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An independent movement working to build a progressive Australia and put people back into politics. All content authorised by L. Baldwin, GetUp.

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6 years
5000 kids in Sydney demanding climate action. This is unbelievable. #schoolstrike4climate
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Crowds marching to the #ClimateStrike in Sydney. This is MASSIVE 😯😍
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7000 doctors, Australian medical colleges, Sam Neill, Mia Wasikowska & Jimmy Barnes have called on pollies to end the medical crisis in offshore detention. It could all come down to a single vote in a matter of days. Can you call on @billshortenmp to stay strong & #BacktheBill ?
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Shame on everyone who voted for making the Cashless Debit Card permanent.
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Everyone who's lying about the situation on Manus according to Peter Dutton: World Vision UN Amnesty Oxfam Human Rights Watch Asylum Seeker Resource Centre The Australian The Daily Tele Every major news outlet in Australia Nearly half of parliament Refugees on Manus...
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BREAKING: International bus and coach company Greyhound has CUT TIES with the Adani Carmichael mine project after MASSIVE outcry from people around the country! A huge win for people power ❤️
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Melburnians – if you head out to a restaurant tonight, why not send @PeterDutton_MP a pic of your dinner? Let's show him we're not affected by his brand of fear-mongering.
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HUGE: leaked documents reveal Melissa Price pressured CSIRO to rubber stamp Adani approval despite knowing it was “seriously flawed”, then lied about what the scientist had seen. Price must resign. The approval must be revoked.
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Sydney Town Hall #BlackLivesMatter
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Thanks to GetUp members, today we crashed Barnaby Joyce’s hard-right rally against renewables, exposing their lies with a mobile billboard roaming around Parliament House at the exact same time. #AusPol #YesToRenewables
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Dr Kerryn Phelps' riveting maiden speech lays down a pathway for all parliamentarians of conscience: stop playing politics with people's lives. 👏👏👏👏👏
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“Stop playing politics with people’s lives” say our biggest stars for #BlueForManusAndNauru . As calls to #BackTheBill grow this week in Parliament - let’s hope pollies listen! 🙏 @TwoPaddocks , Warwick Thornton, @JimmyBarnes , Rebecca Gibney, Bryan Brown, Mia Wasikowska
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You can’t sack 600 nurses one day, and turn around and beg for free money the next. If you’re a private hospital that can’t deliver public health outcomes or pay your staff - you shouldn’t get public handouts, you should get taken over.
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BREAKING: The Senate has just agreed to set up an inquiry into media diversity after a record-breaking petition on the influence of the Murdoch Press.
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Something very off about people earning $200k+ a year – who are currently refusing to show up for work – forcing people who have lost their jobs in a pandemic to search for jobs that don't exist.
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Maureen is a national treasure.
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Leadership. #ClimateStrike
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She's just unstoppable
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Don't believe what you read in The Australian, we spend 89% of our donations on campaigns. We're proud of our work, our volunteers and our staff (who we pay)
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Organisers saying over 30,000 people marching in Brisbane. #blacklivesmatter ❤️💛🖤
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The drug tests you're forcing on 45 year old mums on Newstart are not: - Saliva tests - Taken voluntarily and fully clothed - At a time and place of their choosing - Proven by a photo on social media - In return for a $345k salary Folks will die because of these policies, Anne.
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That’s right. I was tested this morning just like the millions of other Australians who are drug tested each year as a requirement of their employment.
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The PM has warned Australia that he "can't save everyone" – but if this means throwing unemployed people, small business owners, and workers under the bus by cutting JobSeeker and JobKeeper, then this is code for saving the rich and powerful first.
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The Coalition's recession recovery plan is...to give 91% of tax cuts to the top 20% of income earners? While cutting JobSeeker and JobKeeper for millions of people? This is unconscionable and stupid.
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You can't train people into jobs that don't exist.
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Scott Morrison first told us that all #sportsrorts grants were eligible. They weren’t. He then told us that all decisions were made by Bridget McKenzie. They weren’t. Now he’s just not answering questions. But why would we believe his answers anyway?
