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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 24d

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 28m

how is it only 2pm?

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 44m

Also please remember while people wring their hands about the AI in the Deloitte report, and the $440k for it, the people whos payments really matter are the ones getting their up to $400 a week to live on taken off them illegally

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1h

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 58m

We still call for ALL mutual obligations to be indefinitely suspended if not cancelled since Workforce Australia really can't reassure anyone that they're legal or that any suspensions or cancellations are legal.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 58m

Info regarding pauses SHOULD be here but don't count on it

www.workforceaustralia.gov.au/individuals/...

Participants should also be getting letters telling them who their providers will be

Pause of obligations

Sometimes we pause obligations. Learn how we notify you if your obligations are paused and what happens during the pause.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 58m

I didn't see in on Facey, but "obligations are paused for all CDP participants from Wednesday 1 October 2025 to Monday 5 January 2026 (inclusive)." while they also transition to a new acronym Remote Australia Employment Service (RAES)

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 58m

Workforce Australia deleted their X, so I'm bringing you the reminder that Mutual Obligations are suspended from Thursday 16 October 2025 until Monday 5 January 2026 (inclusive) for Inclusive Employment Australia (Formerly DES) participants.

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Jane Doe, Pretty Hate Machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 1h

100 million meals over 10 years = 10 million meals a year. 3 million below poverty, so its at best 4 meals a year per person.

Woolworths supplier Andrew Forrest wealth over 10 years: 2.83 to 12.68 billion. @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social report = hunger is a political choice. #NobodyDeservesPoverty

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1h

@jeremypoxon.bsky.social oooh ooh are you gonna bring us content to reposty? yay!

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1h

Hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients lose access to payments every year, and Labor have said they can’t even say if it’s lawful. - @pennyallmanpayne.com

To quote @amyremeikis.bsky.social - SIIIGGGGHHHHHH

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SIIIGGGGHHHHHH
Thee has been a lot of reporting on the Deloitte report which was found to have used AI and most of the reporting has focused on that, rather than what the report was actually about.

Which was the Targeted Compliance Framework. You probably know that as mutual obligations. The report was about the issues with the automated system being used to cancel people’s welfare payments. You may remember from episodes such as ROBODEBT and EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS CONTACT WITH THIS SYSTEM TELLING YOU, that this is illegal and this has the potential to cause some pretty major problems for the government. And right now, it is causing major problems for people who are being made to fulfil demands from an illegal and immoral system just to have their below-poverty-line payments reinstated/continue.

That’s a pretty major problem, Australia. And not a new one. The only people benefiting from Australia’s mutual obligation program are the owners of job provider agencies who are paid billions of dollars to set menial and often degrading ‘duties’ for jobseekers to meet so they can maybe continue to pay their rent that week.

So not only is the consulting firm which was paid to do a report into the issues with an automated system which is causing immense harm to jobseekers and returned a report riddled with errors because it used automation to complete that report still getting paid, the government is yet to address the substance of the report.

Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne said

Hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients lose access to payments every year, and Labor have said they can’t even say if it’s lawful.”

These payments can be the difference between food on the table or going hungry. If Labor can’t defend the system they should end the TCF and stop suspending payments immediately.”

Under questioning in senate estimates from Greens senators, Murray Watt has agreed that Deloitte should apologise.

Great.

Let’s see whether the government apologises for keeping mutual obligations and welfare suspensions in place at the later session of estimates which will deal with social services.

Bluesky

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 2h

I'm tired lol

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my fucking god, and people who help homeless people are also antifa

And homeless people are antifa

The most vulnerable amongst us, and the people who help them. They are gearing up for unspeakable atrocities

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 2h

"...these explosions cause complete destruction within a radius of at least 300 meters, with damage extending beyond 500 meters, while shrapnel reaches distances exceeding one kilometer, leading to severe injuries among civilians..."

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Civil Defense: IOF continues bombing Gaza with booby-trapped vehicles despite Trump’s statements

The Gaza General Directorate of Civil Defense revealed that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue to target residential neighborhoods in Gaza City with booby-trapped vehicles loaded with large amou...

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2h

They said 40 babies were beheaded. It was a lie.

They said babies were put in ovens. It was a lie.

They said babies were torn from their mothers womb. It was a lie.

They said there was mass, systematic rape. It was a lie.

They lied. All to justify a genocide.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 2h

I also asked him to like not wash the stuff that gets caught in the sink strainer down the sink

next step clean up after yourself and close the fkn cupboards

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 2h

Asked Ash not to fill the kettle and saucepan from the hot tap

www.theguardian.com/notesandquer...

Why do people waste energy by filling kettles, etc., from the cold tap? Is there a health risk from using water from the hot tank? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 2h

Tuna rolls

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Washing out

💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

Yay! Powers back on

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 4h

You know the generational bargain is corrupted when couples with kids can’t buy a first home. Maybe bigamy is the solution. Unorthodox solutions appear all we have.

Suggest new reality tv series: first homebuyers want a throuple. theconversation.com/buying-with-...

Buying with a sibling or rentvesting: some unorthodox approaches to buying a first home

While these strategies work for some people, they are not necessarily possible for most aspiring first home owners.

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