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The experts on poverty are the people who live it. Break the poverty machine #BTPM 🍞🌹🏡
Jul 4 • 76 tweets • 13 min read
TODAY: The human rights committee is holding a hearing on the continued use of compulsory income control programs (like the BasicsCard and the Cashless Debit Card replacement).

That's right, compulsory income control never went away!

Tune in here: aph.gov.au/News_and_Event…

8:30am Family Responsibilities Commission Queensland 9:10am Australian Human Rights Commission 9:40am North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency 10:20am Morning tea 10:35am Accountable Income Management Network, National Regional Remote and Very Remote Community Legal Network and Economic Justice Australia
11:25am Professor Stefanie Schurer, Professor Matthew Gray, Dr Rob Bray PSM, The Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research 12:25pm Lunch 1:25pm Dr Shelley Bielefeld, Associate Professor Elise Klein OAM, Dr Francis Markham 2:10pm Department of Social Services We are again talking about whether cashless welfare "works" or not.

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER IT WORKS.

You don't get to violate someone's rights just because it gets the outcome you want. You need to find a way to get the outcome without a human rights violation.
Aug 15, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
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Today we publish our #PunishmentForProfit report, with support from @GetUp.

93% of people say "mutual" obligations harm their mental or physical health. We expected a strong response to these questions, but these figures surprised even us.

READ HERE: https://t.co/631wLvs0yApunishmentforprofit.org
Two people in a park on a sunny day. They are holding a hand painted sign that says "$7 billion in contracts to torture the poor. @GetUp Some highlights.

85% said a job agency had made a mistake or done something that caused a problem with their payment.

97% said ‘mutual’ obligations are not useful. #PunishmentForProfit People looking for work need help not harm. This report documents the failures of our welfare compliance regime and the privatised employment services industry, and offers a vision for supportive employment services designed by unemployed people for unemployed people.
Jun 20, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The bill that that will lock income control (CDC, Basicscard etc.) in Australian social policy is set to be debated today. The bill is likely to pass as both the coalition and ALP agreed that it should pass. So what does it mean? 👇 🧵 1. It's voluntary now, right? NO! Biggest myth. Income management in Australia is not a voluntary program. It is a mandatory program if you live in the NT and select locations in NSW, Vic and QLD.
Apr 18, 2023 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
The economic exclusion committee has released its report, you can read here... all 99 pages. will post highlights below 👇

ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/jim-… Has called for an increase, but not a figure.. not promising. It is also worth noting that these two recommendations are nothing new and have come from previous reviews on tax and social security. Recommendation 1 The Govern...
Apr 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🤨 this is the issue with "lived experience". it has become a tick box exercise that is watered down and misused to deny people with direct and recent experience of having a voice to advocate for systems change. a 'lived experience' person is trained to talk about how it feels, and not what we want to change. lived experience is a buzz word for the "adults" in the room, they misappropriate it to take power from us by giving us a manufactured platform.
Dec 13, 2022 • 70 tweets • 134 min read
Back from lunch.

We've got National Council for Single Mothers and their Children represented by @AradiaSayner and @Terese_NCSMC

@Foodbank_SA represented by Sarah Davies

@JFAPurpleOrange represented by Cathy Cochrane, Elizabeth Farrant and Tracey Wallace. @AradiaSayner @Terese_NCSMC @Foodbank_SA @JFAPurpleOrange “37% of single-mother families live in poverty. 42% in a sole parent family are in poverty. It is gendered.” – @Terese_NCSMC #PovertyInquiry #BTPM
Dec 13, 2022 • 47 tweets • 26 min read
Now we're going to hear more from real experts.

People actually experiencing poverty will give statements, followed by Lisa Courtney from the Murray Mallee GP Network.

Thank you and solidarity to all sharing their expertise ❤️✊ #PovertyInquiry #BTPM First up, Jennifer.

“I have been living on Centrelink most ofmy life. It started because my partner left and I was left to raise children on my own. Back then it was supportable to rent and feed my children. It was a struggle but doable.” #PovertyInquiry #BTPM
Dec 12, 2022 • 63 tweets • 108 min read
Morning! Time for another #PovertyInquiry hearing, this time in Murray Bridge SA. You can listen here: aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis…

We're again overstretched – follow #RobodebtRC updates via @maximumcuddles, @DarrenODonovan, @SquigglyRick and everyone on the @not_my_debt list. #BTPM @maximumcuddles @DarrenODonovan @SquigglyRick @not_my_debt First up this morning: @RossWomersley for @SACOSS and Sara and Janet for @AntiPovertyN_SA
Dec 6, 2022 • 22 tweets • 29 min read
Now up we have @antipovertyqld, @yfslogan and @ma_queensland

Opening with a statement from Anti-Poverty Network.

