One week til the #PoveratiXmas thread is go! Have you prepped some wishes? Or stashed some money to spoil a stranger?

Labor could be doing the right thing and increasing payments so that 2.5m people in this country are not living in poverty. They could be following the Robodebt Royal Commission and putting in a 6yr limit on debt recoveries. Instead, its more criminalising welfare recipients.

Our human rights are being eroded and it’s Labor at the helm

Friends, if you're able please help Mark and his partner cover expenses over this non-teaching period. #MutualAidAustralia #MutualAid #HelpSky 💸💕

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Excited to be facilitator for antipoverty network sa northern branch for campaigning school that kicks off this week !

It’s so windy and cold tonight. The wind keeps waking me up

For every entry-level vacancy, there are 39 people on the JobSeeker payment. Of those, 25 have barriers to work. This is the highest ratio ever recorded by the Snapshot. Entry-level jobs now make up just 11% of all vacancies. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NEW: I have obtained, under FOI, a secret Department report that initially recommended the Targeted Compliance Framework - aka, the unlawful "mutual obligations" scheme It reveals that, like Robodebt, they recklessly built this thing to punish "entitled" frauds who never existed

Spent the morning at urgent care with a nasty chest infection 🤦🏻‍♀️ never ignore symptoms folks

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I got invited out tonight from my friends for my birthday tomorrow. Being a carer for so long this has never happened before. I didn’t have friends to go out with. Checked the venue and I can afford a meal and a drink so I said yes! I’m excited

Meeting with antipoverty network sa done so now it’s time to relax

if you are wondering what the fight over hospital and NDIS funding between the states and the commonwealth is all about, it is this. they were promised 45% two years ago, offer now is reportedly closer to 35%. they need to make a deal in time for next budget www.canberratimes.com.au/story/910764...

My bdays in 3 days and my bday present it to be able to do a decent grocery shop if you’re wondering about how it’s going for those of us in poverty 😂

Here you go Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social . One fresh ginger beer

As a father, the weight is heavy — trying to provide for my family from nothing, rebuilding life piece by piece after losing everything.😓 Every support means warmth, food, and safety to our little ones.💔

Just Saying .. you have got to be #FCKN joking ??!! Seriously who the #FCK is running with this ? DrOz of the #FCK47 Admin ?? #StopSalmonFarming #ToxicIndustry #WhatShadeOfPinkWouldYouLikeYourSalmon @australianlabor.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Sussen ley now talking about poverty and people going hungry. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone

Good news everyone! The @ausunemployment.auwu.org.au Advocacy phone line is now live, 10-2pmevery weekday. A real person will answer the call or return your message. 1800 289 848

Many unemployed people compelled to attend these agencies are disabled, or have parent/carer commitments, and private employers exclude both those groups . Create jobs, not punitive job agencies.

BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government just joined with the Coalition to vote against an inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.

This is outrageous. This gives the cops the power to cancel someone's Centrelink payments maliciously. If someone's on Centrelink & the cops don't like them, all they'll need to do is issue an arrest warrant. No conviction needed, not even any evidence. #ACAB #racism

This pissant government is such a disappointment on so many levels

NOBODY DESERVES TO GO HUNGRY

The Nationals have officially ditched net-zero. Next they’ll vote to bring back lead paint and asbestos for "tradition’s sake." #auspol #ClimateCrisis

The other problem, besides the cost to see a GP, is finding one without closed books. Three medical clinics in my suburb, none of them with doctors seeing new patients.

good intentions rarely pass the test of public pressure or power. And even if you trust this government, do you trust the next one to not abuse those powers? Do you trust police to make recommendations only on what you would consider “serious” suspicion of a crime

“If you think cancelling the subsistence people on Centrelink are forced to live on will make a domestic or family abuser more likely to hand themselves in, and not subject their loved ones to an even more extreme, or possibly final, form of abuse, you do not understand abusers, or living with one.”

I also like Joy Division. I don't like starving people or punishing them because they're poor. Only a ghoul would do that. It doesn't matter where you grew up or how much you pretend to be a working class hero, doing it is wrong.

I don’t care about what tshirts albo wears I care that under his government poverty and homelessness has increased

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THREAD @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social govt is becoming more & more “the punishers & the straighteners? Remember Albanese used to boast about “fighting Tories”? Now he is one. His reformist zeal seems non-existent. He has significant political capital, a coalition eating itself.

No media about this? NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas .

We really have to stop treating labor like they are the good guys

A FLAGRANT breach of the rights to social security & due process. Sneaking through draconian powers in an unrelated bill is performative crap Labor can only get away with for welfare recipients bc it's easy to punch down on us Read @australiainstitute.org.au update here👇 Ty @amyremeikis.bsky.social

The Band-Aid and the Bleeding: How Charitable Systems Fail the Most Vulnerable: theaimn.net/the-band-aid...

Robodebt class action funder wants $71 million from settlement www.lawyerly.com.au/robodebt-cla...

At least 40 migrants, including children, have died after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia, in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region this year, authorities say. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government amendments providing new powers to stop welfare payments to fugitives subject to a warrant for a serious violent or sexual offence have been added to the Social Security and Other Leg. Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025 prior to passing Reps. parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...

Taking from the young, giving to the old: how our tax system is letting us down theconversation.com/taking-from-...

"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...

“It is very rare that [the RBA] remember that they are talking about people. People who are made to subsist on below-poverty line welfare payments, because we punish them for taking one for the country and making it easier for RBA board members to sleep at night.” Thank you @amyremeikis.bsky.social

NAIRU. This should be talked about in every discussion on unemployment instead of personal responsibility crap. "Be a good sport and help us keep inflation down, thank you!"

I now pretty much live alone bro comes over once a week and stays a night (so he can watch nfl at 3am) he’s now with his gf and her little boy most of the time she also lives closer to his work

Listen to the bloke unable to stop his right hand from moving

Inequality reporter Cait Kelly speaks to Nour Haydar about the automated system linked to the cancellations, and the human toll of a broken system www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nothing makes them more insecure than people they look down on having a decent quality of life - only superior people are allowed to have this!

A long-serving Australian Defence Force major accused of choking a woman in a heated car park confrontation has fronted an ACT court www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/ca...