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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

As Linda Reynolds extends her sick leave to near 1mo off the job, over 1/3rd of all Aus wrkrs are denied basic sick leave. Amidst their sexual assault crisis, LNP still pushing to create laws making it easier for employers to strip workers of sick leave. #1Rule4Them #Another4Us

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Periodic reminder when Morrison says states should have hospitals in order, he has refused to lift Cwth funding cap on hospitals all pandemic. It limits spending growth to 6.5%/yr. States begged for help pre-Omicron outbreak. He accused them of "shakedown politics". #auspol 1/2

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NSW threatening $1000 fine for no RAT report absurdly counterproductive. Workers just won’t get tested. Imagine: you're crook. Options? Drive hrs to find elusive RAT. Pay $40 you dont have. Lose income isolating. Risk job loss & $1k fine. OR: Dont get tested. Keep working #auspol

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Ready for a bombshell? Morrison has refused to lift federal cap on hospital funding all pandemic. It limits spending growth to 6.5%/yr. Health systems breaking during COVID. States beg for help. PM accuses them of manipulating for $. Unconscionable. #auspol

Scott Morrison rejects states’ pleas for more hospital funding

The PM says the government had “showered the states” with money during the pandemic and it shouldn’t “be used as an excuse for shakedown politics”.

www.smh.com.au

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

It’s not a “sex act”. It’s an act of violence. Intended to humiliate & disrespect & make clear she doesn’t belong there. Its a territorial marking that unifies cultural bonds between men based on the exclusion of women (even MPs). It’s why staffer filmed himself & shared it. 1/3

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Imagine wanting “freedoms” to sit in pubs chuggin beers b4 demanding your govt make real efforts to reach & vaccinate all people. Beers before critical supports to our nurses in an infection warzone. A selfish shortsighted dystopia. Not a good look for us. #auspol

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Alison Pennington

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2 years

Insecure work is systematised anxiety. The human brain is hardwired for survival. Insecure work plunges people into relentless frenzied planning against future risks. It’s broken wage growth & fuels mental health crisis. Insecure work is a barbaric way to organise labour markets.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

NSW opposition can hold alt pressers w representatives of nurses, teachers, logistics, mftg & essential sctrs, Aboriginal & disability communities, GPs, mental health experts, safety regulators. It's a wartime logistics feat. People need information & coordination. #COVID19nsw

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

There’s a clear reason Morrison lifted multiple-site working rules in aged care. It’s for same reason he introduced IR omnibus bill in March – protecting labour hire companies. Allow me to explain: 1/7 #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Recalling Morrison talked army deployment on wharfies bargaining for a 2.5% pay rise in 2020. Fabricated story about medical goods supply risk. Spent next 15mo eroding public health orders, unleashing a deadly virus on ppl w-out securing basic medical supplies. Who was the risk?

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

I think often about the 1.2 million children & young people in Australia living in needless poverty. Their capacity to think diminished. It's criminal. 8/8

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

Australians aspire to owner-occupation because the private rental system is a semi-feudal, degrading relation that denies security of tenure. Just like self-employment is about escaping bosses, for Australians owner-occupation is about escaping landlords. #auspol

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Alison Pennington

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2 years

Jaw on floor. Inflation is not demand driven rn. Who is enlisted in inflation war is a policy CHOICE. NZ faces exact same global inflation conditions, but instead of blaming wages & multiplying pain, they're helping lift low-paid up. Minimum wage just lifted by 6%. #Insiders

Insiders ABC

@InsidersABC

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"It is hard to think of a single measure for cost of living that doesn't make inflation worse." Waleed Aly on the contradiction in the election campaign #Insiders #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

6 years ago this day my life changed. I sat at the doilyed dining table of an old Greek woman's home I didn't know in Hurstville, Sydney. Floor-to-ceiling white. I was housesitting, looking after two yappy dogs while she travelled to Greece. 1/8

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Alison Pennington

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2 years

So we’re clear. The inflation RBA seeks to address with rate rise is entirely targeted at cutting workers spending. Why? Business investment is at post-war record low & real wages are declining. There ain’t any heat there. A few problems with the current strategy: 1/5 #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Staff “shortages” breathlessly reported in hospitality sector. Yet no talk of chefs being driven out industry last +10yrs by 16hr shifts, no breaks, systematic wage theft, no personal lives. #auspol 1/2

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Perrottet promises “downward pressure on queues”. Surely 7% positive rate demands urgent expansion of capacity? No. NSW govt will weaken testing regs, berate premiers +!sick ppl “clogging up” lines. It’s an artificial reduction in demand to protect failing private testing system.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Morrison cant stop fkn this up coz he really believes the man/public & woman/private divide. Only way he can empathise w women is via sanctity of family (thru relationships to men). He can’t “see” women as a public social force so can’t fathom political responses to this crisis.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

NSW lockdown is failing to stop spread bcoz NSW health have no industry-level COVID plans to reduce essential output & staffing. No income supports for test & isolate or stand-downs in case of infection. This was strength & success of VIC Stg 4. Not individual policing. #nswcovid

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Far-right riots a shocking moment in pandemic. Majority of Australians support public health, vax & govts that protect lives. They need clear information alongside violent footage on their TVs. It's clear we're FAR past describing riots as "ordinary" elements of society. 1/5

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Morrison privatised the vaccine rollout to avoid public healthcare delivery & its backfiring now on his new vax urgency. ATAGI’s TORs are to advise only! They don’t run the program, GPs do. GPs follow ATAGIs advice. VIC got +400k AZ out coz it went thru state-run hub. #COVID19Aus

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Gut-churning 633 cases in #nswcovid19 but much more NSW can do. VIC clawed back zero from 725 case high by focusing on workplace transmission & employer compliance. Risk ratings were assigned to every industry. PPE & distancing was mandatory & regulated. But more than that: 1/3

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

LNP made gross political calculation that only middle-class professional women cared for mistreatment of women in parliament. Instead women united in disgust & anger, built a movement for ALL women’s safety & broadened it to economic security: wages, job security, welfare. 1/5

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Nurses toil on +12hr shifts, no breaks, high psychosocial injuries. Now many getting COVID & w no leave left to cover iso. Pandemic doesn't care for austerity politics. Hospitals need urgent funding to meet higher staff costs incl paying higher wages to retain precious staff.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Enjoying this next phase of #COVID19Aus “debate” where secure salaried WFH strata quantify just how much (preventable) death is OK. Human misery that will be borne mostly by an essential workforce serving them & presently keeping them safe. #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

Melbourne really is Australia's premier accessible big city. Decent public transport carts masses straight in. Ample public space protected & enjoyed by all types. Gold-rush charm meets contemporary artistic. Even the high-rises are beautiful. At night it glitters.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

86% of Aus mining is foreign-owned. US & UK companies have largest shares. #QandA

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Honey, I’m home.

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@ak_pennington

3 years

When employers says they need skilled migrants to fill a shortage, what they mean is: “Our preference is for workers who’s visa conditions bind them to performing jobs we don’t want to lift wages for, or make safer.” 2/2

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

ABS will release new unemployment data in 2 days. The rate will likely change. What won't change? Long-term drivers behind insecure work & low pay. Or barriers to participation (eg high cost ECEC). Australians are sick of being told all's hunky dory coz unemployment rate is X.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Excluding welfare recipients from Cwth disaster payments is a failure on both public health & income security grounds. It will deepen inequality. Take scenario: Two 21yo uni students, both live w parents, & both worked 8 hrs/wk. Earnt $216 p/wk before lockdowns. 1/5 #COVID19nsw

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@ak_pennington

4 years

Plibersek asks Morrison to respond to Brittany's statement he is victim-blaming & causing greater distress to her & other victims. "I'm sorry that she feels this way". There it is. #auspol #qt

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@ak_pennington

3 years

I’ve undertaken genomic testing on key COVID policy failures: vaccination rollout, insecure labour, hotel quarantining, private aged care. Common strand? Cwth govt policy. What's driving the "outbreak" of govt failure? 1/6 #VicLockdown

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

LNP is dripping w deep-seated & dangerous sexist man-bonding. It serves a clear purpose! It unifies small unrepresentative groups behind agenda of corruption, upward redistribution to private actors & austerity. Women’s cries now piercing this antidemocratic exclusionary program.

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@ak_pennington

3 years

The act’s consistent with systemic gendered violence: the notion men control public domain (streets, workplace, politics) & women belong in private home. Male perpetrators of violence often say “she wasn’t in her right place” & Parl is for big swinging (& ejaculating) dicks! 2/3

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Its a very narrow, inept & inhumane school of economics that reduces lives to a function of growth or profitability. An economy exists to meet human wellbeing! Thanks @ebony_bennett ! #qanda

Ebony Bennett

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What a breathe of fresh air to have an economist on #qanda who doesn't want us all to die for the economy! @ak_pennington from @CntrFutureWork absolutely smashing it tonight

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@ak_pennington

3 years

We don't "live" with COVID, we die with it. #COVID19nsw

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@ak_pennington

3 years

We're fatigued but must think clearly. Evidence from Israel to Iceland shows vax important but not enough to beat #COVID19 . We'll be at this for yrs. So lets not be pissweak & start quantifying "necessary" deaths at every hurdle. Here's my 5 "buckets" of COVID-fighting policies.

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@ak_pennington

2 years

Inflation is externally driven. It’s not of any “excess consumption” by Aus people. War, COVID shocks. But blame also lies with gov’t failures of privatisation & deregulation which have handed companies huge price-setting powers over decades, from utilities to groceries. 2/5

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

4 years

“Your announcement of my father’s funeral prompted a media circus outside the crematorium at which the service was held...I am devastated that the final memories of my father have been marred by the media you have used to prosecute your political agenda.”

Queensland man's daughter condemns Scott Morrison for turning funeral into 'a circus'

Alexandra Prendergast, whose father’s funeral became part of a federal-state brawl over borders, writes open letter to PM

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

After a life of relentless, frenetic risk & price calculations everywhere I went, suddenly I had time to THINK! Depriving humans of secure basics wires the brain for permanent survival mode: defensive, anxious, sick. That was all I knew. 6/8

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Australia’s housing system increasingly resembles Depression-era reign of big landlords, high rents & overcrowding. Cesspools of poverty & disease. Improving public health was a big precursor to post-war revolution in public & affordable housing. Let COVID be our moment. #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

With a stable income for the 1st time in my life I could feel my brain being reconstituted. It's this reconstitution that's enabled me to read, focus, analyse & strategise. A stable income & job is why so much has happened in 6 years since I sat at the old woman's table. 7/8

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

There are signs in terminals now: "Please be patient. We have staff shortages like everyone else".😂Sacked 000s, prioritised lower wages over functioning businesses, pocketed big public $$. Shitty service, inflated prices & no jobs. Raw deal from our airline oligopoly! #auspol

Sally McManus

@sallymcmanus

2 years

More chaos and delays at Sydney Airport as the consequences of @Qantas outsourcing of baggage & cleaning staff are felt by Qantas customers. Announcements now shift blame to Swissport the cut price labour hire company, but the blame lies with the decision makers at Qantas

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

School plans lack any detail on support for parents caring for sick kids. 000s in casual jobs are now excluded from fed isolation leave, creating an impossible bind: lose income & risk being sacked, or leave kids home alone. Financial compulsion WILL send sick kids to school.

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Nothing says “strategic alliance” like being the designated dumping ground for redundant US military goods. #auspol

Greg Jericho

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Will be handy for those land wars in Asia...

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

Keynes put wages in centre of aggregate demand & healthy economy. Friedman said “no, individuals get paid according to their productivity. Leave it to markets. Govt’s rack off!” He neutralised distribution. Which matters a great deal at this historic inflation juncture. Why? 1/5

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@ak_pennington

3 years

In May, Cwth told VIC facing Delta & entering shutdowns: "No financial support. It incentivises lockdowns. That's bad for the economy." By July: "OK, some supports, but only for lockdowns less than 1 wk". 1/3

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

TAS may wait till near 90% eligible vax before opening border nxt yr. Close to Iceland model which has 94% adult vax & no deaths since May. Good!! Is TAS now a "fortress state betraying the nation"? Or is that only Labor jurisdictions? #COVID19Aus

Is Tasmania aiming for a 90pc vaccination rate? Here's what officials are saying

Tasmanian authorities give their clearest indication yet that the state will remain closed off to the rest of Australia longer than the national COVID roadmap predicts.

www.abc.net.au

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

After years of acknowledging declining job quality & wage suppression reducing bargaining power (like public pay caps), RBA have returned to “tight labour market” fallacy as justification for this rise. Because there’s no evidence of generalised wage growth & they know it. 5/5

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

626k unemployed. 1.2m in work but want more hrs. 355k left job market since May. I humbly submit "shortages" are BS. It's time biz in entry-level sectors restructure job offerings. Less insecure "side hustles" & penalty rate cuts. More good jobs, skills, careers & futures. #auspol

Herald Sun

@theheraldsun

3 years

The hospitality industry is pushing for special visas to address what’s been described as “the worst workforce crisis for hospitality in Australia’s history”. Would you support a visa? DETAILS > @96mitchclarke

