Basic Income Australia

Our objective is to introduce a #basicincome of $500 every week paid to all adult Australians. Help us make it a reality!

[Basic Income Australia @basicincome_au]

The goal of @basicincome_au in 2025 is to build a unified movement around #basicincome in Australia through local engagement.

If you'd like to help, please visit us at https://t.co/DHnXWS66ax and sign up to be a member!

Or reach out in DM's or replies!

[Basic Income Australia @basicincome_au]

@noisywomanMP @JeremyPoxon And dead 😔.

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Or, another way to put this: the government has been hiding the true number of unlawful mutual obligation cancellations for years https://t.co/rAbCUUIx9R

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

We've got 30 years of evidence that privatised employment services and mutual obligations make finding work harder. It's insulting to people trapped in this harmful, failed system for Labor to simply fiddle at the edges and label it "reform".

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

Labor's reforms only tinker at the edges of the housing crisis. We need a massive build of public housing. That's how we get out of this mess. And if Labor had the courage to tax the big end of town and the 1% properly, we'd have the money to do it.

Tax the rich. Homes for all.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

This is Labor's "responsible" budget:

❌More for US wars
❌More for coal and gas
❌$59 million a day for private schools
❌NDIS slashed
❌No renter support
❌No lift in welfare payments
❌Growing aged care wait times

Hate to see what "irresponsible" would have looked like.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

During the treasurer's budget speech tonight, Australia’s billionaires got $560,000 richer. While they're accumulating wealth for doing literally nothing, you’re working harder and harder and falling further behind.

Nothing in this budget changes that. It's time to tax the 1%.

[Basic Income Australia @basicincome_au]

@JasonSpaceTime @Jane02822979 @senatorpennyqld Living below the rate of poverty does make it very difficult for people to become employable though.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

JobSeeker is nearly $300 a week below the poverty line. Immiserating people on welfare is utterly immoral and makes it even harder for those who can work to find a job.

We're sick of Labor crying poor when the 1% grow their wealth in their sleep. Tax the rich. Raise the rate.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

A resilient economy! Thanks, PM. This will be great news to the disabled people you're booting off the NDIS, and the people on income support you're keeping trapped in poverty, and the public schools you refuse to fund properly, and the pensioners you're gouging for care, and th

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

Wages are flat, costs are up and people feel like they have no power over their lives.

This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of an economic system that exploits and dominates workers to enrich an elite and unaccountable few.

It's time to tax the 1% and take our power back.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

👇🏼 End “Mutual” Obligations

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Normalising the reliance on food banks - instead of raising the rate and investing in basic services - has been a low-key disaster for communities and collective, civil society as a whole

but go off queen

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

Could the media stop with this bullshit? CPI adjustments to poverty payments are not a "cash boost" and it's a disgusting insult to say so.

Try listening to people forced to live below the poverty line for a change instead of regurgitating Labor spin.

(Fixed it for you, btw.)

[Basic Income Australia @basicincome_au]

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[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

"Anti-poverty and human rights groups are calling on the government to abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework, following a scathing report from the Commonwealth ombud" via @TheMandarinAU https://t.co/qpCS2BhCj7

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system

Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇https://t.co/2bhh8novZu

[Basic Income Australia @basicincome_au]

Check out @basicincome_au's Winter and Spring 2025 Newsletter:

https://t.co/6swkk28nwr

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

@SenatorThorpe @senatorpennyqld Minister Gallagher refuses to answer basic questions from @DavidPocock about whether they got legal advice that giving cops these powers to cancel welfare payments is constitutional

"This is extraordinary that the government won't even confirm"

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

@SenatorThorpe "Who would have thought that in 2025 a Labor government would introduce legislation that so egregiously tramples on people's human rights and the rule of law? But here we are" - @senatorpennyqld

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Just now, @SenatorThorpe criticises the government for ignoring these 100+ experts and groups to sneak the amendment through "without any scrutiny"

"I'd be putting my head down in shame too, Minister"