Same sex marriage became legal 8 years ago today
It seems like yesterday the bitterly contested (and unnecessary) plebiscite on same sex marriage ended in the Marriage Act being amended to allow same sex couples the right to marry. …
Income support
No Australian should live in poverty. And no Australian should be punished for living in poverty. Those living in poverty in Australia aren’t just subjected to the struggles of being poor …
Climate protesters criminalised
Governments across Australia have criminalised people who are peacefully protesting by proliferating a worrying number of anti-protest laws. Over the past two decades, 49 laws affecting protest have been introduced …
Income support
Many current income support payments are less than half the poverty level. One in 200 people are homeless in Australia and many more are struggling with sky-high rents. The statistics …
Increasing income support
No Australian should live in poverty Many current income support payments are less than half the poverty level. One in 200 people are homeless in Australia and many more are …
What motivated the release of refugees? The possibility of an election loss …
Democrats refugee spokesperson, Chris Simpson: Imagine being incarcerated for nine years for nothing more than seeking a better life. Imagine being locked up at 24 years of age and finally …
Disaster payments to stop regardless of lockdown
This is really mean. The Treasurer announced today that once vaccination rates reach 70 percent, disaster payments will start to be phased out. They will then be tapered off over …
JobKeeper comes to premature end
The number of workers on JobKeeper dropped by more than half from 3.6 million individuals last September to 1.54 million in December but it is clear that there are many …
Dob in a job seeker unethical
The Government’s JobSeeker hotline for employers to dob in job seekers who are ‘not genuine about their job search’ is punitive, subjective and unethical, resulting in more people being ‘breached’ …
When we give our nations highest honour to a bigot, we undermine the whole system.
As I’m sure anyone reading the news now knows, Margaret Court was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia this year. Her award this year was virtually the same …