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Next week is Anti-Poverty Week Right now, people on JobSeeker & Youth Allowance are forced to choose between rent, food or medicine. Poverty isn’t inevitable it’s a policy choice. Call on the Govt to Raise the Rate to $82 a day so income support does what it should: help people through tough times.

For many of these folks it has meant less choice and less control than before the NDIS. The severing of funding from duty of care/provider of last resort allows the most vulnerable people to be used as a pawn in the battle between scheme cost and provider profit/sustainability.

A Vision for Justice - Let's make it real. #VisionForJustice #CLCA #WelfareRights #EconomicJustice

It seems so much harder to find quiet spaces since the emergence of noise cancelling headphones. I just had to leave a library quiet room, other users seemed unaware of how loud they were being themselves. It sucks being sensitive to noise while also having claustrophobic ears. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Recognition of Palestine MUST be combined with actions to stop the genocide. With the deliberate assassination overnight of Al-Jazeera journalists and plans to permanently occupy Gaza, the Australian government must take meaningful action and suspend military contracts with Israel!

Ten writers by whose I’ve read more than five books: Douglas Adams Issac Asimov Margaret Atwood Stephen Baxter Simone de Beauvoir Jim Butcher Octavia E Butler Arthur C Clarke Philip K Dick Arthur Conan Doyle Rene Descartes Jasper Fforde NK Jemesin Neil Gaiman Ursula Le Guin Ann Leckie Livy

Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "