PennyDoctor 🏳️‍🌈 🐈🔨🔧🎓🔱

Psychologist, introvert, lone vixen fighting social conformity. A designer of sorts, link in bio.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Ed Husic is spot on!
Crushing legitimate debate over AUKUS is counterproductive, weakens Labor and stifles sensible policy development.
“Left” MP’s attempting to isolate Ed, spouting warmongering nonsense and using a warped sense of “solidarity” and “discipline” is pathetic.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

In Denmark, McDonalds workers make $25 an hour and, if they are over twenty, the company starts paying into a pension plan for them, and in addition they have a full 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Now how much do you think this costs customers? The Economist looked into this and found out that the Big Mac costs 76 cents less than it does here.

Don't believe the lies that raising the minimum wage would force prices to go up.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Asking questions at Senate Estimates about why a year on from an investigation by Choice, which found that 16 out of 20 sunscreens tested didn't meet their SPF claims, 15 are STILL being investigated.

The TGA has put forward some options for reforms, but I'm worried how slowly this is moving.

In the country with the highest skin cancer rates in the world, confidence in sunscreens is vital and we need to rebuild that.
https://t.co/OllqmLaBJc

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

One of the grimmest political tricks of the last 15 years has been convincing the public that disabled people are a bigger economic threat than tax avoidance, private outsourcing failures, or housing costs.

[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

[The Shovel @TheShovel]

“Having a baby is not like your wife or your political party. You can’t just leave it when you decide it’s not the one you want."

https://t.co/N6cth5CsWY

[Gene Saraçi @GeneSaraci]

I will never forget when my job provider had my payments cancelled in 2020 days out from lockdown and left me in a state of panic. I spent four weeks beforehand trying to re-engage with no response or call back. Nice to know it was because of a “glitch” according to the govt lol

[Economic Justice Australia @ej_australia]

In Senate #Estimates yesterday DEWR confirmed illegal payment cancellations under the problematic Targeted Compliance Framework were "in the vicinity" of EJA's analysis from last year (~310K). @Cait_Kelly for @GuardianAus: https://t.co/hAjMDwUzel

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

AstraZeneca's decision to withdraw this drug from the PBS will affect 1000's of women in Australia living with endo & breast cancer.

They say it's a "commercial decision" but are leaving the higher dose used for prostate cancer as is.

I asked questions at Estimates yesterday on behalf of Canberrans who had contacted me, worried about what their treatment looks like in the future.

I urge AZ to front up and explain what's happening - women with breast cancer deserve transparency here.
https://t.co/Ik0FCb8EBp

[Dr Desirée Kozlowski @Pleasure_Lab]

On this fine day, I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

[Costin Heaps 🌈 💉x 5 @DianneCostin]

Ombudsman’s report into ATO finds widespread maladministration https://t.co/NxjYnUR5x1

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

He means his standard of living and his way of life. Neo liberalism has made the rich richer and the poor poorer. It divides, it conquers and it exploits.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

When you pay off a credit card or mortgage, the bank can’t charge you interest on repayments you’ve already made. That would be illegal. But when the government does it, it’s fine and normal.

Sign my petition today to fix HECS. We've done it before, let's do it again.
https://t.co/bi9gP8x7p1

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Women will never stop fighting for their right to control their own bodies and lives. We are not containers or mere portals through which other people enter the world. We are sentient human beings and there is no liberty without bodily autonomy. https://t.co/Sg2o5bAJnk

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

@ej_australia More on the unlawful 42AM cancellation issue here. And a reminder that 42AM is just ONE section of the social security act that's been unlawfully administered https://t.co/23Rob00zu9

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

"@ej_australia estimated that under 42AM there could be up to 310k people affected [by unlawful payment cancellations]. What's your estimate?"

Department: "It is in the vicinity of that"

Well, nice of them to finally-sorta-vaguely acknowledge some of the scale of this scandal

[NoisywomanMP @noisywomanMP]

Thanks for saying it out loud @GrogsGamut
"A privatised public service always becomes about generating profits not better service." https://t.co/XkWpnVpczW

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

the Lib/Lab consensus that keeps mutual obligations alive continues to be based on pure bullshit that:
1) the poorest people in society need to be punished out of poverty
2) there will be "social unrest" (??) if we don't allow poor people to be exploited by job providers

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

"Will the new model still allow providers to claim outcome payments for employment that the job seeker found independently?"

"We would see job outcome payments continuing to be a feature"

fraud, rorting, and exploitation of the poor WILL and MUST continue!

[Angela @AngieCrid]

@ArtistAffame I get emails from job providers asking for employees payslips often.
These are people meeting mutual obligations, however they were not employed through the job provider.
Is that the same thing?