Sonya Semmens
@SonyaSemmens
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Working on a local scale to build a kinder world. Mum to Spencer and Anamieka. Greens candidate for Macnamara. She/her. On Kulin Nations' land. Views my own.
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Joined September 2009
I can tell you from 2 decades working in NFPs that the charitable sector isn't funded by billionaires, it's funded by ladies called Dorothy in their 80s. It isn't the rich who support the poor, it's the poor. And that's where progressive taxation comes in. #auspol
Won't someone please think of the billionaires!! Why should they pay tax when there's a perfectly good system of 'the poors' begging them for money? #auspol
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Every day we stray further from god or something idk
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It’s very funny that Trump sent troops into Portland because someone showed him footage from the 2020 protests and told him it was current day and now troops are faced with this
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The Barefoot Invester weighs in on Labor’s 5% deposit ‘solution’:
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The Mutual Obligations system is: -operating unlawfully -not getting ppl jobs (according to Labor's own recent inquiry) -costing us $4b a year to run -punishing ~50% of the cohort (disproportionately First Nations ppl, homeless ppl, & ppl with a disability) simply abolish it
The “defective” payment cancellations have renewed calls for the government to end mutual obligation requirements for welfare recipients.
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Australian of the year 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 look no further it’s this guy 🏆
Easily the best and most Australian analogy ever. Shutting down a racist at the same time is just the cherry on top.
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No one left behind
No one held back, no one left behind. That’s what I believe in, and that’s why I’m here at the Global Progress Action Summit working with leaders to find solutions to the challenges we face.
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Advance discovering the failure of neoliberal corporate welfare was not something I expected to happen this week lol - wonder if this means they’ll pivot to supporting the nationalisation of industry
Good morning. Explain it to us once more why Australia can't make these again?
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Our research shows the Aust govt MUST worry about the collapse of trust in institutions. We're already seeing the consequences re rise of far right around the world. Here, super fund collapses are key examples re why. Govt NEEDS to make whole those affected by scams. See below.
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In these apocalyptic times, a little project I'm working on with 2 of my favourite people: @SonyaSemmens & Lerna G makes it all seem a little bit better. We ask, when the 1st City falls, what does the 2nd City look like? L*nk below (bc El*no's wrecked this place).
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This remains the biggest, unspoken scandal in Australian politics, btw 224, 960 payment suspensions were issued against disadvantaged cohorts in the last quarter. The Department's (outsourced) assurance review couldn't provide assurance that any of these punishments are lawful
incredible scenes in the unlawful mutual obligations system The Employment Secretary, who used to be a Partner at Deloitte, contracted them to provide assurance that the system operates in line w/ the law Deloitte's report couldn't provide it so the department tried to bury it
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Your regular reminder that every year the Australian people subsidise private schools to the tune of $22 billion while the public school down the road from you will be waiting another decade for its bare minimum funding.
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The point of the Reynolds v Higgins defamation judgement is to intimidate other women into silence. It will work.
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There it is folks: the betrayal (by resources sell out) of the Australian people. Lucianne Tonti’s Norway comparisons are instructive. 👇👇
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A new Resolve poll shows 76% of working Australians support a 4-day work week while maintaining pay levels. It’s been over 40 years since Australia’s last reduction in working hours — our society has changed, it’s time working hours reflected that.
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"Good job on regulating us."
At least eight federal ministers, senior ministerial advisers and at least one state premier have taken up roles promoting gambling too. Labor and the Coalition should represent us before party 'donors'. Vote for the party that doesn't take corporate bribes 💚
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Maybe we should have listened when scientists told us FOR THE LAST FORTY YEARS
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BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website. Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with: - Writ of Habeas Corpus - Congresses ability to control tariffs. See screenshots below: July 1 Vs. Today. Please
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Everything makes more sense when you realise that the last thing our Governments want is ‘social cohesion’ because that will result in revolution. #FreePalestine #JillianSegal
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