Anne Maxwell
@annemaxwell.bsky.social
co-host RadioMMT, www.3cr.org.au/radiommt, grey skies are lovely too
#learnMMT
#learnMMT
local activists huge win
www.facebook.com/MaribyrnongT...
no-truck zones introduced on ... streets, built as residential streets in the 1800's... slowly, over many decades, morphed into some of Australia's busiest truck routes...one of Australia’s longest running examples of environmental injustice
www.facebook.com/MaribyrnongT...
no-truck zones introduced on ... streets, built as residential streets in the 1800's... slowly, over many decades, morphed into some of Australia's busiest truck routes...one of Australia’s longest running examples of environmental injustice
Maribyrnong Truck Action Group
Maribyrnong Truck Action Group. 3,430 likes · 928 talking about this. The Maribyrnong Truck Action Group (MTAG) is a local community group campaigning to reduce truck numbers on residential streets.....
www.facebook.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
local activists huge win
www.facebook.com/MaribyrnongT...
no-truck zones introduced on ... streets, built as residential streets in the 1800's... slowly, over many decades, morphed into some of Australia's busiest truck routes...one of Australia’s longest running examples of environmental injustice
www.facebook.com/MaribyrnongT...
no-truck zones introduced on ... streets, built as residential streets in the 1800's... slowly, over many decades, morphed into some of Australia's busiest truck routes...one of Australia’s longest running examples of environmental injustice
Institutionalised psychological abuse - an integral aspect of a system that blames individuals for govt choice to maintain unemployment
Despite two damning ombudsman investigations, this Department has learnt nothing.
The fact that people regularly overturn unlawful suspensions of their payment does not justify unlawfully suspending their payment. It's incredible that this still needs to be pointed out
The fact that people regularly overturn unlawful suspensions of their payment does not justify unlawfully suspending their payment. It's incredible that this still needs to be pointed out
December 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Institutionalised psychological abuse - an integral aspect of a system that blames individuals for govt choice to maintain unemployment
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“Australia instigating wholesale transfer of welfare system to private company that has no interest in the wellbeing of welfare recipients, and sets up a wide range of opportunities for corruption and a very thin line between government, private corporations and political parties.” Eddy Jokovich
January 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“Australia instigating wholesale transfer of welfare system to private company that has no interest in the wellbeing of welfare recipients, and sets up a wide range of opportunities for corruption and a very thin line between government, private corporations and political parties.” Eddy Jokovich
Dunlop re social media ban:
"If the problem is defined as a matter of restricting access, then a world where platforms redesign their products, schools change how they work, parents get real support, and young people are treated as citizens... recedes from view."
tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
"If the problem is defined as a matter of restricting access, then a world where platforms redesign their products, schools change how they work, parents get real support, and young people are treated as citizens... recedes from view."
tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
December 14, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Dunlop re social media ban:
"If the problem is defined as a matter of restricting access, then a world where platforms redesign their products, schools change how they work, parents get real support, and young people are treated as citizens... recedes from view."
tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
"If the problem is defined as a matter of restricting access, then a world where platforms redesign their products, schools change how they work, parents get real support, and young people are treated as citizens... recedes from view."
tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
petition to sign: Comm bank refusing to refund low income customers
Stop the Big Banks Profiting from Poverty
www.getup.org.au/campaign/cam...
Stop the Big Banks Profiting from Poverty
www.getup.org.au/campaign/cam...
Campaigns by Me
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
www.getup.org.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
petition to sign: Comm bank refusing to refund low income customers
Stop the Big Banks Profiting from Poverty
www.getup.org.au/campaign/cam...
Stop the Big Banks Profiting from Poverty
www.getup.org.au/campaign/cam...
Sheesh!
"Verdant will attempt to bridge the distance between party members who favor radical socialist reform, and those who recognise the UK’s [[here it comes...]] dependence on international investors for its debt-financing requirements and want to swing left while keeping bond markets on-side."
"Verdant will attempt to bridge the distance between party members who favor radical socialist reform, and those who recognise the UK’s [[here it comes...]] dependence on international investors for its debt-financing requirements and want to swing left while keeping bond markets on-side."
James Meadway--a progressive but still neoclassical & deficit-skittish economist--is helping to found a new think tank adjacent to the rising UK Green Party, in part to delegitimize the growing influence of MMT in the party. Here's hoping @zackpolanski.bsky.social holds onto the MMT paradigm.
