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Imogen

@imogenib.bsky.social
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Science, facts, society for everyone. Public health, education, housing. Opportunities for all. Water. Climate Action. Rewilding. Free McBride. Australia 🇦🇺 End poverty. The economic model needs tweaking. #RaiseTheRate #EndTheDuopoly #VoteIndy No DMs!

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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pity about that very blunt tool the RBA has, hey? Could they increase rates for all who already own their own home and have more “loans”than their PPOR or very small business loan with the bank. Can we protect lower income FHBs and start ups from these increases? #auspol Targeting 🎯 better. 👍 🙏
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
💯 Greg Jericho. 🙌 And #RaiseTheRate would be an excellent stepping the right direction. Helping people suffering in ways that assure us all our tax dollars are assuring all Australians a life worth living. If government doesn’t do this, it’s not good government. #auspol #Wages #Super #Housing
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Staggering amount of short term rentals and Ms Shields, running her rental business says it’s not the same thing. One is for short term and the other for long term and long term housing comes up far less frequently. I guess she’s a genius to figure this out. 😳 🤦‍♀️ #Housing
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yes indeed, current fraud task forces exist and are investigating instances of fraud within the NDIS framework. And this is excellent and should be maintained alongside the NDIS framework as an essential part of integrity in service delivery. #auspol www.ndis.gov.au/news/11511-f...
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Oooh $250 extra a year plus $1k for “workers” only. Thats workers who have a full year earning more than what? The tax free threshold? That’s only $18.200 a year and unliveable btw. So a full year of working a job that allows this whopping $3.42 a day extra. Not if you’re a #JobSeeker. #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
ABC News reporting this evening on how there’s 1 property in Australia affordable for renters on JobSeeker. One. None for those on Youth Allowance. And did they say over 35k people on social housing wait lists? 🤨 #HousingCrisis needs #federal response. @australianlabor.bsky.social
Only one property in all of Australia available for rent. Less than 15% of properties on rental market affordable for a couple on two minimum wages. Youth Allowance makes renting out of reach. Single people on the aged pension, left behind as well. After rent, JobSeeker is gone. There’s nothing left over. A fortnight’s change after rent - leaves nothing to live on. A roof without power bills paid and no food to cook anyway… #HousingCrisis
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
To the streets!
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Filed against the real estate today, for clear and obvious retaliatory behaviour, falling well within a month from the dismissal of their spurious and defamatory case against me: fully rebutted. I am asking for them to be referred to Fair Trading for licence revocation. #qldpol #RentersRights
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Or you mean Qld has purchased stock to add to affordable housing supply? It does seem you are right. They have purchased 121 homes for Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and Gympie. Nowhere near enough, and why should they have to at all? #auspol #HousingNOW @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Quite the opposite in fact: Queensland has already fully exited the NRAS. www.dss.gov.au/national-ren...
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The average #rental price is $650/week in Australia. This is more than the total per week a JobSeeker gets, of $849.90 (maximum payment possible per fortnight). The maximum amount of rent assistance that person can get is if sharing $143.60 or if living alone $215.40. =#homeless!
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I’m very sorry about that. For some reason I was able to read it. ?? 🤔 Hate that. Here’s another one about #poverty and how not measuring it across multiple factors leaves so many people behind. #auspol #RaiseTheRate
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
100%. We must act to ensure everyone can afford #housing. Currently the median income earner is entering rental or mortgage stress either renting OR paying off a new mortgage. 40 year mortgages. Retirees using Super post to pay down loans. Low income: on the streets! 😡 #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
#RentersRights #auspol #HousingForAll @ClareONeilMP 🏡 Let’s also insist on the minimum housing standards being met before any rental is leased.
Words by 🌹 let’s tie the minimum wage to the average local rent. Make the bosses go to war with the landlords.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I relate, but have a unique cat personality in my life. He’s quite the character. Loves a rope game.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Reading @richarddenniss.bsky.social latest book “Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us” and finding it quite a good read. Great analysis on how things have been working against the public good and for the status quo. An alarm bell 🔔 ringing! #auspol #economy #planet #politas
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
They train us. 😍 each unique. 🐈 Love and care. And litter training. Gentle play. And food designed specifically for kittens is best. As you know Mike, these little ones need a vet check up, vaccinations and worm and flea treatments. A little op to stop multiplications. Bond with the little one. 😻
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
There a #MarchforHumanity in Sydney tomorrow. Seems a good day to go for a walk across a spectacular and iconic bridge to ask for humanity to be respected, doesn’t it? If you’re in Sydney, please walk in solidarity for peace and to save lives. www.facebook.com/share/1CRVsv... #auspol #sydney
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Just googled if Centrelink staff are expected to be helpful. The answer is a definitive yes from AI: www.google.com/search?q=are... are centrelink staff required to be helpful? - Google Search #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Roar 🐯
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Wishing everyone as much serenity as this little one achieves when he sleeps. Awww 🥰
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Here’s the facts. Pensioners get more money to start with and get to keep almost double what JobSeekers get to keep before losing payment altogether. Jobseekers lose sixty percent of everything they earn over $250/fn. that’s completely unfair and unequal and unreasonable.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#RaiseTheRate and raise the #EarningsTaperRate #auspol Jobseekers are working for half the benefit when already not given enough to live or possibly get by. This is abuse. #PovertyKills google.com/search?q=conpa… compare jobseekers earnings to Pensioners australia - Google
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It’s halted while the hearing takes place it seems. Mr Walters of Moreton Bay Council appears to think people who are homeless have no rights. They do Mr Waters. Robbing them is NOT okay. Harming them is NOT okay. #Homelessness Is government irresponsibility - NOT A CRIME. #HousingForAll #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
With unemployment at 4.1% #JobSeekers make up less than 5% of our population. Is this why our voice is ignored and we’re left facing homelessness and hunger and illness and dispossession and exploitation? Because we are a minority? #RaiseTheRate #auspol www.abs.gov.au/statistics/l...
