The depressing fucking reality. All that gives us even the slightest chance of getting the government to back down from evil shit is if we make sure they’re getting lots of media enquires about it.

Dechlan from NIT has done far and away the most thorough reporting on this. Well worth following his work.

Ty @jennaprice.bsky.social for this article (🔗 below), particularly for sharing a quote that exposes the minister actively lying about what her proposal does. It will not at all work like a payment suspension for someone on remand – it is a payment cancellation and there is no access to ART review.

"“The Government is trying to pass legislation that would allow police to cancel Centrelink payments for people who have not been found guilty of any offence." Holy moly. This is unbelievable stuff. What does Labor even stand for any more?

btw police routinely lay the “serious” charge of assault police when roaming low income areas antagonising people for their criminalisation quotas. Everybody in the system knows police do this and most pretend not to know because maintaining an impoverished underclass pays their mortgage.

A reminder of who is concerned. We say again: If you think you're doing the right thing, you don't do it like this. You don't lash out, run from even the smallest amount of public pressure or seek to hide this amendment in an unrelated bill and reject all parliamentary scrutiny.

Disability groups have released a statement: "We are deeply concerned that communities traditionally over-policed & disadvantaged, including First Nations people with disability, would be at heightened risk" The whole statement is well worth reading. Ty @amyremeikis.bsky.social for reporting.

The minister is continuing to weaponise the harm done to people subjected to violence, even when groups representing folks affected by it are pleading with her to stop what she is doing. The government is taking advantage of the community's natural emotional reactions to acts of violence.

As well as the Law Council of Australia, more disability peak bodies have come out to oppose the sudden introduction of new powers for police & ministers to cancel social security for people accused of a serious offence.

Even the people you assume will take any opportunity to punch down on welfare recipients disagree with what the government is doing.

I forgot how atomised platforms are now - Insta is my primary acc. We have a GoFundMe that has been lifesaving, enabling us to take time off work to manage this crisis. You can read more here about ways to support us and there’s links to cancer charities in my bio x www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...

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A "serious power" is not an acceptable euphemism for breaching the right to due process. The list of groups opposing this move is growing, with NATSILS, the Australian Council of Social Services and Economic Justice Australia speaking out today. Thank you @joshbutler.bsky.social for reporting.

Everyone has the right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty in this country, no matter what. Labor pulled this seemingly out of nowhere. Yet welfare changes designed by the Robodebt Royal Commission 2+yrs ago to limit harms to welfare recipients, they’ve just rejected.

While he was accused & not convicted, this man continued to receive a parliamentary salary. It’s called due process. But this week, @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social introduced a surprise law to give police powers to get someone’s Centrelink payment cancelled when they are accused of a serious offence.

In dozens of villages across the Occupied West Bank, Palestinians face harassment, beatings and sometimes even fatal attacks, carried out by extremist Israeli settlers. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/wo...

Read the statement from the NDIA at the end of this news story. The government is using disabled people as pawns in their fight between state and federal. They’re willing to harm disabled people in order to win political fights. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Priorities.

The proposed measure is simlar to an unlegislated Turnbull Gov measure from 2018-19 Budget to ‘suspend or cancel the welfare payments of individuals who have outstanding State and Territory arrest warrants for indictable criminal offences’. It was dropped by the Labor Gov in the Oct 2022-23 Budget.

The bottom line is this: You do not try to sneak through an amendment in this way with no announcement and when all opportunities for parliamentary scrutiny have passed if you believe what you're doing is good @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social

Really normal stuff happening in St Marys NSW

Labor busy expanding the punishment bureaucracy, again. Regular reminder that criminalisation causes poverty, and police primarily criminalise poor people.

"I had actually been diagnosed with malnutrition and scurvy. I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...

Just when you think Labor can't sink any lower on welfare policy.

“Privately, Labor MPs acknowledge there is a need to scrap the entire system.“ As your MP if they’re one of them. And if yes, what are they doing about it?

Thanks @amyremeikis.bsky.social for being the only person in media to remember what the Deloitte report that used AI is about – that they couldn't provide the government with anything to say their system of welfare punishment is operating lawfully. Payment suspensions MUST stop.

Things that have been missed in the conversation about unlawful administration of compulsory activities (so-called mutual obligations) include... People do be wondering, what would Labor do if they were in charge during robodebt? And the answer is, you're looking at it.

"The government has already provisioned for harm in its contracts... The Workforce Australia Services Deed requires providers to carry insurance for bodily injury, mental illness & death. This is not a system designed to prevent harm," Thank you @zoewundenberg.bsky.social for reporting.

returning NDIS to its purpose and making it sustainable are what Butler says are the two key issues #NPC [translation = cuts]

The @antipovertycentre.org's @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org on The Briefing from 3min on how some of our most vulnerable are being unfairly targeted by a broken system that is allegedly being exploited by some operators, costing taxpayers billions of dollars play.listnr.com/podcast/the-...

I had a friend deliver in Gaza deliver Taqwa formula a little while ago- but it is now available in markets and I would like her to get some so this sweet baby can eat. If you want to know Taqwa’s whole story you should click on her link but it will break your heart

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Thanks to a hint from @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org , we've added a first iteration for the "Detailed Receipts" dataset from the AEC. In total we're tracking +A$892M for #Australia now. Note: This adds some donations with only the year as the date. These aren't shown in timeseries charts yet.

Norway's wealth fund to announce measures on Israeli investments next week - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/norway-wealth-fund-announce-measures-israeli-investments-next-week

Wish Mohammed a happy birthday ❤️

"At the end of the day, if you're going to have adults being infantilised by a set of rules that give one person such power over another, you're always going to have perverse outcomes." This will be true as long as 'Job Search Providers' can suspend payments. It's Dole Parole, not a job service.

Unemployed and underemployed workers have been systemically excluded from policy discussions that concern them. No policies developed by such exclusion have any legitimacy. This exclusion needs to end. Nothing about us without us.

The list of providers in the new disability employment service that starts on 1 November is now public. Our old fave APM scored contracts in every state & territory despite their notorious reputation! Who needs a good reputation with a former ALP Premier on your board and... (thx @donation.watch)

Police cars blocking the march from what? Why, the US consulate building of course.

I got there bang on 1pm but was in a part of the march next to Wynyard on York st that never got to move at all. Still, people were calm, positive and cooperative, sharing umbrellas when started to pour. I couldn't see far ahead so thought there might be around 5-10,000 people. Ha!

paid for with the proceeds from the bomb bay doors?

They did their best to endanger public safety by turning marchers back after crossing the bridge, while masses were still moving in the opposite direction. Then when we got back to Wynyard, the station was shut. “Feared the worse” my arse they were out to make trouble.

wow what a relief they fixed the “problem” of people not wanting to make their living from war and misery

NEW: 90,000 people protesting against the genocide in Gaza have shut down Sydney Harbour Bridge. 🇦🇺👏

I'm looking forward to hearing where this "crowd crush" thing came from. Presumably this isn't an issue at concerts, NY fireworks, bridge & tunnel openings, boxing day sales, rush hour...I'm missing something profound about this particular "perilous" situation www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a homeless ex-soldier in Sydney, Australia squatted an empty home on Marion Street, Auburn. "Forcible possession of homes will not solve the housing problem... But what other avenue is open to a man in desperate circumstances like me?" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1016...

As ever, the biggest threat to public safety at a protest is the presence of police

💀💀 to the eye dee eff #FreePalestine #MarchForHumanity 🇵🇸