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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It’s not a “sex act”. It’s an act of violence. Intended to humiliate & disrespect & make clear she doesn’t belong there. Its a territorial marking that unifies cultural bonds between men based on the exclusion of women (even MPs). It’s why staffer filmed himself & shared it. 1/3
The act’s consistent with systemic gendered violence: the notion men control public domain (streets, workplace, politics) & women belong in private home. Male perpetrators of violence often say “she wasn’t in her right place” & Parl is for big swinging (& ejaculating) dicks! 2/3
LNP is dripping w deep-seated & dangerous sexist man-bonding. It serves a clear purpose! It unifies small unrepresentative groups behind agenda of corruption, upward redistribution to private actors & austerity. Women’s cries now piercing this antidemocratic exclusionary program.
Morrison cant stop fkn this up coz he really believes the man/public & woman/private divide. Only way he can empathise w women is via sanctity of family (thru relationships to men). He can’t “see” women as a public social force so can’t fathom political responses to this crisis.

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Frydenberg said cutting JK & JS at end-March is justified since households & biz increased their savings by +$200B over COVID. Beware of this brazenly dishonest use of macro trends! He is folding low-income people into aggregates w the result that they become invisible. 1/7
Clearly hhlds don’t save at the same rate! While 2020 health restrictions stymied discretionary spending of middle-upper income earners (allowing them to save more), the poorest lifted both essential & discretionary spending (supported by JS/JK). 2/7
ABS data shows COVID Supplement continues to support spending on essentials: paying bills (67%), household supplies/groceries (63%) & rent/mortgage payments (39%) most common uses. Only 26% saved any portion of the supplement in 4wks prior to survey. 3/7 abs.gov.au/statistics/peo…
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8 Dec 20
Porter's proposed IR changes signal a dangerous return to WorkChoices-era unilateral employer wage-setting power in enterprise agreements; 2 yrs to push non-union below-Award EAs & fix wages for long periods of time in other EAs. A LOT of damage can be done in 2yrs. THREAD 1/10
First, the sum is greater than its parts; parallel proposals to weaken the Better Off Overall Test, stop unions contesting bad EAs, & the relaxation of requirements governing EA approval process at FWC will expand no. of low-wage non-union EAs. How do we know this? 2/10
It's happened before! In WorkChoices EAs could undercut Awards. Unions were restricted from contesting approvals. The result was explosion in non-union EAs; rising 20%-60% of all private sctr EAs 04-09. See dramatic decline in 09? That's when FWAct & BOOT were introduced. 3/10 Image
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4 Aug 20
The government is waging war on the poor. Convincing Australians that millions of victims of this pandemic and economic shutdowns have brought insecurity upon themselves is their aim: "Lazy" "job-snobs" despite a Depression-level collapse in jobs and none to "seek". THREAD (1/8)
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JK/JS cuts rip $10b out of economy every month. Austerity is opposite of avoiding Depression! Alongside reintro of Rat-Wheel 4 Poors (mutual obs), cutting govt spending on pretext of economic reboot is totally reckless & undermines public health effort to save lives. THREAD(1/7 )
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2 Jul 20
Stitch-up alert! PM’s claim reported in @Australian that current #JobSeeker rate is barrier to biz hiring is based on dodgy data. Govt were pre-empting yesterday's release of employer survey data from National Skills Commission. What does this data actually show? {THREAD} 1)
NSC surveyed 2324 employers 25 May-mid-June. Far from showing generalised unmet labour shortages only 555 emplyrs (25%) were recruiting additional staff (the rest were not). Of these firms 166 (30%) said they were experiencing "or expected to have" difficulty filing vacancies 2)
Only 73 firms experiencing hiring difficulty said they didnt have enough applicants. 73 self-defined shortages is hardly a measure of labour demand across the economy. In fact, more firms said applicants lacked the required technical skills or experience (47% or 78 firms). 3)
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6 Apr 20
As predicted the wage subsidy has become manufactured terrain by govt & biz to drive a sledgehammer through wages & labour protections. I have some serious concerns w FWAct changes Porter has attached to the subsidy. (1)
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In addition to unilateral power to change a workers’ hrs to “match” the subsidy, they are attacking the hourly wage rate. Biz lobbyists are pushing to freeze min wage incrs (or even cut them), & cut wage incrs in negotiated EAs. (3)
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