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This is how Alan Tudge – then Human Services Minister – threatened people on income support. Hundreds of thousands of debts later, with so much suffering and tragedy, we now know those robodebts were illegal.
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The government doesn’t have a problem with women. It has a problem with men.
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Scott Morrison just become our PM. For many of us this is a moment of relief that Peter Dutton's leadership ambitions have been thwarted. But we can’t forget Morrison's conservative history as Immigration Minister and Treasurer.
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📣BREAKING: A Senate inquiry has just recommended a judicial inquiry with Royal Commission powers to probe the Murdoch Press. This report lays bare the Murdoch Press' unhealthy and dangerous influence on politics and our democracy.
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Next stop: Warringah. #WentworthVotes
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Former Liberal Party leader: "You forfeit the right to being in government if you don't have a climate action strategy."
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Stop worrying about who politicians are screwing, start worrying about how they’re screwing us. Don't get distracted, get organised 💪 #bonkban
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The PM just spoke over and over again about how important it is to protect hospitals... without mentioning anything about extra funding, staffing, or really anything about protecting hospitals
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Nationalise them.
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Coronavirus: Private Hospitals have warned the Prime Minister and Premiers have just 24 hours to help them stay open and pay staff, or many will close, just as the country needs them to treat severe coronavirus cases. @telester #auspol #Coronavirus #7NEWS
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His cruel brand of politics have tainted our parliament for too long. Inhumane treatment of refugees, blocks to climate action and racist dog-whistling have no place in the Australia we want. So we're going door-to-door. To make history. To #DitchDutton .
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This year, we found out just how little tax the Murdoch Press pays. 🙄
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THE YOUTH ARE RISING NO MORE COMPRIMISING #ClimateStrike #auspol
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Witness K could be any one of us who stands for a fair and just democracy
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BREAKING: Morrison SLAMMED by Royal Commission into aged care A Special Royal Commission report found the Morrison Government was at fault for the extraordinary number of aged care deaths.
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TURNBULL: How can we save the Reef?! SCIENCE: Don’t build the world’s biggest new coal mine. TURNBULL: If only there was something we could do... SCIENCE: Seriously, don’t build new coal mines. TURNBULL: $1M for anyone who has ideas! SCIENCE: 🙄
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tfw this 14-year-old is more on point than our own Prime Minister...
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@TonyAbbottMHR 687,000 unemployed people seeking work. 1.1 million people seeking more hours. Only 220,000 private sector jobs being advertised. () Unemployment is a market failure, not a personal failure. It's the result of a lack of jobs, not a lack of determination.
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Here’s the Sydney #ChangeTheRules rally streaming past GetUp’s offices (featuring plenty of GetUp staff marching with the mighty @ASUnion )! No one can stop us standing for our rights.
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Thanks @andrewprobyn for bringing out the colour-coded receipts on the sports rorts! #NationalPressClub #auspol
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This is putrid. Morrison secretly approved a uranium mine against the wish of Traditional Owners. It will produce 36M tonnes of radioactive waste & damage precious groundwater for hundreds of years. We stand with the Tjiwarl Traditional Owners fighting this mine in court.
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Morrison’s trip to Christmas Island today is a sad publicity stunt. The scare campaign is not working, because people will always trust doctors over a desperate PM lagging in the polls.
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Confident leaders aren’t scared of dissenting opinions @scottmorrisonmp
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BREAKING: ROBODEBT IS DEFEATED The Fed Govt is dismantling Robodebt, and 470,000 wrongful debts will be waived and refunded – that's $721 million returned. Huge victory for all the advocates who tirelessly fought this terrible, devastating debt scheme 🎉✊
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We're not afraid of your fear mongering, @PeterDutton_MP Melbourne won't stand for your racism. #MelbourneBitesBack
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Politicians out here saying "we can’t afford to keep JobSeeker at its current rate" but be spending $270b on missiles. 🤦‍♀️
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Morrison says his government has had 'best intentions' in aged care. Was it these 'best intentions' that cut $1.7bn in funding, neglected our loved ones, and allowed private providers to pocket profits with *virtually no mechanism* to guarantee quality of care?
