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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 9h

You have a new message in your MyGov inbox - Robdodebt and the culture of fear that governs welfare recipients in Australia. phonakins.com/2023/07/09/y...

You have a new message in your MyGov inbox – Robdodebt and the culture of fear that governs welfare recipients in Australia.

I didn’t get a Robodebt. I’ve had Centrelink debts before – the main one was when my stepdaughter went back their mother after attempting to live with us for a year – $500 o…

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 16h

"There's got to be a balance that we want people to be hospitable … but we also want to absolutely make sure that we're not exposing people who have no other alternative to housing to be exploited,"

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

We have a lot of spare bedrooms — but boarders' rights are unclear

Australia has 13 million spare rooms, according to a census data analysis. Could boarding be a solution to the housing crisis?

www.abc.net.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 16h

Police have been out on repeated calls to homes and have had minimal to no engagement, in the co responder model, we've been able to engage with those same people," he says.

"They are accepting help and accepting referrals to other agencies."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The NT has changed its response to the DV crisis. Here's how

The NT has Australia's highest rates of domestic and family violence, with an intimate partner homicide rate seven times the national average.

www.abc.net.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 18h

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 16h

Police have been out on repeated calls to homes and have had minimal to no engagement, in the co responder model, we've been able to engage with those same people," he says.

"They are accepting help and accepting referrals to other agencies."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The NT has changed its response to the DV crisis. Here's how

The NT has Australia's highest rates of domestic and family violence, with an intimate partner homicide rate seven times the national average.

www.abc.net.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 16h

"There's got to be a balance that we want people to be hospitable … but we also want to absolutely make sure that we're not exposing people who have no other alternative to housing to be exploited,"

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

We have a lot of spare bedrooms — but boarders' rights are unclear

Australia has 13 million spare rooms, according to a census data analysis. Could boarding be a solution to the housing crisis?

www.abc.net.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

The Federal Court has given a record $2.2 million civil penalty to a (now defunct) NDIS provider, following the death of a 38-year-old Queensland man who wandered onto a motorway www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

NDIS provider fined $2.2m after man killed walking into highway traffic

Proceedings began against the now-defunct provider following the death of a Queensland participant in 2023. The penalty is the highest civil sanction imposed on an NDIS provider to date.

www.abc.net.au

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 17h

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d

So @kyleatink.bsky.social is Food Bank Australia's new ceo
She joins former nsw premier John Robertson who's the nsw ceo (so many ceos)

Here's one of my.old posts on foodbanks lol 😆
phonakins.com/2024/11/29/f...

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 18h

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t...

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 17h

You could go ask for one of these hampers and try to feed your family on it, but that won't get the rent paid or pay the fare to get to the job centre to "reengage"

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d

Since it's #AntiPovertyWeek next week, I'm getting emails about fund- and "awareness"-raisers
Such as this Pantry Box Challenge where you attempt to live off the contents off this common charity food parcel for the week...

Carb city here we come!

Shopping List
For the purpose of this challenge you can purchase the items yourself or for a $50 donation (cost of providing these items) you can nominate to get the whole experience and collect from our Community Food Centre located at 370 Pinjarra Road, Greenfields WA.

Pantry - Shelf Stable Items

Pasta 500g

Rice 1kg

1 Can Tomato Paste 170g

1 Can Lentils 420g

2 Min Noodles | Beef or Chicken 85g (5 packet)

Quick Oats 750g

Chicken Noodle Packet Soup 50g

Soup Mix 500g

Long Life Milk 1L

1 Can of Tuna 185g

1 Can Butter Beans or Four Bean Mix 420g

1 Can Baked Beans or Spaghetti 420g

Vegetable Oil 750g ***

Sugar 1kg ***

Tea (100 pack) ***

Coffee 200g ***

*** Please note these item quantities are normally given out monthly not weekly

Fruit & Vegetals

Carrots x 4

Onions x 2

Potatos x 6

Tomatos x 3

Apples x 2

Mandarin or Oranges x 2

Bananas x 3

Bakery

Bread x 2 loafs

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 18h

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 1d

Are these suspensions scummy?

Absolutely!

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

While cancellations are paused, the department admitted there had been a total of 321,995 payment suspensions for 205,870 jobseekers between May and July this year.

Are they legal? No-one knows.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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12.44 AEDT
Cait Kelly
Cait Kelly
Yesterday the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was asked about the legality of the TCF, the system that operates mutual obligations.

Analysis from Economic Justice Australia shows over 300,000 payments were illegally cancelled in-between 2020 and 2024.

Secretary of DEWR, Natalie James said the system “was not always operating as intended”.

She said the government was looking into whether providers are making illegal decisions around suspensions and cancellations:

There are 1000s of decisions being made in any week under these provisions. And so humans are not perfect, and obviously, as we’ve found out, nor are our systems.

There are times where the providers aren’t exercising the judgments we would prefer.

Before anything gets into a system, a provider, an employee and a provider is making a judgment about whether certain requirements have been met.

Payment cancellations are currently on hold, while the government works out how to operate the system legally.

2h ago
21.49 EDT
Cait Kelly
Cait Kelly
Following from the last post…

Asked later how many people’s payments had been illegally cancelled, Deputy Secretary of DEWR Tania Rishniw said:

We’re working through those numbers as I said earlier, each cancellation or reduction under the legislation that’s been caused or suspended was paused for a different reason. The total number of people impacted, we’re still working through.

While cancellations are paused, the department admitted there had been a total of 321,995 payment suspensions for 205,870 jobseekers between May and July this year.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d

Wrote this yesterday for #WorldMentalHealthDay

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t...

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

phonakins.com

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d

Since it's #AntiPovertyWeek next week, I'm getting emails about fund- and "awareness"-raisers
Such as this Pantry Box Challenge where you attempt to live off the contents off this common charity food parcel for the week...

Carb city here we come!

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely wild ombudsman report into the NDIS participant service guarantee, including disagreeing with the agency about whether they have delivered on it, and that rules haven't been finalised since 2022! [very good plain English report too btw]

www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/asset...

www.ombudsman.gov.au

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Alice Lastname @alicelastname.bsky.social · 2d

“They will fund charities to feed us wilted vegetables and cans of beans that are more expensive than Coles brands”.

🎯🎯🎯

But also, don’t take more than one (small) wilted vegetable per person in your household at the Foodbank truck.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by QueensStoneAgeVEVO

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

While cancellations are paused, the department admitted there had been a total of 321,995 payment suspensions for 205,870 jobseekers between May and July this year.

Are they legal? No-one knows.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

This #WorldMentalHealthDay, let's remind people that people able to afford to live makes people more likely to want to live

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · Sep 9

This #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, a reminder that suicide rates for those on unemployment payments decreased during the lockdowns, coinciding with increases to payment rates

#NobodyDeservesPoverty
#RaiseTheRate

www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self...

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

"I know that some people will say “get a job” when it airs because that's what they've been taught to say. Who taught them this? Politicians the wealthy and media."

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Punch up

Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

#WorldMentalHealthDay #RaiseTheRate #AbolishMOs

phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t... via @phonakins.com

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

phonakins.com

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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 2d

This “you asked for it” needs to stop:

A spokesperson for the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, says the NDIS has “transformed the lives of people with disability” and reforms were based “on advice from the disability community”.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Kieron relies on NDIS after surviving a catastrophic diving accident – but new rules could put his life at risk

Brisbane man is one of hundreds reporting devastating cuts to NDIS plans after rule changes last year

www.theguardian.com

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