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Alice Lastname @alicelastname.bsky.social · 10h

“They will fund charities to feed us wilted vegetables and cans of beans that are more expensive than Coles brands”.

🎯🎯🎯

But also, don’t take more than one (small) wilted vegetable per person in your household at the Foodbank truck.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 11h

Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows (Official Music Video)

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 11h

While cancellations are paused, the department admitted there had been a total of 321,995 payment suspensions for 205,870 jobseekers between May and July this year.

Are they legal? No-one knows.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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12.44 AEDT
Cait Kelly
Cait Kelly
Yesterday the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was asked about the legality of the TCF, the system that operates mutual obligations.

Analysis from Economic Justice Australia shows over 300,000 payments were illegally cancelled in-between 2020 and 2024.

Secretary of DEWR, Natalie James said the system “was not always operating as intended”.

She said the government was looking into whether providers are making illegal decisions around suspensions and cancellations:

There are 1000s of decisions being made in any week under these provisions. And so humans are not perfect, and obviously, as we’ve found out, nor are our systems.

There are times where the providers aren’t exercising the judgments we would prefer.

Before anything gets into a system, a provider, an employee and a provider is making a judgment about whether certain requirements have been met.

Payment cancellations are currently on hold, while the government works out how to operate the system legally.

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21.49 EDT
Cait Kelly
Cait Kelly
Following from the last post…

Asked later how many people’s payments had been illegally cancelled, Deputy Secretary of DEWR Tania Rishniw said:

We’re working through those numbers as I said earlier, each cancellation or reduction under the legislation that’s been caused or suspended was paused for a different reason. The total number of people impacted, we’re still working through.

While cancellations are paused, the department admitted there had been a total of 321,995 payment suspensions for 205,870 jobseekers between May and July this year.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 17h

This #WorldMentalHealthDay, let's remind people that people able to afford to live makes people more likely to want to live

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · Sep 9

This #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, a reminder that suicide rates for those on unemployment payments decreased during the lockdowns, coinciding with increases to payment rates

#NobodyDeservesPoverty
#RaiseTheRate

www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self...

www.aihw.gov.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 15h

"I know that some people will say “get a job” when it airs because that's what they've been taught to say. Who taught them this? Politicians the wealthy and media."

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Punch up

Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 14h

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

#WorldMentalHealthDay #RaiseTheRate #AbolishMOs

phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t... via @phonakins.com

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

phonakins.com

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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 13h

This “you asked for it” needs to stop:

A spokesperson for the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, says the NDIS has “transformed the lives of people with disability” and reforms were based “on advice from the disability community”.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Kieron relies on NDIS after surviving a catastrophic diving accident – but new rules could put his life at risk

Brisbane man is one of hundreds reporting devastating cuts to NDIS plans after rule changes last year

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 13h

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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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 13h

Government’s FOI changes could cover up the next Robodebt - new research - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/governm...

Government’s FOI changes could cover up the next Robodebt - new research

Proposed changes to Australia’s Freedom of Information (FOI) laws would make a repeat of the disastrous Robodebt coverup more likely, rather than less, according to new research by The Australia Insti...

australiainstitute.org.au

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Chele @chelecajeleca.bsky.social · 16h

The best form of welfare (for the capitalist class) is coerced labour exploitation (for you)

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

Payman: Why are you maintaining a system that "The Labor *party* platform notes can be punitive, cause stress and anxiety, and can be a barrier to employment?"

Senator Jess Walsh responds by explaining that the Labor *government* believes the best form of welfare is a job 👍

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 14h

In case you missed it (cos I did!)

www.ejaustralia.org.au/social-secur...

Social Security For Women Outside Our Cities: Issues of Eligibility (Report 2 of 3) | Economic Justice Australia

www.ejaustralia.org.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 19h

SUSPEND MUTUTAL OBLIGATIONS NOW

The Employment department still accepts the substance of Deloitte’s AI-error riddled report on Australia’s welfare compliance system, which could not assure it was operating effectively and was a punitive global outlier.

www.innovationaus.com/deloittes-ai...