They are making the point about the deaths caused by state violence through the welfare system. Good to hear someone name the reality ✊

#PovertyInquiry #BTPM @antipovertyqld @YFSlogan @ma_queensland "Continuing with the status quo is unacceptable." – @antipovertyqld

#PovertyInquiry #BTPM
Dec 5, 2022 • 52 tweets • 80 min read
We're kicking off with the #PovertyInquiry hearing 🧵👇 #BTPM

1st session will hear from @QCOSS_, @BasicRightsQld and Zig Zag Young Women's Research Centre.

The #ParentsNEXT inquiry doesn't start til 11:30 AEDT, there was an error on the @Aust_Parliament website for that one. @QCOSS_ @BasicRightsQld @Aust_Parliament From @QCOSS_: Low income households spend more on fuel, food, housing, electricity and water than households with higher incomes.

Median rent in Brisbane has increased by 13% and fuel by 17%.

Income support payments have increased 4% due to indexation. #PovertyInquiry #BTPM
Dec 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 17 min read
Well there's a LOT going on today.

Hearings for the #ParentsNext inquiry at 8:30am AEDT, #PovertyInquiry from 9am AEDT, #WorkAndCare from 10am AEDT & #RobodebtRC from 11am AEDT.

More details below & a link to follow livestream for the first 3 here: aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis… screencap of parliament's daily schedule page The #RobodebtRC livestream will kick off here in a few hours: robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au

Some folks to follow are @not_my_debt, @maximumcuddles, @SquigglyRick and
@DarrenODonovan.

Plus Not My Debt made this fantastic list to make following the RC easy: twitter.com/i/lists/158731…
Dec 3, 2022 • 22 tweets • 16 min read
Congratulations to the Work for the Dole forced labour program, which celebrates its 25th anniversary today 🎉

Restoring planes? Sounds like a job! #AWFTD A media release announcing ... 25 years on, and here's a selection of the unpaid labour you can be forced to do, courtesy of the @MatchWorksAU Work for the Dole "opportunities" page 🥰 #AWFTD A list including descriptio...
Nov 3, 2022 • 78 tweets • 45 min read
Today the Workforce Australia committee is holding its first hearing.

They will be questioning the department and people who oversee @WorkforceAusGov.

You can watch here, and we will be sharing updates in this thread as well:

aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis… @WorkforceAusGov You can track the committee's activities and inquiry progress over the coming year by signing up for updates here: aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…
Jul 15, 2022 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
“Performance results do not appear to have had any impact on the tender results”

Read @SquigglyRick on who the real winners are in Workforce Australia and how abusive companies are wringing huge profits from unemployed people 🧵🧵🧵👇 Headline: Albanese offers no relief for jobseekers. Accompan Why are people on JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, Parenting Payment and Disability Support Pension forced to do demeaning, pointless and punishing “mutual” obligations?

@Tony_Burke says the public must pay up because … well, certainly not because there’s any evidence it works. Unemployed people in the new Workforce Australia system will
Feb 24, 2022 • 79 tweets • 50 min read
Over 2 days we've heard harrowing #DisabilityRC evidence from Mzia, a former DES participant with AimBig & employee in their BusyBeans program

We also heard from Matthew Ting, the AimBig manager who hired her for the job

Today's bullshit will be brought to you by DSS from 10am State manager of AimBig Ms Romero has given statements to kick things off today.

We'll here from Rick Kane from Disability Employment Australia, and later from the Department of Social Services. It's going to be a big day..
Feb 23, 2022 • 55 tweets • 44 min read
Today at the #DisabilityRC AimBig & employment services peak body @DisabilityEmplt will appear to tell us some bullshit justification for the disgusting practices we heard from Mzia yesterday (🧵below)

You can follow from 10am on the @DRC_AU website: disability.royalcommission.gov.au We're also going to see a lot of hand wringing about how hard it is for workers. That's true.

But to pretend these orgs aren't directly responsible for it is a joke. They're also responsible for hiring unqualified ppl & allowing staff to inflict horrible abuse on disabled folks.
Feb 22, 2022 • 57 tweets • 44 min read
Today's witness will be Mzia* (pseudonym)

She will speak about her experiences as a trainer at AimBig, but also as a former DES participant. #DisabilityRC #AbolishMutualObligations "In 2020 to 2021 only 13.4% of the ~410,000 people in DES had sustained employment for 6 months." – Ronald Sackville, Chair

#DisabilityRC #AbolishMutualObligations
Sep 6, 2021 • 11 tweets • 13 min read
We did it.

We weren't able to make all the important points we had to share at the #DSPinquiry.

We'll have more to say later + more experiences to share from our survey, but for now here are a few thoughts from AC's @kristin8X + @gdevera @PWDAustralia

apcentre.substack.com/p/the-governme… @kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia "The government should offer us euthanasia, because that would be kinder than denying our existence."
— response from a young disabled woman living on JobSeeker #DSPinquiry