Even chatgpt gets it:

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Check your phones everybody! Antipoverty Centre 黑歐黑歐 abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

100% hard agree Simone Casey! Mutual Obligations must be paused now while Services Australia gets their own house in order and employment services are reformed

Sign & share the new AUWU petition to fix Centrelink now!

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This blog from Simone Casey explains why there are good reasons why payment supensions should be paused because systemic reforms are still too far off.
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New paper out in The Sociological Review Foundation

Who counts in poverty research? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

In today’s post, ⁦⁦💜 phonakins 🇵🇸🍉⁩ discusses how being on the Disability Support Pension has allowed her to stabilise her mental health — Power to Persuade via ⁦AUWU⁩ powertopersuade.org.au/blog/how-being…

This week our blog is moderated by ⁦⁦AUWU⁩ shining light on people’s experiences of government systems. First up: To whom it 'should' concern: unsuccessfully applying for the Disability Support Pension in Australia — Power to Persuade powertopersuade.org.au/blog/to-whom-i…

Some progressive ideas for the reform of Australia's employment services, showing how Germany's Citizen Benefit policy ensures that people are not harmed by unfair and unreasonable conditionality and threats to financial security

How to change a bad law: The campaign to repair the single parenting payment was a model of how research and advocacy can push government to face the cruel effects of a policy and change course | The Monthly (May be paywalled.) themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/dec…

Looking for tips to slow down - thank you in advance (??)

This is a goldmine of insights into the design and delivery of social policy and - importantly - its impact on people, written by policy experts, researchers, advocates, and people enmeshed in or locked out of government service systems. Follow Power to Persuade for more.

👍 Some good news in #MYEFO

It makes sense to move people already working, studying & volunteering out of employment services, freeing them up from pointless reporting & appointments & putting money where it's needed into digital safeguards & additional support. #ausecon

Rebuilding Employment Services will take more than a few virtuous words - johnmenadue.com/rebuilding-emp…

Intersting results from this Dutch study!

(3/5) Betkó et al: Fewer obligations for welfare recipients, more social and economic activities? Results from an experiment with less conditional welfare regimes (open access) JSP bit.ly/3sQpzLt

Hopefully we'll hear about a way forward on the dreadful use of payment suspensions today when the #workforceaustralia inquiry report drops!

That morning when you put caustic soda in your mouth thinking it is sugar

It's understandable, given that I think the Government has wilfully blurred the lines, but there's been some misreading of what yesterday's announcements will mean for ill & disabled people so I thought it was worth offering my interpretation of where things stand... 🧵