listen to evidence we heard at the inquiry and not be swayed by Government propaganda and vote for people on low incomes in our communities to end this punitive and stigmatising program and oppose this Bill.

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This Gov doesn't have sound evidence to justify rolling out the card in the NT or extending the trial sites. It relies on anecdotal evidence, misleading data & evaluations that are heavily criticised for their lack of rigour to support their claims that the card works.

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Rachel Siewert
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Just heard from the Department that over 100,000 people have dropped out of the #Jobactive program. They are not tracked and the Department “assumes” they have gone into employment 🤔🤔🤔

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45 minutes in #Estimates is not enough time to ask about #Jobactive, an employment programs which cost over $7billion & affects hundreds of thousands of Australians

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#Estimates has revealed that 104,480 people on the #Jobactive program have not re-engaged with their job provider after having their payment cancelled.

The department is not tracking these people and they do not know their circumstances, they assume they are employed?

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1/ My school has satellite campuses spread over the UK, which means we do a lot of remote/online teaching, especially at KS4 and KS5. Here's [an accidentally enormous] thread of what I've learned over the past 3 years. Hope it helps! #UKEdChat #closetheschoolsuk #Covid_19
2/ First a couple of caveats... This is assuming your students have internet access, and doesn't take into account the vast majority of SEN or other issues that might be specific to your situation.
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I had the good fortune to fly Business Class for a portion of my trip today & then I went back to economy. I generally don't fly business 'cause my account balance scoffs at the idea & I recognise the privilege of flying about anyway. I noticed some things I share in this #Thread
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So @aaron_s_fox jumped the gate on me :) w/ a thread on the #ACL #injury & #AFLW #sport #womanprobs conversation & he did a great job but I'd like my perspective to come in that special 'tone' I may be known for in presentations... My first twitter thread! Expect sarcasm and gifs
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