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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Oh no, poor landlords are only able to charge $700 per week in rental income when median net income around $1155 per week”. How tf is anyone meant to pay rent, bills and still eat?

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Doctor “I wouldn’t be a good doctor if I sugar coated things and not tell you the truth, you’re really unwell but we can work together to fix it” I finally have a good doctor

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s going well and the recent win for the hunter has set a precedent. Govt can not keep exporting coal and washing their hands as if they haven’t contributed to climate change

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 07/10/2026

Last week we were invited to speak on a panel alongside @artistaffame.bsky.social Single Mother Families Australia and Inclusion Australia hosted by Elise Klein. Social policy should be lead by direct experience and working with people on the ground. You can watch here 👇 youtu.be/K-aqu_aJPQQ?...

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ASPC 2026: Prioritising firsthand experience – social policy up close

YouTube video by Antipoverty Centre

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

1 in 8 people were in poverty now it’s 1 in 7 poverty is increasing I made this video #antipovertyweek

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Waiting for a message from my doctor to go in to the surgery haha he’s running a bit late

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The worst part of the conference? Hearing Tanya plisbersek skate around questions instead of answering them

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s been a busy week the conference was good I always feel like I learn so much by attending them and remember that course in poverty I did ? I met my professor face to face. She told me that she would like to help me write up my presentation and submit it as a policy idea.

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Jane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saying the quiet part out loud here @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org: welcome to the trickle down effect of reverse energy justice where the rich + entitled get cheap energy first. fyi @artistaffame.bsky.social @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social #AusPol

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Up early to fly to Brisbane where I’ll be speaking on a panel about lived experience and policy and why we are the experts.

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I spent the day with grannies for action who are a bunch of older women who want to make a difference and think jobseeker is too low they are in their 70s and 80s and have been out collecting physical signatures for their petition id like to help by getting as many signatures as possible

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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

It seems pretty overt at this point that Labor organised the National Disability Insurance Scheme this way at its inception specifically to have this particular excuse to kill it later, and later is now

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theideasabsurd.bsky.social @theideasabsurd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Horrifying! What’s worse is that the system isn’t broken…it’s working how it was designed. Designed at great expense by an arrogant or complicit public service (in reality by highly paid consultants) who were probably promoted for their excellent work and repeated through NDIS, medical, childcare…

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Julie Ann @jewelleryring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s so dreadful. Partner is 66 years old and had an amputation -a significant and permanent disability not caused by his age. Yet because he is over 65, he is excluded from the level of disability support available through the NDIS. Write to Ministers and don’t even get acknowledgment

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today I sat with my new elderly neighbour to support him through his age care assessment for funding (I have his permission to post) a lady came out from APM (yes that APM) to ask him a whole lot of questions about what he needs help with. As I sat through it and listened to him speak I realised how

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Jane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Glad someone in parliament is calling out the bullshit. TLDR: Labor = income support poverty. Meanwhile, Australia has over 170 billionaires. fyi @maximumwelfare.bsky.social @cunexttuesday.wtf @artistaffame.bsky.social @antipovertycentre.org @jeremypoxon.bsky.social #AusPol

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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh for god's sake!! Come ON @albomp.bsky.social! A child has died! Two otheres are fighting for their lives. As is the woman victim! That's FOUR dead in <48 hrs, 3 seriously injured. WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE??!! Do something about this pandemic of violence against women and children!!

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Breaking: Child dead in alleged Sydney stabbing, two other children and woman critical

NSW Police say all the children are under the age of five and the woman is in her 40s.

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you wanna know the type of neighbourhood I live in I just heard someone doing a massive burnout in the street behind mine and then yell “have a whiff of that you cunt”

A photo where you see the smoke from a burnout over the back of a fence

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The more Labor concedes to one nation the more the Overton window shifts to the right

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 21/08/2026

✅ Free at the point of service ✅ Universal access for everyone who wants it ✅ Direct investment in new public healthcare Labor’s dental care policy seems to meet all the criteria for genuine expansion of essential services. Let’s see more where that came from. Governments CAN do things!

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 17/09/2026

We have been struggling to find the words to talk about this devastating statistic. One of so many that should cause any government to leap into action to end poverty. Thank you Greg.

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Jane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Govt in Western Australia, discussing "feasibility" of aircon for those with dept of housing. Meanwhile @artistaffame.bsky.social @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social previous temps in WA near 50C last summer.

temperature at 49C in western Australia 2025.

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh look what happened in 2020 when jobseeker was doubled

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Andy @vicozandy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I reckon the behaviour of the JSPs adds to that number. Deliberate torture by a system designed to be inhuman is a shock that can't easily be shaken off. It's not a cheap system, nor is it actually aimed at job seeking, it is punitive, profitable, and outrageously cruel. We have monsters in power.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

some analysis on these disturbing numbers from the AIHW here: www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cent... saying that the combination of strong labour market participation and eligibility tightening "may mean a higher concentration of vulnerable and disadvantaged people receiving income support payments."

