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Was an indie drummer then forensic psychologist, now have severe Osteoarthritis. Chewing on the bitter cud of struggle and broken dreams. Trying to stay upright
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Yes indeed. In fact, the Liberals already told us that they have no intention of continuing to pay an aged pension. The aged are seen as a problem to be eliminated. I wish I had more confidence that Labor feel any different.
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Replying to @CatPurry9
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.
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Australia has no problem training tens of thousands of oversees students as engineers, economists & scientists each year in our publicly owned unisโ€ฆbut 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.
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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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"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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Radio host Ben Fordham has claimed Australia has made it โ€œtoo easyโ€ for people stay home on unemployment pay, slamming โ€œlazyโ€ 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 didnโ€™t get answers to the questions in this email sent 2 weeks ago.
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Itโ€™s true that there was a โ€œlived experienceโ€ panel. Hereโ€™s my email to the employment department ๐Ÿ‘‡ They agreed to provide this info but never did, though I can confirm the โ€œlived experienceโ€ panellists were not invited as full participants in the summit.
Iโ€™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 wonโ€™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 arenโ€™t included as full participants in the summit. I hope Iโ€™m wrong, but if Iโ€™m not, I urge the government to ensure theyโ€™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 . Hear what they said:
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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 โ€œmutualโ€ 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 โ€œYou wonโ€™t end poverty with a white paper, change my mind.โ€
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fact check: unemployed ppl were only allowed on the 30 minute โ€œlived experienceโ€ panel. they werenโ€™t allowed to attend the main summit โ€” 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 โ€œlived experienceโ€ 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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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 โ€œforgiveโ€ the boys for redemption w a "preventive programโ€ 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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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 donโ€™t need two neo-liberal parties, even if one is much better than the other. That will just keep creating โ€˜have notsโ€™. 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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Heโ€™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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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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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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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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Not a lib Iโ€™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? Itโ€™s now been 3 months
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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. ๐Ÿ #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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Full Story pod is looking at some of the problems with employment services today theguardian.com/australia-news
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They also invited the Australian Conservation Foundation. No issue with saving trees, but how the fuck are you telling me theyโ€™re a more important stakeholder than unemployed people? Come the fuck on.
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A Jobs and Skills summit that invites billionaires and employment service agencies but no representation for workers outside the labour market? Iโ€™ll pass lol
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"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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