Housing & homelessness advocate, researcher, Churchill Fellow & mediocre saxophonist. I try to be kind. Results can vary. 🌈Wife of @buddencharmaine
Dec 1, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
1/15 A brief history of men being found not guilty of allegedly raping women BECAUSE….
….the woman had ‘consented’, 1867. 2/15
Jan 25, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
#InvasionDay - a thread about Australia Day 1/8 For those who still think British ‘colonisation’ of Australia wasn’t that bad & celebrating the arrival of the First Fleet on 26 January 1788 is fine...here is an article from the Coburg Leader of 1893....
2/8 This is a real newspaper article from 128 years ago which is describing in graphic & appalling detail.....genocide. I apologise if this is upsetting reading (because it certainly is), but it’s really clear that.......
Oct 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
#Serco - a thread. Since finding out that Serco not only runs detention centres & prisons, but also call centres for Australian Govt services, such as Centrelink, NDIS and the ATO....I’ve done a bit more research..... 1/8 #auspol
They are absolutely everywhere. They are a UK company now in all parts of the world & they do stuff as diverse as healthcare, prisons, managing ballistic missiles to managing time itself (GMT). Serco seems proud to say ‘we don’t make the policy, we just manage the services’...2/8
Oct 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Upon reflection, I’m now wondering when Serco took over #Centrelink call centre operations? Based on a personal anecdote.....a thread. 1/6
My late parents were both age pensioners, worked hard their entire lives. Sadly my mother died about 10 months before my dad died. But I had two quite different experiences with Centrelink. I phoned them.....2/6
