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It's my birthday in a month, wanna spoil me? 💷 ☕️ 👟 👗 🎁 🛒 😊 RTs are love 💜

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e-girl and activist neurodivergent on DSP Gifts and tips appreciated!

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Australian Unions

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In a cost-of-living crisis, Coles have posted a half-yearly profit of $594 million.

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tacos

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People whining that they paid of their HECS where’s my money are the worst. Sorry if I paid mine off I’d be stoked others got a leg up. Times are way worse now than ever before - sometimes we don’t all get everything and that’s ok

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The Saturday Paper

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"Despite being one of the wealthiest nations in the world, about 3.3 million people live below the poverty line, including 761,000 children. If we are to reduce poverty and inequality," writes @cassandragoldie , "we must secure an adequate revenue base."

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Jim Chalmers MP

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New jobs numbers show our labour market is an important source of strength in difficult times. We are fighting inflation and repairing the budget without smashing the economy, and we see that in these tens of thousands of new jobs created in May. #auspol #ausecon @AustralianLabor

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For anyone who wants to print out those coles and woolies specials stickers:

EAT THE RICH.pdf

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@GraffitiRadical

10 months

Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.

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He fucking ran her down Professional cyclist charged with causing the death of Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins in Adelaide crash via @ABCaustralia

Husband charged over crash that killed Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins in Adelaide

Professional cyclist Rohan Dennis has been charged with causing the death of his wife, Olympian Melissa Hoskins after a crash in Adelaide's north on Saturday night.

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Firstdog Onthemoon

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I have done an hilarious mocking cartoon about the prime minister's recent slump in the polls. You're welcome.

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I get $148 per fortnight commonwealth rent assistance for $820 rent

Peter Tulip

@peter_tulip

11 months

Complaints about the decline of public housing do not seem to be aware that it has been replaced by Commonwealth Rent Assistance. Because thorough studies repeatedly found CRA to be more cost-effective.

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Triangles or squares? #fairybread

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Major Australian employment service accused of claiming credit for work jobseeker found herself

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia suggest job provider APM referred woman for role she had already won; APM deny wrongdoing

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New way to torture the unemployed just dropped: Overcoming long-term unemployment by getting physically and mentally fit to join the workforce

How does getting fit help you land a job? These women are finding out

New courses to help people rejoin the workforce after years of unemployment are teaching skills in fitness, nutrition, money management and self-esteem.

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2 years

Yep, it's Covid.

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3 years

69 days sober 💜

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Just call it off and give the people money directly

Greg Jericho

@GrogsGamut

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End the scam. The privatised employment services model needs to be burned to the ground and salt spread on its ashes. Job providers receiving millions of dollars for positions found by jobseekers themselves | Australia news | The Guardian

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@CamposCoffee Look who I found! Finally meeting @ArtistAffame 💜💜

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Imagine you're on DSP, and you got a rise of $13 a week in rent assistance in the last budget And now you're looking for a new house and everything's at least $50 a week above your current place

Tony Burke

@Tony_Burke

7 months

Imagine: you receive your pay and are then marched to the ATM to give your manager a cut of your hard earned money. That’s wage theft, but it’s not a criminal offence.

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Just fuck off Some Australians fear disability is 'infecting' the lives of non-disabled people, royal commissioner says via @ABCaustralia

Some Australians fear disability is 'infecting' lives of non-disabled people, royal commissioner...

There are fears in the Australian community that disability is "infecting" and interfering with the lives of non-disabled people, a disability royal commissioner has told its closing ceremony in...

