👹The Cruel, Criminal Morrison Government:
@ScottMorrisonMP &
@JoshFrydenberg

⚠️VOTERS BEWARE:
Make sure u know who & what u are voting for...
🧵A thread re; the $3.57 a day Jobseeker raise.

The TRUISM that u can judge a country by the way it TREATS its Least Fortunate is
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a damning indictment on the way we treat our jobless.

A rise in Jobseeker of $25 a week – an extra $3.57 a day – is possibly the LEAST AMOUNT that could be announced with some maintenance of a straight face.

It is little enough to mean NEXT TO NOTHING for its recipients
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– crumbs from the table – & is accompanied by ADDITIONAL JOB SEEKING Requirements. Which makes NO SENSE in a time when the number of unemployed (& underemployed) far OUTNUMBERS the number of available job vacancies by a factor of somewhere between 4 to 1 & 9 to 1.
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The Jobseeker rate is SO LOW that it actively forms a BARRIER to Gaining Employment. How can u ace an interview when u are HUNGRY, can’t afford interview CLOTHES, struggle to PAY the Public Transport to get there on time?

The Gov't has made an INFORMED & DELIBERATE decision
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to put over 1 million Australian families & individuals INTO POVERTY.
They have decided it is OK for CHILDREN TO GO WITHOUT REGULAR MEALS.
It is OK with the Government for Australians – those they are elected to serve – to NOT be able to AFFORD to PAY their electricity BILL,
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or buy the MEDICATIONS they need, to be at RISK of Homelessness, or indeed to be on the streets. Because that is what this decision means.

This GUARANTEES that nearly 1 million adults – & their children & other dependents – WILL REMAIN IN POVERTY.

Including those who might
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PREVIOUSLY have been ELIGIBLE 4 DISABILITY Support Pension, parenting payment & the age pension but due to previous CHANGES IN ELIGIBILITIES, are now on JobSeeker. Including the 40% who've been JUDGED to only have PARTIAL CAPACITY TO WORK & so face ADDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION
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in the Job Market. Including the 56% of WOMAN & 45% of men receiving JobSeeker who are 45 or older & face additional JOB DISCRIMINATION DUE TO AGE.

When this GOVERNMENT ACTS with such INTENTIONAL CRUELTY against the Most Vulnerable, Least Advantaged in our community,
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AGAINST the Recommendations of Economic Modelling, then we have to say WE HAVE LONG CEASED BEING THE LUCKY COUNTRY.
– Written by Louise Miller Frost, CEO, St Vincent de Paul Society (SA)

@SenatorSiewert
@SenKatyG
Release the modelling & advice to Gov't.
indaily.com.au/opinion/reader…

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27 Feb
🚨TIME FOR THE AFP TO HOLD A PRESSER:
@Lisa_Wilkinson

👉🏾Australian Federal Police took 2yrs to tell Peter Dutton about Brittany Higgins's rape allegation
@AusFedPolice WHY?

A Gov't source told the ABC that the AFP briefed the Home Affairs Minister after Ms Higgins flagged

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with officers a few days earlier that she was considering going public with her story.

✴️DELAY COULD BE A BREACH OF AFP POLICIES:

In the wake of the AFP's raids on media outlets in 2019, it had established a new group known as the Sensitive Investigations Oversight Board

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(SIOB), which considers matters that should be brought to the Ministers attention

The questioning in Parliament follows reporting in The Guardian, pointing to the AFP's own guidelines about "politically sensitive" investigations

A "politically sensitive matter" is defined

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Read 9 tweets
27 Feb
🌟Brittany Higgins exposes @ScottMorrisonMP's FAILURE AS A LEADER

The Prime Minister’s first instinct was to see the story of #BrittanyHiggins
POLITICALLY.

He sensed the issue would be DAMAGING for his Government, & took the short cut of DENIAL.
1/👇🏾
He wanted the public to know he wasn’t told by anyone in his office or his ministry [*clears throat*] before the news broke on February 15.

Now he's taken that argument to the strangest place of all, where he says he is aware of rumours on the Labor side, as well as his own
2/👇🏾
but NOT the SPECIFIC allegation of a VIOLENT CRIME against Higgins, committed just 50mtrs from HIS OWN OFFICE. #Scottyknew

His NEED to be BLAMELESS @ all times echoes the self-sabotaging stand he took during the Black Summer of Fires, when he said he DIDNT HOLD A HOSE MATE.
3/👇🏾
Read 5 tweets
27 Feb
😱Tragic Story:

The woman alleged the sexual assault took place in Sydney in 1988, long before the man's [a current Cabinet minister] political career commenced...🕵🏻‍♀️🧐

The woman had prepared a long statement for her solicitor @ the end of 2019

Please take time to read it:👇🏾
1/
"This is my story, plain & simple. Its not pretty, but its mine," she wrote in the statement.

"& I stand by it, EVERY single word & image in this document is TRUE."

[In her statement, the woman alleged she had been anally raped by the man when she was aged 16]

“All I really
2/
want, in the end, is for this to have been reported to the NSW Police Force & to know that a copy of this document, & a transcript of any interview they might do with me, is in their archives...

"If this story does become public knowledge, I HOPE that it will ENCOURAGE OTHER
3/
Read 6 tweets
25 Feb
🚨Man accused of raping #BrittanyHiggins in ministerial office RETURNED to Parliament House

A former colleague of the man who allegedly raped #BrittanyHiggins says he was temporarily ALLOWED BACK into parliament in 2019 as a registered lobbyist.
@AlboMP
@larissawaters
1/👇🏾
The man had also been ADDED to the Government’s REGISTER of Lobbyists following his termination & STAYED on the REGISTER until May 2020.

A former colleague of the man said HE WAS in the building for a SMALL, PRIVATE EVENT associated with the 250th anniversary of Captain
2/👇🏾
Cook’s Endeavour voyage. (a small event, he should've stood out then🤔. Who signed him in?)
@AlboMP
@Tony_Burke
@SenatorWong

“He was there & SOMEONE would have had to SIGN HIM IN to the event,” the former colleague said, agreeing to speak only on condition of anonymity.
3/👇🏾
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6 Dec 20
🗣️Federal govt needs to own its mistakes

🔥The Federal authorities have taken a very minimalist approach to the aftermath of the Namadgi ACT Fire that threatened the southern suburbs & destroyed an estimated 80% of the ACT's iconic national park.

The recent $1 million plus
1/👇🏽
spend on restoration works in the Namadgi National Park in the wake of the Orroral Valley fire is another example of the ‘hands off' approach of the Morrison Government.

Despite the fire having been STARTED by an ADF helicopter crew, who then FAILED to report its location
2/👇🏽
to authorities for 45 minutes, the ACT's REQUEST for Commonwealth DISASTER RECOVERY Funding was REJECTED earlier this year.

The outcome of a compensation claim for the destruction of an estimated 80% of the National Park still hangs in the balance.

IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
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6 Dec 20
🎄The Biloela family will be spending their 3rd Christmas in DETENTION

Priya, Nades, Kopika & Tharunicaa’s movement is LIMITED & everywhere they go they are escorted by SECURITY GUARDS.

They have been the ONLY Detainees for more than a year, other than those in a

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separate part of the centre who've had their visas revoked
after being Convicted of CRIMES in Australia.

Priya says every day on Christmas Island drags.
“We spend our day, either in the bedroom or the dining room. Its really boring for us, its very DEPRESSING & LONELY.”😥

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A statement from the Department of Home Affairs said the family had access to health & welfare services & their detention placement was regularly reviewed

“Australian Border Force (ABF) has deemed the current placement SUITABLE for the family,” it said

As of October 2019

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