Labor needs to scrap indexation altogether and raise the minimum repayment threshold to median wage so people lose less out of their pay every week.

Then they need to wipe student debt and make Uni free again.

Let's be clear, this will not provide any cost of living relief to people who are struggling to make repayments, pay rising rents and afford their groceries.

Student debts shouldn’t be growing at all, it's highway robbery from a Prime Minister who went to uni for free.

People are furious and desperate in this cost of living crisis and Labor is still choosing to fill government coffers with money from struggling students over taxing fossil fuel companies.

Labor has clearly felt the pressure of a massive and sustained community and Greens campaign on #studentdebt and been forced to move.

But it’s the bare minimum and it’s not cost of living relief.

#hecs #auspol

'Are you willing to lift the rate of the Single Parenting Payment to ensure women aren't left in poverty?'

Gallagher: 'There's other payments, like the Commonwealth Rent Assistance'

absolutely identical to a Morrison answer
#RaiseTheRate

You're literally funding a genocide while indulging a fake scandal about zionists being 'unsafe' (read: uncomfortable) on campus.

Stop. Pull your head in Anthony Albanese

Oh my god
Mashallah sister Minnie is now on protest signs

I am so sick of politicians urging individuals to take action to address domestic and family violence while they are so comprehensively failing to take action themselves. Respect women? You could start by properly funding DFV shelters and services so they aren’t sleeping in cars

Albanese talks about students needing to “feel safe” at university. Totally agree.
EVERY university in Gaza is now rubble. No student is safe. Many are dead, dying or disabled. Hence uni encampments. War crimes are more than feelings. But I guess that’s not an easy photo op?

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Argh. Why do we keep expecting better? 🙄

Sometimes I think we have been fighting so long for real funding that we start being grateful for crumbs. $925m over 5 years is of course so small compared to the scale of the problem and what is actually required. It shouldn’t be this hard to get a serious commitment from Labor

$925 mil over 5 yrs? That’s all women get? To help them reach out to support services- but not to FUND those services?! Which only receive half the funding needed to meet demand? After 50BILLION to Defence? And no national prevention program or Govt-run DV death toll? Disgraceful

General reminder - politicians are not your friends and should be held to account and criticised when they fall short. Doing so is not an endorsement of anyone else or another party. You should want your politicians to learn, to be better and work towards solutions.

Thank you 🙏 every such smear campaign only strengthens our resolve to commit to our values and principles and keep on resisting oppression. I'm honoured to receive such solidarity and support.

🚨🚨 MEDIA STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF DR Randa Abdel-Fattah

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