Stop telling us pensions are up. Indexation is not a rise. There was a minuscule increase for jobseekers, but people are still hurting. Wages might have risen, but that was more than eaten up by the cost of housing alone.
God I hate people
Reading comments from Facebook its clear a lot haven't recognised that this will effect them too with having to prove they are also older then 16 #NoAgeBan
People are “reoffending” in order to get three meals a day and a roof over their head in literal prison and the coroner is begging the government to do something about housing because people are dying because of it, and in response our government has decided to ban kids from social media just before an election instead of doing anything about this.
@kristin8X In hindsight, I would have become an electrician. But when I was growing up, if you were good academically it was expected that you should go to uni. So I did. And it will take me 40 years to recover from that expectation.
"People who say its a feel good story don't seem to realise the opportunities he had that made sure he succeeded the same opportunities that no longer exist for the next generation."
@ArtistAffame shared a post on Ko-fi. https://t.co/wa08nUR5sS
@rachelrwithers good lord. a man who won an election on a promise of "nobody left behind" is buying million dollar properties while maintaining the lowest welfare payments in the oecd. no further questions or takes required!
@ArtistAffame You'd think that with so many Labor MPs being elected purely on preference flows from the Greens it would give them an ounce of humility. Alas, no.
Single parents in Australia are owed $3.7bn in child support.
The latest research shows the rate of poverty in single parent households is more than three times that of coupled parents. Rates of severe and extreme poverty were also higher.
https://t.co/TVQTSCvZxZ
What would help ppl's mental health (there's oodles of evidence) and access to community and connection would be welfare payments above the poverty line.
#RaiseTheRate#NobodyDeservesPoverty
If you have to do work for the dole to get a measley poverty payment or you get cut off that is in fact being forced 🤦♀️ I do plenty of work in my community with out adding to the profits of “charities”