When you're watching The People vs Robodebt tonight, remember that this is not simply history - Labor is hunting welfare recipients for dodgy debts to this day. And more than two years on from the Royal Commission, they've failed to implement key recommendations to prevent harm.

Under Labor’s Aged Care Act the worse your health, the more you’ll pay. The Greens tried to remove co-payments when the bill came to the Senate last year and we were the only ones to oppose the laws. Labor’s bleeding pensioners dry while giving tax-dodging corporations a pass.

From today, JobSeeker will be indexed to $56.69 a day. That's 89 cents more - or what Labor calls "cost of living relief" 🫠 Claiming credit for an automatic inflation adjustment that keeps people in poverty tells you everything you need to know about the state of the ALP.

A grotesque display of opulence from the world's elite. Billionaires feast on taxpayer funded banquets while they back a genocide and burn the world. But sure, migrants are the problem.

62% is a climate disaster. This is a plan for more climate disasters, more job losses & more homes destroyed. The Government has failed. Instead of being ambitious and bold, they have cowered to the fossil fuel industry. It’s a fake target, more about politics than science or the environment.

Coal and gas corporations will love Labor’s utter failure of a climate target.

The PM says Labor knows global heating is real - but his emissions target either proves he's lying, or they just don't give a shit. This is not 'ambitious', this is a capitulation to the coal and gas lobby that will cost lives. I'm not disappointed, I'm absolutely furious.

The Climate Risk Assessment is distressing and shocking, especially for those most at risk: people in poverty, older people, people with disabilities and people without safe and secure housing. Labor has no more excuses. Anything less than net zero by 2035 is a death sentence.

Thousands of older people are left homeless because Labor are rationing aged care out only to those who can most afford it. In for-profit aged care, the worse your health is, the less likely you are to be cared for. That's shameful in this wealthy country. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

The Greens and advocates have been trying to warn people about the new Aged Care Act for months. Now this report confirms our worst fears. A co-payment tsunami is about to break on older Australians, thanks to Labor’s dodgy deal with the Coalition to protect provider bottom lines.

It’s good news that Robodebt victims will be getting more compensation. But let's be clear: Labor is still administering a welfare compliance regime that is legally dubious, pursues dodgy debts, and punches down on poor people. Today's announcement doesn't change that.

BIG GREENS WIN! Labor will begin releasing 20,000 home care packages immediately after suffering a humiliating defeat in the aged care showdown in the Senate. This is a great result for older people desperately waiting for urgent care.

Despite the govt trying to hide it we now know that 200,000 older people are waiting for home care. The money is budgeted, providers are ready - there's no reason why Labor can't release more care packages TODAY. If they won't choose to do it, the Senate will force their hand.

Labor’s refusal to release more home care packages – despite a waitlist of over 200,000 – is rippling across our health system, keeping hospitals full of older people who just want to go home. Every day the govt delays is another day that someone is not getting the care they need.

People are dying waiting for care, because Labor won’t release more home care packages. The Greens say that’s not good enough and we need Labor to do better now.

More than 200,000 older Australians are waiting for care because Labor won’t release more home care packages. The Greens are calling on the government to urgently release enough packages for everyone who needs one – and they could do that today.

BREAKING: yesterday Labor rightly condemned anti-migrant rallies. The same day they signed a $400m plus secret deal with Nauru to allow them to forcibly deport up to 100,000 people without their consent. Labor’s dog whistle politics is so much part of the problem.

Yesterday I chaired a Senate inquiry hearing into the aged care system. The findings are SHOCKING. No new home care packages have been released since June and the govt admitted that 121,000 people are waiting to get on the waitlist. That's on top of the 87,000 actually on the waitlist.

Waiving some small historical debts and providing compensation for illegal income apportionment is welcome, but it's just scratching the surface. The govt needs to implement the Robodebt Royal Commission recommendations now and get to work on creating a social security system that lifts us all up.

Our social services system degrades people and grinds them down, and keeps everyone who has a job scared and compliant. It needs to be rebuilt. But by implementing the Robodebt Royal Commission recs we can at least limit the system's harms. That's what the Greens' bill would do.

This is a tremendous win for the Greens and for advocates who have been pushing Labor to waive these income apportionment debts and protect people living in poverty from serious harm.

Your regular reminder that every year the Australian people subsidise private schools to the tune of $22 billion while the public school down the road from you will be waiting another decade for its bare minimum funding.

Labor talked a big game on Robodebt when it was Scott Morrison in charge. So why is it that years on - Labor are still chasing billions of dollars in dodgy and ancient debts from people on income support?

Labor’s learned nothing from Robodebt. They’ve known for years that the welfare compliance system is dodgy, but they’ve looked the other way while millions of payments were suspended or cancelled on legally dubious grounds. And now we know that DEWR has ignored warnings since 2018!

This is now two reports in two weeks that ought to spell the end of the ridiculous welfare compliance system. Hundreds of thousands of people are losing access to vital payments that they need to put food on the table - but Labor doesn’t seem to care. www.news.com.au/national/pol...

A 24 hour vigil outside Parliament House read the names of children killed by Israel in Gaza. Reading the names, I found it hard not to be moved thinking about these innocent lives lost.

Today’s Ombudsman’s report into welfare cancellations has found almost 1,000 people had their payments unlawfully cancelled by the automated system over 2 years. The Greens are calling on Labor to stop all welfare payment suspensions immediately.

Teaching conditions are learning conditions. When teachers thrive in their workplace, so do our kids. That’s why we should all get behind Queensland teachers today and join their calls for fairer pay and better working conditions. Solidarity. 💚✊️

Israel’s genocidal intent has been clear for years. Stern words are not enough. Recognition of Palestine is not enough. Israel must feel the full weight of global pressure or the killing will continue.

NAPLAN testing hasn't improved outcomes, it creates stress among students and adds a massive burden on teachers, who are often pressured to “teach to the test”. Standardised testing like this is a bad idea from a bygone era.

100,000 welfare recipients are waiting to learn whether they'll cop $1 billion in dodgy Robodebt-style debt notices. Labor and the LNP just voted to keep them in the dark.

BREAKING: The Greens will chair a Senate inquiry into Labor's transition to a new aged care system. You shouldn’t have to be a millionaire just to guarantee care in your old age, but that’s exactly what’s at risk from Labor’s new aged care system.

We're hiring! If you have a passion for policy and a commitment to Greens values we'd love to hear from you. With the Greens in balance of power in the Senate it's a great time to get involved and help us deliver real outcomes for people. Links to apply in the replies 👇

Any politician who thinks JobSeeker is adequate should try to pay rent, eat, and live on $20k a year. We need to raise JobSeeker. The Vinnies report backs calls from the Greens and others incl Labor’s own econ advisory committee, that this must happen. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor has sanctioned Mehreen Faruqi for holding up a sign in the Senate, but won’t sanction Israel for its genocide in Gaza. It’s like peaceful activism is worse than murdering countless Palestinian babies.

There’s a world of pain coming to Aged Care from this November unless Labor urgently gets serious about care. Pensioners and older renters will pay more than ever before, and many will miss out entirely, meaning people will be left to age and die without the care they need.

Delighted that the media is waking up to the fact that turning childcare centres into profit-making assets for unaccountable corporations might be, you know, bad. Now do job services, education, energy, aged care, telecommunications, banking, airports, hospitals...

Labor has subsidised the US war machine to the tune of $1.6 billion (so far) for absolutely nothing in return 🤷

Chris Rudge has a peer reviewed article out which reveals an estimated 15,000 social security recipients were wrongfully convicted of criminal offences between 1991 and 2011 in a scandal he is calling ‘the omissions affair’. This was the precursor to Robodebt welfare.substack.com/p/the-unexam...

Hi, regional Queenslander here. People in the regions aren't crying because of net zero. They're crying because extreme weather events caused by global heating are washing away their homes, killing their livestock and sending their insurance premiums through the roof.

Every school must be a welcoming and inclusive environment for every child, regardless of their needs. And we need to provide the funding, infrastructure and teacher support to make that happen. I'm worried that this move in Queensland is a backwards step.

Hounding people on low incomes for so-called "overpayments" based on dubious data is petty and cruel. Labor's Centrelink payments are below the poverty line. The last thing recipients need is the Government pursuing them to disprove a dodgy - and often decades old - debt notice.

The Greens are concerned for over 100,000 income support recipients who may receive new debt notices after the Secretary for Social Services said over $1 billion in welfare debt assessments would resume.

The aged care system is broken. Instead of prioritising the rights of older people, Labor let for-profit aged care providers cut corners and treat our older people like commodities. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/900383...

This week marks two years since the Robodebt Royal Commission and still Labor have refused to act on the commission’s recommendations to protect income recipients. ⤵️

A government capable of feeling shame would not repeatedly trot out the lie that an indexation adjustment to Centrelink payments is an "increase". There are more than 3 million people living in poverty. Labor is choosing to keep them there.

The Dept overseeing the govt's brutal mutual obligations scheme for income support recipients thinks a sign saying 'Free Palestine' causes distress. There is a trend of quiet censorship and fear of the pro-Israel lobby that is eroding the APS. It is unacceptable and it must stop.

Anthony Albanese is the PM of a country where 3.5 million people live in poverty, profiteers run rampant in the housing market and climate emissions are growing. So naturally he's convening a chat-fest to come up with a second-term agenda. The absolute state of the ALP.

You know you're on the right side of history when the reactionaries and genocide-apologists at The Australian are losing their minds about you. Solidary, Greta.