How in the fuck do we live in a country where causing immense interest rate pain to renters & young home owners is “necessary & good for the economy” but stopping franking credits or negative gearing would “cause too much pain to those relying on the income”??
#NewsCorpse
Australia's COVID situation is out of control.
A mega-thread looking at where we are, how we got here, and what we need to do to get out of this shitshow.
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Cauliflower is $9.99. Petrol is $2 bucks a litre. Aged care in turmoil. Our debt is a trillion. There’s no ICAC. Christian Porter still drawing a wage. Flood victims yet to see one cent despite a supposed 5 Billion disaster fund. But StuntMo only focussed with Albo’s weight loss.
Whatever is your belief, let us accept that none of us have ever seen a cold bring down health care systems around the world simultaneously, increase excess death and reduce life expectancy. Never in 100 years. We are living in a very unusual time.
Tell ya what would help mental health - a 4 day work week with no loss of pay. Gives people more time to enjoy the good things in life, share the work of society around and reduce unemployment, reduce stress and generally make life better.
covid exposed a fact that most people already knew to be true: mannnnnnnnnnnnnny jobs don’t need 8 hours of your life during almost every single day of your life for those jobs to get done effectively.
💥If you’re not religious💥selecting a religion on your census helps Religious organisations apply for & get tax payer funded subsidies, grants & funding.
I was baptised Catholic but I don’t practice = ✅No Religion
#Census21#religion#Census2021
Things to protest that are actual human rights abuses
Indigenous Deaths in custody
Refugees in indefinite detention
A woman a week being killed
What is not? Being asked to consider not just yourself but the safety & welfare of others during a pandemic.
Check your privilege
If you’re a man who discovered your feminism after having a daughter, that’s ok, I’m glad you’re here, but I need you to be willing to honestly examine the period preceding your epiphany, the ways you treated women, and the value you assigned to them, before you helped make one.
Millennials hold 4.8% of all wealth. There are now 40-year-old Millennials.
At the same age, Gen X had 9% of wealth. Boomers had 21%
The largest generation in history did what the system told them to do and became the most-educated in history. Now they're the poorest in history
In Aust. Ms Dhu died in custody for unpaid fines. A victim of Dom violence. Asked for medical assistance didn’t receive it. Mr Ward a respected elder, blew over the limit. Put in a police van & transported 4hrs without A/C. Was literally cooked alive, no charges 1/8