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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 26d

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

Wrote this yesterday for #WorldMentalHealthDay

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t...

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…

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

Problem when essential services have to run as businesses in this outsourcing world :/ so many places that have been established in their communities for decades falling over because ndis or whatever smfunding models a d businesses that buy them out don't see them as viable

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

Yeah fair enough

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

So much money for leased vehicles for charities

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

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What are Foodbank prices really like?

I’d like to acknowledge that in having a car, the time and physical ability to shop around I am in a very priveledge position to even be able to venture to one or more foodbanks, along with h…

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Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · 6h

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 6h

Yes. #RaiseTheRate cos it is the right thing to do.

But if you need an economic argument, do it cos the money will immediately be spent, stimulating the economy.

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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 7h

2 serves of vegetables per day. Recommendations start at around 5.

💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

Since it's #AntiPovertyWeek next week, I'm getting emails about fund- and "awareness"-raisers
Such as this Pantry Box Challenge where you attempt to live off the contents off this common charity food parcel for the week...

Carb city here we come!

Shopping List
For the purpose of this challenge you can purchase the items yourself or for a $50 donation (cost of providing these items) you can nominate to get the whole experience and collect from our Community Food Centre located at 370 Pinjarra Road, Greenfields WA.

Pantry - Shelf Stable Items

Pasta 500g

Rice 1kg

1 Can Tomato Paste 170g

1 Can Lentils 420g

2 Min Noodles | Beef or Chicken 85g (5 packet)

Quick Oats 750g

Chicken Noodle Packet Soup 50g

Soup Mix 500g

Long Life Milk 1L

1 Can of Tuna 185g

1 Can Butter Beans or Four Bean Mix 420g

1 Can Baked Beans or Spaghetti 420g

Vegetable Oil 750g ***

Sugar 1kg ***

Tea (100 pack) ***

Coffee 200g ***

*** Please note these item quantities are normally given out monthly not weekly

Fruit & Vegetals

Carrots x 4

Onions x 2

Potatos x 6

Tomatos x 3

Apples x 2

Mandarin or Oranges x 2

Bananas x 3

Bakery

Bread x 2 loafs

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Yells At Void @suzanne-suzanne.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. Excluding the people who it directly affects is how the “othering” continues. They’re not here to end poverty…who could they leech off if poverty wasn’t a thing?

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Yells At Void @suzanne-suzanne.bsky.social · 8h

I went to one, once. It was cheaper to shop at Aldi, i didn’t have some lady telling me I took too many apples (4- one for each of us) and noticing how out of date food was. Pre-cooked food made by charity volunteers gave pol the runs.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 8h

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foodbank – phonakins

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 8h

And the slides from my presentation at the people against poverty summit mid year

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 8h

Here's @caitkelly.bsky.social's piece from the start of the year www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Shopping at Australian food charities can be more expensive than supermarkets. What’s gone wrong?

Falling donations and unprecedented demand are pushing the cost of essential items ever upwards

www.theguardian.com

💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 8h

So @kyleatink.bsky.social is Food Bank Australia's new ceo
She joins former nsw premier John Robertson who's the nsw ceo (so many ceos)

Here's one of my.old posts on foodbanks lol 😆
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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 8h

Showered and dressed a d off

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Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social @machinator68.bsky.social · 8h

They would rather have a teddy bear at the table than people in poverty who would speak for themselves.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQkA...

End Child Poverty Video APW 2025

YouTube video by The Valuing Children Initiative

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

I do think labelling it as a way to "step up to end poverty" is a reach

Pantry box challenge

will you step up to end poverty

💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

I think they're worried the bear will put them out of their job in the poverty machine

(it's the "end child poverty" campaign bear)

three women and a teddy bear at a board table

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

Saturday morning meds check

Pills on a white hello kitty face shape saucer

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

Cereal

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

Saturday
Tagging along down to the central coast while Bruce does some work

Wearing a white onesie with computer items

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

Wrote this yesterday for #WorldMentalHealthDay

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t...

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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