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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 07/10/2026

3 sickening years of incontrovertible evidence that resistance is justified, necessary and urgent while Palestine is occupied. Albanese is not alone but is a standout among the “leaders” who have rivers of Palestinian and Lebanese blood on their hands for enabling Israel’s escalating genocide.

Protest sign showing a raised fist in front of a Palestinian flag.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 17/07/2026

but wait, there's more. presented by 🥁🥁🥁

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 15/05/2026

The ABC’s budget coverage is beyond parody.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 15/05/2026

on top of every heinous thing this week, i have just received this email selling a service whereby charities pay to promote themselves to people when writing their will. sick sick sick society.

Email from the Australian Registry of Wills, Deeds and Documents with the slogan "Promote More. Grow More. Do More."

EMAIL TEXT: Our new membership plans are packed with value, allowing you to promote your organisation to people as they write their Wills, and the ability to run stronger bequest campaigns by offering free or discounted high-quality online Wills. Your charity/entity can appear prominently in the drop-down menu during Will creation, making it easy for donors to choose you for a bequest. Offer a discounted Australian Legal Will to your supporters when they leave a bequest—plus run up to four 'Free Will Week' campaigns per year. Receive details of donors including your charity/entity in their funeral planning, eulogy or obituary notes. Access ready-made letter, email and social (Facebook) templates plus a campaign toolkit guide full of helpful tips.

EMAIL TEXT: Upgrade and Grow. Choose from three membership levels – Primary, Primary Plus or Secondary – packed with new features to help you promote your organisation and receive more bequests.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 23/03/2026

Compulsory activities (aka “mutual” obligations) aren’t even operating lawfully. And now welfare recipients are being made to pay an even higher price. Read the full statement: apcentre.substack.com/p/rishworth-...

Rishworth must stop penalties for welfare recipients in face of fuel crisis.
People in poverty cannot afford to pay even higher prices for their own punishment.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 17/03/2026

Almost 40% have a disability or health condition that limits their work capacity.

Screencap of government data for JobSeeker and Youth Allowance showing around 385,000 people have a partial capacity to work.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 17/03/2026

25% of people on an unemployment payment are over 55.

Screencap of government data grouping JobSeeker and Youth Allowance payment recipients by age. Around 259,000 people are over 55 years old out of a total 1.02 million payment recipients.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 27/02/2026

This @getup.org.au email is an example of the very worst campaign grifting. I won’t share the image, but yes it’s a billboard in PHON colours with the leader’s face on it. You don’t stop the far right’s rise by plastering their brand the community, you help it. But I’m sure they’ll get lots of $$$.

With Pauline Hanson surging in the polls, I just made a big decision.
I've booked huge outdoor billboards, in key electorates across the country that One Nation is targeting, with a message that we know works to dent her support.
And I've committed us before being sure we have the money to cover the costs, to make sure we don't miss our chance.
So I really need your help - can you chip in whatever you can afford to help us pull this off?
Here's the link:

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 04/02/2026

cos privatising public assets has never left the public worse off. nice way to pay for approximately 0.5% of AUKUS i guess.

Headline from The Age: Defence offloading islands, golf courses, barracks to be sold, raising $2 billion.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 17/01/2026

These guys should certainly be thanking him for correctly identifying the risk: bsky.app/profile/cune...

From the Lions of Zion website: “We view Muslims, as a sociological group, as fundamentally incompatible with Israel’s existence due to the theological divide between Islam’s “World of Acceptance” and “World of Destruction” (Harb).”

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 03/08/2025

this is the march to get to the #MarchForHumanity 🇵🇸 we don’t need to cops to close down the streets when we turn out like this

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 04/07/2025

🚨 HELLO, IF YOU ARE ON A CENTRELINK PAYMENT AND HAVE “MUTUAL” OBLIGATIONS OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES, PLEASE READ + SHARE

We are expecting some significant announcements related to “mutual” obligations and legal issues over the next few weeks and we want to be able to inform people about any
changes as quickly and directly as possible. If you want to keep up to date with what’s happening, please DM me to receive a link to the WhatsApp group.

We also encourage you to invite anyone you know who has “mutual” obligations to join the group.

Let me know if you do not use WhatsApp and want to be kept updated so we can figure out another channel.

If you are currently having a problem with your job agency and need advice or help, you can also use the group to ask us a question.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 24/06/2025

really tempted to push the limits of this promise at the servo

Sign attached to a fridge saying: “We can now toast any sandwich. Just take to counter.”

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 18/06/2025

ICYMI: "mutual" obligations are still just a series of unlawful decisions a trench coat, but the commonwealth ombudsman might be starting to unbutton it ...

"The secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has made a number of decisions to pause parts of the TCF while reviews are underway and is committed to ensuring the system operates as it should."
Despite the chaos, the TCF is still issuing suspensions.
Antipoverty Centre welfare campaigner Jeremy Poxon was responsible for the freedom of information request that uncovered the 2023 ministerial brief to Tony Burke.
"The secretary paused payment cancellations and reductions because of concerns that they're unlawful," Poxon explains. "So, on that basis alone, she should be worried about the number of unlawful payment suspensions we know occur each week."
"Amidst this legal scandal, job providers are still wielding the TCF as their own private weapon, threatening and penalising jobseekers for profit."
For those with first-hand knowledge of the system, this is no surprise.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 18/06/2025

it's been 21 months of escalating genocide & today is the first day a senior government bureaucrat called to tell me a poster in the background of my zoom call is violent* the poster as it literally appears in my background:

A poster with white block letters that say "Free Palestine" on a watermelon background. The poster is propped up on a chair surrounded by house plants.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 17/06/2025

👋 folks, one of many cool things I've been working on while I was too busy to visit this site is the People Against Poverty Summit, which is this weekend! We're organising merch – you don't have to attend the conference to get some. Pop your request in this form to order: bit.ly/merch_request

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 12/05/2025

not me joking about rishworth being put in charge of employment services because it was such a patently absurd idea...

Text message from last Wednesday: Now we wait to hear that Rishworth or O'Neil will get it 😈

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 07/05/2025

I’m joining this Tomorrow Movement snap rally at @albomp.bsky.social‘s office this Saturday to demand the government use its majority to deliver real justice for First Peoples, for Palestine, for trans folks, for poor people and for everyone! Come along if you can ✊❤️

Photoshopped image of Albanese holding a bomb. The slogan says “no more excuses for arming genocide”. The rally location is 334A Marrickville Road and the time is 11am Saturday 10 May.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 04/05/2025

when you are on the same side as the good guys 🙂

Guardian blog update about the oil and gas industry congratulating Albanese and saying they look forward to continuing to work with his government.

Guardian blog update about landlords celebrating a Greens loss because they believe voters rejected policies to support renters.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 03/05/2025

that would be astonishing given everything else about him. didn't he also just promise to abolish the carbon tax?

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 03/05/2025

Sarah Ferguson on her high horse about Jacinta Price adopting Trump rhetoric ... Sarah, the MAGA is coming from inside the house

Photo of Sarah Ferguson smiling and standing close to Steve Bannon, leaning into his shoulder.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 03/05/2025

oops looks like I started something in the australia institute livestream chat

Me wearing a jumper that says "respect Blak women" with a badge showing the Palestinian and Aboriginal flags and a poster behind me that says "Free Palestine".

Supportive comments about Palestine responding to a message saying "Free Palestine from Hamas"

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 03/05/2025

These pests trying to take over the comments on the @australiainstitute.org.au YouTube stream 😂 Barking up the wrong tree folks!

YouTube comments from the Trumpet of Patriots saying Vote 1

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 08/04/2025

If that wasn’t the intention, perhaps consider *why* it might come across that way to people who have no reason to believe we will ever have the luxury of renewable energy in our homes and will bear the brunt of price gouging as a result.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 08/04/2025

This is a really good scheme, except for one thing. If you’re in energy debt you can’t access it. So the fact that you’re too poor to afford electricity excludes you from the cheap electricity. About ½ the people on an energy hardship plan are welfare recipients.

Mel is a public housing tenant living in the Adelaide northern suburbs. She is a part-time student and relies on the JobSeeker payment to live. She says:
I'm extremely grateful to have public housing but I'm not grateful for the money I save in rent having to go towards my electricity bill. I have a skin condition which often means hospital stays. Heat makes it flare up. Once my house heats up it stays that way for days and is often cooler outside then it is in.
I own a very old box air conditioner that i got for $30 at Cash Converters that I have no choice but to run, except when I run it, it costs me an extra $75 a week. That's an extra $150 a fortnight I don't have. But it only cools my bedroom, not the living area.
My electricity bill at this time is over $5,500. Being on JobSeeker,
I can only afford to put $50 a week towards it, which doesn't cover the cost. So I'm falling deeper and deeper in debt.
As a full-time online student this makes it harder as my computer overheats constantly.
There are people that will say, "What about the subsidy that was given directly to electricity companies?" And to them I say, my rates went up as soon as that happened, as did other people's, to take the whole lot.
Those of us in poverty are more at risk from climate change then those who are not. We already do without so much and our health and safety matters too.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 08/04/2025

This bit was most jarring, though it’s not the only thing. It’s not like you’re the only one doing this – paid welfare “advocates” & climate campaigners are doing it too. This messaging assuages middle class guilt, that’s all. Meaningful options aren’t hard to find: open.substack.com/pub/apcentre...