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Brisbane folk who are up before 5:30am please come down to Musgrave Park and help provide solidarity to homeless people camped there as the police show up to remove them. The police should refuse this work. The council shouldn’t respond like this. State government should house them all.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Awww Tyger says hello Ash.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#HousingForAll #RaiseTheRate Cost of living starts at home and when you don’t have enough, you cannot be productive for yourself or anyone else. You enter survival mode: a place where opportunistic crimes and petty theft is more likely. Need isn’t greed. Ensure people have enough. #auspol #vote
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Home again now. Happy to be here but a little bit put out by this cone thing… and Mum fed me, but I am still ravenous. The vet told her only to give me half rations until tomorrow. Not so sure that vets are good 🤔 and I can’t see what they’ve done to me. 😦. All is well Mum tells me. I trust her.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Off for neutering, microchipping and claw clipping - three in one today. Hopes I will be okay. 😻 Mum starved me from midnight. I’m very hungry too. Life is great fun, but sometimes I’m very uncertain about it. Can’t wait to be home again. The vet seemed nice though. Maybe it’s all okay. ❤️ #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Twenty K followers today. Thank you BlueSky people. You’re the best!
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Mew
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
For JobSeekers and some Pensioners this no-interest loans scheme won’t help at all. They can’t save so they cannot repay a loan. Jobseekers can earn half as much as Pensioners before being cut off - below the poverty line. Cut off just under the base rate of a Pension in fact. #RaiseTheRate #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The base rate of JobSeeker for a homeless person is $778.00 per fortnight. Homeless people don’t get rent assistance. The rate of JobSeeker is so low it is driving homelessness. There is no doubt in my mind about it. Pensioners on much more, are struggling. #HomesNow #RaiseTheRate #auspol 🏡 😔
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Here’s some photos: #HousingForAll #HomesNow #Brisbane #NoEvictionsToHomelessness #auspol The Brisbane City Council needs to provide stocked amenities and leave the facilities open. The Qld Police need to be compassionate and not move people on to nowhere. This is a State responsibility. #Housing
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Share the last photo you took of your pet. Here’s Tyger.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Come to the snap community meeting in Brisbane’s Musgrave Park tomorrow about this. #auspol #HomesNow #HousingForAll Meanwhile, let people camp if they need to (they need to). We are in a housing crisis. #AffordableHousingNow Maintain community connections. Maintain amenities and leave them open.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Quote: “It is worth reminding readers that the latest rental vacancy data from SQM Research showed that the nation’s vacancy rate fell to 1.0% in January 2025, down 0.1% from a year earlier.” We are still very much in a rental #housingcrisis. #auspol www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/02/fall...
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
What a good weekend. Beautiful people I am blessed to have met. Thank you. @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social #SkeetUp #NoDickheads
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Mine too, and my own health. Stress isn’t good at all. My little kitten is keeping me sorted though. Playing with him and looking out for him is good for me (and him too). It’s little things that keep me going. And enough to pay the bills - I do hope for better and more security. ❤️ “Tyger” 😻
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wow! Isn’t that absolutely appalling! OMG 😱 Queensland has a much better system. www.qld.gov.au/housing/publ.... I’m appalled. NSW - do better! #auspol #nswpol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
studyworkgrow.com/what-is-the-... If you’re earning above $280k/ year you’re in the top 1-2% of Australians. #auspol It would be wise to show some compassion, and respect for others and support everyone having enough to live. Instead of complaining. #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Wow. I guess you own your own home and have cash coming in you don’t declare. You must be so proud of ripping off the system. Good grief indeed, did you see the headline? If you can’t add up, or be respectful. YOU have the problem. Not me! Grow up. Be decent. Look up decent perhaps?
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Nobody on JobSeeker can afford the rent. Let alone savings or food or the bills. We know as a fact that many JobSeekers have been on the payment for over a year. And don’t deserve to be left behind because the market won’t employ them. acoss.org.au/media_release/…. #RaiseTheRate
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This data above is a low estimate of median rents across Australia btw. #RaiseTheRate #IncreaseRentAssistance #CapRents #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Headlines like these really demonstrate how broken civil society is. Here these people on $350k per year whinge they are struggling to survive. Do these people support #RaiseTheRate for social security recipients to survive? Do they even think past their next holiday? #auspol
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Decades of underinvestment in affordable housing sees us here. Right where we are. With people being harmed exponentially so a few rich folk can have a few more dollars they don’t spend. 😩 #rent #auspol - Be a decent landlord!
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Equality doesn’t mean slandering someone who stands up for better, especially not with tropes that would normally be attributed to the Greens. Are you listening to the words you speak, as you tout yourself as someone believing in equality? #CancelCulture Is divisive. #auspol #VoteIndependent
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