UK Greens Try to Get Serious on Economy as Party Climbs UK Polls
A new economic think tank linked to the UK’s Green Party is set to launch in the new year, as the left-wing party seeks to fend off criticism that it doesn’t understand the economy.
www.bloomberg.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Sheesh!
"Verdant will attempt to bridge the distance between party members who favor radical socialist reform, and those who recognise the UK’s [[here it comes...]] dependence on international investors for its debt-financing requirements and want to swing left while keeping bond markets on-side."
"Verdant will attempt to bridge the distance between party members who favor radical socialist reform, and those who recognise the UK’s [[here it comes...]] dependence on international investors for its debt-financing requirements and want to swing left while keeping bond markets on-side."
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
“Mr Brereton… told Australia that he had not in fact been involved in any of the NACC’s Robodebt decision making process, and then was found to have sat in on…almost all the Robodebt senior decision meetings… the Commissioner who was also a very close friend of one of the key Robodebt accused…”
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“Mr Brereton… told Australia that he had not in fact been involved in any of the NACC’s Robodebt decision making process, and then was found to have sat in on…almost all the Robodebt senior decision meetings… the Commissioner who was also a very close friend of one of the key Robodebt accused…”
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Thanks @3crmelbourne.bsky.social for having us on to talk about what is happening in the system of compulsory activities known as "mutual" obligations and what the Commonwealth Ombudsman found in his latest investigation into unlawful penalties for people on Centrelink payments.
Interview from 1:10
Interview from 1:10
The Impacts of Criminalising Young People, Lilie James’ Coronial Inquest, Injured Workers’ Support Team, Rave 4 the Towers, Ombudsman Criticises Mutual Obligations Remediation
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Youth social media ban comes into effectNT government blocks UN human rights inspectors from prison accessVictorian Government apology to First Nations people cr...
https://www.3cr.org.au/thursday-breakfast/episode/impacts-criminalising-young-people-lilie-james’-coronial-inquest-injured
December 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thanks @3crmelbourne.bsky.social for having us on to talk about what is happening in the system of compulsory activities known as "mutual" obligations and what the Commonwealth Ombudsman found in his latest investigation into unlawful penalties for people on Centrelink payments.
Interview from 1:10
Interview from 1:10
Shameful and unnecessary #learnmmt
“let them be kids”
"Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty" #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Shameful and unnecessary #learnmmt
“Brereton had dismissed …the suggestion that the Robodebt referrals indicated a belief by Royal Commissioner Catherine Homes that corrupt conduct had potentially occurred, “There is nothing in the referral to indicate that a view had been reached that there was corrupt conduct for us to look at.”??!
Why Paul Brereton, the chairman of the NACC, has to fall on his sword. By @sarahrussell.bsky.social
He is before Senate Ests next week. Another year would be a travesty
#auspol #robodebt
michaelwest.com.au/enough-is-en...
He is before Senate Ests next week. Another year would be a travesty
#auspol #robodebt
michaelwest.com.au/enough-is-en...
"Enough is enough". Why Brereton *has* to resign from the NACC - Michael West
NACC boss Brereton has disturbing history of giving misleading information. How much more is needed for him to resign?
michaelwest.com.au
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“Brereton had dismissed …the suggestion that the Robodebt referrals indicated a belief by Royal Commissioner Catherine Homes that corrupt conduct had potentially occurred, “There is nothing in the referral to indicate that a view had been reached that there was corrupt conduct for us to look at.”??!
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Why Paul Brereton, the chairman of the NACC, has to fall on his sword. By @sarahrussell.bsky.social
He is before Senate Ests next week. Another year would be a travesty
#auspol #robodebt
michaelwest.com.au/enough-is-en...
He is before Senate Ests next week. Another year would be a travesty
#auspol #robodebt
michaelwest.com.au/enough-is-en...
"Enough is enough". Why Brereton *has* to resign from the NACC - Michael West
NACC boss Brereton has disturbing history of giving misleading information. How much more is needed for him to resign?
michaelwest.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Why Paul Brereton, the chairman of the NACC, has to fall on his sword. By @sarahrussell.bsky.social
He is before Senate Ests next week. Another year would be a travesty
#auspol #robodebt
michaelwest.com.au/enough-is-en...
