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“As of October 2019, the department said it had spent $4.5m keeping the family in detention, including $2.5m in detention costs, $1.1m in travel and $300,000 in legal costs.”
What a fury-inducing waste of money, dignity and childhood. Fuck cruelty is unnecessary and expensive.
Hey everyone else in Australia, Melbourne is not at the “accepting feedback and suggestions to deal with the problem” stage of this lockdown. We are stuck at the “we just need sympathy and visa gift vouchers” stage, and will be until further notice.
It's heartbreaking to see the fees pushed up so high for Arts and Law. I wouldn't be doing either of my degrees if I was starting out now, which would mean I probably wouldn't have become an author. It's also such financially unsound decision making.
Just got caught crawling through the background of my boyfriend’s work Zoom. l thought I was out of shot, and I needed coffee. It got worse when his colleague asked ‘Did you think we wouldn’t see you because those trousers are camouflage?’
it is now official we are in a jail. We have never seen this many police before. as one neighbour called to tell me "I don't know what we have done, for this level of policing?"
Just a reminder that tens of thousands of vulnerable older Australians have also been locked in their rooms in aged care homes under public health orders *for months*
Remember when Australia was literally on fire and @ScottMorrisonMP was sitting in Hawaii? Then he told everyone its not like he was going to pick up a hose? ‘Memba that?