For the second time in a month I've bumped into someone I previously worked with at Covid-19 PCR testing sites during lockdown, and friends, the best of our frontline workers have not been rewarded in any way whatsoever professionally Last time I met a past colleague from the testing sites they were working at a fast food outlet. Today another worker serving at a checkout. These are people who can flawlessly don and doff contaminated PPE in a pandemic and we've decided to just treat them as unskilled workers

Why does @vicemergency @vicsesnews have falling recruitment of volunteers. A thread from someone with disability. 1/

Ping @VICSESChief @KateWhiteVICSES In July 2021 I applied to volunteer with my local SES unit, which is approximately 3 minutes from my home

The government says to parents “guess your yearly income!” And then pays you a FTB payment either fortnightly or yearly. If you choose a number too low as income and then receive FTB fortnightly, you end up in debt to the government

https://twitter.com/danjhugo/status/1636684390557429762

When your income is reconciled at tax time, if it’s far higher than the amount you suggested you’d earned - and you received an incorrect rate of FTB as a result - you get a debt

You were NYU’s Minderoo Research Professor, a foundation funded by Andrew Forrester from the profits of Fortescue, a mining company which exploited the land of the Yindjibarndi people and refuses to pay them what the Full Court of the Federal Court (2019) says they are owed

https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1636017968223076354

“Yindjibarndi native title was upheld by the Federal Court in 2017, then the Full Court of the Federal Court in 2019, and Fortescue was denied leave to appeal by the High Court in 2020. Fortescue still hasn’t paid.”

Politely asked her to get her tuchus off my favourite scarf, but she declined the request with a threat of violence She is such a lovely creature, both incredibly affectionate and also constantly threatening to murder us all when she doesn’t get her way every single day

Groundhog Day. Someone did look into this. @posty’s project, @open_welfare

https://twitter.com/open_welfare/status/831762635406327810?s=46&t=5p9Cx57soo19P-w2kcTc2w

https://twitter.com/beneltham/status/1628715685038952449

It is 2023 and beyond frustrating to watch ppl oooh and ahhh having just discovered Robodebt, WPIT, the outsourcing of Centrelink call centres

So the hard part wasn’t finding proof of activism to show. It’s digging through my files to find letters of offers. Still going

https://twitter.com/DanWOfficial/status/1628319566563790848

Each role has to be referenced with proof. And that’s a huge pain to dig through a decade of casual work files

My field placement coordinator suggested I use my activism as a basis to apply for prior learning experience to potentially cancel out 400-500 hours of required field placement for my Master of Social Work. It's an interesting experience trying to make it fit the RPL parameters Ok, application done. Sleep now

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