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@manjusrii Any from me and my friends is due to her mass blocking of anyone who associates with people questioning Labor welfare policies *shrugs*

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@AlboMP Not for pensioners and other concession holders, ours are actually going up 50c a script

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Preach

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Hey, have you tried shopping at Aldi? (and other unhelpful advice given to people on welfare)

Thanks, Choice and Labor, for letting us know that it’s mostly cheaper to shop at Aldi. They’re promising to report back quarterly on that basket of goods, which is about as harsh a whi…

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Looking like rent assistance increases from @JEChalmers Drop a comment for Jimmy about why that's not useful: I'll start - it was $13/wk extra last time, and was more than absorbed by last year's rent increase, just feeding LL's greed #RaiseTheRate

Jim Chalmers flags cost of living help for job seekers in federal budget

‘There is more than one way to help people who are on income support,’ treasurer says when suggesting rebates and concessions could be boosted

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Pub Lunch at the Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks (I met @artistaffame !)

Pub Lunch at the Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks (I met @artistaffame!)

Ready to fight for another year, I was priveledged to have lunch wtih Mel, Kristen and Jay from the Antipoverty Centre yesterday when Mel came across from Adelaide for planning with the others. It …

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@ALeighMP Charity is a failure of government

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6 months

Maybe we should have an inquiry into job service providers? Oh.

Mitch Bridges

@mitchbridges_

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“However, we reject any suggestions we acted unlawfully... or breached DEWR contract guidelines relating to Workforce Australia,” Unfortunately, APM is correct that our laws don't prevent this absurd behavior - only reward it.

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Or, hear me out, #RaiseTheRate of all welfare payments above the poverty line

SBS News

@SBSNews

8 months

As the cost of living crisis bites into our household budgets, growing or foraging food could save you money. Here's how.

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Good morning 🌞 It's my birthday 🎂 Gonna be a quiet one which is amazingly awesome and needed 💜 Love yas! 🥳

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It's my birthday tomorrow! If you'd like to treat me, here are some ways: beemit: phonakins

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Bit of an update on this one - my GP and pretty much all around me haven't gone back to bulk billing concession card holders

Anthony Albanese

@AlboMP

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Bit of an update on this one. We've got 58 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics up and running. They're helping Australians see a doctor for free, right across the country. And now we're getting on with opening 29 more.

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Labor has poured cold water on an increase to jobseeker – leaving progressive voters >>wondering if vote compass was right all along?

Labor has poured cold water on an increase to jobseeker – leaving progressive voters scratching...

Labor may be correct that it can’t solve poverty in one budget, but it has no excuse not to begin the process

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Bloody hell "Two mental health units, at Nepean and Cumberland hospitals, have had internal coronavirus outbreaks, with 38 mental health patients testing positive. Two patients are fighting for their lives in ICU. "

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We NEED dental health to be free in Australia

melissa

@ArtistAffame

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@AngelComrade I honestly can’t believe I’m crying too like it’s held me back for so long because of the embarrassment it’s effected my speech eating and even the way my top lip sits. I want to get more involved with advocacy but have been to ashamed

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Albanese rules out raising welfare above the poverty line to get the Greens support on tax changes #RaiseTheRate #NobodyDeservesPoverty

Albanese rules out crossbench negotiation on tax overhaul, as Liberal MPs urge opposition not to...

The prime minister says tax plan ‘stands on its merits’ after rejecting Greens deal to increase jobseeker rate alongside stage-three plan

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@SenatorWong @Menlu_RI You need to call for a ceasefire. Spineless to abstain on the UN vote

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well-meaning white women often forget the priveledge they hold

Prof Kerryn Phelps AM

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I hope ⁦ @sydneymardigras ⁩ reconsider their decision to stop ⁦ @nswpolice ⁩ from marching in the parade. Police have marched since 1998 and there have been great efforts to create a good relationship between police and the #LGBTQI community Inclusion not exclusion.

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The @GamersNexus bar mat on debut with #pinotnoir from @goodpairdays

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So Kristen was once active in the greens. She isn't even a bloody member anymore but even if she was should that make her struggle with all this *waves hands* less legit? Fucking media class...

Media Watch

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“ … the media has a responsibility to tell viewers which team she’s batting for.” 10 News fails to disclose that an advocate for renters’ rights featured in a news story is a former Greens national secretary.

