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This isn't normal "It’s a very personal thing, and “normalising” something that really shouldn’t be an every day or week thing isn’t helpful in my eyes. This isn’t normal. Being told to be grateful for a bag of veges that you have to throw out half of yourself isn’t NORMAL."

If I ever do anything in politics, my central platform will be ‘make social services not suck’. Won’t even be aiming to make them brilliant. Just ‘not shit’.

$21 a week is about what the lanlords want for us to be able to pay the next rent increase isn't it?

Happy CPI Day to those who celebrate. Lots of Estimates stuff today - both Treasury and the RBA. @amyremeikis.bsky.social and her underlings (ie me) will be on it at #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

*2021 ... when that $25 increase could get you a lot more than it does today

1) does @davidshoebridge.bsky.social know what the JobSeeker rate is & how many 100s of dollars a week it is below the poverty line? 2) what's the point of the greens having a policy saying Centrelink payments should be above the poverty line if they start talking about increasing it by pennies?

It’s no time for tinkering and trade-offs that will barely be noticeable to the people who need help the most – whether they’re in a low-paid job, on Centrelink, or both. Greens coming out with a policy that “increases” JobSeeker less than what Morrison did in 2022 is not how you tackle poverty.

turns out the huge increase in number and size of bigger cars correlates with more drivers killing people who are pedestrians and cyclists. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

An immediate reaction is to say the Albanese government has learned nothing from #robodebt. But perhaps they have learned only too well how to punch down on welfare recipients with onerous, cruel and illegal conditions. #poverty #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol

Another tax proposal: the tax free threshold should be roughly equal to the full-time minimum wage. Pay for it by making companies pay more. Workers pay a far higher rate of tax in proportion to their gross earnings than companies pay. This needs to be corrected.

INFLATION YOU SAY>? Time to pump it up youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI

it was so great to finally be working again, but whoops still in poverty and whoops here's a 415 dollar fee for tax despite you payiing out of pocket for work from home costs which the tax agent cant do as a deduction... anyway now my braain's completely fucked and im in ultra-poverty again

""I kept ringing them and saying, 'I've got zero points, I've got no requirements. Why am I getting these suspensions?' But it just kept happening," His payments were later cancelled, leaving him without income support for more than three year"

In 2023, the Disability Royal Commission and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguards Commission’s Own Motion Inquiry Report provided overwhelming evidence that the estimated 17,000 people living in group homes are at increased risk of violence, abuse and neglect.

Re: charity hampers… “an amount that could well buy someone more of what they and their family actually wanted on their table if they were allowed to just have money rather than the layers of inefficiency that come with charities in this country.”

Please feed me I need a breakfast toastie or hotdog I just... I'm completely spiralling lmao

Politicians telling us to ‘turn down the temperature’ is peak hypocrisy, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "Why is it the people pointing to the fire are those being told to stop being so vocal about it?" www.deepcutnews.com/p/politician...

Oooh it's inflation day. What do we recon? 4%?

Hunger stress whee... Should shower and try to laundry. Please donate, I only need 34 AUD to get a hot breakfast

“So many students, staff and alumni are disgusted by the university abandoning its commitment to human rights as it deepens ties with a genocidal state." Hey @albomp.bsky.social - any comment on the Sydney University Chancellor turning the temperature up? #GazaGenocide #auspol

BREAKING: New data reveals that Victoria was the deadliest state for racehorses in the 2025-26 season. It's a shameful title for our state. Only the Greens will end support for this industry based on gambling-fuelled cruelty. Read the full article: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Ms Henzon has Antiphospholipid syndrome, which can cause heavier or prolonged menstrual bleeding. She said even on occasions when menstrual pads were available, the supply was never enough. "They [prison guards] denied me from getting another sanitary pad until a week later," she said.

"AS always, they call for MORE food relief, to expand the footprint of “Australia’s third supermarkets” – surely with so many people accessing Foodbank-supplied charities the reach of the purple supermarket is getting up there, especially when you add the fleet of yellow OzHarvest vans?"

The current withdrawal cap for hardship and compassionate release prior to preservation age is $10,000, which has remained unchanged since 1997. Stewart said this frozen cap should be reviewed, considering that, in line with inflation, it would sit at around $21,500 to $22,600 today.

Protests call for Centrelink to 'stop profiteering off poverty' as payment cancellations resume

That’s true, I don’t have faith in it either. Or in the entire possibility of retiring in any form. It’s more the passing of responsibility as a concept that irritates me. Governments individualise so many systemic responsibilities.

It’s always outsourcing. Instead of them raising payments we have to raise our own (if lucky enough to have super).

lost funds, poor super performance, getting paid less than a man doing same job, and finally - disability. I also have no prospect of ever owning a home so my super isn't funding a livable retirement either. May as well rob peter to pay Paul 🤷‍♀️

Ooh, staving off homelessness for a little longer 🤩 Shutup and give me what's left of my money.. that I mostly missed out on due to.. Multiple casual jobs not subject to compulsory employer contributions, or fuck all eaten up by fees with part-time, and when you couldn't choose your own fund,