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Watch veteran ABC journalist Barrie Cassidy just refuse to let the Government’s fear mongering slide, and ask the question no-one else has about ending the medical crisis on Manus and Nauru... #BackTheBill #insiders #auspol
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Check out our latest billboard giving voters in Tony Abbott's electorate a climate reality check: if we don't turf climate-deniers like Tony, we'll all be under water. #auspol #AusVotes19
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McCormack's RAAF jet to the Melbourne Cup was $4300 an hour. On the other hand, the Coalition is saying it will cut JobSeeker back to $40 a day. That's more than a year of JobSeeker for a return flight from Wagga to Melbourne to see a race.
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Two months ago politicians told students to go back to school when they took to the street demanding climate action. Today, 600 schools across NSW are shut because of bushfires made worse by climate change. Politicians need to listen. #NSWFires #qldbushfires #nswbushfires
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Last week, a Senate Inquiry found the Morrison Government is to blame for aged care failures during the pandemic, and literally nobody is surprised.
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. @woolworths : There’s an unexpected item in your bagging area! Today, we’re telling Woolies to #CleanUpMurdoch . By advertising in the Murdoch Press, Woolies is helping prop up climate denial. It has to stop. Up the pressure: Tell Woolworths climate denial is bad for business
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The Liberal Party dealing with climate change 🙈
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ATO data: Adani paid $0 tax on $723,997,514, Chevron paid $0 tax on $2,142,255,410, Exxonmobil Australia paid $0 tax on $6,728,562,395, and Origin Energy paid $0 tax on $12,028,321,361. That’s who paid no tax.
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BREAKING: Tony Abbott has lost his seat. 25 years of wrecking, undermining and blocking action on the issues we care about – over. #AusVotes2019
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Meanwhile in Australia, no government minister has been held to account over the hundreds of thousands of people that were wrongly issued Robodebts.
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Dutch government to step down after thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and wrongly told to pay money back
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"The most powerful political actor in Australia is not the Liberal Party, the National Party or the Labor Party - it's News Corporation. And they're highly unaccountable" Malcolm Turnbull isn't pulling any punches at the Senate Inquiry this morning #auspol
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This afternoon @PeterDutton_MP crowed about getting every child out of detention. These are the faces he doesn't want you to see. #KidsOffNauru #auspol
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Great news! After years of community opposition and 22,000+ GetUp members calling for it, the Environment Minister has followed the scientific advice and rejected the Clive Palmer-owned coal mine. At just 10 km from the Reef World Heritage Area, the mine was a disastrous idea.
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Since 1991, 432 Aboriginal people have been killed in custody -- there has not been a single conviction.
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Over our 12-year history, more than 99% of our donations have come from Australians. Despite this, the far right is seemingly obsessed with mythical tides of “foreign funding”. This chart lists every foreign donation we've ever received. (It's four donations.)
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BREAKING: The inquiry that Traditional Owners called for into fracking in the Beetaloo Basin just passed the Senate! This is a huge win for Traditional Owners and Territorians who are calling to protect country and stop public money flowing to fossil fuel companies.
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Katie Allen can harp on all she wants about how the Morrison Government knows the need for aged care reform. But the facts are Morrison has cut $1.7bn in funding to aged care and he's responsible for years of neglect and privatisation leaving our loved ones vulnerable. #QandA
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We were told $30 billion in corporate tax cuts would spur growth – they didn't. We were told $36 billion in income tax cuts would spur growth – they haven't. Growth comes when governments invest boldly from the ground up – not when we hope it'll trickle from the top down.
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It takes courage for a politician making five times the average Australian income, who fought to cut penalty rates and gut income support for people locked out of work, while pushing a sixty billion dollar corporate handout – to use Working Class Man as his hype song.
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The govt/Serco just sacked 420 Centrelink staff, making it even harder to claim income support – during the worst unemployment crisis in decades. At the same time, the govt gave hundreds of millions to private JobActive agencies, who's job it is to cut off your income support.
