Excerpt from a new #poem
If those who govern, those who claim to care,
Choose willful blindness as they watch me fall,
Why not complete this torment I must bear?
A kinder end than no response at all.
The noose of neglect grows tighter day by day—
At least speak truth as you all turn away.
#auspol #Housing #Disability #Despair #Poverty #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
Scenic Rim council cracks down on farmers hosting campers without a permit - ABC News
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/105137282
#auspol #HousingCrisis #BTPM #Homelessness #ROI #UBI #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
The City of Moreton Bay’s recent decision to penalise and criminalise homelessness and vulnerable people for owning pets is a devastating blow to some of our most marginalised community members.
Please sign the petition below.
#Dignity #RaiseTheRate
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
https://www.change.org/p/amend-moreton-bay-city-council-s-laws-on-homelessness-and-pet-ownership
JFC.
My Mac has chosen violence today.
Once poverty has you in your grasp and employers continue to find excuses not to hire disabled people… no way out.
I am sure everything will end up being fantastic.
In a land of plenty, to be afflicted with such a malady is naught but a jest worthy of a loblolly boy's tale, as many are left with naught but a dog's portion of gruel to sustain them.
#BTPM #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice #RaiseTheRate #JobSeeker #DSP #UniversalBasicIncome #SackSarina
Jim Chalmers that is an out and out lie.
Measures don’t help most in need.
Homelessness is still on the rise.
Pensions and Jobseeker payments well below Henderson poverty line.
People are suffering, some driven to suicide.
You could easily change it, but lack the moral integrity to do so.
Noticeably excluded from this are #Veterinary students who must perform 2440 hours (the most of any other student) of mandatory unpaid placement.
This will do nothing to stop #PlacementPoverty anyway. Means tested and well below the poverty line.
We need, and can, do so much better.
Some teaching, nursing and social worker students at university will get paid for their placements from 2025 as the government begins its response to the university accord. It comes alongside changes to indexation rates for HECS loans, which the Education Minister says will reduce the average HECS debt loan by $1200 dollars this year. But does the policy extend far enough? Guest: Jason Clare, Education Minister
That feeling when you book in some medical appointments when you are broke. They are only one-off gaps, after all.
You are just hoping your clients will pay on time and RE can handle you being in arrears another week longer.
#CostOfLiving #Pension #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#RaiseTheRate #Disability
Mehreen Faruqi posted this on Instagram with the comment, "What’s stopping you @albomp?"
I would ask the same of the...
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...46 (60.5%) current senate members who benefited from free education.
Other than those representing the Greens, have they ever checked their privilege?
#auspol #HECS #HigherEducation #CostOfLiving #Poverty #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
David Wakeham
Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺💚