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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2h

Abled folk who think being in the office for 9 hours a day automatically means they “work hard”…

I’ve worked in that environment… I know it’s bullshit, and that many haven't done a day of proper hard work in their lives.

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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 52m

Doing a shift on a good day is nothing compared to surviving on a bad day.

They have no f'ing idea.

If they think work is hard, they should try a debilitating chronic illness for a while and see which they prefer.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2h

As a disabled person I am not “insulted” by the tiny number of folk circumventing the system…

I’m insulted by disability benefits being less than a liveable amount.
By the process being inaccessible and harming vulnerable people.

By ableists making ableist assumptions.

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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 58m

If you're struggling to afford groceries, have you considered offshoring your profits to a network of shell companies to minimise taxable income?

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 5h

What I don't get is why people living in poverty and struggling to survive don't simply dip into the $3 million in super they have squirreled away for tax minimisation purposes

'Eating mostly brown food': The 'devastating' juggle faced by a rising number of Australians

With one in seven Australians living below the poverty line, researchers and advocates say that COVID-era universal income is the solution.

www.sbs.com.au

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

The 5% home deposit scheme illustrates everything that is wrong about the Labor government.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 4h

It must be difficult not to projectile vomit into his face. He is a repulsive creature.

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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 4h

They're disguised as frogs.

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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 6h

Humans have failed. The frogs must save us.🐸

Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 6h

I once waited 1 hour for a GP appointment.
She's a very nice person, just not very punctual.

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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 9h

And the govt is doing FA about it.

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 10h

Surprising for ABC these days, they’ve said the quiet part out loud.

“governments can be worried that starting a new poverty measure is like creating a stick they can be hit with”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Poverty is about more than income, but that is all we measure

We get detailed measurements of population, participation and productivity. Advocates want to add a fourth "p" — poverty — so we can understand our economy.

www.abc.net.au

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 4d

Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking at this online event about the Targeted Compliance Framework scandal, & how mutual obligations worsens and commodifies poverty. I'll throw some jokes in as well, dw

Come along if you like - it's free
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unfinished...

Unfinished Business: 50 Years After Henderson

An initiative of the Australian Social Policy Association and the Australian Journal of Social Issues, as part of Anti-Poverty Week.

www.eventbrite.com.au

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

This is stupid.
No one would have taken her words literally except political opponents who wanted to be offended.
Her choice of words was silly, but the backlash is obviously bad faith.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

AFP investigates Lidia Thorpe’s claim she would ‘burn down’ Parliament House

Senator says her words at Melbourne pro-Gaza rally were ‘a metaphor’ and the reaction to them ‘mock outrage’ that distracts from Palestinian suffering * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian federal police has said it is investigating whether independent senator Lidia Thorpe’s claim to a pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne that she would “burn down” Parliament House has breached legislation. Thorpe told the rally on Sunday: “We stand with you every day, and we will fight every day, and we will turn up every day, and if I have to burn down Parliament House to make a point … I am not there to make friends.” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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

Exactly. NAIRU should be in the forefront of these discussions.
If they pretend it doesn't exist and people on welfare aren't trying hard enough, they're being dishonest, even maliciously so.

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

It's brutal inhumane class warfare.
I'm over it.
Labor needs to fix this or be booted out.

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 1d

Punishing job applicants for something fully outside their control, like the decision of a company to hire them or not out of thousands of qualified applicants, is exactly the same as punishing someone for eg: how many people walked past their house today. It makes you a fucking inhumane monster.

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5d

Labor's employment minister rep admits that payment suspensions "cause harm", but they're "an important part" of the (unlawful) mutual obligations system, because

"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"

gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 2d

Albanese’s an insular, deeply institutionalised apparatchik who has spent his whole adult life in service to ‘The Party’.
ALP is his principal loyalty & focus - instead of people of Australia.
He is emblematic & stereotypical of the ‘political elite’ & lacks a scintilla of real world life experience

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

I appreciate you standing up for transparency. Labor are a joke.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

For more info ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...

New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax

Corporate tax transparency data released yesterday by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) shows, once again, that multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while payi...

australiainstitute.org.au

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

Hats off to these greedsters.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?

Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!

@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol

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

Fuck mutual obligations. It's class warfare against the poor. It doesn't need reform. The system needs to be abolished immediately. It's inhumane and stupid.

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