I remember being told by an activist friend how politicians will “float” things in the media to see how much push back there will be. I feel like the “gst raise” is one of the “floating” stories.

It really is more complicated and nuanced than this depending on the situation a person finds themself in

Doing my kid's budget with them. We just paid the rent. That means they have $159.70 spendable for the next 14 days. Including food. Sans bills. And the kid is allergic to a bunch of stuff and has GI issues, plus severely underweight. How are people supposed to live? How?

Taxpayers should not be subsidising mega landlord property investors with more than 20 rental properties 🤯 Sensible reform of negative gearing and CGT to incentivise new supply is overdue. abc.net.au/news/2025-08-0…

Other affordable housing systems might charge 75% of the market rate, which would see the worker spending $750 of their $1,000 weekly income on their home. Boronia’s system is best practice, according to Michael Fotheringham theguardian.com/australia-news…

Labor has a choice: roll back tax breaks for wealthy property investors or help first home buyers and renters. Greens are ready to help. Bottom10% of wage earners will get back $152m from the two tax breaks while the top 10% will get back $2.9 billion plus abc.net.au/news/2025-08-0…

Labor/Labour politicians around the world not realising that they’re meant to be reducing homelessness not directly responsible for increasing it

Pas, one of our Campaigns Co-coordinators, explains that homelessness services funding has reduced by 11% during this housing crisis! It's time that Australian Labor and the Peter Malinauskas government built thousands of public homes and stopped dicking about! #homelessnessweek

Also if you’d like to support the work of Anti-Poverty Network SA so we can keep providing mutual aid, education, and a way for people to connect in our community you can do so here apnsa.raiselysite.com

Our action last week outside of @nickchampionmp’s office we need public housing and we need it now

I was today years old when i found out that American homeless shelter make homeless people PAY RENT to stay in the shelter WTF?????? Please tell me this doesn't happen in Britain, and excuse my ignorance if it does - our media tells us nothing about the real world, it's all lies

one reason the Department didn't want you to see this report are these discussions from high-level executives who run the unlawful mutual obligations scheme Here, they admit there are "higher erroneous" punishments for ppl who are Indigenous & have "higher-complexity markers"

"there has been no strategic overview or attempt to fix changes to problems" "This may lead to outcomes that are not compliant with policy and legislation" "There are few people who understand the system in its entirety."

"Many decisions involve human discretion, which is not consistently applied across different staff members" "Many staff do not fully follow the guidelines when making decisions, leading to inconsistencies in decision-making."

"Any small change takes a lot of time & money to resolve & the Dept has not taken note of how different business rules interact" "there is no thought around what the policy looks like.. when this was implemented, it was a pilot kind of measure but since then it hasn’t changed"

"The TCF is a process that wasn’t designed with fairness in mind It penalises people without addressing the disparities in power and resources If the function of the TCF is to penalise people, then it’s fulfilling its role" This is from a current DIRECTOR within the Department

to summarise the Mutual Obligations scandal -The Ombo found the Dep't unlawfully cancelled payments -Independent assurance couldn't assure MO's legality -And, a Department Director admitted the system doesn't demonstrate natural justice The government still hasn't shut it down

Australia loses $20B a year on property investor tax breaks. These subsidies don’t build homes, they fuel the housing crisis. End them, and fund public housing instead. If not now, when? #HousingCrisis #PublicHousing #EndNegativeGearing #EconomicReformRoundtable

This Sunday we are holding our monthly bbq in Fremont park 11am to 2pm its free and there's some free donated clothing and other items. Come down and grab a snag and have a chat

What do we want? To end mutual obligations. When do we want it? Now! Join our call to action with our Southern Branch on the 13th of September at 1pm. 232 Main South Road, Morphett Vale, S.A. #antipovertynetwork #mutualobligations #calltoaction bit.ly/45AM3kg