He is before Senate Ests next week. Another year would be a travesty
#auspol #robodebt
michaelwest.com.au/enough-is-en...
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we deserve better
if this was morrison, people would be ... um... er... writing a very witty blog post
#auspol
if this was morrison, people would be ... um... er... writing a very witty blog post
#auspol
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: satpa.pe/h3OmIrz
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
we deserve better
if this was morrison, people would be ... um... er... writing a very witty blog post
#auspol
if this was morrison, people would be ... um... er... writing a very witty blog post
#auspol
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There's gonna be nothing left of the US when this is over
“The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence…”
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
There's gonna be nothing left of the US when this is over
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Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.
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Hear from seven world-leading experts in our January 2026 Economics of Sustainability free lecture series, hosted by Modern Money Lab and TUA.
That's Maryam H'Madoun, Stephanie Kelton, Pavlina Tcherneva, Tim Foxon, John Harvey, Scott Fullwiler and Phil Lawn.
events.humanitix.com/economics-of...
That's Maryam H'Madoun, Stephanie Kelton, Pavlina Tcherneva, Tim Foxon, John Harvey, Scott Fullwiler and Phil Lawn.
events.humanitix.com/economics-of...
Economics of Sustainability 2026 Lecture Series
Free online talks with world leading experts in #MMT and ecological economics.
events.humanitix.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Hear from seven world-leading experts in our January 2026 Economics of Sustainability free lecture series, hosted by Modern Money Lab and TUA.
That's Maryam H'Madoun, Stephanie Kelton, Pavlina Tcherneva, Tim Foxon, John Harvey, Scott Fullwiler and Phil Lawn.
events.humanitix.com/economics-of...
That's Maryam H'Madoun, Stephanie Kelton, Pavlina Tcherneva, Tim Foxon, John Harvey, Scott Fullwiler and Phil Lawn.
events.humanitix.com/economics-of...
The more authorities undermine "the legitimacy of dissent", the more they also undermine the "social cohesion" of which they are so fond.
"HRLC documented no fewer than 49 anti-protest laws across federal, state and territory parliaments"
www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...
"HRLC documented no fewer than 49 anti-protest laws across federal, state and territory parliaments"
www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...
How would Australia look without its history of protest? - ABC Religion & Ethics
Protests occur as part of a political struggle with winners and losers. Like strikes, protests are disruptive; that’s the point — they’re intended to force change on issues that would otherwise remain...
www.abc.net.au
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The more authorities undermine "the legitimacy of dissent", the more they also undermine the "social cohesion" of which they are so fond.
"HRLC documented no fewer than 49 anti-protest laws across federal, state and territory parliaments"
www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...
"HRLC documented no fewer than 49 anti-protest laws across federal, state and territory parliaments"
www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...
nuthin' to see here...
"The National Anti-Corruption Commission has over 200 employees, an annual budget of $60 million, and has received more than 5,000 referrals. It also hasn’t made a single major corruption finding in the two years it’s been operating."
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
"The National Anti-Corruption Commission has over 200 employees, an annual budget of $60 million, and has received more than 5,000 referrals. It also hasn’t made a single major corruption finding in the two years it’s been operating."
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
The NACC has a trust problem
Podcast Episode · 7am · 26/10/2025 · 16m
podcasts.apple.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
nuthin' to see here...
"The National Anti-Corruption Commission has over 200 employees, an annual budget of $60 million, and has received more than 5,000 referrals. It also hasn’t made a single major corruption finding in the two years it’s been operating."
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
"The National Anti-Corruption Commission has over 200 employees, an annual budget of $60 million, and has received more than 5,000 referrals. It also hasn’t made a single major corruption finding in the two years it’s been operating."
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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As at 10 October 2025, there were 32,556 on income management (IM):
- 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard)
- 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures.
- 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous.
www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...
- 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard)
- 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures.
- 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous.
www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
As at 10 October 2025, there were 32,556 on income management (IM):
- 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard)
- 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures.
- 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous.
www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...
- 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard)
- 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures.
- 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous.
www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...
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Because we don't have racism @simonrosenberg.bsky.social ?
Oh?
Oh?
🧵Because ❤️ for @oaf.org.au knows no bounds, an illustration of theyvoteforyou.org.au:
@antipovertycentre.org a thread of every single politician who has voted for one of the most racist policies we have in Australia: Compulsory Income Management.