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@ak_pennington

2 years

Another problem is this inflation episode is concentrated in *non-discretionary* items like groceries, housing, education. 6.6% growth/12mo. Discretionary items are up only 2.7%. Are we trying to create fridges with less food? Bills unpaid? Intermittent homelessness?! 3/5

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

Productivity lags coz we smashed the price of labour & disincentivised far-sighted investment in ideas & tech. It lags coz lazy businesses feed on cheap labour instead of doing things smarter, & coz we dig shit out the ground, ship it off, & pretend its economic policy. #auspol

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@ak_pennington

3 years

NZ is beating Delta w same 2020 toolkit. We never got chance to test our successful toolkit as Morrison substantially weakened it, cutting JK & CS. A national toolkit pooling success of different states' approaches has been actively undermined. #COVID19Aus

Against all odds: how New Zealand is bending the Delta curve

The country’s goal of eliminating Covid transmission looks within reach – but health experts’ optimism is cautious

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

@JoshBBornstein Alan Jones also said Morrison should 'shove a sock down the throat' of Jacinda Ardern, NZ Prime Minister, & give her 'a few backhanders' coz she said Australia was responsible to Pacific on climate change. Jones was sacked from Sky 2021, but rehabilitated & platformed on ABC now?

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Fed govt must intervene into labour & procurement laws to reduce insecure wrk & improve job quality, not drive it down. There is NO reason why aged care jobs funded by public investment shouldnt be secure, safe jobs. END

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Adjusting for GDP, Australia has one of the worst #COVID19 vaccination rates in the world.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

Big news. I’m setting sail from @CntrFutureWork @TheAusInstitute . It's been a privilege & honour to work in this brilliant org! A beacon of light in tough times for democracy, policy & debate. Choccas full of sharp shooters I’ll miss dearly. But time to move on. Next steps? 1/4

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Doherty's vax targets weaponised to support Morrison's original 2020 "living w COVID" biz-first plan. Threatens to financially suffocate States that dont open at 80% adult vax. Case #s & vax plan for kids not incl. in cut-off. Dangerous & deranged. #auspol

‘Deviating from the national plan’: National cabinet row over zero cases

A national deal is starting to fracture on the vaccination target agreed only weeks ago to ease lockdowns and open the country.

www.theage.com.au

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@ak_pennington

3 years

The mission? Stop people moving & stop transmission. Keep bare minimum economic activity functioning to support most staying home (food, healthcare, utilities). To do this NSW govt need industry & workplace-level plans. It's what VIC did to stop 2nd wave. 1/3 #COVID19nsw

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@ak_pennington

3 years

"The reason politicians are so scared of NSW ICAC is because it's so effective". @BenOquist #QandA

Ticker

@tickercotweets

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The Australian PM has slammed the design of the #NSW corruption watchdog. @BenOquist of @TheAusInstitute says there's one reason politicians are "scared" of the system:

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@ak_pennington

2 years

Unscrambling energy sector mess demands big public spending & leadership. Good to see @zdaniel consistently raise redistribution & taxing windfall energy profits tonight on #qanda .

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@ak_pennington

4 years

JUST IN: Aged-care facilities dominate #COVID19Vic outbreaks. The common factor here is labour hire. Precarious work will be our Achilles heel in this pandemic. Eradicate precarious work, extend paid pandemic leave for every worker; eradicate the virus. #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Is there another national govt internationally that has denied significant additional resourcing of health system during this pandemic?! Surely this is an outstanding case. Truly shocking.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

4 years

99% of the 446,000 jobs Frydenberg crows about are part-time. PT jobs are disproportionately casual (i.e. not pandemic-proof jobs w sick leave). We've lost 342,000 full-time jobs in the crisis. Only 6,800 of FT jobs have returned. This carnage is no cause for celebration! #auspol

Sky News Australia

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Treasurer @JoshFrydenberg has reaffirmed the economic recovery is underway, noting that 446,000 jobs have been created.

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@ak_pennington

2 years

On board Overland train. Longest carriage of yr & fully booked! Price-gouging airlines are lifting appeal of stress-free, cheaper travel. Thankful VIC gov’t funded it in 2020 when SA threatened closure. Both states fund now. Here’s to more & cheaper passenger rail! @GreatSthnRail

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@ak_pennington

11 months

I am voting YES because political democracy is worth making better. We need more people involved in decisions that impact their lives. In & around parliament, but also in workplaces & communities. 1/14

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@ak_pennington

2 years

To clarify: my contention is RBA should be honest about why rates are lifting: asset price control & financial system stability. And shouldn't backslide on assessments hitherto on real underutilisation (despite low unemployment) & weak wages growth.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

4 years

The government is waging war on the poor. Convincing Australians that millions of victims of this pandemic and economic shutdowns have brought insecurity upon themselves is their aim: "Lazy" "job-snobs" despite a Depression-level collapse in jobs and none to "seek". THREAD (1/8)

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3 years

NZ govt's plan to establish national industry bargaining is truly historic. Its an acknowledgement that neoliberal shock therapy which dismantled their Awards, collective agreements, demolished unionism & put every1 on individual contracts 30yrs ago actually tanked their economy.

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@ak_pennington

4 years

Porter's proposed IR changes signal a dangerous return to WorkChoices-era unilateral employer wage-setting power in enterprise agreements; 2 yrs to push non-union below-Award EAs & fix wages for long periods of time in other EAs. A LOT of damage can be done in 2yrs. THREAD 1/10

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4 years

Stitch-up alert! PM’s claim reported in @Australian that current #JobSeeker rate is barrier to biz hiring is based on dodgy data. Govt were pre-empting yesterday's release of employer survey data from National Skills Commission. What does this data actually show? {THREAD} 1)

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3 years

I immediately felt guilty and privileged to be in work, & I flogged my guts based on that guilt. I kind of still do. (That's how weak the working class is right now. A privilege to work!). 4/8

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2 years

Inflation runs hottest for essentials. You can squeeze spending a bit but you can’t reduce demand for substance of life itself. By siphoning off more hhld income to housing, it will also counteract any downward pressure. housing is a component of CPI. 4/5

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3 years

I spent at least the first few years on the full-time work train just so, damn, angry. At everything. But especially every happy, middle-class person around me who never knew the torture of poverty. Not always a helpful emotion. 5/8

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3 years

@TamePunk We are all buoyed by your unwavering strength Grace. Never let up. ✊

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Cwth (w NSW govt compliance) has manufactured this state play-off due to failure to procure sufficient vaccines. Distraction is aim. Its sacrificed biz, condemned 000s to needless poverty & undermined our pandemic response. Its unforgiveable.

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@ak_pennington

3 years

After failing to procure enough vaccines, fed govt strategy was manufacture state play-off. NSW willingly carried "freedom" baton. It was rewarded w better access to supports & vaccines. VIC became enemy. Cost of this campaign of distraction huge. Lives.

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@theage

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Julie Szego has a different view. "NSW won the race. Emphatically," she writes. "On Freedom Day, they’re 70 per cent double-dosed, hurtling towards 80. Meanwhile, we’re trundling towards 60."

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Desocialising mask use at 80% vax & flinging open schools inconsistent w ALL intnl evidence on COVID mgmt. +90% vax, masks & air filtration critical to containment long-term. Libertarian make-believe cant stop waning immunity. The storm brews... 1/2

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Reducing ppl's movement requires income supports. The aim? Stop compulsion to work. JK & CS provided floor to VIC's 2020 success helping stood down wrkrs & affected biz. Gladys must demand JK & CS reinstatement & introduce essential industry plans. Time to get the hands dirty.

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Thank-you @sallymcmanus @unionsaustralia for your clear strong response to despicable violent right targeting unions today. Thankful for your leadership. #abc730

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Alison Pennington

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Many underestimate what Australians understand about living under highly centralised, corporate captured media market. It's torn down their elected PMs. ABC is the buffer in this landscape. Imbued w all the anxiety, instability & democratic hopes of millions of people. #auspol

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Journo: “Should casual workers w-out any income receive support & if so, state or Cwth?” Berejiklian: “Ultimately it’s an individual responsibility. Businesses have been fantastic, exemplary. So don’t go to wrk & risk closing them down.” #COVID19nsw

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

SA Election #savotes today! Here’s some key SA facts. SA has highest unemployment rate in country. High youth joblessness. 30% hhlds have no-one in labour force. Median income lowest in country (with TAS). Below $50k. People don’t earn much. 1/4 #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

NZ faces same global inflation conditions, but instead of actively suppressing wages & multiplying the pain, they're helping lift low-paid up. Minimum wage was just lifted by 6%. Fair Pay Agreements & pay equity bargaining will boost wages across sectors (esp low paid women).

Shane Wright

@swrighteconomy

2 years

PM points to NZ as an example of where you wouldn't want to be. A country with a jobless rate of 3.2% and faster wages growth than Australia.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Importantly, the brains behind riots aren't wackjob conspiracists (their explanatory models aren't coherent enough). They're fascists. They believe in great replacement theory. Social darwinism. They’ve planned terror attacks. They’re organised. 3/5

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

While many scream “incompetence” at #COVID19nsw Berejiklian (& Morrison) use crisis & daily broadcasted pressers as platform to reframe pandemic, exploit fatigue & ratchet down expectations to “live with virus”. Putting biz b4 public health is their agenda since 2020. #auspol

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@ak_pennington

3 years

Big low-wage employers lobby against unemployment benefits to suppress wages overall. By bashing the poor, or COVID-affected workers on pandemic leave as "lazy", it distracts from ratcheting down of quality of their own job offerings (i.e. low pay, casual, not enough hrs). 1/4

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Trying to get tradies atm? Over 70% of workforce w VET skills went to TAFE. Sparkies, welders, fitters, carpenters. They studied in TAFE workshops, NOT trailers. Private VET get $bn’s to deliver short, cheap traineeships while TAFE is gutted. Marketisation has been a disaster!

tanya mckinlay

@tan_mckinlay

3 years

Practical classes can’t be taught out of a trailer. #RebuildTAFE by returning classes back to real buildings on real campuses. #Rebuildourcommunities by giving access to education and skills in rural towns. @TAFEeducation @rlong62 @PhillipChadwick @abennett41 @TAFEdefender

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

"The key question is not whether Australians want more freedom, but whether they're willing to let #COVID19 rip through more than 8m people – most children – who will still be unvaccinated when we hit 80% threshold Morrison is so focused on." @RDNS_TAI

Richard Denniss: Scott Morrison's COVID plan is more spin than science

The same PM who spruiks ‘technology not taxes’ as a climate strategy is now championing ‘pharmaceuticals not physical distancing’ to fight COVID.

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

One thing's clear in NSW: biz interests cannot shape public health strategy. Too focused on short-term balance sheet. Rmbr: VIC govt withstood HUGE pressure to pull state thru. BCA were demanding lockdown ends on same day we clocked113 cases & 15 deaths!

'No backsliding': business wants Melbourne open in September

Premier Daniel Andrews has not ruled out more weeks of lockdown pain for Melbourne as business demands a mid-September opening date.

www.theage.com.au

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

I'd just got the call. I landed a permanent full-time job in the public service in Canberra. I called my family teary & ecstatic. Secure permanent work was about the ceiling of our expectations in this broken economy. 3/8

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Shocking scenes at CFMEU HQ. Far-right orgs building ranks around anti-lockdown/vax. Loony right Kelly, Leyonhjelm & Latham now capitalising to expand profile. A mix of rent-a-tradie, non-union construction, some unionists too. A fringe but not insignificant. 1/3

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

2 years

Claims of wage-price spiral is pure fantasy! Where's the wages pressure? Collective bargaining collapsed. Union density 14%. What we have is PROFIT-price spiral. Record-high profits & price-setting power. This is a desperate resuscitation of 1970s for political posturing. #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Uniting behind far-right hateful ideologies means inflicting pain on another section of the community. Unsurprisingly they hate govt COVID measures protecting lives. THIS is the far-right/public health nexus of pandemic. Its a global phenomenon. 4/5

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

I'd landed here through a housesitting website after years of insecure share-housing & crisis accommodation. It was a 1mo stay & I thought I'd hit the jackpot! No stable home in an unforgiving dog-eat-dog-cultured city like Sydney was rough. 2/8

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Morrison's refusal to reinstate JK & CS is creating pressure-cooker of financial deprivation for states. They don't have capacity to fund programs at scale to properly back-in lockdowns. Its sabotage. #COVID19Aus #auspol

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Why does he keep yelling? #730

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

3 years

Unions have stated far-right targeting them all pandemic. There's a reason leaders like @sallymcmanus speak with authority. It's not new. Fascist groups world-over target unions as collectivist wrking class orgs. 1 planned to bomb VTHC last yr. 2/5

Australia's allies ban far-right extremist groups. So why aren't police here pushing for the same?

This week Australia added the far-right extremist Sonnenkrieg Division to the list of designated terrorist groups. But why has it taken so long? And why aren't more far-right extremist groups on the...

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Alison Pennington

@ak_pennington

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For yrs $m's flowed thru White Ribbon's DV "awareness industry" while $m's have been cut from frontline services (shelters, legal, income support). Women’s voices as survivors & wrkers in the sector were erased as male celebrities & pollies became The face of DV advocacy. 1/5

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