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Post by bear on Feb 5, 2020 18:48:40 GMT 7
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Post by bear on Feb 5, 2020 18:50:11 GMT 7
#Signed & shared.
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Post by ghostbuster on Feb 5, 2020 20:44:36 GMT 7
Same signed and shared.
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Post by bear on Feb 10, 2020 7:50:59 GMT 7
Ask Jacqui Lambie NOT to support the cashless welfare card.
Cindy Smallman started this petition to Senator Jacqui Lambie (Senator for Tasmania.) and 2 others.
I have started this petition to hopefully garner the attention of Senator Jacqui Lambie and to respectfully ask that she does not support the introduction of the cashless debit card for people on income support payments in Australia. Instead of paternalistic and ideologically driven measures such as income management, we need a comprehensive set of policies that are grounded in evidence of what works, and that tackle the underlying causes of poverty and inequality. The lack of viable long term secure employment in many parts of the country, and entrenched long-term unemployment among people with limited education and skills or severe health problems. These are all key drivers. The considerable resources expended on the cashless debit card and other paternalistic measures could be better spent on improving the adequacy of income support payments, investing in education, redevelopment of the Australian manufacturing industry as a whole, job creation and funding appropriate and effective services for struggling individuals and families. A humane answer needs to be found for a human problem Ms Lambie. www.change.org/p/ask-jacqui-lambie-not-to-support-the-cashless-welfare-card?signed=true&fbclid=IwAR0TAID5BcNBVvQeKDaNuqRcfrIiF932JXHHlSmZVvvZ0NWkSlCvLOalWEw
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Post by bear on Feb 10, 2020 7:53:18 GMT 7
#Signed & shared
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Post by bear on Oct 10, 2020 17:42:59 GMT 7
Australians have watched with growing anger at what the Murdoch media monopoly is doing to our country. A cancer on democracy.
Today I am launching a national petition to establish a #MurdochRoyalCommission. If you value our democracy, please sign here: www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938Remember to complete all three steps: Personal Details, Confirm & Verify **** UPDATE: Thank you Australians for your huge response to the #MurdochRoyalCommission National Petition. So many thousands have tried to sign that it’s apparently triggered the Parliament’s cyber defences. So please be patient and don’t give up. We’ve been on to the House of Representatives to fix it. KRudd Note: As per usual with Parliamentary Petitions, please be patient. They always take a while to load, and this one may require return visits as to now I've been unable to sign: because of excess traffic. Maybe tomorrow or middle of the night. Cheers bear 
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Post by bear on Oct 12, 2020 7:20:56 GMT 7
Eventually; signed & shared
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Post by bear on Jun 27, 2021 17:22:59 GMT 7
Helen Haines:Member for Indie
Petition for a federal ICAC - sign and shareAustralian Federal Integrity Bill 2020Integrity Can’t Wait:Demand Scott Morrison stops dragging his feet on a Federal Integrity Commission
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Post by nomadic on Jun 27, 2021 20:21:51 GMT 7
already done on fb.
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Post by bear on Jun 28, 2021 12:00:32 GMT 7
Petition EN2799 - Stop the Cashless Debit Card Trials
Petition Reason
In Dec 2020 a vote took place in the Senate to expand and extend Cashless Debit Card (CDC) trials, despite the fact no member of the Senate or House of Representatives was given access to the information contained within the Adelaide University Evaluation Consolidated Report. We alert the House to the fact that data contained within the Consolidated Report has shown significant negative and debilitating impacts are being experienced by compulsory CDC trial participants and their children, including increased domestic violence, financial stress and child vulnerability in all roll out locations evaluated. Data contained within the report also demonstrated that 85.4% of people have had no positive impact from the ‘trial’, an increase of 8.4% since the 2017 Orima report. This, along with data demonstrating no substantive improvement in any targeted behaviors and a significant decline in participant well being (71% worse off) unequivocally demonstrates that the Cashless Debit Card policy trial had failed to meet its legislated 'trial objectives' as set down by the Australian government. The CDC trial has failed to meet objectives and is now causing harm to people on it. Petition RequestWe therefore ask the House to 1) immediately seek to end the cashless debit card "trial", ending all current sanctions and quarantining of income and to return full entitlement payments to their intended owners under Social Security Law 8.4.3 - the recipients. 2) to publicly acknowledge all current evaluation studies indicate the cashless debit card has failed to meet its objectives and to reduce "social harms". 24 days left, 2321 signatures; a really p.p. effort to date!! Done; don't forget to click the email linkwww.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN2799
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Post by latindancer on Jun 29, 2021 8:55:15 GMT 7
I haven't been following this issue, but (please correct me if I am being naive) I would have thought that it would best be used for people who had a proven and repeated record of alcoholism, drug abuse, or otherwise spending their government payments unwisely....especially if children are involved. I believe some aboriginal elders in areas affected by chronic alcoholism have welcomed these restrictions.
But for EVERYONE in a certain area ? How absurd !
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Post by bear on Jun 29, 2021 13:04:21 GMT 7
I haven't been following this issue, but (please correct me if I am being naive) I would have thought that it would best be used for people who had a proven and repeated record of alcoholism, drug abuse, or otherwise spending their government payments unwisely....especially if children are involved. I believe some aboriginal elders in areas affected by chronic alcoholism have welcomed these restrictions. But for EVERYONE in a certain area ? How absurd ! That's as close to exactly how it used to work latindancer. A referral by a community organization aware of all the problems you listed asking for their client to be put on income management through Centrelink. As far as I'm aware Centrepay had a big part in it back then with certain payments such as rent and regular bills being taken out before people were paid. From all anecdotal evidence it worked well. Then an unelected billionaire, namely Twiggy Forrest came up with the current policy, convinced government of it's noteworthiness, probably most particularly in the fees that could be charged and how people could be manipulated and so the Indue Cashless Debit Card became reality. Turns out it was such a success to all involved, government decided it wants to roll it out nationally. OAPers on the Cape and in the NT are already on it and legislation has been passed allowing aged pensioners countrywide to be placed on it without the need to have it put to parliament. If you want to familiarize yourself further, we've got a seven page thread containing posts by an organisation dedicated to fighting it and another of thirty pages on how Morrison wants to roll it out nationally. Cheers bear dspoverseas.proboards.com/thread/6117/say-fighting-cdc |
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Post by bear on Mar 20, 2022 16:59:19 GMT 7
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