The longer-term trend of rising mortality rates among income support recipients could be due to multiple factors. The percentage of the working-age Australian population receiving income support payments has been declining over time, due to strong labour market participation and tightening eligibility requirements for payments (AIHW 2025). More people working and fewer people eligible for support may mean a higher concentration of vulnerable and disadvantaged people receiving income support payments.

The mortality rates for men who received income support were, on average, twice as high as those for women. Men not receiving income support also had higher mortality rates than women, but the gap was not as large (average of men 1.6 times as high as women).

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@leighmagee.wang thank you!!!! I’ve heard this games amazing !!! My bro keeps saying how good it is

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Kim @trinity888.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I never took my kids to family Christmases because I couldn’t afford to buy them presents and it was so shaming to see what their cousins got, what my kids were not getting. I didn't want to put myself or them through that. These things affect people's health too.

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Zanna @zannamote.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#SpotTheScammer @berlinkinbio96.bsky.social New account selling CS,AM via tele link. Content warning. Please report @moderation.bsky.app @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app

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aussiewitch.bsky.social @aussiewitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Heart disease associated with poor dental health would be a major reason… people struggle to afford to go to a dentist even. if they have a full time job

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🦘Roseanne @roseanneb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What a shock. Not. Poverty at any stage of your life has long term health impacts. Physical and mental. It's traumatising.

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DifficultNes @nesnotnessie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you design a system to punish people, it's not going to have good results. And our govt punishes anyone who is poor or 'other'

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The report showed the main cause of death for people on income support was cardiovascular disease but there were also higher rates of “deaths of despair” associated with alcohol, drugs and self harm, University of Queensland social science research fellow Mark Robinson said.” #auspol

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh look apparently poverty is bad for you! Who knew? Shocking new report finds ‘profound’ death rate among Aussies on welfare payments 7news.com.au/news/shockin...

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'Profound' increased death rate for Aussies on welfare payments

‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 08/09/2026

We're only eight days into spring and Queensland is in flames. This is runaway global heating. This is what happens when weak politicians addicted to corporate cash let coal and gas companies write government policy. Labor must act. No more coal. No more gas. Transition now.

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just got home from the new gps appointment and I’ve found my new gp. He was incredible he explained that the reason he has a weird booking system is he likes to take his time with each patient but he also doesn’t want his patients to be waiting hours at the surgery

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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The unwritten policy re: mutual obligations & extreme heat seems to be 1) give no thought to it, 2) let poor ppl suffer thru instances of high heat until 3) grassroots pressure from said poor ppl & welfare groups work to pressure the govt until 4) they eventually pause Mut Obls, one day at a time.

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He’s also investing more money into the racetrack then he’s invested into housing

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In a masterpiece of urban planning Colonel William Light designed Adelaide as a city inside a park. Peter ‘Chopper’ Malinauskas is using a patchwork of vanity projects to end Light’s vision, signing a death warrant for 1,400 trees along the way. #saparli

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Peter ‘Chopper’ Malinauskas to plonk MotoGP in Adelaide's cherished Park Lands - Michael West

Premier Peter Malinauskas plans to chop down 400 trees in Adelaide's Park Lands for the MotoGP Grand Prix. Rex Patrick reports.

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We’re all expecting a hotter summer this year and yet @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social and Labor still have no policy to stop mutual obligations on extreme heat days

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@davidshoebridge.bsky.social delivered a scathing assessment of the $368 billion trilateral security pact at Canberra’s first public hearing, arguing it was a “ridiculously dangerous gamble”. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260904-s...

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How do you convince someone who’s at risk of AI psychosis that having a AI friend isn’t a good idea? I’m genuinely worried after they told me today that in 2030 the AI will be downloaded into a real body. When I tried to push back they hung up on me

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So I have an appointment with the new doctor on Tuesday but I’m not sure about their appointment times yet and how it works. They will text me with a time on the day which will be after 4 and then at that time I text the doctor and he will text me back with the exact time I should be there 😂

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Home detention, it the circumstances were reversed he would be doing hard time, but family intervention puts a stop to that. 🤬

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"They shouted “Free Palestine!” And we cheered them even harder." Judith Treanor of Jews Against Occupation on solidarity; runners and protestors #auspol #sydneymarathon michaelwest.com.au/the-sydney-m...

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The Sydney Marathon proved, once again, we are the majority - Michael West

Anti-genocide protestors were buoyed by support from runners at the Sydney Marathon. Judith Treanor from Jews Against the Occupation ’48.

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