Deloitte’s AI errors overshadow govt's own automated mess

The Employment department still accepts the substance of Deloitte’s AI-error riddled report on Australia’s welfare compliance system, which could not assure it was operating effectively and was a puni...

www.innovationaus.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 19h

You know what helps with loneliness? Being able to afford to do anything - catch a bus, buy a coffee, do things with friends and family, pursue your hobbies and interestst

#RaiseTheRate because #NobodyDeservesPoverty

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Loneliness a bigger mental health stressor than money for some Australians

A new national report by Beyond Blue has revealed loneliness and social isolation has reached new heights, with 46 per cent of respondents listing it as a bigger mental health stressor than financial ...

www.abc.net.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 19h

Excessive inequality isn’t just unfair, it’s socially and politically corrosive. Around the world, inequality has fuelled social instability, political divisiveness, reduced class mobility, falling life expectancy and racial scapegoating.

theconversation.com/to-become-a-...

To become a fairer nation, Australia needs to set national inequality targets

Former prime minister Bob Hawke regretted saying: ‘By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty’. But his broken promise still had a surprising impact.

theconversation.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 14h

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

#WorldMentalHealthDay #RaiseTheRate #AbolishMOs

phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t... via @phonakins.com

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

phonakins.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 15h

"I know that some people will say “get a job” when it airs because that's what they've been taught to say. Who taught them this? Politicians the wealthy and media."

ko-fi.com/post/Punch-u...

Punch up

Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 15h

I’m really tired of being stressed out tbh. and it’s always money and the lack of that causes it. Constant bills feels like I’m never gonna get ahead but I’m not gonna stop fighting for better

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GS Lakes @gslakes.bsky.social · 17h

"The purpose of a system is what it does."

"The cruelty is the point."

Social "security" systems exist to punish the un(der)employed. To deliberately create misery.

As desperate people will take any job they can. Which keeps pay low, and profits high.

"Mutual obligations" are class warfare.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 1d

The frustrating part about this lie is that mutual obligations and the low rate of payment have actually been proven several times to create material barriers to this, even if 100% employment was actually possible, and under capitalism it is simply not.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

Payman: Why are you maintaining a system that "The Labor *party* platform notes can be punitive, cause stress and anxiety, and can be a barrier to employment?"

Senator Jess Walsh responds by explaining that the Labor *government* believes the best form of welfare is a job 👍

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 17h

@jeremypoxon.bsky.social has more of the article here

bsky.app/profile/jere...

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 18h

thank the lord we finally have some coverage of what's actually going on www.innovationaus.com/deloittes-ai...

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 17h

This #WorldMentalHealthDay, let's remind people that people able to afford to live makes people more likely to want to live

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · Sep 9

This #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, a reminder that suicide rates for those on unemployment payments decreased during the lockdowns, coinciding with increases to payment rates

#NobodyDeservesPoverty
#RaiseTheRate

www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self...

www.aihw.gov.au

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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 1d

Even if cutting ppl off was ever ethical, it's a mistaken binary of payments/find a job. The govt classifies more than 40% of JobSeekers with a Partial Capacity to Work. This can be permanent, or can last years. Does she not know this, or is she pretending?

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 1d

The cruelty is the point.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

"If they don't deliver, they don't get paid,"

The first flagrant lie from the employment department in today's senate estimates hearing about the welfare cops who profit from poverty. No doubt there will be much more bullshit to come!

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

If you want to watch the employment department defend their unlawful operation of compulsory activities (so-called mutual obligations), you can tune in to the senate estimates hearing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WId...

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MJ O’Neill 🏳️‍⚧️ @mjoneillchw.bsky.social · 1d

“Because we do not like unemployed people” is the subtext. And, it’s barely subtext.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

Payman: Why are you maintaining a system that "The Labor *party* platform notes can be punitive, cause stress and anxiety, and can be a barrier to employment?"

Senator Jess Walsh responds by explaining that the Labor *government* believes the best form of welfare is a job 👍

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 1d

The frustrating part about this lie is that mutual obligations and the low rate of payment have actually been proven several times to create material barriers to this, even if 100% employment was actually possible, and under capitalism it is simply not.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 1d

Payman: Why are you maintaining a system that "The Labor *party* platform notes can be punitive, cause stress and anxiety, and can be a barrier to employment?"

Senator Jess Walsh responds by explaining that the Labor *government* believes the best form of welfare is a job 👍

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 1d

even if you're mad at them for telling you they "won't". You can just... support them! Keep them safe and happy. If nothing else it keeps us out of jails and hospitals when we don't have to be. Studies have proven repeatedly it's cheaper than doing what we're doing now as well.

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