Helen

I don't know why i'm fuckn here

[Helen @crispy_57]

It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 11 years, since 7 Jun 2012 (via @twi_age).

[Phoenix Insurgent @PhxInsurgent]

Describing themselves as “the anarchist resistance of the bourgeois heart of Barcelona”... the first demand made by the squatters is that SAREB “dissolve itself and hand over the keys to all its properties”.
https://t.co/4JdyiQOkJ4

[kristin (she/her) @kristin8X]

IT’S 👏 LABOR’S 👏 OWN 👏 PLAN 👏

🏡🏡🏡

[Maiy Azize @MaiyAzize]

And Australia used to build 30,000 social homes every single year, right up until the 80s.

@_EverybodysHome has a plan to 25,000 social homes a year backed by 400 housing and a welfare orgs, put together with experts.

Government CAN do this. The question is whether it wants to.

[Adam Bandt @AdamBandt]

Here it is - Tanya Plibersek just approved Labor's first new coal mine.

Opening new coal in a climate crisis shows Labor is in full-blown science denial.

We don't need new coal and the climate cannot afford it.

A wilful act of climate vandalism. Shameful.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

94% of kids go back to prison before they turn 18. It costs $500k to keep a kid in prison each yr. Divert that to prevention & you only need a 6% success rate.
Yet we continue our prison love affair & prevention allergy

[David McBride @MurdochCadell]

This PwC Executive (and likely millionaire) leaked confidential Govt information for personal financial benefit, and to avoid tax.
The Govt may investigate him. May.

Meanwhile I face life in jail. No money involved, no espionage.
This country is broken. https://t.co/XmduDD2V47

[Max Chandler-Mather @MChandlerMather]

This morning Labor essentially CUT the number of homes they are willing to promise their $10 billion gamble on the stock will build, from 30,000 to 9,600 social and affordable homes over five years. And not even that is guaranteed. Here’s what’s happened…

[Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @averyqueerguy]

Abolish it all. It doesn’t work, and only funnels money to the neoliberal parties’ donors to punish poor people for existing.

The privatisation and gamification of welfare is causing immense harm.

#RaiseTheRateForAll #NobodyDeservesPoverty #88aDay #AbolishMOs

[Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @averyqueerguy]

It’s completely fucked that people dealing with (un)employment providers are 2.43x more likely to get suspended than those only doing online

These services don’t work, and they gleefully punish people trapped in the system with payment suspensions for no reason.

Abolish them.

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

In 6months:
-99,938 pay suspensions for homeless people
-136, 301 pay suspensions for Indigenous people
-227, 799 pay suspensions for people with a mental or physical disability

it would cost the government nothing in their precious budget to turn off this torture machine

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

While we’re talking about #RaiseTheRate, let’s not forget about the ghastly employment services system that jeopardises our payments en masse: almost 500k payment suspensions in 6 months. There’s no way to describe the sheer scale of harm here

[Sophie McNeill @Sophiemcneill]

Outrageous overreach by @WA_Police

Journalist documenting the relocation of sacred rock art in the Burrup industrial hub has photos seized from her home https://t.co/IbltQPZfXM

[Beeza Geeza @beezageeza]

here's what you do: instead of giving $200b to the 1%, you *take* $200b from the 1%, and then burn it. and there you have it. inflation solved.

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Here's @desvenlafaxines:

"We were advertised a PM who understood disadvantage, who understood poverty, with a disabled mum living in public housing."

However: he has spent 4 decades in politics ensuring his own comfort & safety while watching ours fall beneath us
#RaiseTheRate

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Here's @julesfurious:

"We are calling for a proper public housing policy. We are calling for the welfare rate to be raised above the Henderson Poverty Line. We are calling for the abolition of the cruel & unnecessary practices of mutual obligations"
#RaiseTheRate

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

And, finally, here's @MehreenFaruqi:

"Anthony Albanese & the Labor Government tell us that they have to make 'tough choices' at this budget. But the fact is: it's people like yourselves who are making those tough choices."
#RaiseTheRate

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Here's Jess:

"I hate having to say 'no' to my child as much as I have to. I hate having to explain that the week before payment there's just no opportunity for us to do anything fun

She deserves better. I deserve to be in a position where I can give her better"
#RaiseTheRate

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Here's @AveryHowardAU:

"For many of us the [Coronavirus] Supplement changed our lives. It was the first time I'd been out of poverty"
#RaiseTheRate

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Thanks to our friends at @GreenLeftOnline, there's some great footage of the speeches at the #RaiseTheRate rally

Here's @jezheywood: "We earn less than $50/day. 30 of you here are on payments equal one day of Albo's pay

Full video here: https://t.co/hN8qlI9IXz