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Love me some fake Mint Slice bikkies, but that Foodbank offering needs some actual food
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Who doesn’t love them some carbs? Well, coeliacs and other gluten intolerant people would have a hard time with this basket of goodies Dutton showed off over the weekend. As would anyone who&…
#dutton #chairty #hampers #foodbank #Christmas #foodbanks #nutrition
on Mon, 3AM
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Happy Liptember! The month where I actually wear lipstick and raise funds for women’s mental health projects. Had a few good conversations this morning about *waves hands around* all of this.…
on Sep 6
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When they give you 24 hours to respond to an enquiry, you don’t have time to do the referenced researched work of an advocacy organisation, so you smash out something, so in true “egirl…
on Fri, 2AM
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So yeah I fucking love Xmas frivolity. I have my tree up and will be getting all the Xmas tees and skirts and dresses out as soon as I have a couple days sunshine to pop them through the wash. If M…
on Nov 15
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But I Don’t Wanna Quit Twitter
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I mean quitting twitter isn’t what it was. Twitter isn’t what it was, but it’s still my base. (Aside from this blog, this is my base but Twitter is where I am most of the time). Q…
on Nov 14
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You know some things just make you wanna scream but you’re tired?
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CW Suicide and self harm etc People are doing amazing work out there. The Antipoverty Centre filed their submission to the national Suicide Prevention Strategy. And it’s good. And you’l…
on Nov 11
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Twitter, where I live. I also work there. Crafting my posts for private and business accounts, 240 characters at a time, because I’m not paying for more, not under the current regime. My frie…
on Nov 8
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The smell of an oily rag – lived experience advocacy in Australia
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If I never have to smell wheel bearing grease again I would be very happy. Vile stuff, with a distinct smell. But with the dramas of repairing the Corolla, I’ve gotta whiff of it, or worse ha…
on Nov 1
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We all make mistakes, but Brereton’s managed to go out of his way to make this one
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Anyone else? Anyone else feel like screaming at every fucking point of the follow up (or lack of) from the Robodebt Royal Commission? Starting with there being 57 recommendations, not 56 as Labor a…
on Oct 30
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Hello HSC Maths, we meet again
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I actually don’t have nightmares about maths exams, though they caused me many years of stress and tears in high school. It’s English that keeps coming back to haunt my dreams – s…
on Oct 23
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Born to receive a teeny tiny silver spoon from Ozharvest
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Oh how lovely, the King and Queen are here. Yeah, much excitement. They made it all the way out rural Parramatta today to meet the RFS and CWA… Yes, they may have still been rural when Victor…
on Oct 22
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Was it a fun night for you?Speeding down I-5, no cops on the mapScreaming out, “I’d die for you”But after all the stops and starts, crashes and carnageI’m just carsick IR…
on Oct 18
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Copacabana’s pothole problem’s been solved – just have the soon to be (I don’t know how soon but bloody hell he’s trying not to be there past May) former PM move in cl…
on Oct 17
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Maybe it was the moldy tomatoes that sent her over the edge
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So, this is going to be a gratitude post, but it will divert into complaints at stages. I’m doing alright, I’ve been enjoying being paid to post for Nobody Deserves Poverty in an offici…
on Oct 10
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I just can’t, Jim. I can’t with your surplus.
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You’re repeating yourself, grinning over the same shit, so I’m going to repeat myself. I hate the surplus. I hate it when it’s 9 billion or nineteen. I hate it because it leaves m…
on Sep 30
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Finding the balance of stubborn and holding my ground that actually serves me
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At my last work place, I got quite angry when a senior worker said she’d been leaving a piece of rubbish behind a door to see how long it took for other staff to clean behind that door. IR…
on Sep 28
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Who are the people on your Internet?
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They’re the people that you meet when you’re sending that snarky tweet, when you’re thinking of pushing delete, each day. I’m a little off this week. I’m mostly blamin…
on Sep 27
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Had the six-monthly rental inspection this morning. Spent the week cleaning since I found out about it, and it must have been fine because I got an email offering us another 2 years lease (this was…
on Sep 24
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Happy “Indexation Is Not An Increase” Day
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Indexation of welfare payments is legislated for, occurs twice a year for most payments on March and September 20, and once a year for youth payments on January 1. It’s not a real increase, a…
on Sep 20
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Sure, I’ll answer some questions!
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A journalism student sent me an email and asked me some great questions about welfare in this country. Since I got right into the answers, I though I’d share them here. Firstly, one of th…
on Sep 17
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At the Anglicare panel, we were asked advice about supporting people with lived experience to participate in awareness, activism, PR and so forth. I referred to a couple of concepts borrowed from o…
on Sep 15
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I started a new Sims save today – after reinstalling windows last month I needed to get all the updates and update OBS and all the other things to make streaming possible again. And I got the…
on Sep 10
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Skill-up marginalised people, because we can’t ethically put you through our lived experiences
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So the Anglicare panel went well, just wended up being me and Catherine from AUWU (my boss) as Nathan from Hunter Jobs Alliance was unwell, so more intimate, but yeah, I’m exhausted but it wa…
on Sep 3
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Well, I mourned winter, but feel like I’m emerging into Spring with a new lease on life (cough be damned). It’s still with me when I transition between scenes, like moving to the kitche…
on Aug 30
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Records breaking again and again, apparently 39 degrees in Winter is possible in Central Australia, and they got it this week in Oodnadatta. On the east coast, we’re getting high 20s, not ent…
on Aug 25
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So Bill thinks we’re all getting a little hysterical when we say that people will die because of the NDIS legislation they’ve pushed through with Pauline’s help. He tells us not t…
on Aug 23
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So I think I’ve move past my despair and disheartenedess from last week, ready for the pollies to go back for another sitting week and try to make some announce-ables on cost-of-living stick …
on Aug 11
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Who CAN we trust with our stories?
