#NewSTART

It’s the 10 year anniversary of the New START Treaty! What is #NewSTART & why is it so important? Find out in the thread below #NewSTART entered into force

Much has been made of the fact Newstart hasn't increased in real terms since 1994. But why has the freeze gone on so long? Let's look back at how we

we get told, time after time, that the ABC can’t put Newstart recipients or poor ppl on their panels ‘cause they need guests who can talk about “a range of

💧Gaye Crispin

Why did PM #Morrison, on Oct 1, give 52 of his personal staff a $27,197.53c pay rise EACH.$27K extra per year is twice the #Newstart rate! And Morrison acknowledged it's

Peri Strathearn

A message to my comrades at the News Corp regionals:If they're not paying to run a press or rent an office in your community, why should they reap the profits

Labor opened concentration camps

Hypothetically, if you were a Labor government in 2013 that froze the Medicare rebate, so that it did not increase each year thereafter, that is effectively a cut to Medicare

Dangerous Meredith

This is a very interesting article. As an ex arts administrator and small business planning course teacher, who has mentored creatives in business and project management, I have an observation

💧 The Noisy Toaster Villain

A lot of the people that they putting up as excample of older woman on Newstart also have disibility the question really needs to be asked How is so many

#NewSTART was signed 10 years ago today and it has reduced US and Russian deployed nuclear stockpiles to levels not seen since the 1950s. It provides stability and predictability at

AusUnemployment

Time for a dose of economic reality. Here are the numbers that matter to social security recipients and the recovery, not the cherry-picked best-case scenarios from #Budget2020.There was no increase

💧🔥🐨Bee🐝🐀PM for Sewer Rats

10 ideas to help repay Australia's debt:1. Implement comprehensive tax reform including a 25% flat rate of company tax for business on total income, no exceptions.2. Stop all govt grants

non compliant native

This resilience thing is really interesting - pre CV19 it was supposedly the solution to all kinds of everyday and ongoing colonial violence Blackfullas experiencehttps://twitter.com/ben_hr/status/1245624915379683328 But turns out a whole

Gotherella Blogs

I'm now in employment, which I fought my ass off for, but I wanted to add my voice into the #MOstrike so here's a thread spanning the 9 or so

NewStart. Indue Card & other LNP Inc policies use coercive control to deny human rights. Some common examples are:Isolating you from friends & familyDepriving you of basic needs, such as

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If you think poverty doesn’t increase suicides I’ll tell you why you’re wrong. A thread.... In Jan 2016 i lost my mother at the time i received a carers Pension

Why compulsory ‘independent’ job capacity style assessments for disabled people under #NDIS are an awful idea that destroys our rights based scheme (my personal view as an @NDIS participant -