@RAHU

Change is not coming from the Government, Out of 227 sitting federal MPs and senators, only twelve declared no property ownership.
https://overland.org.au/2026/04/organised-abandonment-and-victorias-big-housing-build/

one-bedroom “affordable housing” properties at $350 per week, is equal or higher than the rate of #Jobseeker itself, which begs the question — affordable for whom? Tying rent not to the tenant’s income but to the brutal private property rental market

https://www.homes.vic.gov.au/big-housing-build

#BigBuild #housingcrisis #landlords #publichousing #rent

Organised abandonment and Victoria’s Big Housing Build - Overland literary journal

The crisis is not due to a physical shortage of properties. Rather, it is a series of intentional decisions by Governments to prioritise a system of private property over peoples’ basic human need for shelter, allowing landlords and corporations to continue to hoard housing and extract wealth from tenants via rent.

Overland literary journal
Only one property in all of Australia affordable for rent on #JobSeeker. Less than 15% of properties on rental market affordable for a couple on two minimum wages. #YouthAllowance makes renting out of reach. Single people on the #AgedPension, left behind as well. #HousingCrisis #auspol #FederalSOS

Coming up on Beltane festival and still in search of software developer work.

I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.

I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.

And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).

I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.

Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.

http://www.snert.com/resume/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ioccc-winner-seeks-employment

#GetFediHired #FediHire #jobseeker #gofundme

Anthony C Howe - Snert - Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae for Anthony C Howe, Software Developer

#Pocock says government ‘ignoring the needs’ of #vulnerable #Australians as independent report calls for #jobseeker to be lifted.

The Australian government’s independent economic inclusion advisory committee has released its annual report before the budget, calling for an #increase to jobseeker to 90% of the #agedpension over four years, and an increase to commonwealth #rentassistance.

The committee, which was established by Labor in 2022 as part of a deal with independent senator #DavidPocock, made the same recommendation to increase jobseeker and other income supports in 2025, 2024 and 2023. The government is unlikely to increase jobseeker in the coming budget.

Its fourth report states there are now 3.6 million Australians, including 1 million children and young people, who are now living in #poverty.

It recommends actions to decrease the number of children living in poverty through #familypayments and #childsupport systems and calls for an immediately end to all #Centrelink payment penalties, including suspensions and cancellations related to compulsory activities.

Pocock says that months into the crisis in the #MiddleEast, the government still hasn’t taken any “meaningful action” to support the most vulnerable Australians.

“We’ve seen the #primeminister jump to the defence of #multinational #gascompanies while ignoring the needs of the most vulnerable Australians … Australia should be proud of the safety net we provide to those who have fallen on hard times and help them to build a better life rather than condemning them to economic and social exclusion.” #auspol #AlbaneseIsUseless