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“What would become of the rich if not for the poor?” – Goldman 💚 Neurologically outnumbered; yelling abt social policy @antipovertycent. #PayTheRent #LandBack
Feb 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Below is what I had time to say in the brief spot on ABC Illawarra this afternoon.

A short thread with a few of the things I *didn't* get to say. 1) Jenny Macklin is evil. apcentre.substack.com/p/civil-societ…
Feb 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Rent assistance is bad policy.

A housing payment that funnels public money to landlords, is hard/impossible to access for 100s of 1000s of people on Centrelink & is a tiny fraction of our rent isn’t going to keep welfare recipients housed.

CRA must be transformed, not tweaked. People on JobSeeker who have a mortgage – yes, they exist – don’t get CRA. Pitiful as it is, for some $70 is the difference between paying mortgage or not. Older women in particular have been forced to sell their home, but hey, at least they can qualify for rent assistance then!
Nov 8, 2022 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
Watching estimates ... so Ray Griggs from the Department of Social Services doesn't know that NDIS recipients are NOT a subset of of DSP recipients 🤦 More than 9000 people have exited the #CashlessDebitCard in the first month since they've been eligible to do it ... that's 73% of the people who are allowed.

55 people have said they want to continue on a voluntary basis.

55.
Aug 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Cool to hear @RedCrossAU repeating right wing paternalistic talking points about the #CashlessDebitCard right now. It seems @RedCrossAU have chosen to appear at the hearing about the #CashlessDebitCard repeal bill to make a lengthy pitch for … further funding for Red Cross.

Non-profit industrial complex get in the fucking bin.
May 12, 2022 • 23 tweets • 16 min read
“Community consent” is the basis on which the Coalition politicians who introduced the Cashless Debit Card in 2015 and the Labor politicians who voted for it have always justified the program. The charade that must be maintained is that CDC isn’t just another form of colonial violence inflicted through another racist welfare experiment, but is instead a self-determined response to challenges faced as a result of harms caused by generations of genocide & dispossession.
May 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Pursuing full employment is simplistic & dangerous while the major parties support forced & unpaid labour programs.

A job for all who want one must *follow* the creation of a genuinely safe safety net, not precede it.

I urge the authors to read this: theconversation.com/poverty-isnt-a… If you speak to actual experts – people living on unemployment payments – instead of using obscure studies from Brazil bearing no relationship to our lives, you'll know the welfare system directly causes psychological harm & disability.

It "leaves us behind."

From the article: An excerpt from the article linked in the first tweet in thi
Apr 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
That feeling when you’re just a regular Joe who randomly discovers your landlord is a politician and makes some accidentally viral campaign content that organically gets heaps of media attention Excerpt from a LinkedIn profile showing that the person in t Are we seriously supposed to believe that this person didn’t know Albo was their landlord?
Apr 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why is the timeline suddenly showing a capital M to denote minutes? I can’t handle it. Screencap of a timestamp as it appears in the timeline. Note that this only seems to be happening when the post is *1* minute old
Mar 30, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
It’s going to be voted on in the senate soon folks 😢

aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis… It’s on now. Louise Pratt from Labor explaining that they’re supporting.
Mar 29, 2022 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Ok I'm starting a grim 🧵 of gross stats & facts to have on hand for #Budget2022

In December 2019, 76.5% of people on Newstart (557,395) had relied on income support for more than a year. This has gone up by 41%!!! It's now 786,139 people (83.84% of all people on JobSeeker). The unemployment rate hasn't been this low since before the global financial crisis in 2008 when it was also 4%.

BUT the proportion of working age people who rely on an unemployment payment has nearly doubled – from 3.3% in mid-2008 compared to about 5.9% today. #Budget2022
Mar 28, 2022 • 30 tweets • 11 min read
The MOs Bill is back & the government's desperate to get it done before an election.

You can't put lipstick on a pig.

ACOSS are pushing for some changes that will mean small improvements, but fundamentally this bill is bad & should be opposed.

Here's why to #RejectTheMOsBill👇 Don't lock in a bad system. We hope if Labor win government there's a chance for meaningful change. If this bill passes then any opportunity to work on substantive improvements will be significantly diminished. They've extended jobactive before & can do so again #RejectTheMOsBill
Jan 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🧵

@PatrickGormanMP published an abhorrent, self-serving piece claiming Labor leads a war on poverty.

