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Category: Welfare
The AUWU has a Trans Problem
Trans people are vastly over represented in welfare statistics, even where we get work, it often isn’t enough and we’re forced to supplement our income with some kind of payment, one cruelly called JobSeeker, because if we’re not advancing, it…
The AUWU, Solidarity and Sarah Alice
Sarah Alice is someone I know virtually nothing about. A trans woman who first showed up on my radar defending Pascal Grosvenor’s abuse around refugees detained offshore in Australia’s gulags on Manus Island (now closed, though those refugees are in immigration limbo) and on Nauru. Obviously, I had no time for this nonsense apologetics for inhumane Labor policy and gave her the heave-ho she deserved.
Mirror: Let’s talk about Per Capita
The following are a manual archive of tweets by Bastard The Eloquent (@BastardEloquent) about Per Capita and Emma Dawson in particular. I will keep commentary to the minimum as the thread largely speaks for itself, however with Twitter becoming increasingly…
On Robodebt
As a victim of the robodebt scheme, automated data matching initiated originally by the Australian Labor Party in 2011, I have some thoughts. Serious ones.
Welfare in Australia as Conversion Therapy
How the Australian welfare system fails the un-ideal candidates.
A crybully and an “independent” thinktank
Yes, the guy who spent his time using vicious mental health slurs got space on the ABC to talk about being the victim of cyberbullying.