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 02/04/2025

bad brain day but instead of staying in bed the whole time i chopped up some plants and did this

A variety of plant cuttings hanging on the wall in a long horizontal tube full of moss.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 21/03/2025

something for Murray Watt and @pennyallmanpayne.com to each reflect on in their own way 👀

Comment on a post about unlawful “mutual” obligations decisions that says: “Oh for fucks sake just terminate this mutual obligations crap. I will be voting for Greens in this year’s federal election. They are the only party opposing mutual obligations.”

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 21/03/2025

A very pertinent question! We encourage anyone who thinks this to email minister watt and/or share relevant experiences with the Workforce Australia complaints line.

All "mutual" obligations payment reductions and cancellations have been stopped due to questions over legality of DEWR processes. So you may have seen some media reporting about ~1000 people who had their Centrelink payment unlawfully cancelled because DEWR was not following the proper process when making those decisions. The issues that have been revealed go back to at least 2020 and affected at least 10s of 1000s of people, if not more.
I was in a briefing yesterday where we were given information about the much greater extent of the problem, and what has been changed SO FAR. At the moment, the most disgraceful thing is that payment *suspensions* remain, even though they are stopping reductions and cancellations. This means you can still get a demerit, but the demerit will not result in any cut to your payment, even if you get 5 demerits and move into the "red zone".
You will still need to contact the provider if your payment is suspended to get it reinstated.
The employment department secretary Natalie James told us that the reason she is keeping suspensions in place is because she "doesn't have reason to believe" that job agencies are wrongly suspending people's payments.
That is patently absurd. When she said this, I asked if she has looked at the complaints data from the Workforce Australia National Customer Service Line about payment suspensions, and she said it hasn't been taken into account at this stage. We are going to push for that to be considered in the review that is currently underway.
If your payment has been wrongly suspended, even if you managed to fix it before your payment was delayed, I urge you to send an email to the NCSL outlining what happened - even if it's just a very brief description, and even if it wasn't super recent. Their email address is contact the National Customer Service Line on 1800 805 260 or via nationalcustomerserviceline@dewr.gov.au

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 19/03/2025

gettin ready for our press conference tomorrow, calling BS on the $1.55 a week JobSeeker "increase" and marking 5 years since Morrison briefly increased it to the poverty line

an array of posters in different colours featuring art that represents what people were able to do when centrelink payments were at the poverty line. it features text that says "space to breathe, a moment to thrive"

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 11/03/2025

I have to keep going back and re-reading this because I cannot actually fathom it. Unbelievable shit.

Excerpt from economic exclusion committee report released today.

End harm caused by the compliance system by:
i. removing automated payment suspensions
ii. implementing the Digital Protections
Framework to protect people's basic human rights and ensure the system complies with administrative law principles
iii. relaxing Points Based Activation
System targets while broader changes are progressed
iv. ensuring there are exemptions to mutual obligations for people where they are unreasonable and counterproductive, noting it appears many have difficulty receiving

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 07/03/2025

sorry no i would rather die at ground level than be trapped on the 20th floor with no working lifts for any length of time

How are the High Rise people doing?
How's everyone in high rises doing? I'm only on level 20 and experiencing some issues with the air pressure changes affecting my ears.
Solution atm is pillows hard pressed on both sides of my head over the top of headphones!
Lifts have been turned off until it's over (unless an emergency). So we are all tucked in and ready to ride it out.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 07/03/2025

This made me lol but in all seriousness things are a bit crook. Someone has been swept away near @eliasgreig.bsky.social and people are sharing a bunch of alarming updates from the Gold Coast. Eye of the storm is approaching my mum’s house 😕

Reddit post saying maccas and KFC are closed. A reply says a kebab shop is doing record numbers.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 06/03/2025

It doesn't arrive as a "digest". I am literally getting this fucking emails. As emails. Each with their own email and accompanying notification. I can't filter it because I actually need to see the real emails from the people who email me.