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We all know that if the Liberals get back in they will use this getting 'older retired back in to work program' as a way to enforce older people to work. The job networks will love it if it's handed over to them.

Australia has no problem training tens of thousands of oversees students as engineers, economists & scientists each year in our publicly owned unis…but our privatised VET sector struggles to train Australian cooks, hairdressers & welders. Neoliberalism failed #insiders #auspol

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Studies show that the longer you work (because you HAVE to, not because you WANT to) the more likely you are to die a lot sooner than you otherwise would. Those who retire, with money, by 50, tend to live the longest.

Hey young people, according to Peter Gleeson in the Murdoch press you are to blame for our economic problems. Wages are going backwards and there has been no real wage growth for a decade, but according to Peter, this is ALL YOUR FAULT because you are lazy & taking the piss

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"“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

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"Using Australian panel data, we find evidence suggesting that the unemployed subjected to MOs sustain their job search intensity, yet take longer to become re-employed and spend less time in employment compared to otherwise identical unemployed searching without MOs"

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Jobseekers are starting to get empathy so time for folks like Ben Fordham to attack us again and to push this false rhetoric again

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· Sep 2

Radio host Ben Fordham has claimed Australia has made it “too easy” for people stay home on unemployment pay, slamming “lazy” recipients. news.com.au/finance/work/a

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Another month has passed and still nothing is being done for the millions below the poverty line, the homeless children, the aged, the disabled and the refugees behind bars. They have become the expendable flotsam of our neoliberal society!

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Shame I didn’t get answers to the questions in this email sent 2 weeks ago.

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Welfare recipients and unemployed people respond to exclusion from...

· Sep 2

Replying to @CeriCat

It’s true that there was a “lived experience” panel. Here’s my email to the employment department

They agreed to provide this info but never did, though I can confirm the “lived experience” panellists were not invited as full participants in the summit.

I’m following up on our discussion about the people who will be representing unemployed workers at the Jobs and Skills Summit. You mentioned you would need to get more information about how those people were selected and what level of participation they will have. As we have expressed many times, we are frustrated by tokenistic and selective inclusion of people in processes like these, and would appreciate having more information for the sake of transparency.

Our standard practice is to coordinate with other stakeholders, and vice versa. Given we won’t be able to represent the views of folks we work with and support, we would be grateful for the opportunity to connect with the unemployed people who have been invited to share their expertise so they may reflect a larger range of experiences.

I assume the people invited aren’t included as full participants in the summit. I hope I’m wrong, but if I’m not, I urge the government to ensure they’re treated equally to all other stakeholders.

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Unemployed folks should be most important stakeholders at the Jobs and Skills Summit. Today we were proud to share the expertise of Grace, Angella, David, Ray, Miranda, Ben & Leigh at Parliament House alongside

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CONTENT WARNING: Some comments included in this video may cause distress, including references to self harm and suicide. ___On 2 September unemployed advocat...

Before we do anything else, unemployed people need enough money to live, we need our unpaid work to be valued, and to stop being punished with “mutual” obligations. The Jobs and Skills Summit is promising nothing to help us with these massive barriers to paid work. #BTPM

Activists outside Parliament House with a banner that says “You won’t end poverty with a white paper, change my mind.”

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Job agencies running ParentsNext scheme made invalid claims for taxpayer-funded bonuses, audit finds

Job agencies running ParentsNext scheme made invalid claims for taxpayer-funded bonuses, audit finds

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Noncompliant claims widespread across the $110m-a-year scheme, part of the federal government’s welfare-to-work system

fact check: unemployed ppl were only allowed on the 30 minute “lived experience” panel. they weren’t allowed to attend the main summit — that was reserved for billionaires & think tank losers

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I am once again asking people to understand that using unemployed folks as “lived experience” props is not the same as valuing and including our expertise. Treat us as equals with full participation or expect to be criticised.

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Are Australia's '1 million empty homes' the answer to the property crisis?

Australia's '1 million empty homes' and why they're vacant – they're not a simple solution to housing need abc.net.au/news/2022-09-0 via

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There has been a great deal of speculation about how Australia ended up with more than a million empty houses, but we've got a pretty good idea of what's going on.

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When Dr David Strain encountered a 64-year-old patient on his ward round, the British geriatrician had a bleak epiphany. Less than six months earlier he had treated the man for Covid-19. Now, the man's deterioration was painful to witness

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The growing evidence that Covid-19 is making us all sicker

The potential impact on heart and brain disease poses challenges to healthcare systems globally

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This is horrific and appalling. A lot needs to change, starting with a lot of people in power losing their positions of influence. It's unbelievable that these events could happen today (but of course it's depressingly believable). CW for rape & sexual harassment

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/TW/ After complaining boys at her high school were making rape threats, a 16yo girl was asked to “forgive” the boys for redemption w a "preventive program” launched for girls. Months later, she was raped w harassment & intimidation continuing for months. crikey.com.au/2022/09/01/tee

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Well. That respect requires leadership and should start with businesses allowing WFH if symptomatic from an illness but well enough to work.

