#HomesNotBombs #RaiseTheRate #auspol What war is worth fighting if we doesn’t ensure our own are home and safe and secure? What values do we take from here to anywhere if we don’t ensure #HumanRights are protected and defended here at home? The economy doesn’t care our religion or creed. #inflation

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vzhasc32fu4oaivv5s3iaqz2/post/3mhaa7tmu6s27

Labor's whole conundrum right now is "We keep punishing the poor, as much as inhumanly possible, every single year, but they just keep saying they'll vote One Nation! What are we doing wrong here?"

#auspol #RaiseTheRate

A whole article about how people who've been "left behind" are turning to One Nation, not one mention of socioeconomics, not one mention of the crippling social security and disability systems in Australia.

Just talking about workers, and educating people. Get fucked.

People were dumb and working when they voted for you before, just as they are right now when they won't vote for you. What's changed is they can't afford to rent a house, their salaries are shit, and social security no longer fills gaps; not Job Seeker, not Austudy, not Disability Pensions, not even Family Tax Benefits.

Everything has been tied to headline inflation, which means for poor people, finances have gone back by as much as 10% per year. That compounds, and compounds, and when a review said things were dire, Labor said "We can't do all the nice things".

"Maybe One Nation can" is the first thing Labor voters think, even if it's not promised. Because they've been told by Labor for 20 years now that "The Greens are evil"

#auspol #RaiseTheRate

They can afford an undisclosed amount on defence, but find it very hard to #RaiseTheRate of JobSeeker and all social security payments so people can live. Apparently it’s okay to count every cent with a scowl for citizens and not to count it at all for defence. Defending what? #auspol #economy
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... Excellent: Evicting homeless campers violates #HumanRights. Shame Moreton Bay City Council. Full shame. #NoEmptyHouses #AffordableHousing #RaiseTheRate #HomelessnessIsSystemic #auspol #HousingNOW stable, secure, affordable, long tenure, known community. #SpaceToLive

Evicting homeless campers viol...
Evicting homeless campers violated human rights, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court has found a south-east Queensland council violated the human rights of homeless campers.

Power bills up 32% from last year.

JobSeeker up 0% from last year.

If you're not fighting for an increase to JobSeeker every day of your life, you are not a leftie

#auspol #RaiseTheRate

Empathise with people on the pension and other benefits then Albo. Go on, do the right thing. Get people out of poverty. Now. Not some airy-fairy next term BS not-a-promise.
#RaiseTheRate #QT #Auspol #QuestionTime.

So I assume the new social housing in Victoria will charge 35% of benefits, vs 25% of benefits for the public housing it [partly] replaces.

#RaiseTheRate

Everyday people deserve and require respect and care from harm. #RaiseTheRate While there’s a #HousingCrisis let’s have a #MoratoriumOnEvictions and bring all empty properties back onto the market: for sale or rent. Housing prices are harming Australians. #auspol #RentersRights #ruleoflaw #SOS
Finished reading Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond which was published in 2023. He describes how American poverty is a systemic problem that is blamed on individuals. Saddest thing is how much worse it has gotten since he wrote it (and it was such a hopeful epilogue).
Ties in with a recent ABC article about how Australia spends more keeping people in poverty than it would take to stop poverty #poverty #USA #raisetherate