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Fuck Labor Labor fights for the right to shred documents if it loses office Attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing an FOI court ruling that said the practice could be criminal and must stop

Labor fights for the right to shred documents if it loses office

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing an FOI court ruling that said the practice could be criminal and must stop

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AND WE GOT A PLACE! lolz my share is 47% of my pension, but it all comes out of my account on pension day, love to see that direct debit :/

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Imagine you're on DSP, and you got a rise of $13 a week in rent assistance in the last budget And now you're looking for a new house and everything's at least $50 a week above your current place

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Something about public housing tenants being forced to rely on the kindness of strangers to be able to maintain their lawns or face eviction or something

‘I’m just a lawnmower man, I’m no one special’: Nathan Stafford, the Sydney gardener with a...

He has amassed a huge international social media audience for videos of tidying, ASMR and helping out ‘legends’. Now he has a meeting with a housing minister. Who is he?

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Oh my! Centrelink to get 3000 new staff to deal with the backlog of claims and to address the abhorrent call centre response times

Centrelink to get 3,000 new staff in bid to deal with helpline and payment delays

Funding boost of $228m aims to return workers to frontline roles after millions of calls went unanswered

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So, @JEChalmers reckon's we're getting another surplus, but Jobseeker is only going up 96c a day in the indexation March 20. Rent assistance is only moving up $3/fn on avg too. Cost of living? Call this living? #RaiseTheRate #NobodyDeservesPoverty

Second surplus on track for Australia but budget will report a fall in revenue, says treasurer

Jim Chalmers says slide in iron ore prices and uptick in jobless rate mean budget will report a much smaller revenue upgrade than in recent years

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IF DSP was livable you'd actually get more people into the workforce as they wouldn't have to struggle so much in their lives and could get out and do part-time work in a field that uses their talents and skills and interests

Amanda Rishworth MP

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Our Government is committed to the 4.4 million Australians with disability, and ensuring anyone who wants a job can experience the benefits of employment.

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Morning frens 💜 Anxious/excited. Catching the train down to Sydney to meet @ArtistAffame in person for the first time 💜 ☕️

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Just been alerted to this e-petition to federal parliament to scrap the partner income assessment for DSP - Get on it!

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"The current job seeker payment leaves me with $54 a day And once I pay for my rent and my bills, this leaves me with $100 to feed myself over 2 weeks. How should I pay for transportation? For further education? For clothes? For self grooming?"

Dear Steve: JobSeeker Needs A Raise

“Dear Mr Steven Georganas,I’m writing to you in regards to my experience and struggle with living below the poverty line, for more context, the payment made to me known as the ‘JobSeeke…

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After four years of hearing about the abuse and neglect of disabled people, they recommended the supported minimum wage go up to HALF the minimum wage

Inclusion Australia

@inclusionoz

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You can read about our inclusive employment project and find our submission to the Disability Royal Commission on employment here #EqualPayEqualRespect

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So, Indue allowed people to use the cards to get into debt for this but, you know, not buy bras or second hand school uniforms. Good income management.

Asher Wolf

@Asher_Wolf

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Cashless debit cards linked to buy now, pay later services are being used as an excuse to potentially grandfather the scheme

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Six months sober 💜

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By at least $78 you mean $88 right? no point asking for below the poverty line

ACOSS

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If government can afford to give people earning $200,000 a year an extra $9,000 a year, it can afford to lift the incomes of people living in poverty to at least $78 a day.

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"Being a shill for the ALP and the Democrats in the midst of a genocide is peak white feminism at a level beyond parody."

Aamer Rahman

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Hi Van. Very bold of you to share my bit about colonialism while choosing to stay silent about the suffering of Palestinians. You have not once used your platform of over 100k followers to tweet an opinion about the genocide of Palestinians, currently the victims of what is the

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STOP SUGGESTING ALDI WE KNOW IT EXISTS AND WOULD IF WE COULD

💧 Data Dot 🏠 - Jingeri

@petermclarty

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@mosshroom_ Coles and Woolies are a challenge. If you can get there you'll definitely improve the budget at Aldi. I also know that's not always possible for some

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So Joblink are using funding they get from unemplyment services to support Foodbank to feed people on welfare who can't afford food?

Foodbank NSW & ACT

@FoodbankNSWACT

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Thanks to Joblink Plus, we provided over 5000kgs of free fresh fruit and vegetables, 380kgs of personal care items, and 200 loaves of bread for our Pop Up in Karuah to the community members who need it the most. 💜 #FoodbankNSWACT #EndingHunger #CommunitySupport

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6 News anchor Leonardo Puglisi slams bi-partisan under 16 social media ban via @ABCaustralia

Teen news anchor says popular news service would've never started under kids' social media ban

Sixteen-year-old Leonardo Puglisi started his online news channel 6 News when he was just 11 years old. He's horrified at the federal bipartisan support in banning social media for children under the...

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Yup, $250 less dsp a fortnight instantly because I have a partner, and the worry that if he earns too.much in his struggling self employment I'll get cut off the pension? Great for my mental health 👍

The Partner Test: How Being in a Relationship Can Be a Welfare Recipient's Worst Nightmare — Power...

It’s Anti-Poverty Week , and the Antipoverty Centre ( @antipovertycent ) is publishing people’s experiences of Australia’s welfare system. In today’s post, Robert ( @Human432524 ) discusses the...

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Hi @ALeighMP where's the evidence base for performative nonsense like this helping while your government refuses to #RaiseTheRate above the poverty line?

Andrew Leigh

@ALeighMP

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In 1922, my grandfather Roly Stebbins was born in a tent. A century on, too many still sleep rough. In addition to what we're doing as a govt, I’m sleeping out to raise money for @VinniesAust homelessness services. If you can afford it, please donate:

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TGIF 💜💜 Shout out to @ArtistAffame who's climbing into the dentist chair today to get her new smile thanks to the amazing people of Twitter! ☕ Enjoy your day. Together we can change the world!

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oh ffs: @amandarishworth acknowledged increasing costs meant vulnerable Australians were "feeling the pinch". @ArtistAffame : Ms Fisher said she is "battling malnutrition and scurvy" because she can't afford to eat properly. Yep, the "pinch"

Melissa is 'battling malnutrition' while on JobSeeker. Payments are increasing, but is it enough?

Melissa is among the 4.7 million people on income support payments that will soon rise. She's not alone in her concern that it will do little to alleviate cost-of-living pressures.

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Puuuuuuuurrrrrrple

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2 years

You know what would be better? Welfare payments above the poverty line so we could afford to purchase the food of our choice and not rely on supermarket leftovers. Out of date biscuits feature way too heavily in my diet these days. #RaiseTheRate #88aDay #BTPM

Peter Malinauskas

@PMalinauskasMP

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As we head into the holiday season, volunteers behind the scenes at @Foodbank_SA are working hard to make sure no one goes without. @abcadelaide is broadcasting outside its Food Hub in Edwardstown as part of ABC Gives - so head down to give a donation if you can.

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Screw NILS, pay people enough to live More Australians turning to no interest loan schemes as cost of living rises

Kate was worried about the cost of living this Christmas. Financial services say they're experien...

A single mum in Melbourne's outer suburbs says a no interest loan helped her get on top of her money stress, with financial experts describing them as a safe credit option for those struggling during...

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We need to be able to get our payments without having to beg mps 4 help “Suddenly, this door opens that wasn’t there before that pauses your obligations until the claim has been resolved. No one had ever said that until I went through my MP,” Megan said.

Disability pension claims blew out to more than 80 days on average at the end of last year, data...

Department of Social Services figures show some areas had average wait times of more than 200 days between September and December

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Friend in Brisbane got this great anti-Greens LNP scratchie for the council elections. She's gonna scratch it when she get home, wonder what's under the circles?

