Avery Howard (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Here's a hint.

Our beloved Avery Howard (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️: “there is nothing responsible about this budget, the government continues to choose poverty over people”

Avery Howard (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Whoops... Haven't made an ellipsis yet... Let’s try this again...

“This is the second year that Labor have announced a surplus. And yet they continue to tell welfare recipients that they can’t ‘fund every good idea’. That’s bullshit.”

#NewProfilePic

🧵kristin (she/her) from Antipoverty Centre, Avery Howard (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ from AUWU, Jennifer Kirkaldy from Salvos Australia, Ben Phillips, and our CEO Cassandra Goldie🌈 were featured in this piece for ABC News about the government's failure to #raisetherate

abc.net.au/listen/program…

I would prefer a $300 rebate (and, for example, social security payments) would go to someone who doesn’t need it than it not go to someone who does.

Means testing is an abhorrent system that’s used to restrict access to people who need it.

Our Avery Howard (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ did eventually get to speak to the media inside parliament 👇
#RaiseTheRate
theguardian.com/australia-news…

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner said that raising the rate would prevent homicides.

Are Labor and the Office for Women saying with this Budget that they are happy for homicides to continue, as women in poverty are less likely to be able to escape violence?

How it feels to live on welfare.

Finally acting like I’m Committee 😂

#LeftBehindCommittee
#Budget2024
#NobodyDeservesPoverty

Apparently said “bullshit” on the ABC yesterday

A surplus 3 times in a row. This one $9.6 billion.

Also kinda love (/s) how I’m quoted as “JobSeeker recipient” and not as if I’m talking on behalf of the union 😂

Another day, another dollar

Just wanted to post the words I said here. I just wish I had a video of it 😂

Shame.

To genuinely see “peak bodies” run by people without lived expertise of poverty get space to speak over and over again while people on income support are denied opportunities frustrates me.

We should be given the ability to speak on how the budget affects us.

Oh look I’m here with Ngaire Bogemann