Thread by @iMusing

seeing young women in fear and pain is a norm to the men who created and approved that ad #QandA

they create and broadcast imagery of a young woman at deaths door because it resonates with them. They chose this. They cause it #QandA

anyone who knows anything about male violence and Liberal Party culture is not confused by that otherwise pointless ad. It is not a public health ad. It is a party political ad.

giving public money to males and deliberately traumatising women and children is a defining characteristic of the Morrison government. I have been a single mother for over 20 years and a feminist for much longer. I know misogyny when I see it.

sending solidarity and stay safe vibes to single mums when Morrison puts on his festival of gaslighting misogyny later this month and media pretend carceral white Liberal Party women or their boss give a flying fuck about anyone - of all genders - other than themselves.

the Sydney lockdown is not going to starve us or put us in the street. I am doing okay. Also twitter kept us afloat this time last year. But. It is over ten years since I reported my income to centrelink. When my son applied for income support last week, first time in his life…

it was satan. He is eligible for income support, having lost shifts and never been on centrelink, but the system is impenetrable without a centrelink “customer reference number” that is created by applying for the income support that otherwise makes you ineligible.

eventually, in exasperation, I said “try this” and recited a 9-digit figure without missing a beat. I did not have to look it up or dig up a card (it was not digital back then). My brain produced my CRN from over ten years ago. Bingo. Open sesame.

I could recite that number in my sleep. I reported my income to centrelink in pre-#Robodebt times every fortnight for years, approx 2001 to 2007. Fourteen years later, the Morrison government has chosen to force my adult son - and me - to be tracked through a plague.

my son was like mum what does this question mean because he had not previously encountered a system that is designed to be trumpeted at Liberal Party politician press conferences for Liberal Party voter consciences rather than actually provide income support to people in need.

anyway so we worked through the income support application thing that hates him for being eligible for income support because he has never been on income support and now ~basket case~ reminded of when we needed income support 14 years ago due to male violence.

so thanks for that Scott Morrison.