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The Senate just passed a bill that will condemn tens of thousands of university students to extreme debts they will spend a lifetime paying off. Shame on every politician that voted for this.
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Kerryn Phelps achieved more for refugees and people seeking safety in ~5 days in Parliament~ than ScoMo has in 5 years. Thank you for today 💐
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Today is such an important day for sick people needing medical care they are unable to receive on #Manus and #Nauru . Thank you to all of the many people who contributed to this remarkable community campaign. Senate tomorrow🤞 #Auspol
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BREAKING: Peter Dutton said he had “every child out of detention” but after 5 long years, there are still 119 children detained offshore on Nauru. And these photos finally prove it #KidsOffNauru
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"We are going to vote for the Phelps bill. We want medical treatment for people in our care. Most Australians think it’s long past time that this situation needs to be put to an end. I’m looking forward to voting for this." @markdreyfusQCMP #BacktheBill #Qanda #auspol
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5000 kids in Martin Place chanting "STUDENT POWER". This is absolutely electrifying. #schoolstrike4climate
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Reminder that Scott Morrison is the first Prime Minister since John Howard to refuse an election debate on our ABC #leadersdebate #AusVotes2022
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This is how Alan Tudge, now the Minister responsible for education and youth after the cabinet reshuffle, treated people with Robodebts – and we know how inflicted with debts that students and young people are right now.
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"Despite all the political games, this issue comes down to a simple truth – it is our humanitarian obligation to get these children and their families off Nauru." -Liberal MP @juliabanksmp with a heartfelt and arresting plea for #KidsOffNauru . @ScottMorrisonMP needs to act.
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Breaking: Australian Electoral Commission declares GetUp independent (again) ping @SenatorAbetz
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Congratulations to Sky News for being awarded Brand of the Year by *checks notes* News Corp!! Fantastic. Great move. Well done.
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New polling, paid for by GetUp members, shows that people are demanding action from the Albanese Govt, now. 80.3% of Labor’s own voters want them to work with Greens & independents to ensure climate laws require corporations to make genuine cuts to pollution #SafeguardOurClimate
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“Choosing not to do business with companies that threaten the health of the planet is everyone's basic right." Scott Morrison wants to remove people's choices – because he knows exactly what choices people will make.
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Less than 0.5% of all the donations we’ve ever received has come from overseas donors. In the last financial year we received over 490,000 donations, and 97% of those were under $100. We’re proud to be backed by ordinary Australians and support further transparency.
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How a very public donation from 12yrs ago could lead to dramatic raids raises concerning questions. Some clarification and thoughts here.
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Bridget McKenzie: earns $360,000/yr Also Bridget McKenzie:
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ScoMo hasn't mentioned it yet, but his government just cut $83 million from the ABC over the next three years. Get ready for a fight – our public broadcaster is integral to our democracy. #budget18
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The PM has said such lovely things about us today!
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“We need to abolish Jobactive, which simply isn’t helping people find work. Instead private providers are paid to punish and breach people." @anglicare_aust is right – we need to abolish this disgraceful system.
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Introducing GetUp’s new CEO – Larissa Baldwin
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As Acting PM, Michael McCormack's daily salary bumps up to $1505/day – about what an unemployed person gets in income support over a month. So it's great that he's punching down and calling unemployed people "lounge lizards" from his position of wealth, privilege, and power.
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The poverty line is around $457 per week for a single adult. The new rate of JobSeeker of $405 per week. During this pandemic recession, we need to be protecting people forced out of their jobs, not putting them in poverty.
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Huge news! Origin energy has just withdrawn their dangerous and risky fracking plans in the NT until the end of the year.
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The Murdoch Press and Morrison Government have worked hand in glove to cut and gut our ABC. We're ready to counter their anti-ABC agenda, film coming February 2021. Sign up now for early access! 👇
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If anyone needs their income quarantined its politicians – no more $5000 helicopter rides or $300 dinners. Until we can trust politicians to be sensible with money, all expenses should be signed off by a committee of Newstart recipients (people who know how to stretch a dollar).
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