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The minister is worried she'll be embarrassed, public housing Tennants are worried they'll die in a gas explosion

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"Embarrassed"? Housing Minister Rose Jackson says gas issues fixed before Whalan explosion but is 'embarrassed' by social housing horror stories

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Battler with only $20 asks Treasurer what she should go without via @MailOnline

Battler with only $20 asks Treasurer what she should go without

Fiona, in the ABC studio audience for Jim Chalmers' solo appearance on QandA, said surging prices had emptied her bank account and now she's having to make impossible choices

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Aussie #Poverati Xmas Wishlist Thread Hey Tweeps! Are you on welfare or otherwise struggling these holidays? Drop your wishlist or paypal or both here and maybe some secret santas and elves will find their way here and treat you! Retweet people's lists & treat ppl if you can 🎅

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@vanbadham Oh swell, blocked for sharing my DSP application story

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@phonakins

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Yup, how many ADHD or Autistic folk are trying to manage on their cocktail of antidepressants and antipsychotics when stimulants or something else might be perfect but they're not allowed to try it cos they arent offered let alone can afford the assessments?

Emily♡

@ItsEmilyKaty

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THIS is the misdiagnosis that is happening. Not people being ‘handed’ autism and ADHD diagnoses. But neurodivergent people being given inappropriate mental health diagnoses and inappropriate treatment as a result.

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@zdaniel @6NewsAU When is the right time?

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Ban IDF personnel from returning to Australia - Sign this petition

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Meanwhile, those over 65 are spending at rates surpassing inflation on travel, retail and eating out, cutting back only on charitable donations

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@phonakins

8 months

These fires didn't just start now and have been stressing people and there willl be many more in the coming months. STOP ALL MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS NOW because summer will be hard enough as it is

Workforce Australia

@WorkforceAusGov

8 months

📢 Due to bushfires, mutual obligation requirements are paused for participants in the QLD towns of Tara, Chinchilla and Dalby until 28 Nov 2023 (inclusive). #WorkforceAustralia #DES For more information visit

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No way to ‘budget’ out of cost-of-living crisis for low-income earners, report finds Many participants struggled to afford the basics, cutting back on food or heating, rationing medication or, in some cases, moving regionally to try to save some costs.

No way to ‘budget’ out of cost-of-living crisis for low-income earners, report finds

Many participants struggled to afford basics, cutting back on food or rationing medication, survey suggests

www.theguardian.com

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3 months

"People on low incomes did not create Australia's cost-of-living crisis," she said. "They shouldn't be asked to pay a higher price for it. "We need a plan to stop the lowest-paid Australians from being pushed deeper into poverty."

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@phonakins

5 months

It was such a fucking relief to get DSP. Not for the extra money (it's nice but it's still not above the poverty line, especially with the partner income test I get $59 a day) but for the time and space to be able to look after myself. & to have an actual safety net to try things

@peacenicsta.bsky.social & threds

@peacenicsta

5 months

I really wish folks wld realise HOW hard it is for ppl who are disabled on jobkeeper How hard it is to fight for meagre increase/less harassment that comes with Disability pension And that jobkeeper actually DISABLES people too Not affording decent food, meds is disabling

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@phonakins

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People are watching this thinking a $17/day raise would mean something nice, like a pub lunch, but no, it means being able to cover rent an bills and basic groceries, it still doesn't get you above the poverty line and definitely doesn't mean anything "nice" :/ #RaiseTheRate

Dr Ingrid M🪁

@iMusing

2 months

jobseeker. The economic poverty committee or whatever it is called who have put $17 a day increase on the table? Was that the figure? Middleton explains the politics of Pocock and the committee and Speers spruiks his podcast on Australia made solar panels #Insiders

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3 years

Death of an icon.

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@phonakins

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@andrewjgiles @AustralianLabor Yeah, nothing to brag about while so many are homeless with the housing crisis and living in poverty because you refuse to #RaiseTheRate of any welfare payments above the poverty line #NobodyDeservesPoverty

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@phonakins

2 months

What the actual hell @billshortenmp ??? Federal disability agency lawyers have been accused of invading the privacy of an NDIS funding recipient by requesting a decade’s worth of notes from the woman’s psychiatrist when she challenged a housing decision."

