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19 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The Adelaide #80aDay rally at Parliament is live now! facebook.com/antipovertynet…
“Yesterday, the JobSeeker cut was rushed through parliament without debate — almost like they were reminding us how much disrespect & contempt they have for us” — @PasForg #80aDay #BTPM
Next up, Rita speaks about the paltry $3.75/day increase that some have labelled “better than nothing.”

“‘Better than nothing’ will not buy my insulin. ‘Better than nothing’ is still poverty.”

Rita recently appeared in this guardian piece: #80aDay theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
“Our welfare system is killing people + our government will not do anything to stop it” — @raqsadl0

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Our govts have pursued budget surpluses on the backs of poor ppl for decades, wrongly criminalising + harassing us.

And long before #robodebt they knew it wasn’t legal.

ty to @SquigglyRick for the reporting
Two court cases showed @JuliaGillard’s gov was unlawfully pursuing criminal prosecutions for welfare overpayments.

Ppl went to jail because of this. And the ALP ruthlessly sought to protect these unlawful convictions.

Full article here: thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
15,000 people.

15,000 people who were criminalised long before #robodebt who have never received justice.

If you were prosecuted for an overpayment before 2013 this could be you.
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19 Feb
There are 400,000 people on unemployment payments – that’s 1 in 4 people – who can’t work full time for health reasons, bc they have caring responsibilities, are experiencing domestic violence or are in similarly difficult circumstances. #80aDay
If you want to use the beautiful #80aDay graphics designed by @jezheywood you can download them all here, in both Facebook and Twitter sizes: 1drv.ms/f/s!Ao2X7nRblA…
The average length of time people are stuck on unemployment payments has increased from just over 2yrs in 2014 to 3.5 yrs in 2020.

The govt fails to provide a job for everyone who wants one but insists on forcing us to try and survive in deep poverty. #80aDay
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17 Feb
More gleeful mockery from @SHamiltonian in response to our distress at his @BlueprintInsti1 proposal to spend $9 billion creating two classes of unemployed people instead of lifting us out of poverty. #80aDay

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Income protection insurance already exists. It's available to anyone who's taken on debt, private school fees or made other financial commitments that people living in poverty can't even dream of.

Placing a regressive tax on workers to fund this w public money instead is a sham.
Our welfare system must support everyone equally.

Right now w unemployment payments set at 40% below the poverty line, it barely supports us at all – we still can't afford the basics. This is the same amount as @SHamiltonian's proposal for longer term unemployed ppl. #80aDay
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8 Dec 20
We have not received a response to the letter we sent to @Senator_Patrick requesting a meeting with us, @NATSILS_ and @NTCOSS.

Watch the debate and see how he votes here: aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis…
Our members in Ceduna strongly oppose the #CashlessDebitCard + have campaigned against it for yrs. Reporting from @lukehgomes shows the card is causing harm in communities. @Senator_Patrick cannot in good conscience vote for this bill and should not blame Ceduna for his decision.
Ok, here we go
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The #CashlessDebitCard is coming up for debate in the senate.

Follow along live to see whether @Senator_Patrick and @JacquiLambie vote on principle or decide to play politics with people's lives.

aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis…
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Now @SenatorSiewert is up: she references the report leaked to the Guardian yesterday, that g’ment tried to hide. “This isn’t based on evidence or what works — this is based on ideology.”
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