The Greens think it’s time the government stopped treating older people like pawns, and started ensuring that our parents and grandparents get the care and dignity they deserve.

If you agree, add your name to our campaign: greens.org.au/aged-care-now

Over a quarter of a million older Australians are in the queue waiting for aged care in total.

And at the same time, 1 in 3 big corporations in Australia get away with paying $0 in tax. That shows something is seriously wrong.

For months, state and territories have been sounding the alarm about this as they haggle with the feds about hospital funding.

Unfortunately, it looks like Labor have ignored this call and today’s health meeting will go by without a solution for these stranded Australians.

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I was proud to table their petition for accountability over Robodebt into the Senate and to host them at Parliament House.

They shouldn’t have to fight this hard.

But the Greens are with them and every other victim of Robodebt every step of the way.

Jenny and Kath both lost their sons after they were targeted with false Robodebt notices, and since then they haven’t stopped fighting for their boys and for thousands of other victims.

Labor continues to target people on income support with dodgy ancient debt notices, and have failed to take the steps the Royal Commission recommended to protect our most vulnerable.

We can’t keep punishing people for not finding jobs which don’t actually exist.

Nothing in this report will fix the rotten soul of this system, which grants dodgy private job agencies extraordinary power over people’s lives with no oversight or accountability. The mutual obligations system needs to be abolished.

Private job agencies take food off the table of thousands of JobSeekers with almost no accountability, transparency or oversight, and meanwhile Labor doesn’t seem to care if the system is even lawful.

For too long, dodgy companies like Sarina Russo and APM have cashed in millions of dollars on the outsourcing of massive parts of our welfare system.

The Greens are fighting to make sure everyone can get the help they need at the time that they need it. Learn more and add your name to this fight: 👉 greens.org.au/aged-care-now

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At least 43 women have lost their lives already this year to family and domestic violence, and if Labor wants to stop that from rising the first task is to make sure no woman is ever forced to choose between poverty and family violence.

Victims and survivors of domestic violence are being turned away from frontline services because demand for those services keeps growing.