btw police routinely lay the “serious” charge of assault police when roaming low income areas antagonising people for their criminalisation quotas. Everybody in the system knows police do this and most pretend not to know because maintaining an impoverished underclass pays their mortgage.

there's quite a lot too it that didn't fit in that post – it's been a rolling saga since last week. more detailed info here: apcentre.substack.com/p/growing-ca...

A reminder of who is concerned.

We say again: If you think you're doing the right thing, you don't do it like this. You don't lash out, run from even the smallest amount of public pressure or seek to hide this amendment in an unrelated bill and reject all parliamentary scrutiny.

i know of ghost, beehive and another one that i can't remember right now ...

I forgot how atomised platforms are now - Insta is my primary acc. We have a GoFundMe that has been lifesaving, enabling us to take time off work to manage this crisis. You can read more here about ways to support us and there’s links to cancer charities in my bio x www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...

Everyone has the right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty in this country, no matter what.

Labor pulled this seemingly out of nowhere. Yet welfare changes designed by the Robodebt Royal Commission 2+yrs ago to limit harms to welfare recipients, they’ve just rejected.

It is starting to feel a lot like there’s literally nothing that isn’t meaningless these days 😞

The proposed measure is simlar to an unlegislated Turnbull Gov measure from 2018-19 Budget to ‘suspend or cancel the welfare payments of individuals who have outstanding State and Territory arrest warrants for indictable criminal offences’. It was dropped by the Labor Gov in the Oct 2022-23 Budget.

The bottom line is this:

You do not try to sneak through an amendment in this way with no announcement and when all opportunities for parliamentary scrutiny have passed if you believe what you're doing is good @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social