Do you work for a job provider? I want to hear from people inside the system about suspensions and MOs. It would be great to speak to you - can guarantee anonymity. Please reach out here or: [email protected]

Hello - are you waiting for your DSP claim? Has it been a long time? I am writing about the claim times, plz message me if you are and you are happy to chat about it! Can be anon.

Hello - have you had your Clink payments suspended recently? Can we pls chat? Ping me!

The disturbing rate of Workforce Australia suspensions continues.

“you also often have to spend hours of your life trying to get your provider or Centrelink on the phone – it’s a constant cycle of punishment” – jeremy poxon

Thanks Cait Kelly for reporting
theguardian.com/australia-news…

Data obtained by Guardian Australia shows in the past four financial years, the government has recovered $17,490,143 from employment services providers, with $8,558,253 of that recovered in 2022-23 alone. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Great coverage by Cait Kelly for Guardian Australia on the struggle to win a #RightToDisconnect for 🇦🇺 workers: theguardian.com/money/2024/feb…. Our annual Go Home On Time Day surveys show time theft by employers is worth over $100b/yr. /2

Hello - have you had your bosses contacting you out of work hours? Would you be happy to chat about it? I am writing about 'right to disconnect'. Please get in touch - can be anon.

Homeless Australians are dying at age 44 on average in hidden crisis theguardian.com/australia-news…

Just a reminder that Australians taking home 131K are sitting in the top 10% of earners.
If you make 180k, you're making more than 95% of the rest of the (working) population.

From the AFR last year: shorturl.at/iqtF3

look it might just be the microplastics in my brain but I genuinely cannot understand how a couple on $440k couldn't buy a property any time they like twitter.com/UnaMcIlvenna/s…

This summer ACOSS is running a survey in partnership with First Nations Clean Energy Network
to understand the impacts of heat on people on low-incomes. The survey closes this weekend - please share your experiences. buff.ly/3u5GJFq

Albanese: “Bear in mind that the stage three tax cuts start at $45,000. If $45,000 is your annual income, you are certainly not wealthy.

If $45,000 is your annual income you get $0.
If $46,000 is your annual income you get $25, or 48c a week.

Don't spend it all at once...

CALLOUT: following this story, I'm hoping to speak to people with disability who have worked in supported employment/ADEs about yr experiences and opinions on the pay and conditions. Please get in touch if you or someone you know fits this bill: [email protected]

The Employment White Paper essentially found that private employment services were good at finding jobs for those whom it was easy to find jobs for and useless in other cases.

Major Australian employment service accused of claiming credit for work jobseeker found herself theguardian.com/australia-news…

In New South Wales, jobseeker Brock Chaplain said he had his payments cut off by his job provider Global Skills, a week after his mother died in September this year, because he did not attend his appointment.

Read it here: shorturl.at/pCMQR

Within a few weeks, all her records were wiped, her bank accounts were shut down, her energy concessions for the Gold Coast council were withdrawn and she could not even book an Uber. Read here:
shorturl.at/sxKX4

here's what HOUSE PRICES v WAGES sounds like as an aggressive duet - listen to the chart that my editors said was 'too intense' and 'too scary' to make it into the final video 🔊📈

(take 2, with correct wages data!)