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Dec 6, 2021 26 tweets 5 min read
It's day 2 of the Senate Job Security Inquiry in Newcastle. Today we're hearing more from workers on Australia's insecure work crisis and how it impacts us all.

#SecureJobs .@DamienCahill8 from the @NTEUNational: Insecure work is a deliberate strategy to shift costs and risks to staff. This is even though much of the work is ongoing is nature. Wage theft is also widespread in the university sector, made worse by insecure work.
Dec 6, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
At the Senate Job Security Inquiry in Newcastle we've heard from the @TeachersFed that a part-time casual teacher, who are doing the same job and hours as a permanent teacher, will earn $22,500 less over a year.

#SecureJobs @TeachersFed One teacher, who has been a part-time casual TAFE teacher since 1995. She has sort permanent employment for 26 years and has been refused the entire time.
Jun 2, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
(1/4) Today is the last day of Reconciliation Week. It's also Mabo Day.

On June 3, 1992 Eddie Koiki Mabo and the clans of Mer in the Torres Strait was concluded in the High Court of Australia.

#NRW2020 #InThisTogether2020 (2/4) The injustice of the legal fiction of terra nullius was overturned. The decision by the High Court recognised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had custodial ownership of the land and a unique relationship to country that dated back thousands of years.