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5 months

Cool, and the homeless sleeping rough in civic park across the street get in free right??

Genocider__Ho

@salems__thot

5 months

@HomelessnessNSW oh yeah i find this very inspiring

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@Glamino @Canberra_Cat The general public don't really seem to get that the job providers are the bludgers not those on welfare

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Is that enough to buy you Australia?

Anthony Albanese

@AlboMP

1 month

BUDGET 2024: We're giving every Australian household $300 off your energy bills.

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8 months

lol that $13 a week increase really hit the spot

Jim Chalmers MP

@JEChalmers

8 months

The @AlboMP @AustralianLabor Government has a 10-point plan which addresses cost-of-living pressures including the biggest increase in Commonwealth Rent Assistance in 30 years #auspol #ausecon

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@phonakins

3 months

@OzHarvest Yeah nah not paying $6 for spam at the foodbank.

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@phonakins

1 month

Still rather my own GP would bulk bill Labor spending millions more on urgent care clinics without evidence they work, experts say Budget includes $227m funding boost but health expert says ‘the value of urgent care clinics is yet to be established’

Labor spending millions more on urgent care clinics without evidence they work, experts say

Budget includes $227m funding boost but health expert says ‘the value of urgent care clinics is yet to be established’

www.theguardian.com

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@phonakins

3 years

Oh another way that being sick is expensive? GP can only write a script for 60 seroquel tablets, so I HAVE to see him every 2 months for a refill.

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@phonakins

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Still 37 days away! #RaiseTheRate

Melissa is 'battling malnutrition' while on JobSeeker. Payments are increasing, but is it enough?

Melissa is among the 4.7 million people on income support payments that will soon rise. She's not alone in her concern that it will do little to alleviate cost-of-living pressures.

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"Even more damning, of the eight working groups held by the NDIA, disabled people did not have a SINGLE seat at the table. Not one. Every seat was occupied by providers and provider lobby groups, with the occasional government agency in there."

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@ianthekeslar @modernpriscilla @NellSco And return with her land rover to mow you down

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1 year

Van reminds us that working class only includes you when you actually have a paid job, otherwise too bad so sad

Amy Sargeant 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

@amy_sargeant_

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Van Badham is on another planet.

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“There is literally no hard economic evidence that allowing property developers to build high-end apartments that no one can afford tackles the housing crisis,” @MChandlerMather “In fact, often it drives up the cost of rent and house prices”.

On home turf: housing debate gets personal for targeted Greens spokesman Max Chandler-Mather

A 20-hectare parcel of Brisbane land known as Bulimba Barracks, which has been slated for development, becomes ground zero in heated national debate over housing

www.theguardian.com

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@phonakins

3 years

Everyone's favourite SMS

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@phonakins

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Wouldn't it be nice if the government just housed everyone?

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@phonakins

8 months

Gift of a house to live in gives four women with disabilities freedom and friendship via @ABCaustralia

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The Greens NSW

@GreensNSW

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With millions stuck in poverty, unable to afford their rent, medication, groceries or degrees - Labor are proud of hoarding $9.3 billion from people doing it the toughest. That’s not responsible. It’s cruel.

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@maximumwelfare I hate her cos she asked for people's experiences of the welfare system one week then blocked me the next *shrugs*

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@phonakins

11 months

Hey Amanda, #raisetherate of welfare payments above the poverty line so women can afford to leave

Amanda Rishworth MP

@AmandaRishworth

11 months

Violence against women and children in any form is unacceptable. This year alone we've already seen too many lives lost to family and domestic violence. One life lost is too many.

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Renewed calls for Labor to ditch work for the dole scheme as major charity walks away

Brotherhood of St Laurence will no longer take part, saying program is ‘not in the best interests of people who are unemployed’

www.theguardian.com

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