The RBA deliberately creates #unemployment to control inflation. Then our employment services system treats the jobless as if they caused their own predicament and don't want to work.
Unfair and unnecessarily cruel. My latest in @aunz.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/the-rbas-pol...
Justice For Josh: 10 Years On Share Fri, 17 Apr, 1pm - 2pm AEST Add to calendar Andrew Giles MP Thomastown VIC, Australia Host icon Australian Unemployed Workers' Union 1 follower · Contact host(Opens in new tab) Description 10 years ago, 18-year old Josh Park-Fing died at his forced labour Work for the Dole site in Toowoomba. Despite a court finding that Josh's Work for the Dole site did not meet basic safety standards, neither the government nor his for-profit privately owned employment service provider NEATO were held accountable. Josh's family weren't even provided normal workers compensation as Josh was technically not an 'employee'. 10-years on, the lessons from Josh's death have not be been learnt. The program is still punitive and dangerous. The Albanese government still forces hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers to attend dangerous, pointless, and punitive Work for the Dole activities every year or face being permanently cut off their unemployment benefit, which is more than $200 per fortnight below the poverty line.
10 years ago, 18-year old Josh Park-Fing died at his forced labour Work for the Dole site in Toowoomba.
Call for action and remember Josh
Fri, 17 Apr, 1pm - 2pm AEST
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Thomastown, VIC, 3074
So-called mutual obligations are counterproductive and legally dodgy. I asked Labor if they would pause MOs, given the fuel crisis triggered by the illegal war they support is going to harm people on poverty payments the most.
Their answer? Mutual obligations are good actually.
“In response to [the global fuel] crisis, the Antipoverty Centre has called for an urgent increase to Centrelink payments to help people weather the storm." - Kristin O’Connell, an antipoverty activist with the @antipovertycentre.org.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4dD9e1R
Ah, yes, let's listen to the rich lady who profits from torturing jobseekers.
Who is paid by the government to threaten the disabled, sick, and old with starvation if they don't take yet another course about writing resumes.
In an economy that demands 5% unemployment, to keep wages low. #AusPol
The institutionalized maltreatment of the unemployed is not a bug. The system is working as designed.
The disassembling of the oppressive unemployment systems, will not happen without organized resistance from the poor and underclass.
The targeting of some of the most vulnerable communities in the country, by politicians and media reveal the necropolitical nature of our society. Marking those pushed into unemployment by economic logics such as NAIRU for an early death.
www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self...
Unemployment recipients commit suicide at close to 3x the rate of the wider Australian population. The illegal automation of abusive systems, as evidenced by the robodebt scandal and the target compliance framework debacle. Make more efficient the mechanisms of abuse and harassment.
Screenshot of the Senate chamber showing the Greens and Senators Payman and Pocock on the left side of the chamber and the Labor and Liberal senators sitting together on the right.
The Greens sometimes cop flak for saying there's no meaningful difference between Labor and the Libs.
Well here they are voting - together- against lifting welfare payments above the poverty line and abolishing the parental and partner income tests.
Maybe we're onto something?
Once upon a time, the government was scared of the "militant unemployed". Now they use automated and often illegal mechanism to make you destitute and push you to suicide.
It'd be nice to bring back a lil bit of that radical spirit.
The RBA forces you into unemployment.
The government suffocates you in poverty.
Job Service Providers turn your immiseration into a billion dollar business.
And automated systems digitally dehumanize you.
It's time to organize, mobilize and fight back.