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I'm disabled. No one will hire me when I constantly have to take days or weeks off without notice. There's a huge range of disabilities and to put us all in a box of being able to work is wrong 🤷‍♀️

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I had someone question me on my disappointment regarding the rolling back of protections. When I told them that 5600+ have died since the federal election they had no idea and were shocked. The media is complicit. Do better especially

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We don’t need two neo-liberal parties, even if one is much better than the other. That will just keep creating ‘have nots’. What we need is a non-violent revolution, where good people come together and force a radical change for compassion, justice and equality of opportunity.

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He’s still playing the victim, after putting me through the worst trolling I have faced on Twitter. And when I was healthier I pissed off anti-vaxxers enough to visit my home, (twice).

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· Aug 31

I got caught up in an exchange yesterday in which I was labeled callous. I lifetime of dealing with needful people called upon me to see true from false. So many red flags in the exchange. Perhaps I am callous, or am I just perceptive?

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People are routinely injured on work for the dole sites, and they don’t even get WorkCover. Shut it down. #AWFTD

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Anthony Albanese

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· Sep 1

Everyone should be safe at work. At today's panel on fair, safe and productive workplaces we heard great ideas about how to make progress on these crucial issues.

Albanese claimed $17k to stay in his own flat

Sep 1

And no compensation for the stress caused by getting a #robodebt, for the financial penalties of falling behind on other bills, for the time and energy spent on hold to Centrelink, dealing with the paperwork etc. Just not good enough.

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Bill Shorten

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From Monday, #Robodebt victims will get a payment for the interest they would have got on the money they were made to illegally repay. Half will receive between $50 & $300. A tiny portion will be very small - under the terms of the class action court order all have to be notified

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Innes Willox from the Australian Industry Group was a political adviser to Alexander Downer who was up to his neck in WorkChoices. No surprise that he runs a regressive political line instead of acting in the national interest. AIG used to be industrial leaders, not anymore!

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“Individual responsibility” is nice framing to let a govt get away with not helping the most vulnerable and instead inflicting harms on them. Is it my responsibility that I’m disabled ?

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Not a lib I’ve been a labor voter all my life except last election when the greens got my vote. Labor has condemned people like myself to live in poverty in a cost of living crisis. While keeping stage 3 tax cuts for the wealthy which part is doing well? It’s now been 3 months

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RIP Russell

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· Aug 31

Replying to @ArtistAffame and @AlboMP

I support labor. If you are a Lib, thanks for your following. Currently Labor seems to be doing well. You can't expect it to change in one month the damage ScoMo did to OZ in #NineYears. There is also something called individual responsibility.

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Business: we're struggling for staff, half my staff are off sick Nat Cab: let's reduce isolation period & get staff back to work while they're still infectious Few weeks later.... Business: All my staff are off sick now. We're closed. 🐝 #auspol

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Instead of including unemployed advocates in the #JobsSummit, they included the monsters who oversee this (un)employment services nightmare.

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Luke Henriques-Gomes

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· Aug 31

Full Story pod is looking at some of the problems with employment services today theguardian.com/australia-news

Labor leader Anthony Albanese claimed $17,169 in travel allowance from taxpayers to stay at his mortgage-free Canberra apartment for 59 nights during Sydney’s marathon lockdown while staging “gueri...

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The stage three tax cuts are a pile of garbage, and everybody knows it | Greg Jericho

Aug 31

They also invited the Australian Conservation Foundation. No issue with saving trees, but how the fuck are you telling me they’re a more important stakeholder than unemployed people? Come the fuck on.

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Gene Saraçi

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· Aug 31

A Jobs and Skills summit that invites billionaires and employment service agencies but no representation for workers outside the labour market? I’ll pass lol

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The stage three tax cuts are a pile of garbage, and everybody knows it | Greg Jericho

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Anthony Albanese could learn a thing or two from Bob Hawke, who walked back tax cuts promised ahead of the 1983 election

My neighbour is in hospital dying of cancer It wasn’t detected until I found him half dead a few weeks ago His sons came today They have been notified his centre link payments have been cut off He’s still on job seeker Couldn’t get DSP Shame

"In 1998, the CES was finally privatised by the Howard government, which ended its 52-year history as a public good. That privatisation was based on legwork already done by the Hawke and Keating Labor governments."

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The CES is fondly remembered by many, so should it make a comeback?

The Commonwealth Employment Service grew out of a realisation that unemployment had been a policy choice, but it fell out of government favour in the late 1980s and was privatised in 1998, leaving...