Labor aren't "for the poor" & they haven’t been in my lifetime. This is designed to prime people to think there's a small cohort of ppl in rare circumstances living in poverty. I was stunned but not surprised to read Gorman's article, which is mostly a grab bag of ALP policies that aren't related to poverty. It doesn't mention unemployment or JobSeeker once.

Below is some of what I felt upon it 👇

ty @bkjabour for publishing it
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Jan 13, 2022 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
🧵 #BTPM

Hi folks, someone shared a story with us today that spells out perfectly the absolute WORK of being unemployed, even in a pandemic.

They've kindly agreed to let me share it. It shows how folks lose days and days managing dumb requirements just to TRY and stay safe. Note: this is about a DES provider. That's the DISABILITY employment service.

Yesterday this (un)employment provider insisted that the person attend an IN PERSON appointment in a few days' time, despite spiralling COVID cases.

A familiar story, we know.
Jan 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Let's break down how absurd this is.

Jeremy currently lives in a very small town near the border of 2 "employment regions" – arbitrary boundaries made by the gov.

He's just inside the Bendigo ER, moving to Ballarat ER. From a town of ~4k ppl to a city of more than 100,000. The reason this will have been flagged in the system is because the Bendigo and Ballarat *employment regions* – meaningless boundaries – have different unemployment rates.

Bendigo ER has an unemployment rate of 4.3% and 7500 people in jobactive. Ballarat is 4% and 6800.
Jan 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
To be extremely clear: the gov restricts freedom of movement for ppl on JS

1 of the many problems w the MOs bill they tried & failed to force through: the dept couldn't answer my q about how new 'incentives' to relocate interact w rules that *prevent* ppl choosing where to live. There are obviously many problems with rules that punish people for moving.

First and foremost: it is a human rights violation.

2nd: People are prevented from moving somewhere where it might be easier to survive on the JS pittance.

3rd: It traps people in unsafe situations.
Jan 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This story essentially says in some businesses up to ½ the staff are off for HEALTH & SAFETY REASONS, the gov is saying they'll REMOVE HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS & the peak union body says PLS GIVE SMALL BUSINESSES free tests. Not only is that *not* who your constituency is supposed to be @unionsaustralia, but the lowering of ambitions is astounding. Just a few days ago weren't you on the 'free RATs for ALL' bandwagon?

Grow a fucking spine and fight for something meaningful 👇
May 18, 2021 • 40 tweets • 9 min read
I had so many things to say and there was never going to be enough time to cover all my thoughts and feelings about #Budget2021.

I’ll be doing a thread here shortly with everything I didn’t get to get to at the @ACOSS budget event. There was only one way to feel about the bullshit we heard from @MichaelSukkarMP + @JEChalmers: despairing. They’re detached from reality.

We can’t trust the gov to care for vulnerable people + the Labor party has given us no hope that they will either. They are NOT on our side.
May 12, 2021 • 37 tweets • 15 min read
ok I’m fiiinally sitting down to read the budget papers the whole way through Image Please reward my efforts by coming to our NON-BORING budget reply reply tomorrow night

Fuck #TheirBudget, it’s our lives that matter

RSVP here (everything is free unless you want to pay): eventbrite.com.au/e/forum-their-…
Feb 7, 2021 • 15 tweets • 12 min read
Great to wake up to another bullshit #cropaganda story from @abcnews @ABCRural @JessSchremmer today! 🥰

Let's mark their work + see how they fared against the @AusUnemployment reporter's guide we prepared last yr to remind journos how to do their job.

auwu.substack.com/p/auwu-calls-o… Look, almost everything you need is right there on p1 @JessSchremmer!

Are the ppl complaining in positions of power, do they want something? ✅

Will they get what they want by creating the false impression that unemployed ppl are lazy? ✅

Did they fail to provide evidence? ✅
Feb 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Banner making again today w @Sylvie_E + @rachaeljacobs after an amazing turn out at the rally to defend Franklyn St public housing last week ✊🏡

Next rally is for Explorer St Eveleigh complex, 12pm next Sat!

DM me if you live in Glebe or Eveleigh + want a banner for ur house! RSVP to the @FriendsOfErko BBQ and rally here:

facebook.com/events/explore…
Feb 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
3 yrs ago I signed up for a free trial of @nytimes

I’ve tried to unsubscribe a number of times + here’s why I failed 👇

It’s clearly part of NYT’s business model to extort ppl by making this process as hard as possible – far more so than any other service.

@damiencave, wtf? I am just gobsmacked by this. It really is reprehensible. Each time I have tried to do this I have given up because it has triggered anxiety.

The @nytimes has literally profited from my mental ill health.