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23 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The mission? Stop people moving & stop transmission. Keep bare minimum economic activity functioning to support most staying home (food, healthcare, utilities). To do this NSW govt need industry & workplace-level plans. It's what VIC did to stop 2nd wave. 1/3 #COVID19nsw
Govt coded essential/non-essential sectors. Assigned transmission risk rating. Shutdown non-essential biz. Calculated outputs needed from essential high-risk settings (ie abattoirs). Intervened to reduce output, reduce staffing. +200k workers stood down w income supports. 2/3
Employee coordination mechanisms were critical. Unionised workers in cleaning, logistics & meat shut sites w COVID cases. VIC 2020 was feat of war-time logistics & planning. Immense sacrifice. Competing interests but strong govt leadership pulled all to reach zero-COVID outcome.
Reinstatement of JobKeeper critical for NSW (w better eligibility tests ofc). Biz need to be shutdown. Wage subsidies are superior to Cwth's cash payments: help emplyrs & wrkrs remain connected, prevents mass job destruction +costs of higher unemplymnt, stops Centrelink overload.

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Excluding welfare recipients from Cwth disaster payments is a failure on both public health & income security grounds. It will deepen inequality. Take scenario: Two 21yo uni students, both live w parents, & both worked 8 hrs/wk. Earnt $216 p/wk before lockdowns. 1/5 #COVID19nsw
The poorer student receives Youth Allowance at $156/wk + PT job income= $372/wk. Pays board to rents to help w bills. The wealthier student never got YA due to high parent income & assets. Both cant work. The wealthier qualifies for Cwth disaster payment- receives $375/wk. 2/5
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There’s a clear reason Morrison lifted multiple-site working rules in aged care. It’s for same reason he introduced IR omnibus bill in March – protecting labour hire companies. Allow me to explain: 1/7 #auspol
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Govt allocated $17.7bn to aged care in Budget (min $10bn/yr needed to meet RCs reccos). Critically, funds to providers came w no stipulations of organisation & pay of jobs. Its why @anmf_federal @unionsaustralia & others have been pointing to insecure wrk & contagion risks. 3/7
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I’ve undertaken genomic testing on key COVID policy failures: vaccination rollout, insecure labour, hotel quarantining, private aged care. Common strand? Cwth govt policy. What's driving the "outbreak" of govt failure? 1/6 #VicLockdown
Uncoordinated, unregulated, private delivery has been underwritten by LNP at every turn (using $bn's of public $). Expanding "markets" like those in insecure work or new private contracts in hotels, GPs, social srvcs is 1 focus. The other? Preventing public sector expansion. 2/6
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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
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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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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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