Stats c/o @mklapdor.bsky.social #supportOAF
@antipovertycentre.org a thread of every single politician who has voted for one of the most racist policies we have in Australia: Compulsory Income Management.
Stats c/o @mklapdor.bsky.social #supportOAF
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Because we don't have racism @simonrosenberg.bsky.social ?
Oh?
Oh?
“Brad Jessup, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne's law school who has studied environmental law for more than 20 years, said it would be a rare scenario where the universities would come up against the act.”
…so what’s in it for the unis?
…so what’s in it for the unis?
Surprising no one, Australia's Group Of Eight Universities favour corruption + fossil fuels.
"Other signatories included the Minerals Council of Australia, Australian Energy Producers, the Property Council of Australia and the Business Council of Australia."
fyi @beneltham.bsky.social
"Other signatories included the Minerals Council of Australia, Australian Energy Producers, the Property Council of Australia and the Business Council of Australia."
fyi @beneltham.bsky.social
Australia's top universities seek changes to key environmental reform
Australia's top universities have aligned themselves with oil and gas producers, miners and developers on a a key piece of environment legislation, drawing the ire of dozens of academics.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“Brad Jessup, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne's law school who has studied environmental law for more than 20 years, said it would be a rare scenario where the universities would come up against the act.”
…so what’s in it for the unis?
…so what’s in it for the unis?
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The Greens have secured an inquiry to find out why job & program cuts are being rolled out across the CSIRO! It will consider the impacts of the funding cuts, the importance of public funding for science & CSIRO’s future funding & resourcing needs.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The Greens have secured an inquiry to find out why job & program cuts are being rolled out across the CSIRO! It will consider the impacts of the funding cuts, the importance of public funding for science & CSIRO’s future funding & resourcing needs.
Is the government really just "re-focussing" the CSIRO?
"CSIRO funding is at record lows... Even in the areas where they say they want to focus on in the future, they're also the areas that are getting cut... agriculture... biosecurity..." Matt Grudnoff
australiainstitute.org.au/post/what-ha...
"CSIRO funding is at record lows... Even in the areas where they say they want to focus on in the future, they're also the areas that are getting cut... agriculture... biosecurity..." Matt Grudnoff
australiainstitute.org.au/post/what-ha...
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Is the government really just "re-focussing" the CSIRO?
"CSIRO funding is at record lows... Even in the areas where they say they want to focus on in the future, they're also the areas that are getting cut... agriculture... biosecurity..." Matt Grudnoff
australiainstitute.org.au/post/what-ha...
"CSIRO funding is at record lows... Even in the areas where they say they want to focus on in the future, they're also the areas that are getting cut... agriculture... biosecurity..." Matt Grudnoff
australiainstitute.org.au/post/what-ha...
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I just saw this SHOCKING graph. Our poor Indigenous brothers!
The genocide is ongoing for them.
There's a similar graph of our Indigenous sisters in the article.
SHAMEFUL!
#auspol
The genocide is ongoing for them.
There's a similar graph of our Indigenous sisters in the article.
SHAMEFUL!
#auspol
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I just saw this SHOCKING graph. Our poor Indigenous brothers!
The genocide is ongoing for them.
There's a similar graph of our Indigenous sisters in the article.
SHAMEFUL!
#auspol
The genocide is ongoing for them.
There's a similar graph of our Indigenous sisters in the article.
SHAMEFUL!
#auspol
Looks like the main concession gained by the Greens was Labor "agreed to subject native forest logging to national environment standards in 18 months’ time". But, no "climate trigger, too much ministerial discretion, use of rubbish offsets.
📢 After decades of pressure to fix Australia’s ailing nature laws, the Albanese government has struck a deal with the Greens to amend them.
The reforms will increase scrutiny of logging & land clearing—and finally remove key #deforestation loopholes. #auspol
👉 www.wilderness.org.au/nature-law-news
The reforms will increase scrutiny of logging & land clearing—and finally remove key #deforestation loopholes. #auspol
👉 www.wilderness.org.au/nature-law-news
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Looks like the main concession gained by the Greens was Labor "agreed to subject native forest logging to national environment standards in 18 months’ time". But, no "climate trigger, too much ministerial discretion, use of rubbish offsets.