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After the disheartening response to the Disability Royal Commission finally came out last month, advocates and many others were left in literal tears, wondering what the point of a 4 -year commissi…
on Aug 8
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Earnest and Overwhelmed – Teasing out the personal from the professionals this Homelessness Week
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There’s a week for everything. Cancers, lupus, boys, thongs. This week is National Homelessness Week here in ‘straya, the lucky country, where there are no affordable homes to rent in m…
on Aug 5
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I, for one, Welcome the New Minister for Homelessness Industries
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Hey if it’s good enough to acknowledge that Defense and the Industries that make the money off it need two portfolios, why not come out and admit that’s what you and the minister for Ch…
on Jul 30
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Welp, I’m in Twitter jail, apparently little right of appeal and may have just lost 17 years of my life for who knows what but probably just you know being on the right side of history over G…
on Jul 26
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on Jul 26
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We got a Marley Spoon meal box last week after trying QuiteLike the week before (back onto Everyplate this week since that’s what my budget allows). A six meal box like this with Marley Spoon…
on Jul 23
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Does my anxiety make you nervous?
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I think this must come under unmasking as an Autistic person – making peach with some of my anxiety, especially when it doesn’t actually stop me from doing anything. Like, is my voice s…
on Jul 16
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Here’s a food post, which is good because my political advocacy brain went off last week and I’m tired and it was NOT a good week to try a more intense meal box, and change is hard and …
on Jul 14
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What’s simply “convenient” for you may be an essential disability accommodation for others
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Every week there’s discussion on Twitter about convenience and disability accommodations. You’ve probably put your two cents in without even knowing it on a post ruing how you can buy p…
on Jul 11
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Shedding this Well-meaning White Woman Persona
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Mother knows best, they say. But sometimes mother takes too much time considering Father’s feelings and need for things to remain the same forever and bites her tongue at the key moment to ke…
on Jul 4
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Happy EOFYS! (Don’t let the tax cuts overwhelm you on the way out)
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You can’t have missed it. EVERY AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYER IS GETTING A TAX CUT. Well, anyone earning above the tax free threshold is. Anyone paying GST or excise other other taxes that disproportio…
on Jun 30
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There is no “right way” to protest or otherwise advocate for change
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Be polite they say, don’t graffiti they say, don’t smash a window to break un unjust law. Don’t block the road, don’t camp there. Fill out this complaint form, submit to thi…
on Jun 26
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Hey, have you tried shopping at Aldi? (and other unhelpful advice given to people on welfare)
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Thanks, Choice and Labor, for letting us know that it’s mostly cheaper to shop at Aldi. They’re promising to report back quarterly on that basket of goods, which is about as harsh a whi…
on Jun 26
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Oh, I used to be a food blogger, trying the latest products, writing up the cafes, and justifying my wine habit with blog posts. But that’s changed now, and while you’ll get the occasio…
on Jun 25
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I’m tired, sore and disappointed. Happy Budget Hangover day
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This but it’s May 2024: A couple of days ago we heard that there was gonna be some sort of increase to the useless rent assistance payment in this budget. That turned out to be 10% from Septe…
on May 15
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Defining the “Essentials” of Living
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Week two of the Poverty course, and the pre-lecture discussion this week is about what things we would consider to be everyday essentials for everyone. We’ve gone through some items from the …
on May 7
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We’ll have our own committee #LeftBehindCommittee
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With hookers and blackjack, because we don’t discriminate against sex workers and some of us are quite the card counters. I try to stick to gambling with virtual money, such as in Red Dead or…
on May 2
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Why should we care about poverty?
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So I started a short course last night – “Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Disadvantage in Australia”. My fees were paid for by AUWU, which was sweet of them, and will…
on May 1
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You can do it Jim, you can lift millions out of poverty this budget. I believe in you?
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Ahh, Jimmy Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim, Muppet Treasure Island is such a amazing adaptation on the classic novel – pirates, romance, travel and song. Jim here is the kid, wishing for a better live be…
on Apr 27
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National Week of Action (April 15-21): Grassroots anti-poverty groups and people on JobSeeker and other payments will be contacting and visiting their MPs to call for payments to be raised out of p…
on Apr 16
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Five weeks til the Budget, are you drying to dash our hopes already Jim?
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It’s five weeks until Jim Chalmer’s hands down the budget that Labor will likely try to ride into the next election. “Cost of living” is the buzz phrase still, and he and hi…
on Apr 9
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Welfare Dependency is a Good Thing, Actually
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Yeah, The Poors are cranky again, this time because a “think tank” has decided there’s too many of us on welfare and that it’s a bad thing. They also decided that the NDIS i…
on Apr 8
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Greens MP boosts Lake Macquarie City Council candidates
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Greens MP Abigail Boyd boosts Lake Macquarie City Council candidates Lake Macquarie Greens have launched environmental activist and campaigner Bryce Ham as candidate for North Ward of Lake Macquari…
on Apr 7